Chalkhills Digest Volume 4, Issue 3
Date: Saturday, 4 October 1997
Chalkhills Digest, Volume 4, Number 3
Saturday, 4 October 1997
Today's Topics:
The "Atom" Age
re mookcock
Demos
XTC - Still great after all these years
Moorcock/Hawkwind
I can't believe I said that
Gold Oranges and Lemmons
One more page on the "books are burning" fire
XTC goes poetry?
re Elric
Re: Blatent Plug
Chalkhills Unplugged...
Well OF COURSE KISS did it for the money.
The Never Ending Story of Bugalow
FW: Another @&#$ing demo req.
Marginalia
CTD and the Jeopardy Theme Song
This Is Soda Pop ?
Fantasy Island
Dave Yazbek @ Mercury Lounge
I'd like that, too!
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa
Yazbek Alert!!!
Thread Bare
soaps and plugs, songs and covers
XTC - Swindon
It Was Twenty Years Ago Today...
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970929110534.00938bc0@smtpgw.ametsoc.org> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 11:05:35 -0400 From: David Gershman <dgershmn@ametsoc.org> Subject: The "Atom" Age Hi all, Just flipping through the BMG Music Club catalogue (I don't know WHY I keep rejoining these things...I enjoy going into CD stores so much more), I came across a listing for "Factory Showroom" by TMBG. Among the songs listed is "XTC vs *ATOM* Ant" -- haven't heard it myself, but I guess we need to rethink that whole previous discussion about it being *Adam* Ant. All that hubbub, and it turns out that they're just comparing XTC to a cartoon character. As if there's any competition... :) Some good news (recommendation) and some bad news (rumor): Recommendation: I know they've been mentioned here at least briefly in the past, but if you haven't checked out the Lilys, you're only hurting yourself. Their 1996 album "Better Can't Make It Better" is truly stunning -- take the early Kinks and throw in numerous melodic twists and turns, a dash of Brian Wilson sensibility, and some "Revolver"-era Beatles, and you've got yourself one heck of an album. Enrich your collection now and check it out. Their follow-up from earlier this year, "Services (For the Soon to Be Departed)" is all that and less -- fewer songs, that is, as it's really more of an EP, but the songs are right up there with those from the '96 album. And hey, as an EP, it's cheaper. Rumor: Someone I know who's involved in the music scene here in Boston tells me that the band (Lilys, that is), having relocated to Boston over the past year, has now broken up. I haven't heard anything about it elsewhere, so if anyone has any further details on that, please let me know (and be sure to say it ain't so!). Thanks! In case the passing XTC reference in the first part of this note wasn't enough, here's one more thing, on a personal level: I am living for the moment when I have that brand new album in my hand, unopened, and I begin to unwrap it, peel off that (annoying) little sticky strip, remove it from the case, pop it into the CD player, and here those first few notes or beats come through the speakers. Ahhh...the mere thought of it is almost enough. Till next time, or 25 o'clock, whichever comes first, Dave Gershman
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 17:25:53 +0100 (BST) From: Chris Clee <cmc@sanger.ac.uk> Subject: re mookcock Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.970929172319.12660B-100000@manta.sanger.ac.uk> no it was the deep fix..1 album and 3 or 4 singles, top stuff for the most part i paid a l;ot of money for the album a lot of years ago but i think an italian company has reissued it on cd, later chris
------------------------------ Message-Id: <199709291947.UAA11750@tryfan.rsc.co.uk> From: "Graham" <grstephen@rsc.co.uk> Subject: Demos Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 20:44:58 -0700 Is there any kind person out there willing to make me a copy of the demos? I'm in Aberdeen, Scotland so I could always repay you in haddock, haggis, shorties or other quaint souvenirs of your choosing. Graham
------------------------------ From: root@nas550.nasdoc.tc.faa.gov Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 18:50:08 -0400 Message-Id: <9709292250.AA21129@nas550.nasdoc.tc.faa.gov> Subject: XTC - Still great after all these years I have only been a member of this list for a few weeks and this is my first post and I'm more of a lurker, but since I have been on this list I have starting listening to my XTC CDs more often and realized that I still love them just as much now as I did 15 years ago when I first started listening to them. I felt I had to post just to let everyone now that I've listedned to every CD of theirs I own and want to get the ones I don't have. Also, I didn't realize that they were still together, I thought they had split up a while ago. Well, now I know where to go to get all the latest info. Mary-Anne in New Jersey
