Chalkhills Digest Volume 12, Issue 7
Date: Tuesday, 14 February 2006
Chalkhills Digest, Volume 12, Number 7
Tuesday, 14 February 2006
Topics:
Ordinary MP3
How do I get the new songs?
Who Bit Torrent Site (no XTC)
Not so Ordinary
It Really Isn't Worth the Mention...
Love At First Sight Riff
Rhapsodic XTC
Burn, burn, burn, burn, burning
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 03:56:37 -0500 From: m stone <nedrise@sympatico.ca> Subject: Ordinary MP3 Message-ID: <6C22A14D-2DCF-4DAC-9666-487F834700D3@sympatico.ca> Eric said - So. If you download this great song of Colin's, you're probably in for a bit of work to get it changed into an MP3. Mine came in from the XTC site as an MP3 just fine. Mike
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 07:07:56 -0600 From: "John Holcomb" <jcholcomb@verizon.net> Subject: How do I get the new songs? Message-ID: <007d01c62cb0$ae151000$6401a8c0@FAMILYROOM> OK, I'm not a cyber-genius. I'll admit it. First, I thought you had to buy the Apple Venus box to be able to download the new songs? True? I have no clue. Anyone who can give me some assistance on how to download the three tunes and burn them, I'd appreciate it! John
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 07:09:16 -0600 From: "John Holcomb" <jcholcomb@verizon.net> Subject: Who Bit Torrent Site (no XTC) Message-ID: <008101c62cb0$dda51e50$6401a8c0@FAMILYROOM> Don't know if it's been posted here yet, but the Who have put up an officially sanctioned site, http://www.longliverock.org I've downloaded two DVDs and two audio discs, great stuff! John
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 08:16:02 +1100 From: "Andrew Gowans" <ratwhacker@hotmail.com> Subject: Not so Ordinary Message-ID: <BAY103-F34CF4A8C7623C7F159A009C9000@phx.gbl> Hi Folks, AUS$1.08 for Colin's 'Where Did the Ordinary People Go' - an absolute bargain my friends! A dead-cert top-level Colin track. For those of you, who like eriC and I couldn't play m4a files natively in their mp3 players etc I'd like to also recommend 'Free Mp3 Wma Converter'. http://koyotstar.free.fr/indexEn.html I found it via cNet and I'm quite happy with it. If you have dialup access to the internet the installation of the optional Wma codec takes about 10 or so minutes - but is worth it IMHO. I converted WDTOPG to Mp3 and Wma using VBR 50 and the quality is fine, no audible conversion glitches that my abused ears can detect. Oh, and it's free! What can I say? I also really love 'Spiral'. Some have made comparisons to 'Playground', but I feel 'Spiral' just pips it as a killer track. I love the track breakdown before the ending - it does it for me. 'Say It' is a nice enough track but isn't a fave Colin number in my book. What else? Hmmmm..... Oh yes! Obscene language (There is no Language in our Dungs?). I was emailing a mate and his work's lexical blocker started bouncing my emails. Apparantly his Boss (he works in the tech area) laid down a very arbitrary list of blocked terms. I asked him to fire a copy off to my account for a looksee. OK, quite a lot of those should be blocked, some made no sense to me & some were just weird. The fun part was my mate had quietly excised sh!t from the list. As he said, there's just so much of it in the corporate correspondence that he's subjected to that he felt it was only fair that people can email it too. Way to go, Big Fella! I'll get out of your way now. Andrew Gowans BTW - anyone like a giggle? Drop me a line if you'd like to look at the block list.
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 19:38:48 -0500 From: Benjamin Gott <bgott@rectoryschool.org> Subject: It Really Isn't Worth the Mention... Message-ID: <FF511562-5B04-46C0-BCF9-9F2909268934@rectoryschool.org> Hey folks, The recent release of "Where Did the Ordinary People Go?" reminded me that there were so many wonderful songs from the "Nonsvch" sessions that never saw the light of day. So let's open the blinds and expose (rawr!) them for all to see. I've placed demos for Colin's "It Didn't Hurt A Bit," "Where Did the Ordinary People Go?," and Andy's "Always Winter Never Christmas" in my Public folder on .Mac. E-mail me off list and I'll tell you how to access them. I know I've got a copy of the demo for Colin's "Car Out of Control" somewhere, and I'll bet I can even dig up the original version of Andy's "Rocket" from the Ernest Noyes Brookings tribute CD that Sean Slade did. Spread the wealth, feel the love! Ben
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 21:03:06 -0000 From: "David White" <david.s.white@lineone.net> Subject: Love At First Sight Riff Message-ID: <001301c62dbf$6b765b40$269c2f50@Computer> David Edwards wrote in the last 'Hills: "On another t(r)ack, do people agree that the the quintessential XTC moment is the squirting, discordant guitar at the end of the chorus of 'Love At First Sight' immediately after Moulding sings those words? It is tangential perfection - the thing that makes XTC unique." Yeah, I would agree. That and the opening riff to Sergeant Rock, which is not dissimilar. But funnily enough, when I think of the boys (and I do several times a day), the sonic signature that flashes across my head is the opening riff to ELLA GURU, which of course is by Captain Beefheart, but first time I heard it was the XTC version on the B-side of Mayor of Simpleton back in 1988. Fast and bulbous, I'm sure you'll agree. David
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 17:43:36 -0500 From: "Bram and Bill" <bramnbill@rcn.com> Subject: Rhapsodic XTC Message-ID: <FHEEINHIGKCGCIPNKMMICELPCNAA.bramnbill@rcn.com> For subscribers of Rhapsody or the Real Audio equivalent, you will see that Andy's albums on the Ape Record label is now available for 'download' or stream from said music service. Included are all of the Fuzzy Warbles, Andy's "Through the Hill" record, as well as that Orpheus THING that Andy worked on with Peter Blegvad. The bonus feature is an "exclusive" interview with Andy Partridge wherein he discusses such topics as the whole Fuzzy Warble project, why he lives where he does, being 'married' to Colin, and "Plans for a New XTC Album." Don't get excited, he doesn't have any plans right now. The only part that I listened to was 'Plans'. I'm too busy raising the kids to listen to an entire interview. (It's all I can do to have a little Black Sea playing in the background. I often have to wait my turn on the trusty changer just to spin a disc or two of mine. Bloody Disney Princesses!) The quality of the interview is not great. It was obviously done over the phone, if you don't subscribe to Rhapsody it probably wouldn't be worth you while. One could find someone who does subscribe and ask them to burn a copy for you. If you don't subscribe you may want to consider. Since I started spending my paper and iron more on diapers and dolls, and less on cds I have found that one way to listen to what is out there is to subscribe to a service like Rhapsody. What I like about it, is that I can listen to a record before I decide to purchase it, AND I can listen to stuff that I kinda like, but not enough to lay down the dough for shiny the plastic circle. What I hate about it is that I cannot directly download to my hard drive. I have to burn it to disc and then rip to the drive. I rarely purchase music from Rhapsody for that reason. Well, right now I must go. I have a four-year-old "ghost" trying to scare me out of my seat. Cheers, Poppy in Philly
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:21:36 +0000 From: Mark Fisher <mark-fisher@blueyonder.co.uk> Subject: Burn, burn, burn, burn, burning Message-ID: <C0168CC0.6B1E%mark-fisher@blueyonder.co.uk> This Friday's list of reader-suggested songs in The Guardian will be on the subject of fire. A couple of readers have already suggested Set Myself on Fire and Great Fire on the blog. I've added Sacrificial Bonfire. http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/culturevulture/archives/2006/02/10/con_fuoco.html The top ten will be published on Friday. -- Mark
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