From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V8 #193 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 Friday, October 9 2009 Volume 08 : Number 193 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Sylvan [Dave Walker ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 07:13:17 -0400 From: Dave Walker Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Sylvan Found this thread very amusing: http://crookedtimber.org/2009/09/11/dont-pay-the-ferryman/ The comments are pretty worthwhile. -d.w. On Oct 7, 2009, at 7:26 PM, R. Kevin Doyle wrote: > 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. ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V8 #193 *******************************