------------------------------ Date: 30 SEP 97 09:29:15 AST From: PCulnane@dca.gov.au Subject: Moorcock/Hawkwind Message-ID: <0000zvvbbjjd.0000yescsmii@dca.gov.au> Perhaps why Jon Eva may have thought Michael Morcock was connected to Quicksilver (Messenger Service), when in fact the connection was with Brit band Hawkwind....Hawkwind's first hit single was entitled "Silver Machine" p@ul
------------------------------ Message-ID: <01BCCD09.DB8111C0.monkman@coastnet.com> From: Martin & Jamie Monkman <monkman@coastnet.com> Subject: I can't believe I said that Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 18:40:44 -0700 In Chalkhills 4-2, I wrote: >Screamin' Lord Sutch appropriated his routine, coffin transportation and >all, from Screamin' Jay Hawkins, who's only hit, "I Put A Spell On You", >charted in 1956. That's "whose", not "who's", you idiot. I hate it when others commit this sin (along with confusing the possessive "its" and the contraction of "it is", "it's") ... and then I go and do the same thing. Sorry for (a) committing the sin and (b) feeling the need to atone for my sin by confessing. Whew. And in the same issue my lowercase namesake martin from Cooking Vinyl appears. Welcome! You'll find that there are many ardent fans of the label's new signing here, all ready to buy any and all new releases! We've had a long wait, and that May 1998 release date is eagerly anticipated. Martin ---------- "I hate quotations." Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1849.
------------------------------ Message-ID: <343072BE.1461@erols.com> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 23:32:14 -0400 From: RocketRob <robertlc@erols.com> Organization: Pink Palace Productions Subject: Gold Oranges and Lemmons Did anybody get "mobile fidelity's" Gold Oranges and Lemmons? I highly suggest it, its AWESOME!!! I like this "No Missing Codes" thing! RocketRob
------------------------------ From: WMP273@aol.com Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 00:17:34 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <970929233926_231604736@emout04.mail.aol.com> Subject: One more page on the "books are burning" fire I read with interest the discussion on the guitar solos on "Books are burning". Chalkhills readers often state with pride they love XTC as a pop band, but they are clearly a rock band too, no? Rock bands (and blues bands) with two guitarists have "traded fours" since time immemorial. But I am somehow poignantly reminded of Lennon and Harrison's alternating solos on Abbey Road that (nearly) conclude the album. Though there is not any real similarity to the songs in question, the pop tunesmiths rocking out to close both albums caught my attention. And my feeling is, in both cases, the solos provide relief to tension that built during the suites that preceeded them. . . . . .as is also the case in the final movement of Beethoven's String quartet in E-flat major, Op 127, but that is perhaps bringing the comparison too far. . . . Willard Preston
------------------------------ From: a.de.koning@bpa.vnu.com Message-ID: <C1256522.00278641.00@bpa.vnu.com> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 09:37:47 +0200 Subject: XTC goes poetry? Hi, CH-ers, The dutch magazine _Nieuwe Revu_ informed me that the English poet Murray Lachlan Young will have (has?) a record out , produced by Chris Thomas (hey, did anyone mention him for the new XTC album already?) and musically accompanied by Jools Holland and members from the Pretenders, *XTC* and the Damned. It seems he got a few million guilders in advance and his company EMI thinks it will sell at least a million copies (that is, until they figure out how to market the thing: it's not to be filed under 'spoken word', but it's no r&r either >;-> ). I hope our guy(s?) at least got payed decently this time!! Anyone hear the record already? Andre (who's going to blow the dust off his John Cooper Clark records tonight... BTW, does someone on this list know whatever happened to him?)
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 09:54:19 +0100 (BST) From: Chris Clee <cmc@sanger.ac.uk> Subject: re Elric Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.970930095224.15212F-100000@manta.sanger.ac.uk> his first heroic character (in print at least) originally published as short stories in New Worlds when he took over as editor in the early 60's i believe (but i may be wrong) later chris
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From: hick@ccl4.org (gARetH baBB)
Subject: Re: Blatent Plug
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 09:17:46 +0100
Message-ID: <19970930.091746.75@ccl4.org>
Organization: CCl4
In message <199709260458_MC2-21DD-8AE9@compuserve.com>,
Cooking_Vinyl@compuserve.com (Cooking Vinyl) wrote:
> (political, South-American-influenced, multi-instrumentalist).<
>
> Rory McLeod will be supporting Ani Difranco on her west coast dates in
> November.
