From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V9 #14 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, January 20 2010 Volume 09 : Number 014 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] poll: my liberal progressive socialist top 10 [Jenny Grover ] [loud-fans] Top Ten [aweiss4338@aol.com] [loud-fans] if I could hang a sign on the Internet [outbound-only email a] [loud-fans] Top 10 [Randy Beever ] [loud-fans] ellison story title help? [outbound-only email address ] Re: [loud-fans] Top Ten of 2009 [Dave Walker ] Re: [loud-fans] if I could hang a sign on the Internet [jrt456@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] ellison story title help? [Tim Walters ] Re: [loud-fans] Top 10 [Richard Blatherwick ] [loud-fans] Top 10 [treesprite@earthlink.net] Re: [loud-fans] Top 10 ["Joseph M. Mallon" ] Re: [loud-fans] Top 10 [Jenny Grover ] Re: [loud-fans] Top 10 ["Joseph M. Mallon" ] Re: [loud-fans] Top 10 [Michael Bowen ] Re: [loud-fans] Top Ten of 2009 [Andrew Hamlin ] Re: [loud-fans] Top 10 ["R. Kevin Doyle" ] [loud-fans] ...and speaking of movies... [Andrew Hamlin ] Re: [loud-fans] polls! [Michael Bowen ] Re: [loud-fans] polls! [jrt456@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] polls! [Jer Fairall ] Re: [loud-fans] polls! [Andrew Hamlin ] Re: [loud-fans] polls! ["Brian Block" ] Re: [loud-fans] polls! [glenn mcdonald ] Re: [loud-fans] polls! [jrt456@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] polls! [Roger Winston ] Re: [loud-fans] ...and speaking of movies... ["Dan Sallitt" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:15:06 -0500 From: Jenny Grover Subject: [loud-fans] poll: my liberal progressive socialist top 10 1 Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures 2 Black Hollies - Softly Towards the Light 3 Mission of Burma - The Sound The Speed The Light 4 Doves - Kingdom of Rust 5 The Clientele - Bonfires on the Heath 6 Sea Wolf - White Water, White Bloom 7 The Intelligence - Fake Surfers 8 King Khan and the Shrines - What Is? 9 Pearl Jam - Backspacer Would have made it if it wasn't just a 4-song EP: Foreign Cinema - Non-Synchronous Sound Jen ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:28:10 EST From: aweiss4338@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] Top Ten I make no apologies for my taste in music. Andrea 1 Sonic Youth The Eternal. 2 AC Newman Get Guilty 3 Sid n Susie Under the Covers Vol 2 4 Girls Album 5 Jill Sobule California Years 6 Tegan & Sara Sainthood 7 Neko Case Middle Cyclone 8 Stuart Murdoch God Help the Girl 9 Regina Spektor Far 10 Metric Fantasies ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:02:36 -0500 From: outbound-only email address Subject: [loud-fans] if I could hang a sign on the Internet it would say, "Do not feed the trolls." ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:42:09 -0500 From: Randy Beever Subject: [loud-fans] Top 10 Loudlist Top 10, ordered: 1. A.C. Newman - Get Guilty 2. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone 3. Deleted Waveform Gatherings - Ghost, She Said 4. Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs - Under the Covers, Vol. 2 5. Rhett Miller - Rhett Miller 6. Elvis Perkins in Dearland - Elvis Perkins in Dearland 7. Tommy Keene - In the Late Bright 8. Brendan Benson - My Old, Familiar Friend 9. And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - The Century of Self 10. Roger Joseph Manning, Jr. - Catnip Dynamite Also rans: Nektar - Fortyfied The Soundtrack of our Lives - Communion Wilco - Wilco (The Album) Visqueen - Message to Garcia A Camp - Colonia The Dodos - Time to Die ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:53:01 -0500 From: outbound-only email address Subject: [loud-fans] ellison story title help? A little afield, but I know there are several SF readers on the list ... so does anyone happen to remember the name of the Harlan Ellison short story in which one character can travel into other people's dreams? I think the character does bad things to folks in their dreams. Or if anyone can suggest a good resource for answering this sort of question, that would be swell. Google doesn't seem to be it. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:14:33 -0500 From: Jer Fairall Subject: [loud-fans] Top Ten of 2009 Did I post this already? My "sent" folder says no, but I seem to remember doing so. Just in case... 1. Neko Case, MIDDLE CYCLONE 2. Why?, ESKIMO SNOW 3. Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, VS. CHILDREN 4. Lights, THE LISTENING 5. Themselves, THEFREEHOUDINI 6. Metric, FANTASIES 7. Joel Plaskett, THREE 8. Emm Gryner, GODDESS 9. Wale, ATTENTION DEFICIT 10. Sonic Youth, THE ETERNAL ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 07:39:44 -0600 From: Dave Walker Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Top Ten of 2009 My top 10 , or "polls, not trolls": 1. Engineers - Three Fact Fader 2. Seeland - Tomorrow Today 3. Bop - Clear Your Mind 4. Marmoset - Tea Tornado 5. La Roux - La Roux 6. Monolake - Silence 7. Eels - Hombre Lobo 8. 2562 - Unbalance 9. Atlas Sound - Logos 10. Au Revoir Simone - Still Light, Still Night On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Jer Fairall wrote: > Did I post this already? My "sent" folder says no, but I seem to remember > doing so. Just in case... > > 1. Neko Case, MIDDLE CYCLONE > 2. Why?, ESKIMO SNOW > 3. Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, VS. CHILDREN > 4. Lights, THE LISTENING > 5. Themselves, THEFREEHOUDINI > 6. Metric, FANTASIES > 7. Joel Plaskett, THREE > 8. Emm Gryner, GODDESS > 9. Wale, ATTENTION DEFICIT > 10. Sonic Youth, THE ETERNAL ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:46:41 EST From: jrt456@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] if I could hang a sign on the Internet In a message dated 1/19/10 7:08:58 AM, eeimmnno@antithetical.org writes: > it would say, "Do not feed the trolls." > Yes, it's clearly textbook trolling to have a sig that attempts to perpetuate lies and misunderstandings. Still, those sigs (both political and non-political) have long been common on this list. There's no real reason to discourage them. Being posted on a list means they can be discussed, as they certainly should be. That way, people who mistakenly perpetuate those lies can be educated on their mistake. It'll be more difficult in the future for them to be suckered in again....especially by one particularly clever (or, if you prefer, evil) conservative commentator. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:08:16 -0800 From: Tim Walters Subject: Re: [loud-fans] ellison story title help? outbound-only email address wrote: > A little afield, but I know there are several SF readers on the list > ... so does anyone happen to remember the name of the Harlan Ellison > short story in which one character can travel into other people's > dreams? I think the character does bad things to folks in their > dreams. > > Or if anyone can suggest a good resource for answering this sort of > question, that would be swell. Google doesn't seem to be it. You can see a list of his (or any other SF writer's) stories at The Internet Science Fiction Database (). Obviously, Ellison has rather a lot of them, so you might have a needle/haystack problem. Your description is making my spider sense tingle, but I can't actually remember anything about it. - -- Tim Walters | The Doubtful Palace | http://doubtfulpalace.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:25:40 -0500 From: sciguy@vex.net Subject: Re: [loud-fans] if I could hang a sign on the Internet Or this sign: http://linux.foodsci.info/lastpage.shtml :-) > it would say, "Do not feed the trolls." ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:12:28 -0800 From: "Joseph M. Mallon" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Top 10 The Temper Trap - Conditions The Opium Cartel - Night Blooms The Soundcarriers - Harmonium Astra - The Weirding The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love Mist - Mist Amy X Neuburg - The Secret Language Of Subways Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs - Under The Covers Vol. 2 Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You - -- Joe Mallon jmmallon@joescafe.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:27:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Richard Blatherwick Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Top 10 I'm interested to see that several people went for this one. I didn't like it as much as Vol. 1, but my view of it did improve after a friend sent me a copy of the other songs included on the download version. On this side of the polling, I've just had one of my regular 'how did I manage to forget that one?' moments when I started playing The Disciplines' Smoking Kills! Oh well, seems like the memory is on the way out... - --- On Tue, 19/1/10, Joseph M. Mallon wrote: From: Joseph M. Mallon Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Top 10 To: loud-fans@smoe.org Cc: glenn@furia.com Date: Tuesday, 19 January, 2010, 20:12 Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs - Under The Covers Vol. 2 - -- Joe Mallon jmmallon@joescafe.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:55:51 -0500 (EST) From: treesprite@earthlink.net Subject: [loud-fans] Top 10 1.Moore Brothers Aptos 2.Richard Hawley Truelove's Gutter 3.Trashcan Sinatras In The Music 4.Liam Hayes & Plush Bright Penny 5.Reigning Sound Love & Curses 6.The Unthanks Here's The Tender Coming 7.Devon Sproule Don't Hurry Up For Heaven 8.Prefab Sprout Let's Change The World With Music 9.Neko Case Middle Cyclone 10.Andrew Bird Noble Beast honorable mention -- Crayon Angel: A Tribute To The Music of Judee Sill lots and lots of runners up. 2010 is off to the races with Spoon's latest already a stunner. xo, Bradley ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:45:22 -0800 From: "Joseph M. Mallon" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Top 10 I had no time for the first one, but this wormed its way into my ear... On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Richard Blatherwick wrote: > I'm interested to see that several people went for this one. I didn't like it > as much as Vol. 1, but my view of it did improve after a friend sent me a copy > of the other songs included on the download version. > On this side of the polling, I've just had one of my regular 'how did I manage > to forget that one?' moments when I started playing The Disciplines' Smoking > Kills! > Oh well, seems like the memory is on the way out... > > --- On Tue, 19/1/10, Joseph M. Mallon wrote: > > From: Joseph M. Mallon > Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Top 10 > To: loud-fans@smoe.org > Cc: glenn@furia.com > Date: Tuesday, 19 January, 2010, 20:12 > > > Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs - Under The Covers Vol. 2 - -- Joe Mallon jmmallon@joescafe.