Chalkhills Digest Volume 6, Issue 104
Date: Monday, 8 May 2000
Chalkhills Digest, Volume 6, Number 104
Monday, 8 May 2000
Topics:
Taxiride
More Therapy for Chris Vreeland
Full albums
Code Blue
All the way through?
Reduced
Rough translation of belorussian article
Re: Bodysnatchers
Hammersmith Palace intro to This Is Pop?
Great lost bands thread
Re: More praise for Fingerprintz
Various and Sundry Items
TVT have yet to announce.
Lost band.
I'm just getting ... I'm just getting a buzzing noise in my left
Great lost (or is it slightly misplaced) bands
How Frivolous Tonight Came To Be
Metal Hurlant
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Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 22:19:20 -0400
From: Ben Gott/Loquacious Music <gott@tmbg.org>
Subject: Taxiride
Message-ID: <B53B9C67.22AE%gott@tmbg.org>
Goobers,
Last year at (almost) exactly this time, Stormy Monday posted about a band
called "Taxiride." I wrote back, telling him that I had heard their single
on VH-1, and had liked it -- but I promptly forgot about the band, and about
their debut album.
Tonight, while cleaning out e-mails, I stumbled upon Stormy's note and I
checked Napster for "Get Set." I listened to the first thirty seconds, then
sprinted to the car and took off, tires squealing, towards Bull Moose Music.
Two minutes later, I had the Taxiride debut CD, "Imaginate," and I was
blasting it in the car.
XTC fans, GET THIS. It was produced and mixed by Jack Joseph Puig and,
indeed, it makes Jellyfish's "Spilt Milk" look like child's play. These
guys are a cross between Jellyfish, Sloan, with a touch of the pop
sensibilites of the recent boy groups that have hit the market...(Of course,
their songs are much more intelligent than "Bye Bye Bye," but you catch the
drift...) They also sound eerily like CS&N (especially the first track,
which could've been "Suite Judy Blue Eyes - Pt. 2")...Plus, they're
Australian, so all the Aussies on the list can be proud of me.
Another band y'all might like is Pepper Sands; their new single "So Fine" is
at http://www.mp3.com/peppersands.
Live it. Love it. And XTC is good, too. (No press releases this time.)
-Ben
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Benjamin Gott . Loquacious Music . Brunswick, ME 04011
AIM: Plan4Nigel . Tel: (207) 721-5366 . http://listen.to/loquacious
You can feel it all over / You can feel it all over, people...
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------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 00:50:29 -0500 From: "Joe Funk" <twosheds@mindspring.com> Subject: More Therapy for Chris Vreeland Message-ID: <003201bfb8b1$6a038140$7721fea9@user> Chris, According to my careful prosthesis.... You have singing penis envy. Joe "With a Melon?" Funk
------------------------------ Date: Sun, 07 May 2000 23:31:58 PDT From: "Beverly Cash" <plutomoon@hotmail.com> Subject: Full albums Message-ID: <20000508063158.77249.qmail@hotmail.com> Hello, Hmmm,albums I can listen to all the way through.A good number really,not including any compilations of sorts.. Firedances,Brighter Than a Thousand Suns,self titled album and Pandemonium all by Killing Joke. All Mod Cons by The Jam. Introducing The Style Council and Internationalists by the Style Council. Out of the Blue by ELO. Land of Rape and Honey by Ministry. The Hurting and Songs From the Big Chair by Tears For Fears. Srgt.Peppers by Zee Beatles. I Had Too Much to Dream by The Electric Prunes Phantasmagoria by The Damned Having A Rave Up With The Yardbirds Oranges and Lemons,Skylarking and Nonsuch (and hopefully the forthcoming Wasp Star will be added hehe...all the talk has made me bonkers!) But I must say though,there is sometimes a song or two on some of these that I may not think is great,but not altogether skipable and horrendous. There's actually probably more that I just havn't thought of in a while in my fickle ways :) All this talk of the Kinks.They were 'credited' with the first metal 'riff',not actual song.And all it is, is 'credited' with it,most likely as to not have to really answer to it from anyone trying to debate it hehe.That way they could say"Well,we were just 'crediting' them to it,not actually saying it actually is".It's good for them anyway I suppose to be in the Guiness Book of World Records hehe. My very favorite Kinks tunes anyway are Til' the End of the Day,Sittin' on my Sofa,and