From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V8 #126 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, July 21 2009 Volume 08 : Number 126 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Re:At the half (plus etc) [Andrew Hamlin ] Re: [loud-fans] Re:At the half (plus etc) [Markwstaples@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] Re:At the half (plus etc) ["Joseph M. Mallon" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re:At the half (plus etc) > Amy X Neuburg's _Residue_, from 2004, is already my album-of-the- > decade choice. Do click Tim's video links, but i've already seen those > videos so many times (Donovan, my toddler, adores Amy Neuburg > as much as I do) that all the songs NOT in the videos have a huge > amount of catching up to do. Whoa, do you mean Best Album Of The Decade or part of the Top Ten 2000-2010? Granted, we've still got a year-and-a-half to think, but I haven't done much thinking on the topic at all. Though I heard the first half of AMERICAN IV: THE MAN COMES AROUND, at the barber shop the other day, and I thought, "Yeah, that could be the one. That's a strong candidate..." And I don't think I even voted for that one in my own Top Ten that year... Anyone else's ideas? Memo to Mr. Walker: the band in question takes their name from a Colorado area code. Took me a while to figure "acieeeed" is not related to "hayseed" (morning glory seeds maybe), Andy Quincy Jones won't fly to the moon - but his music did. As the crew of Apollo 11 rocketed toward their historic moon landing on July 20, 1969, astronaut Buzz Aldrin listened to Jones' arrangement of Frank Sinatra's "Fly Me to the Moon." In a phone interview from Marbella, Spain, Jones told AP Radio that when he heard the news from Sinatra, it was "like something that's surrealistic. You can't believe it." Jones' connection to the space program doesn't stop there. "The same time they were on the moon," the 76-year-old composer-conductor said Friday, "I was recording `Walking in Space,'" the CD that would earn Jones a Grammy for best jazz instrumental in 1970. Astronaut Leland Melvin used "Walking in Space" as his wake-up music on the Atlantis space shuttle last year. Jones said he would never follow his music into space. "You couldn't pay me to go to the moon, man," he said. "I don't even drive a car." - --from http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/entertainment/2009503978_apuspeoplequincyjones.html?syndication=rss ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:17:19 -0700 From: "Brian Block" Subject: [loud-fans] Re: At the half (plus etc) >> Amy X Neuburg's _Residue_, from 2004, is already my album-of-the- >> decade choice. >Whoa, do you mean Best Album Of The Decade or part of the Top Ten 2000-2010? >Granted, we've still got a year-and-a-half to think, but I haven't >done much thinking on the topic at all. I would call the decade's end this December, but yeah, I was thinking "#1 of the decade" (which is how I interpreted Tim's feelings for Amy's new one). It's less a matter of "I've devoted a lot of thought to an Albums of the Decade list" and more that it's the one album I can say it about and have it feel true. Obviously if an album comes along that blows me away even more, I'm extremely okay with that... Similarly, I would never be quite so openly geeky as to poll my family (mom, wife, 2-yr-old) to find our consensus Album of the Decade, but I realized last week that if I did, Regina Spektor's _Begin to Hope_ would win. Sometimes the answer wanders by and suggests the existence of a question, that's all.

