From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V9 #191 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 Monday, November 22 2010 Volume 09 : Number 191 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Ten More [Andrew Hamlin ] Re: [loud-fans] Ten More [Andrew Hamlin ] Re: [loud-fans] Ten More [aweiss4338@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] Ten More [Michael Bowen ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 14:05:35 -0800 From: Andrew Hamlin Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Ten More On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Joseph M. Mallon wrote: > We were lucky enough to have Robert blurb the upcoming book of Scott > Miller's musings on music - called "Music: What Happened?" Lucky indeed! Although, confusing, in light of (see below), Andy "A Neither may impress once or twice with consistent craft or an arresting track or two. Then it won't." - --Robert Christgau, explaining the specifics of the rating he awarded "Tinker To Evers To Chance" by Game Theory (the only record by that band he deigned to judge) and "Plants and Birds and Rocks and Things" by the Loud Family (ditto); from robertchristgau.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 14:11:27 -0800 From: Andrew Hamlin Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Ten More >On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Joseph M. Mallon wrote: > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Jer Fairall wrote: >> Top 10 Singles: >> >> 1. Cee-Lo Green - "Fuck You" > > Got to agree with this. The multiplicity of covers (William Shatner & > Gwyneth Paltrow among others) is testament to its catchiness. As soon > as I heard it, I knew it was my favorite song of the year. Heard some of the rest of the album this afternoon at Easy Street, and found myself delighted. The finest-sounding soul from a new(ish) artist in many a moon. Now if only "oh shit she's a gold digga" didn't remind me so much of a certain ex-girlfriend... Andy "Support The Magnetic Ribbon Industry" - --yellow magnetic ribbon on a parked car near where I live ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:31:17 -0500 From: aweiss4338@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Ten More - -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Hamlin To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sent: Sun, Nov 21, 2010 5:05 pm Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Ten More On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Joseph M. Mallon wrote: > We were lucky enough to have Robert blurb the upcoming book of Scott > Miller's musings on music - called "Music: What Happened?" Lucky indeed! Although, confusing, in light of (see below), Andy "A Neither may impress once or twice with consistent craft or an arresting track or two. Then it won't." - --Robert Christgau, explaining the specifics of the rating he awarded "Tinker To Evers To Chance" by Game Theory (the only record by that band he deigned to judge) and "Plants and Birds and Rocks and Things" by the Loud Family (ditto); from robertchristgau.com If anyone has a copy or can get a copy of Christgau's 80s guide, there is a one paragraph mention of GT in the "Subjects for Further Research" section that is quite interesting, and explains a lot more of his thinking on Scott than what is on his site. This mention is not on his site though. I don't have the book with me at this moment or I'd post it I will say that his mention is favorable, he does somewhat like 2 Steps. Andrea . ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 21:22:37 -0500 From: Michael Bowen Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Ten More On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 6:31 PM, wrote: > -----Original Message----- > > If anyone has a copy or can get a copy of Christgau's 80s guide, there is a > one paragraph mention of GT in the "Subjects for Further Research" section > that is quite > interesting, and explains a lot more of his thinking on Scott than what is on > his site. This mention is not on his site though. I don't have the book with > me at this moment or I'd post it I will say that his mention is favorable, he > does somewhat like 2 Steps. > Andrea > . > As it happens, I had Christgau's 80's book right next to my computer. Here's his take on Game Theory. Obsessed not just with the Beatles but with sometime Beatles obsessive Alex Chilton, Rendering the ostensibly public essentially private, Scott Miller was a prototypical '80s rock artist - serious, playful, skillful, obscure, secondhand. His Mitch Easter-produced albums were like dreams of the early dB's, before their rhythm section began to cook, which isn't to say Miller and cohorts didn't also develop a grove as they got older. He was literary, too, - loved Joyce. Adepts reommend 1987's "Lolita Nation", which is said to make sense, though I don't know exactly what sense. At the level of attention I can afford, I kinda like 1988's "Two Steps From The Middle Ages", which sounded a little...funkier, I guess you'd call it. MB ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V9 #191 *******************************