Sunny Afternoon. You know,they say their videos weren't good.And though I havn't seen them all,I don't think most of the ones I've seen are too bad.Mayor of Simpleton is cute,King For a Day is simple but came out nice,even earlier ones I've seen aren't too bad.The only video I think is pretty lame is Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead.I actually like the song,but the video is pretty cheesy to me.I've seen a video compilation on e-bay now and again but havn't really had the funds lately to go on a bidding war for it (after all,the house WON'T repair itself will it?Too bad to!) I hope they do some videos for Wasp Star.Even if they don't really like them,it's the only way for us to see them "perform".I want to see them doing King For a Day on Letterman.Sometimes old Lettermans get played like the old saturday Night Lives do and maybe it'll turn up.Speaking of,does anyone know if they ever played on Saturday Night Live?Those come on a lot. Anyway,have a good one***Cheers***Beverly
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 01:27:37 -0600 From: Phil Corless <philco@micron.net> Subject: Code Blue Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20000508012737.00a3fd00@pophost.micron.net> One of my great forgotten bands.... An early 80's Los Angeles group called Code Blue. I know nothing about them.... I just have a tape someone gave me in high school nearly 20 years ago. If anyone has ever heard of Code Blue, let me know.... Oh, and speaking of early 80's LA bands, how about The Busboys? Anyone remember them? Great things were expected of their leader, whose name escapes me at the moment, but I don't think he amounted to much.
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Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 03:59:54 EDT
From: KINGSTUNES@aol.com
Subject: All the way through?
Message-ID: <a6.407001b.2647cdfa@aol.com>
Here are the albums (I probably missed a couple) that I can listen to all the
way through, anytime. I absolutely love these recordings and know most of
them inside out.
(By Artist):
Elvis Presley - The Sun Sessions
Dave Brubeck - Take Five
Chick Corea and Return to Forever - 1st, Light as a Feather
Ralph Towner - Solstice
Joni Mitchell - Songs to a Seagull, Court & Spark, The Hissing of Summer
Lawns,
Hejira, Turbulent Indigo (remove 'My Old Man' and I'd add Blue)
Beatles - Everything. I mean everything! Disgusting, Isn't it?
Led Zeppelin - 1st five
Charlie Parker - Byrd Symbols
Donovan - Greatest Hits
Peter, Paul & Mary - In Concert, Album 1700
John Prine - Lost Dogs & Mixed Blessings
Randy Newman - Sail Away
Mose Allison - Your Mind is on Vacation
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday, The Notorious Byrd Brothers
Buffallo Springfield - Again
Crosby, Stills & Nash - 1st, CSN
Stevie Wonder - Inner Visions, Fulfillingness' First Finale
It's A Beautiful Day - 1st (self titled)
Yes - Time and a Word, Fragile, Close to the Edge
Animals - Greatest Hits
Chet Atkins & Les Paul - Chester & Lester (1st)
Planxty - 1st (self titled)
Bothy Band - Old Hag You Have Killed Me
The Band - 2nd (self titled)
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Jeff Beck - Jeff Beck Group (1st), Blow By Blow
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King, Discipline
Mary Black - Collected
Susan Werner - Time Between Trains
Blood, Sweat & Tears - 2nd (self titled)
David Bromberg Band - Reckless Abandon
Alison Kraus & Union Station - So Long, So Wrong
Jackson Browne - Saturate Befroe Using, The Pretender
Chicago - II, III, V, VII (everything after VII, well, you know, sucks)
The Chieftains - 2
Clannad - Dulaman, Crann Ull, Fuaim, Magical Ring
Creedence - Green River, Willie & the Poorboys
Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age of Wireless, The Flat Earth, Astronauts &
Heretics
Seamus Egan - A Week In January
Danald Fagen - The Nightfly
Steely Dan - everything (Haven't got the new one yet)
The Doors - 1st, Strange Days (favorite Doors song - When The Music's Over)
Peter Gabriel - So
Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste, Power & the Glory, Free Hand
Vince Guaraldi - A Charlie Brown Christmas
Grateful Dead - American Beauty, Blues for Allah, Terrapin Station
Hall & Oates - Abandoned Lunchonette
Hendrix - Are You Experienced?, Axis, Electric Ladyland (Why isn't the Cry of
Love
available on CD??? Waaaahhhh!!)
