Chalkhills Digest Volume 2, Issue 94
Date: Tuesday, 2 April 1996
Chalkhills Digest, Volume 2, Number 94
Tuesday, 2 April 1996
Today's Topics:
The noisy bonfire
Mayor Of Simpleton lyric?
Old punks die hard
L'affaire Louis Trio CD
AP on "120 Minutes" Anniversary Show
Winners/Skylarks
(none)
Degrees of Separation
Bits 'n pieces 'n stuff 'n things...
Re: Yazbek at HMV
AdamAntly interested in XTC...
the man himself speaks
Hmmmm...An Idea
Re: Talking Heads
Chalkhills
"Look Look" and other promo videos
A nice birthday present...!
(none)
Treasured XTC Item
the man himself speaks some more
(none)
Strollin' BonZ MaG/
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-Id: <9603312141.AA2515@worldcom-45.worldcom.com> From: Martin Bell <Martin_Bell/New_Zealand/IDG_Net@idg.com> Date: 1 Apr 96 10:30:27 Subject: The noisy bonfire Whoops, I've got a confession to make. My original posting on the creaking chair during sacrificial bonfire was made without the benefit of a recent listen to the song in question. Given that more than one Hill-dweller's interest has been piqued by the subject, and doubting my own sanity, I revisited the track over the weekend. Humbly, I regret to inform you I've made a bit of a blue. The noise I was referring to is there, but not in the spot I mentioned. It's after the final line of "Banish The Bad", immediately prior to the final instrumental fadeout. JEFFAE@CEDAR.GOSHEN.EDU (Jeff) hears something there also. >Sacrificial Bonfire... I do Hear the Chair squeak, it's very very very >quiet and if it hadn't been noted alreay I wouldn't have noticed it, but it >does have a distinctive sound different than the crackling fire. Also, I >don't know if this was mentioned before maybe it's what started this line, >but I also noticed that in the silence after the last "Banish the Bad" >there is someone counting the beats "Three, Four" and the music starts >again. Now I'm really confused, because he CAN hear a chair creaking after "Bring in the New" I too have heard what sounds like a faint counting of the beat, or click track, or something, during the "Banish The Bad" passage. Tobin Munsat <tmunsat@pppl.gov> notes that he's heard the creaking chair after "Bring In The New" as well. Is this a conspiracy?He also adds There's also the sound of someone (one of the string players?) clearing their throat or coughing or something, and also what sounds like someone dropping a bow on their cello. Yeah, I thought I was imagining someone coughing, or maybe someone hacking away in the room next door to my lounge (and the noise was filtering through the wall). It's almost subliminal, but you're right I think. Haven't heard the dropping bow on the cello, but then I'm not sure what that would sound like. Coughs I can recognise. AMANION@rex.smumn.edu has a different opinion. >I know what the "creaking chair" --referred to originally by Martin >Bell and more recently by others-- is. At least I think I do. Not the >crackling that others have pointed out, but the little squeak after >"bring in the new." I believe it is a finger "squeaking" a round-wound >acoustic guitar string. Give it a careful listen That's plausible also. Thanks for the advise - I will give it another careful listen. OOOOHHH, my aching tinitus. Martin (Living Through Another Bloo - oo - oo - per)
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 00:49:29 -0500 Message-Id: <199604010549.AAA29588@dcez.dcez.com> From: "J. D. Mack" <jdmack@nicom.com> Subject: Mayor Of Simpleton lyric? In the song "The Mayor Of Simpleton," right after the line "then I'm the man who grew the money tree," the answer line is "No chain of office and no hope of gettng one." At least, according to the lyric book, that's what that line is. My question is two-fold. 1.) What is a chain of office? Is this one of those British things completely lost on Americans like me? and 2.) might the lyric actually be "No CHANGE of office ..." It sort of sounds like that to my ears, and it makes more lyrical sense, as in Andy is the Mayor, and he can't change that. Now accepting all convoluted theories!! J.D.
