From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V4 #219 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, June 26 2005 Volume 04 : Number 219 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 00:15:44 +0100 From: "Steve Griffiths" Subject: seven-seas bunny mac at glasto I'm gonna get stick for this, but, Mac was awful and the band ..... bland. Sorry! Steve G. ===================================================================== Bunnymen Online Presence: http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info * http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ * http://bunnymen.nexuswebs.net/ * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ * http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-887128-89-6 * http://www.neonhalos.blogspot.com ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 12:43:21 -0400 From: Red Subject: seven-seas is it just me? Or does Chris Martin (when he's not trying to be Mac or Thom Yorke) sound like Sting?? Every time I hear that song where he says 'When I was a young boy....' Sting pops into my head! And it's not the first time I've thought that, either! Red ===================================================================== Bunnymen Online Presence: http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info * http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ * http://bunnymen.nexuswebs.net/ * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ * http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-887128-89-6 * http://www.neonhalos.blogspot.com ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 10:53:08 -0700 (PDT) From: chris adams Subject: seven-seas Crockodials Kelley Stoltz is a San Francisco singer/songwriter who recently released "Crockodials," a song-by-song cover of Echo and the Bunnymen's "Crocodiles." It's an iffy concept (I'd heard a cover of the entire Velvet's "Loaded" by some meandering Grateful Deadish blues band, and it shoulda just been called "Load.") Similarly, I figured this might just be "Crockoshit" and leave me wondering why SF musicians can't just stick to fucking up their own records. I'm pleased to report that this is not the case. From the cover art alone--scratch-scrawled lettering, and image of "the Bunnygod" icon, even the little tic-marks that were the backdrop to inner sleeve of the Bunnymen's debut--it's clear that, like many who came of age during the original post-punk era, Mr. Stoltz spent a large part of his adolescent years bewtiched by the Bunnies eerie appeal. But, unlike other impersonators, this Happy Death Man has managed to translate that love affair into an 8-track no-frills recording, that, in places, sounds like it could actually be the (I'm assuming) long-lost 1979 demos for the Bunnymen's time-honored classic. One need only listen to "Going Up" to verify "Crockodials" as an admirable homage rather than an obsessive's embarrasment. Opening with the primitive tick-thump of a aptly antiquated drum machine, Stoltz quickly builds the song into the kinda angular hell-for leather intentisty that was the Bunnymen's signature for their first few years of existence. Haywire guitars appropriately stab and skitter, and Stoltz's clip TVC15 vocals recall the teenage McCulloch's Bowie obsession while neatly sidestepping any attempt at the grander elements of Mac's inimitable style. Even better, "Crockodials" isn't just a precious paint-by-numbers; Stoltz's "Read It In Books" is a loose, vaguely Doors-y catwalk shimmy, and "All That Jazz" is jarringly transformed into a mimimalist Velvet Underground ballad. Stoltz is also willing to let a few faulty lyrics lie, and throw in some intentionally mannered vocals, as if to say "relax, dweebs, I was just fucking around -- don't take it too seriously." Which, given the nature of the project, is a relief. "Crockodials" stands as testament that a talented guy can revisit his own adolescence by approximating the sounds of a favorite band in their youth and not hate himself in the morning. That said, Kelley, give that "Polka-pine" notion you've been toying with a good re-think. - --Chris Adams Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ===================================================================== Bunnymen Online Presence: http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info * http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ * http://bunnymen.nexuswebs.net/ * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ * http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-887128-89-6 * http://www.neonhalos.blogspot.com ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 10:03:08 +1200 From: "Kristin Smith" Subject: Re: seven-seas Crockodials I listened to some of whatbs on the website, and I think it is well done b but I donbt see the point. It baffles me that someone who clearly has creative ability spent so much time and effort re-doing other peoplebs work. It is sort of like painting replicas of old masters. - K ===================================================================== Bunnymen Online Presence: http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info * http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ * http://bunnymen.nexuswebs.net/ * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ * http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-887128-89-6 * http://www.neonhalos.blogspot.com ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 20:25:54 -0500 From: Theodore Turner Subject: Re: seven-seas Crockodials Homage on 6/26/05 5:03 PM, Kristin Smith at blinfool@wyomail.com wrote: > I listened to some of whatbs on the website, and I think it is well > done b but I donbt see the point. > It baffles me that someone who clearly has creative ability spent so much > time and effort re-doing other peoplebs work. It is sort of like painting > replicas of old masters. > > - K > > > > ===================================================================== > Bunnymen Online Presence: > http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info > * > http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ > * > http://bunnymen.nexuswebs.net/ * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ > * > http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-887128-89-6 > * > http://www.neonhalos.blogspot.com > > ====================================================================== ===================================================================== Bunnymen Online Presence: http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info * http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ * http://bunnymen.nexuswebs.net/ * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ * http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-887128-89-6 * http://www.neonhalos.blogspot.com ====================================================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V4 #219 ********************************