Chalkhills Digest Volume 11, Issue 7
Date: Thursday, 10 February 2005
Chalkhills Digest, Volume 11, Number 7
Thursday, 10 February 2005
Topics:
(something) of age...
desert island discs (revisited)
promoting independent artists' MP3s
xtc live video
The Futureheads
Indie Artists ..
A round up of oldies, moldies and goldies
RE: Desert Island Discs
La La Londinium
Oh goody! Lists!
Who are their favourite artists
Last of my CD collection
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 09:33:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Paul Culnane <paulculnane@yahoo.co.uk> Subject: (something) of age... Message-ID: <20050204093313.20104.qmail@web86902.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Belinda opinded quite rightly: "Given the above, isn't there the space on TV for a better more in depth music quiz? TV Executives and commissioning editors are now in their forties and some are even (shock horror) fifties (and to a certain extent this is reflected in some of the programmes we're seeing - tho not necessarily reality shows which nevertheless are beginning to decline in numbers of new ones, only to stack up on day time cable channels for ever!) - and so they may be keen to consider it. A Saturday tea-time sort of slot comes to mind. Discuss! But remember, formats are everything, as Endemol the makers/creators of Big Brother will tell you." Yet, baby, consider this: ...and I'm in between Andy and Dave re age, you know, it's really only relative (in more ways than one). Please don't write the old fogeys off. I for one might be kidding myself, but if you reverse my birth-age, that's how I think and act. This year might be different if you apply the same formula, but it will still be applicable with my friend Ben (from this parish) with whom I enjoy a great rapport, and with whom we're gonna rock your world together with our new forthcoming CD! Age is relative and ultimately irrelevant. You can be a guy and wear 29" waist Levi's and get away with it, even if your hair is going grey. Just let it rock! Brings a whole new meaning to "Holly Up On Poppy", doesn't it? Ooops... With love Paul Pan
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Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 05:59:46 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
From: Danny Phipps <phipps117@earthlink.net>
Subject: desert island discs (revisited)
Message-ID: <9807870.1107514786951.JavaMail.root@statler.psp.pas.earthlink.net>
re:
> Jackson wrote:
>
> Seems it's been a while since anybody listed their top ten albums
> they'd wish for if marooned on a desert isle...here's mine ( in no
> particular order) <snip>
i always like lists of this nature ..... makes one put on the thinking
cap, as it were. add my list to the list then --
01. xtc: english settlement
02. the beatles: abbey road
03. yes: tales from topographic oceans
04. elton john: goodbye yellow brick road
05. genesis: a trick of the tail
06. spock's beard: v
07. porcupine tree: signify
08. pink floyd: animals
09. ayreon: the human equation
10. nick drake: pink moon
this would just about cover every mood i'd experience while being
alone on a desert island .... for who knows how long?
bring on the shipwreck then!!
/danny "where's my coconut milk?" phipps
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"Belief makes things real ..."
~ Gavin DeGraw
------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 09:59:04 -0800 (PST) From: Ken Clinger <ken_clinger@yahoo.com> Subject: promoting independent artists' MP3s Message-ID: <20050204175904.33464.qmail@web41905.mail.yahoo.com> SoundClick www.soundclick.com seems to be a lot of home musicians' site of choice. Unlimited free uploads, and they recently added "stations", similar to how mp3.com used to have. > From: Jim Smart > > Since MP3.com went down in a hail of lawsuits > and Napster dust, where have all the independent > artists gone? What is the most happening place on the > web to promote my new album? I wouldn't call it "most happening," but Amazon.com has a Digital Music Network service: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/jungle/jungle-gateway.html
------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 23:46:44 +0000 From: <cornwallis@cwctv.net> Subject: xtc live video Message-ID: <02abf1345230425DTVMAIL6@smtp.cwctv.net> dear all,there must be one.can anyone help? i have never seen a live gig by xtc.HELP!!! kind regards, DAVE BANCROFT
------------------------------ Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 20:04:45 -0500 From: "Larry Brown" <grendel322@cox.net> Subject: The Futureheads Message-ID: <003c01c50b1e$b484e5a0$6401a8c0@LarNet> Has anyone heard The Futureheads? If your favorite XTC period is Drums and Wires, run right now to the closest record store and pick this one up. The guitar chords and tone, the punctuated beats, the background vocals and melodies are classic XTC, only not just a pale imitation, this is done RIGHT. They also do a cover of Kate Bush's Hounds Of Love. Energy, passion, melody...all that good stuff!
