Chalkhills Digest Volume 4, Issue 99
Date: Monday, 29 June 1998
Chalkhills Digest, Volume 4, Number 99
Monday, 29 June 1998
Today's Topics:
Stereolab
Cooking Vinyl Sampler w/Terry & The Lovemen
Calling Mike Wicks!
MTV is Dead?
XTC VIDEOS SALE UPDATE
Essentiality
Fu-huh-huck...
Dream follow ups etc.
Re: You're pulling me out of lurk mode
Listen to The Big Express
This year's MUST NOT MISS film
Merci
Rhinoplasty
Willing Slaves?
religious spoutings
BORED !!!!!!!!!!!!ZZZzzzzz
Shouldn't say this!
The 20th century Luddites.
People's agendas
Pinocchio's Nose
Problem with UK skylarking disc
Pink Thing / XTC sight causing thoughts
Rivalry between Chalkhills & Fegs?
XTC Content
4CD Set
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <007701bd9dcd$389e5900$2f975ed1@nate> From: "Gineen" <natalia@javanet.com> Subject: Stereolab Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 07:02:14 -0400 Subject: Stereolab Was wondering, Is Stereolab a band that is popular among XTC fans? I heard the name mentioned here and so I checked out some music samples online. I liked a little bit of what I did hear. Are these guys any good? And,,,,how easy will it be for me to find them in a music store? Rare? Just curious, always looking to expand my music a bit.......no such luck yet. Still just have XTC playing most days, occasionally a little bit of Madness here and there and I have been listening to Gary Numan more again........ By the way.....anyway headed o the UK in the month of August or September? I am going Aug 4th for a few months..........although I may change my ticket to come home sooner,see how it goes. Let me know! Or if you are in the UK,even better! I will be in Slough,Berks,Cippenham. Bye.
------------------------------ From: wwilson@star.zko.dec.com Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 09:28:51 -0400 Message-Id: <98062209285149@star.zko.dec.com> Subject: Cooking Vinyl Sampler w/Terry & The Lovemen I just checked the future releases at http://www.sirencd.com/cgi/panel.cgi/?=act.future Seems Cooking Vinyl will release a 16-track compilation with tracks from among others Stephen Duffy and Terry and The Lovemen. Release date is 29-Jun-98. I have purchased from Siren CD before and was very happy with their service, shipping, and of course the CDs... Wes Wilson
------------------------------ Message-Id: <199806221654.JAA09768@access.tucson.org> From: "J. D. SMX" <jsmelser@access.tucson.org> Organization: Access Tucson Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 10:03:00 -0700 Subject: Calling Mike Wicks! Hi Fellow Chalkdusties, This is a call to an old Chalkhillian. E-mail me Mr. Wicks. I've got some timely material to pass on. Quit Lurking And Get On The Beam, sir. SMX
------------------------------ From: LadyCPlum@aol.com Message-ID: <4807870b.358eae03@aol.com> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 15:18:26 EDT Subject: MTV is Dead? Did anyone happen to catch the Flashback 120 Minutes played of XTC? I know the vid was KFAD, but for some strange reason MTV WAS NOT COMING IN LAST NIGHT. -ACO
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Jun 98 20:14:21 UT From: "Lawrence Rubin" <lrubin1@classic.msn.com> Message-Id: <UPMAIL14.199806222013100813@classic.msn.com> Subject: XTC VIDEOS SALE UPDATE To everyone who sent me $12 for the 21 videos- I sent out the videos to everyone on June 22, Enjoy! -Ben
------------------------------ Message-ID: <358F45F4.F5FAB069@umich.edu> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 02:06:44 -0400 From: Rob Hill <rhill@umich.edu> Subject: Essentiality You all may be interested to know that Drums & Wires made Amazon Books list of essential New Wave albums (alongside Elvis Costello, The Police, Talking Heads, & others). Barry "Anderson" is mentioned as a co-founder & Andy is described as a "Fun House operator gone mad." Quaint, no? http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/cache/music-collections/new-wave-booklist Rob Science Friction "sounds like bulldozers fucking" -- some French wanker