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:57:09 -0500 From: Jenny Grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Top 10 Randy Beever wrote: > 9. And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead - The Century of Self OMG, how did I miss Trail of Dead?? Ack! Guess I was thinking that was last year. Imagine them at about #3 on my list and bump everyone else down. Sigh... this is what happens when you can't get into your iTunes... Jen ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:00:29 -0800 From: "Joseph M. Mallon" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Top 10 Glenn - please note updated list. My apologies! On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Joseph M. Mallon wrote: > The Temper Trap - Conditions > The Opium Cartel - Night Blooms > The Soundcarriers - Harmonium > Astra - The Weirding > The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love > Amy X Neuburg - The Secret Language Of Subways > Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs - Under The Covers Vol. 2 > Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You The Corner Laughers - Ultraviolet Garden Allyson Seconds - Bag Of Kittens - -- Joe Mallon jmmallon@joescafe.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:03:57 -0500 From: Michael Bowen Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Top 10 Let's see if I can come up with 10: 1. Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 - Goodnight Oslo 2. God Help The Girl - s/t 3. The Young Fresh Fellows - I Think This Is 4. The Minus 5 - Killingsworth 5. James McMurtry - Live in Europe 6. The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love 7. The Trashcan Sinatras - In The Music 8. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - s/t 9. Chuck Prophet - Let Freedom Ring! 10. Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs Recently downloaded but not yet listened to: The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You, Holly Beth Vincent (!) - Minnesota/California MB ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:19:14 -0800 From: Andrew Hamlin Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Top Ten of 2009 On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Jer Fairall wrote: > Did I post this already? My "sent" folder says no, but I seem to remember > doing so. Just in case... Might need a new "sent" folder Jer! My records indicate that you sent the identical list on the 3rd. Human Skab's THUNDER HIPS AND SADDLE BAGS is finally on CD (just when I needed it), Andy "I'm not doin' this for the money. I'm on a mission. I have a message for the world. It's not just playin' guitars good that is important. It's all the things that you do." - --Human Skab, interview 1986; from http://www.family-vineyard.com/artists/humanskab.php ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:44:35 -1000 From: "R. Kevin Doyle" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Top 10 Ok, let's do this... 1. The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love 2. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone 3. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest 4. Wilco - Wilco (The Album) 5. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion 6. Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs 7. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix 8. Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane and Sugarcane 9. Japandroids - Post-Nothing 10. The Dead Weather - Horehound I'm not proud. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:09:01 -0800 From: Andrew Hamlin Subject: [loud-fans] ...and speaking of movies... ...here's my Top Ten 2009: 1. "Ballast" (Lance Hammer, USA) 2. "Ponyo" (Miyazaki Hayao, Japan) 3. "State Of Play" (Kevin Macdonald, USA/UK/France) 4. "Throw Down Your Heart" (Sascha Paladino, USA) 5. "Kabei: Our Mother" (Yamada Yoji, Japan) 6. "Still Walking" (Kore-eda Hirokazu, Japan) 7. "The Red Jacket" (Zou Yalin, China) 8. "Telstar" (Nick Moran, UK) 9. "We Live In Public" (Ondi Timoner, USA) 10. "Big Fan" (Robert D. Siegel, USA) Bubbling under: "The Windmill Movie" (Alexander Olch, USA); "An Audience Of One" (Mike Jacobs, USA); "It Might Get Loud" (Davis Guggenheim, USA) Naturally, I look forward to Dan Sallitt on all of the above... Andrew Kate McGarrigle, Rufus Wainwright's mother, dead OTTAWA (Reuters)  Canadian folk singer Kate McGarrigle, who enjoyed a long, successful musical partnership with her sister and was the mother of musicians Rufus and Martha Wainwright, has died at the age of 63, her sister said on Tuesday. McGarrigle had been suffering from clear cell sarcoma, a rare kind of cancer. She died on Monday. "Sadly our sweet Kate had to leave us last night. She departed in a haze of song and love surrounded by family and good friends. She is irreplaceable and we are broken-hearted. Till we meet again dear sister," Anna McGarrigle wrote on the sisters' website www.mcgarrigles.com. The pair broke into the limelight with their song "Heart Like a Wheel", which