From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V8 #218 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 Tuesday, November 17 2009 Volume 08 : Number 218 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] From CassetteFromMyEx.com [Andrew Hamlin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:39:03 -0800 From: Andrew Hamlin Subject: Re: [loud-fans] From CassetteFromMyEx.com On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Gil Ray wrote: > Pretty cool songs, but Flipper? And not Sex Bomb?? I love Claudia. > Gil Not sure how Gil means, but Flipper had/has a fairly long career. I can't exactly call it a "varied" career--indeed "Sex Bomb," with its cornucopia chaos of sonic flavors, blooms like a Dayglo blot on an otherwise dark, gritty, rainy midnight road--but they've survived a quarter century plus, the deaths of two bassists, and Krist Novoselic first joining, then quitting. Ms. Gonson shows impressive (if unsurprising) depth throughout the tape, methinks. Bobbie Gentry, but not "Ode To Billie Joe." Gary Lewis, but not "This Diamond Ring." And who knew Brooke Shields took her marching orders from the Archies? Andy Today, I decided to have some fun at the mall by walking up to random women, and saying in a stern voice, "I know about the affair." Four said they didn't know what I was talking about, five begged me not to tell their husbands, and three women paid me off. New hobby? I think so. - --from "MyLifeIsAverage" on Google Reader a week or two back ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:01:48 -0800 From: Andrew Hamlin Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Third Quarter Horn I just wanted to say, 2009 has been one of the most amazing years for music I can remember. On my Top Ten list, I could conceivably take down Pet Shop Boys and Faunts, but that only leaves two gaps, with eight records (so far)--Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson's BREAK UP, Moby's WAIT FOR ME, Melody Gardot's MY ONE AND ONLY THRILL, Mountain Goats' LIFE OF THE WORLD TO COME, Cave Singers' WELCOME JOY, Tara Jane O'Neil's A WAYS AWAY, Arrington de Dionyso's MALIKAT DAN SINGA, and Richard Youngs' UNDER STELLAR STREAM--which could easily fill them. The Pastels/Tenniscoats sounds pretty good for a first listen, too... Andy This is a shorter than usual list of songs, because Russ could only be bothered with a 60-minute tape. He had some hanging out to do. side_a Rolling Stones: Cant be Seen The Doors: So Good Together Cruel Story Of Youth: Youre What You Want To Be INXS with Jimmy Barnes: Good Times Cream: I Feel Free Tim Capello: I Still Believe INXS: To Look At You side_b The Doors: Moonlight Drive Bob Marley: Slave Driver The Allman Brothers: Sweet Melissa Frank Sinatra: It Had To Be You Frank Sinatra: The Way You Look Tonight Prince: The Beautiful Ones Gerard McMann: Cry Little Sister - --Jancee Dunn, from http://www.cassettefrommyex.com/?p=43 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:12:16 -0600 From: Miles Goosens Subject: Re: [loud-fans] From CassetteFromMyEx.com On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Andrew Hamlin wrote: > Ms. Gonson shows impressive (if unsurprising) depth throughout the > tape, methinks. Bobbie Gentry, but not "Ode To Billie Joe." Gary > Lewis, but not "This Diamond Ring." Unless I'm totally misreading the site's concept, that song list shows nothing about Ms. Gonson's musical depth, since her now-ex-boyfriend made the tape. Certainly Ms. Gonson's own career, interviews, and her enthusiastic endorsement of the tape ("some of these songs are the BEST SONGS ON EARTH. EVER EVER EVER.") point toward her having impressive (if unsurprising) musical depth... but I'm just sayin'. later, Miles, who took a flyer on the latest Muse album, and two plays later is now very glad he didn't spring for the deluxe version - -- over a year of feeling guilty about not blogging enough! http://readingpronunciation.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:12:15 EST From: Markwstaples@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] From CassetteFromMyEx.com I like how Game Theory follows the B's. Nobody knows what it means, - --Mark In a message dated 11/15/2009 9:54:50 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, michael@zwirn.com writes: Claudia Gonson, the pianist/drummer/backing vocalist for The Magnetic Fields, writes about a mix tape from a high-school boyfriend John: http://blogs.nerve.com/drupal/toolsofattraction/2009/11/12/cassette- from-my-ex-john-tape-circa-1986/ "So many of these songs have stories and memories connected to them, I could write a story for each (in fact, John sent me a marvelous email in which he did just that). And, while I dont want to sound like that person but what the hell, I will- some of these songs are the BEST SONGS ON EARTH. EVER EVER EVER." Side A: The Chills- Doledrums The Byrds- Here Without You Alice Cooper- Be My Lover AC/DC- Sink the Pink The Craig- I Must Be Mad Human Sexual Response- Marone Moan The Velvet Underground- Stephanie Says Flipper - Get Away Undertones- Family Entertainment Algebra Suicide - Somewhat Bleeker Street. Leonard Cohen- It Seems so Long Ago, Nancy Clay Allison- Fell from the Sun Bobbie Gentry - Mississppi Everly Bros- Love Hurts Cheap Trick- Clock Strikes Ten Side B: Yoko Ono- Walking on Thin Ice Aerosmith- Uncle Salty Weekend- Sleepy Theory The Three OClock- Hand in Hand Steppenwolf - Tighten Up Your Wig Dolly Parton- I Will Always Love You the Zulus- Back to Sleep Meat Puppets- Split Myself in Two The Bee Gees- The Earnest of Being George Gary Lewis - Me About You the Died Pretty- Laughing Boy The B-52s- Dirty Back Road Game Theory- Waltz the Halls The Archies- Suddenly Susan ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:38:30 -0800 From: Andrew Hamlin Subject: Re: [loud-fans] From CassetteFromMyEx.com > Unless I'm totally misreading the site's concept, that song list shows > nothing about Ms. Gonson's musical depth, since her now-ex-boyfriend > made the tape. I stand corrected! > Miles, > who took a flyer on the latest Muse album, and two > plays later is now very glad he didn't spring for the deluxe > version THE RESISTANCE? Don't know much about the band; figuring a person's reaction to a bonus DVD would depend on one's reaction to the main course. Can we just shoot the guy who started "just sayin'"? (No, that wouldn't kill the disease) Andy She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron (George Gordon) She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all thats best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes; Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens oer her face; Where thoughts serenely sweet express, How pure, how dear their dwelling-place. And on that cheek, and oer that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent! - --from http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=173100 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:46:39 -0800 (PST) From: Gil Ray Subject: Re: [loud-fans] From CassetteFromMyEx.com - --- On Mon, 11/16/09, Andrew Hamlin wrote: > From: Andrew Hamlin > > Pretty cool songs, but Flipper? And not Sex Bomb?? I > love Claudia. > Not sure how Gil means, but Flipper had/has a fairly long > career. Not necessarily on purpose, but I saw Flipper a bunch of times, and Sex Bomb was/is the only song I have ever liked by them. But I am glad the vinyl reissues we carry at work sell ok. Gil ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V8 #218 *******************************