------------------------------ Message-Id: <v03102800b1b4f6dab4e5@[165.227.110.102]> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 23:26:41 -0700 From: Richard Pedretti-Allen <richard@tactics.com> Subject: Fu-huh-huck... A wonderful week it has been, indeed. With the Unabomber safely incarcerated, I inquisitively opened the package that bore only my name and address. Inside I found a CD case with no labeling containing an unimprinted CD with Andy's demos safely burned into it's bitstream. Thanks to the selfless soul who felt that I needed to own this! Fuckin' cool! And speaking of "Fuck", considering that Andy never _actually_ speaks_ the words "Fuck" or "Shit" in "Your Dictionary", do you think it can still get airplay? While I realize that these are some of the words that we are not supposed to use on the digest, Andy said them first (nya, nya, nya, nya-nya) and... Ain't it fuckin' great to have the "Firework" Demos?! Cheers, Richard "lounging poolside, quaffing Mai Tais from a coconut shell while naked (legally untouchable) nubile nymphets fan me with palm fronds and peel grapes for me" Pedretti-Allen "richard@tactics.com" until July, then back to #@%&$! "rpa@lucent.com" p.s. Don't wake me.
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Message-ID: <65706847FC74D1119E000000F801D38C18F360@NTFS03>
From: "Deane, Simon" <simon.deane@dgj.com.hk>
Subject: Dream follow ups etc.
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 17:17:54 +0800
I've noticed that a number of contributors (including man-of-the-moment,
Dominic Lawson) are West Ham supporters. Can I just add my agreement to
the dream of them winning the league. They're definitely on the verge of
greater things after a very low period - losing to Arsenal in the Cup on
penalties was a real bummer. It also strikes me that there is some
connection between being a West Ham supporter and an XTC fan. West Ham
have never sacrificed their commitment to playing attractive, creative
football sometimes at the expense of more mundane success in their
failure to win trophies on a regular basis. The comparisons with XTC are
compelling. Any other Irons supporters out there?
Mark Archer-May made a comment about my dream of global recognition for
XTC. I wholeheartedly agree with him - that's why I added the words "on
their own terms" in the "dream".
Back to Dom's recent comments: I think your high profile distaste for
Lloyd-Webber etc. just boils down to a bit of musical snobbery which is
a phase we all go through at some stage (I used to get very high and
mighty about the Bay City Rollers, the BeeGees and, yes, Lloyd-Webber
musicals, to name but a few). But you're in good company - Harrison
Sherwood is decidedly sniffy about stuff which is peddled in his face by
greedhead marketeers. And hang on a moment, aren't Lloyd-Webber musicals
just the kind of things that those nasty marketing fellows like to
peddle in our faces ("Jesus Christ Superstar": musical, record, film,
book; "Evita": ditto etc. etc.)? It looks to me like you 2 should get
together - you seem to agree on a lot of things.
The real point, which I think has been made by a number of people
already (so, sorry for repeating it), is that everyone has different
tastes in everything, and it is getting just a tad presumptuous to set
oneself up as an arbiter of what people should or shouldn't like to
listen to. No one's saying that you have to like "Jesus Christ
Superstar", it's just more mature to be able to accept that some other
people do like it-even XTC fans. We can't even say that, for example,
"English Settlement" is better than "Jesus Christ Superstar" - that's
just our opinion as XTC fans (although Mr Deuchars may disagree on that
one). Who's to say that we're right and Mr Deuchars is wrong? It's all
pretty obvious really.
