From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V2 #531 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Thursday, July 10 2003 Volume 02 : Number 531 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:19:13 -0400 From: Red Subject: Re: seven-seas New Zealand Herald At 09:01 PM 7/10/03 +0100, you wrote: >>I've been saying that for YEARS!!! > >Dammit, I thought we were supposed to be stopping this! ;-) I wrote that before you disagreed! :P ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:09:09 -0400 From: Peter Charbonneau Subject: Re: seven-seas New Zealand Herald Exhibit A: American Idol singers.... Yay, you can hit the notes... your music is crap, overproduced and bereft of a single ounce of soul. At 04:12 PM 7/10/2003 -0400, Red wrote: >At 03:54 PM 7/10/03 -0400, you wrote: > > >"Sing" as in "hit the pre-prescribed notes." > >Perry, risible as he is, can do this. > >Yeah, maybe, but his notes make me cringe!!! > > >Cohen, although a genius, probably hasn't nailed a note since '79's Recent > >Songs. But his warmed-over death rattle makes him all the more charming. > >Exactly, which gets back to what I was saying.... >and what you were getting at.....ya don't HAVE to be >'perfectly technically' correct to be the best! > >And usually those who are are boring as crap! hahahaaa > >Red > > > >====================================== >http://www.bunnymenlist.com > >====================================== ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:16:45 -0400 From: "Chris Adams" Subject: Re: seven-seas New Zealand Herald I gotta tell ya, and it shames me, deeply, to say this....(Adams pauses, considers whatever tattered shreds of "cred" he has left, decides "fukkit")...but I thought that Clay kid did a great version of "Bridge Over Troubled Water." Great in a Broadway, break-a-leg, be-casio-d, whitebread closet-case kinda way, but great nonetheless. Weep for me. - --Chris A. Peter Charbonneau Sent by: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org 10-Jul-2003 04:09 PM Please respond to seven-seas To: seven-seas@smoe.org, seven-seas@smoe.org cc: Subject: Re: seven-seas New Zealand Herald Exhibit A: American Idol singers.... Yay, you can hit the notes... your music is crap, overproduced and bereft of a single ounce of soul. At 04:12 PM 7/10/2003 -0400, Red wrote: >At 03:54 PM 7/10/03 -0400, you wrote: > > >"Sing" as in "hit the pre-prescribed notes." > >Perry, risible as he is, can do this. > >Yeah, maybe, but his notes make me cringe!!! > > >Cohen, although a genius, probably hasn't nailed a note since '79's Recent > >Songs. But his warmed-over death rattle makes him all the more charming. > >Exactly, which gets back to what I was saying.... >and what you were getting at.....ya don't HAVE to be >'perfectly technically' correct to be the best! > >And usually those who are are boring as crap! hahahaaa > >Red > > > >====================================== >http://www.bunnymenlist.com > >====================================== ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 22:40:01 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Stu=20Bird?= Subject: Re: Re: seven-seas New Zealand Herald I guess most Canadians would....... :-) You ought to hear my "Land Of My Fathers" !!! Matt H wrote: I guess the point is that Cohen can sing Cohen songs (um....obviously!) but he'd probably murder the Star Spangled Banner ;-) - --------------------------------- Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo!Messenger ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 22:45:39 +0100 From: "K.P. Jacques" Subject: Re: Re: seven-seas(Brotherhood): New Zealand Make out wot hacks me off is yer always beating (no pun intended) around the bush (altho even I'm not sure now) Wot is 'beating around the bush' ?? > quite appropriate, considering that i reckon brotherhood is a load > of wank! ;-) - --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.493 / Virus Database: 292 - Release Date: 6/25/03 ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 22:47:49 +0100 From: "K.P. Jacques" Subject: Re: seven-seas New Zealand Herald If we wanted perfection Dire Straits would still be touring.......that's probably now gonna set the ball rolling....DAMN!!!! Sorry folks :-( > >Sure I wouldn't get the same atmosphere sat > >at home listening to a CD, but technically perfect > >musicianship does not equal atmosphere in my book. - --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.493 / Virus Database: 292 - Release Date: 6/25/03 ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 22:53:33 +0100 From: "Matt H" Subject: Re: seven-seas New Zealand Herald >I guess most Canadians would....... :-) Is Cohen Canadian? I have no idea. I merely picked The Star Spangled banner because of the Americans involved in the debate at the time, i.e Red, Chris & Amy. >You ought to hear my "Land Of My Fathers" !!! Do we have to? ;-) btw, the new Killing Joke album is AMAZING! 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: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 22:53:33 +0100 From: "Matt H" Subject: Re: seven-seas New Zealand Herald >I guess most Canadians would....... :-) Is Cohen Canadian? I have no idea. I merely picked The Star Spangled banner because of the Americans involved in the debate at the time, i.e Red, Chris & Amy. >You ought to hear my "Land Of My Fathers" !!! Do we have to? ;-) btw, the new Killing Joke album is AMAZING! 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