From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V2 #105 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Tuesday, April 1 2003 Volume 02 : Number 105 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 18:36:47 +0100 From: matt.harkness@bt.com Subject: seven-seas Radiohead Revisited Further to my recent rant about them, I would just like to report "Mission Accomplished" ;-) ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 12:05:50 -0600 (CST) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: Re: seven-seas Radiohead Revisited > Further to my recent rant about them, I would just like to report "Mission > Accomplished" So, did you get tickets, or if not, how's the new album? :-) ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 19:07:43 +0100 From: "Barry Whiting" Subject: seven-seas Slideling Review (From 'Q') IAN McCULLOCH SLIDELING COOKING VINYL COOKCD2531 | 42.18 MINS *** Coldplay-endorsed Bunnyman in meat-and-potatoes solo mode. With Echo & The Bunnymen mothballed once more, frontman Ian McCulloch returns to an extra-mural career that, for all his Olympian self-aggrandisement, seems destined to pale against former glories. Spurred on by the fan worship of Coldplay's Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland (both of whom cameo here), Slideling ditches the Bunnymen's arch neo-psychedelia in favour of four-square indie-rock. There's not much wrong with the jangling Love In Veins, the Lou Reed-like Baby Hold On, or the string-caressed Seasons, but they'd have sounded much more distinctive with (absent Bunnyman) Will Sergeant's weaving guitar arabesques on board. David Sheppard Hear this: All album tracks streamed at www.ianmcculloch.com Burn this: Sliding Like this? Try this: The Chameleons Script Of The Bridge (STATIK, 1983) - -- Barry Whiting barry@urquell.freeserve.co.uk ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 19:08:48 +0100 From: "Barry Whiting" Subject: seven-seas Weird As Fish Review (From 'Q') WILL SERGEANT WEIRD AS A FISH / LE VIA LUONGE OCHRE OCH033LCD | 72.30 MINS *** Two-in-one set of Echo & The Bunnymen guitarist's tricksy solo work. Rediscovered in a drawer, Weird As A Fish is a cult 1978 tape of layered guitar music with basic echoes, effects and sometimes keyboards, recorded under the influence of Californian avant garde oddballs The Residents' Duck Stab and Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music. Neither as confrontational nor as selfconsciously weird as those predecessors, it's raw but rhythmic, flowing and very pleasantly accessible. Le Via Luonge was the soundtrack to a movie of Echo & The Bunnymen's Last Of The Long Days 1981 European tour and later appeared on the Shine So Hard video. It's more of the same but simpler and more sophisticated, and features two more tracks that didn't make the film. Ian Cranna Hear this: 30-second audio clip at www.ochre.co.uk Burn this: Darkness Like this? Try this: La Dusseldorf, Viva (RADAR, 1978) - -- Barry Whiting barry@urquell.freeserve.co.uk ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 12:09:43 -0600 (CST) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: Re: seven-seas Slideling Review (From 'Q') > With Echo & The Bunnymen mothballed once more, frontman Ian McCulloch > returns to an extra-mural career that, for all his Olympian > self-aggrandisement, seems destined to pale against former glories. Don't I wish this was an April Fool's joke! :-) ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 19:15:39 +0100 From: "Barry Whiting" Subject: Re: seven-seas Radiohead Revisited Good on you, Matt. And a big thumbs up for the new album, too. It's fantastic. - ----- Original Message ----- From: > Further to my recent rant about them, I would just like to report "Mission > Accomplished" ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 10:31:02 -0800 From: "Ivan Smith" Subject: Re: seven-seas Slideling Review (From 'Q') mothballed? hardly... I think sometimes they just don't 'get' it... - -I - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Amy Moseley Rupp" To: Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 10:09 AM Subject: Re: seven-seas Slideling Review (From 'Q') > > With Echo & The Bunnymen mothballed once more, frontman Ian McCulloch > > returns to an extra-mural career that, for all his Olympian > > self-aggrandisement, seems destined to pale against former glories. > > Don't I wish this was an April Fool's joke! :-) > > > > ====================================== > http://www.bunnymenlist.com > > ====================================== ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 10:38:14 -0800 From: "Ivan Smith" Subject: seven-seas OT: funny AP headline This to my inbox moments ago; World News US Bombards Holy Shiite City Holy Shiite, you think they ought to have caught and/or rephrased that ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 12:46:37 -0600 (CST) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: Re: seven-seas OT: funny AP headline > World News > US Bombards Holy Shiite City > > Holy Shiite, you think they ought to have caught and/or rephrased that I don't think they wanted to :-) Went to the store yesterday and for vegetarians, instead of Spam, they had Meatless Wham! (the exclamation point being part of the product name) Who on earth would feel the need to eat pseudo-Spam, and doesn't Meatless Wham! sound like a failed tryst? I've also seen the gender-and-object neutral abbreviation for she, he, and it: s/h/it. - --Amy ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V2 #105 ********************************