Chalkhills Digest Volume 6, Issue 299
Date: Thursday, 23 November 2000
Chalkhills Digest, Volume 6, Number 299
Thursday, 23 November 2000
Topics:
Re: on Karaoke
Jeannie's Dairy is killer
Band aid
Spin magazine is as dull witted as the rest of those worthless music mags
Number Two (with a bullet!)
monster killer fighting robots
Dave & Andy / King For A Day update
Early Video...and Hares?
Wonderland
Molly- I agree w/ you on BNL
Re: Red Brick Dream
Red Bricks
Arf arf!
hello, list newbie here
NEW, BEST XTC SITE!!
BUMBLE!OUT!
RE: Red Brick Nightmare
Re: KPEZ Tour Audio...
Re: Top Of The Pops
Cyberspace Jamming
Music for All Us Children
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 01:24:32 EST From: DuranDave@aol.com Subject: Re: on Karaoke Message-ID: <d9.c6fded2.27477aa0@aol.com> In a message dated 00-11-18 01:12:08 EST, you write: << Anyone sung any XTC on Karaoke? >> Being a good Otaku I usually only do songs in Japanese for Karaoke (purist? yeah I guess.. do I good 'Ai Just or my Love', though) Once, however, I did do "garden of Earthly Delights" at a private 'karaoke' party... kinda fun. -Irresponsible Con Chair Dave (Mayor of Lurkerton)
------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 06:20:52 -1000 From: Jim Smart <jismart@ksbe.edu> Subject: Jeannie's Dairy is killer Message-ID: <773748C88BA.AAA3FDA@mail1.ksbe.edu> Good milk there? I'll have to try it. oh, to be one single page, Jim
------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 10:23:30 -0500 From: "Todd and Jennifer Bernhardt" <toddjenn@erols.com> Subject: Band aid Message-ID: <NABBKDAOLCDJBNEFDNLLGEEPCFAA.toddjenn@erols.com> Hi: Ryan Anthony responded, about my copyrighting -- (c)2000, all rights reserved -- of "Dead Chicken Launcher" as a band name: > Okay, Todd, but you have to thank me in the liner > notes to your first album, and I want a copy. > > (As has been noted often, but probably not often > enough, an *album* can be released in any format, > including Edison Cylinders.) Fair enough. Furthermore, I'll return the favor by pointing out that "The Edison Cylinders" would be an excellent name for a band. -Todd " 'Christian Tits' wouldn't be bad, either" Bernhardt
------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 10:15:39 -0800 (PST) From: Tyler Hewitt <tahewitt@yahoo.com> Subject: Spin magazine is as dull witted as the rest of those worthless Message-ID: <20001118181539.6282.qmail@web2101.mail.yahoo.com> music mags RE: Britney Spears - Tits, Tits, They're My Christian Tits Puff Daddy - My Jewelry Bill Needs Paying (So Who Else Can I Rip Off) Madonna - Spirituality is SO Last Week Christine Aguilara - Britney, Shitney Eminem - Way Down Upon De Swanee Ribuh This is the funniest thing I've seen in quite a while! Spin's editors are a bunch of idiots. While we're on the subject of Andy's wit: I recently traded with someone for a bunch of things, one of which is a tape of something called 'Agony Andy', which is our dear Andy Partridge giving advice to listener's letters on a radio show. Hysterical, full of the Partridge warped humor. I nearly pissd myself laughing. I forgot who I traded with to get this one (thanks, whoever you are) as I've been doing LOTS of trading recently and lost track of where it came from. Does anyone have any info about this? I assume Andy was a guest host ona radio show. It dates from 1984. I checked the Chalhills FAQ to no avail. If anyone has info on this, I'd appreciate knowing it. Also, if you want a copy, I'm always up for a trade, although I'd like to rest for a couple of weeks first after a large recent round of trades. Tyler
------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 14:42:06 EST From: "Mike Wood" <stupidlyhappy@hotmail.com> Subject: Number Two (with a bullet!) Message-ID: <F1666YHkidcDjoYAPNX00001a2c@hotmail.com> The new HMV Christmas catalogue lists Wasp Star as the second best-selling album of 2000 on HMV.com (behind... Jann Arden???) Here's the complete list: 1.) Jann Arden - Blood Red Cherry 2.) XTC - Wasp Star 3.) The Tea Party - Triptych (Ltd. Edition 2CD Tour Edition) 4.) The Catherine Wheel - Wishville 5.) Paul Weller - Heliocentric 6.) Jeff Buckley - Mystery White Boy 7.) Various Artists - Queer As Folk Volume 1 8.) The Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia 9.) The Wild Strawberries - Twist 10.) Treble Charger - Wide Awake Bored (that new Dandy Warhols disc is fab, eh? I've gotta put in a nod to Treble Charger, as well... a surprisingly solid album sure to make my top-20 of this year, full of great FountainsOfWayne-esque hooks, balladry, and power-pop) ~~ Mike Wood ~ ------------- Drink, drink, to no big surprise But what words rhyme with "buried alive"?