Joe Jackson - Everything except Willpower and Symphony #1
Jefferson Airplane - Crown of Creation
Jethro Tull - Stand Up, Benefit
Elton John - 1st (self titled)
Kinks - Something Else, Village Green Preservation Society, Lola Vrs. the
Powerman (their best album, IMHO)
K. D. Lang - Absolute Torch & Twang
John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
Manhattan Transfer - Brasil
John Mayall - The Turning Point
Pat Metheney - Bright Size Life, The Pat Metheney Group (1st group album)
Pat Metheney & Lyle Mays - As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls
Paul McCartney - Band on the Run (drop Ebony & Ivory and I'd add Tug of War)
John McLaughlin - Extrapolation, Shakti (1st)
Midnight Oil - Deisel & Dust, Earth & Sun & Moon
Glenn Miller Orchestra - With the Army Air Force Band (grew up listening to
it!)
The Monkees - Headquaters, Pisces Aquarius Capricorn & Jones Ltd.
Motown - Hitsville, USA
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks, Moondance, Irish Heartbeat
Willie Nelson - You Were Always On My Mind (I love Willie! So what?)
Pure Funk (compilation)
Bonnie Raitt - Nick of Time
Ry Cooder - Bop Till You Drop
Paul Winter Consort - Icarus
Oregon - Winter Light, Music of Another Present Era, Distant Hills, Out of
the Woods
Pentangle - Basket of Light
Fairport Convention - Liege and Leaf
Steeleye Span - Commoner's Crown, Below the Salt
Queen - Sheer Heart Attack, A Night at the Opera
Pink Floyd - Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall
The Pogues - If I Should Fall From the Grace of God
The Police - Outlandos D'Amour, Regatta de Blanc, Synchronicity
The Pretenders - Learning to Crawl (one of the best rock albums ever, IMHO)
Procol Harum - Shine On Brightly
Relativity - 1st (self titled)
Stones - Between the Buttons, Beggars Banquet, Sticky Fingers
Todd Rundgren - The Ballad of Todd Rundgren, Something / Anything?
Santana - Abraxas, Caravanserai
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Greatest Hits
Maddy Prior & June Tabor - The Silly Sisters (1st)
Simon & Garfunkel - Parsley Sage Rosemary & Thyme, Bookends (My alltime
favorite album!), Bridge Over Troubled Waters
Paul Simon - 1st (self titled), There Goes Rhymin' Simon, Hearts and Bones,
Graceland
Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle
Stephen Stills - Manassas
Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food, Fear of Music, Remain
In Light, Speaking in Toungues
James Taylor - 1st (self titled, on Apple), Sweet Baby James
Traffic - Mr. Fantasy, 2nd (self titled - their best, IMHO)
U2 - Joshua Tree
Urubamba - (self titled album by Andean Indian group who backed up Paul Simon
and S & G; produced by Paul Simon. Unbelievably beautiful!)