All the best
Simon Deane
------------------------------ Message-Id: <s58f97a9.003@parliament.uk> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 11:53:40 +0100 From: Dominic Lawson <LAWSOND@parliament.uk> Subject: Re: You're pulling me out of lurk mode Firstly, should I change my name to Don? It would make things easier for everyone. OK, Don No.2 (your designated number, no insult intended). A thousand apologies for my "intellectual blip", or rather, what the sunburnt arse are you going on about man? I thought it was blatantly obvious that I was dissing Harrison for being a self-congratulating clever clogs, so you defend him and "correct" me by turning this into a "who's the brainiest?" competition. Yawn. It's like being back at school. You'll be taking the piss out of my satchel next. Sorry, I won't back down about ALW. If you don't agree with me, fair enough, but you're quite, quite wrong. He is revolting - end of story. No one else is entitled to their opinion when it comes to oily, right-wing, overpaid plagiarists. The umpire's decision is final. Yes, my original postings may have appeared somewhat juvenile. Firstly, I never said they weren't. In fact I apologised on more or less that very basis. Also, I am seemingly closer to the days of juvenilia than Harrison. No excuse, I know, but being childish is rather good fun and such comments are not meant to be taken particularly seriously! Anyway, I don't enshroud my "juvenile" outbursts in intellectual waffle. I try not to beat around anyone's bush where possible. As for resentment and envy, well, aren't we the psychoanalyst? I don't resent Harrison because a) this is a discussion forum on the Net, not a family meeting to decide who gets the inheritance, and b) because I don't accept his arguments as being wholly relevant. Sorry, nil points. I don't envy Harrison either, mainly because if I spent that much time writing I would rarely get out the front door. Nor would I wish to be viewed as a dazzling exponent of in-depth cultural critiques. Old Hazza is a dab hand at this debating lark, but his style is not to my taste, thank you very much. Mind you, I am going on a bit here so maybe we're related in some foul way. Also, you say my first posting was "terminally self-satisfied". Hanging me with my own socks, eh? Well, I think you're either being deliberately unfair or you've genuinely mis-interpreted my statement, because it was a message honestly sent and there was no indication that I thought myself "hip" or in any way superior to anyone else. It was just an opinion about music - something I feel strongly about. It was also my first post, and I was (and still am) new to all this. Anyway, every time we go over this, a few Chalkhills readers topple off their chairs and start snoring, so could you possibly give me the chance to talk about something else? Yes, I have deserved some flak. No, I don't deserve to spend the limited time I have to contribute to the digest defending myself against pedants and snobs. And finally, "pathetic double-speak"? Don't drag me into your Orwellian nightmares, pal. I'm not a robot - sometimes I will contradict myself, sometimes I will sound like a hypocrite. We all do it, unless you consider yourself beyond reproach. I could bore you all to death with a list of discrepancies in numerous recent postings, as could anyone, but it's DULL DULL DULL. Move on. Yet again I haven't got the time or space to say ANYTHING about XTC (although I'll try, goddamit!). Maybe next time I'll get the opportunity. Oh, and by the way, I am a very "lucid" kinda guy. "Well-thought out" is another matter, but if my boss catches me writing e-mails of this length, my sorry arse is paperclips! Time is of the essence.... XTC Content: Does anyone actually like "My Weapon"? Salut! Dom.
------------------------------ From: StarlingV@aol.com Message-ID: <2e8f7bb4.358f89c1@aol.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 06:56:00 EDT Subject: Listen to The Big Express Tuesday night (June 23rd) at 10 pm eastern on America Online, we'll continue the XTC chat/listening parties with The Big Express. Details about the chat parties can be found at http://members.aol.com/starlingv/aolvis.htm. We've had some nice crowds over the last several weeks, and I hope more of you with AOL access will join us this time. If you have any questions about how to participate, just send me mail & I'll help you out. Looking forward to Red Brick Dream and You're The Wish....especially, Janis ************************** "Bird and bear and hare and fish, Give your love her fondest wish"
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From: "Witter, Karl F" <WitterKF@aetna.com>
Subject: This year's MUST NOT MISS film
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 08:13:14 -0400
To Chalkies in the USA: If you saw the American Film Institute's
Top 100 show on Tuesday 6/16, fine.
However, if you were glued to the telly, getting drunk, scribbling
down the list, and arguing with the screen...("'Guess Who's Coming
to DINNER'? Try PAT and MIKE! Steven SPIELBERG has 5 titles?? Where's
PRESTON STURGES???"),you may consider yourself something of a filmie.
