From: owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org (The Rockford Files) To: rockford-files-digest@smoe.org Subject: The Rockford Files V2 #322 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 Thursday, December 16 1999 Volume 02 : Number 322 Today's Fjordian Filings: -------------------------------------- powerschlop Hmmmmmmmmm... If music be the food of love... All come hither like... Re: All come hither like... The Rockford Files is a HIDEOUT FOR COMMUNISTS!! Re: The Rockford Files V2 #321 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 03:42:17 EST From: FieryLox@aol.com Subject: powerschlop - --part1_0.27af18c3.2588ae69_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (this is what i sent to stacy...for anyone who cares!) by the way, you know whose album i am TOTALLY ANXIOUSLY awaiting?! rufus f'ing wainwright. anyone on this list see him in concert? how about "the greek song"?!? "you boy, with the sun upon your shoulders, you turn me on, you turn me on..." oh maaaan. you haven't lived until you hear rufus being all come-hither-sexy. erik, band names: *plink (or i am partial to plink plink), because it sounds like plucking guitar strings or playing the mandolin. *beanland (i just dig that!) *fascist list manager (wink wink...) or, keeping on the rf keel: *fearless leader yeah bye. - --part1_0.27af18c3.2588ae69_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-path: FieryLox@aol.com From: FieryLox@aol.com Full-name: FieryLox Message-ID: <0.123f07f6.25889a93@aol.com> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 02:17:39 EST Subject: powerschlop To: stacyf@U.Arizona.EDU CC: sjmsmile@arches.uga.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 for Windows 95 sub 52 dearest arizona lady, now, i know that brad jones is a noted powerpop producer, which would explain why "magazine", j,lc's most recent album, sucks super cock. (i am still going to send you a tape, btw, i just haven't gotten around to making them yet!! but i'm working on it! i promise!) i hate the fact that brad mixed the album in such a way (i'm sure with j,lc's blessing, though) that all you can hear on the album is guitar, bass, and drums. none of the incredibly diverse and colorful instruments that matthew bivins plays (accordion, harmonica, mandolin) and ward william's cello playing even come through on "magazine" because of the shitty mixing. even "cathedrals", with its lush string section, has too much (in my opinion) vocal mix up front, which almost ruins the serene atmosphere of the song. All of "magazine" has the same sheen that is put onto almost all powerpop, which gives the illusion of each song sounding basically the same. truth is, i think that most of the songs on "magazine" are strong singularly in concert, but on the album, i often get them all mixed up due to the aforementioned monotonous sound that brad managed to apply. don't get me wrong, i'm not trying to knock brad jones. i just think that he was wrong for j,lc. i look forward to the new joe, marc's brother album, which, coincidentally, is being produced by...*that's right*...brad jones! and as for guster. i am not even going to stoop to arguing. they are *decidedly* not powerpop. *maybe* i could give people "roots rock", or "hippie rock", but NOT powerpop. guster's sound is waaaaay too varied to be smooshed into powerpop. i would have to put them in a category all their own, actually. "fucking good curly haired sexy congo playing inspiring music". ;) peach out. sara - --part1_0.27af18c3.2588ae69_boundary-- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 07:16:17 -0500 From: Anne Sawyer Subject: Hmmmmmmmmm... I'd throw down some lines here from the Nutcracker (since that is what I am listening to) but... there don't seem to be any lyrics... Oh well. Hey all!!!! Everybody got their Holiday shopping completed? I don't. I've barely even started! I have one, count it, ONE present purchased so far. All my shopping is going to be done online as I have absolutely no time to go to a mall (besides, who wants to go to a mall!!!). I'm thinkin' I'll probably be hitting GiftPoint to take care of a bunch of gift certificates, basically. *sigh* And normally I love thinking about exactly what people would want!!! But I digress... From what, I don't know... but I definitely felt a bit of digression there! E! I do believe that the correct pronounciation of The Artist's symbol is "prinss." As to a band name... Don't use Slut Kitchen. That's already been used. (Blech.) BUT... how about Dot Comb? It's a favorite of mine... :) Welp. Back to work. Loooooooooooooooooooooooong day ahead of me! Love you all! - -Anne P.S. HEY! Here's some personal news! I got some kissin' on Saturday night! It was an actual many-hour-long smoochin' session! I felt like I was back in high school and it felt good... Of course it was a smoochin' session brought on by hours upon hours of drinking... but that's OK by me! I don't think there will be a reprise... but it was a fun few hours! :) -A. "Well now I've been good for way too long Found my red dress and I'm gonna throw it on 'Bout to get too far gone Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition Need a little bit more of my twelve-ounce nutrition One more helpin' of what I've been havin' I'm takin' my turn on the sin wagon" ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 08:25:58 -0500 From: Eric Patton Subject: If music be the food of love... Wow, we're three. Amazing. And I've been with this list since the start, except for that breif period of time when our FL accidentally kicked me out. Yeah, right, accidentally. He was just afraid of me taking over the list. ;) Anyway, the name for a band. Well, I've always liked Mere Mortals as a band name, just because ti re-emphasizes the fact that you're real people up there, not just performing