From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-moderated-digest) To: seven-seas-moderated-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-moderated-digest V2 #14 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-moderated-digest Saturday, January 4 2003 Volume 02 : Number 014 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 06:57:39 -0800 (PST) From: Andrew Ironside Subject: seven-seas-moderated Re: seven-seas Virgin's Top 100 Great British Artists..... What a pile of turd. Oasis tribute bands should not be ranked, that means you Ocean Colour Scene and Sterophonics. Dido? Puhlease. Just because the Gallagher boys have stayed in the tabloids all this time, shouldn't justify their #3 ranking.Where was Wire? Surprised Menswear didn't make it, such a rich legacy. A.I. matt.harkness@bt.com wrote:.....was broadcast at the New Year. The Bunns made No. 72, one above Simple Minds.... Check out the full list here: http://www.virginradio.co.uk/music/top100artists/index.html It's enough to make the blood boil, seeing some of the sheer dross that was placed above 72.... ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now ====================================== The Official Seven-Seas Web Page. www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 07:35:44 -0600 (CST) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: seven-seas-moderated Re: seven-seas Virgin's Top 100 Great British Artists..... All right, you can all laugh. This is what happens when I stay up all night. Should any of you CARE, I will hug you too! - --Amy ====================================== The Official Seven-Seas Web Page. www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 07:29:24 -0600 (CST) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: seven-seas-moderated Re: seven-seas Virgin's Top 100 Great British Artists..... You silly! :-) Are you responding to me? Ah, my blood's not BOILING, but..... er, Ocean Colour Scene? (laughs) Really I think if I knew more of the bands that are obscure DROSS my blood might be a little closer to... whatever temperature blood boils at! 212F? 100C? ((((hugs Matt tight)))) CANNOT fucking sleep. Shit. The puppy will want out soon and the damned birds have already sung! ====================================== The Official Seven-Seas Web Page. www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 13:24:11 -0000 From: matt.harkness@bt.com Subject: seven-seas-moderated Virgin's Top 100 Great British Artists..... .....was broadcast at the New Year. The Bunns made No. 72, one above Simple Minds.... Check out the full list here: http://www.virginradio.co.uk/music/top100artists/index.html It's enough to make the blood boil, seeing some of the sheer dross that was placed above 72.... ====================================== The Official Seven-Seas Web Page. www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 13:46:35 -0600 (CST) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: seven-seas-moderated Re: seven-seas OT New political/music site! > I enjoyed the Hightower piece....He is one of my favorite fellow > Texans....always interesting...always worthwhile....Great sense of > humor, too. Molly Evins is good too. Any good British humour/satire political writers y'all can recommend? I watched the film Billy Elliot last night -- Austin is so cool that our local homeowned video store put up a list with all Joe Strummer- related videos (roles, cameos, soundtrack) and they are half-priced to rent. "London Calling" is in BE. At any rate it was grimly enlightening to see the living conditions of the striking colliers and the whole bleak hopelessness of the times. It's not that bad here, but I'm trying to get a job and the average wait for a tech worker is *eighteen months*. And I've an engineering degree and partial graduate school work! There is no dole, and everyone has run out of unemployment insurance money (it's six months, only I don't qualify because I was a stay-at-home mom and my work experience ended three years ago, and no, there's no money for SAH moms whose employed husbands dump them). Lack of recent experience hurts too. The same restaurant that Jim Hightower broadcasts his radio program from hosts the Low Tech Happy Hour, for unemployed tech workers to network and just have folks to talk to. Our federal conservative (and state conservative) government has refused to extend unemployment payments, so beginning January 1 a whole lot of people will have nothing coming in. All welfare was pretty well ended during the boom years of the late 90s, so there's no safety net. People can try to dig into retirement savings but companies largely invested that in the stock market so it's devalued AND there's a huge penalty for withdrawing it even in time of need, over and beyond taxes. Now is when we could definitely use some musical voices to inspire and guide us. "Where have you gone/Joe Strummer?/A nation turns its lonely eyes to you" to paraphrase Mrs Robinson. - --Amy ====================================== The Official Seven-Seas Web Page. www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 06:43:04 -0600 (CST) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: seven-seas-moderated Top 100 British Acts This is long but it's pasted from Virgin Radio's web site. I'm extremely confused, because this is NOT the way I would have rated these bands at all, but given that you only had *ONE* vote, it would have badly skewed results. I will say that I think putting COLDPLAY ahead of New Order, The Clash, Lennon, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, The Smiths, The Cure, Elvis Costello, DM, JD and soooooo many more is just plain apostasy, but I guess the rest is more or less random noise. Because really, I'd have an awfully hard time numerically ranking such diverse bands. But COLDPLAY? Here we go. 1 QUEEN 2 BEATLES 3 OASIS 4 DAVID BOWIE 5 JAM 6 ROLLING STONES 7 POLICE 8 LED ZEPPELIN 9 WHO 10 COLDPLAY 11 NEW ORDER 12 MANIC STREET PREACHERS 13 CLASH 14 MADNESS 15 JOHN LENNON 16 PINK FLOYD 17 RADIOHEAD 18 STING 19 STRANGLERS 20 ERIC CLAPTON 21 PAUL WELLER 22 SMITHS 23 CURE 24 ELVIS COSTELLO 25 BLUR 26 DEPECHE MODE 27 GENESIS 28 ROD STEWART 29 STEREOPHONICS 30 VERVE 31 STONE ROSES 32 ROBBIE WILLIAMS 33 JOY DIVISION 34 ADAM AND THE ANTS 35 T REX 36 ELTON JOHN 37 TRAVIS 38 DAVID GRAY 39 PETER GABRIEL 40 FLEETWOOD MAC 41 GARY NUMAN 42 BLACK SABBATH 43 SUEDE 44 SEX PISTOLS 45 KATE BUSH 46 DURAN DURAN 47 VAN MORISSON 48 JAMES 49 DIRE STRAITS 50 HUMAN LEAGUE 51 KINKS 52 FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD 53 EURYTHMICS 54 BEAUTIFUL SOUTH 55 PULP 56 SQUEEZE 57 SPECIALS 58 PAUL MCCARTNEY AND WINGS 59 DIDO 60 DEF LEPPARD 61 SLADE 62 OCEAN COLOUR SCENE 63 ANIMALS 64 OMD 65 ROXY MUSIC 66 UNDERTONES 67 CREAM 68 HAPPY MONDAYS 69 SMALL FACES 70 SUPERGRASS 71 ELO 72 ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN 73 SIMPLE MINDS 74 TOM JONES 75 DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS 76 DOVES 77 BAD COMPANY 78 BADLY DRAWN BOY 79 TEXAS 80 STATUS QUO 81 CHARLATANS 82 SOFT CELL 83 IAN DURY AND THE BLOCKHEADS 84 CATATONIA 85 DEEP PURPLE 86 TEARS FOR FEARS 87 SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES 88 SPANDAU BALLET 89 FREE 90 SEAL 91 STEVE HARLEY AND COCKNEY REBEL 92 STARSAILOR 93 STYLE COUNCIL 94 ASH 95 JAPAN 96 BILLY IDOL 97 MARILLION 98 CORAL 99 KIRSTY MACCOLL 100 PRIMAL SCREAM ====================================== The Official Seven-Seas Web Page. www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-moderated-digest V2 #14 *****************************************