From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V4 #429 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Thursday, September 22 2005 Volume 04 : Number 429 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 20:19:45 +0100 From: Barry Whiting Subject: seven-seas O/T Dylan Sorry to stray off topic, but when do you guys stateside get to see the Scorsese doc on Dylan ??? - -- 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 * ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 06:27:19 +1200 From: "Kristin Smith" Subject: seven-seas www.bcheights.com http://www.bcheights.com/media/paper144/news/2005/09/22/TheScene/Album.Revie w.An.Echo.Of.The.80s-994648.shtml An echo of the '80s By Cullen Nutt Published: Thursday, September 22, 2005 2 and half Stars Echo and The bunnymen Siberia (Cooking Vinyl) Ian McCulloch, front man of the British alt-rock outfit Echo and the Bunnymen, told Billboard Magazine that he believes longtime fans will be especially pleased with the band's newest album Siberia. Longtime fans may be the only ones pleased with the group's latest release. Indeed, 26 years into its career Siberia is fresh and the production impressive, but the music itself lacks the innovation to raise many eyebrows in today's avant garde indie scene. Granted, McCulloch is right to recommend the record to Echo's older fans - it will easily take any 30-or 40-something back to his or her youth. For the rest of us, though, the album can only be respected for what it is - an admirable, yet inaccessible comeback. McCulloch and his principle counterpart, Will Sergeant, prove in just over 51 minutes that they still do have what it takes. The moods are alternately light - "Of a Life," "Parthenon Drive," - and somber - "Everything Kills You," "What If We Are?" - and "Stormy Weather," the album's first track, is anything but stormy. Opening with upbeat guitars, the song progresses into a simple but solid rock ballad that serves as an excellent preview for the majority of the record. The album's eighth track, "Siberia," is haunting, yet remarkably catchy. The song begins with a bouncy distorted guitar riff that almost gives it a Latin feel. Synthesized organs add subtle depth in the background as McCulloch showcases his casual but pleasant vocals. Like many others on the album, the song features a guitar solo about halfway through; this one vaguely reminiscent of Carlos Santana. The soaring guitars return at the end of the song as McCulloch repeatedly whispers "come and get me now / come and get me now." Echo's instrumentation combined with McCulloch's singing may remind listeners of an older U2 sound. Siberia is nothing painful to listen to, but it lacks the creative instrumentation or insightful lyrics to make it anything special. Many of McCulloch's words actually border on the nonsensical. In "Everything Kills You," for example, he seems to quote right from a rhyming dictionary when crying "Everything takes you / Everything makes you / Everything fakes you." Echo and the Bunnymen deserve applause for a solid return, but anyone born after 1980 should let their parents do the clapping. ===================================================================== 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, 23 Sep 2005 06:39:27 +1200 From: "Kristin Smith" Subject: seven-seas OT: stormy weather: wish us luck! I'm in Conroe, 90 miles north of Galveston, and it looks as if the lovely Rita may be paying us a call. Au revoir, 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 * ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:36:53 -0700 (PDT) From: chris adams Subject: Re: seven-seas O/T Dylan Next Tuesday. The promo/marketing for it has been completely OTT. New "Bootleg Series" CD, 2 Books, Double DVD. I read a review of the film this morning and apparently it out-does both "Don't Look Back" and "Eat the Document" (although it incorporates parts of both of those, inlcuding the legendary "John Lennon meeting." (Lennon and Dylan backstage in a cab, Dylan totally wasted, feeling ill, Lennon looking incresingly uncomfortable. Film ends with Dylan vomiting triumphantly just off-camera. The Voice of A Generation, indeed.) - --Chris A. Barry Whiting wrote: Sorry to stray off topic, but when do you guys stateside get to see the Scorsese doc on Dylan ??? - -- 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 * ====================================================================== 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://www.villiersterrace.com * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ * http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=1-887128-89-6 * ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:20:17 +0100 From: Barry Whiting Subject: Re: seven-seas O/T Dylan Thanks. I think we have it Monday along with a stack of other Dylan related stuff on the BBC's sister channels. There's been the odd trailer on BBC (most notably the "How many protest singers are like you ?" -- "136....") but not much more -- teasers, if nothing else. I wouldn't describe the promo as over the top save for the fact that "Bootleg 7" is the least vital of the lot. Anyway, there's an article here : http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1574535,00.html On topic... I prefer The Bunnymen's version (Crystal Days not Avalanche Ep) of "Baby Blue" to Dylan's.........ahem. - -- Barry chris adams wrote: >Next Tuesday. The promo/marketing for it has been completely OTT. New "Bootleg Series" CD, 2 Books, Double DVD. I read a review of the film this morning and apparently it out-does both "Don't Look Back" and "Eat the Document" (although it incorporates parts of both of those, inlcuding the legendary "John Lennon meeting." (Lennon and Dylan backstage in a cab, Dylan totally wasted, feeling ill, Lennon looking incresingly uncomfortable. Film ends with Dylan vomiting triumphantly just off-camera. The Voice of A Generation, indeed.) >--Chris A. ===================================================================== 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 #429 ********************************