From: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org (The Rockford Files) To: rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Subject: The Rockford Files V2 #307 Reply-To: rockford-files@smoe.org Sender: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk The Rockford Files Tuesday, November 30 1999 Volume 02 : Number 307 Today's Fjordian Filings: -------------------------------------- my hatred for you is delicious! hello? Best of 1999... Music and props Augie March Re: Imaginate Music and props Music and props mix tapes and more ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 01:40:51 PST From: "Courtney Knopf" Subject: my hatred for you is delicious! Well, my Top 10 of '99 is in the making, but it shant be revealed until the December issue of the Shrubbery goes up. Jess has had 'first-look' dibs on it since august. Though i must agree with the anti-Taxiride sentiments. blech. feh. boo. they had a pretty video and i tried, i did. but again, feh. ditto for Ed Buller as an overproducing producer... all the stuff on Breathing Tornadoes was done on computers and having seen Ben Lee at least 6 or 7 times this year, i agree it's better to leave him in the raw. though i do encourage the use of samplers and sequencers, because then Laura and Nina have jobs. Though Buller has also worked with Pulp in the past, and everything they do is sublime (well.. we just don't talk about the dark period before His and Hers). I also thought it was interesting to see TUBORM on Stacy's list, because personally i'm looking at it as one of the biggest disappointments of '99. sure, it's more mature and whatnot, but somehow it just didn't move me. i think i wanted less whining and soul bearing and more snarky attitude. but i suppose divorce will do that to you. and i really really really don't like Magic or Regrets. i just don't. blah. and Jane and Lullabye don't work for me either - they feel hollow. but now i'm just being nitpicky. two years ago tonight was the first time i saw the Five play a full length show at the El Rey theatre. that was a good day. i'd take that over 5 shows at the Palladium any day. and speaking of anniversaries, last wednesday was Markus' birthday. so happy late birthday to my favourite seattleite. aside from my roommate. moving right along.... I've got a beef with the Cartoon Network. Why is Space Ghost only 12 minutes long? Not fair. they should do a marathon. it would only take a few hours out of their programming day. god forbid we eat into all of the prime scooby-doo marathon time. (i love scooby as much as the next girl, but not on a continuous loop) >Ooh, and speaking of Grand Royal, I swear I saw Sean Lennon and Yuka Honda >the other day, in Boston, taking the T. did i ever go into detail about how i'm the grand royal whore? well i am. i get phone calls at 7:40 in the morning and pages and whatnot. and when KSCR and grand royal did a tailgate party for the usc/asu game, after drinking continuously for 10 hours, i got kidknapped my hip hop djs and was held hostage at a restaurant in china town and had to page my friend at GR to come save my ass. and he did. and then i sang karaoke with a very drunk, very gay asian guy who also happened to work for Capitol. that was a weird day. >I hope everyone had a fun thanksgiving, although I personally hate the >holiday myself. Why must family decide to be fucked up >around then? what is it about holidays that make our relatives that much more unbearable? ugh. as if they weren't bad enough during the rest of the year. even my dad opted out of turkey day festivites with my family. which i heartily supported from 1,000 miles away while i ate turkey and pie with my friends. well, i'm going to go see if there's anything remotely good on 120 minutes. which i doubt. ~Courtney The Sultraness of Swing "Ooh, yeah. Watch out for Tim, the volunteer fireman!" ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 08:51:39 -0700 From: Stacy Lynn Subject: hello? Ok, so I sent a message to the list 3 times because it never showed up after waiting like 12 hours for me to get it. did anyone get the message I sent with the subject line re: Imaginate? stacy What was best of all was the longing look you gave me... that longing look... More than enough to keep me fed all year. -XTC "Harvest Festival" *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Stacy Flatt 520.621.1111 stacyf@u.arizona.edu Assistant Director Eat to the Beat Concerts @ the U of Arizona http://www.u.arizona.edu/~stacyf Powerpop DJ extrodinaire! Listen live mon 8-10pm MST http://kamp.arizona.edu/audio/live.ram ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 09:39:50 -0500 From: john_oc@juno.com Subject: Best of 1999... Oh well...Stacy opened up a can of worms here...I always do a best of list, and if you have ANY questions about any of