Woo, he's far away from home - last time I saw him he was at the Cleethorpes
(UK) folk festival several years ago.
I could bring this slightly on-topic by saying I saw the Poozies at the
same folk festival and thus Farm Boy's Wages etc. etc. but it wouldn't be
a very good link, so I won't.
I treasure my Rory McLeod records, something simple but strong in his lyrics.
------------------------------ Message-ID: <343100AF.52C2@myself.com> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 09:37:51 -0400 From: Ira Lieman <ira@myself.com> Subject: Chalkhills Unplugged... Hey there fellow X-TiCians... Last night I had the immense pleasure of meeting a fellow prolific poster, Peter Fitzpatrick, while he was in New York for business. And a great time was had by all! I saw (ooh, in person!) the AP-signed CD-sleeves Peter has (with the notable exception of Oranges & Lemons, but we hope the schmuck that has it is enjoying it), and we spoke at length about Peter's meeting with Andy at his home in Swindon, the possibility of XTC ever playing dates in the future, the "bootleg" album, and exactly how much XTC could profit from their big Idea. We also talked about each and every one of YOU, dear readers, and you can just imagine all the dirt that was spilled! Ha! :) The best (paraphrased) quote of the evening, which was a collaborative effort: "Andy seems very down-to-earth, but he's just far enough off the ground to be creative." We're both looking forward to the next XTConvention, wherever and whenever that might be. And we're also looking forward to CC '97. We agree Richard Pedretti-Allen is masochistic, but we like him anyway. -ira Now playing: Fleetwood Mac, Greatest Hits. Going to see 'em tonight! Ha! Lindsey Buckingham for producer?
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 09:37:47 -0600 (CST) From: AMANDA CARYL OWENS <ACOEA@jazz.ucc.uno.edu> Subject: Well OF COURSE KISS did it for the money. Message-id: <01IO8YW4WFIO8XW957@jazz.ucc.uno.edu> Making moeny is the only art form open to innovation. Anyone who says they're in this industry because they like music is a lying pathetic piece of s***. (You can thank Wayne Newton for that quote. BTW-My tongue is planted firmly in my cheek.) Todd-I'm really not in the mood to get into another flamewar about a non-XTC band on this XTC list. I'll close on this long statement.....since Todd Rundgren worked on the soundtrack, I'm not sure XTC would've wanted anything to do with it in the first plcae, besides which after XTC put 2 songs on 2 movie soundtracks with disastrous results, I doubt they'd want to get involved in soundtracks anymore, period. I'm still confused as to why he wanted to use the song after hearing it live....Ellen Reid is a terrible live singer. (Flame away Ben, it's just my opinion.) (Bowing) Yes, I started the whole "How many people can you mindfuck at once" thing, thank you, thank you. I have a query...anyone heard of a group called the Bodeans? (Spelling???) My MANager and I were talking about XTC and we got around to talking about this band as well. (He called me a thief b/c I ripped an XTC article out of a library book, shame on me....told me he hopes he never has a meany like me fora daughter. So I said I hope I never have a tightass like him for a son. But I digress immensely.) And now I must be going to flunk a biology lab today. We get to look at sperm cells under the microscope! (I wonder who the donor was........) Ciao,, Amanda Yes, Dave Gregory is God and I am his prophet. I want all to know of the power of the almighty Gretsch guitar......let us pray....In the name of Dave Gregory, and of Colin Moulding, and of Andy Partridge, Amen. Daemon est deus inversus XTC song of the day-The Green Man non XTC-I Don't Wanna Wait-Paula Cole
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 10:30:45 -0500 (CDT) From: James Dupuy <dupuy@nol.net> Subject: The Never Ending Story of Bugalow Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970930102630.14122A-100000@grassy.nol.net> Hello Chalkhill People, >We figured that, when you boil it all down, American >influences must be limited folk, blues and country music. Everything >else we can attribute to our English pals. > >Any ideas on this? Isn't RagTime an American invention? I've often considered using pieces of ragtime scales for lead licks. Why I haven't done it yet? I don't know. Back to the Bungalow. Thank you very much Sugarhips for the critique. I think you have cleared it up for me. >Never was a song more calculated to elicit ennui--which