U.S. singer Linda Ronstadt turned into a major hit in 1974. It featured on their first album, "Kate and Anna McGarrigle", which was released in 1975 and chosen as best album of the year by music magazine Melody Maker. The sisters -- born near Montreal in French-speaking Quebec -- recorded a total of 10 albums, some of them in French. They were known for their inventive style and intricate vocal harmonies when they sang together. McGarrigle was married to U.S. singer-songwriter Loudon Wainwright III, with whom she had Rufus and Martha. The pair later divorced. (Reporting by David Ljunggren; editing by Peter Galloway) - --from http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100119/people_nm/us_canada_mcgarrigle_5 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:49:41 -0500 From: glenn mcdonald Subject: [loud-fans] polls! Thanks for all the lists! If you're still lagging, get 'em in tonight. I will tabulate them tomorrow (Wednesday). Tabulation afficionados can spend tonight marveling at http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/. Or, if that's not geeky enough for you, http://www.needlebase.com/pj2009. glenn ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:22:59 -0500 From: Michael Bowen Subject: Re: [loud-fans] polls! On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:49 PM, glenn mcdonald wrote: > > Tabulation afficionados can spend tonight marveling at > http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/. Or, if that's not geeky enough for > you, http://www.needlebase.com/pj2009. > > glenn > Wow, lots of surprises in this year's Top Ten! MB ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:19:43 EST From: jrt456@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] polls! In a message dated 1/19/10 9:30:05 PM, bowenm@gmail.com writes: > Wow, lots of surprises in this year's Top Ten! > Whether you're joking or not, Chuck Eddy sums things up with his essay titled "The Year of Too Much Consensus"...although I did get one of my favorites included in the Top 113, which is almost as good as when I managed to get one into the Top 98 (or so) last year. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:30:38 -0500 From: Jer Fairall Subject: Re: [loud-fans] polls! I'm guessing that, due to my never having heard of anyone on glenn's albums ballot (and only two of the artists on his singles list) that he did an all-metal ballot this year. Yes? On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Michael Bowen wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:49 PM, glenn mcdonald wrote: > > > > > Tabulation afficionados can spend tonight marveling at > > http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/. Or, if that's not geeky enough > for > > you, http://www.needlebase.com/pj2009. > > > > glenn > > > > Wow, lots of surprises in this year's Top Ten! > > MB > - -- Jer Fairall jer.fairall@gmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:20:05 -0800 From: Andrew Hamlin Subject: Re: [loud-fans] polls! On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Jer Fairall wrote: > I'm guessing that, due to my never having heard of anyone on glenn's albums > ballot (and only two of the artists on his singles list) that he did an > all-metal ballot this year. Yes? In the spirit of a jailer poking holes in a prisoner's gift cake looking for a file, I tried one band, Thy Catafalque, at Wikipedia, which dubs them said band an "Avant-garde Post-Black metal band from Hungary." On top of which, glenn mentioned something to me about the Manics probably making his #1...no sign of them. Post-Black? Is that the "brightness" which Jen hates so much? (Probably not. She isn't *that* into metal.) Okay, let's try my Top Ten 2009 vs. The Voice: 1. New York Dolls--'CAUSE I SEZ SO #113, 111 points, 11 mentions 2. Morrissey--YEARS OF REFUSAL #157, 80, 7 3. Pete Yorn and Scarlett Johansson--BREAK UP (did not chart--for shame!) 4. Caroline Weeks--SONGS FOR EDNA (did not chart) 5. Ripynt (aka MC Ripynt)--RIP: RE-INVENTING POETICS (did not chart) 6. Mountain Goats--THE LIFE OF THE WORLD TO COME #80, 153, 17 7. Laura Barrett--VICTORY GARDEN (did not chart) 8. Booker T.--POTATO HOLE #221, 60, 5 9. Various Artists--KEEP YOUR SOUL: A TRIBUTE TO DOUG SAHM (did not chart) 10. Tris McCall--LET THE NIGHT FALL #425, 30, 3 (two loudfans included) Whew! Nothing in the Top 50, only one in the Top 100, and whiffage on five out of ten! I'm weirder than ever (I'm pretty sure)... Officially giving up hope that they'll ever spell glenn's name right, Andy "I'm not going to have sex until I'm married. I can guarantee it." - -- Candie's Foundation Teen Abstinence Ambassador Bristol Palin, to InTouch magazine. Palin, unwed mother of Tripp Palin, works at a doctor's office while attending college. She is 19. - --from http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2010/01/bristol_palin_q.php ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:46:31 -0800 From: "Brian Block" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] polls! It amuses me a little that I wasn't the sole voter for Tris McCall, Cheer-Accident, Mike Keneally, or Propagandhi, but that I *was* the only vote for Tori Amos's new album. And, indeed, the only vote for U2's lead single.

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