If so, get to an art house and see "The Race to Save 100 Years", a
story of film preservation. It's got thrills, chills, and even a
little bit of nekkidness, not the least of which is 5 seconds of
the one and only ***Little Egypt*** at the 1893 World's Fair. You
know the soundtrack; now see the film that goes with it.
Nitrate won't wait,
Karl
PS: Look at http://reality.sgi.com/chalkhills/estp/estp05.html.
It seems Colin is holding a trumpet or horn. Does he actually play
the thing?
------------------------------ Message-ID: <358FA8C0.6FB@together.net> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 08:08:21 -0500 From: "K. Zimmer" <kzimmer@together.net> Subject: Merci Thanks to all the folks who responded to my request for demographic information. It's time that I revealed that I am actually a representative of Korporate Kulture, Inc., and this information will be used to market a new deodorant. Seriously, thanks. I feel like I know you all better. And I like y'all! Even the Republicans who say "Why ask why?" when asked a serious question about their ideology. (Sorry Amanda!) I'm still four Chalkhills behind in my reading, but I'm having fun reading your too-witty remarks. The only thing that made the experience very negative for me was a few anti-American remarks, especially "monster-truck-watchin' USA." Is that really necessary? Maybe you were referring to a particular SEGMENT of American society, or maybe you are just as stupid as the people you are trying to mock. Either way, I don't see that kind of remark as productive. And remember, we've got more nuclear weapons than you. (hee hee - just joking, melt the guns and all that) Let's make this Boston meeting happen. How many New Englanders have we got here? Oh, and to ex-Smiley Face: if you haven't received a reply to your post yet, I've got a copy of "The Dub Experiments" for you.
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Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19980623121010.006a5a24@mail.clemson.edu>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 12:10:10 -0400
From: Adam Tyner <ctyner@clemson.edu>
Subject: Rhinoplasty
If you'd like to hear Primus' cover of Scissorsman off of their new EP
"Rhinoplasty" (available July 14), go to
http://www.broadcast.com/jukebox/ram/p/primus_rhinoplasty.ram for 28.8K
users or http://www.broadcast.com/jukebox/ram/p/primus_rhinoplastyisdn.ram
for people with higher speed connections. It's a pretty decent cover,
IMO...the solo is a bit annoying, but other than that, it sounds very much
like the original.
-Adam
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------------------------------ Message-Id: <s58ff8d5.073@BTA.ORG.UK> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 18:09:33 +0100 From: DAVID FATSCHER <dfatscher@BTA.ORG.UK> Subject: Willing Slaves? >Then I got overconfident and let the CD segue into >Chalkhills and Children. He was gagging and >lunging or the CD player within 10 seconds.... ...I've noticed that when low on Hard News, we Chalkhillians seem to gather in herds picking 'lists' from each other. So with that in mind - and the above experience, which is all too familiar - I was wondering if we could put together a Top 10 of 'turn-on-able' XTC songs together with (and this is the fun bit) 'turn-off-able' ones. Far be it for me to propose rules at this juncture, but I think we should be using proven turn-off-able examples like the C&C one, not just the most obviously inaccessible - where presumably Travel in Nihilon would (Godzilla-like) crush all competition. For my money, I'd say the following can be guaranteed to favourably raise the odd-eyebrow when sneaked onto a various artists' compilation tape (and this more than makes up for the inevitable "...they still going then?"): Love on a FarmBoys' Wages (how could anyone possibly not like this?); Ladybird; opening tracks of Skylarking (particularly Summer Cauldron/Grass and Season Cycle); Most of Psonic Psunspot Mayor of Simpleton King for a Day Dear Madam Barnum Humble Daisy To be honest, I have only performed this test on my girlfriend (hardly ideal lab conditions then) and she now reacts with eyeballs-rolling in a "Ho-hum, I think I know who this might be..." way - but one has to start somewhere! David Fatscher
------------------------------ Message-Id: <199806231932.OAA24692@ted.asap.net> From: "Greg Singer" <greg@asap.net> Subject: religious spoutings Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 14:54:15 -0500 It's sad to see people spouting their religious propaganda, "Religion: Christian who loves Reformed theology (John Calvin, Jonathon Edwards). Christ is King. Life is meaningless otherwise.", when all we want to hear about is XTC. A long time reader and occasional contributor. Greg s
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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 00:03:15 +0100
From: peter.wright2@virgin.net (peter.wright2@virgin.net)
Subject: BORED !!!!!!!!!!!!ZZZzzzzz
Dear All,
Survey - BORING.