Tom Waits - The Heart of Saturday Night
Weather Report - Heavy Weather
Who - The Who Sell Out, Live At Leeds, Tommy, Who's Next, Quadrophenia
XTC - Black Sea, English Settlement, Big Express, Skylarking, Oranges &
Lemons, 25 O'Clock, Apple Venus 1 (remove Bungalow & War Dance and I'd
include Nonsuch)
Neil Young - 1st, Harvest Moon
Frank Zappa - Absolutely Free, We're Only in it For the Money, Grand Wazoo,
Roxy & Elsewhere, Overnight Sensation, One Size Fits All
The Cars - 1st
Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True, This Year's Model, Armed Forces, Punch the
Clock
The Eagles - Greatest Hits
Ben Folds Five - 1st, Whatever and Ever Amen, ....Rheinhold Messner
(brilliant fucking album, IMHO)
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Nuggets - Vol. I
West Side Story - Soundtrack
I'd be crazy to go into classical, but I will mention a special few:
Classically Inclined -Los Indios Trabajaros
Casals Conducts Bach; The Brandenburg Concertos
Handel's Messiah - John Elliot Gardiner & the English Baroque Soloists (on
original period instruments)
Mozart - Piano Concertos K450 & K467: Alfred Brendel & the Academy of
St. Martin in the Fields - Neville Marriner, conductor
Mozart - the Symphonies Vol 6: the Academy of Ancient Music - Jaap
Schroeder & Christopher Hogwood
Beethoven - 9 Symphonies: Weiner Philharmoniker - Karl Bohm, cond.
Gabriel Faure - Requiem & Maurice Ravel - Pavanne pour une Infante Defutne:
Philharmonia Orchestra & Choir, Carla Maria Giulini, Cond. (With Kathleen
Battle)
Stravinsky - the Firebird Suite - Vienna Philharmonic, Dohnanayi, cond.
Julian Bream & John Williams Live (1979), double album set.
Andres Segovia - Bach: Chaconne and other works
And whatever the name of that Christmas Album that Eugene Ormandy
and the Philadelphia Orchestra did - I dubbed it on tape a long time ago.
There you go!
Tom "Serca ohw t'nseod ti on skcus latem yvaeh" Kingston
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 17:46:36 +0900 From: "John Boudreau" <aso1@mocha.ocn.ne.jp> Subject: Reduced Message-ID: <000601bfb8d9$ecaf7900$fc78aad2@johnboud> Chris Coolidge re: great , forgotten bands : > Honorable mention goes to The Reducers, a mid-80's rock and roll band out > of New London, CT; I support Chris on this . I am from that neck of the woods and used to see The Reducers regularly kick ass , usually at smalltown bars scattered across eastern CT . Always had a great time at their gigs . Check 'em out ... Sushiman
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 15:01:05 +0200 From: "Giovanni Giusti" <giovanni@delizia.com> Subject: Rough translation of belorussian article Message-ID: <002001bfb8ed$79ab69a0$a301a8c0@Satellite.iol.it> This is my best translation (without a dictionary at hand) of the article in http://www.nestor.minsk.by/mg/news/mw81229.htm <<After a seven-year hiatus, the British XTC released on February 16th their new album "Apple Venus, Volume One", in which they included (?) acoustic and orchestral songs. But on their newest finished (?) release "Apple Venus, Volume Two" [there is] more rock-like material.>> Regards, Giovanni
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 04:24:10 -0700 From: "Ray Michno" <rmichno@my-Deja.com> Subject: Re: Bodysnatchers Message-ID: <MABLOFNMEMIBLAAA@my-deja.com> Organization: My Deja Email (http://www.my-deja.com:80) >> From: Molly Fanton <mfanton99@yahoo.com> >> >> The lost band I can think of are a great ska >> band from the late 70s/early 80s called, The >> Bodysnatchers. I agree that the Bodysnatchers were an excellent ska band, but I've also never found a complete album by them. They do have one track on the Dance Craze soundtrack (they also appeared in the film). Glad to hear that somebody else remembers them! -Ray-