------------------------------ Message-Id: <v01510101ad858ff1bc4d@[194.128.83.69]> Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 14:05:03 +0000 From: fisher@easynet.co.uk (Mark Fisher) Subject: Old punks die hard The new issue of Q magazine (UK) comes with a free book - The Q Bok of Punk Legends - which features potted biographies of 26 bands with some vague punk connection - Adam and the Ants, Costello, Talking Heads and, you've guessed it, those well-known punk heroes, XTC. The band gets five pages of pretty well researched stuff (though little that the average Chalkie won't already know), taking us from 1977 to the release of A Testimonial Dinner (not bad given the latter hasn't been released over here). One crucial fact new to me is that in January 1978, Andy Partridge's parents appeared on the TV game show *Mr and Mrs*. Wow! It's just so easy to forget how wild those punk rock days really were. (If anyone wants to hear my own *Mr and Mrs* anecdote, e-mail me privately). Mark Fisher (fisher@easynet.co,uk)
------------------------------ From: "DELRUE STEPHAN" <CRS.DELRUE.S@ALPHA.UFSIA.AC.BE> Organization: University of Antwerp - UFSIA Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 16:39:09 GMT+0100 Subject: L'affaire Louis Trio CD Message-ID: <1E03927598E@alpha.ufsia.ac.be> For all XTC-fans in the US... I just bought the "L'affaire Louis Trio" - CD, on which Colin plays... I would like to make copies on cassette, and trade them for recordings of "Testimonial Dinner" or the latest demo-CD's (both non-available in Belgium). I even could buy it on CD and send it to you... Please e-mail me at the following adress: CRS.DELRUE.S@ALPHA.UFSIA.AC.BE Stephane Delrue. Kon. Elisabethlei 10 2000 Antwerpen Belgium Tel.: (xx32) (3) 248.56.95 Office : University of Antwerp Prinsstraat 13 2000 Antwerpen Tel.: (xx32) (3) 220.43.49. CRS.DELRUE.S@alpha.ufsia.ac.be
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 11:45:22 -0500 (EST) From: "Tom X. Chao" <tqc8542@is.nyu.edu> Subject: AP on "120 Minutes" Anniversary Show Message-Id: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960401114027.22384A-100000@is.nyu.edu> Most of you probably saw the "120 Minutes" 10th Anniversary special on MTV yesterday. It did include a brief snippet from AP's appearance--when was that, 1989 or so? As you recall, AP and Dave "I am an idiot" Ken-Dull were standing in Central Park and Dave asked AP what was the strangest thing he'd ever done in a park. AP looked in the camera and said, "Cut!" Then "This is a family show." That exchange wasn't nearly the most interesting or funniest part of AP's appearance, but what do you expect? By the way, Costello was depicted for about 2 seconds, the same amount of time devoted to Shonen Knife. Sheesh. TXC
------------------------------ From: Ben Gott <BENG@hotchkiss.pvt.k12.ct.us> Subject: Winners/Skylarks Date: Sun, 31 Mar 96 10:00:00 est Message-ID: <316011BC@pentium3.hotchkiss.pvt.k12.ct.us> Yay! Steve-o Lutz has answered the questions correctly... "...dig down!" -- Candymine "...the roofs of Swindontown" -- Red Brick Dream "...emotion I'm afraid" -- Crocodile "...what you're used to" -- Scarecrow People "...running steady" -- One of the Millions Since many people seem to pass judgement based on religious ideas, what sin did Colin and Carol Moulding commit in the eyes of, for example, Catholicism? --Adultery Why does Dave Gregory have to take drugs on a regular basis? --He's diabetic Congratulations, and thanks to everyone for playing! There will/might be another contest soon... I listened to Sacrificial Bonfire really loudly yesterday, and only *kinda* heard all the background things. I'll try again later... ben XTC SONG OF THE DAY: Cherry in Your Tree
------------------------------ From: Ben Gott <BENG@hotchkiss.pvt.k12.ct.us> Date: Sun, 31 Mar 96 10:01:00 est Message-ID: <3160126E@pentium3.hotchkiss.pvt.k12.ct.us> Oh, P.S. - Colin and Carol also had premarital sex...(An alternate answer to question #1.) -ben