I think is the typical reaction to this song. I had to get out the dictionary for this one. Boredom and weariness IS what I feel when I hear this song. Using Harrison's notation, the intro to the song and section A), (Bungalow Bungalow), sounds like a huge sigh that is followed by the loneliness of the B) minor key section. (and is that a suspended forth being played on the piano that leaves the impression of one pondering?) This section musically reminds me of what someone like Lancelot might have felt when thinking about Guinevere. (to use a gross example) The C) the major-key, upward-climbing progression of "Luxury accomodation" gives the impression of hope or "wouldn't it be nice " that is followed by the realization of the "So we're working every hour " ending with the big sigh again of "Saving it all up for you" Yes this may be stretching the imagination a bit but it was the music that left me with this impression, not the words. Anyway you could replace the word Bungalow with Guinevere and imagine Collin was Lancelot and you might get the same picture. This song was one of those XTC songs that I hated at first but began to appreciate after a few listens. I think this has happened to a few of you out there. Thanks again for the interpretations. Battery brides, ha ha have you ever tried To break out of your waiting room
------------------------------ Message-ID: <n1336504755.56741@mac.aaos.org> Date: 30 Sep 1997 10:30:25 U From: "Wiencek, Dan" <wiencek@mac.aaos.org> Subject: FW: Another @&#$ing demo req. Hello, Chalkhills ... I'm new to both XTC and the list, so I can't jump into any of the threads I've seen going by. However, I am dying to hear the demos for the new album, so if anyone could spin a tape of them for me, I'd be in your eternal debt and you would accrue several million karmic points in your favor ... I have no XTC for trade (though I could tape some Beatles boots), so a tape-for-cash deal would be fine. Reply to address below, thanks much, Dan/IL (dwiencek@bigfoot.com)
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From: "Sherwood, Harrison" <hsherwood@btg.com>
Subject: Marginalia
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 14:33:44 -0400
>From: relph (John Relph)
>...The version of "Happy Together" from Zappa's
>_Fillmore East 1971_ live album is a killer.
With a _bullet!_ (Bonk!)
>From: Ted Harms <tmharms@library.uwaterloo.ca>
>So, did anybody else notice that the last digest was numbered v4-#1 and
>the one before was v3-#165?
Yeah, I noticed this, and I'd like to join my voice to the growing
chorus demanding an explanation. If this is just some capricious whim on
your part, Relph, the Man/Autistic-Retentive Love Association, MARLA
(among whose members I count myself the staunchest), cautions you: You
never know who you're going to hurt with this kind of thing. Please try
to be little more sensitive. I'd been looking forward to the appearance
of Chalkhills Digest #3-166 with a numerological anticipation bordering
on the sexual. Now it will never be.... Ah, well, put the pentagrams and
the ben-wa balls back in the trousseau, it's back to the world of
dreams.
>From: "Witter, Karl F" <WitterKF@aetna.com>
>Subject: The *new* XTC collectable!
>
>>[John Wedemeyer] I actually *have* a can of this (XTC "Guarana
>>Power Drink")...Becki, John Relph, Mitch Friedman and I stood
>>around for a while trying to figure out whether or not we should
>>open it up and try it. We didn't.
As a candidate for the Weird & Wonderful Coincidence of the Week, I
offer this cheerful little snippet. I have been in a private
correspondence with someone from a completely different quadrant of
cyberspace, who said (with rhetorical waggling eyebrows and a rakish
wink) he had something "cool" to send me via snail. Expecting, how you
say, recreational agricultural products, I was surprised, upon opening a
large box, to find four 20-oz. bottles of a soft drink called BONK, a
"guarana drink with natural caffeine." Charles, my correspondent, is the
Man in Charge at BONK. I wrote him back and told him we here on
Chalkhills had been talking about XTC, a suspiciously similar-sounding
drink. Here's what he said back:
>First, kudos on your musical tastes. I belong to the Dixie Dregs
>digest myself, and am a frequent visitor to the TUBES site.
>
>The U. S. rights to XTC was just secured by the people who bring you
>JOLT. It appears to have been an inexpensive way for them to respond
>to PEPSI's JOSTA while expanding their own portfolio of
>'energy' enhancing products.
