From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V2 #198 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Friday, April 25 2003 Volume 02 : Number 198 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 08:13:33 -0600 From: "K. F. Smith" Subject: Re: seven-seas Suspect > >In fact, the *coolest* (in my opinion) > >people seem to prefer HUH to OR, and I often see it as a bit > >of a mini-personality test: are you cool, or are you like me? :-) > > I don't try to choose my albums to be *cool*. > I choose the albums I like by the way that particular > album makes me *feel* and I think that's where the > reality lies. If an album does something for you.... If I like WAYGTDWYL does that make me a pariah? ;) I think our tastes...the things that 'speak' to us... come largely out of our particular circumstances and experiences. I grew up buried in books, and I set a lot of store by lyrics. Certain themes which Ian deals with resonate with me, either through events in my own life or things I've read. And I do think his writing is stronger and more consistent from OR onwards. But I would have a hatd time being packed off to the desert island without 'Over the Wall' or 'Crocodiles' or 'Higher Hell' or.... - - K :) ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 08:58:45 -0600 From: "K. F. Smith" Subject: seven-seas Guardian review http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/reviews/story/0,11712,942696,00.html - -------------------------------------------------------------------------= - ------- Ian McCulloch: Slideling=20 (Cooking Vinyl)=20 Dave Simpson Friday April 25, 2003 Despite the absence of guitarist Will Sergeant and the presence of = Coldplay's Chris Martin and Jonny Buckland, Ian McCulloch's third solo = album doesn't differ enormously from his recent output with Echo and the = Bunnymen.=20 However, get past the big choruses and Slideling contains some of the = most personal, confessional songs of his career. These are anthems born = of lonely nights in hotel rooms, crises in confidence and pleas for = emotional rescue; in them, the vulnerable character beneath the = notorious Mac bravado is exposed. There is pathos and even an uplifting = warmth in his serial admissions of wresting loss from the jaws of = victory, in lines such as: "I love the taste of self-defeat".=20 Four songs - Playgrounds and City Parks, the druggy Love in Veins, = Slideling and the fabulous Stake Your Claim - hold their own with the = best of his canon. That one or two certainly don't is typical of one of = pop's most flawed but fascinating characters.=20 [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of 3stars.gif] ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 11:31:00 -0500 (CDT) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: Re: seven-seas FW: FLASH! Festival update > IS THIS A JOKE OR IS IT JUST PLAIN BLOODY AWESOME! I think the latter. DAMN, and it's not looking like I'll be out of jail by then.... ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 11:48:43 -0500 (CDT) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: Re: seven-seas Suspect > > I don't try to choose my albums to be *cool*. > > I choose the albums I like by the way that particular > > album makes me *feel* and I think that's where the > > reality lies. If an album does something for you.... There are different levels an album can "do" something for me, but the biggest is the music, and I'm an absolute sucker for strings. It therefore isn't surprising that I'd be completely besotten by OR. It's the album that made me take up violin at age 28 (I'd been denied lessons as a child). That was a good year, and my husband completely surprised me with a violin as a birthday present. (The violin is not a very good one, BUT.... it'll do.) Of course, one of the first things I learned to do was scratch out the intro to "Silver." From a musical standpoint, if one likes orchestral instrumentation, there is no way HUH can compare to OR. > I think our tastes...the things that 'speak' to us... come largely out > of our particular circumstances and experiences. I grew up buried in books, > and I set a lot of store by lyrics. Certain themes which Ian deals with > resonate with me, either through events in my own life or things I've read. > And I do think his writing is stronger and more consistent from OR onwards. Yes, I've said many times that "Ocean Rain" speaks to me like no other song does. But there are loads of people who feel that way about "Zimbo/All My Colours." And I need to say that HUH came into my life at a very difficult time, and is full of lines that break my heart. "With A Hip" is probably my favourite song by far. Zimbo I have to class with Joy Division; for *ME*, it's noose music, and I have to watch how much of that I can listen to these days. - --Amy ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 18:11:02 +0100 From: "stevie g" Subject: seven-seas re - Bunnymen play the MAINSTAGE at this year's Glastonbury let's hope that they don't get friday afternoon this time - we don't need mac geting the arse and insulting mr eavis again! stevie g. ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 10:11:38 -0700 From: "Ivan Smith" Subject: seven-seas COOKING VINYL PRE-RELEASES NEW IAN MCCULLOCH ALBUM TRACKS EXCLUSIVELY TO THE KAZAA MEDIA DESKTOP VIA ALTNET COOKING VINYL PRE-RELEASES NEW IAN MCCULLOCH ALBUM TRACKS EXCLUSIVELY TO THE KAZAA MEDIA DESKTOP VIA ALTNET "Love In Veins', 'Sliding' Available 24 April For Secure Download To Kazaa Media Desktop Users Via Altnet London, April 23, 2003: Musicindie today announced a groundbreaking new P2P pilot with the exclusive pre-release of two new tracks from UK independent Cooking Vinyl artist Ian McCulloch on Kazaa Media Desktop. Cooking Vinyl is the UK's first independent label to participate in the pilot, which utilises Altnet's TopSearch technology to feature both tracks securely on the Kazaa Media Desktop from Thursday 24 April, some 2 weeks prior to the forthcoming US-release of 'Slideling', due out in stores on 6 May (Cooking Vinyl/spinArt). The tracks, in 192kbps (high quality) windows media format, are initially being made available for 24-hour unlimited play, followed by an option to purchase at 45 cents per track. Download the Kazaa Media Desktop on: http://www.kazaa.com start the application and open the search tool, then type "ian mcculloch" in the search box you should see 'Sliding' and 'Love In Veins' appear near the top of the results window with gold icons... then... be sure to keep these in your shared folder, so others can find them, and download them from you... - --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.474 / Virus Database: 272 - Release Date: 4/18/2003 ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V2 #198 ********************************