------------------------------ Message-Id: <199604012103.OAA19901@usr3.primenet.com> From: "rushton@mailhost.primenet.com" <rushton@primenet.com> Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 15:02:30 +0000 Subject: Degrees of Separation Ok this one is weird..... Last night my wife was talking with a writer friend of hers in Minneapolis. He's a big XTC fan and I told him some time back that I heard on the Chalkhills email list digest that the band had left Virgin Records in England. I don't know how long ago this was, as I'd forgotten about the conversation myself.... So my wife's friend told a bud of his out in Los Angeles, who apparantly is a musician, about how I heard that XTC left Virgin from discussions on the internet. This musician is apparantly working with Paul Fox in some capacity. The musician told Paul Fox, who I guess was surprised at the news and didn't know about it beforehand. Anyway, everything worked in reverse and I just heard about it last night. Strange story....thought I'd share it.... Mark Rushton author of the Bill Nelson WWW Site http://www.primenet.com:80/~rushton/nelson.html
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 15:09:16 -0600 (CST) From: "LaShawn M. Taylor" <shonniet@interaccess.com> Subject: Bits 'n pieces 'n stuff 'n things... Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.960401145300.9421B-100000@flowbee.interaccess.com> Hello folks. I'll try not to take too much of your time... > The film is not quite a direct tie to any XTC song, although there > are several with the season/cycle theme. But here's the lyric to > Andy's "The Green Man": What beautiful lyrics! Where does this song show up--on one of his new demos? I gotta have it! > BTW, that HELIUM KIDS CD, which is entitled _STAR PARK_, also contains > some early demos of XTC. They are written to be COVERS but I don't > know who originally played them. One is `COMMUNITY WORKER BREAKDOWN', > and the other is `WHOLE LOTTA AGE'. > Does anybody know them? > From "Naoyuking Iso." at the department of economics in Keio Univ. Sure do. Probably the best covers of Jimmy Hendrix "Purple Haze" (That would be the first cover, Naoyuking "PUPIL HAZE") and Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love". Led Zeppelin does the other song also, but I can't remember the name off the top of my head. By the way, did anyone watch the 120 Minutes decade special on MTV over the weekend? They tried to cram all the bands that appeared on the show into a measly 30 minutes special, but during one of their montages, the beaming face of our Mr. Partridge was shown standing against a tree (anyone know where this video was from?). Later, they had a small interview clip with him saying something which ended with him looking into the camera and saying "Cut!" LaShawn M. Taylor shonniet@flowbee.interaccess.com * -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Go tell your stale friends |To not to try to push our bodies any faster Go tell false prophets and |'Cause we're dancing with disaster drug traffickers. . . |And the first will be the last |It's nearly Africa! -xtc ========================================================================
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 16:26:21 -0500 (EST) From: Nancy McGrath <nmcgrath@rockapella.com> Subject: Re: Yazbek at HMV Message-Id: <Pine.3.89.9604011619.B23067-0100000@world.std.com> > In Chalkhills Digest #2-93, Ira Lieman (aym@j51.com) wrote: > Yazbek does not disappoint -- yet again. The "retail debut" of Yazbek and > his band was a hit with all the Saturday shoppers at the HMV store in NYC > on 86th and Lex. > > So, I ask ... did you get it yet? It's on sale! Whoo hoo! And then you can > listen and understand why I've been playing "The Laughing Man" almost > constantly since early February... Well said, Ira. The gig was lots of fun, if rather different in atmosphere from Yazbek's usual evening performances. We'll probably never hear a G-rated version of "Schmuck in a Vacuum" again! And the artwork on the American version of the album is awesome! Same great music as the Brit version, of course. For anyone interested in keeping up to date on Yazbek's concert schedule, an email mailing list has just been created. To subscribe, send an email with the word "subscribe" (leave off the quotes) in the body to: yazbek-request@world.std.com. And -- as Combray2@aol.com pointed out -- Yazbek has two gigs coming up at FEZ (380 Lafayette; 212/533-2680) in New York City -- April 9 & 16 at 9:30 p.m. Nice meeting you, Tim! And Sally -- I thought you were going to be there...? I hope we'll see you at Fez on the 9th. Nancy McGrath nmcgrath@world.std.com
