Chalkhills Digest Volume 6, Issue 179
Date: Sunday, 9 July 2000
Chalkhills Digest, Volume 6, Number 179
Sunday, 9 July 2000
Topics:
RE: XTC in new Jim Carrey movie
INTERVIEW WITH XTC
Re: The Orchid Show
Grass on TV
XTC Now #8 w/bullet on "Radio & Records" Adult Alternative Chart
What starts with WAS...?
XTC and The Beeb
WASP star
Wurst
XTC in..... "The Round Table"
Eminem and XTC
I Give Up
Me Myself and Irene
XTC in second city
Still Climbing in Gavin
Me Myself and I'd Like That
Euro 2000: BBC+XTC
No Fair Jumping to Contusions
NME
Re: Q Magazine 100 Best British Albums
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 18:41:06 -0500 From: Mark <lollard@usa.net> Subject: RE: XTC in new Jim Carrey movie Message-ID: <395BDE92.B824E1EA@usa.net> That was my fave part of Me, Myself and Irene, when I'd Like That played.....what really sucks is that it is not on the soundtrack cd...I couldn't believe it wasn't on there...i was chuffed...LOL.....*chuffed....lol....that was some posts ago, eh?* anyway, thought the soundtrack was the best part of the movie....but i'm not going to buy the cd now...commie pinkos........jeeeeesh. Mark in a house on a hill in Omaha
------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 11:12:14 +0100 From: Belinda Blanchard <b.blanchard@which.net> Subject: INTERVIEW WITH XTC Message-ID: <395C727D.4225990D@which.net> Dear all I taped the interview Gary Crowley did on BBC London Live with AP and CM which aired last Tuesday night 20th June and was so pleased that I got that posting in just in time before John went on his hols!!!! No-one has mentioned it tho apart from Dave so maybe none of you heard it. Had a good time John? Well the interview must have been taped because there was a quiz and you had to SEND your answers in on snailmail so if it had been live they would have had a phone in. Anyhow, the interview was a scream of course - lots of sarcasm and beer and wit flying round the air and that was just in the living room in whch I was listening. I want to transcribe it and post it to Chalkhills but three problems - (1) you'd miss the sarcasm and the inflection and that stuff (2) it would fill an entire Chalkhills posting alone (would that be alright? I don't have the technological knowhow to post it to the web site) and (3) I haven't much time to do it but would make time if people want. (DON'T email me private about it - I'll make up my own mind! Just say on Chalkhills. I'm sure it would be appreciated but it would be very long and much of it won't be interesting to READ.) Anyway, give me time and I shall try and transcribe it. Unfortinately I type faster than even Andy Partridge talks so I might make stuff up along the way waiting for him to catch up with me. Love from BELINDA
------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 12:46:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Dorothy Spirito <spiritod@techmail.gdc.com> Subject: Re: The Orchid Show Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.00.10006301225520.631-100000@esun2028> Dave & I, too, attended The Orchid Show. We chose the Sunday matinee. Unlike Lee, I liked parts of the middle third. Particularly the dance that accompanied KISK. Jason, I did a double-take when you first appeared onstage; for a moment I thought I'd seen you before on network television. You've definitely got The Look. Although I wore my Chalkhills tee, I didn't meet any other Chalkids among the audience. I *did* meet an avid longtime fan, however, whose bright preschooler requested Greenman during the children's Q&A afterward. Told him about Chalkhills, so if he's lurking: "Hi, Jerry!" All in all, a lighthearted, enjoyable pastime. Talented young dancers. See it if you can. Regards, --Dorothy.