------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 17:11:15 -0800 From: "Wes Hanks" <whanks1@earthlink.net> Subject: monster killer fighting robots Message-ID: <000001c051c5$a15e68a0$41c8fc9e@default> Unfettered ones, I spent today attending the filming of the next season episodes of "Battlebots" for Comedy Central. I sat front row center behind the blue square proudly wearing my green Uffington Horse Chalkhills t-shirt. So if you notice a guy with said shirt doing his best to convey forced enthusiansm - why, that's me. To those of you who bet on the outcome of the matches, I have a few tips. Harrison, I promise, it's in the mail. Wes "now my son wants to build a fighting robot in the garage" Hanks
------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 14:07:11 -0600 From: "Richard" <rjpa1@home.com> Subject: Dave & Andy / King For A Day update Message-ID: <00e401c05264$4d982e00$15ec1718@mckiny1.tx.home.com> Sorry about the Spin mag double posting. I wasn't finished with the message and fat-fingered the send sequence. Another thing that Andy mentioned is that he is currently working with Colin and Dave on a project for Virgin. It is part of their contractual obligation. They are not recording any material. It is simply compiling a package of studio outtakes, live material, demos, and favorites. The working title is something like "A Coat of Many Cupboards." ...I think. There was some long distance talkback going on and it caused him to occasionally stumble over his words as his voice came back to him. I half expected Andy to recreate the echo outro to Scissor Man during the conversation. In other news, we currently have 51 people who have expressed interest in contributing to the "King For A Day" XTC tribute. The official contribution guidelines will go out this week to potential contributors. The plan is to make this an MP3 CD containing playlists, MP3 player with XTC skins, all three previous Chalkhills' Children releases (as space permits), a credits document and lots of new covers. The planned release is in March 2001. Cheers, Richard
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Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 16:08:30 EST
From: "Seth Frisby" <vagueyear@hotmail.com>
Subject: Early Video...and Hares?
Message-ID: <F54YNX6Mma0n7J95K7a0000135d@hotmail.com>
Hello Chalk-Folkies,
It's been a while since you all heard from me, unfortunatly Life,
Work, and death have been commanding my attention (yes all three
Yippee!!)..For some reason my local station plays Stupidly Happy almost
everyday...Whooopp! Just as I was typing that last sentence the before
mentioned song has magically appeared on my radio...Dang! what great timing
guys...has anyone ever had Radio Telepathy before? I'm quite good at it
usually. There have been times that i've had a song leap into my head and
then when leaning over to flip the radio on I've found that very song
happily playing on the radio. Quite weird. By the way is it me or does
Stupidly Happy sound glorious on the radio? All radio should follow its
example..
On the subject of Video innovaters i've but two cents(pence?) to add to
the discussion. One of the earliest longish musical videos was one Jethro
Tull made for their 1973 Passion Play tour. It was for the "Hare Who Lost
His Spectacles" and featured many strange people in Animal costumes
cavorting on a stage and in a woodland scene. Quite daft really, but also
very amusing! There were also some random cameos from the band. You also
can't forget Frank Zappa's attempts at music type movies such as "Uncle
Meat" and "Baby Snakes". Of course Baby Snakes came at the end of the
seventies so couldn't be classified as early pioneering, unlike "Uncle Meat"
which the majority of was filmed in the late sixties and early
seventies(with parts later added in the late eighties).
Cheers!
Seth"Cro-magnon Mountain man"Frisby
p.s. anxiously awaiting Fuzzy Warbles...anyone know the time frame for this
or the Wasp Star demos Andy has spoken of?
