From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V2 #569 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, July 20 2003 Volume 02 : Number 569 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 10:38:15 +0100 From: "looloo" Subject: RE: seven-seas-digest V2 #552 yeah but if you saw my boss ...................... >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Jon >>Sent: 17 July 2003 18:43 >>>>>So, one can then conclude with mathematical certainty that: >>>While hard work and knowledge will get you close, >>>And attitude will get you there, >>>bullshit and ass kissing will put you over the top. >> >>'SHAGGING THE BOSS' gets one a full 160 ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 09:46:54 -0400 From: Red Subject: RE: seven-seas-digest V2 #552 At 10:38 AM 7/20/03 +0100, you wrote: >yeah but if you saw my boss ...................... hehehee....that made me laugh! ;-) ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 15:14:23 -0400 From: Red Subject: seven-seas TERRY HALL new cd out tomorrow! Got these from the Terry Hall list.....interesting how the album is described (see article below). Go here to hear a song... http://www.frootsmag.com/radio/playlists/03/08/ I LOVE it!!! Click HEAR THE SHOW and then when the next page comes up just click the little red arrow and then fast forward the show to 1 hour 45 mins and you can hear his song without having to play the whole show, coz his is near the end. Here's the link to the Sunday Times article from today. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,2774-747335,00.html And here's the text: July 20, 2003 Pop: Travelling hopefully Ex-Specials lead singer Terry Hall is making world music, but not as we know it, says Dan Cairns On his way to the interview, Terry Hall has been worrying about how his new album will be described. "I thought about it," admits the former Specials lead singer. "That people are going to say `world music'. But then I thought, what about rock music: what does that mean? So I don't mind being a world-music artist today, as long as I can be rock tomorrow." The 46-year-old has fought against labels ever since he left the Coventry band in 1981, shortly after Ghost Town topped the charts, just as the country exploded in summer riots. Subsequent projects included Fun Boy Three, alongside two other former Specials; his homages to 1960s French pop, Colourfield and Terry, Blair and Anoushka; a pair of well-received but little-bought solo albums; and a two-year collaboration with Eurythmics' Dave Stewart. Fans of Hall's laconic vocals and wry, observational lyrics often express frustration with the slightly aimless route his career seems to have taken, but that's fine by him. "That was the plan," he laughs. "If you want to push yourself, you have to split bands up. I find it hilarious to read about a band who are on their fifth album, and they say, `This is a huge departure from the last one', and they've added a tambourine." Hall and his latest partner, Mushtaq, have gone a little further than that. The former came on board at the urging of Blur's Damon Albarn, with whom he had worked off and on over the years (most recently on the Gorillaz album). His publishers paired him with Mushtaq, the one- time member of the world-beat rap collective, Fun-Da-Mental. The initial plan was for a Hall solo project, with Mushtaq producing, to be released on the Albarn-funded Honest Jon's label. But long afternoons drinking tea and swapping favourite records changed all that. "There were three records in my house when I was growing up," says Hall. "Edith Piaf, Al Jolson and The Show Must Go On by Leo Sayer. Autumn Leaves is my favourite song. In 1980, I bought an album called Traditional Jewish Melodies. I'd always wanted to do something like that." Hall's hybrid, Irish-German-Jewish background may have helped him fit into the multiracial Specials, but it also bred in him a restless, nomadic complexity that was big on searching but not so brilliant at finding the answers. And Mushtaq, the son of a Bangladeshi father and a Persian mother, whose childhood was spent in three different countries, is similarly disposed. So it's no surprise, in hindsight, that the pair ended up making an album as wayward and internationalist as The Hour of Two Lights (released tomorrow). With a little help from their friends. These include Hebrew vocalists; Natasha, a 12-year-old Lebanese singer; Mohammed, a blind Algerian rapper; a group of gypsy refugees (Romany Rad) from Poland; and the 72-year-old clarinettist who first played the Pink Panther theme. Together, they have made a record that is truly world music, in that it abides by no boundaries, musical strictures  or concepts of time. "The label did say, `When are you going to finish this record?'" says Hall. "But they gave up after three months. And we went into one studio that was like Barclays bank, Leeds branch. They're meant to be creative places, but it wasn't at all." A switch of studio ensued, with long, open-ended sessions. The album's two key tracks thrillingly capture this sense of a journey without maps. Ten Eleven opens with Mohammed and Hall intoning, "One day the walls will talk/And we'll get to hear it all", over a zithery oompah-pah that somehow recalls a seaside one-man band, a Viennese coffee house, Ghost Town and I Am the Walrus all at the same time. "It's part of a trilogy," deadpans Hall. "There's 7-11, which is an all-night shop; 9/11, which is a disaster; and Ten Eleven, which is us." The anarchic They Gotta Quit Kicking My Dog Around features the asylum-seeking Romany Rad spitting out the title phrase repeatedly, as the furious 5-5-5-7 rhythm cuts aggressively against them. Does Hall expect his music to change anything any more? "The one thing I've learnt is that you can only make people aware of things," he says. "And I'd rather make four people totally aware than 40,000 a bit aware." With an album as visceral and un-compromising as The Hour of Two Lights, he is surely being a little pessimistic. ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 22:16:15 +0100 From: "K.P. Jacques" Subject: Re: seven-seas Sorry .... Amy, you are like a cheap rug!!!! > At any rate, yeah, I *did* get a piece of mail from you > admiring my deep knowledge of England and admitting that > Norwich was a far better place than Ipswich, but I just > assumed that you'd undergone a religious conversion or > something. Maybe by the Polyphonic Spree. :-) - --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). 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