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 16:03:42 -0500 (EST) From: Mike <koorism@gusun.acc.georgetown.edu> Subject: AdamAntly interested in XTC... Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960401155220.19602D-100000@gusun> Just a few things on my mind-- This connection between ANdy and 'ANtmusic'/Adam Ant is very interesting, especially since that kooky bondage-laden Antster is one of my favorite musicians(behind the obvious Swindoneers). Can anyone postulate further as to what TMBG are referring to in their latest offering? Also, as for my humble opinion, in 'The Loving', it is most clearly 'Straight t'ya', though before this was brought up, I always assumed it to be 'Stand clear'. There is clearly 3 syllables, and though perhaps 'Straight t'ya' doesn't sound like your average XTC lyric, it seems to be what they are, indeed, saying. Lastly, as for this 'James and the Giant Peach' stuff, both my brother and I were wondering if any of his demos were accepted to be used in the soundtrack(just because 4 didn't make it doesn't necessarily mean that none did). Just curious...the bastards should be shot if they didn't take any of his songs! That's all from my end, Mike
------------------------------ Message-Id: <v01510100ad85c6d59a9d@[194.128.83.69]> Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 19:22:11 +0000 From: fisher@easynet.co.uk (Mark Fisher) Subject: the man himself speaks I've just come off the phone from Andy Partridge! (And no, I'm not giving out his number). I had a good chat with him and I wish I could pass on vast quantities of news but, by the sounds of it, things are much the same as they have been for some time. The band recently got rid of a lawyer who's been trying to get them out of their Virgin/EMI deal for four years, making seemingly no progress. Their new lawyer has achieved considerably more in a matter of weeks, and Andy is hopeful that they might finally be free in a few weeks time (technically they still owe Virgin another four albums). In the meantime, they've amassed 28 songs and, as reported here before, they'd like to do two CDs, one mellow/classical, one hard-edged. They'd either be sold separately or together (or the whole idea could be ditched by a new record label, because it's not as profitable for record companies to have more than ten songs on an album because more mechanical copyright fees have to go to the artists). The songs seem to divide into one or other camp - or at least they will do with a bit of tweeking. He says he's tried to avoid too much divorce-related stuff, though there are a couple of songs with a connection to his split up. He says he doesn't want to end up sounding like Phil Collins - whose album he parodied as "No IQ Required". Andy's trips to New York to see his girlfriend have enabled him to meet potential US record label people and he's getting promising noises from them. His track for the forthcoming Talking Heads LP was created by the band sending him a kind of groove track and asking him to build a song arund it. The track he chose, in true Talking Heads style, seemed to consist of eight bars of one chord, eight bars of another chord, eight of the first, eight of the second and so on. Andy thought they were nice chords but could only work out the first one. When he asked the band, it turned out they were both A flat (I think) played in different configurations. He reworked the song from there and flew over to sing it himself. He hasn't heard the final mix yet. He had some very surprising stories about David Byrne, who now has nothing to do with the group, but I think it'd be libelous if I passed them on. He's also been writing with Chris Difford (of Squeeze) but he's not sure what will happen to the material. Some of it is too difficult for the grumbly-voiced Difford to sing himself. He's written a song for pop star Cathy Dennis which could end up as a single (and she's had a few hit singles before, so perhaps it could be Andy's first hit in several decades . . .). She's added a couple of words to it, so she gets a co-writing credit. He has a feeling he might end up writing with Terry Hall again, but nothing definite. On the great Blur vs Oasis debate, he reluctantly sides with Oasis on the strength of Liam Gallagher's voice. He doesn't listen to much new stuff though. We had a chat about all the references (rip-offs) that these young whippersnappers have to the bands of yore. The really important news, though, is that the much-discussed backing line on *The Loving* is . . . wait for it . . . "Straight to ya!" I pass this on in all honesty as someone