------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 15:30:56 -0800 From: "Wes Long" <wlong2@carolina.rr.com> Subject: Wonderland Message-ID: <000901c05280$c40c3600$fb5b1918@carolina.rr.com> I've been holed up, beer in hand and XTC in ears, in the warmth of my little hut here in fabulous North Carolina (land of the free, home of the illiterate) as monstrous white flakes of snow, coaxed from the heavens by the ever-enticing pull of gravity, cascade to earth to the thrill of...well, I guess everyone not afflicted with snow-phobia, if there is such a thing. For the moment, all is right with the world. All my debt is absolved. My daughter's "stinkies" are finding the potty with the same ease they once found the innards of her Nature-Girl diapers. My mother isn't calling my house on an hourly basis to discuss problems that she all but invented in her own soupy head. My hand isn't throbbing with pain from the hotter than Satan's ass Pop-Tart I carelessly grabbed from the toaster, that is no longer broken, yesterday morning. Okay...so all those problems exist. Just not today. Wrapped in this mysterious wonderland, wesLONG
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 09:15:29 -0800 (PST) From: nross <PhoenixYellowRose@rocketmail.com> Subject: Molly- I agree w/ you on BNL Message-ID: <20001120171529.24582.qmail@web2905.mail.yahoo.com> I think their lyrics are clever. They make me bite my lip to stop from laughing just as much as XTC's lyrics do. The music is quite often fun and uplifting while the content remains cynical. Its great. They are great. And they tour (not like I've ever been to their concerts). -Nicole "XTC is still my fav" Ross ===== Nicole's internet music station: http://radio.sonicnet.com/mymusiclisten.asp?name=phoenixyellowrose
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 11:21:46 +0000 From: Steve.Pitts@i-tcs.com Subject: Re: Red Brick Dream Message-ID: <OFDFBEAFF5.224AB05F-ON8025699D.003E2CF0@thesaurus-computers.co.uk> In #6-298 Pancho asked: > what meaning did Andy intend in his tune Red Brick Dream < At a guess, and obviously it'd have to be, I'd say neither. It is more likely that he was simply referring to the predominant building material in those terraced houses that made up the abodes of the working populace of Swindon. Cheers, Steve NP: Patti Smith - Easter PS. Please accept my apologies if this email is followed by some crappy disclaimer, but I was unable to talk my bosses out of it :((
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 20:52:39 -0000 From: "David & Fiona White" <david.s.white@lineone.net> Subject: Red Bricks Message-ID: <006801c05336$656c2720$c9c3fea9@S.White> Hello Chalkists, Pancho XPRXTCFAN wrote, "...what meaning did Andy intend in his tune Red Brick Dream... Discuss if you care to." I'm pretty sure that it doesn't have anything to do with universities but a lot to do with railway sheds. Swindon was a railway town (much less so now) and in such a place you get a lot of locomotive sheds, and buildings that look like locomotive sheds. The ones in Swindon were made of red bricks. Red Brick Dream is a brilliant lament for the railway industry, people and culture that were Swindon's lifeblood: once vibrant, now dormant. But, hey, Swindon has a website - SwindonWeb - with, I think, some mention of XTC. I'll let you know what the URL is once I've found it. David White
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 00:56:08 +0100 From: "Mark Strijbos" <mmello@knoware.nl> Subject: Arf arf! Message-ID: <20001120234817.0004739034@mail.knoware.nl> Dear Chalkers, Re. St. Andrew's pop picks: > Eminem - Way Down Upon De Swanee Ribuh ROTFL ! Andy's picks do show that he's just a little bit more aware of the current trends in popular music than he usually lets on, don't they? BTW: who's this Chad guy i'm hearing so much about? yours in xtc, Mark S. @ the Little Lighthouse www.come.to/xtc
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 23:12:35 -0500 (EST) From: Andreas J Athans <ajathans@alberti.unh.edu> Subject: hello, list newbie here Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.21.0011202311570.246088-100000@alberti.unh.edu> Hey everyone, I am new to this list, just saying HI and introducing myself as a big XTC and music fan. Drew Andreas J. Athans UNH Chemistry Dept.
------------------------------ Date: 20 Nov 00 23:03:07 PST From: Brian Wysolmierski <bwysol@netscape.net> Subject: NEW, BEST XTC SITE!! Message-ID: <20001121070307.3374.qmail@www0s.netaddress.usa.net> Check out this new XTC website. It has some amazing information, never seen before. Plus, Mr. T commentary: http://www.sparse.org/~mrt/cgi-bin/t.cgi?field=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chalkhills.org%2Fnews.html -Brian W.
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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 20:44:28 -0600
From: "vee tube" <veetube@hotmail.com>
Subject: BUMBLE!OUT!
Message-ID: <F59c4Iu1B6gVs1tIzmQ000016ae@hotmail.com>
HI!KIDS!
This is to inform you, in accordance with
article 4.0.1; Paragraph 7; Line 3.8 (page 2119) of
the 'Chalkhills' manifesto.
The exhibition known as Bumble Nova (AKA: "The
second wonder annual harvest festival of XTC song
parodies") (or,B.N; T.P.V.2) has officially come to a
close.
(Was it good for you?)