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 15:09:25 +0200 From: Johan Ekdahl <johan.ekdahl@programbyran.se> Subject: Hammersmith Palace intro to This Is Pop? Message-ID: <E1FE4AE1AF2DD111885A00A02479F44214FFEB@sofia.programbyran.se> OK - so now that it seems Tom Kingston and "Dom" are entering a cease-fire my devious plan has gone obsolete. I was planning on citing Mr P from the intro to This Is Pop from the Hammersmith Palais 22.12.80. TIP is one of my absolute favourite-XTC-tunes (the one that got me hooked, actually) and I did try to transcribe the intro - and failed! This is what I've got: The music press now(a)days seems to have it in it's head that it must categorize people. You know what I mean - labels ... aaah ... well let's see they're post-punk-funk with just a touch of modernist ... aah ... You know the sort of stuff ... I want to give them one big label that categorizes everything, okay? Nothing more, it's very very simple! [Voices in crowd goes "This is pop!"] Doesn't [???] thinkin' about. This is pop! You're damn [???] it is! Anyone care to help me with the two [???]-pieces? (In the notes in Transistor Blast AP says "Sorry about the sermonizing at the top of a very rocked up 'This Is pop'. I ask: Why? If You dont read it literally it makes sense, and it's a good intro to the song!) /Johan Ekdahl
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 08:21:29 EDT From: "Brian Young" <raggedglory57@hotmail.com> Subject: Great lost bands thread Message-ID: <20000508122129.78481.qmail@hotmail.com> Hi Chalkaholics, There was a band that I heard play live on WFMU in New Jersey on Columbus Day 1985 that blew me away. They were called The Fabulous Lesters. Does anyone know of them? I just happened to tape their live segment, and it has been one of my favorites ever since. Thanks, Brian
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 10:11:43 -0500 From: Olof Hellman <hellman@ksan.ms.nwu.edu> Subject: Re: More praise for Fingerprintz Message-ID: <B53C435F.3ED%hellman@ksan.ms.nwu.edu> Tyler Hewitt was right on about Fingerprintz. And as I recall, they were also released ( at least The Very Dab and Distinguishing Marks ) on Virgin. My other choice for best lost band is 2 Nice Girls, a folk/gay/hardrock power-pop threesome-then-foursome from Texas who manage to be a wonderful combination of funny/sarcastic/political/sentimental/kiss-off/cute while turning in well-crafted tunes. Best known for "I spent my last $10 on birth control and beer", they are/were much more than a novelty act. And my sentimental favorite is The Groceries, an early 80's Princeton band. - Olof
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 11:30:27 EDT From: Tomgriffin100276@aol.com Subject: Various and Sundry Items Message-ID: <4c.52b72be.26483793@aol.com> OK, here's a few responses: 1. To Duncan Watt - I suggest you read the NY Times op-ed piece from Chuck D. His point is not that artists are merely lazy. Someone else mentioned this as being his argument, and it is just not the case (at least not in this article). His argument is more nuanced and compelling than that. I'm not saying that he is necessarily right, but I think you should give him the honor of reading the article before assuming his argument. 2. I have to second Dominique's thumbs up for Dan Castellaneta's psychedelic/homage album. I was very surprised how much I liked it. 3. Great Lost Band - The Mother Sound - 1990's New Jersey. I had their first album & then the bass player died (and I moved to the Midwest) and I'm not sure if they folded after that. Anyone know them? -Tom
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 10:57:09 -0700 From: "Digitalmaster" <digitalmaster@earthlink.net> Subject: TVT have yet to announce. Message-ID: <000d01bfb916$d51f98a0$0200a8c0@digitalpc> TVT have yet to announce where XTC will be. I know they said they would be in New York this week and California next week, but hell, I could tell you "I'll be in California next week" and that really means squat! Are they going to be on the radio? Will they be doing TV spots? I am an admirer of the group. I want to support and listen to the interviews or whatever that will be doing during the promo tour. Will they be on the radio? TV? Just let me know please; I am sure I am not the only one wondering! W&TM is the best song on the album, DAMN good closing...
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Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 14:59:09 EDT
From: StucoHomes@aol.com
Subject: Lost band.