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That's like Abbey Road scraping for cash and recording over Beatles masters (there actually was an episode of ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS where Edina's boyfriend worked at Abbey Road studios, and Edina accidentally recorded over some "lost" Beatles tapes goofing off in the studio when left alone to her own devices). I'm not saying we didn't go. I'm just saying it sure does give the conspiracy theorists fuel for their fires. What this has to do with me being in bliss over finding a used copy of The Bongos DRUMS ALONG THE HUDSON today for 7 bucks with a Moby bonus track taking a stab at "The Bulrushes," I don't know. - --Mark **************What's for dinner tonight? Find quick and easy dinner ideas for any occasion. (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?ncid=emlcntusfood00000008) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:01:17 -0700 From: "Joseph M. Mallon" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re:At the half (plus etc) The BBC wiped tapes constantly during the 50s & 60s, as did American TV networks - very little of Johnny Carson's first 10 years of Tonight Shows exist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiping Video tape was very expensive. On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:35 PM, wrote: > To me it's preposterous to believe that the most important videotapes ever > recorded were recorded over due to budget constraints. That's like Abbey > Road scraping for cash and recording over Beatles masters (there actually > was an episode of ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS where Edina's boyfriend worked at Abbey > Road studios, and Edina accidentally recorded over some "lost" Beatles > tapes goofing off in the studio when left alone to her own devices). - -- Joe Mallon jmmallon@joescafe.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:16:17 -0700 From: Andrew Hamlin Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re:At the half (plus etc) > I used to not believe we went to the moon. Now I say we did, but not > wholeheartedly--I still have nagging doubts, and the latest news that NASA > erased the moon tapes is rather convenient and only makes those doubts turn from > nag to shrew. Anyone who believes we didn't go to the moon needs to sit down, take a deep breath, and read this: http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html ...and *hopefully* that'll clear everything up, although Dr. Plait does include links for further edification. No word yet on if Mr. Gorsky got lucky, though, Andy TO THE MOON Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth, And ever changing, like a Joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy? - --Percy Bysshe Shelley ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:20:58 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re:At the half (plus etc) On Jul 20, 2009, at 8:01 PM, Joseph M. Mallon wrote: > The BBC wiped tapes constantly during the 50s & 60s, as did American > TV networks - very little of Johnny Carson's first 10 years of Tonight > Shows exist: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiping I have a vague recollection of hearing that Monty Python was close to being wiped, had KERA in Dallas not picked it up. (Probably during a pledge break for KERA radio.) Perhaps Dallas' one great contribution to US culture (YMMV, on several levels). - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:05:10 -0700 From: Andrew Hamlin Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re:At the half (plus etc) > Perhaps Dallas' one great contribution to US culture > (YMMV, on several levels). Au contraire, mon frere! Meat Loaf, singer on the Greatest Rock And Roll Album Ever Released, BAT OUT OF HELL, hails from the Big D.! And the Greatest Rock And Roll Live Album Ever Released, 96 TEARS FOREVER: THE DALLAS REUNION TAPES by Question Mark and the Mysterians, got recorded right there! See, it says so right in the title! And I didn't even need to whip out Steve Miller, Norah Jones, Tex Avery, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Michael Nesmith, and of course, Robert Van Winkle. Hey, one of them just might have recorded the Album Of The Decade... Andy "If you've ever driven across Texas, you know how different one area of the state can be from another. Take El Paso. It looks as much like Dallas as I look like Jack Nicklaus." - --Lee Trevino ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:45:51 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re:At the half (plus etc) On Jul 20, 2009, at 11:05 PM, Andrew Hamlin wrote: >> Perhaps Dallas' one great contribution to US culture >> (YMMV, on several levels). > > Au contraire, mon frere! Meat Loaf, singer on the Greatest Rock And > Roll Album Ever Released, BAT OUT OF HELL, hails from the Big D.! And > the Greatest Rock And Roll Live Album Ever Released, 96 TEARS FOREVER: > THE DALLAS REUNION TAPES by Question Mark and the Mysterians, got > recorded right there! See, it says so right in the title! > > And I didn't even need to whip out Steve Miller, Norah Jones, Tex > Avery, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Michael Nesmith, and of course, Robert Van > Winkle. > > Hey, one of them just might have recorded the Album Of The Decade... If you claim Nora Jones, I might as well throw in Boz Skaggs. Sam the Sham and Stephen Stills are from Dallas. And don't forget Gibby Haynes or his dad. My wife and I have a bicoastal marriage. She's from Ft. Worth. - - Steve __________ Mojo: If push comes to shove, what is your all-time favourite album? Harry Shearer: Right now it would be Apple Venus by XTC. Every fucking song on that record is a killer, and I just think it's Beatles-esque in the best sense of the term. We'll never see it live, which I both treasure and bemoan. ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V8 #126 *******************************