That chord - BORING.
Dom - BORING ( and incredibly smug - one of those guys
who looks in the mirror and gets a hard-on ).
"...I heard Travels In Nihilon while on a bus / shopping / having
sex etc..." - BORING.
The once great Chalkhills Digest (and you don't know how much it pains
me to say this) - BORING.
Sorry everyone but it had to be said. As the album slides further and
further from our outstretched , grasping hand and every week the album
is put back yet another month , this Digest has died. Unless something
happens soon this forum will evaporate in a huge cloud of tedium as its
threads gets more and more banal. Bye . ( Fire away ! ). Pete.
------------------------------ Message-ID: <01BD9F76.AC2B0620@e2c10p53.scotland.net> From: Robert Wood <wobbit@bigfoot.com> Subject: Shouldn't say this! Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 13:28:47 +0100 This is just MHO, obv., but... >> If you get Mummer today, then in five years time it will be your favourite, it just grows and grows. << Can't agree with that! Mummer is the poorest of the post Go 2/White Music stuff I think. Side two has a purple patch, I love "In Loving Memory", "Ladybird" "Me and the Wind" and "Funk Pop a Roll". But I find much of it a bit dour! Big Express though is in my top 3 XTC albums (with ES and Nonsuch for the record), Molly! Problem is that there will be other people who love Mummer far more than BE! So as Jon quite rightly says, the price of an album *is* cheap; buy 'em all and make your own mind up!
------------------------------ Message-ID: <01BD9F76.B3FCFA20@e2c10p53.scotland.net> From: Robert Wood <wobbit@bigfoot.com> Subject: The 20th century Luddites. Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 13:36:26 +0100 >> I have long observed that most people listen to whatever music was popular when they were 18. Radio stations support this by concentrating on best of the decade formats that follow the listener from teenage to old age with the same tunes. << Ooooh, this is so true! People are so conservative (with a small "c", note!) once they reach their 20s! Most people feel comfortable with what they grow up with and once they say goodbye to their teen years they become Luddites. That's not just with music either! A big irony I find with people who work in computers and electronics, the most innovative and fast moving industry in the world, is that they'll get used to an operating system, piece of software, a way of designing things etc and it's bloody hard to perseude them to use something new when it comes along! Nowt as queer as folk!
------------------------------ Message-ID: <01BD9F7B.27C41E80@e2c10p53.scotland.net> From: Robert Wood <wobbit@bigfoot.com> Subject: People's agendas Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:19:42 +0100 I very much enjoyed Eric Rosen's recent(ish) post on Affiliations... Very well written I thought, and thought provoking... A small (maybe slightly tongue in cheek) response has to be written! >> With all that said... ****Why would anyone making less than $200,000 per year ever align themselves with the Republican party?**** If people vote "their pocketbooks" then there's a sizable lot out there making less than 200G's who somehow believe that their interests and the interests served by the Republicans are the same. If so, please explain this to me. << An identical claim could be made over here (UK, FYI) with the Tories and say 100,000 pounds sterling per annum. For the many years that the Tories were in power here I found it ironic that the people who gain least by the Tories end up being brainwashed into believing that they [the less well off of the electorate] should vote for the party that want them to be poorly educated, poorly paid and take away their welfare state! >> Or, let's re-phrase the question. "When did the Republicans ever do anything that benefited people making less than 200Gs and what was it?" << Again, replace Republicans with Conservatives! >> And about this surge of Libertarianism. What is it really? <snip> A Libertarian would say, "it's unnecessary to have laws that require motorists to wear their seat belts or cyclists to wear crash helmets" and give the rationale that "people are rational and can decide for themselves what level of risk they should take" and "government needn't clog up the courts and the lawbooks with excess rules." But, are people always rational? Is every individual mature enough to make the wisest decision? << It's the rationality aspect here, I