From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-moderated-digest) To: seven-seas-moderated-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-moderated-digest V2 #24 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 18 2003 Volume 02 : Number 024 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 12:33:31 -0800 (PST) From: Andrew Ironside Subject: seven-seas-moderated Re: seven-seas what's up over there musically??!?? I think DR.EVIL in Austin Powers hurt the career of Alan Parsons project, it's hard now not to laugh when I hear that name. A.I. "K. F. Smith" wrote:> So Lou Reed's put an album out based on Edgar Allen Poe writings? > Hmmmm...sounds a little faux highbrow to me. Poe isn't 'highbrow' -- he's great good fun! Try reading "The Raven" aloud. :) Back in the late 70s (I think it was), the Alan Parsons Project came out with quite a good album based on Poe: Tales of Mystery and Imagination. One of my best garage sale finds. -Kristin :) ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now ====================================== The Official Seven-Seas Web Page. www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 14:48:54 -0600 (CST) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: seven-seas-moderated Re: seven-seas what's up over there musically??!?? > Poe's fine, I've read a lot of his stuff and have enjoyed it. I named my *kid* after Poe! Her middle name is Annabel. Hey, these days people use 'Raven' as a name all the time. Or maybe they meant "Ravin'" ;-) All of which morphs into Hitchcock's 'The Birds' and starlings by the hundreds of thousands come home to roost and the grackles that fill the trees and sky at my university and the grackle families that greet us every morning and shit on my car if I do Starbucks drivethrough.... Katharine Annabel loves to look at those birds. One of her very first words was "drackull" (grackle). Has anyone done a Hitchcock concept album? :-) I have a feeling the answer is yes.... - --Amy, sorry, I've got the fucking flu, 102F and am in between medication and I am wanting to do a Homer-choking-Bart move on Maggie, in Wigan, Lancs., who has to be in her fifties and used her money not on lovely genealogy CDs but on ROBBIE WILLIAMS!!!!!!! WTF is up with English grans and Robbie Williams? ====================================== The Official Seven-Seas Web Page. www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:49:27 -0700 From: "K. F. Smith" Subject: seven-seas-moderated Re: seven-seas what's up over there musically??!?? > Making a rock and roll record about a book/series of writings, though, > is very much suspect, and it's not where Lou's at his best-- I'm not familiar enough with Lou Reed's work to have an opinion on that, but in general, I think it probably comes down to why the work was undertaken: the honesty and integrity of the artist -- whether he is expressing a genuine enthusiasm for and understanding of the writer/book/whatever. A pretentious artist will be pretentious even without literary subject matter (though he might be more likely to choose it.) - -K :) ====================================== The Official Seven-Seas Web Page. www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 17:33:25 -0500 From: Red Subject: seven-seas-moderated Re: seven-seas what's up over there musically??!?? At 10:09 AM 1/17/03 -0500, you wrote: > >That said, Barry's word should be enough. I'm gonna buy it today. You can't....it's not out till end of February or March!! ;-) Red ====================================== The Official Seven-Seas Web Page. www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 16:43:30 -0600 (CST) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: seven-seas-moderated Re: seven-seas what's up over there musically??!?? > >That said, Barry's word should be enough. I'm gonna buy it today. > > You can't....it's not out till end of February or March!! ;-) Right. You have to download it first and pay for it later :-) ====================================== The Official Seven-Seas Web Page. www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 23:54:49 -0000 From: "Barry Whiting" Subject: seven-seas-moderated Re: seven-seas what's up over there musically??!?? - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Adams" > So Lou Reed's put an album out based on Edgar Allen Poe writings? > Hmmmm...sounds a little faux highbrow to me. It's like Lou telling > the world "Yes, I have a regular subscription to the 'Bravo!' Channel > on cable TV." But I haven't heard the album yet, so... Yup. That's exactly it. Conqueror (or re-conqueror) your own horizons before reaching out for others. At least the album's not called 'POEtry'. I wouldn't have normally touched this as I don't think he's done a great album since "Songs for Drella"....but you know Lou Reed ? ... if he hits his groove, then you have to give it a go. That's the first review I've read. If the rest follow suit, I'll sign up for the ride...Just spare me Damon Alburn's reworking of Ezra Pound.....please. - -- Barry. - -- Barry Whiting barry@urquell.freeserve.co.uk ====================================== The Official Seven-Seas Web Page. www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-moderated-digest V2 #24 *****************************************