From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V2 #308 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Sunday, May 25 2003 Volume 02 : Number 308 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 19:22:26 +0100 From: "Matt H" Subject: Re: seven-seas Seattle Weekly >"Kansas" might be a direct descendent of Oasis' "Wonderwall" What a crock of shit. Has the guy even listened to the whole song? Sure, the opening couple of bars of acoustic guitar are similar to the start of Wonderwall, but once the rest of the instruments kick in any similarity disappears completely..... Mind you, this is the Seattle Weekly we're talking about. I guess they're used to bands sounding like each other over there..... Nirvana, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam etc etc..... Echo and the Bunnymen | the official website: http://www.bunnymen.com ___________________________________________________________ Get your own Web-based E-mail Service at http://www.zzn.com ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 19:26:52 +0100 From: "Matt H" Subject: Re: seven-seas Eye [Toronto] >Ian McCulloch's career has had its doldrums, but when he gets to >the bottom, he gets back to the top of the slide. I'm sure Mac will appreciate the Beatles reference...... Hmmm....unless the reviewer is comparing him to Charles Manson.... Echo and the Bunnymen | the official website: http://www.bunnymen.com ___________________________________________________________ Get your own Web-based E-mail Service at http://www.zzn.com ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 13:45:03 -0500 (CDT) From: Amy Moseley Rupp Subject: Re: seven-seas Eye [Toronto] > I'm sure Mac will appreciate the Beatles reference...... > > Hmmm....unless the reviewer is comparing him to Charles Manson.... Nah, Mac's like Lennon, he only hacks people to death with his big mouth! - --Amy ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 23:55:01 +0100 From: "Noose Boy" Subject: seven-seas Slideling/Slidling Apologies if this has been covered but anyone know why the LP is Slideling and the track Slidling? ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 19:39:43 -0500 (CDT) From: Amy Moseley Rupp Subject: Re: seven-seas Slideling/Slidling > Apologies if this has been covered but anyone know why the LP is > Slideling and the track Slidling? Read somewhere (was it here?) that someone connected with the recording wrote "Sliding" incorrectly as "Slideling" and Mac liked the latter word. It sure is a confusing tonguetwister! Perhaps a slideling is a small child who is playing on a slide? ;-) - --Amy ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 23:20:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Amy Moseley Rupp Subject: Re: seven-seas RewiReviews.com > 'Sweet Jane' bass of 'Baby Hold On' or roping in Coldplay's Chris Martin and > Jonny Buckland to give 'Arthur' an ominous OK Computer modernity, McCulloch > remains one of the most distinctive voices in the business. If things start to Er, does anyone think 'Arthur' is reminiscent of _OK Computer_? Of course there is an entire album to compare with... > drag in the direction of the Bunnymen's Flowers, Mac kicks the chorus into > high gear in his trademark croaky and wheezy fashion ('Another Train'). And on ACK.... *Mac's voice has never been trademarked as croaky and wheezy*. It was anything BUT on the First (Fab?) Four albums -- velvety smooth and effortless, agile and lithe and up for anything. I don't think its become as arthritic as "croaky and wheezy" -- that sounds like an emphysema patient, not Mac! > 'High Wires' the rhythm section snaps in a way that it hasn't since Les > Pattinson and Pete de Freitas were still in the fold. 'She Sings (All My Gotta agree here.... ChrisA, if you ever read this, I remember you saying "High Wires" was your fave.... and perhaps Barry too. While I don't think it's as good as Pete and Les, I hadn't put my finger on the fact that a good rhythm section is what provides the framework for Mac's finest performances. > Life)' is classic Bunnymen, the blueprint that the Jesus & Mary Chain must > have tapped into when they wanted to clean up and find some sunshine circa > Stoned & Dethroned. And leave it to McCulloch to have the balls to save the > best for last (and not even list it on the back cover): 'Stake Your Claim' > rivals the aforementioned Mary Chain in postpunk swagger, piling on layer > after layer of controlled distortion and Sergeant-like 'Lips Like Sugar' > riffs, and ups the ante on uplifting album finales like 'Ocean Rain' and 'All > My Life' as about five McCulloch's sing in the round, "Know what I want now/ > know what I want now". Ah, so do I: more of this. 8. Hmmmmmm.... NO FUCKING WAY are either "Stake Your Claim" or "All My Life" nearly as good as "Ocean Rain." Yeah, best not to have some crap track at the end to leave a listener cold, but .... and yeah, she merely (why do I think it's a she? sfenn; Sheryl Fenn? ;-) ) said it was "like" but hey..... This reviewer *does* however know a lot about Echo and Mac; kudos for either being a fan or doing a *lot* of homework. BTW, have we gotten lazy and gone to the shiftless (pun intended) ' instead of " to enclose song titles? The Internet and the advent of Everyman typing rather than writing has transformed punctuation into a minimum stroke affair, including shortening the requisite two spaces after a period into one! ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 23:22:05 -0500 (CDT) From: Amy Moseley Rupp Subject: Re: seven-seas RewiReviews.com > apart from a smattering of brilliant singles, 1999's What Are You Going To Do > With Your Life? is the band's only consistent return to glory, and guitarist > Will Sergeant has proclaimed it as basically an Ian McCulloch solo album. So, Hmmm, Kristin.... do you fancy Mac's solo work? I know you've said WAYGTDWYL is (at least one of) your favourite album(s).... I really need to give that album and Flowers way more airtime. Into the minivan they shall go! :-) ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V2 #308 ********************************