------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 12:08:36 -0800 From: Mister P <mrp@telus.net> Subject: Indie Artists .. Message-ID: <1d26ac0adef955dcb2a235278ac5c25a@telus.net> > From: Jim Smart <jimsmart1@yahoo.com> > > Since MP3.com went down in a hail of lawsuits > and Napster dust, where have all the independent > artists gone? What is the most happening place on the > web to promote my new album? > Nothing really to do with that speciific issue but the Canadians have it all cased ... checkout www.newmusicccanada.com and it's mothership www.cbcradio3.com ... www.justconcerts.com too ... NewMusicCanada is an index of 7000+ Canadian indie music artists, JustConcerts.com is an audio-bucket of concerts and studio sessions that CBC records across Canada on an on-going basis. The recent 101st edition of CBCradio3.com's web-mag is an impressive, cool compendium of the alternative scene much suited to the tastes and styles appreciated by Chakhillians I'd suggest. Check out the achives for last week's issue ... All soon to be heart and soul of a channel on the Sirius satellite radio service if our regulatory agency sees fit. Stay tuned ... Back on planet XTC ... lovin' the Milk & Honey Band ... also havin' a giggle or two with FW 5|6 ... XTC-ly, Mr.P www.artOfficials.com
------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 14:21:12 -0800 From: "Wayne Klein" <wtdk123@msn.com> Subject: A round up of oldies, moldies and goldies Message-ID: <BAY3-F76C7BE4972D88C4118ECCF9720@phx.gbl> I finally put together my top ten for 2004. I figure it's OK to be late with this since so many people post it in November and December before the year is offically over. 1. Everyone is Here- The Finn Brothers Neat concept album about family, mortality and perfect harmonies 2. Hope and Fears- Keane Great little album. Now if they could only get a guitar player for those moments when they really need to rock out. Their unique make up does give them a unique sound although clearly there are echoes of other bands there. 3. Smile -Brian Wilson Great album with occasionally pretentious lyrics decorating first class melodies. It's a pity that it took this album to get Capitol in gear to try and assemble the Beach Boys sessions into a coherent album. 4. The Delivery Man-Elvis Costello and the Imposters Unlike a lot of folks I did not find this disappointing at all. 5. Fuzzy Warbles 5 I felt that #6 was full of filler although there was a handful of great little tunes there, too. Just not enough to make this list. 6. Cloud Nine- George Harrison Best reissue of George's solo catalog for 2004 and one of his best albums (despite the excessive production touches on a few tunes). 7. Ray (Original Soundtrack)-Ray Charles A great collection of previous released tunes that shows how Charles stretched the boundaries of gospel, R&B and soul music. 8. The Capitol Years Volume 1-The Beatles Yep, like lots of other Americans I prefer some of their American releases to their British ones. "Meet The Beatles" is still superior to "With The Beatles" all these years later. 9. Good News for People Who Love Bad News-Modest Mouse Pretty cool stuff although it reminds me of The Kinks for some reason (not necessarily a bad thing). 10. Final Straw-Snow Patrol Solid riffs, nice warm voice, good melodies. Who could ask for more?
------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 22:24:41 -0700 From: "Thomas Vest" <tvtwo@hotmail.com> Subject: RE: Desert Island Discs Message-ID: <BAY18-F36DC1D736EF6C3139B0D67A1730@phx.gbl> Hello Chalkheads Jackson, in Chalkhills #11-5 asked us about our DID's. Here are my selections: 1) XTC - Skylarking 2) The Beatles - Revolver 3) Leo Delibes - Lakme 4) The Cure - Disintegration 5) Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti 6) Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain 7) American Music Club - California 8) Prince - Sign 'O' The Times 9) Judas Priest - Point of Entry 10) Neil Young - Freedom I found these ten very difficult to come up with and I labored over leaving out other favorites from Nine Inch Nails (Pretty Hate Machine), Radiohead (The Bends), Chet Baker (Chet), Bob Marley & The Wailers (Rastaman Vibration or Uprising), Tori Amos (Little Earthquakes), Jeff Buckley (Grace). I could go on and on and on... Best to all, Tv
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 13:39:13 +0000 From: Mark Fisher <mark-fisher@blueyonder.co.uk> Subject: La La Londinium Message-ID: <BE2E7181.1D99%mark-fisher@blueyonder.co.uk> There's a band reviewed in The Guardian today called Towers of London. The review says they get their name from London high rise buildings, but it also says the sound like the Sex Pistols, Blondie and the New York Dolls so I'm not so sure. http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/reviews/story/0,,1407876,00.html -- Mark
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 21:28:35 -0500 From: "Scott Barnard" <brainiacsdaughter@hotmail.com> Subject: Oh goody! Lists! Message-ID: <BAY22-F326067B1AC49EC4924EA82BD750@phx.gbl> Things have been a little quiet in these parts, and I haven't posted in a dog's age, so I might as well weigh in on the Desert Island thingy. Jackson wrote: >Seems it's been a while since anybody listed their top ten albums they'd wish for if marooned on a desert isle...here's mine ( in no particular order) sheesh....kind a shows my age: p.s.best of/anthologies are no fair.... 1) Jim Hendrix - Smash Hits< Erm, that's a best-of, son. Steve wrote: >Magical Mystery Tour is my Beatles pick (with all the singles added- strawberry fields etc)< That's cheating and you know it, Steve. Still, in that incarnation it does trump Pepper, if not Rubber Soul or Revolver. >Diamond Dogs - David Bowie isn't mentioned much here."Candidate/Sweet Thing" is Art-Rockish.< My hero. It's heartening to see such a maligned album championed, particularily in these pages. If it were not for "Rock 'n' Roll With Me", this would be a perfect (if unpleasant) album. In my books though, "Big Brother" is the highlight - I still get chills. So here goes, and bear in mind that this list has changed very little in the last dozen years or so, as I, too, show my age... 1. The Kinks - Are the Village Green Preservation Society 2. The Beatles - Revolver 3. XTC - Black Sea 4. Sparks - Propaganda 5. David Bowie - Ziggy 6. Elvis Costello - Armed Forces 7. The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle 8. Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn 9. Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains 10. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions Eeek! That looks awfully conventional, for the most part. At least I didn't put the bloody Velvets in there...
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 16:14:56 -0500 From: "david henwood" <henwooddavid@hotmail.com> Subject: Who are their favourite artists Message-ID: <BAY10-F112B1F54649DA5C529F727C1750@phx.gbl> Riley asked: "I have a question: Who are XTC's favorite new (1997+) artist/bands? Sorry if this is a tough one." I know that Partridge really likes the power pop band the Nines and has been writing with the lead singer. His APE label also signed the Milk and Honey band so I suppose he likes them too.
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:23:30 -0800 From: Phil Corless <phil@pkmeco.com> Subject: Last of my CD collection Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.2.20050210122205.01ca85f0@pop.mindspring.com> The last few bits of my CD collection are up on eBay today: http://cgi3.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=philkar Thanks for playing along! - Phil
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