the bands on here, feel free to e-mail me and I'll tell you about the bands...rock on. John Boyer's Unofficial Top 56 Albums of 1999 - ---------------------------------------------------------------- <56> Justin Clayton - Limb <55> Guided By Voices - Do The Collapse <54> The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I <53> The Get Up Kids - Red Letter Day EP <52> Belle and Sebastian - Tigermilk(REISSUE) This record was too damn good to leave off...but since I've had it since 1996, I didn't put it very high... <51> Joan of Arc - Live in Chicago, 1999 <50> Vermont - Living Together <49> Hefner - The Fidelity Wars <48> Tobin Sprout - Let's Welcome The Circus People <47> Apples in Stereo - Her Wallpaper Reverie <46> Sunday's Best - Where You Are Now <45> Kincaid - Kincaid Plays Super Hawaii <44> The Delusions - I Hope it Dies on a Sunny Day <43> The Shyness Clinic - Sea of Redlights <42> Sunny Day Real Estate - Live Because it's live and there's no new material, this is lower than it should be. <41> Fountains of Wayne - Utopia Parkway <40> Paris_Texas - So You Think It's Hot Here <39> American Football - s/t <38> Yars Revenge - dejected <37> Spain - She Haunts My Dreams <36> Superchunk - Come Pick Me Up <35> Quasi - Field Studies <34> Red Stars Theory - Life In A Bubble Can Be Beautiful <33> Beulah - When Your Heartstrings Break <32> Lullabye For The Working Class - Song <31> Archer Prewitt - White Sky <30> Ben Lee - Breathing Tornados <29> Promise Ring - Very Emergency <29> Euphone -The Calendar of Unlucky Days <28> Go Robot, Go! - Convertible <27> Jimmy Eat World - Clarity <26> Sloan - Between The Bridges <25> Gomez - Liquid Skin <24> Red House Painters - Retrospective <23> Elf Power - A Dream In Sound <22> Blackalicious - A2G EP <21> The Folk Implosion - One Part Lullabye <20> Looper - Up A Tree <19> The American Analog Set - A Golden Band <18> Pavement - Terror Twilight <17> Very Secretary - Standing In The Shade <16> Antarctica - 81:03 <15> Luna - The Days of our Nights <14> Rachels - Selenography <13> dEUS - The Ideal Crash <12> Matthew Sweet - In Reverse <11> Pedro the Lion - The Only Reason I Feel Secure Is That I am Validated By My Peers EP <10> The Roots - Things Fall Apart <09> Damien Jurado - Rehearsals For Departure <08> Beck - Midnite Vultures <07> Flaming Lips - The Soft Bullettin <06> Handsome Boy Modeling School - ...So How's Your Girl? <05> Beth Orton - Central Reservation <04> Wilco - Summerteeth <03> Counting Crows - This Desert Life <02> Ben Folds Five - The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner <01> Built to Spill - Keep It Like A Secret Top 15 Songs of 1999 - ------------------------------ <15> American Football - I'll See You When We're Both Not So Emotional <14> Elf Power - Jane <13> Spain - Nobody Has To Know <12> Flaming Lips - Waiting For Superman <11> Archer Prewitt - Shake <10> Guided By Voices - Teenage FBI <09> Damien Jurado - Ohio <08> The Promise Ring - Deep South <07> The Get Up Kids - Anne Arbour <06> Built to Spill - Carry The Zero <05> Luna - Math Wiz <04> Counting Crows - Four Days <03> Ben Folds Five - Mess <02> Antarctica - The Chrome Selected <01> Wilco - How To Fight Loneliness Albums that I don't have yet that will end up high on my list... Starflyer 59 Mos Def The Man on the Moon - OST Oh, I will also add that I bought Karate - The Bed Is In The Ocean this year and it is my favorite record ever. EVER! But since it was released in 1998, it has been neglected by my 98 list and my 99 list. It rocks! Bored in Columbus, Ohio... John ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 12:20:39 PST From: "Elisabeth Donnelly" Subject: Music and props Well, before Virginia Woolf starts calling me back to writing a paper, I figure I should get some things off of my chest. Yay To Best Of Lists! They make me happy! My own best of? I cant remember buying too many 1999 releases...so its mercifully short, I guess. and screw years it was released, this is year I bought (or won) the cd. ANd unfortunately, that negates cds that I feel like I own, but I dont have in the flesh. Lyle Lovett-Live In Texas Why? Because Lyle is charming, a consumnate singer/songwriter, and his band is crackling. Plus the sassy backup singers. my starbucks christmas cd, if only for the inclusion of dean martin's baby, its cold outside (salacious giggling here!) the living end-the living end. everyone loves militant rockabilly. ozomatli-s/t-because of their live show, and their politics! moby-play portishead! Live! I could do ANYTHING to this album. Sleep, study, eat... The Rushmore Soundtrack-Wes Anderson is my hero. my de la soul me myself and I single! And the new Fiona Apple album, if only for the fact that it hasnt left my cd player. I really like "Paper Bag" puts girly unrequited feelings down on audio quite nicely. Lastly, props