From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V2 #867 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, November 14 2003 Volume 02 : Number 867 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 08:11:56 -0600 From: ken Subject: Re: seven-seas-moderated remasters I had not noticed this until you mentioned it. I also did some "surgery" on the track and all seems to be well. ken. Ivan Smith wrote: > as someone noted on the forum, there appears to be a momentary glitch on > the dancing horses extended version - a drop-out in audio... I store all > my audio on a creative Nomad Jukebox Zen (60 gb), so I just did a little > 'snip, snip' on the audio file - it appears the gap is added-in, rather > than a drop-out, so no 'time' is lost in the song once the surgery is > performed. (did that make sense?). I've e-mailed Zax to see if it was a > mastering error... ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 14:26:54 -0000 From: "shaz" Subject: seven-seas NME review Taken from a post on the message board........ There were only three British bands that really mattered in the '80's: The Smiths, New Order and Echo and the Bunnymen. Where The Smiths agitated for social revolution and New Order rocked the clubs, Liverpools ineffably cool Bunnymen - with their art rock influences of Television, The Velvet Underground and The Doors - were mysterious, unknowable, highly strung; a deeply personal experience. These remastered versions of their 80's albums, with added rarities, are a stark reminder of their ppower and originality and explain why bands from Coldplay to the Stills cite them as an influence. The equivalent of debut albums from 'The Stone Roses to 'Is This It', 1980's 'Crocodiles' (8) is totally wired, driven on by a rythm section (bassist Les Pattinson and drummer Pete De Freitas, who tragically died in a road accident in 1989) like a tight know of muscle. Ian McCulloch's lyrics still maintain a passing relationship with reality at this point, Villier's Terrace a chilling warning of the havoc smack would wreak on '80's Britain. 'Heaven Up Here' (7) sounds less forbidding than it once did. 'Over The Wall', in particular, with its neo-tribal drums and gloomy synths, is wonderful. Opening with two seismic singles, 'The Cutter' and 'The Back Of Love' before heading into territory as icy and (melo)dramatic as the icelandic cover, 'Porcupine' (8) summed up the Bunnymen thus far. Guitarist Will Sergeant flips between razor sharp tension and exotic, quasi-asian psychedelic figures, while McCulloch delivers show-stopping vocals. Plus, its got xylophones on it. And now, a disco version of 'Never Stop'. Their masterpiece, however, is 1984's 'Ocean Rain'(9). Drama, pop sensibility, delicious edgy strings, it had everything. [I've cut a bit here that Ivan won't like, about once seeing mac forget the words to ocean rain and doing something a bit rude in the general direction of the audience ending with the phrase - 'funny now but at the time it was terrible. Buy this and you'll understand why'.] Afer that 1987's 'Echo and the Bunnymen' (6) was distinctly likewarm. Still, the wistful 'All My Life', 'Lips Like Sugar' and extra track 'Bring On The Dancing Horses' make it a worthwhile purchase. ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:23:14 -0000 From: "shaz" Subject: Re: seven-seas NME review oh and apparently Mac is in the Independent today...?? - ----- Original Message ----- From: "shaz" To: "Seven-seas" Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 2:26 PM Subject: seven-seas NME review > Taken from a post on the message board........ > > > There were only three British bands that really mattered in the '80's: The > Smiths, New Order and Echo and the Bunnymen. Where The Smiths agitated for > social revolution and New Order rocked the clubs, Liverpools ineffably cool > Bunnymen - with their art rock influences of Television, The Velvet > Underground and The Doors - were mysterious, unknowable, highly strung; a > deeply personal experience. These remastered versions of their 80's albums, > with added rarities, are a stark reminder of their ppower and originality and > explain why bands from Coldplay to the Stills cite them as an influence. > > The equivalent of debut albums from 'The Stone Roses to 'Is This It', 1980's > 'Crocodiles' (8) is totally wired, driven on by a rythm section (bassist Les > Pattinson and drummer Pete De Freitas, who tragically died in a road accident > in 1989) like a tight know of muscle. Ian McCulloch's lyrics still maintain a > passing relationship with reality at this point, Villier's Terrace a chilling > warning of the havoc smack would wreak on '80's > Britain. 'Heaven Up Here' (7) sounds less forbidding than it once did. 'Over > The Wall', in particular, with its neo-tribal drums and gloomy synths, is > wonderful. > > Opening with two seismic singles, 'The Cutter' and 'The Back Of Love' before > heading into territory as icy and (melo)dramatic as the icelandic cover, > 'Porcupine' (8) summed up the Bunnymen thus far. Guitarist Will Sergeant flips > between razor sharp tension and exotic, quasi-asian psychedelic figures, while > McCulloch delivers show-stopping vocals. Plus, its got xylophones on it. And > now, a disco version of 'Never Stop'. > > Their masterpiece, however, is 1984's 'Ocean Rain'(9). Drama, pop sensibility, > delicious edgy strings, it had > everything. [I've cut a bit here that Ivan won't like, about once seeing mac > forget the words to ocean rain and doing something a bit rude in the general > direction of the audience ending with the phrase - 'funny now but at the time > it was terrible. Buy this and you'll understand why'.] > > Afer that 1987's 'Echo and the Bunnymen' (6) was distinctly likewarm. Still, > the wistful 'All My Life', 'Lips Like Sugar' and extra track 'Bring On The > Dancing Horses' make it a worthwhile purchase. > > > > ====================================== > http://www.bunnymenlist.com > > ====================================== ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 08:16:56 -0800 (PST) From: mdamico@w-link.net Subject: seven-seas 1 liverpool ticket available Hey, My friend cancelled on me, so I have an extra ticket to the Liverpool show. It is a Circle seat. I am picking up my tickets at the boxoffice the night of the show, so if anyone needs a ticket, please email me at marcodamico@hotmail.com ( my current email (mdamico@w-link.net) will be inactive in a day or two!). Price is whatever the face value of the ticket is! We will just need to arrange to meet outside of the venue before the show. Thanks, Marco ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V2 #867 ********************************