who used to believe it was "Stand clear" (at least until I listened to it closely a couple of nights ago). When I told Andy about the "Stand clear" mis-hearing, he joked that they were actually singing, "Mind the gap" (a joke which only people who have used the London Underground will get). So this must be the official end of this thread. A sad moment for us all. Andy says he had a lot of trouble getting Colin to sing the phrase with the right rhythm (which possibly explains the confusion). From the record it sounds to me like he got it right in the end, but Andy says he kept putting too much emphasis on the final word. The second really important news, subsequent to my last posting, is that Andy's parents actually won the round of TV's *Mr and Mrs* on which they appeared in January 1978. Andy still laughs at his mother's Buddhist-sounding response to the question, "What would you like most in the world". She answered, "Peace of mind". And on that calm and reassuring note I will leave you. Mark Fisher (fisher@easynet.co,uk)
------------------------------ From: Benjamin Woll <bwoll@abacus.bates.edu> Message-Id: <9604012233.AA05702@abacus.bates.edu> Subject: Hmmmm...An Idea Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 17:33:40 -0500 (EST) Since one of the strengths of Chalkhills (Thanks, John Relph) is that it tunes us into some great non-XTC music, I think it would be a cool idea if we created a regular feature such as a review of an LP for each issue. So that we don't burden Relph with tons of reviews, we should organize who should go for each issue. If you are interested in turning some heads and getting XTCers into anything from Thelonious Monk to Frank Zappa to Smokey Robinson, email me by April 6 at bwoll@abacus.bates.edu. and I will try to sort out who will write when. And let's try to get beyond Jellyfish and Ben Folds Five and Yazbek. Good stuff yes, but anyone familiar with this list already knows a bit about some of their material. Cheers, Ben Oh yeah!! The Loving lyrics - Stand Clear!!! Enough, it isn't even a great tune -listen to Antheap, Miniature Sun, King...before Andy's allowance of pure, unadulterated, cotton candy schlok. How many B sides should have gone on the LP before that and President Kill...Oh well, O&L still gets ***.5 stars, behind Eng. Set, Sky, BlSea, TBE, D&W, and tied with Mum and Non. Sorry, just had to get that off my chest. I can just see Colin cringing behind his bass while that was being recorded. Perhaps that is why we can't hear what he is saying. OK, I'm :-) now. You may now all go on with your lives. Phew.
------------------------------ Message-Id: <v01530502ad861123e46c@[199.171.191.94]> Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 15:15:59 -0800 From: gondola@deltanet.com (E.B.) Subject: Re: Talking Heads >And what's all this about a new Talking Heads album? Andy Partridge a >guest? Who else? I could be wrong, but what I remember hearing is that it's not a TALKING HEADS album, but a HEADS album, i.e. literally Chris, Tina and Jerry without a certain big-suited "Talker" out front. And the "Heads" already have released a track on a computer-movie soundtrack whose name escapes me right now. (I'm thinking the title is "Virtual Reality," but that seems way too obvious. The CD was on either MCA or Radioactive, and also had a pretty good new Peter Gabriel track.) This particular Heads song had Debbie Harry as lead singer. It wasn't bad, but not quite worth taping. I don't know anything about Partridge's future involvement, but the Harry cameo seems to point toward a "rotating vocalist"-type format. GB
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Apr 96 16:39 PST Message-Id: <v01530500ad85b8738ace@[192.168.1.96]> From: timr@creativemm.com (timothy renner) Subject: Chalkhills >BTW, that HELIUM KIDS CD, which is entitled _STAR PARK_, also contains >some early demos of XTC. They are written to be COVERS but I don't >know who originally played them. One is `COMMUNITY WORKER BREAKDOWN', >and the other is `WHOLE LOTTA AGE'. > >Does anybody know them? Looks like a sideways reference to a pair of Led Zeppelin tunes: Communication Breakdown Whole Lotta Love I have heard that there's a bootleg of the group (drunkenly) smashing a whole set of Zep, but I've never heard it. Could this pair be from that odd moment in rock history? __________________________________________ * that's right, sound guys 'see' sound!
