Chalkhills Digest Volume 14, Issue 27
Date: Wednesday, 27 August 2008
Chalkhills Digest, Volume 14, Number 27
Wednesday, 27 August 2008
Topics:
R Stevie Moore
RE: Used album madness
Re: funeral songs
XTC name-checked by Rainn Wilson
XTC on the Radio
Bushman President
"No Thugs in Our House" is the MySpace song of the week
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:59:36 -0400 From: "greenstreet@mindspring.com" <greenstreet@mindspring.com> Subject: R Stevie Moore Message-ID: <380-220088414185936890@mindspring.com> I just ran into the Chalkhills website. I have long been a big fan of XTC. My current love/obsession is with R. Stevie Moore. OK, maybe you know this . . . R. Stevie Moore did a song called "Dates" a long, long time ago. Dave Gregory later was asked by R. Stevie Moore to collaborate with him. Gregory picked the obscure and very poorly recorded "Dates" and re-did it with himself on guitar and back-up vocals. It's a WONDERFUL cut that can be found on R Stevie Moore's "Love Compartment" and later on the compilation "Nevertheless Optimistic." You can also hear it on one of those youtube-y services if you search "dates r stevie moore gregory." Also very interesting . . . on R. Stevie Moore's excellent new album A.W.O.L., Gregory discusses his view of and experiences with R. Stevie Moore. Really fascinating. I think Conscientious Objector is one of R. Stevie Moore's best recordings. As with all his releases, there's a fair amount of throwaway material. However . . . . "Divorce Court," "Schwann's Catalog," "I Go Into Your Mind", "Big Mistake," "Name Tag the Entertainer," "Article," "The Bite/Behaving Like a Jew," "Everything," "Me So Horny," "Gabe R" are all worth listening to over and over and over. I have done that. The CD is a bargain for what you get. Guerin Wilkinson in Ann Arbor, MI
------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:46:01 -0400 From: "jdmack01@verizon.net" <jdmack01@verizon.net> Subject: RE: Used album madness Message-ID: <380-22008851515461728@M2W028.mail2web.com> Ben Gott wrote: >>I just visited Mystic Disc, the used vinyl store in Mystic, CT (where >>I am vacationing). Was there hamburger all over the highway? J. D.
------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:29:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Steve <ste7phen@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: funeral songs Message-ID: <305319.11108.qm@web53308.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Atleast I'm staying in character being a wet towel. People are too often weepy funerals. Funerals are probably more for the living than the dead. How many people at our funeral will actually have our tastes in music? Live gentle music is best. Less offensive in a desperate hour. Now the party after certainly loosens things up a bit. Some people think of the party after is still "the funeral", whatever. Either way, I say: if you want people to hear all this music, then give it to them now while your still alive. Your death CD-R. Another Steve
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:07:02 -0400 From: Krys Olsiewicz <kolsiewicz@hotmail.com> Subject: XTC name-checked by Rainn Wilson Message-ID: <BLU111-W201E51363DF8AB9C89586BDF690@phx.gbl> Rainn Wilson of "The Office" (American style) has name-checked XTC in an interview. http://www.cleveland.com/moviebuff/index.ssf/2008/08/rainn_wilson.html (snipped) Wilson was not well-versed in metal. "I really, thankfully, slept through the mid- '80s," he said on the phone from Chicago. "At that point I'd gotten into the Clash and Elvis Costello and REM and XTC. But since coming back to it, I realized [heavy metal bands] made rock more accessible, fun and just a rockin' great time. We could use a little more of that today. I think rock musicians tend to take themselves a little too seriously."
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:38:05 EDT From: MVOMALLEY57@aol.com Subject: XTC on the Radio Message-ID: <caa.3247fb93.35de9f8d@aol.com> XTC KINGS FOR A DAY Boston - USA - 15 May 1989 __Acoustic Radio Tour Broadcasts__ It's two great "Acoustic Show "from 1989 in excellent sound. WBCN-FM Boston 1.Scarecrow people 2.Senses working overtime 3.Grass 4.Love on a farmboys wages 5.King for a day 6.Mayor of simpleton 7.Great fire 8.Dear god 9.Big day WFNX-FM Boston 10.Scarecrow people 11.Senses working overtime 12.Grass 13.Love on a farmboy's wages 14.Blue beret 15.One of the millions 16.Pink thing/Garden of earthly delights 17.Mayor of simpleton 18.King for a day You can find this at Dime a Dozen (http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=210677)
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:46:42 +0200 From: Don Device <device@noos.fr> Subject: Bushman President Message-ID: <3ABFD398-0466-44B0-8677-C1513F28F18C@noos.fr> ChalkAll, I was listening yet again to the wonderful Safari Sessions (hard to believe they were all recorded so far apart in time, they truly seem of a piece to me) when I was struck again by the title 'Bushman President'.... A coincidence, doubtless, but it led me to wonder, 'What other XTC lyrics seem to fortell the future (or even speak obliquely, inadvertantly of the past)? Of your personal lives? I'm going to take a look, and I think it might be fun to see some of your findings.... xo, d2
------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:21:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Todd Bernhardt <beat_town@yahoo.com> Subject: "No Thugs in Our House" is the MySpace song of the week Message-ID: <126783.43689.qm@web32002.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Hi: Over at the XTCfans MySpace site (http://www.myspace.com/xtcfans), the song of the week is "No Thugs in Our House." If you want to know why Andy now has a "grudging respect for wallpaper," or whose father the judge who "knows exactly what the job of judging's all about" is, check out the XTCfans blog site at http://blog.myspace.com/xtcfans. No thugs in our house, are there dear? We made that clear We made little Graham promise us he'd be a good boy. -Todd
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