From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V8 #158 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 Wednesday, August 26 2009 Volume 08 : Number 158 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Smiths reissues [Markwstaples@aol.com] [loud-fans] It Might Get Loud [Andrew Hamlin ] [loud-fans] Meat again?! [Markwstaples@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:55:38 EDT From: Markwstaples@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Smiths reissues My mistake. What I didn't know was this is for the heavy vinyl reissues. The discs are going for 16.99 at the store I go to. They only got one copy in of each CD, so I promptly got my hands on MIM from the shipping box. It does sound better, but not as much as I'd hoped. It now sounds like it was recorded in a meat packing plant on TDK chrome tape. It's kind of like R.E.M.'s RECKONING. The mud is always gonna be there. The best that can be done is to thin out the mud a little bit. My favorite albums by each band is their murkiest. Long live gunk. - --Mark In a message dated 8/24/2009 4:37:14 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, Markwstaples@aol.com writes: The reissues are going for 25 bucks on Amazon. That's how much I paid for the Rough Trade CDs in '87! Difference is, that was in 1987 dollars and they were IMPORTS. What gives with the hefty price? NO bonus disc as far as I can tell. The only one I want is MEAT IS MURDER, since the original sounds like it was recorded in a meat packing plant on Certron tape. Morrissey doesn't approve of these reissues, but Marr oversaw the remastering, so he can get over it. If neither of them had anything to do with 'em, I WOULD avoid them. - --Mark **************A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222846709x1201493018/aol?redir=htt p://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgID=115&bcd =JulystepsfooterNO115) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:53:32 -0700 From: Andrew Hamlin Subject: [loud-fans] It Might Get Loud "Probably the best music documentary ever made!" exclaimed my movie pal as the lights came up. To which I say WOODSTOCK, MONTEREY POP, THE LAST WALTZ, THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT, and THROW DOWN YOUR HEART are all probably safe--but the movie does gather together Jimmy Page, The Edge, and Jack White, without making anyone look ridiculous (except to the extent that White deliberately makes himself look ridiculous). Precious moments: The Edge recounting over a SPINAL TAP clip how that movie made him weep not laugh with its truthfulness; then a cut to his eyes in his rear view mirror showing, by his eyes alone, how he's laughing now. Jimmy Page air-guitaring to Link Wray's "Rumble": he's playing to the camera, sure, but not faking for the camera. Jack White bowing before his master, that is to say Son House's "Grinnin' in your Face," then blithely confessing that he ripped most of his act from Flat Duo Jets. (Jimmy, true to form, admits to ripping nothing.) Probably playing at a theater near you! Although if Jimmy's still sore that ZEPPELIN IV got a "one paragraph" review (not in "Rolling Stone") we better not show him the flick's one-paragraph review (in "Rolling Stone"), Andy "Anybody got any weed?" - --a young woman, rather loudly, standing on the north-bound platform of the Seattle Bus Tunnel's Westlake Station, last night around 9:15 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:08:34 EDT From: Markwstaples@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] Meat again?! Sitting down with this album, it makes me realize again at 42 what I flipped over at 18--what a truly magnificent, first-class, high quality gem it is. Morrissey must've been listening to Rudy Valley at the time, and Marr must've been listening to some '60s stuff for sure--Tommy James and the Shondells?. Moz's voice sounds the best to me of any record of his career thus far SOUTHPAW GRAMMAR coming in a close second. He must've been gargling with lemon juice and honey every day or something. The planets are all in alignment on this record. This sh*t's timeless. Right up there with HELP! or RUBBER SOUL or BIG SHOT CHRONICLES. - --Mark ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V8 #158 *******************************