Chalkhills Digest Volume 10, Issue 13
Date: Saturday, 20 March 2004
Chalkhills Digest, Volume 10, Number 13
Saturday, 20 March 2004
Topics:
wonder why the ass-pants falls on me
ass-pants
Size 18 With A Bullet
Don't stand so close to me in those ass-pants
Re: Man that lady clippie rip your ticket
Re: Total Eclipse
ass-pants ass-pants ass-pants
Big Time irony
Scatman O'Brothers
wonderfalls
George Harrison boxed set - XTC DVD
Time to update "History of Rock 'n' Roll"
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 20:29:16 -0800 (PST) From: Jemiah Jefferson <jemiah@q7.com> Subject: wonder why the ass-pants falls on me Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0403152025270.3949-100000@q7.q7.com> Thanks to you evil people, I spent $1 US on "Wonderfalls" at the iTunes Music Store and now it's stuck in MY head too. It's no "Love on A Farmboy's Wages", but it's a hella good tune... what's with his "say no to drugs" schtick, though? If it wasn't for psychadelic drugs we'd have never gotten "Armenia City In the Sky"! Foo. As to how I got into XTC, I don't remember - it was too long ago. I must have been about 16 though and someone thought I listened to the Beatles too exclusively, so they gave me "Oranges and Lemons" and then I went out and bought "Drums & Wires" and the rest is, uh, you know. "The sky was the color of ass-pants tuned to a dead channel..." Jemiah (celebrating 13 years on the Chalkhills list- yes, John, you're old) -- R.I.P. Spalding Gray 1941-2004 R.I.P. Paul Winfield 1941-2004
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 22:06:22 -0800 (PST) From: Tyler Hewitt <tahewitt@yahoo.com> Subject: ass-pants Message-ID: <20040316060622.41205.qmail@web60505.mail.yahoo.com> Thou shalt not take the name of the Ass-Pants in vain. Tyler
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:37:48 +0000 From: John Morrish <morrish@ukf.net> Subject: Size 18 With A Bullet Message-ID: <95ED70D6-772D-11D8-AAF4-000A959D60D4@ukf.net> Wrong again, smart boy Sherwood. Wonderfalls has just hit NUMBER ONE on the official World Google chart of ass-pants enthusiasm [sponsored by Pepsi]. As of 9.28 am Imperial British Time. I wonder why the wonder falls on Andy P? Also, I wonder whether he appreciates it. Love and mercy (as we in the Church of Brian say these days) John "Ronald" Morrish
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 07:32:09 EST From: Jxnsmom@aol.com Subject: Don't stand so close to me in those ass-pants Message-ID: <1a4.213de008.2d884dc9@aol.com> >She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one >sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores >on the dotted line. But in ass-pants, she was always Lolita. Harrison, this is divine! Only you could improve on perfection. Amy
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 22:49:21 -0800 From: strwbrry@tidepool.com Subject: Re: Man that lady clippie rip your ticket Message-ID: <4056A36E.89082958@tidepool.com> >Steve Dockery asked: > Here's my question: At the beginning of the clip, before the video > proper starts up, there's a bit of an interview with Colin wherein he > talks about the song. Anybody know where this clip comes from > originally? Your probably getting a few poeple answering this one. It comes from the Look!Look! video collection released in 1982. Another Steve
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 07:26:29 -0800 From: strwbrry@tidepool.com Subject: Re: Total Eclipse Message-ID: <40571CA3.D0435320@tidepool.com> >Steve Dockery asked: > Here's my question: At the beginning of the clip, before the video > proper starts up, there's a bit of an interview with Colin wherein he > talks about the song. Anybody know where this clip comes from > originally? It comes from the "XTC Look Look" video collection released in 1982. Tracklisting: This Is Pop Statue of Liberty Are You Receiving Me? Life Begins At The Hop Making Plans For Nigel Towers Of London Respectable Street (sans "contraceptive" "wretching" etc) respectable version? Generals and Majors All Of A Sudden (Its Too Late) Ball and Chain Sense Working Overtime Another Steve
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:49:38 -0500 From: "Duncan Watt" <dwatt@fastestmanintheworld.com> Subject: ass-pants ass-pants ass-pants Message-ID: <200403161859.i2GIxCLF2295404@els.sgi.com> > From: "Peter Rogers" <khm37q002@sneakemail.com> > Subject: Other Recordings from King-for-a-Day-ers? > I've been listening to the "King for a Day" compilation for a couple of > months now, and I'm really enjoying it. <snip> > Any tips on tracking down some other recordings from these folks? Erm, I'm on iTunes, or you could grab me by the ass-pants right about here: http://www.fastestmanintheworld.com Duncan Watt, one half of The Striking Beauties, along with Harrison "Let Us Now Consider The Head And The Ass-Pants" Sherwood -- email me: dwatt@fastestmanintheworld.com surf me: http://www.fastestmanintheworld.com
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:15:44 -0500 From: William Loring <bloring@tirerack.com> Subject: Big Time irony Message-ID: <BC7CD8B0.8554%bloring@tirerack.com> Ben, I also saw the Ford commercial with "Big Time" on it. I wondered if the ad people responsible never played the rest of the song for the Ford Execs, and were having a bit of a chuckle at their expense. I suppose if Iggy Pop can sell flowers and sailing cruises, then PG can sell cars with a song about conspicuous consumption. Kinda fits, really. Oh and Ben, I sympathize on the wisdom teeth front. I'm on day five myself. Just loving it. ...bill
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 17:08:44 -0600 From: "Joe Funk" <twosheds@austin.rr.com> Subject: Scatman O'Brothers Message-ID: <000201c40c75$2e8bd740$6501a8c0@ecsxnnap94tjz2> >The fadeout is an absolute catalog of Andean vocal gymnastics: It'd >be a fun competition to name all the original XTC songs where first >appeared all the scatting and voice-roughening and slow chromatic >swooping that you hear from about 2:00 on. >Harrison "Thanks for asking" Sherwood AVG (Andean Vocal Gymnastics) can be traced back as far as the Uffington Epoch. During the settlement of England there was a strong movement to "Melt The Guns", wherein the first hint of AVG surfaces. Joe "Don't Ask For My Sources" Funk
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Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 05:46:57 -0500
From: "Danny Phipps" <phipps@schoollink.net>
Subject: wonderfalls
Message-ID: <web-56557171@schoollink.net>
de-lurking for a moment here just to say that i think
andy's new "wonderfalls" song is really good! but then
again, why shouldn't it be? it's andy partridge!!!! :-)
back to lurking ...