------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 19:29:25 +0100 From: "Kay Stracey" <kay@stracey.fsnet.co.uk> Subject: Grass on TV Message-ID: <002201bfe2c1$1f4f00e0$9058893e@fsnet.co.uk> Hello Peeps Although I've been subscribing for a couple of months now, this is my first message to Chalkhills. I've been meaning to mail for a while now and have been prompted by the BBC's use of Stupidly Happy in their Euro 2000 coverage. Before I tell my reason for mailing, I'd just like to point out that I do not watch the particular TV programme - it's wasn't my choice, my TV or my house! However, I was at my sister in law's on a Sunday morning when I heard XTC singing Grass. When I rushed in to my SIL's living room to find out what was going on, she was watching some semi-religious prog which has Toyah Willcox and that little Kevin bloke who cooks and is also on holiday shows. There was some studio discussion going on about whether or not to legalise cannabis and they kept playing Grass over some little film they'd made. I thought this was rather amusing, after having read Colin's story behind the song in the Song Stories book. My SIL had a bit of a chuckle too when I explained it to her. Anyway, now I've got my first time over with, I'll just tell you a little bit about myself. My name's Kay, I'm 37, I live in Swindon and have been an XTC fan since White Music. I strayed away a bit around Nonsuch, Skylarking and Oranges and Lemons (came back for AV & WS) but am enjoying catching up. I was lucky enough to see XTC live three times in my (and their) youth, twice in Swindon at the Oasis and the Brunel Rooms and once at Hammersmith Palais. Blew me away each time! I would love to correspond by email with other fans and maybe meet up for a chat and a beer (if you're not too far away!) Also, I have a few bits of memorabilia (for example, a pack of Nonsuch playing cards) and I'd like to know what they're worth. So if anyone is interested, please mail me on kay@stracey.fsnet.co.uk. I look forward to a mutually fulfilling relationship! See y'all! Kay
------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 16:22:09 -0400 From: "DuBray, Dan" <Dan.DuBray@mail.house.gov> Subject: XTC Now #8 w/bullet on "Radio & Records" Adult Alternative Chart Message-ID: <435A5CEEACA6D211BEEA0008C75DA8850704AFEB@hrm12.house.gov> For the week ending June 23rd, "I'm the Man Who Murdered Love" is placed on the 'Adult Alternative' chart of the U.S. radio industry publication "Radio and Records" at # 8 with a bullet. That's up from #12 last week. As Mission Control once said" "We have cleared the tower!". Dan DuBray Washington, DC
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Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 16:59:43 CDT
From: "vee tube" <veetube@hotmail.com>
Subject: What starts with WAS...?
Message-ID: <20000701215943.70482.qmail@hotmail.com>
...and ends with PUN?
WASPSPUN!
(get a DJ to say THAT, three times fast!)
http://www.idrive.com/waspspun
Happy 4th of Julie!
}---:)
P.S. Thanx to Wes,Tim and Wayne for hooking me up with these
particular demos.
"All aboarded up the...
...PEACE!TROUT!"
------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 11:46:50 +0100 From: "David Seddon" <D.Seddon@btinternet.com> Subject: XTC and The Beeb Message-ID: <001b01bfe412$d4f60360$aebf01d5@default> Re the Beeb and XTC >It actually worked brilliantly, watching clips of Kluivert, Fiore, et al >celebrating away to one of the most joyous bits of music I've heard in >years. Somebody at the BBC is obviously on a (probably covert) mission to >get XTC heard by the wider masses. Yes, and I was listening to the Nicky Campbell show on Radio Five Live recently. He said that he was a huge XTC fan, went on to wax lyrical about Andy Partridge and said that he has always collected all of their singles. The other people chatting all said how good the band were, too. Nicky said that they'd have been massive by now if it wasn't for Andy's stage fright.
------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 21:49:20 -0700 (PDT) From: arnold alamon <babynoldsky@yahoo.com> Subject: WASP star Message-ID: <20000702044920.12650.qmail@web6004.mail.yahoo.com> Fellow XTC fans, Just a short note: got WASP star just last night from Tower Records Manila. Been Stupidly Happy since. Cheers! ARnold