Message-ID: <aa.4c963a9.2648687d@aol.com>
In a message dated 5/8/00 1:44:57 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
<owner-chalkhills@chalkhills.org> writes:
> >>I know, what do you think is a great lost band or album? One that is
really
> >good, and should have been huge, but somehow didn't make it? It should be
> >one >that's fairly obscure.
So many! But one that SHOULD have been huge? The Soft Machine. Their first
two albums are masterpieces. You just can't find intensity like that in most
music. Also Robert Wyatt (their original drummer/singer) who had two minor
hits in England, deserves a hell of a lot more recognition than he gets.
Also: Faust. The mad geniuses of 70s German rock music ("Krautrock" as it's
known).
- - -
Reverend Jody L. Barnes
"May the baby Jesus shut your mouth and open your mind." - Don Vliet
"Being disabled has never really interested me very much. It's very serious,
like plumbing is serious, but I'm also not interested in plumbing." - Robert
Wyatt (paraplegic)
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 14:16:39 -0500 From: "Wiencek, Dan" <dwiencek@crateandbarrel.com> Subject: I'm just getting ... I'm just getting a buzzing noise in my left Message-ID: <B697DB46B423D411BE970050DA793DE0341F48@escorp1.crate.barrel.com> ear ... A few thoughts on WS, if I may. I shan't keep you long. **SPOILER ALERT** Having spun the album a dozen times or so since it landed in my eager hands last week, I probably fall into the "it's good, but not a classic" camp. Of course, almost anything would sound prosaic and mundane after AVI, a record I firmly regard as one of XTC's very finest, and I judge XTC, like the Beatles, on a very steep curve; their throwaways are better than most other bands' careers. Wasp Star is a fine record, fun and great for kicking out of your car stereo on a hot day with the windows down, but sonically/texturally, it has the least variety of any XTC record since Big Express. Every song (or every one of Andy's songs, to be accurate) has that same muddy, distorted guitar tone, as though Andy hurt his back and couldn't reach down to change the settings on his DOD pedal. It is, as Mitch said, probably the most immediately likeable record they've ever made, but, well, I liked XTC already, and I like how their records grow on me. Maybe this one will too. A few specific comments ... * We're All Light, My Brown Guitar, Playground and Wheel & Maypole are kick-ass, fantastic songs. The former and the latter in particular are works of genius. * People are already speaking out against Boarded Up. I *like* this song. Skeletal and sparse, mournful, and obviously from the heart. Has any decaying metropolis been documented in song as well as Swindon? I'd like to hear people's opinions of this track, on- or off-list, pro or con. * The solo on Church of Women is embarrasing. It almost makes me wish I'd never heard the demo; it's like the song's idiosyncratic heart has been pulled out, and I can't listen to the Wasp Star version without remembering what came before. Is this really the best that Andy could come up with? * The remaining tracks, to my mind, fall somewhere on the "good" continuum. (No outright clunkers--Colin's stuff is quite fine.) Maybe that's why the album feels a little unsatisfying ... too much of it is merely (!) good. Yes, I'm *that* spoiled. If this album were a debut by an unknown band, I'd be pretty blown away. As it is, I'm satisfied. ** END SPOILER Returning you to your Music 101 discussion, Dan W.
