From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V8 #54 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 Sunday, March 15 2009 Volume 08 : Number 054 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Seeland [Dave Walker ] Re: [loud-fans] Seeland [Tom Marcinko ] Re: [loud-fans] Neko Case [Tom Marcinko ] Re: [loud-fans] Seeland ["Stewart Mason" ] Re: [loud-fans] Seeland [Andrew Hamlin ] Re: [loud-fans] Top Ten of 2009 [Andrew Hamlin ] Re: [loud-fans] Seeland [Gil Ray ] Re: [loud-fans] Top Ten of 2009 [Tim Walters ] Re: [loud-fans] Seeland ["Stewart Mason" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 08:25:03 -0400 From: Dave Walker Subject: [loud-fans] Seeland Another for the nascent "Best of 2009" list -- Seeland's debut album, "Tomorrow Today" The band was started by Tim Felton (ex-Broadcast) and Billy Bainbridge (ex-Plone) and I haven't heard anything this consistently catchy in a long time. It's on eMusic. -d.w. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:53:41 -0700 From: Tom Marcinko Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Seeland Thanks! I'll check it out. On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Dave Walker wrote: > Another for the nascent "Best of 2009" list -- Seeland's debut album, > "Tomorrow Today" > > The band was started by Tim Felton (ex-Broadcast) and Billy Bainbridge > (ex-Plone) and I haven't heard anything this consistently catchy in a long > time. > > It's on eMusic. > > -d.w. > - -- http://tomaq.livejournal.com/ Recently published: "A Close Personal Relationship" in New Writings in the Fantastic, ed. John Grant http://www.pendragonpress.net/books/new-writings-in-the-fantastic/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 10:55:41 -0700 From: Tom Marcinko Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Neko Case Nice review of her in the current New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2009/03/16/090316crmu_music_frerejones On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Gil Ray wrote: > Ok, I just went through it the second time, this time in more optimal > listening conditions (my car), and musically and arrangement-wise I believe > she has taken a pretty good sized leap forward. Always a good thing! Much > more sophisticated arrangements. > > As Bradley mentions, her lyrics are fabulous and not the usual stuff. Maybe > it's her singing cadence that gets a wee bit monotonous for me... > > I bet I'll be raving on the 3rd listen. > Gil > > > --- On Tue, 3/10/09, treesprite@earthlink.net > wrote: > > > From: treesprite@earthlink.net > > Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Neko Case > > To: loud-fans@smoe.org > > Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 11:00 PM > > I guess i've had a somewhat different experience with > > Neko's stuff. I haven't warmed to the NPs at all, > > and though I liked the Furnace Room Lullaby quite a bit, I > > wasn't a huge fan of her more straightforward, > > alt-country stuff (in the studio anyhow -- she's always > > been amazing live.) It wasn't until Fox Confessor that I > > really thought she was on to something -- and it was partly > > because I thought she'd finally started writing more > > melodically realized songs. "More pop" instead of > > "less pop", in other words! It's funny how > > that perception can differ from listener to listener! I also > > love how she's found her own voice as a lyricist -- > > it's really distinctive and evocative, almost like folk > > songs drawn from a mythology of her own creation. She's > > become one of my very favorite artists with these past two > > records. > > The live record's great, too -- I actually think her > > version of "The Train From Kansas City" might be > > the definitive one! Blasphemy. > > I worked with Neko briefly at a record store in Tacoma. I > > was 16 and too nervous to talk to her. The great Tacoma > > garage band Girl Trouble wrote a song about her called > > "Neko Loves Rock'n'Roll", long before > > anyone knew what a brilliant singer and writer she was going > > to be. She appears in one of their videos as a go-go dancer. > > I've got a tape of that somewhere... > > > > I forgot to mention that the Dan Auerbach solo album is > > really great. I haven't really liked the Black Keys > > much, but the solo album is really soulful and interesting. > > > > And the Morrissey record just gets better and better. How > > did he manage to land a Jeff Beck cameo? Bizarre. > > > > B > - -- http://tomaq.livejournal.com/ Recently published: "A Close Personal Relationship" in New Writings in the Fantastic, ed. John Grant http://www.pendragonpress.net/books/new-writings-in-the-fantastic/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:28:08 -0400 From: "Stewart Mason" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Seeland Can't argue with the pedigree. Thanks! S ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:41:35 -0700 From: Andrew Hamlin Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Seeland > The band was started by Tim Felton (ex-Broadcast) and Billy Bainbridge > (ex-Plone) and I haven't heard anything this consistently catchy in a long > time. Judging by the name, I'm guessing they sound a fair amount like Faust. But correct me if I'm wrong. Most intriguing "supergroup" to emerge in 2009...well, check my .sig, Andy [release date] 21 April Tuesday Tinted Windows: Smashing Pumpkins' James Iha, Cheap Trick's Bun E. Carlos, Hanson's Taylor Hanson and Fountains Of Wayne's Adam Schlesinger new band - --from http://www.metacritic.com/music/upcomingreleases.shtml ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:51:33 -0700 From: Andrew Hamlin Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Top Ten of 2009 On 3/8/09, Tim Walters wrote: > My top ten of 2009 so far: > > 1. Henry Cow 40th Anniversary Boxed Set, Disc 10 > 2. Henry Cow 40th Anniversary Boxed Set, Disc 6 > 3. Henry Cow 40th Anniversary Boxed Set, Disc 1 > 4. Henry Cow 40th Anniversary Boxed Set, Disc 8 > 5. Henry Cow 40th Anniversary Boxed Set, Disc 4 > 6. Henry Cow 40th Anniversary Boxed Set, Disc 5 > 7. Henry Cow 40th Anniversary Boxed Set, Disc 7 > 8. Henry Cow 40th Anniversary Boxed Set, Disc 3 > 9. Henry Cow 40th Anniversary Boxed Set, Disc 9 > 10. Henry Cow 40th Anniversary Boxed Set, Disc 2 Not bad for a set Amazon says doesn't exist. Has Tim a pipeline to the Henry Cow Parallel Earth? Faunts, Booker T., and Laura Barrett still doing it for me, though I'd like to hear Ms. Barrett's earlier EPs. WILLIE AND THE WHEEL by Willie Nelson and Asleep at the Wheel amazes, if you dig your two-stepping, at least. Also worth a spin: Sara Jane ONeil's A WAYS AWAY due out in May on K. Think bottomless Emmylou Harris twang minus a touch of production polish, strolling shin-deep into the ambient folk of Lori Carson's THE FINEST THING. Still, still, still waiting for that Human Skab, Andy To Emily Dickinson by Hart Crane You who desired so much--in vain to ask-- Yet fed you hunger like an endless task, Dared dignify the labor, bless the quest-- Achieved that stillness ultimately best, Being, of all, least sought for: Emily, hear! O sweet, dead Silencer, most suddenly clear When singing that Eternity possessed And plundered momently in every breast; - --Truly no flower yet withers in your hand. The harvest you descried and understand Needs more than wit to gather, love to bind. Some reconcilement of remotest mind-- Leaves Ormus rubyless, and Ophir chill. Else tears heap all within one clay-cold hill. [--from http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/hart_crane/poems/11356 ] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:42:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Gil Ray Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Seeland Stacey is quite excited by this, esp. with Bun E. Carlos on board! Gil - --- On Sat, 3/14/09, Andrew Hamlin wrote: > Most intriguing "supergroup" to emerge in > 2009...well, check my .sig, > >> [release date] 21 April Tuesday > > Tinted Windows: Smashing Pumpkins' James Iha, Cheap > Trick's Bun E. > Carlos, Hanson's Taylor Hanson and Fountains Of > Wayne's Adam > Schlesinger new band > > --from > http://www.metacritic.com/music/upcomingreleases.shtml ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 19:50:36 -0700 From: Tim Walters Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Top Ten of 2009 Andrew Hamlin wrote: > Has Tim a pipeline to > the Henry Cow Parallel Earth? Seems like a fair description of ReR USA: http://tinyurl.com/dzegzr - -- Tim Walters | The Doubtful Palace | http://doubtfulpalace.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:56:27 -0400 From: "Stewart Mason" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Seeland - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Hamlin" >> The band was started by Tim Felton (ex-Broadcast) and Billy >> Bainbridge >> (ex-Plone) and I haven't heard anything this consistently catchy in >> a long >> time. > > Judging by the name, I'm guessing they sound a fair amount like > Faust. > But correct me if I'm wrong. I think you mean Neu! (which given the members' two previous bands would not surprise me at all), but based on the artwork, I suspect they may also take it directly from the original source that Neu! was referencing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V8 #54 ******************************