From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V10 #239 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 Saturday, June 6 2015 Volume 10 : Number 239 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] literature - chorus ["Paul King" ] [loud-fans] literature - chorus [outbound-only email address Subject: Re: [loud-fans] literature - chorus Instruments are all right, but the samples from Amazon make the lead singer sound like he's 3 feet from the mike. I didn't quite notice the harmonies. On 5 Jun 2015 at 9:42, outbound-only email address wrote: Date sent: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 09:42:56 -0400 Subject: [loud-fans] literature - chorus From: outbound-only email address To: loud-fans@smoe.org Send reply to: loud-fans@smoe.org > I've been working through the enormous backlog of stuff I bookmarked to > sample audio from later, and hit one that made me put the whole record in > the queue immediately, "Chorus" from Literature. From the retro indie pop > school (I bet these folks got plenty of value from Field Mice and House of > Love records), a bit wispier than I usually go for, but with some gorgeous > vocal harmonies, solid hooks, and lovely Smiths-ian guitar chime. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 09:42:56 -0400 From: outbound-only email address Subject: [loud-fans] literature - chorus I've been working through the enormous backlog of stuff I bookmarked to sample audio from later, and hit one that made me put the whole record in the queue immediately, "Chorus" from Literature. From the retro indie pop school (I bet these folks got plenty of value from Field Mice and House of Love records), a bit wispier than I usually go for, but with some gorgeous vocal harmonies, solid hooks, and lovely Smiths-ian guitar chime. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 10:52:52 -0400 From: Dan Sallitt Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Re: Scott And Alex Dan, I think he saved most of the "screwing with people" for folks like Pete > Buck, people who pursued jamming with him or only wanted to talk Big Star. > And yet we fans were pretty Big Star-intense, and he tolerated it from us. I remember telling him in 1985 that "Blue Moon" might be my favorite Big Star song, and he pondered a second and said, "That's sad music. Those are sad songs. I want to make people happy now." I heard from a friend in the industry back then that R.E.M. asked Alex to tour with them, and Alex queered the deal by asking for too much money. Maybe he had some problem with Buck/R.E.M. - or maybe, as I suspected at the time, anyone with enough power to help his career became an authority figure that had to be rebelled against. > He liked Scott and he liked Game Theory, but he never understood (no > matter how hard I tried to explain it to him) why Scott dropped the drummer > lyric from "You Can't Have Me". > That's funny, because he didn't like the original lyric of "You Can't Have Me" and rewrote it for 80s performances - he definitely lost the "Sidewinder...klepto" line. We urged him to keep it, and he wouldn't hear of it. > and would have avoided the later Beach Boys album "Beach Boys Love You" > had Alex not insisted we hear "Solar System". > Alex used to cover "Solar System" back then, and also "Honkin" Down the Highway." He said to us, "You can never count Brian Wilson out." Jules: >but he never understood (no matter > how hard I tried to explain it to him) why Scott dropped the >drummer lyric > from "You Can't Have Me" . Please explain it to me! I don't know Scott's take, but it's a pretty rough lyric: "The drummer said you were not very clean/The drummer said you were not very clean/And I know what he means/I know what he means." It's the kind of gender-war stuff that Alex felt comfortable with, but that I can't imagine Scott doing. Dan ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V10 #239 ********************************