Chalkhills Digest Volume 1, Issue 176
Date: Friday, 6 September 1991
Chalkhills, Number 176
Friday, 6 September 1991
Today's Topics:
two from pulse
Go **** Yourself with Your Atom Bomb
Re: Chalkhills #175
RE: Chalkhills #173
beach boys/political affiliations
Sources
Rocket
More Rare Cuts & Leftovers
[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] Subject: two from pulse From: oscar@darkside.com (oscar) Date: Tue, 03 Sep 91 23:15:34 PDT Organization: The Dark Side of the Moon +1 408 245 SPAM The current issue of Tower Records' PULSE magazine has two XTC-related items: They contribute a track to the new Ernest Noyes Brookings album... volume 2. And Tower has a promotional CD they send you if you subscribe to PULSE, with "The World is Full of Angry Young Men" on it. Slobbering on the verge of number ten! Kevin
[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] Date: Wed, 4 Sep 91 05:27:55 PDT From: wilson@psylo.enet.dec.com Subject: Go **** Yourself with Your Atom Bomb Regarding the recent discussion of this line, every time I read it I'm reminded of where I saw it originally. In a poem by Allen Ginsberg, "America," Ginsberg uses this line verbatim. In fact, I'm tempted to say Ginsberg originated this line. "America" was written sometime around 1952, I think. It's quite a poignant poem, very anti-establishment.
[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] Date: 04 Sep 91 07:55:39 EDT From: Jones Rutledge <76516.430@compuserve.com> Subject: Re: Chalkhills #175 yoo hoo, john drukman >>Both the "disgusting" and the "atom bomb" phrase are on 25 0'clock vinyl. >>Isn't one of them a segue between songs? >You're contradicting yourself - a locked groove can't segue into anything by >definition. I said "isnt ONE of them..." To clarify, one of the messages is a segue if I remember correctly, tho possibly not, and one is possibly a locked groove, as my dim memory recalls. I'd check this myself but the vinyl is in storage out of town. Any leads on who did the song "go f!@@# yourself with the atom bomb"? little express readers? **BTW how can I subscribe to the little express??** I'm still accepting endless groove examples. SO far list includes Dukes (unverified), beatles pepper (i think), james gang-yer album, sonic youth- EVOL? (unverified), David Bromburg saying debbie boon_(which album) I don't think Mike Loves sorry existance seriously taints anyones appreciation of Brian Wilsons creations. Bless You All you pretty girls is a sea chanty form if I've ever heard one, I don't know if that would be considered Celtic, but it do have that irish tinge.
[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] Date: Wed, 4 Sep 91 15:15:33 EST From: SYNOWIE@ucs.indiana.edu Subject: RE: Chalkhills #173 I heard that XTC anonymously covered Third Stone From The Sun on what would have been an otherwise boring montage of various artists. I forget the name they used, but I beleive it was released in Europe. What is the story on this?
[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] Date: Wed, 4 Sep 91 12:13:01 PDT From: "Dan Weir" <dweir@us.oracle.com> Subject: beach boys/political affiliations in Chalkhills #175 Eric Singer writes: >There's something that's been bothering me about the Beach Boys for a >long time. Recall the controversy many years ago when James Watt >(Secretary of the Interior under Reagan) banned the Beach Boys from >playing at some or other public park due to the decadent nature of rock >'n' roll. Despite this, a few years later, Mike Love donated seed- >money to the PMRC (Parents' Music Resource Center), Tipper Gore's >Senatorially-connected rock censorship vehicle. [I don't know where I >Does Andy know this? Does it bother him, too? Does it bother anyone >else but me? Mike Love is not Brian Wilson. And given that he does not write politically charged music, does it matter what his politics are? Does it matter that Ezra Pound was a fascist, or that Fela is a bigamist? In terms of their art, no, IMO. On another subject, I think "Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb" comes from the Allen Ginsberg poem "America." Regards,
[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] Date: 4 Sep 91 13:11 -0700 From: Nou Dadoun <dadoun@cs.ubc.ca> Subject: Sources ----From: Jones Rutledge <76516.430@compuserve.com> >[Go Fuck Yourself With Your Atom Bomb] >> Is there really a song by that title? By what artist? >Yeah, Andy talks about it in one of the Little Expresses that I don't own. >Sorry I can't be more helpful. It's worth noting that the line "Go Fuck Yourself With Your Atom Bomb" is taken from a poem called "America" by Allen Ginsberg dating from the mid-50's. ------------------------------------------------------------> Nou America, I've given you my all and now I'm nothing.... ==== Nou Dadoun | ubc-cs!cs.ubc.ca!dadoun | Black Swan Records, Dpt. of Comp. Sci., UBC, | dadoun@cs.ubc.ca | 2936 W. 4th Ave., Vancouver, BC, V6T 1W5 |-------------------------| Vancouver, BC, V6K 1R2 (604) 822-8169 / 822-5485 [FAX] | (604) 734-2828 / 734-2899 [FAX]
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Date: Thu, 5 Sep 91 2:40:09 PDT
From: "John M. Relph" <relph@presto.ig.com>
Subject: Rocket
I finally found a copy of _Place of General Happiness: Lyrics by
Ernest Noyes Brookings, Vol. 2_. Very interesting. XTC contributes
the track "Rocket", which is, as John Johanneson pointed out, actually
"Played, sung, and recorded by Andy Partridge at The Shed, Swindon,
England".
Here's a little info from the CD booklet:
Ernest Noyes Brookings (1898 - 1987)
In the last seven years of his life Ernest Brookings
took to writing poetry with the vigor of youth or of a man
with little time to spare. He wrote nearly four hundred
poems on a wide variety of subjects -- from Frankenstein
to Harry Truman, from broken hearts to kissing, from
chairs to rockets -- all receiving equal attention and all
arranged with his gentle mixture of faith and logic.
"Rocket" is a fairly slow and uneventful tune, written for lyrics
which describe a rocket trip past Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and
Pluto. The song is over five minutes long and, interestingly enough,
is written in the time signature of 7/4, which gives it a very odd
feeling. (But I have been listening to a lot of King Crimson lately
so I didn't notice at first.)
The album also includes songs performed by (and with music composed
by) Brave Combo, Roger Miller's No Man, Bim Skala Bim, Birdsongs of
the Mesozoic, Fred Frith, and many others. Very interesting, and the
lyrics are strange yet familiar, simple yet captivating. There are
some really good songs here.
-- John
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Date: Thu, 5 Sep 91 22:03:22 PDT
From: "John M. Relph" <relph@presto.ig.com>
Subject: More Rare Cuts & Leftovers
Kevin Carhart pointed out something I had missed in the August 1991
issue of _Tower Records' Pulse!_ magazine, a full-page advertisement
for XTC's _Rag & Bone Buffet_! Clearly penned by the same folks who
wrote up the sheet included with the promo CD on Geffen Records US.
Here's the ad copy:
A Feast
For the truly addicted and anal retentive XTC fan:
XTC
Rag & Bone Buffet
Twenty-four rare cuts and leftovers compiled from B-sides,
alternate versions, releases under pseudonyms, flexi disc
tracks, dub experiments and other previously unreleased or
hard-to-come-by musical adventures.
Featuring:
"Extrovert"
"Heaven Is Paved With Broken Glass"
"Blame The Weather"
``This is definitely the weirdest
record we've ever put out.''
- XTC's Andy Partridge
On Geffen Compact Discs And Cassettes.
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