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 21:41:48 +0000 From: Jayne Myrone <myrone@tesco.net> Subject: Great lost (or is it slightly misplaced) bands Message-ID: <39173477.4651B6B4@tesco.net> Hi there To start with the good news for me my local music emporium will be open for the release of WS. Yipee! To all of you who have a copy - I'm green with envy , yellow with jealousy and probably about to turn purple for for no particular reason. My nomination for the great lost bands thread is One the Juggler. A long time ago, when my hair wasn't going white, and I probably put a hole in the ozone layer with all the hairspray I used to get that Flock of Seagulls look, I saw a video show earlyish one morning in the kids telly for the summer holidays. (It was about the time that I also saw John Foxx's Endlessly video, which was set in the Highgate cemetery and had a spiral staircase going no where, but I digress, frequently and without hand signals.) I don't remember too much about the video, which I think was for Everyday. It was catchy and the band seemed to be dressed up in an 80's take on mediaeval gypsy clothing. Didn't think too much about it after that, but when I got to university and was going through the sale bin in the one record shop, I pulled out Some Strange Fashion. One of the best 3 quid I ever spent. Some of my friends who I've played to have rated it among their "Top 10 records I really hate" others love it. There was a second album, but I think that was released in Japan only. (Any UK Chalkhillers remember that 80s band Big in Japan?) I know very little about the band except that they came from London, some were from a Romany background and the name is supposed to be derived from the Tarot's Major Arcana. If anyone has any more info about One the Juggler can you let me know off list. Ta. Jayne "Who put the wallaby in my verb bag? And yes, there is a sensible explanation for this" the Shaun Sheep worshipper. Apples are always inspiring... I have found them so all my life and always shall. Mark Gertler
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Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 17:04:18 -0400
From: "Tim Kendrick" <tim63@earthlink.net>
Subject: How Frivolous Tonight Came To Be
Message-ID: <000f01bfb930$fa999080$27a1113f@tim63>
Hi Everyone!
I don't remember anyone saying much about this.
I just got the Japanese version of Homespun, which contains
that second CD with "How Frivolous Tonight Came To Be".
It's VERY interesting!
First of all it's great to hear Colin talk at length about something
without Andy chiming in. (As fun as that usually is.) Two things
which made an impact on me:
1. The song was originally called "Trivial Tonight". But Colin
had already used the word "trivial" a couple of times before
the chorus, so he thought that he was overusing the word.
2. Although I always assumed the song takes place in a pub,
Colin says that it's actually set at a dinner party at someone's
house.
Anyway, I found this Bonus CD to be well worth paying the extra
price for an import.
Ben said:
>"and that 'Boarded Up' is absolutely
>the eeriest song that Colin has ever written."
I totally agree. I REALLY love this song. Both my boyfriend and I feel
it's the best thing on WASP STAR - which we also both agree is one
of the best XTC albums ever!!!
Later!
Tim K.
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 18:08:27 EDT From: Hbsherwood@aol.com Subject: Metal Hurlant Message-ID: <64.2845be5.264894db@aol.com> Say, kids.... I don't mind you yacketing on about Heavy Metal, just as long as that insufferable old fraud Burroughs doesn't get even *more* nomenclatural credit... Or (heaven forfend!) Steppenwolf... "Heavy Metal" is a military term that dates back at *least* to the Napoleonic Wars, when it referred to heavy cannon. It has been in nearly constant military use since then, meaning any large, threatening weapon (see, for example, http://www.tankers.net/forum/). Burroughs's use of it in "Nova Express" derives from this sense. He invented nothing--only repurposed an older expression. Steppenwolf's use, in "Born to be Wild," is even more plainly derived from the older expression, "heavy metal thunder" referring to the roaring noise made by motorcycles, not guitars. Also, let's not forget the existence of the heavy metals (http://www.lehigh.edu/~kaf3/books/reporting/hvymtl.html), metals and compounds which cause disease and deformity in young people exposed to them. Draw Your Own Ponderous Conclusion. It has been asserted that "A journalist in Creem magazine used this expression [heavy metal] for the first time in 1968 to describe a performance of the band MC5 from Detroit. Soon the same magazine began to name such acts as MC5, The Stooges, Amboy Dukes and so on as 'heavy metal'." I am not going to vouch for the total crystalline accuracy of this, as it comes from that paragon of the researcher's toolbag, "some guy on a website," but you can sniff the credentials yourself at http://www.shu.ac.uk/web-admin/phrases/list/178600.html Research Assistance provided by Mata Hari, Siren of the Eucalypts, for whose gracious help much thanks is given. Harrison "Antimony, Arsenic, Mercury, Slayer" Sherwood
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