From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-moderated-digest) To: seven-seas-moderated-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-moderated-digest V2 #215 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 Tuesday, July 15 2003 Volume 02 : Number 215 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 08:27:07 -0600 From: "K. F. Smith" Subject: seven-seas-moderated Ian interview - part 2 [part 2] Not like Stones thus. Not, especially not. Even Bowie does not arrive there. It belongs to my Signal 3 of the artists whom I prefer but I do not believe that it left interesting trick since 1977, good, there is perhaps Ashes to ashes after but that done how long? Ca goes up at the time or me I started in music... it is odd... and then it made front brilliant tricks so much. Ca compensates. There are always interesting bits on the albums, a melody here or there, but good. And it is rather funny because that touches all people of this time. Lou Reed cannot write any more song, Iggy Pop, it does not do anything any more... and yet they did everything part of my preferred artists. Even Leonard Cohen starts to slow down. And yet to write a song it is easy, the airs come you when you take a shower.... (to laugh) To return from there to the album, and the past, there is this song "She sings all my life" which takes again a title of Bunnymen, is it the proof that you accepted your past and that you it just in the present? I do not know too much... I wrote not badly songs with "All my life" inside, at least 3 I think. I wanted to change these words, but I could not. Once that the words stick also perfectly on a melody, it is hard to get rid some. Especially when the melody is simple and direct. When a melody is more complex, there is more latitude to change the things, more elements with which to play. I do not know.... This song is one of the first which I made for the album and the demonstration... all those which heard the demonstration... the demonstration was bloody commercial, that could have been an enormous success, but I changed it. All the people who heard these demonstration said to me, "there you hold a tube. It is gigantic!" and I decided to change that, to return it a little more "Lou Reed". And then I had a problem, I found the words a little twee for me. Thus so that I can sing it I imagined that the girl of the song had died. That it had committed suicide (to laugh) or that it had made an overdose, in its room. And there, very imbricated itself perfectly, "she sings all my life/why must she take all my life" and returned is darker than that was it... Doesn't Ca get out of order that she died? You will miss it? Heu... not, that go, that makes me a little think of "Postcard" of Stephen Duffy. Oh yes! It is true. Which was the role of Chris Martin on the album? When they recorded their album, it asked me to play some to him one of my songs for the album, I played "Sliding to him" and then, an afternoon it wanted that one isolates oneself in a part, it asked Johnny to accompany us, one had a tape recorder and thus one recorded and during the recording it overflowed of ideas. I dropped some a good package but it was so instinctive and spontaneous... and then thereafter when they finished their recording, whereas they were overflowed in promo and all that it took one day to come all to finish with me in studio as they had promised whereas that was not to be easy for them. I like when that occurs quickly in studio. Ca concentrates, that forces to go to essence. Chris is a little as these kids who are hyper active, it is hard to know if they are intelligent or very idiots. Chris is intelligent, it went to the university! I always await an album of crooner of your share, "in Frank Sinatra". And by listening to this new album, one is with the opposite. The album is very pop, not conclusive for under, very personnel. Simple. For the moment one says to me that they is best tricks than I left. I think that I am always too young for a disc of crooner. Ca will come... the problem it is that there is nobody any more who can write songs like that. And covers would have to be made.... How Robbie Williams! Exactly and that puffs out me, that completely disgusts me to have to pass after him. What it has fact is so bad. And thus I made my album and I adore it such as it is. There is full with tricks with drawer and second degree a little like Lou Reed. "Baby hold one" is one of the best songs than I ever wrote. It is true that the album very is successful. I bring it closer "Candleland" in term of quality. But the album is merrier. It is true that "Candleland" is very good, but it is very sad, I adore the sad tricks but I want to be also sad more only that. And then I was happy during the recording of the new album. One laughed like twisted all the time. On certain catches I did not even manage to exceed the first third of the song, I stopped to say a connery, or to make the idiot. Ingi its gueulait and repeated unceasingly "go the guy, are serious, try to finish at least one of them!" . I do not want to break my image but good, during the catches, I sang by imitating Daffy duck. (it shows us how). On each song, once the catch finished, during insipid the out I released myself and I made a resounding "False note". One erased a maximum of it but it must remain about it a little. And now, it will occur what for Bunnymen? One will start by bringing out all the albums in version remasterized as from September and then one will make a miga concert has Liverpool on November 19 for the 25 years. Then one will try to turn to US, and Paris, and also of the festivals in summer. And one will turn over in studio after November 19 too. Except if Slideling goes of hell in which case I withdraw on a yacht and Bunnymen can go to show itself! Not, I talk cock, Bunnymen are super significant, it is rather brilliant to be able to express itself under two different personalities. One will make never again of pause during years, I want to be super occupied all the time. ====================================== The Official Seven-Seas Web Page. www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 12:15:36 -0400 From: "Chris Adams" Subject: seven-seas-moderated Re: seven-seas New Zealand Herald multipart/alternative Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org I gotta say, Amy, that I disagree with ya entirely. The bass-line on Baby Hold On is essentially that of Walk On the Wild Side. Not the same *notes*--exactly, but exact same feel and vibe--and totally intentional, in the way that Buried Alive is intentionally a Sweet Jane rip-o....errr....HOMAGE. The "big string sweep" on Love In Veins is the keys on the chorus--yeah not real strings, but programmed to sound like 'em. And Stake Your Clain is a quite a lot like some of the guitar driven New Order stuff...think Ceremony or any number of tracks on Low-Life or Brotherhood or Power Corruption and Lies. I think yr taking all these reviews a little too literally. Either that or Rush's obviously proficient musicality has blinded you from the fact that most "musical" bands (the Police, etc.) are unforgiveable crap (IMO, etc.) Again, it ain't about the notes. If it was, all the best rock bands would come out of the Berklee school of music. And they invariably produce the worst sh!t ever. And you can trust *my* writing. Cos I'm right. (Insert approriately self-deflating comment here.) - --Chris A. Amy Moseley Rupp Sent by: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org 10-Jul-2003 12:01 PM Please respond to seven-seas To: seven-seas@smoe.org cc: Subject: Re: seven-seas New Zealand Herald > That's clearest on the opening track Love In Veins with its vibrant guitars > and big string sweep, while the closing Stake Your Claim also manages > to come > on a little New Order-ish, and he lifts a bit of Walk on the Wild Side for > Baby Hold On. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there's no "big string sweep" on *any* of the songs! Stake Your Claim doesn't really have any keys and is much more 90s than "New Order-ish." He sees what a lot of people see in "Baby Hold On" (though I don't -- but though now that I'm thinking of it there are a few strings in the *chorus* to that song). (sigh) Okay he spelled everything correctly and said a coupla relevant things, but otherwise he flunks the critic test. Hey, I just had this obvious but frightening thought for the first time, which y'all have probably had for years: if these journalists (cough) can be so wrong about *facts* neverless having a crap opinion ;-) then I can't trust their judgment about *any band* or album! And heck why stop there -- music journalists don't corner the market on error -- I suppose you can't trust *any* writing. (including mine? ;-) ) - --Amy ("I was doing okay until that big house fell on my sister.") ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ====================================== The Official Seven-Seas Web Page. www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-moderated-digest V2 #215 ******************************************