From: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org (oppositeview-digest) To: oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Subject: oppositeview-digest V3 #188 Reply-To: oppositeview@smoe.org Sender: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk oppositeview-digest Tuesday, July 31 2001 Volume 03 : Number 188 Today's Subjects: ----------------- OV: CD singles 4 sale ["Steve Adams" ] OV: missing person - potential CD single buyer ["Steve Adams" ] Re: OV: Review of SOSP ["Susan & C. Reid Gardner" ] OV: Re: oppositeview-digest V3 #168 [NIGELBLUES@aol.com] OV: Re: oppositeview-digest V3 #168 [NIGELBLUES@aol.com] OV: Welcome [NIGELBLUES@aol.com] Re: Subject: OV: Re:brown eyed girl [NIGELBLUES@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 10:11:22 +0100 From: "Steve Adams" Subject: OV: CD singles 4 sale Hi Y'all having just moved house i've come to the tough decision to 'rationalise' my CD singles collection to save some space and hopefully raise a few quid to finance the whole relocation affair (not to mention a speeding ticket just picked up on the M6). ...So: if anyone's interested in a bunch of Del Amitri CD singles - plus a couple of promo items - then drop me a line and i'll send you a list. [NB: i'm not out to rip anyone off, so no need to fear exhorbitant pricing structures]. cheers - and back to your regular programming, steve ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 11:03:22 +0100 From: "Steve Adams" Subject: OV: missing person - potential CD single buyer Hi again quick note to see if Michael (who replied to my CDs 4 sale note) is reading this. you emailed me to ask for a list but for some reason there was no return address on your email. please try again - might be an idea to put your type your address into the email incase the problem persists. sorry to bother the rest of you with this - back to your regular programming now. steve ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 14:07:30 +0100 From: "Steve Adams" Subject: OV: another missing person here we go again - sorry about this. this time i'm after Chris who also replied to my CDs 4 sale note. you emailed me to ask for a list but again there was no return address on your email. please try again - and type your address into the body of the email incase the problem persists. sorry to bother the rest of you with this again - hope it doesn't turn into Groundhogs Day... steve ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 15:00:59 -0400 From: "Susan & C. Reid Gardner" Subject: Re: OV: Review of SOSP Chris Fleming wrote: > Found this as well > http://www.furia.com/twas/twas0157.html > Please note what the authors Favourite Del song is "The remarkable thing about seeing Del Amitri live, in the old days, when their albums were extended meditations on the complexity of melancholy, was how much zealous fun they managed to have with what were essentially somber and depressing relationship songs. It was a little surreal, actually, dancing to haunting romantic failure, but the illicitness of it was part of its charm; it felt like the band was sharing with the audience the secret truth that these somehow weren't sad songs, though it was never specified how...." Well said! The thing about 'dancing to haunting romantic failure' is brilliant. "But the third song, Waking Hours' "Hatful of Rain", is a near-paradigmatic example of the contrast; the sequence of chords at the end of the choruses, which on the album sound like an elaborate sigh, on stage turn into an excited wriggle, and the chorus itself, one of Justin Currie's trademark moments of firmly managed expectations, turns into a blithely hoarse crowd sing-along and a lead-in for an epic Iain Harvie guitar solo." I'm off to have a good cry now. I miss the band. TTFN Susan ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 18:01:06 EDT From: NIGELBLUES@aol.com Subject: OV: Re: oppositeview-digest V3 #168 In a message dated 11/07/01 09:57:24 GMT Daylight Time, owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org writes: > Hello, all.......Just a quick question. I received an e-mail this morning > from CD Now and they mentioned David Gray......have I heard someone on the > list mention him before? What's his music like? > > Oh, and with my latest New Music Monthly magazine the CD has this great song > by a duo called the Cash Brothers (Andrew Cash? ring any bells?) Anyway, the > song is Night Shift Guru and it's fabulous....I think many Dels fans would > enjoy it. Kind of a folksy, country type song with great harmonies...... > > Cheers! > Elizabeth > > p.s. Anyone have an opinion on the group Turin Brakes? > > > > > Hi Liz David Gray is Welsh but we try not to own up to him!! :>) He is talented but I can't get into him personally. Seems to have knocked Dire Straits and Sting off people's "coffee table" cd collection I guess. Turin Brakes, on the other hand, are a superb group. Their album is outstanding and their live performances are superb too, saw them supporting Stereophonics in Cardiff a little while ago. Well worth investing in their album. But the bext album out at the moment is Super Furry Animals new epic Rings Around The World. This group have deserved more success for years and I am well chuffed to see them finally making it big with a top 10 single and top 3 album in UK. Great to see a group can still do it making the music they want to make in the style they want to do it. For those in the UK, check them on tour soon, you'll have never seen another gig like it. The fact a couple of them live by me, they drink in one of my locals and they're all regulars at Cardiff City matches may endear me more to them, naturally!, but doesn't cloud my opinion of what great music they make. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 18:02:36 EDT From: NIGELBLUES@aol.com Subject: OV: Re: oppositeview-digest V3 #168 In a message dated 11/07/01 09:57:24 GMT Daylight Time, owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org writes: > Personally I prefer someone like Martyn Joseph as a > singer-songwriter. I think that David Gray is a little > over-produced and loses some of that singer-songwriter > style, and I don't really like his voice that much! > > Anyone else like Martyn Joseph, my biggest compliment > I can give him is that I don't usually listen to that > style of music but he drags me in somehow. If you like > the acoustic Del tracks then you should like some MJ > songs. > > Cheers > Chris > > Martyn Joseph is Welsh too, from just outside Cardiff. I apologise that for every great group like SFA, we also inflict David Gray and Martyn Joseph on you!! :>) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 18:03:17 EDT From: NIGELBLUES@aol.com Subject: OV: Welcome In a message dated 27/06/01 10:25:08 GMT Daylight Time, owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org writes: > From: PWWelsh@aol.com > Subject: OV: Hello to everyone > > Hello & a belated Welcome - the more Welsh on here, the better! Nige from Wales ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 18:09:00 EDT From: NIGELBLUES@aol.com Subject: Re: Subject: OV: Re:brown eyed girl In a message dated 16/07/01 10:05:17 GMT Daylight Time, owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org writes: > Subject: OV: Re:brown eyed girl > > I honestly feel the singing on this track is good. It's not polished, but > the two-part vocals have just the right touch. The word I used before was > "tender." People kill Justin's voice on the early material, but I don't see > what's so bad about it. It's just different. I recently heard the worst ever cover version of Brown Eyed Girl by Everclear on their Songs From An American Movie cd. I like Everclear but if/when I put that cd on, I skip straight past it. Van Morrison who, of course, recorded the outstanding original now lives in Cardiff too, 3 streets from me. I'm catching up with old digests and can only find Welsh connections !! :>) ------------------------------ End of oppositeview-digest V3 #188 **********************************