------------------------------ Date: 2 APR 96 11:34:21 EST From: PCulnane@dca.gov.au Subject: "Look Look" and other promo videos Message-ID: <0000uouygaek.0000sgoaogcy@dca.gov.au> I've had private e-mails, and there've been Chalkhills postings (cf #2-92, question from Klaus Bergmaier) about where to obtain "Look Look" and copies of promo videos released since. I have made up a master tape of all the material I have so far, and can come to an "arrangement" with any Chalkies who want to track down copies of this hard-to-find stuff. (I gather "Look Look" has long been deleted). My collection of XTC videos is by no means comprehensive, but it is of very good quality and eminently watchable. (Quality ranges from A+ to B-) My master tape is Super-VHS and is in hi-fi stereo. All the "Look Look" clips are stereo, as are some of the others. Where did I get the clips that aren't on "Look Look"? Our (Australia's) national broadcaster, ABC-TV, has a Friday/Saturday all-nite rock show called "Rage". On Sats they play specials on various bands and once they had an XTC special. They play clips in full, with no logos and with stereo sound where available. Some friends and I are trying to lobby the show to update their XTC special - if they ever do, I'll post the details in Chalkhills. Meanwhile, if anyone wants a copy of what I've got, please e-mail me with your details, together with info on any material you'd like to swap. I have access to facilities to convert from PAL to NTSC formats. Paul
------------------------------ Message-ID: <01BB1FF4.970CCB60@DIALUP1123.SISNA.COM> From: Randy Watkins <randyw@sisna.com> Subject: A nice birthday present...! Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 17:53:30 -0800 Hiya Chalkhillians! I've just received a rather nice birthday present....a CD of the "Nonsuch" demos. It's an hour long and has tracks that I hadn't heard before; I'm immediately struck by "Goosy Goosy" and "It's Snowing Angel". It's especially nice to hear "new" (to me!) XTC on my birthday. I received a second disc as well, which has tracks such as "Motorcycle Landscape", "Glow", "Disque Bleu", and "Work" on it, but haven't listened to it as much yet. What a great birthday, eh? :) Oh yeah, I went to Disney's web site, and on their "James and the Giant Peach" page sent them email as to why they didn't use Andy's songs. If I hear anything back from them I'll let you all know. Rando http://www.sandiego.sisna.com/users/randyw
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Message-Id: <v01530504ad8649bbdb7f@[199.224.7.251]>
Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 22:16:28 -0500
From: aym@j51.com (Ira Lieman)
First of all, HI!
Second of all, who are you? Did I see you there? I was in the blue shirt
and brown leather jacket.
>and they sounded great. Their new album, "The Laughing Man", is by Andy
>Partridge. The songs, especially the vocals, are quite fun and in the
??????? What? The Laughing Man has Partridge playing on 2 tracks and
producing one. That's it. Dave Yazbek is the guy who put the album out. You
know, the guy on the keyboards.
>style of some of XTC's lighter material (perhaps even closer in tone to
>early Squeeze). The songs benefit from a live performance - when the band
>gets up a head of steam, they sound quite a bit like classic Squeeze, with
>Yazbek as Jools Holland on keyboard.
