From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V4 #310 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Monday, August 15 2005 Volume 04 : Number 310 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:26:58 +0100 From: "Shaz" Subject: Re: seven-seas Was Bunnymen dvd, now daytime airplay Absolutely!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank god for BBC 6 Music! As more and more people get digital radios the listening figures are Going Up :-) Just goes to show that not all of us want moronic radio...... and our numbers are growing.... Shaz - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stu Bird" To: Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 9:39 PM Subject: seven-seas Was Bunnymen dvd, now daytime airplay > Hmm, > > Just been informed by Trina that 6Music played Stormy > Weather lunch time today.. > > Bless 'em, it really is the best radio station in the > UK IMO > > Stu > > --- Stu Bird wrote: > > > > Radio 6 play > > at > > least one Bunny track a day and I've heard them > > mentioned twice tonight, so there's a small buzz but > > it's a niche radio station to be honest. > > > > ===================================================================== > 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 ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 18:22:11 -0700 (PDT) From: chris adams Subject: Re: seven-seas Was Bunnymen dvd, now daytime airplay test Shaz wrote: Absolutely!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank god for BBC 6 Music! As more and more people get digital radios the listening figures are Going Up :-) Just goes to show that not all of us want moronic radio...... and our numbers are growing.... Shaz - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stu Bird" To: Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 9:39 PM Subject: seven-seas Was Bunnymen dvd, now daytime airplay > Hmm, > > Just been informed by Trina that 6Music played Stormy > Weather lunch time today.. > > Bless 'em, it really is the best radio station in the > UK IMO > > Stu > > --- Stu Bird wrote: > > > > Radio 6 play > > at > > least one Bunny track a day and I've heard them > > mentioned twice tonight, so there's a small buzz but > > it's a niche radio station to be honest. > > > > ===================================================================== > 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 ====================================================================== - --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page ===================================================================== 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, 15 Aug 2005 18:29:35 -0700 (PDT) From: chris adams Subject: Re: seven-seas Bunnymen in Rolling Stone In response: my review isn't finished yet, but here's a rough draft of what I've got so far: Echo and the Bunnymen are not the reason I fell in love with rock and roll. I still have my treasured vinyl copies of Elvis Golden Records, The Beatles debut, and Bob Dylans Greatest Hits Vol. I. to thank for that. (No, Im not nearly that oldthese were birthday presents from my mother when, uber-hip lady that she is, she had them waiting by the kitchen table for me alongside a weird plastic blue skateboard and a stack of Batman and Dr. Strange comics on my 8th birthday, one bright spring morning in the mid-70s. Conversely, Echo and the Bunnymen are not the reason Ive maintained my love affair with rock and roll. I still have the aforementioned records, plus a long catalogue of others that have since been added, far too numerous to mention. But the Bunnymen are far and away the most compelling reason Ive ever heard that rock and roll, new rock and roll, can still have a significant personal, visceral, and intelligent impact on my life. Whats more, that impact doesnt involve any nostalgia, faulty rose-colored memory, or maudlin honey, wasnt it good then whinery. Echo and the Bunnymen are proof beyond doubt that rock is not just a young mans game, the folly of snot-nosed obnoxious adolescence, and that cool is not a notion limited to the parameters of youth, or a particular sound, style, image, time, or place. Anyone whod care to challenge my statement is more than welcome to, but theyd better take a few long hard listens to the Bunnymens forthcoming album, Siberia, before they open their mouths. With a seeming effortlessness that threatens all logic, the Bunnymen have, 27 years since their inception, managed to produce an album that summarizes all the salient touchpoints of their career and still sounds vital, fresh, and contemporary, without the slightest hint of self-consciousness or pandering, either to record company insistence or cultish fan expectation. Siberia is the sound of the Bunnymen crystallizing everything theyve ever done and emerging with nothing short of a masterpiece. Opening track and forthcoming single Stormy Weather sneaks in on innocent feet with a circular guitar chime courtesy of Will Sgt. Fuzz Sergeant and a nursery-rhyme vocal melody from Ian Mac McCulloch, more summer wind than hurricane. But before you can grab the picnic basket and gingham blanket, the clouds roll in on thunderous toms, Mac turns on the sonorous swagger and command, and a torrential Sergeant solo indicates that perhaps youd better order in. (OK, Ive stretched the analogy well past breaking point, but cut me some slack and dig what Im saying.) Remember when we walked upon clouds that never rained? / But every cloud must rain / . . . hows my stormy weather now? Its a holler, a dare. The chorus of You want it? You got it . . . almost seems like a challenge to a fanbase who, for years, have clamored for the intensity of the original incarnation of the Bunnymen, as if to say heres a little fury, can ya handle it?remember, I wuz a punk before you was a punk--ya wanna tawk about the real junk? Parthenon Drive casts an eye back on a Liverpudlian youth, but, unlike Playgrounds and City Parks from McCullochs solo Slideling, theres little time for teary-eyed wistfulnessits Sinatras A Very Good Year for people who realize the best is yet to come and wont that be fine. A musically linear track that recalls the rhythmic, choppy groove of prime 66 Velvets, the song is nevertheless talkin bout a revolutionit references several, in factthose of time and life, records and revolvers (both guns and a nod to the Beatles best with Sergeants retro-psych guitar solo.) Clocks hit twelve and dreams will fall/off my shelf and off my wall blasts the Mac at the center of a Cinderella story gone wrong. But ultimately, the songs an affirmation, an embrace--if the shoe dont fit, get on with it, as the singer admits hes glad to be alive, around 45. More forthcoming. - --Chris Adams Rob Maher wrote:I love this quote: "It makes you cry, it makes you tap your toes, it makes you wanna break a chair over someone's head," he says. "People can't ask for more." ===================================================================== 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 ====================================================================== - --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page ===================================================================== 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 #310 ********************************