believe. Before we had the seat belt laws over here, some people genuinely believed that it was more dangerous to wear a seatbelt as they wouldn't be able to release themselves from a burning car for example. It was obvious to belt wearers that this was nonsense! It would seem that sometimes people have to be forced into doing something they don't want to! But how do you decide when the time is right to do so? >> Have any of you worked at a corporation that was inefficient? << More to the point has anyone ever worked for a corporation that was *efficient*?! <g> It's hard enough to keep a marriage of two people together because of people's confliciting desires, then take a rock and roll band of three or more where different members want to take a different direction musically, and then look at a corporation where so many poeple are trying to climb the corporate ladder. They will tread on whoever they need to, to reach their desired destination, all the time working against other people. (That's without taking into account how often people just don't care about their work and how inefficiant they so often are!) >> As for my politics, I say we need to take Ralph Nader's advice. Have a choice in every ballot that says "none of the above." If none of the above wins, then we have a runoff in 30 days time with a clean slate of candidates. The cool thing about this is it would help take a lot of the big money out of our elections and would remove the need to vote for the least of the evils. << A lovely idea; and who would be willing to pay for the administration of running the 30th election in a row because of the None Of The Above party being voted in again and again?! <g>
------------------------------ Date: 24 Jun 98 11:26:13 AST From: PCulnane@dca.gov.au Subject: Pinocchio's Nose Message-ID: <0000hbbtxzvd.0000rdxxxfbd@dca.gov.au> On this morning's breakfast news TV show, "Today", there was an item about a "nose panel" - people who were contracted to assess the odours of various substances with their nose, for scientific research. Can you guess what the background music was? "....I've got 1,2,3,4,5....." ~p@ul (it's a slow day at the office)
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 10:34:54 -0700 From: "HALSTED :: the monkey claw is smelly" <halsted@lucasdigital.com> Message-Id: <199806241734.KAA22709@brak> Subject: Problem with UK skylarking disc I haven't listened to Skylarking in a long time so I broke out the UK disc of it. The label side has yellowed, especially at the edges, and it now won't play. Has anyone else had the same problem?
------------------------------ From: "Lemoncurry" <dieling@hrz1.uni-oldenburg.de> Organization: University Of Oldenburg Comp.Center Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 12:27:15 MET-1METDST Subject: Pink Thing / XTC sight causing thoughts Message-ID: <4CD54FE2214@hrz1.uni-oldenburg.de> Hi fellow Chalksters, first of all, I'm glad to announce Leon Branco Colic has entered the world, who is the baby of my best friend born on Tuesday, 23rd of June, and I have the great honor to be his whatever that baptising uncle is called in English, you know, the person who is somehow responsible for bringing up the child, too. Leon will probably not be baptised, but nevertheless I'm kinda informal baptising uncle, in German it's called "Pate", but so is the Godfather trilogy, and I actually don't believe that "Godfather" is the correct term for the function that I do now fill out. Now some XTC content: In a newspaper here in Germany called "TAZ" (short for TAgesZeitung=daily paper) there was an interview with Brian Wilson about his new album "Imagination". One question went like, "a lot of bands which are hip today refer to the Beach Boys and especially Pet Sounds, like XTC, Cornelius or High Llamas." Well, Mr Wilson was very pleased to hear that, actually being pleased by anything the reporter told him, but I thought:"Hang on ! They do mention XTC, so they now them. A lot of people in the media seem to 0know them here in Germany, so how come I haven't like read an article about them for years, let alone a small note in music mags that Davey's gone ?" The only good in-depth article in german media I know dates back to 1987, in Spex, which I think can be found in the Chalkhills archives (have to check out, otherwise I'll be translating it later). Oops, just took a minute checking the archives out, the article isn't in there, so I'll do the job myself, may take some time, as I'm busy with