From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V9 #69 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, April 7 2010 Volume 09 : Number 069 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] ...and that's the horn for the end of the first quarter... [Sarge Subject: Re: [loud-fans] ...and that's the horn for the end of the first quarter... ...as if good intentions were good deeds A salute to snobs! - -Sarge On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Joseph M. Mallon wrote: > On Sunday, April 4, 2010, Andrew Hamlin wrote: > > Ultimately, however, it's clear that even the negative components of > > music snobbery are generated from a passionate place with good > intentions. > > So say all snobs. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 20:39:25 -0400 From: Michael Zwirn Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re: ...and that's the horn for the end of the first quarter... I'm intrigued, as it sounds so little like the Verlaines I knew (and saw in Dunedin, many years ago).... On Apr 6, 2010, at 1:17 AM, treesprite@earthlink.net wrote: >> Based on the description, this cannot possibly be New Zealand's >> Verlaines. Can it?? > > It is, indeed. It's actually an '09 release. They've put out three > albums since they disappeared off the North American musical radar. > 1997's Over The Moon is similar to their other records on Slash and > is brilliant. 2007's Potboiler is incredible -- similar in > songwriting to the Slash records but sonically a bit of a return to > the Bird Dog style, it's a real masterpiece. I thought Corporate > Moronic was a bit of a let down after Potboiler (not as melodically > solid, maybe a bit too on-the-nose lyrically for my tastes), but > because it's a Verlaines record it is genius. > > Bradley ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V9 #69 ******************************