to Prince and the strings utilized on Raspberry Beret. Speaking of strings, I feel like "Say Goodnight" by JLC is like the great lost Jeff Buckley make out ballad with strings, and thats a fabulous thing. Im looking forward to owning the new Beck, and I actually had a very special moment the other day in HMV, listening to that cd and the beasties anthology, and generally giggling and grooving around in public. How can one man be so entertaining? Oh, and the coincidences that arise due to the Rockford Files? Check this-1, I'm friends with John Boyer's ohio friend Seth 2, I have people on the street asking me if I know a girl named Nadia, whose friends with Courtney! So yay to this list. ~Elisabeth ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 09:40:15 +1100 From: bliss@telstra.easymail.com.au Subject: Augie March Stacy - if you want to check out some of their music, go to www.ozmusicproject.net - they have a live mp3 there of their current single and it is a pretty good recording jodes ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 16:06:00 -0700 From: Stacy Lynn Subject: Re: Imaginate Woo! Thank you Erik! I found the problem and fixed it. Now hopefully this will send. At 02:14 PM 11/29/1999 +1100, bliss@telstra.easymail.com.au wrote: >I am sorry, far be it from me to have a bit of a "WHAT!!" reaction to someone else's music taste, but Stacy - TAXIRIDE!!! icky. I could have a bit of a go at Ben Lee too, but he is a lesser evil in comparison. Wow, you don't like Taxiride or Ben Lee. Hmm. Thats ok, I'm glad you endorse my list otherwise! I also thought of some more albums that could be on the list. Piebald - (too lazy to look up the title) The Get Up Kids - Adam Daniel - Blue Pop Star Collector - Songs for the Whole Family Quasi - Field Studies Guided by Voices - Do the Collapse Instead of narrowing it down, I'm only finding more and more albums that should be included! Its kinda fun in a weird sort of way though. Like I said before. =-) I've also completly given up on just picking 10, or 20, or 25. I am just going to keep picking albums and listing them until I've decided on everything. And I'm not limiting it to just albums I own. Since I have access to tons of new releases at the radio station, I'm going to allow any album that I have heard into the running. Naturally, since I have not heard every 1999 release, I am leaving some out, but thats just the way it has to be. Now, as for why I like Taxiride and Ben Lee... As far as the "boy band" thing goes, you know what? I don't care. I really love Taxiride's harmonies. In my opinion, they are almost unparalled. To me, it sounds if Owsley or Jason Falkner had a highly produced album (think along the lines of lots of orchestration, overdubs of tracks, multiple tracks etc) but same songwriting style, and then if they had harmonies ala Toto, well, better than that even. Anyway, the end result is a very full album with very driving music, catchy music, and harmonies that I've never heard before. I dig that. Why I like Ben Lee? Well, a couple of years ago, an ex boyfriend of mine made me a tape and included a song Ben Lee did for a soundtrack. I loved it and bought his album "Something to Remember Me By." The honesty in his voice combined with catchy accoustic guitar riffs, and alternatingly heartfelt, quirky, or beautiful lyrics really amazed me. I then bought Grandpaw Would, and his Noise Addict stuff. This was all made when he was a kid! And it was so good. I was finally able to see him live, and have seen him 2 times now. Great live show. He loves performing. And if he has an ego, or thinks his album is the best ever made, so what. I like the album, and thats what matters to me. His latest album shows incredible growth and maturity, not only at his singing and musical abilities as well as his songwriting song. More complex, more things happening at the same time, very very good. Anyway, thats why I like those bands and am considering them for my best of list. If you are unfamiliar with any of the other bands/artists I included, please ask me about them! I will be *more* than happy to fill you in. They should be more widely known, but unfortunately, most are only know to the small community of rabid powerpop fans. BTW, if you are interested in the history of powerpop, I've got several wonderful articles chronicalling the history of the genre and naming some "must have" powerpop albums. You will probably discover you were a fan and didn't even know it! =-) stacy I don't want to stay in love. -Hefner "Hymn for the Cigarettes" *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Stacy Flatt 520.621.1111 stacyf@u.arizona.edu Assistant Director Eat to the Beat Concerts @ the U of Arizona http://www.u.arizona.edu/~stacyf Powerpop DJ Extraordinaire! Listen live mon 8-10pm MST http://kamp.arizona.edu/audio/live.ram *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 16:09:44 PST From: "Elisabeth Donnelly" Subject: Music and props ***I have a feeling this wasnt sent for some reason, and if theres two of these, I AM SO SORRY! Honestly. Well, before Virginia Woolf starts calling me back to writing a paper, I figure I should get some things off of my chest. Yay To Best Of Lists! They make me happy! My own best of? I cant remember buying too many 1999 releases...so its mercifully short, I guess. and screw years it was released, this is year I bought (or won) the cd. ANd unfortunately, that negates cds that I feel like I own, but I dont have in the flesh. Lyle Lovett-Live In Texas Why? Because Lyle is charming, a consumnate singer/songwriter, and his band is crackling. Plus the sassy backup singers. my starbucks christmas cd, if only for the inclusion of dean martin's baby, its cold outside (salacious giggling here!) the living end-the living end. everyone loves militant rockabilly. ozomatli-s/t-because of their live show, and their politics! moby-play portishead! Live! I could do ANYTHING to this album. Sleep, study, eat... The Rushmore Soundtrack-Wes Anderson is my hero. my de la soul me myself and I single! And the new Fiona Apple album, if only for the fact that it hasnt left my cd player. I really like "Paper Bag" puts girly unrequited feelings down on audio quite nicely. Lastly, props to Prince and the strings utilized on Raspberry Beret. Speaking of strings, I feel like "Say Goodnight" by JLC is like the great lost Jeff Buckley make out ballad with strings, and thats a fabulous thing. Im looking forward to owning the new Beck, and I actually had a very special moment the other day in HMV, listening to that cd and the beasties anthology, and generally giggling and grooving around in public. How can one man be so entertaining? Oh, and the coincidences that arise due to the Rockford Files? Check this-1, I'm friends with John Boyer's ohio friend Seth 2, I have people on the street asking me if I know a girl named Nadia, whose friends with Courtney! So yay to this list. ~Elisabeth ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 16:10:33 PST From: "Elisabeth Donnelly" Subject: Music and props ***I have a feeling this wasnt sent for some reason, and if theres two of these, I AM SO SORRY! Honestly. BTW, Anne, going to any fun Boston shews in the future? Well, before Virginia Woolf starts calling me back to writing a paper, I figure I should get some things off of my chest. Yay To Best Of Lists! They make me happy! My own best of? I cant remember buying too many 1999 releases...so its mercifully short, I guess. and screw years it was released, this is year I bought (or won) the cd. ANd unfortunately, that negates cds that I feel like I own, but I dont have in the flesh. Lyle Lovett-Live In Texas Why? Because Lyle is charming, a consumnate singer/songwriter, and his band is crackling. Plus the sassy backup singers. my starbucks christmas cd, if only for the inclusion of dean martin's baby, its cold outside (salacious giggling here!) the living end-the living end. everyone loves militant rockabilly. ozomatli-s/t-because of their live show, and their politics! moby-play portishead! Live! I could do ANYTHING to this album. Sleep, study, eat... The Rushmore Soundtrack-Wes Anderson is my hero. my de la soul me myself and I single! And the new Fiona Apple album, if only for the fact that it hasnt left my cd player. I really like "Paper Bag" puts girly unrequited feelings down on audio quite nicely. Lastly, props to Prince and the strings utilized on Raspberry Beret. Speaking of strings, I feel like "Say Goodnight" by JLC is like the great lost Jeff Buckley make out ballad with strings, and thats a fabulous thing. Im looking forward to owning the new Beck, and I actually had a very special moment the other day in HMV, listening to that cd and the beasties anthology, and generally giggling and grooving around in public. How can one man be so entertaining? Oh, and the coincidences that arise due to the Rockford Files? Check this-1, I'm friends with John Boyer's ohio friend Seth 2, I have people on the street asking me if I know a girl named Nadia, whose friends with Courtney! So yay to this list. ~Elisabeth ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 19:46:25 -0400 From: Shara Hoffman Subject: mix tapes and more stacy- www.artofthemix.com is an awesome site. i spent an hour there just looking at different mix tapes. have you ever traded with anyone from the site? i am very happy to see the list continuing. thank you FL. even though i don't get to post very much, i love reading everyone's stories and music suggestions. i hope everyone had a lovely thanksgiving. - -shara ------------------------------ End of The Rockford Files V2 #307 *********************************