studying right now. Coming back to the Brian Wilson interview, what also made me stop is XTC being called "hip". Not to bring back the DomDiscussion back to life, but I personally think we are all kinda hip listening to a band which mainly exists in our lives and not in the life out there, which makes life out there kinda grey, doesn't it ? In one of the last digests Mark Archer said he liked Yes, and invited you to drum him out for this revelation. Before you do, go and listen to their song "Close to the Edge" from the album of the same title, and you'll find the main guitar riff (or one of them, the song is 18:50 long) could be without any problems transferred onto Go2 or White Music, being quirky, catchy, neurotic. That's all, now drum me out (if Mr Chambers or Mr Bruford did that, I'd be pleased.) Cheers to all, Lemoncurry residing in The Lemon Lounge at www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/9259 lemoncurry@geocities.com XTC Song of the Day: Pink Thing
------------------------------ Message-ID: <19980625131152.1523.rocketmail@send1d.yahoomail.com> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 06:11:52 -0700 (PDT) From: brian sellers <mybreed@yahoo.com> Subject: Rivalry between Chalkhills & Fegs? Hello Chalkhillians, Just a question for anyone who knows: What is the relationship [or lack thereof] between Andy and Robyn Hitchcock? I've never heard a satisfactory answer to this question - only speculation. Are the tides rough between the two? Have they ever worked together? Seems unlikely, but please enlighten me. I would love to hear their pop chords collide. Yellow Matter Custard to you all, Brian
------------------------------ From: MFa2707621@aol.com Message-ID: <5a9372b5.3596b5ee@aol.com> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 17:30:21 EDT Subject: XTC Content Chalkers, I would like to say that I didn't know I was spamming when I was mentioning the XTC content. I thought spamming had to do with unwanted advertisements in your e-mail. Boy, I'm computer illiterate. Well, I want to say that I was sort of wrong when I said that. I change my mind about that XTC content thing, because I got slammed for mentioning XTC on a Squeeze mailing list. I don't want to bad mouth other mailing lists, but they can be brutal on that mailing list. I just posed this question: Why do a lot of Squeeze fans hate XTC? It just seems to me that a lot of them don't like XTC. I don't understand, because they're both great bands. I asked if it was because of the Chris Difford incident, because I was thinking some Squeeze fans would blame XTC for what happened. Well, I'm off on vacation for a week so for the US Chalkers out there have a happy Fourth of July, and for the Canadian Chalkers out there happy Canada Day. Molly
------------------------------ Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980628224321.007c4b20@pop3.demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 22:43:21 +0100 From: The Larsons <MereBrian@larson4.demon.co.uk> Subject: 4CD Set > Remember a few months back when someone with cotton candy in their head > suggested collecting money and sending it to XTC? How about spending the > money instead on the 4 CD set that will be coming out soon? The money will > go directly to Idea i.e. XTC and they will be able to finish both new albums > and we will have more music. No I don't know the track listings for the 4 CD > thing but you can be sure there will be nicely recorded live/studio versions Ok, I'm sure I'll buy the 4CD set (that 4 came out $ the first time I typed it - Freudian slip), especially after the heartstrings of my XTC loyalty have been tugged at. But, believe it or not, there are still some XTC diehards out here in Chalkhills-land who do *not* have the demos (*any* of them, that is, except Find The Fox, Terrorism, et al, on the Meeting Place 12" -- legally purchased). How 'bout making 1 of the 4 CDs demos that won't be on "Firework"; or maybe even that *will* be on the new album? I mean I have Fossil Fuel, I have Drums and Wireless, I have Waxworks and Beeswax, I have the BBC Radio 1 Sessions; I estimate I have about a dozen different cuts of Nigel and other "hits". I do appreciate the different touches on the Radio 1 Sessions but some totally "new" material would be far more interesting. Cheers, Steve * ------------------------------ Larson Family Web Page: http://www.larson4.demon.co.uk * ------------------------------
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