From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V8 #192 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 Thursday, October 8 2009 Volume 08 : Number 192 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] And that's the horn for the end of the third quarter... [Andr] Re: [loud-fans] Sylvan [Dave Walker ] Re: [loud-fans] Sylvan [Andrew Hamlin ] Re: [loud-fans] Sylvan [Markwstaples@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] Sylvan ["R. Kevin Doyle" ] Re: [loud-fans] David Sylvan [Markwstaples@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 15:08:05 -0700 From: Andrew Hamlin Subject: [loud-fans] And that's the horn for the end of the third quarter... My Top Ten 2009 with about three months left: 1. New York Dolls--'CAUSE I SEZ SO 2. Morrissey--YEARS OF REFUSAL 3. Caroline Weeks--SONGS FOR EDNA 4. Pet Shop Boys--YES 5. Ripynt (aka MC Ripynt)--RIP: RE-INVENTING POETICS 6. Faunts--FEEL.LOVE.THINKING.OF 7. Laura Barrett--VICTORY GARDEN 8. Booker T.--POTATO HOLE 9. Various Artists--KEEP YOUR SOUL: A TRIBUTE TO DOUG SAHM 10.Busdriver--JHELLI BEAM Bubbling under: Yusuf, ROADSINGER; Arrington de Dionyso, MALAIKAT DAN SINGA; Cave Singers, WELCOME JOY; Cheap Trick, THE LATEST Looking forward to hearing: Pete Yorn/Scarlett Johansson, Marie Digby, Tiny Vipers, Echo & The Bunnymen, Maxwell, Melody Gardot, Nellie McKay, Mayer Hawthorne, Porcupine Tree, Slits, Scott LaFaro, Pastels/Tenniscoats, Mountain Goats, David Sylvian, Jimmy Webb, Gossip Anyone else? Andy "On the record, we hear her as she gradually passes from the tailend of the initial exuberant phase with Big Brother, through the jarring difference between that on-stage persona and what emerges immediately in the Full-Tilt Boogie Band tapes, on which we hear a disoriented and thoroughly pathetic individual and a music whose raggedness is made even less palatable by the breakdown and sense of strain behind it. The most unsettling part of all is the between-song raps, nervous but exhilarated and riding the crest with Big Brother, disjunct and disparate with the Boogie Band, working unhappily at playing a role that was obviously eating her alive but was, after all, the only one she had." - --Lester Bangs, from his review of JANIS JOPLIN: IN CONCERT, at http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/janisjoplin/albums/album/152830/review/5942155/in_concert ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 18:27:13 -0400 From: Dave Walker Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Sylvan On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Andrew Hamlin wrote: > After Mr. de Burgh's THE GETAWAY left me in well-nigh physical pain on > partial listen, I quickly banished him from mind and soul as much as > was possible. The only Chris DeBurgh song I can recall outside of the aforementioned awful "Lady In Red" is "Don't Pay The Ferryman", which I remember fondly for its goofy video (it was an early MTV staple) and the way in which it seems to jam twice as many words as would seem advisable into its verses and chorus. -d.w. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 15:46:46 -0700 From: Andrew Hamlin Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Sylvan > The only Chris DeBurgh song I can recall outside of the aforementioned > awful "Lady In Red" is "Don't Pay The Ferryman", which I remember > fondly for its goofy video (it was an early MTV staple) and the way in > which it seems to jam twice as many words as would seem advisable into > its verses and chorus. Yes, "Ferryman" was his first hit, and the cornerstone of THE GETAWAY. The rest of the record, as I remember it, at least...ullllghh... Similar to the only Maxi Priest album I ever sat through. Weren't all early MTV staples goofy? Andy Last night, the Mountain Goats made their late-night TV debut on "The Colbert Report". Stephen Colbert sat down with leader John Darnielle and, in his own sarcastic way, revealed himself to be a total gushing fan, even quoting Darnielle's "Sax Rohmer #1" lyrics back to him. Then the band, in its power trio iteration, blazed through "Psalms 40:2", the most raucous song on their just-released album The Life of the World to Come, Darnielle's manic onstage grin in full force. As far as we're concerned, that beats an awkward "Letterman" apology any night of the week. Also, further evidence of Colbert's fandom came last night, when he Twittered this: "the mountain goats would have a twitter page if the crushing emptiness of life could be expressed in 140 characters". Right now, you can catch the band's appearance on Colbert's website; click here for the interview and here for the performance, or watch the embedded videos below. The whole album is streaming on Colbert's website as well. - --from http://pitchfork.com/news/36726-watch-the-mountain-goats-on-colbert/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 19:17:39 EDT From: Markwstaples@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Sylvan Could we ditch this subject line now? In a message dated 10/7/2009 6:33:52 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, dwalker@freeke.org writes: On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Andrew Hamlin wrote: > After Mr. de Burgh's THE GETAWAY left me in well-nigh physical pain on > partial listen, I quickly banished him from mind and soul as much as > was possible. The only Chris DeBurgh song I can recall outside of the aforementioned awful "Lady In Red" is "Don't Pay The Ferryman", which I remember fondly for its goofy video (it was an early MTV staple) and the way in which it seems to jam twice as many words as would seem advisable into its verses and chorus. - -d.w. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 13:26:25 -1000 From: "R. Kevin Doyle" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Sylvan I sort of find it charming that we're discussing Chris DeBurgh under the sylvan subject line. That said, who could forgot DeBurgh's biggish hit "High On Emotion?" Ear. Worm. Not necessarily in a good way, but it is in my iTunes library under the "iTunes is meant to be a library for every song, good and bad, that I've ever heard in my life" paradigm. On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 1:17 PM, wrote: > Could we ditch this subject line now? > > > In a message dated 10/7/2009 6:33:52 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > dwalker@freeke.org writes: > > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Andrew Hamlin > wrote: > > > > After Mr. de Burgh's THE GETAWAY left me in well-nigh physical pain on > > partial listen, I quickly banished him from mind and soul as much as > > was possible. > > The only Chris DeBurgh song I can recall outside of the aforementioned > awful "Lady In Red" is "Don't Pay The Ferryman", which I remember > fondly for its goofy video (it was an early MTV staple) and the way in > which it seems to jam twice as many words as would seem advisable into > its verses and chorus. > > -d.w. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 22:56:20 EDT From: Markwstaples@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] David Sylvan Okay. We'll make it cool by pretending it's a German Enigma message meaning "I bury Paul." With some reservation, I accepted their job offer today, provided I pass their background check (if teachers aren't grilled by their principals and the often unfair scapegoat of parents, they get the FBI sifting through their past like owl pellets in a science lab). What's such evidence of the way the world is today is how much they expect for so little. I get paid only 10 dollars an hour--no benefits, but I have to be a certified teacher? Sheesh. They're lucky they get people to show up. - --Mark np The Sunshine Fix AGE OF THE SUN (since we're in a Circulatory System, Olivia Tremor Control frame of mind) In a message dated 10/7/2009 8:22:56 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, r.kevin.doyle@gmail.com writes: I sort of find it charming that we're discussing Chris DeBurgh under the sylvan subject line. ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V8 #192 *******************************