From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V4 #358 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, September 2 2005 Volume 04 : Number 358 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 20:12:55 -0700 (PDT) From: chris adams Subject: Re: seven-seas NME review : Stormy Weather "Probably just you," Mr. Whiting? Surely, you underestimate the good humor of our copadres. ADAMS Barry Whiting wrote: chris adams wrote: >And the "newsman" on the bloody telly goes all talky and then not talky and then talky again. > >And the sun goes all up and then downy and then up again. > >Yeah. > It's probably just me, but the above....well, I'm laughing like a horse.... - -- Barry. ===================================================================== Bunnymen Online Presence: http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info * http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ * http://www.villiersterrace.com * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ * http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-887128-89-6 * ====================================================================== - --------------------------------- 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://www.villiersterrace.com * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ * http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-887128-89-6 * ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 04:34:26 +0100 From: "KPJ" Subject: Re: seven-seas Uncut review Perhaps they were too busy re-listening to their Led Zep albums or is it time to do another *FAB* Beatles article. (Any mention of Jeff Buckley this month??) I'd have agreed a few years back I reallly rated it but it changed, imo for the worse, I just don't care how many drugs he took with whom back in the good old days. Write abut record decks, price, and review them. Mojo for me these days.....a much wider mix not the same ol' same ol'. NME died at the beginning of the 80's for me. > For what it's worth, I think Uncut is the best music/movie mag out there > so I'm disappointed that this review has fallen wide of the mark. The > mag's always had a good word for the band, with 3 or 4 of the staff being > big fans, so I pretty much thought a (deserved) 5 star review was a > shoe-in. > -- Barry > > > Kristin Smith wrote: > >> Who decides on the rating? Is it the individual reviewer, or do the >> editors decide and then assign the review accordingly? >> - K > > > > ===================================================================== > Bunnymen Online Presence: > http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info > * > http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ > * > http://www.villiersterrace.com * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ > * > http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-887128-89-6 > * > > ====================================================================== > > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.16/83 - Release Date: 26/08/2005 ===================================================================== Bunnymen Online Presence: http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info * http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ * http://www.villiersterrace.com * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ * http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-887128-89-6 * ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 21:37:40 -0700 From: Douglas Duncan Subject: seven-seas Rolling Stone Siberia review Bunnymen Visit "Siberia" Indie-rock vets redefine cool on new album As one of rock's most quotable frontmen, Ian McCulloch has never been a shrinking violet. And with Echo and the Bunnymen's tenth studio album, Siberia, on its way, he's certainly not about to start now. "It's a masterpiece!" McCulloch says of the new Bunnymen effort, slated for release September 20th. "It's not supposed to happen to a band at this point, but it's the most complete album we've ever made." McCulloch isn't alone in that opinion. Producer Hugh Jones, who worked on the Liverpool group's 1981 sophomore set, Heaven Up Here, as well as recordings by the Teardrop Explodes, Simple Minds and Del Amitri, calls Siberia the best work he's ever done. Recalling both the post-punk psychedelia of the Bunnymen's influential debut, Crocodiles, and the dramatic Euro-balladry of 1984's Ocean Rain, the new album "is everything I need to say, lyrically and melodically," McCulloch explains, "and everything [guitarist] Will [Sergeant] needs to do, as well." Although McCulloch and Sergeant have co-produced themselves since reforming the Bunnymen in the mid-Nineties, McCulloch jokes that Jones was hired to oversee Siberia "so I could get my own way, but have someone called Hugh Jones take the blame, I suppose." More seriously, he admits that by 1999's What Are You Going to Do With Your Life?, the creative balance between him and Sergeant had shifted decisively. "Some people called it my best solo album, and Will wasn't happy," he recalls. "But I realized the Bunnymen were always really about me and Will." After hearing Sergeant instantly craft the guitar riff for "Everything Kills You," a soaring track McCulloch calls "the most crystalized, pure Bunnymen moment since 'The Killing Moon,'" the singer says his appreciation of the partnership deepened. "I hate him for it, because I'm like, 'It took me two years to come up with this, and you just pop in and do your bit!'" McCulloch says. "But that's why Will's so great." The duo's differences have also been resolved by the sense that the Bunnymen are a band once again. Bassist Pete Wilkinson and drummer Simon Finley, who have been touring with the group and appeared on McCulloch's 2003 solo outing, Slideling, both play significant roles on the new album. "It's like we're a really great football team," McCulloch says. With acts like Coldplay now claiming the Bunnymen as an influence, McCulloch admits he felt "something to prove" with Siberia. "So many people have cited us as this inspirational band," he says. "And I was like, 'If we are that, then I wanna make an album that these people can't copy for another twenty years.' As much as I wanna pass on this torch, no one's takin' it off me 'til I'm dead." In November, after they tour the U.K., the Bunnymen will come to the U.S., and McCulloch is eager to play the new album live. "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://www.villiersterrace.com * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ * http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-887128-89-6 * ====================================================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V4 #358 ********************************