From: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org (oppositeview-digest) To: oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Subject: oppositeview-digest V4 #98 Reply-To: oppositeview@smoe.org Sender: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-oppositeview-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk oppositeview-digest Tuesday, April 16 2002 Volume 04 : Number 098 Today's Subjects: ----------------- OV: Record Company [Birgit Wurm ] OV: Re: Record Company ["Jane Armstrong" ] Re: OV: Re: Record Company [Birgit Wurm ] OV: Can You Do Me Good? [Kelly Doudna ] OV: amazon.de sales rank 25! [Birgit Wurm ] OV: Review One [AHutch2074@aol.com] OV: (no subject) [NIGELBLUES@aol.com] OV: thoughts on new album [Eric Johnson ] Re: OV: (no subject) [Michael Mitchell ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 11:37:31 +0200 From: Birgit Wurm Subject: OV: Record Company I just got my copy of the album and in it I found a card to send to Mercury Records in Germany. If I tell them my three favourite (music) artists I can win a weekend for two in Scotland! Problem is whatever I do, I NEVER win anything (apart from a double LP back when we did not own a record player or a travel chess game...) Birgit ______________________________________________________________________________ F|r alle, die nicht genug WEB.DE bekommen kvnnen. 100 MB Speicher, SMS Preisvorteil und noch mehr Kommunikation unter http://club.web.de/?mc=021101 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 10:55:40 +0100 From: "Jane Armstrong" Subject: OV: Re: Record Company Birgit There's always a first time for everything!! When does the competition end? Maybe if you win, you can time it so you're over for the last Barrowlands gig.... Jane > I just got my copy of the album and in it I found a card to send to Mercury Records in Germany. If I >tell them my three favourite (music) artists I can win a weekend for two in Scotland! > > Problem is whatever I do, I NEVER win anything (apart from a double LP back when we did not own a record player or a travel chess game...) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 13:36:07 +0200 From: Birgit Wurm Subject: Re: OV: Re: Record Company "Jane Armstrong" schrieb am 15.04.02: > Birgit > > There's always a first time for everything!! > > When does the competition end? Maybe if you win, you can time it so you're > over for the last Barrowlands gig.... > > Jane > That's why I keep sending such stuff in only to get funny mail in return (send us 30 and you might win 7,000.00!?). Unfortunately it only ends May 31. Birgit ________________________________________________________________ Keine verlorenen Lotto-Quittungen, keine vergessenen Gewinne mehr! Beim WEB.DE Lottoservice: http://tippen2.web.de/?x=13 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 09:48:57 -0500 From: Kelly Doudna Subject: OV: Can You Do Me Good? My copy was in the mail Friday. I love it! After three listenings, "Buttons on My Clothes" is my current favorite, but I'm sure others will rotate around with that one as I get to know the songs better. Yes, that's happening even now as I write this and listen for the fourth time. Even "Drunk in a Band" is growing on me. It's our Del Amitri, but with a freshened, updated sound. Way to go, guys! I was just updating my wish list on CDNow.com and on a whim checked the listings for Del Amitri. CYDMG is listed twice under "Advance Orders"--once at $15.49 with an expected release date of April 20, and once at $27.89 with an expected release date of April 30. The $27.89, I assume, is the import version, but could the $15.49 listing be an indication that the album will actually be released here? Both versions of the single are listed under both "Singles" and "Import Singles," all for $11.99. Curiosity then caused me to also check Amazon.com. The singles are both listed at $12.99, and CYDMG is a $30.99 import album with release date April 18 and the following little blurb: "The Acclaimed Scottish Pop Band Return with their Seventh Studio Album (Not Including Compilations). The Ever Poetic Justin Currie Continues his Unique Lyrical Observations on Life, Drink and Love While Guitarist Iain Harvie and the Band Round Out their Ever Melodic Rock /Pop Sounds." (Capitalization is theirs.) The Radio 2 interview was fun. Kelly Minneapolis ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 21:26:02 +0200 From: Birgit Wurm Subject: OV: amazon.de sales rank 25! That puts CYDMG on the very bottom of the first page of their music Top 100 and they get five stars. All that (as far as I can see) achieved without ANY promotion (but probably partly due to the overall record shop ignorance). Still, early days here. Birgit ________________________________________________________________ Keine verlorenen Lotto-Quittungen, keine vergessenen Gewinne mehr! Beim WEB.DE Lottoservice: http://tippen2.web.de/?x=13 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 17:42:51 EDT From: AHutch2074@aol.com Subject: OV: Review One Hi all, Below is a copy of the album review I penned for my paper: DEL AMITRI Can You Do Me Good? *** (out of five) THE Glaswegian