Yazbek does a great job on the keyboards, and his songs are fantastic,
aren't they? But he's NO Jools Holland. Jools might be banging away but his
expression wouldn't change. And Jools is more of a
melodic-improvisationist. Squeeze misses him. :(
Jools Holland thread to XTC: Jools (solo) was the opening act for XTC's
last show in California in 1983. When XTC cancelled their tour, Jools had
to re-schedule a solo tour because he was going to support XTC the whole
way thru.
>It seems as though Yazbek will be performing at Fez's in lower Manhattan on
>April 9 and April 16.
NOT April 13th, as it says on the back of the card.
-ira
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------------------------------ Message-Id: <v01530500ad86bc783ccf@[204.235.81.85]> Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 02:07:42 -1000 From: motherwest@InfoHouse.com (Michael) Subject: Treasured XTC Item Hello Chalksters, >From: Mark Mello <mmello@knoware.nl> >how about a thread about the most treasured/valuable XTC goodie lost or >stolen by you? Yeah - my original Jules Verne's Sketchbook. I loaned it out years ago in an attempt to make a new convert. 'This tape of unrealeased demo material is better than most band's best stuff,' I said. Never got it back. It's gone. I am sad. Michael motherwest@infohouse.com http://www.please.com
------------------------------ Message-Id: <v01510100ad86a12ea504@[194.128.83.69]> Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 09:28:12 +0000 From: fisher@easynet.co.uk (Mark Fisher) Subject: the man himself speaks some more I forgot to mention in my last post what Andy said to me about *Moon On Your Dress*, one of the songs on Terry Hall's LP. Apparently, as he first wrote it (and those under the age of 27 should shield their eyes at this point), it was about a semen stain on a woman's dress (presumably in the shape of a moon). Terry Hall kept the tune but changed most of the words, which is why, lovely though it is, it doesn't quite make sense (nearly, but not quite). *I Drew a Lemon* was Hall's title and Andy helped him take it from there. Hall, it seems, is a very slow writer. He'd call Andy after a four month gap and say, "You know, I still haven't found a rhyme for that line". Mark Fisher (fisher@easynet.co,uk)
------------------------------ From: michael wilson <tomservo@uoknor.edu> Message-Id: <3161278e3ef2002@cliff.uoknor.edu> Date: Tue, 2 Apr 96 07:11:44 -0600 This is a follow up to a posting concerning the band Jellyfish. There was some dispute over whether or not Jellyfish were influenced by Queen. I'm not sure if we have all been listening to the same CD or not. But Spilt Milk is definately a product that has been influenced by Queen as well as XTC. How do I know this? Well, in an interview with Andy Sturmer he mentioned the fact that Queen was a big influence on their sound. In fact, the song, The Ghost at Number One, is a tribute to Freddy Mercury. I was also surprised to hear him say that Jellyfish took a special trip to Swindon back when theit first CD was released (Bellybutton as opposed to the Beatnik Beatch release) just to meet XTC. It is a shame that all the bands I like either break up or are still waiting to record. :( ie. Dramarama, Jellyfish.......and ofcourse XTC. ************************************************** * * * I'm a pilot fish on the shark of life * * -M.F. Wilson II * * * **************************************************
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From: silva@pc110.ccrc.uga.edu
Message-Id: <9604021639.AA3575@pc110.ccrc.uga.edu>
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 96 10:23:12
Subject: Strollin' BonZ MaG/
I think R. Stone is basically only useful for news
blurbs and on occassion in-depth sort of features these
days. From a working journalists point of view, the only
reason I still pick it up is becuase Rolling Stone still
has the access to people other magazines generally don't.
I mean they get to speak to virtually whomever they want,
so that sometimes makes them a decent info resource. Other-
wise they're have essentially suburbanized the magazine into
being completely useless. Once they realized they made a
severe faux-paus with "Skylarking," they knew that they
should make a fair amount of noise about O&L. They even
ran a brief "COMING SOON!!" news item about the album when
the boys were in LA just putting it together.
JoE
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