------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 08:14:36 -0500 From: "Christopher R. Coolidge" <cauldron@together.net> Subject: Wurst Message-ID: <l03130300b584e88993f6@[208.13.202.212]> >"Re-act-or" - Neil Young >"Almost Blue" - Elvis Costello >"Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants" - Oasis (I heard this at a friend's >place a couple of weeks ago, and I honestly don't know how it got released) >"Red Rose Speedway" - Wings >....and I'll throw in the 1978 "Sgt.Pepper's" film soundtrack at no >additional cost. > >Iain A few other worst albums by major artists: Dark Horse- George Harrison(a tired, bloated, dispirited piece of crap, and even Harrison admits it) Sometime In New York City- John Lennon(Shrill, tuneless protest music. Next!) Back To The Egg- Wings(the lyrics sound like Paulie made them up off the top of his head as he went along. I'd even take Red Rose Speedway over this one. Not even so bad it's good, just bad) Seven And The Ragged Tiger- Duran Duran(I thought Rio and some of their later albums had some pretty good songwriting. This one sounds like Simon Lebon was doing too much coke while writing the lyrics, yet for some reason this album was their biggest hit. Go figure.) Everybody's Rockin'- Neil Young- I'd listen to almost anything by him, but this wasn't even worth the dollar I paid for it. Rushed sounding rockabilly throwaways. Only twenty-five minutes of music at that. (I consider Reactor a pretty good slab of garage band sludge, and it does have an overlooked gem in "Southern Pacific.") Big Beat- I brought it to fill the holes in my Sparks collection, and I wish I hadn't. The lyrics, always Ron Mael's best attribute, are tossed-off and even gratuitously offensive without even satirical merit. Who are you and what have you done with Ron Mael? There's quite a few more I could think of if I tried. So many bands and singer I otherwise respect have released at least one album worthy of using the CD as a coaster or the vinyl as a frisbee. XTC is not one of them. Even their worst albums have at least two or three great songs and the rest are, well, just not as good as usual, or in the case of White Music a young band trying out their legs in the studio. Christopher R. Coolidge "A Great law protects me from the government. The Bill of rights has 10 GREAT laws. A Good law protects me from you. Laws against murder, theft, assault and the like are good laws. A Poor law attempts to protect me from myself." - Unknown
------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 19:54:42 EDT From: JamieCFC1@aol.com Subject: XTC in..... "The Round Table" Message-ID: <15.5e86c54.268e8d42@aol.com> Hi chalkies On driving back home from a trip to sunny Liverpool I flicked the radio off of the drivelling of Chris Moyles on Radio 1 to Radio 2 whereupon the strains of The Man Who Murdered Love were detected. Great, I thought, XTC on daytime radio! Only to find out it was some surreal programme called Round Table where the DJ (in this case Steve Wright) and 3 "personalities" (C list obviously.... Christopher Biggins, panto dame and fat bloke.... Janey Lee Grace, another deejay (it says here)..... and Rustie Lee, TV chef and noisy woman... And the verdict of these experts? Not a hit, apparently, 2 4 out of 10s and a 6 from Rustie. So what information did Steve Wright impart upon the listener about XTC? Apparently they were "quite successful early 90s/late 80s, new wave band", and the "panel" managed to remember MAking Plans for Nigel and Senses.. So apart from the most successful period being the other end of the 80s they werent far off. Oh how you despair for British radio!
------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 13:13:03 EDT From: IMSUNBAKE@aol.com Subject: Eminem and XTC Message-ID: <5f.755142c.268f809f@aol.com> Greetings from a nearly relaxed, vacationing, Suntanned Chalkster - I just read that Eminem has just sold 4 million copies of what is, IMHO, scary c-r-a-p, and the local radio stations in D.C./Baltimore don't have the ... ahem, GUMPTION to play anything from Wasp Star. I MEAN, Eminem? Judas Priest, someone educate this generation in a hurry! WRNR, 103.1 in Annapolis, Md., (www.wrnr.com) however, plays cuts from WS all day long - I've been on vacation, enjoying the beautiful town I live in, listening to the station, and flipping out everytime I hear a cut from WS. My husband says, "You've got the CD, why don't you just PLAY it?" Not the same, dear. Not the same. Ya ain't lived until you've heard TWATM while cruising under the Chesapeake Bay Bridge! Someone recently posted that VH-1 is broadcasting something on XTC July 14? We just joined the real world and got DISH TV - my pacemaker can't stand it - so now I have access to the video world. Annamarie I fell off my axis mundi, and I don't GIVE A DAMN!