tunesmiths dare to be different with this their first studio album in five years. Strong production values give the 12 track offering a diversity to compliment the songwriting of the highest calibre. First single, Just Before You Leave, sets the standard with its mellow vibe, while the raucous Drunk In A Band will be a sure fire winner with diehard fans. Last Cheap Shot At The Dream provides a lyrical lift while Out Falls The Past with its trumpet backdrop is catchy and radio-friendly. Jesus Saves introduces a dark and twisted undercurrent, before the delicate Just Getting By brings the curtain down. (Yorkshire Evening Post, Leeds - Saturday, April 6) best wishes - andy hutchinson PS: Limited hard copies available on request for any collectors of press cuttings. Email me PPS: I have written another review of the album for my paper's sister paper. I will post that soon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 19:19:47 EDT From: NIGELBLUES@aol.com Subject: OV: (no subject) Hi Helen I'm glad you love it. I've manged to force myself (force being the operative word) to listen to it a couple more times. I must admit I have got to like the songs more but that doesn't mean to say my opinion of it being a weak album of very average songs has changed. Nice melodies, well played but pretty dull and unspiring. There really is no natural follow up single, nothing to earn them any airplay. It has no killer songs, nothing to grab you.. My major comment was the single and album would decrease the fanbase and not win them any new fans. The poor chart placings of both suggest that's exactly how it is sadly. Sorry to be the Grim Reaper but they're at the bottom of the slide and there's no way back now. I'd love to be wrong, please let me be wrong. I won't be though. If there is one mild satisfaction, it's that Just Before You Leave did marginally better than the awful awful awful Cry To Be Found, theit biggest mistake was that song not this album. That's when the public switched off, just at a time when they had real momentum, such a shame. Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 11:58:07 +0100 From: Helen Pickering Subject: OV: RE: oh dear oh dear oh dear Doom - does this mean I'm not a true dels fan then - because I'm certainly not deaf! I love it, I think it's better than SOSP. True, it is different to their other stuff, the guitars have less weight overall, and you can hear Mark and Andy far more than in previous albums (which is no bad thing), but at the end of the day, I'd rather have had this than another rehash of SOSP. (And how many people on this list have said they'd pay just to hear Justin sing a telephone directory? This is much more fun that that, which is just as well since my office has been forced to listen to it since I got my copy!) They were playing acoustic versions at Glasgow on Monday - JBYL, Cash and Prizes & She's Passing This Way, plus Tell her This, Last to Know and Be my Downfall, and I'd say the new ones held their own, which is impressive enough since they were new to most of the audience. Helen - - -----Original Message----- From: NIGELBLUES@aol.com [mailto:NIGELBLUES@aol.com] Sent: 11 April 2002 11:16 To: oppositeview@smoe.org Subject: OV: oh dear oh dear oh dear No real Dels fan, other than the deaf, are going to place it anywhere but bottom or near the bottom of most hated Dels albums. It won't gain them new fans, it will decrease the existing fanbase. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 20:30:28 -0700 From: Eric Johnson Subject: OV: thoughts on new album I came home from work today and my copy of CYDMG had arrived from CD WOW (yay!) Have listened to it twice all the way thru, and I definitely like it. Sure, it's different, but it's good. I was making dinner the first time thru the 2nd half of the album (Last Cheap Shot... and on) and it had me moving around the kitchen at a good pace. The lyrics are typical Del stuff, and although there are fewer guitars up front in the mix, I like the sound. I'm betting that the guitars will be more audible when these songs are played live. Now, I'm just waiting for my copies of the CD singles to arrive from amazon.co.uk, and for the band to announce a US tour, with a stop in Arizona... Eric ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 01:11:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Mitchell Subject: Re: OV: (no subject) On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 NIGELBLUES@aol.com wrote: > doesn't mean to say my opinion of it being a weak album of very average songs > has changed. Nice melodies, well played but pretty dull and unspiring. Damn. Different strokes, I guess. But I just don't see how you miss it. Am I the only one who thinks 'cant wash it away' for example is amoung their best stuff? This is a really good album (if it's not too arrogant of me to declare it so). I've always considered Twisted, then Change Everything, the best del amitri albums, but I'm starting to think this one's better. The songs certainly sound more mature and relavant. to me at least. ------------------------------ End of oppositeview-digest V4 #98 *********************************