bits of plastic like a CD. But that's just my suggestion. Anyway, this brings me to a thought. How many people are in bands on this list? I know we've got Sinforosa, who I'm still desperately waiting to hear either a new CD or to have them come out my way. Ask and I can make it happen. ;) Now we've got our FL's yet-nameless band, and after that, I'm lost. My point is, we need more musicians on this list! Go out and get anyone with a smidgen of musical talent to join the list and post. Turn the Files into a place of discussion about music, with the Boys as our one group thumbs-up. ;) Hah, now you see why I was kicked off. Subversive ideas like this are my stock in trade. ;) ERIC ___________________________________________________________________________ "If a tree falls... If a tree falls... If a tree falls in a forest, It'll land on me." -If A Tree Falls, Electric Bonsai Band ___________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 06:07:17 PST From: "Elisabeth Donnelly" Subject: All come hither like... Hey, this is in reply to Sara's post, but Ive always found that it takes a special talent...a special voice to make certain lyrics work. Re: In case, Rufus. I too am excited for his future album. Why? Because I can still remember the stuff he has done in concert! And sing along! I think that's a hallmark of good songwriting. "California...youre such a wonder that I think Ill stay in bed!" But, back to the subject at hand. I find many shivery moments come from Jeff Buckley weeping "Kiss Me" or Jay Clifford calling out "Say goodnight and turn me on!" and I think its because those men have such becautiful voices they can get away with potentially cheesy lines like that. (What would your reaction be if some singer of utter dreck did those songs? It would be bad!) Although I dont know if I can put "The Greek Song" by Rufus in that category (which I have on MP3, by the way) its just quality music... I have been listening to Handsome Boy (*anyone think track 7 is very very portisheadish?*), A tribe Called Quest, the beastie Boys Anthology, and The Roots. God love hip hop! "you got me" -that is one excellent song! ~Elisabeth ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 10:03:04 -0500 From: Dan Cohen Subject: Re: All come hither like... > I have been listening to Handsome Boy (*anyone think track 7 is very very > portisheadish?*) Well, the vocals on track 7 ("The Truth") are handled by none other than Ms. Roisin Murphy, late of Moloko, an absolutely swell British trip-hoppy-ish band much in the vein of Portishead, Tricky, et al. I remember seeing their video for the unfortunately titled "Where Is The What If The What Is In Why?" a couple years ago on 120 Minutes and being quite struck by them...they only released one album, "Do You Like My Tight Sweater?" in 1995, although they've put out a couple of 7"s since. They are definitely quite funky and I would encourage you to check them out if you dig the whole Bristol scene. Murphy is also credited as "Duff Paddy" on track 14, "Runway Song", on the HBMS album, and I agree that her vocal turn on "The Truth", along with Grand Puba and Sadat X on "Once Again" and Del tha Funkee Homosapien's "Magnetizing" are among the highlights of the album. - -Dan "Yo, I want you to, um, I want you to sing like, um, like, like, um, the Bee Gees. I want you to sing 'Night Fever'." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 10:20:36 EST From: Eriklyons1@aol.com Subject: The Rockford Files is a HIDEOUT FOR COMMUNISTS!! I shall deport you all for such behavior...facist! instigating a drive for more people on the list! What kind of democracy exists on this list!!! hey now...keep those band names a'comin. I like Beanland. Mere Mortals is on the list also...I am not very creative when it comes to naming a band, maybe cause I have never done it before. Thanks Anne for the heads up on Slut Kitchen. I guess I have to cross out "Slut IN THE Kitchen Giving Head" because it is too close. I want to avoid copyright infringments at ALL COSTS! Oh, and also, whilst I have no clue why the artist (prinss) does what he does, what I need the right way to pronounce "genre." Hey, I admit it, I don't know how to say it. I know someone else on the list who downright jams with the jelly! He is located in backwoods, only comes out at night with a bottle of Jack, and can make music in a Bob Villa show flow like the money on *who wants to be a millionare*.....His name rhymes with Spencer. Just because there was so much Rufus in the last few days, I am going to buy a CD today and see what the hell I am missing. AND, maybe even a Buckley...I want to be cool too, ya know... I'm spliting on that note. Hope to have some valuable news about the list in the coming days. Will let you know. Yo, I'm keeping it real.... - -Erik ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 11:30:15 EST From: Pyser02@aol.com Subject: Re: The Rockford Files V2 #321 In a message dated 12/15/99 3:27:20 AM Eastern Standard Time, owner-rockford-files-digest@smoe.org writes: << Not to mention the rather interesting assortment of living room furniture at Sarah's, including the vertically-challenged Mr. Hanulak getting the long couch and the immortal attack of the killer bunny rabbit on yrs. truly. >> lets not forget me sleeping on the reclining chair that wouldnt recline.....it wasnt until morning that i found that it was the WALL that was preventing the chair from going further back..... the attack of the rabbitt did make up for it though. incidentally, can i get a copy of that picture? aaron who just made a very average music video of FOW's "baby on more time"...leigh, we should put that puppy on the net somewhere..if anyone is interested in seeing it ------------------------------ End of The Rockford Files V2 #322 *********************************