From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V8 #143 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, August 9 2009 Volume 08 : Number 143 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] "I Think I See the Light" [Michael Zwirn ] Re: [loud-fans] "I Think I See the Light" ["Joseph M. Mallon" ] Re: [loud-fans] Posies and $ ["Joseph M. Mallon" ] Re: [loud-fans] Tris McCall has 25 favorite albums.... [Andrew Hamlin Subject: [loud-fans] "I Think I See the Light" The popular all-covers podcast Coverville did a Cat Stevens cover story last week, and one of the selections was the Loud Family/Anton Barbeau "I Think I See the Light." I don't remember a lot of discussion about that selection at the time of the release of What if it Works? but I figure Cat Stevens was just one of those generational- touchstone selections for someone Scott or Anton's age... Direct link at: http://coverville.com/archives/2009/08/ coverville-599-the-cat-stevens-cover-story/ (with helpful "buy here" links for Amazon.com) Michael ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 12:19:14 -0700 From: "Joseph M. Mallon" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] "I Think I See the Light" Scott performed that at a club show in 2005 or so, and I asked him to do it for WIIW? He was kind enough to include it. On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Michael Zwirn wrote: > The popular all-covers podcast Coverville did a Cat Stevens cover > story last week, and one of the selections was the Loud Family/Anton > Barbeau "I Think I See the Light." I don't remember a lot of > discussion about that selection at the time of the release of What if > it Works? but I figure Cat Stevens was just one of those generational- > touchstone selections for someone Scott or Anton's age... > > Direct link at: http://coverville.com/archives/2009/08/ > coverville-599-the-cat-stevens-cover-story/ (with helpful "buy here" > links for Amazon.com) > > Michael > - -- Joe Mallon jmmallon@joescafe.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 14:53:30 -0700 From: Andrew Hamlin Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Posies and $ The link, alas, no longer works. It did remind me of a long-ago conversation with John Cooper about the Posies. I put forth the notion that the Posies had to be rolling in dough. He expressed skepticism. Replied I, stroking an imaginary beard, "Hmm...major label contract...hmm...major label releases...hmm..." To which John responded that he'd never seen a Posies album outside a cutout bin. Jon and Ken certainly acted like they were (making) all that, at any rate. "Memories/Sweetened through the ages just like wiiiiiine..." Andy "...ZEN ARCADE and Husker Du have been credited by nearly every alternative band of note--including Nirvana, Green Day, the Foo Fighters, the Pixies, the Dead Milkmen, and their Minneapolis brethren Sonic Youth--as a major influence..." - --Chris Smith, from 101 ALBUMS THAT CHANGED POPULAR MUSIC, published by Oxford University Press ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 16:12:53 -0700 From: "Joseph M. Mallon" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Posies and $ According to the NPR story, they still owe DGC/Geffen/Universal money. Ken makes a living as a sideman/producer. No word on how Jon does it. On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Andrew Hamlin wrote: > The link, alas, no longer works. It did remind me of a long-ago > conversation with John Cooper about the Posies. I put forth the > notion that the Posies had to be rolling in dough. He expressed > skepticism. Replied I, stroking an imaginary beard, "Hmm...major > label contract...hmm...major label releases...hmm..." To which John > responded that he'd never seen a Posies album outside a cutout bin. > > Jon and Ken certainly acted like they were (making) all that, at any rate. > > "Memories/Sweetened through the ages just like wiiiiiine..." > > Andy > > > "...ZEN ARCADE and Husker Du have been credited by nearly every > alternative band of note--including Nirvana, Green Day, the Foo > Fighters, the Pixies, the Dead Milkmen, and their Minneapolis brethren > Sonic Youth--as a major influence..." > > --Chris Smith, from 101 ALBUMS THAT CHANGED POPULAR MUSIC, published > by Oxford University Press > - -- Joe Mallon jmmallon@joescafe.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 17:05:13 -0700 From: Andrew Hamlin Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Tris McCall has 25 favorite albums.... On 7/21/09, JRT456@aol.com wrote: > ...and he writes about them at the URL below in typically interesting > fashion (including the selections that are just clearly wrong): From comments I posted to Mr McCall: A few albums from my own Top Ten I dont see here and would like to read your thoughts on: Bat Out Of Hell, Trout Mask Replica, Marquee Moon, Rocket To Russia, Stukas Over Disneyland, 96 Tears Forever: The Dallas Reunion Tapes, The Modern Lovers, and Every Picture Tells A Story. Kudos for honoring Genesis *and* Marillion, for Clutching At Straws over Misplaced Childhood (even though I disagree), and for picking the first Public Enemy album over the second (I thought I was the only one, although frankly, a band that wont repudiate Farrakhan doesnt belong on anybodys honor roll). Misplaced Childhood which begins with one souls hungover huddled misery and ends, so far as I can tell anyway, in a rushing vision of peace and unity transcendent of that suddenly-obsolute scourge nationalismprovides, amongst other treasures, an earlier manifestation of Fishs bold scope. (Youve heard 13th Star by now, I presume?) And while I wont contest you on Rick Wright (except the misplaced period), youll have to explain to me how he cuts Eno, Bernie Worrell, Wally Badarou, Allen Ravenstine, Rick Wakeman, and Kit Watkins. (Tomita, Klaus Schulze, and Walter/Wendy Carlos set aside on the grounds of insufficient rockage.) And while I havent listened to him yet, thanks for turning me on to Terry Allen. ...also, while I didn't mention it to him, the second De La Soul album always reminds me of John Cooper, on acid, dismissing "Oodles of O's" as "Yeah, just more run-of-the mill rap, nothing special." ...so I hit him with "Johnny's Dead AKA Vincent Mason (live in BK Lounge)"... Andy "The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated." - --Reginald Horace Blyth ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V8 #143 *******************************