------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 11:11:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Molly Fanton <mfanton99@yahoo.com> Subject: I Give Up Message-ID: <20000701181140.18516.qmail@web1302.mail.yahoo.com> I guess nobody's interested in the listening parties anymore, because nobody showed up to the Drums & Wires one today. I guess somebody in here was right when they said nobody wanted to come to a chat with me as host. So from now on there won't be anymore listening parties. I tried the best I could. I made it at a time of day where more people could come, but I guess nobody wants to be in chat with me. But I'm not bad in chat, but nobody will know that. I'm really bothered by this. Some people in here don't seem to think I have feelings. I spend my time getting the chat room ready, and nobody shows up. Well if anybody wants to start the listening parties I won't go, because I seem to retract people. Thanks for everything guys. Molly :( PS I thought most of you were decent people, because of all the support I got, but I think I might change my mind now. ===== AIM Name: MFanton00 Website: http://www.angelfire.com/mn/mollyfa99/index.html Fave Quote: "If your flight is going rough, your sould will lead you to the nearest exit" - Jump - XTC (A. Partridge)
------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 07:37:05 -0500 From: "Christopher R. Coolidge" <cauldron@together.net> Subject: Me Myself and Irene Message-ID: <l03130301b5839439f1d4@[208.13.202.53]> >Saturday night I caught an advance preview of the new Jim Carrey comedy "Me >Myself & Irene", a very forgettable film with little reason to recommend >(and I loved "Something About Mary"). > >Anyway, much to my surprise, "I'd Like That" is featured very prominantly >near the start of the film as Carrey rides his motorcycle into town. > >Does anyone know about the kind of payout that the lads could possibly >receive having one of their songs used in a major motion picture? I know >nothing about song-royalties in the film industry (outside of the fact that >Huey Lewis got $300,000 for his song to be used in American Psycho, before >causing that huge stink about wanting it removed... I would hope that "I'd >Like That" is worth more than "Hip To Be Square", but who knows...) > >~~ Mike Wood ~ They'll make a good bit of cake from it. The Farelly Brothers are known for their hip taste in music, already having included the Crash Test Dummies version of Peter Pumpkinhead in Dumb and Dumber and featured Jonathan Richman prominently in Kingpin and There's Something About Mary. I'm planning on seeing it for the one reason the movie was filmed entirely in my home state of Vermont, with the motel scene being filmed right around the corner from where I live. I even auditioned as an extra; didn't get a call, but there's a chance my gold Honda Accord makes a brief appearance in a car chase scene, I was turning the corner in the other direction as the car chase motorcade went by. It's going to be shown at the local drive-in tonight(yes, we still have one in our area- a dying breed), so my wife and I just might make a date. Christopher R. Coolidge Homepage at http://homepages.together.net/~cauldron/homepage.html
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 21:00:41 -0400 From: "Janet Lindenmuth" <jlinden@dellnet.com> Subject: XTC in second city Message-ID: <001601bfe22e$9e3f8840$438f0a3f@8b6vu> As a newbie to this list, but a long time XTC fan, I thought I'd join in this discussion of where we've heard XTC lately. I was in Chicago last week for a conference and went to the Second City comedy show. I was pretty sure I heard bits of River of Orchids at one point between the skits and then I knew I was right when the cast took a bow to I'd Like That. No one sitting near me seemed too impressed when I kept saying "Hey, its XTC!" Janet
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 17:36:33 EDT From: Hbsherwood@aol.com Subject: Still Climbing in Gavin Message-ID: <e2.66a003b.268bc9e1@aol.com> Wasp Star is at #12, up from #15, on the Gavin Triple A chart for the week ending 6/30. (http://www.gavin.com/music/a3/chart.shtml) Go, little record, go! Hey: Q: Why do anarchists drink only herbal tea? A: Because proper tea is theft. Harrison "sorry" Sherwood
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 21:04:32 EDT From: "Kevin Diamond" <kev_boy@hotmail.com> Subject: Me Myself and I'd Like That Message-ID: <20000630010432.29064.qmail@hotmail.com> Hi and howdy doody, I'm the union man, you can call me rudy... somone said (i'm to lazy to check) >TVT (are you receiving me?) should seriously consider >releasing this track [stupidly happy] as a single, and service it to >modern rock radio as best they can. This is a summer >single, pure and simple. No other song on 'Wasp Star' >has as great a potential to make an impact in the >States. I thought they were gonna. On the outside of the package, my copy said "Containing the songs I'm The Man Who Murdered Love and Stupidly Happy" which led me to believe Stupidly Happy would be the next single. Perhaps you just tore the plastic off so quickly you didn't see that sticker. _________ Also, someone a while ago argued with me about the tripple negative, saying that :No, Nothing's Not Wrong cancelled itself out again, making it "nothing's wrong" but that's not the case. The "No" has nothing to do with the "Nothing's Not Wrong" it has to do with whatever question he's answering. If someone said "Is something wrong?" you'd answer "No, Nothing's wrong." meaning nothing was wrong, not that something was wrong. So, someone asked him "Is something not wrong?" and he answered, "No, nothing's not wrong" meaning something WAS wrong. You comprehend? It's really hard to explain by typing, and I'm probably not getting my message across. ________ Christopher Moll, I like your stuff. I downloaded the song you recomended, and I think i'm gonna download some other stuff. You might want to start a site at MP3.com cause I don't really like these 1drive ones, they're kind of strange, and if you get a site on MP3.com, you might be included on the Chalkhills Radio Station. 