From: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org (oppositeview-digest) To: oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Subject: oppositeview-digest V2 #10 Reply-To: oppositeview@smoe.org Sender: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk oppositeview-digest Saturday, May 27 2000 Volume 02 : Number 010 Today's Subjects: ----------------- OV: Feeling my age! ["Iain Gray" ] Re: OV: Feeling my age! [Libby Graham ] OV: Re:driving music [Shevale@aol.com] OV: Re: oops - driving music [Shevale@aol.com] OV: this is a test...this is only a test.... ["Jen Woyan" ] OV: RE: Feeling my age ["Phil Denson" ] Re: OV: Re: Driving music ["S Meyer" ] OV: Driving music [Darren Holmquist ] OV: Stuff Del Amitri should do [Leah D Schenkenberg ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 04:54:19 PDT From: "Iain Gray" Subject: OV: Feeling my age! There are some days on this list when i feel young...usually when everyone else is talking about their music tastes...cheers guys...cheered me up whn i was beginning to feel like i was getting old.......... :) Iain PS anyone listened to any of the following? NEW Bluetones album - "Science and Nature" is a very good bit of guitary pop/rock..... Or the New Delgado's album "The Great Eastern" yet again a fine album from the second best band in the world beginning with the letters DEL.....wonder who the 1st could be.... Sorry....waffling today!!!! ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 14:09:52 +0100 () From: Libby Graham Subject: Re: OV: Feeling my age! I hate to disappoint you but there is no correlation between age and musical tastes. Some people are just exposed to certain different things when they grow up and like different stuff. I have a passion for Tom Lehrer - and if you thought it would be age correlated this would make me older than my parents - his best album was recorded in 1958! And the last time Andrew and I went on a shopping spree we ended up with The Best of Ian Dury and also The Bloodhound Gang's new one. Vive la difference! Sorry for being a crotchety old person :-) Libby On Fri, 26 May 2000, Iain Gray wrote: > There are some days on this list when i feel young...usually when everyone > else is talking about their music tastes...cheers guys...cheered me up whn i > was beginning to feel like i was getting old.......... :) > > Iain > > PS anyone listened to any of the following? > > NEW Bluetones album - "Science and Nature" is a very good bit of guitary > pop/rock..... > > Or the New Delgado's album "The Great Eastern" yet again a fine album from > the second best band in the world beginning with the letters DEL.....wonder > who the 1st could be.... > > Sorry....waffling today!!!! > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 09:34:24 EDT From: Shevale@aol.com Subject: OV: Re:driving music So cool to see all the different stuff people like to crank up while driving. I haven't had much of a chance to think about it after I asked the question, but feel that since you all posted, I should list whatever first comes to mind. So, here goes, in no particular order: (and apologies since neither my mind nor my writing are as creative as Andrew's) Springsteen: just about anything, but definitely "Rosalita," "Thunder Road," "Badlands" er, the list is too long. del Amitri: "A Better Man," "Spit in the Rain," "It Might As Well Be You" And, again, the list is too long. Don Dixon: anything off of "If I'm a Ham, You're a Sausage" (what a perfect album -- that's my parenthetical not the album's) John Eddie: "Something's Going On Somewhere" or "Shake My Faith" John Cougar (Mellencamp): "Ain't Even Done With the Night" (this should probably be at the top of my list!) Elvis Costello: PUMP IT UP or Oliver's Army (and recently, Elvis and Burt Bacharach's "Toledo") Mott the Hoople: All the Way to Memphis The Foundation: "Build Me Up, Buttercup" Todd Rundgren: We Gotta Get You a Woman Squeeze: Black Coffee In Bed BoDeans: anything off of "Love and Sex and Hopes and Dreams" and "It's Only Love" Travis: Driftwood Marshall Crenshaw: "Cynical Girl," "Someday, Someway" Marshall Crenshaw/Jules Shear: "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore" The Raspberries: All the Way Queen: You're My Best Friend My goodness, it's a long list and not even close to being complete! I'll think about it some more over the weekend. Since this coming weekend is a three-day holiday, I'll be driving and listening to music, and if the remaining days are anything like the day we're having in NYC today, the windows will be rolled down and the music will be blasting! Tonight, I'll be at Yankee stadium watching the Yanks play the Boston Red Sox. I'm calling on all of you to put together that phenomenal positive energy that you generate and pull for the Yanks to keep playing as well as they have the past couple of days, and NOT return to the stinkeroo games of last week! And, on that note, a happy weekend to all! Sherry ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 09:42:04 EDT From: Shevale@aol.com Subject: OV: Re: oops - driving music Sorry kids, but I couldn't just let it go. I need to add one to my list: Dave Edmunds!!!! Every song is a perfect driving tune. Now, I'm really going back to my cage. Sherry ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 09:51:45 -0500 From: "Jen Woyan" Subject: OV: this is a test...this is only a test.... Cheers, Jen in Chicago ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 12:59:35 -0400 From: "Susan & C. Reid Gardner" Subject: Re: OV: Re: Driving music Jane Armstrong wrote: > Other Driving Faves (as included on a tape I put together a few years back > precisely for that) are > > Sweet Home Alabama - Allman Brothers Come visit me here in Georgia some day, Jane, and I'll take you to the Allman Brother's old 'stompin' grounds'! They are some of our southern boys who've done well for themselves. TTFN Susan who also lived in Alabama for awhile ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 15:12:33 EDT From: LRush23204@aol.com Subject: OV: Just my two cents... Hello to you all! Yes, I am still alive.... So nice to hear from Andrew, I agree. AND everyone else. It was the Jayhawks that sparked me to write. ( Minneapolis has produced some excellent musicians) New album is very good. They will be at the Basillica block party. As will Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Excellent band/music ! And of course, the Bodeans will also be there. I'm not sure if I will be there, yet. But I want to go. As for driving music, how could one not have a little Tom Petty blaring, such as "American Girl"....? But, be careful of strangers who need help with their car....(remember Silence of the Lambs?) : ) I also have a compilation tape that I play in the car that includes: Move the Mountain Robert Cray Band If You Can't Slow Down Big Head Todd... I Will Dare Replacements (really crank this one up) This is the Sea Waterboys Purple Rain (SUPERB cover by Waterboys) You Don't Treat Me No Good Sonia Dada I Misunderstood Richard Thompson Wild West End Dire Straits Little Martha Allman Brothers Cry Love John Hiatt Central Reservation Beth Orton Layla Clapton and Knopflers version together Jeannie's Laughing David Knopfler Ok, bye. Laura I don't like this digest thing, I will figure out how to switch it one of these days. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 15:27:57 -0400 From: "Susan & C. Reid Gardner" Subject: OV: no dels content: dean & debs?? Hi ya'll! I've lost your email address: can you send it to me? Thank ye! TTFN Susan Gardner ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 15:13:18 -0500 From: "Ed Minton" Subject: OV: OV Driving Music Correction Couldn't let this pass twice without comment: Just to set record straight, Sweet Home Alabama is a Skynyrd song. Ed ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 16:12:31 -0500 From: "Phil Denson" Subject: OV: RE: Feeling my age Iain, cheer up...I'm 35 and listen to almost nothing but NEW music. Then I read the posts and feel out of touch with my counter parts. I live in a town that has 2 classic rock stations...20 years of classic rock...I own all the albums and have heard all the songs a quadrillion times...for the most part, unless I'm drinking, the only band that I can listen to without saying "not again" is the Beatles. New music/albums that I own and love... Vertical Horizon Stir Dada Ninedays Splender Shades Apart Stroke 9 The Apples In Stereo Athenaeum Addict Black Lab Lit Fuel ........and so-on My friends that are between 30 and 40 won't listen to anything new, if the band hasn't been showcased on King Biscuit Flower Hour (Classic Rock Show), they figure it's no good. Maybe I'm holding on to my youth...maybe I like music...maybe...maybe...maybe...I'll figure it out...When I'm Sixty-Four... Phil ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 21:30:51 -0500 From: "S Meyer" Subject: Re: OV: Re: Driving music Here's my list, as much of one as I can think of, in no particular order, and in addition to what I posted earlier: Letting Go - Wings Perfectly Good Guitar, Drive South, and Buffalo River Home - John Hiatt (who can argue with lyrics like, "There's only two things in life, but I forget what they are"? Pretty much sums up the state of my mind lately!!) ;>O Could You Would You - Willy DeVille The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks - Eagles So Far Away - Dire Straits Start the Car - Jude Cole Kiss This Thing Goodbye, When I Want You, and It Might As Well Be You - Del Amitri I Saw Her Standing There and Oh! Darling - Beatles (and too many more to list, but Oh Darling is a cranker for me) Almost anything by Def Leppard She Said Yeah, Brown-Eyed Handsome Man, What It Is, and Little Coquette - Paul McCartney from "Run Devil Run" All She Wants To Do Is Dance and The Boys of Summer - Don Henley Monday Morning - Fleetwood Mac Angel of Harlem - U2 Mystify - INXS Heard It In A Love Song - Marshall Tucker Naked and Only Love - BoDeans (Sherry - I've got an "aside" about this song live that I'll e-mail you off list ) Gone Away - The Offspring American Girl and Listen to Her Heart - Tom Petty Most anything by John Mellencamp, but Sherry's right - Ain't Even Done with the Night is a list topper for me, too. Thunder Road, Rosalita, and 10th