From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V2 #450 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, June 13 2003 Volume 02 : Number 450 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 14:25:16 -0500 From: "Amy Rupp" Subject: RE: seven-seas how you became bunnified > Ok, I'll try to be brief. Through the '80s I had always > heard of the > Bunnymen, and knew some fans, but never heard them until > "Lips Like Sugar" > came out. I liked it, so I got the grey album. I thought the album was > pretty cool. Not great, but good. > > Then, a year or so later a new portal was opened in my > mind. So *maybe* "Lips" and "Horses," both of which enjoyed dance music appeal, contain some kind of subliminal messages which cause a timer to pop and one's mind opens to channel Bunnyfandom. :-) > It also happens that I think of those albums almost as one because I used to > always listen to them together. That's interesting! Do you think they are similar in some ways? To me they wouldn't sound like very long A and B sides of the same album, or a double album, unless it was something like _Double Fantasy_ where John had one album and Yoko the other (and NO, I am not comparing musical quality here). I do wish I'd had cooler friends in high school who could have turned me on to the Bunnymen, but in reality *I* was usually the one trying to convert people to different bands. The exception was my now-Southern-rocker ex who placed me in front of a turntable and played all the Rush albums in order straight through. Luckily it was only 1983 and there were not as many as now, or I definitely wouldn't have made it through! ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 16:43:26 -0400 From: Red Subject: Re: seven-seas how you became bunnified At 02:25 PM 6/13/03 -0400, you wrote: >And that's my story... so what's yours? Oh poop! I'll have to look and see if I still have my old post from before...coz it's too long for me to go into right now! Busy as a beaver! But that's a cool story.....and I DO believe that once you see them live, you've been spiritually (dunno if that's the right word) changed somehow! :-) Red ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 16:46:35 -0400 From: Red Subject: Re: seven-seas how you became bunnified At 03:18 PM 6/13/03 -0400, you wrote: > Ok, I'll try to be brief. Through the '80s I had always heard of the >Bunnymen, and knew some fans, but never heard them until "Lips Like Sugar" >came out. I liked it, so I got the grey album. I thought the album was >pretty cool. Not great, but good. It seems most people start with that album... but I'm so glad I got into them way before that album ever came out! :-) Story to follow later....... Red ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 16:48:56 -0400 From: Red Subject: Re: seven-seas how you became bunnified At 03:18 PM 6/13/03 -0400, you wrote: >It also happens >that I think of those albums almost as one because I used to always listen >to them together. heheehe....me too...and the same with Porcupine and Ocean Rain, coz I had them taped back to back so I wouldn't wear out my vinyl! :-) Red ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 15:51:08 -0500 From: "Amy Rupp" Subject: RE: seven-seas how you became bunnified > It seems most people start with that album... > but I'm so glad I got into them way before > that album ever came out! :-) Me too, but not by much! I'll bet though that (hmmm, what would I dare label us) hardcore Bunnyfans such as the ones who are here through all the years probably started with something else. If there is any truth to the myth ;-) that Mary Jane promotes further drug use, I'd say "Lips" is a roach and the First Four are fully loaded syringes ;-) (Think Velvet Underground here) I *was* disappointed when the Grey Album was released (bought it on cassette) even though I like it (I think!) more than Reverberation. ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 15:55:30 -0500 From: "Amy Rupp" Subject: RE: seven-seas how you became bunnified > weird phenomenon shoulda been phenomena (or pheromones?) > I'll stop there because there's already plenty to complicate. I *meant* contradict! ;-) I'm soooooooooo sleepy this afternoon.... post lunch fatigue. ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 17:47:45 -0400 From: "Henry Biedenkapp" Subject: seven-seas How I Became Bunnified Peter, Since we were practically neighbors growing up. My bunnymen story started back in the latter part of 1982. But I need to got back a little further. I may have told this part of story once before a long, long time ago, when I first joined the list. As a kid, I was brought up listening to Elvis, Engelbert Humperdinck (the singer), Frank Sinatra, etc. My parents music. The Beatles were forbidden -- as hippy, communist music. I enjoyed the music as a kid, dancing and singing like Elvis and Engelbert throughout grade school and junior high and the first year of high school, I slowly became aware of my peers talking about Zep, Pink Floyd, and the like during the mid 70's. I didn't know anything about any of these bands In 10th grade, I was working at an auto body shop making $25 per week and one of the guys was pointing out a song on the radio -- Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" and the first part I heard was "Mama Mia, Mama Mia" and my immediate split second thought was "oh, god, another Jimmy Roselli song!" Those couple of minutes afterwards converted me to Rock. Over the next several weeks, I purchased all the Queen albums at that time for $5 each with my paltry paycheck and writing down the dates and saving my receipts. For a full year, I only listened to "Night At The Opera" and did not open the earlier albums until a year later. Also,m in '76, i experienced my first rock concert -- Blue Oyster Cult at Jones Beach outdoors with it's infamous laser show which later had to be banned for safety reasons. When I started college in 78, musically, the hottest thing going around was the mysterious resurrection of "The Doors". I only heard about the indecent exposure act and the suicide / overdose. During 79, while listening to The Doors and other radio friendly bands at the time -- Styx and Kansas, which I didn't mind listening to, I was becoming more critical of most of the radio music especially disco. I read about and discovered the New York punk band "Television". Awesome high quality artistic music. During '79 and '80, I discovered WLIR (later WDRE) radio and they were playing this new wave / punk stuff like Flying Lizards "Money", B-52's "Rock Lobster" Talking Heads, Blondie, etc. Excellent stuff. It was all so fresh, new and exciting. Then in late 82, I heard "The Cutter" and I was blown away. Every morning, I would wake up and need to hear the song on the radio before i went to college and WLIR always played it, faithfully, it seemed to me every morning. But for what seemed like months I had no luck tracking down the album. Finally, in April 83, I found the 12" of "Back Of Love". I loved that 12", the painting cover, the music and the b-sides and still listening to "The Cutter" everyday on the radio. Shortly, thereafter, I found "Porcupine" and devoured this album, liked I had Queen, The Doors and Television. Then I started going crazy -- show I buy "The Sex Pistols" and I would asked myself should I buy it or not because i was afraid it would make me violent and want to do destructive things. Anyway, I took a chance, and lo and behold, I initially laughed. The music and energy were so good and powerful abd showed that I really had nothing to fear. The same for Joy Division and the question of suicide. The Smiths and the question of sexuality, etc. Every piece of music was breaking down some wall -- some prejudice and making me into a whole person, but a well rounded one. But to the outside world, i was still a freak to be listening to this dangerous stuff. Henry _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V2 #450 ********************************