>
>The STORE 24 guy pointed it out as an example of all the
>"sameolsameold" he gets to deal with several times per day. This
>shortly before he embraced BONK and put it in all the New England
>stores. But I'm sounding petty, and I've been warned to be aware of
>my tone.
Now, ain't life just a tingle, the way it serves up these utterly
pointless yet thrilling coincidences? And I go into vaseline-lensed
reveries at the mental image of a beverage-store buyer's agent
"embracing BONK."
Oh, almost forgot.... It's pretty tasty. Also, I gave some to the kids
and they bounced around most gratifyingly for several hours. Ever see
"Jacob's Ladder"? Sorta like those soldiers when the Mysterious Drug
kicks in.
>From: james.dignan@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (James Dignan)
>
>1) of course, this could be a dialectic thing about the West VCoutry area
>the lads are from, but I noticed for the first time that Colin is not
>"Lying here..." at the beginning of "Grass". He is "Laying here...". Yet
>another sexual connotation to what is, already a sexy little song?
I am quite contentedly aware of my rep around here as a pedantic
headcase of no little zealotry, and the following will probably not go a
long way to scotching that impression, but what the hell--in for a
penny, in for a pounding:
Leaving aside the relatively minor grammatical bloomer of "laying" for
"lying," the thing that gives me a bit of a softoff about "Grass" is
that the whole first line of the song is a whopping dangling participle.
I can't help it--the picture of Colin's freshly removed heart, recumbent
on the sun-dappled lawn, smoking and sizzling ("It crackled and spat"!)
while the smell of frying bacon fills the air and the carnivorous
cuckoos salivate, just doesn't strike me as an auspicious beginning to a
salacious little double-entendre pop song. Too, I dunno, Edgar Allen Poe
for my taste.
Harrison "And get that man some sodium bicarbonate" Sherwood
------------------------------ From: fstolzenbach@hns.com Message-ID: <85256522.00664B26.00@ngw2.hns.com> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 14:53:34 -0400 Subject: CTD and the Jeopardy Theme Song People: Amanda (I think) said: >He even called the Dummies somethng to the tune of "the best PR band >we never paid" To which Toddzilla replied: >I'd call that far from a compliment to the group themselves. I'd call that a textbook example of "damning with faint praise." Can you imagine how CTD members would squirm in their seats if they knew that was the ONLY thing AP had to say about their tribute? All praise to Toddzilla, a shining lodestar of truth on this topic! CTD should be ashamed of themselves. Also of interest: The opening lines to "Wonder Annual" are a pretty close cop of the "Jeopardy" game show theme. Give it a listen! Meaningless XTC-related survey question of the day: You're putting together a kick-ass tribute to the Jesus Christ Superstar soundtrack album. Which song do you give to XTC? Chalkhills originals tape still duplicating. -- FS
------------------------------ Message-Id: <199709302356.BAA20224@utrecht.knoware.nl> From: "Mark Strijbos" <mmello@knoware.nl> Organization: The Little Lighthouse Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 02:03:26 +0000 Subject: This Is Soda Pop ? Dear Chalkers, Regarding any adverse effects of the "XTC energy drink" that was recently discussed here. I have tried them some time ago when I discovered them (as I reported here) and I noticed a very very slight awareness and energy boost after two cans. Others have told me it could be compared to a cup of strong coffee and that's not surprising really; it's main "active"ingredient is a hefty dose of caffeine. In other words: close to the Real Thing ;) yours uncannily, Mark Strijbos at The Little Lighthouse the XTC website @ http://come.to/xtc ===> The Random XTC Quote <=== There's no youth culture only masks they let you rent