'tis a thought. __________ I ment to send this message a while ago, but never did, so maybe some of this might be a little old, but whatever. We'll deal, won't we? I'd like to add that I just saw Me Myself and Irene, and I'd Like That was very promonintly played, from the begining of the song to the end of the first chorus. It was very nice. The Steely Dan covers.. .well, they were not so good. I was particularly disgusted with Smash Mouth's cover of... well, I forget wich song, but I know I didn't enjoy it. The movie itself was pretty good, too. Not the best movie in the world, but there were parts that were absolutely hilarious. Kevin Diamond www.mp3.com/frenchelectric www.mp3.com/bass-cleff --- "I don't believe In Physics no more. Physics tells me that two things can't be at the same place at the same time but when were with each other I know that's not true. Why can't I teach that to you?" -Me (www.mp3.com/bass-cleff)
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 16:09:41 -0500 From: "Bill O'Leary" <boleary@redsky.com> Subject: Euro 2000: BBC+XTC Message-ID: <95DF54747C35D31186C20008C7E63FE2EDB555@mercury.nuforia.com> Hi Folks-- Did anyone else catch the June 24 BBC broadcast of the Euro 2000 quarterfinal between Portugal and Turkey? Halftime featured a video montage of stupidly-happy football fans (that's soccer for you/us Yanks) accompanied by an edited version of the boys' "Stupidly Happy". (Before you ask, yes, I taped it, and yes, I later taped over it...you eediot Stimpy...). More fuel for the "Stupidly-Happy-for-the-next-single" fire.... Bill
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 18:18:52 EDT From: Hbsherwood@aol.com Subject: No Fair Jumping to Contusions Message-ID: <ba.76f9dc8.268bd3cc@aol.com> >From: "Kulak, Matt (HT-EX)" <MKulak@GI.com> >Subject: Re: Dunks on American Entertainment >INTERMISSION: Sorry all, this is my first post ever, and it's turning >out to be a lengthy venting! If you want to go hit the restrooms or grab a >drink, you might want to go do that now. Thanks for the permission, Matt, but I'd already hailed a cab and lit out for U Street along about the second paragraph. Now I'm enjoying a very dry gin gimlet in a dark piano bar with some nice people who don't grab me by the lapels and spray saliva in my face. It's really quite pleasant. Harrison "And no, you can't have the address" Sherwood
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 20:43:55 +0100 From: "Stephen Jackson" <smj@zen.co.uk> Subject: NME Message-ID: <003001bfe139$542bb800$1e1017d4@smj> Reviewed in this week's NME: "The Man Who Murdered Love" "Older students will remember Andy Partridge as the man who wrote the Britpop book 20 years ago, then threw it away at regular intervals thereafter between getting in touch with his bucolic side and collecting toy soldiers. No wonder Blur tried to work with him once, only to give up on discovering he's as mad as candyfloss. Still, just to remind wannabe whippersnapper tunesmiths how it's done, XTC are back from various excursions orchestral (and rather more interesting) with a straightforward XTC pop album, from whence this straightforward XTC pop single hails. Naturally, given Partridges's singular vision, it isn't straightforward enough, tossing at least three times too many ideas into the pot until the concoction begins repeating on this feebly-constituted contemporary consumer, who is then forced to go and lie down in a dark room and listen to Kid 606 for three days. There is a track on the new XTC album called "Stupidly Happy", however, that is pure, dumb, simplistic pop genius. Too simple clearly, to be released as an XTC single." The review was written by Keith Cameron, one of the few NME writers I hold any respect for, simply because he writes well and shares a love of both XTC and Wire, which makes him a good man, even if he doesn't rate TMWML that highly.... Steve. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ They use the head and not the fist.
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 15:42:26 +0100 From: "Ken Lansdowne" <kenlansdowne@blueyonder.co.uk> Subject: Re: Q Magazine 100 Best British Albums Message-ID: <000601bfe130$82f16080$990130d5@pc> I agree, considering some of the crap which did make it to the top 100 list, there should have been room for at least one, along with some other notable absentees . XTC did however get a mention in the article under the heading So British - it Hurts! "A band who lived history in reverse - they started out futuristic and ended up as medieval English peasants - XTC are memorable for their marvellous tunes and for the revelation that, when the occasion merited, Andy Partridge would literally be made to wear the Captain Cunt Hat" If I were compiling a similar list, English Settlement would be up in the top 10 along with Revolver and Never Mind the Bollocks (as would Foxtrot by Genesis, another band who missed the list) Ken Lansdowne (a fan since hearing their first John Peel session) : From: "John Keel" <jbkev1@ev1.net> : : What the fuck is up with "Q" magazine putting out a list of the "100 Best : British Albums" and NOT ONE XTC ALBUM IS ON THE LIST!!!!!! I'm a little : behind in my digests, but has this been discussed? I'm am outraged.
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