From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V9 #25 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, February 2 2010 Volume 09 : Number 025 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Metric [Roger Winston ] [loud-fans] dickies; scott [outbound-only email address ] Re: [loud-fans] dickies; scott [Jenny Grover ] Re: [loud-fans] Metric [Michael Mitton ] RE: [loud-fans] Scott interview ["Bob Lloyd" ] [loud-fans] Results of a poll [Andrew Hamlin ] Re: [loud-fans] Scott interview ["R. Kevin Doyle" ] Re: [loud-fans] dickies; scott ["R. Kevin Doyle" ] Re: [loud-fans] Metric [Janet Ingraham Dwyer ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 07:13:54 -0700 From: Roger Winston Subject: [loud-fans] Metric Metric's FANTASIES showed up on a lot of our Best of 2009 lists. For the rest of you interested in checking it out, Amazon has the digital version for $2.99, today only. Cheaper than eMusic. http://www.amazon.com/Fantasies/dp/B001W4LA3E/ How come no comments on the new Scott interview? Is the subject of this list now passe? Granted, he did sound like the same old Scott... Latre. --Rog ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 11:24:03 -0500 From: outbound-only email address Subject: [loud-fans] dickies; scott I'm old enough to lie about how old I am, and still spend a lot time listening to punk, but I only heard The Dickies maybe 5 or 6 years ago. I knew the name, but compared to other early California punk bands like The Avengers, Descendents, Agent Orange, Bad Religon, TSOL, DKs, I don't feel like they had the same cachet -- I never felt like it was a hole in my musical awareness that I should remedy until I actually remedied it*.. Maybe it's just that I never had a friend who was really into them. I certainly enjoyed the Scott Miller interview, but the only response I have is probably in the archives for this mailing list 5 or 6 times already. * and that was only in the practically unlimited download days of eMusic when there was no fiscal cost to checking out something you'd always been vaguely curious about. So maybe it was 7 or 8 years ago. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 17:10:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Richard Blatherwick Subject: Re: [loud-fans] dickies; scott Are The Dickies another example of a band that gained a higher degree of exposure in the UK than the US? I seem to recall that they were popular over here for a while between the first two albums, especially among early-teenage lads, of which I was one. For other groups they probably popped up as a one hit wonder with Banana Splits and then disappeared.Then there was the heroin and the death of Chuck Waggon - I can't recall which came first - which robbed the band of a lot of what made them good and fun in the first place. I'm sure their web site will have a fine revised version of their history - I think they're still gigging. I saw them about 10 years ago and they still had a lot of energy, despite the wrinkles! - --- On Mon, 1/2/10, outbound-only email address wrote: From: outbound-only email address Subject: [loud-fans] dickies; scott To: loud-fans@smoe.org Date: Monday, 1 February, 2010, 16:24 I'm old enough to lie about how old I am, and still spend a lot time listening to punk, but I only heard The Dickies maybe 5 or 6 years ago. I knew the name, but compared to other early California punk bands like The Avengers, Descendents, Agent Orange, Bad Religon, TSOL, DKs, I don't feel like they had the same cachet -- I never felt like it was a hole in my musical awareness that I should remedy until I actually remedied it*.. Maybe it's just that I never had a friend who was really into them. I certainly enjoyed the Scott Miller interview, but the only response I have is probably in the archives for this mailing list 5 or 6 times already. * and that was only in the practically unlimited download days of eMusic when there was no fiscal cost to checking out something you'd always been vaguely curious about. So maybe it was 7 or 8 years ago. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:20:17 -0500 From: Jenny Grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Metric Roger Winston wrote: > How come no comments on the new Scott interview? I thought it was interesting and it made me laugh in a couple places. It is, indeed, typical Scott, and I thank you for the link. I wouldn't have known about it otherwise. Jen ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:21:45 -0500 From: Jenny Grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] dickies; scott outbound-only email address wrote: > Maybe it's just that I never had a friend who > was really into them. > More likely you just didn't live near a college radio station that played them a ton. Jen ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 11:55:11 -0800 From: Michael Mitton Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Metric >> How come no comments on the new Scott interview? I've been busy thinking about this--"I was the artist kid growing up, and I developed an intense physical fetish about printing and packaging by the time I was putting records out"--compared to the black plastic bags for Blaze of Glory. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 12:32:09 -0800 From: "Bob Lloyd" Subject: RE: [loud-fans] Scott interview There's undoubtedly a story to that (the Blaze of Glory release), but the packaging for the early ALRN EP fits his description--all kinds of folding and elaborate inserts, etc. Bob - -----Original Message----- From: owner-loud-fans@smoe.org [mailto:owner-loud-fans@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Michael Mitton Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 11:55 AM To: loud-fans@smoe.org Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Metric >> How come no comments on the new Scott interview? I've been busy thinking about this--"I was the artist kid growing up, and I developed an intense physical fetish about printing and packaging by the time I was putting records out"--compared to the black plastic bags for Blaze of Glory. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 14:24:49 -0800 From: Andrew Hamlin Subject: [loud-fans] Results of a poll Behold! http://trismccall.net/category/news/ So if Tris was 11 in '83, he was born in '72... Andy "and i know the dickies now! george from overlord lent me all his dickies records. they're great. i love 'em. right up my alley." - --Tris McCall, from a recent email ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 12:38:08 -1000 From: "R. Kevin Doyle" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Scott interview >> How come no comments on the new Scott interview? I commented directly at the interview. Good stuff. On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Bob Lloyd wrote: > There's undoubtedly a story to that (the Blaze of Glory release), but the > packaging for the early ALRN EP fits his description--all kinds of folding > and elaborate inserts, etc. > > Bob > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-loud-fans@smoe.org [mailto:owner-loud-fans@smoe.org] On Behalf > Of Michael Mitton > Sent: Monday, February 01, 2010 11:55 AM > To: loud-fans@smoe.org > Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Metric > >>> How come no comments on the new Scott interview? > > I've been busy thinking about this--"I was the artist kid growing up, > and I developed an intense physical fetish about printing and > packaging by the time I was putting records out"--compared to the > black plastic bags for Blaze of Glory. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:31:19 -0500 From: "Stewart Mason" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] dickies; scott - ----- Original Message ----- From: "outbound-only email address" > I'm old enough to lie about how old I am, and still spend a lot time > listening to punk, but I only heard The Dickies maybe 5 or 6 years > ago. I knew the name, but compared to other early California punk > bands like The Avengers, Descendents, Agent Orange, Bad Religon, > TSOL, > DKs, I don't feel like they had the same cachet -- I never felt like > it was a hole in my musical awareness that I should remedy until I > actually remedied it*.. Maybe it's just that I never had a friend > who > was really into them. Bands with funny, jokey lyrics are almost always taken less seriously than their peers, and the Dickies were jokesters from their name (and logo) on down. But I'd put DAWN OF THE DICKIES up against any album from the L.A. punk scene: goofy lyrics aside, they had probably the best knack for catchy tunes out of any of them. S ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 13:57:10 -1000 From: "R. Kevin Doyle" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] dickies; scott > Bands with funny, jokey lyrics are almost always taken less seriously than > their peers, and the Dickies were jokesters from their name (and logo) on > down. But I'd put DAWN OF THE DICKIES up against any album from the L.A. > punk scene: goofy lyrics aside, they had probably the best knack for catchy > tunes out of any of them. > > S > Seconded. Its really a remarkably catchy album. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 19:09:29 -0500 From: Jer Fairall Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Results of a poll "The Antlers had the best polling debut, but Im more excited about the emergence of Valerie Lights Poxleitner. Kelly Clarkson ought to do some of her songs (maybe Face Up?) and make everybody involved a zillion dollars." Woo! My review of the Lights album over at PopMatters has spawned a bizarre amount of negative comments and emails. Vindicated! On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Andrew Hamlin wrote: > Behold! > > http://trismccall.net/category/news/ > > So if Tris was 11 in '83, he was born in '72... > > Andy > > > "and i know the dickies now! george from overlord lent me all his > dickies records. they're great. i love 'em. right up my alley." > > --Tris McCall, from a recent email > - -- Jer Fairall jer.fairall@gmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 20:16:08 -0500 From: Janet Ingraham Dwyer Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Metric On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Michael Mitton wrote: > > I've been busy thinking about this--"I was the artist kid growing up, > and I developed an intense physical fetish about printing and > packaging by the time I was putting records out"--compared to the > black plastic bags for Blaze of Glory. My copy came in a white plastic bag, so apparently there was some amount of packaging complexity involved, anyway. xo Janet ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V9 #25 ******************************