------------------------------ Message-Id: <l03110705b057b5084aee@[128.83.103.45]> Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 02:18:11 -0600 From: jason garcia <h.h.name@mail.utexas.edu> Subject: Fantasy Island >I would love to hear about YOUR fantasy meeting with Andy. I suppose these sorts of things HAD to come up eventually. Just don't ask Amanda about her fantasy meeting with Gregsy; that might not be something for the kids. Well mine isn't really a fantasy MEETING, it's more like a fantasy phone call- one of those things where you pick up the phone thinking it's some shmuck you've known for years but in reality is Andy Partridge saying "hello, this is Andy Partridge." You know, the kind of call that EVERYONE AND THEIR DOG CHARLIE PARKER SEEMS TO BE GETTING LATELY!! (well ok, I'm exaggerating here, but still, 2 is a big number) Well after I get over the initial shock, we then chat about the record company business and how it sucks like nothing has ever sucked before. Then he says, "Send me a tape...perhaps we can get you signed to Idea!" Well of course I'm thrilled, and 30 minutes later the tape is in the mail to Partridge and for the next week and a half I fail to sleep wondering what he'll think of my songs. Well of course he calls me back at some point, saying, "It's great; loved it, it's a done deal, let's make a record!" ...and then I wake up. Hey, it could happen! Yeah, yeah, I know about the monkeys... Jason
------------------------------ Message-ID: <343270B0.29BB@myself.com> Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 11:48:00 -0400 From: Ira Lieman <ira@myself.com> Subject: Dave Yazbek @ Mercury Lounge Hey there XTiCians... Anyone else besides me going to see fellow Chalkhillian Yazbek perform on Monday, October 6th at Mercury Lounge in the East Village? Whoever else is going, we should all plan to meet. Should be a great show. Feel free to e-mail me or call me at work, 212-237-7808 and we'll hook up. -ira PS: Fleetwood Mac was AWESOME last night! PPS: L'Shana Tova to all whom it might apply. And to Kyle from Southpark.
------------------------------ Message-ID: <211D4A0926D2D011859E0060972D884814D9E1@comail.rjconsult.com> From: "Miller, Ed" <EMiller@rjconsult.com> Subject: I'd like that, too! Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 07:51:45 -0600 Hi, kidz! Cheryl wrote in Chalkhills 4-1... >I've being reading what others have had to say about the wonderful >demos that are floating around and I found it sad that all people had >to say about "I'd Like That" is I like that. > >I guess I just really took to this little unassuming song. Count me in full agreement! I liked this song from the very first listen and now it's embedded in my psyche. There are times when it just pops into my head out of the blue. Like Cheryl, I like the simplicity of the lyrics, but, to me, the real beauty lies in the backing and harmony vocals, especially the classic Andy "under harmony" on the "I'd be your Albert" part. And who can resist the layered harmonies on the "like a Sunflower" section. Wow! It's also a musically complex chord structure. I've attempted to play along with it and my 20-odd (emphasis on "odd") years of guitar experience are left guessing. Nice stuff. Thanks for bringing it up, Cheryl. Ed
------------------------------ Message-ID: <211D4A0926D2D011859E0060972D884814D9E2@comail.rjconsult.com> From: "Miller, Ed" <EMiller@rjconsult.com> Subject: Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 08:20:52 -0600 Dear kidz, To those of you who responded to my inquiry about British vs. American original musical forms, thank you. To those of you who also pointed out that I left Jazz off the American list, my apologies. Guess I need to go back to Music 101 for a refresher course! Learnedly, Ed
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 12:48:48 -0400 Message-Id: <v01510103b057f5fd3e21@[128.122.161.36]> From: vanvalnc@is2.nyu.edu (Chris Van Valen) Subject: Yazbek Alert!!! Hi all Yazbek is playing in NYC on 10/6/97 at Irving Plaza(15th Street at Irving Place) opening for The Samples. 8 pm. Tickets are $16.50. Over and out... CV If you have an unpleasant nature and dislike people this is no obstacle to work. -- J.G. Bennett Catch "Forever Knight" on the Sci-Fi Channel every Mon-Thurs at 9PM and 1AM EDT. -- Lucien LaCroix
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 10:15:16 -0700 From: "Macdonald, Robert" <RMacdonald@bcbc.bc.ca> Subject: Thread Bare Message-id: <BF4081FF169CD0118C4600805FBEEAE90AB475@BCBCMAIL> I'm mining threads here instead of doing the real work I've got in front of me. Local boy Martin Monkman said: "Screamin' Lord Sutch appropriated his routine, coffin transportation and all, from Screamin' Jay Hawkins, who's only hit, "I Put A Spell On You", charted in 1956." This is a great song! For those of you whose interest is piqued by Screamin' Jay but can't find any records, this song was heavily featured in Jim Jarmunsch (sp?) first film "Stranger than Paradise". Also Screamin' Jay played a supporting role in his later film "Mystery Train". Stories about the film talk about how Screamin' Jay who plays a desk clerk at a motel was required to stay very calm and