From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V8 #21 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Tuesday, January 27 2009 Volume 08 : Number 021 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] "Get Guilty" [Tom Marcinko ] Re: [loud-fans] The Firemen [Tom Marcinko ] Re: [loud-fans] New Crappy Album covers [Tom Marcinko ] Re: [loud-fans] The Firemen [Andrew Hamlin ] Re: [loud-fans] The Firemen ["R. Kevin Doyle" ] Re: [loud-fans] The Firemen [Steve Schiavo ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:24:10 -0700 From: Tom Marcinko Subject: Re: [loud-fans] "Get Guilty" I found it impossible not to smile while listening to "All of My Days and All of My Days Off." On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Tom Galczynski wrote: > I've been really enjoying it! And you're right, with a plethora of female > vocals it does indeed sound a lot closer to a NP album than his first solo > cd did as I recall. "The Heartbreak Ride" was an immediate grabber, but all > the other songs have wormed their way in with their quirky hooks. ;-) > > Tom Galczynski tgalczynski@comcast.net > --------------------------------------- > Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- Groucho Marx > > > > > > Tom Marcinko wrote: > >> Any reactions yet to the new A.C. Newman? I wasn't crazy about some of the >> pre-released MP3s, but the complete package sounds pretty good, and very >> much like -- of all things -- a New Pornographers album. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:27:01 -0700 From: Tom Marcinko Subject: Re: [loud-fans] The Firemen My first reaction was that I liked it a lot, but I can't say I've returned to it with much frequency. Possibly irrelevant wading into the stream of consciousness: I was listening to this awesome set by Guided by Voices from 1995: http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2009/01/10/guided-by-voices-maxwells-hoboken-nj-33095/ ...and I thought, "If the Beatles had continued, THIS is what I hope they'd sound like, not ELO." On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Paul King wrote: > I didn't know that McCartney was into electronic music. In his latest LP > which > I got from EMusic (which it claims is a 2009 album), the song "Sing The > Changes" sounds like he's angling for a hit, and likely attempting for his > electronic experiments to go mainstream. > > Any comments on his dabbling efforts (other than the obvious comment that > he's > so famous, he could sell a million by recording his farts in the bathtub)? > > Paul King ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:38:22 -0700 From: Tom Marcinko Subject: Re: [loud-fans] New Crappy Album covers You know, once you see these things, they can't be UN-seen... : ) On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Paul King wrote: > Get your fix ... > > http://wordpress.com/tag/crappy-album-covers > > Paul ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:49:57 -0800 From: Andrew Hamlin Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Head start on 2009? On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Brian Block wrote: >>Been spinning my advance of Faunts' new full-length FEEL. LOVE. >>THINKING. OF.> > > So who are the Faunts, and what is the record like? Five guys from Canada. At least two play synth. Sounds like brooding 80's stuff you somehow missed in the 80's: http://www.faunts.com/ http://www.myspace.com/faunts Ah, but we still don't know why Brian quit balloting for Pazz & Jop, Andy "Had all his hairs been lives, my great revenge Had stomach for them all." - --Shakespeare, from "Othello" Act v. Sc. 2. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:33:13 -1000 From: "R. Kevin Doyle" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] The Firemen Indeed, one might go so far to wish that if The Move had continued, that is what they'd sound like and not ELO... On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Tom Marcinko wrote: > My first reaction was that I liked it a lot, but I can't say I've returned > to it with much frequency. > > Possibly irrelevant wading into the stream of consciousness: > > I was listening to this awesome set by Guided by Voices from 1995: > > > http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2009/01/10/guided-by-voices-maxwells-hoboken-nj-33095/ > > ...and I thought, "If the Beatles had continued, THIS is what I hope they'd > sound like, not ELO." > > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Paul King wrote: > > > I didn't know that McCartney was into electronic music. In his latest LP > > which > > I got from EMusic (which it claims is a 2009 album), the song "Sing The > > Changes" sounds like he's angling for a hit, and likely attempting for > his > > electronic experiments to go mainstream. > > > > Any comments on his dabbling efforts (other than the obvious comment that > > he's > > so famous, he could sell a million by recording his farts in the > bathtub)? > > > > Paul King ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:07:17 -0800 From: Andrew Hamlin Subject: Re: [loud-fans] The Firemen On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 4:33 PM, R. Kevin Doyle wrote: > Indeed, one might go so far to wish that if The Move had continued, that is > what they'd sound like and not ELO... Ah, but the Move did continue! At least, I'm vaguely aware of two projects called Wizzard and the Wizzo Band...not to mention Roy Wood's colorful (or so I'm told) solo career... Seen my baby jive? Andy "These 5 albums are currently the critical 'bottom of the barrel'. These have the lowest scores on the review aggregation site Metacritic.com. If one critic says you're music's no good, don't be discouraged, but if they all do, you have a problem. Take my advice and don't try to defend these in public." - --from http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/yradish/34640/the-bottom-5-most-critically-panned-albums/ (no response yet from Chuck Eddy) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:15:50 -1000 From: "R. Kevin Doyle" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] The Firemen Point well taken - Wizzard and Roy Wood took a very different path from his Move-mate, Jeff Lynne. On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Andrew Hamlin wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 4:33 PM, R. Kevin Doyle > wrote: > > Indeed, one might go so far to wish that if The Move had continued, that > is > > what they'd sound like and not ELO... > > Ah, but the Move did continue! At least, I'm vaguely aware of two > projects called Wizzard and the Wizzo Band...not to mention Roy Wood's > colorful (or so I'm told) solo career... > > Seen my baby jive? > > Andy > > > "These 5 albums are currently the critical 'bottom of the barrel'. > These have the lowest scores on the review aggregation site > Metacritic.com. If one critic says you're music's no good, don't be > discouraged, but if they all do, you have a problem. > > Take my advice and don't try to defend these in public." > > --from > http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/yradish/34640/the-bottom-5-most-critically-panned-albums/ > (no response yet from Chuck Eddy) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:49:33 -0600 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: [loud-fans] The Firemen On Jan 26, 2009, at 10:07 PM, Andrew Hamlin wrote: > Seen my baby jive? And wasn't Roy cute back in the day - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V8 #21 ******************************