Avenue Freezeout - Bruce Springsteen Dead Flowers and She's A Rainbow - Rolling Stones (and too many others to list) Can't Let Go - Lucinda Williams I hope I'm done . . . Cindy ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 20:21:05 -0700 From: Darren Holmquist Subject: OV: Driving music I have to admit, my tastes in music while driving, is a bit varied. I didn't jump into this thread before, but everyone's been pulling my songs!! When the thread first came up, the first song that popped into my head was Radar Love... Then Andrew gave us the synopsis for his upcoming indie-film, and all I could say was "me too." Some folks have even surprised me; the way My Sharona popped in there for instance. (You poor young'ns... I bought the 45rpm (with picture sleeve) when it was orginally released...!) I'd love to see the Dels cover that one! Laura pulled out some Sonia Dada, (whom I had the pleasure of meeting a couple of months ago)(there's a free live "concert" available at www.soniadada.com). But, I already knew Laura had excellent taste in music! One person I haven't met, but knows she has excellent taste in music is Cindy Meyer. But, she totally missed the boat with the BoDeans.... Say About Love, is the best driving song (Joe Dirt Car version, of course!) As for Dels tunes... the Kiss This Thing Goodbye/Opposite View piece is stellar. And, if you have it, the Double Door show in it's entirety. Non-stop energy on that one. Well, I'm off to hear some live music in a (no doubt) smokey bar...But, I've got this song stuck in my head.... "It might as well be you......" Peace, Darren ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 00:21:56 -0500 From: Leah D Schenkenberg Subject: OV: Stuff Del Amitri should do I've been listening to my old Jim Croce album just about every morning this week (on the record player as it was intended to be heard from....for some reason, I like Jim Croce better with the LP scratchy noises) and I think I would just die to hear Justin sing Lover's Cross. It's so much like a song he'd write. Operator would be nice to hear too. Leah There's a king on a throne with his eyes torn out; There's a blind man looking for a shadow of doubt. There's a rich man sleeping on a golden bed; There's a skeleton choking on a crust of bread... ~ sting ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 00:18:05 -0500 From: Leah D Schenkenberg Subject: Re: OV: Re: Driving music I get the feeling that they like Hatful of Rain or something. Maybe not, but I've heard 2 live versions and they did it at the concert at the basilica, which was only about an hour long. so for it not being a single, I think it seems to get a fair amount of play time. I'm so glad people like Tempted as much as I do. Just don't be like Winona Ryder in Reality Bites when she was cruising around to that song. She flicked a cigarette, got into an accident, fell in love, screwed up her life, etc. But come to think of it, she got Ethan Hawke in the end, so I suppose it really wasn't that bad after all :) Speaking of Reality Bites, if any of you have heard the soundtrack, listen to Ethan's track (who I don't think can sing at all, but that doesn't stop him from being right up there with Justin in most attractive people on the face of the planet). Doesn't he sing like Iain? It always reminds me of Ace of Spades. I'm embarrassed to share my good driving stuff list because it's so cheesy compared to everyone else's stuff. What can I say, I'm easily amused: Loving you's the right thing to do, Haven't got time for the pain, You're so Vain, and Mockingbird (All goddess Carly Simon, with some help from James Taylor on the last one) Most all Hollies stuff, especially He Ain't Heavy, He's my Brother, Gasoline Alley Bred, Can't tell the bottom from the top Total Eclipse of the Heart: love the song, but it's almost too intense to drive to. I end up going way to fast and dangerously swerving. Love Grows where my rosemary goes: The song that was totally written about me, except for my name isn't rosemary. The stuff about wearing funny clothes and having wild hair is totally me though. Who said Every Little Thing She Does is Magic? AWESOME driving stuff. Once on the way back to school, I listened to Life is Full for 2 straight hours on repeat. On the way across the state to visit my best friend, I listened to Medicine on repeat for nearly an hour. PANHEADS UNITE (that's for you, Susan. Ever heard Switchfoot stuff? Their second album is GREAT for driving) Leah There's a king on a throne with his eyes torn out; There's a blind man looking for a shadow of doubt. There's a rich man sleeping on a golden bed; There's a skeleton choking on a crust of bread... ~ sting ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 23:12:46 -0700 From: Darren Holmquist Subject: OV: Administriva Just to let you all know... of course this happens just as we've switched over!!!! Smoe.org is moving. Moving their computers, that is... They will be down for 6 to 8 hours on Saturday... so if your post doesn't get through immediately, don't panic. The owners of Smoe.org are simply moving. 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