From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V3 #155 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, April 30 2004 Volume 03 : Number 155 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 11:22:39 +0100 From: "Noose Boy" Subject: RE: seven-seas Ian McCulloch - Live & Acoustic in Lou Reed's Berlin I used to play my brothers copy of this to go to sleep to when I was about 14/15, though I also did the same with Still (in particular, Sister Ray), Closer and a few others. I guess it was self brainwashing nooseness. The weird thing is I started going out with my first girlfriend not long after?? - -----Original Message----- From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org [mailto:owner-seven-seas@smoe.org] On Behalf Of chris adams Sent: 29 April 2004 18:33 To: seven-seas@smoe.org Subject: Re: seven-seas Ian McCulloch - Live & Acoustic in Lou Reed's Berlin A friend of mine had this record at a very young age--he musta been no more than 15 or 16, and, after one terrifying spin, it sat in a corner of his room, staring at him as if to say "C'mon, PLAY me...I dare ya." He eventually covered the album cover with, interestingly enough, an album by Laure Andersen, who these days is Lou's S.O. As with many emotionally "difficult" albums--Cohen's "Songs of Love and Hate," Dylan's "Blood On the Tracks," post-Priscilla Elvis--it's not often that I can play "Berlin" without risk of severe psychic damage. Best played when friends are around for intimate late-night hangout. But alone in winter? No way. - --Chris Theodore Turner wrote: Yes Chris! Berlin is the most dangerous record of all time....WARNING: do not play this record while alone in the middle of the (esp Winter) night...unless you are feeling VERY secure with things otherwise. Truly a work of Genius! Completely singular, terrifying and gorgeous. One interesting Experiment is to to ignore the above warning with repeated "Berlin" spins (and add lots of booze while going through old love letters etc) Then open the blinds at dawn to Lou's "Waves of Fear" (full blast) from "The Blue Mask". Then try to leave the house. - -Ted on 4/29/04 10:05 AM, chris adams at neonhalo9@yahoo.com wrote: > Ahhhh...nice quotation, Ted > > This is from Berlin, by Lou Reed, for those who don't know the album. > It is, inexplicably, pretty obscure--I say inexplicably because, for > me, barring the song "Street Hassle" and the "Transformer" album, his > post-Velvets pinnacle. Absolutely harrowing, gut-shriveling, brutal > no-holds barred account of the breakup of a marraige and the > subsequent agony that produces. > > Sample lyrics: "Caroline says/as she gets up off the floor/you can > beat me all you want to/but i don't love you anymore." > > "They're taking her children away/because they said she was not a good > mother/they're taking her children away/because she was making it with > the sisters and brothers/the Welshman from India/and all of the > others/that filthy rotten slut couldn't turn anyone away...and I am > the water boy/the real game's not over here/but since she lost her > daughters/it's her eyes that fill up with water/and I am much > happier/this way." > > All this set to a vaguely Wagnerian soundtrack. (To wit: it's got a > crap beat and the kids can't dance to it.) > > Naturally, it was a complete commercial failure when it came out > ('74--tail end of "the glam years.") As recording was coming to a > conclusion, Bob Ezrin, the producer, famously quipped "Awright, > Lou--let's wrap up this turkey before I puke." > > It is, of course, pure genius. > > --Chris Adams > > Theodore Turner wrote: > In a small cafe > We could hear the guitars play > It was very nice > Candlelight and Dubonnet on ice > > > > ====================================== > http://www.bunnymenlist.com > > ====================================== > Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs > > > > ====================================== > http://www.bunnymenlist.com > > ====================================== ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:14:17 -0400 From: "Zap" Subject: seven-seas Bunny Exorcist A friend sent me this - -----Original Message----- A very short, thirty second re-telling of The Exorcist. With bunnies. http://www.angryalien.com/0204/exorcistbunnies.html ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 18:38:45 -0400 From: "Zap" Subject: seven-seas The Cure - new album insight The Cure photo The Cure's first album in four years will be a self-titled affair, frontman Robert Smith announced last night (April 28) in New York at the first playback of the upcoming release. "The Cure" will arrive June 29 on producer Ross Robinson's I Am imprint via Geffen. The group will perform first single "The End of the World" tomorrow on NBC's "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" and headline the Coachella festival on Sunday in Indio, Calif. "I think it's the best thing we've ever done," Smith said proudly. "The album is called 'The Cure.' If you don't like it, then you don't like us." Smith stood silently in the corner of the room by himself while the 14-track album was played for about 40 journalists and guests, occasionally taking notes in preparation for approving the final mix and running order. The album kicks off with the slow, discordant "Lost," featuring the first of many impassioned vocal performances from Smith. A throbbing bass groove powers the tentatively titled "Labyrinths," with Smith wailing, "It's not the same / it never was like this / everything has to change." The classic Cure sound is evident on such tracks as "Before 3," "Taking Off" and "I Don't Know What's Going On," which sport great melodies and foot-tapping tempos. The 12th track, the tentatively titled "Jason #3" provides the album with a late shot of energy thanks to a clever, melodically ascending chorus. But the album has its share of dark and intense material, particularly the epic penultimate track "The Promise," which runs past 10 minutes and climaxes in feedback and noise. "Us or Them" matches its confrontational title with an emphatic chorus ("I don't want you anywhere near me"), while "Going Nowhere" wraps things up with sad, dreamy production accented by piano. "There was a moment where we had to decide whether to do some conceptual experiment with nothing over 100 [beats-per-minute], and all of us with our heads down making a heavy, heavy album, but it wouldn't be as good," Smith said. "The best Cure albums have a balance." Smith revealed that former guitarist Porl Thompson, who left the Cure in 1993, recorded parts for a couple of tracks. At Robinson's urging, basic tracks were recorded live, yet another throwback to an earlier time. "Ross wanted to record us as a band, which we really hadn't done since the second album we ever made," Smith said. "The days would build up into these intense periods until we'd get the song. Everything was played live and I had to sing live." Smith held back on giving details of the band's summer tour, which is rumored to feature such Cure-inspired new acts as Interpol, the Rapture and Mogwai, but promised, "You'll enjoy the whole thing because it was put together by us." Here is the tentative track list for "The Cure": "Lost" "Labyrinths" (working title) "Before 3" (working title) "Truth Goodness and Beauty" "The End of the World" "I Don't Know What's Going On" "Taking Off" "Anniversary" "This Morning "Us or Them" "Precious Advise" (working title) "Jason #3" (working title) "The Promise" "Going Nowhere" [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of image001.gif] ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V3 #155 ********************************