/danny
*****
"all of the answers you seek can be found in the Dreams
that you dream ..."
~ dan fogelberg
------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 11:36:43 -0000 From: "David Seddon" <D.Seddon@btinternet.com> Subject: George Harrison boxed set - XTC DVD Message-ID: <003b01c40e6f$9f902800$14d37ad5@seddon> Kevin said: >On the reissue end, I did buy the box of George Harrison's DARK HORSE YEARS, at first dismayed as to why the remainder of the Apple catalogue was glossed over to get to the finale. Did someone at Capitol mix up the chapters in this fantastic musical book? Needless to say, I know that some have reservations on Harrison's solo stuff, but I'd been eagerly awaiting this for some time and just had to snag it. Yet, I'm puzzled to note that it doesn't contain that flip side of the single, "I Got my Mind Set on >You". Strange! Yeah, I'd love to get a hold of that, but it costs about #60 over here...so it may have to be a birthday present. George's solo stuff (excepting All Things Must Pass) is often under-rated. 33 1/3 and George Harrison are great albums (not a bad track on them), which I listen to a lot, and Cloud 9 and Gone Troppo are cool too. Some gorgeous songs on them. I really like his solo stuff. Is the DVD of the singles worth having? What's on it? And how would you rate the remastering? I have all of those albums on vinyl...and I love me vinyl and have a good deck, so they'd have to be much better. This must have been asked before, but hey, I don't remember the answer: What are the chances of getting an XTC DVD of all of the singles (and whatever else was around)? Now that would be worth having. Those who speak to Andy regulalry...Any news on a new album? David
------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 17:14:06 -0800 (PST) From: Ryan Anthony <hamsterranch@yahoo.com> Subject: Time to update "History of Rock 'n' Roll" Message-ID: <20040321011406.2039.qmail@web10102.mail.yahoo.com> Isn't it time for the Great Ape to bring his twenty-two-second "History of Rock 'n' Roll" up to date? Actually (to risk dabbling in heresy), we don't need Andy to do it. All you creative types with desktop recording studios are up to the task. We could have dozens of new versions. I'm surprised that no contributor to the *King For A Day* project didn't tackle "History." It is possibly the only non-political XTC song that needs an update. To represent the Fifties, Andy gave us two seconds of hiccuppy doo-wop vocal which deserves to be retained. Perhaps it could be cut short with the sound of a plane crash. For the Sixties, Andy uncorked two seconds of noodley hippie guitar. How about splitting up that seminal decade into three eras? For the early Sixties, a high-pitched girlish squeal over a Wall of Sound; for the mid-Sixties, a jangly Rickenbacker riff or sample of buttah-smooth harmony (or, somehow, with peace, love, and understanding, the two together); for the late Sixties, noodley hippie guitar interrupted by an explosion, siren, or overdose. (How do you represent an overdose with a sound? Hey, I'm not calling you "creative types" for nothing.) For the Seventies, Andy channeled two seconds of Ted Nugent. Tasty! But there was far more to that reviled and underrated decade than The Nuge. For the early Seventies, sensitive peeps from Joni or Sweet Baby James or both over acoustic guitar; for the later early Seventies, a mighty "heaugh!" from James Brown; for the mid-Seventies, a Robert Fripp riffette; for the early late Seventies, a protracted sniff set to a disco beat; for the late Seventies, a loud monosyllabic punkish obscenity. For the Eighties, Andy could spare only one second, and that for a fuzzy electronic sound effect. Instead, how about that famous heavily-sampled metallic crash sound from Yes's "Owner of a Lonely Heart" over the drone of a hair drier? The Nineties weren't great years for rock and roll, but they deserve acknowledgment. How about two seconds of grunge guitar and a sullen "yo-yo-yo"? (No, I'm not referring to cellist Ma or the Duncan toy.) As for the Oughts, which are a scant nine months away from being half over ... any ideas? Add six seconds for intro and four for outro, and the new "History of Rock 'n' Roll" still clocks in at under one megabyte -- er, one minute. Will someone please have a go? Ryan Anthony An independent Internet content provider P.S.: Jim Smart writes: "Perhaps a description of the arizonachalkhillwives would help us? Do they sing any particular song? How many breasts do they have?" Jim, I don't remember, hoom hoom. Been too long, haroom haroom. Best to grow, import, or kidnap some new ones before we few remaining arizonachalkhillents disappear entirely, or revert to lurk mode, and isn't that the same thing?
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