From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V3 #274 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Tuesday, August 17 2004 Volume 03 : Number 274 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:41:06 -0400 From: RossNTeka@aol.com Subject: Re: seven-seas Bunnymen.com back up I can't get it either in The OC, but I do have two House of Blues tickets! That'll hold me for a bit. Ross ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 06:42:53 +1200 From: "Kristin Smith" Subject: Re: seven-seas Bunnymen.com back up RossNTeka@aol.com writes: > I can't get it either in The OC, but I do have two House of Blues tickets! > Nor has this happy renaissance found its way to Wyoming (much less tickets to anything). Perhaps if we all close our eyes, clap our hands and chant bI believe in websitesb, it will fly again. - K :) ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 13:42:45 -0400 From: Red Subject: Re: seven-seas Bunnymen.com back up At 06:42 AM 8/18/04 +1200, you wrote: > Nor has this happy renaissance found its way to Wyoming (much less > tickets to anything). Perhaps if we all close our eyes, clap our hands > and chant bI believe in websitesb, it will fly again. Weird...last night I was able to get in, when I replied to Raj's post.....but today it doesn't work. :-( Red ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:42:36 -0700 From: Charles Pham Subject: RE: seven-seas Bunnymen.com back up Whenever switching DNS (Domain Name Servers) it takes anywhere from 24 to 48 hours to propagate throughout the web fully. So, you may hit/miss the website throughout today and maybe tomorrow. But assuming their host is a proper host, the site should be viewable for everyone by Thursday at the latest. Personally, I was able to view the site last night from home (nice new Atom RSS feed for News, Peter; i likes), but I've been unable to access today at work. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org [mailto:owner-seven-seas@smoe.org]On Behalf Of Red Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 10:43 AM To: seven-seas@smoe.org Subject: Re: seven-seas Bunnymen.com back up At 06:42 AM 8/18/04 +1200, you wrote: > Nor has this happy renaissance found its way to Wyoming (much less > tickets to anything). Perhaps if we all close our eyes, clap our hands > and chant bI believe in websitesb, it will fly again. Weird...last night I was able to get in, when I replied to Raj's post.....but today it doesn't work. :-( Red ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:07:10 -0500 From: Theodore Turner Subject: Re: seven-seas Some Grey Glory (sorry, this is a long one!) So I took out the old (non re-issue) Grey for a walk last night & was really blown away by a few songs & came away with a much happier updated sense of the record in general. When it came out I had already heard "The Game" & loved it - as we've been saying a lot of late - its a truly beautiful song & really is (for me) the swan song that ends the bands (first) magical period. I remember digging "Over You", but maybe not being 100% sold, then "bedbugs"...I'll come clean here & admit I've never really fallen for that song...then..."all in your mind" & I'm kinda thinking...."whahappen"?..but then the Classical Bunny style of "Bombers Bay" pulled out side one for me....its got that sad swagger...proud vulnerability (as does "The Game" ..that is "SO BUNNYMEN!!" - - a great song. Then "Lips"..its a really good song...great hooks...chorus & solo"....& "Lost & Found" I really dug....but as we've discussed..its the production that really steals a lot of the magic away from this record & the triple glossed effect of "New Direction(although great licks!), Blue Blue Ocean & Satellite....i think left me thinking...."this don9t really sound like Bunny Music". Then, "All My Life" It was beautiful but in a kinda obvious..maybe even lazy way (I feel bad saying that, but I think I may have kinda felt that way). But I played the hell out of that record & learned to live with my disappointment that (for the most part) it really was not in sound or spirit "the record after Ocean Rain" & all & all we had some Grey good times together. So lets shoot ahead 17 years to last night. Again, "The Game" is gorgeous, a perfect song. But I was more curious in going back to the songs I was not totally happy with, & I really loved "Over You"...a great groove...& leaves you feeling light and renewed, lots going on in that song. I still don9t totally get down with "Bed Bugs", but its fun enough. Then "All in your mind"..ya...that one still sounds pretty bad to me...its like...if you wanna do New Order...do it RIGHT...like how Mac did it with "Faith & Healing", this was really mostly just a muffly wandering mess....but ya...cool solo.....if you could only hear it! Its nota bad song tho..as is the case with pretty much everything on the record...its the production that destroys it - I remember being pretty rocked by that song at least once live. Then the sweetheart "Bombers Bay"...still releases the same amount of delicious Bunny-chemicals into the bloodstream!! I love everything about that song...Laurie Latham could not ruin it...try as tho he may have!!. Then "Lips.." , its great as always....a great seductive rocker & loads of fun....and a killer solo. But it was "Lost and Found" that really sent ("new"?) chills up my spine. What a lost/forgotten gem , here the flangey production works perfectly with emotional drift of the song, a Classic!! I don't think they ever played this live?????? Anybody know different? I had fun with "New Direction" , but , again - the songs is lost somewhere underneath Latham's console - again a song that rocked live. On to "Blue Blue Ocean"..& I'm kinda bored in a pretty and contented way. Then "Satellite" does its best to rock out...and manages its moments...then is brought back under Latham's safe homogenous confinement. Then closing with "All My life"....its a beautiful song & makes for a good evening walker. So all & all, for the most part I heard and felt some things in this record that I had either forgot were there, or had missed the first time around. I found myself (again) fantasizing about what those songs would have sounded like with a different approach to production...and tried to imagine the stripped down, bold semi-acoustic touch a band like New Zealand's "The Clean" could have put on those songs in the studio at the time. Now, to hear the re-issue & will report back. Ted ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V3 #274 ********************************