From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V8 #194 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 Saturday, October 10 2009 Volume 08 : Number 194 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Sylvan ["Paul King" ] Re: [loud-fans] And that's the horn for the end of the third quarter... [Jer Fairall Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Sylvan Back in University, I began to think I was the only person in the 80s who found Chris de Burgh's music unnecessarily pretentious and annoying to listen to. At the radio station I volunteered at, it was impossible to say anything bad about Chris de Burgh, becase it almost seemed socially unacceptable to do so, like farting at the dinner table. I kept my negative opinions to myself. Glad to see this out in the open, although it took over 20 years for anyone to be brave enough to speak out ... Paul On 7 Oct 2009 at 18:27, Dave Walker wrote: > 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. > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature > database 4488 (20091007) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 19:13:41 -0400 From: Jer Fairall Subject: Re: [loud-fans] And that's the horn for the end of the third quarter... Once again, rankings can wait 'til the year end, but here is what I'll be whittling my top ten down from at this point: An Horse--REARRANGE BEDS Neko Case--MIDDLE CYCLONE Casiotone For The Painfully Alone--VS. CHILDREN Fake Problems--IT'S GREAT TO BE ALIVE Future of the Left--TRAVELS WITH MYSELF AND ANOTHER Gentlemen Reg--JET BLACK Emm Gryner--GODDESS The Joy Formidable--A BALLOON CALLED MOANING Junior Boys--BEGONE DULL CARE K'Naan--TROUBADOUR Lights--THE LISTENING Metric--FANTASIES A.C. Newman--GET GUILTY Joel Plaskett--THREE Plushgun--PINS & PANZERS Themselves--THEFREEHOUDINI Titus Andronicus--THE AIRING OF GRIEVANCES tUnE-YaRdS--BIRDBRAINS Why?--ESKIMO SNOW Yeah Yeah Yeahs--IT'S BLITZ! Still processing Busdriver, Kid Cudi, and Mountain Goats. Haven't heard the new Mission of Burma all the way through yet. Waiting on the new Wale and the other new Themselves before I call it a year. ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V8 #194 *******************************