composed and to not move very much during shooting of his scenes. Watching the film you can see he's about to flip out at any moment! David vanWert correctly stated that "Leonardo didn't paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel." Now to put this one to bed.....it was Michelangelo. The same guy who did "David" and St. Paul's Cathedral. Further to being asked what else can he do after painting the Sistine Chapel, during the painting after he had done part of it he wanted to quit (he had a sore back!) but he was threatened with excommunication if he didn't complete it. Now I don't think excommunication would work on Andy to make him write a hit single! It's getting colder, darker and wetter by the day here and insensitive James Dignan is talking about dragging out Skylarking because summer is approaching. He says he's "listening to it again after a gap of a few months". A few months!.... you mean it's summer for _nine_ months of the year there?! Time to move. Our summer was so short this year that Skylarking barely touched the turntable. Oh well....I guess it's almost time to listen to "Thanks for Christmas" Cheers et all, Rob. Rob Macdonald Victoria, B.C. Currently listening to...... Edward Ball's "The Mill Hill Self Hate Club" on The Big Issue's "Best Free CD of 1997" .....................(music travels quickly doesn't it!) ps Parrish where are you?
------------------------------ From: Cheryl <mcgregoc@regents.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 21:33:44 GMT Subject: soaps and plugs, songs and covers Message-ID: <22A90C77372@regents.ac.uk> Hiya! Well, I'm just excited silly because I'm going to be wandering around the lovely west country of England. Yea! Andyway (oops! What a slip!)... Cough, recover, move on... Someone mentioned a cheesy aussie soap called Holiday... perhaps you mean HOME and AWAY. I, for one, prefer cheese to the WHINE that covers the American soaps in large doses. Ah hell, forget the soap and just give me the cheese...please. This morning, to my delight, "King For A Day" came drifting out of my speakers. Promptly right after, the DJ gave a plug for the band. He mentioned they had a new label and would soon have their umpteenth album out! This was a new alternative station that has sprouted here in London. Not only did they play XTC this morning, but the previous morning as well. It's the little things in life. Great way to start your day. : ) As for covers, I tend not to like them because as it's been stated before, the original is MUCH better. I have to say, though, that the version of "Man Who Sailed Around His Soul" by Rubens...someone help me out here!!....Blades! Is that it?! Did I get it right?! Anyway, I found that one fun. He wasn't attempting to be XTC, like with most of the covers, he simple took the song down another road. I thought it was very imaginative. Having difficulty finding which word to write or right...huh? Cheryl
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Date: Fri, 03 Oct 97 15:27:00 PDT
From: Gerry Dunne <Gerry_Dunne@ccm.isw.intel.com>
Message-ID: <Fri, 03 Oct 97 11:30:57 PDT_1@ccm.fm.intel.com>
Subject: XTC - Swindon
I live in Swindon and have been an XTC fan since they were
called the Helium Boys and used to play poxy pubs around the Old
Town area of Swindon.
If you want questions answered about song references to Swindon
(like, who was Nigel?) I might be able to help.
Regards, Gerry.
------------------------------ Message-Id: <199710042009.WAA15268@utrecht.knoware.nl> From: "Mark Strijbos" <mmello@knoware.nl> Organization: The Little Lighthouse Date: Sat, 4 Oct 1997 22:16:21 +0000 Subject: It Was Twenty Years Ago Today... Dear Chalkers, This coming Monday October 7th it will be 20 years ago that the first XTC record was released. This original 7 inch "XTC 3D SINGLE" was soon replaced by the 12 inch version "XTC 3D EP" and is now extremely rare and valuable as a result. Only some 50 copies are believed to have been released with a picture sleeve and nobody knows how many have "survived"... It's one of the rarest singles of the Great Punk Wars of '77 and very collectable as a result - not only for XTC fans. I think a small celebration is in order to commemorate 20 years of XTC "on the record" so I will fetch my copy of this classic single from my vinyl vaults and look at it in awe for a while. yours scientifically, Mark Strijbos at The Little Lighthouse the XTC website @ http://come.to/xtc ===> The Random XTC Quote <=== I have watched the manimals and cried
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