I'd like to thank all of the exhibitionists who
(Cindy Lou?) exposed them elves for all of us to see. A
question does come to mind here.(?) What are we going to
do next year if the 6 CD 'FUZZY' comes out?????
I'll be reviewing all of the entries over the T'day
weekend and will contact the most embarrassed entrants shortly
afterwards. Remember, if the 'mystery' package doesn't say...
...From: VeeTube DON'T OPEN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanx again!
}---:)
P.S. This is the last time I'll mention...
...XTC LIVE! IN HOLLAND!
http://www.orangetwin.com/drunken/march81982.html
Why? 'Cause I'm finally done remastering 'USA 1980'
XTC LIVE IN BOSTON!
And (I think) Sir Demon Brown's band, ELF POWER! is about
done with their 3-4 week tour of the US. With any luck I'll
catch up with him soon, and up the MP3s to his KICKASS server.
In the mean time, you should all go to idrive.com and get
your own idrive (it's free!) Wes Long already has...
http://www.idrive.com/extrovert
(XTC O&L LIVE FROM KPEZ)
And, well, I have a few more tricks up my gills too!
GOBBLE!DOWN!
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 14:35:15 -0000 From: "Smith, David" <David.Smith@tfeurope.com> Subject: RE: Red Brick Nightmare Message-ID: <4BBE67B71C1DD411A23600508B65F71E01168804@tfsecmsg04.tfseur.co.uk> Pancho said about Red Brick thus: >Limited evidence suggests that "redbrick" may be developing >an extended meaning of "lower-class" or "working >class," but this is not established enough to merit >dictionary entry.' >From my POV, the term "Red Brick" is less about social/class strata, >ie, red brick meaning lower/working class, and more about a reference >to demographics. A Red Brick Town is typically a large provincial or suburban town where a central industrial core is surrounded by its own mini-suburbia of family dwellings. In many cases, the towns have regenerated over the course of this century, often from the inside outwards. A classic case of this is (surprise surprise) Swindon, where suburban terraced housing grew around the industrial and rail-works centre, which was then run-down and replaced with commerce and (in Swindon's case) a mini silicon valley (indeed the area of the M4 corridor around Slough, Reading out to Swindon, is often referred to as Silicon Alley) as a large number of high-tech business are located there. Another Red Brick Town is my "be it ever so 'umble) home town of Croydon. Croydon has always been a densely-populated suburb of greater London, most of its modern housing dating from this century. In its centre is a largely-1960s built commerce centre, comprising a bunch of (spectacularly nasty) 60s office blocks - all the same height (18 floors) and mostly looking just like the next. It earned the catchphrase the "New York of London" in the late 60s, which has made it the butt of many jokes ever since! It's interesting to note (well, to me, anyway) that if Croydon were not a suburb of London, it would be immediately recognised as a City and would be the 10th largest urban conurbation in England - larger than Sheffield, Leicester and even Swindon. Unfortunately our proximity to "The Big Smoke" means this will probably never happen You may go back to sleep now. Smudge "urban geographer" boy EMail: david.smith@tfeurope.com
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 14:34:17 -0800 (PST) From: John Relph <relph@mando.engr.sgi.com> Subject: Re: KPEZ Tour Audio... Message-ID: <10011221434.ZM512679@mando.engr.sgi.com> "Wes Long" <wlong2@carolina.rr.com> wrote: > >http://www.myplay.com/mp/locker/tracks.jsp?sort=7&vw=rec It is clear after giving the KPEZ "tape" a listen that it is being played back a bit too fast. Andy sounds like he's inhaled helium. Revenge of the Helium Kidz. -- John
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 22:14:59 -0500 (EST) From: Dave Rutherford <drutherf@techmail.gdc.com> Subject: Re: Top Of The Pops Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21L.0011222159260.10496-100000@esun1006> On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, in Chalkhills #6-294, Michael Martin wrote: > [...] wouldn't it be interesting to do a poll on people's favourite XTC > albums? I'm sure this must have happened at some point, though had a > rummage around the archives and couldn't find any evidence of such. Michael, such a survey is actually in progress. Announced in Digest #6-142 and intended for a long run, I have just about got all the scoring done and will probably take the final tally sometime over this long weekend. But if you hurry, you can still participate at http://evilpettingzoo.com/xtc-survey.html . To the rest of you, thanks very much for the broad participation! Nearly 300 of you have answered the survey to date, and the responses have been varied and honest. Over this long Thanksgiving weekend, I should have time to fine-tune my spreadsheet and write up the most interesting results for these esteemed pages. And I promise that the survey results will be published before the US election results are decided. :-) Cheers, Dave -- NOW STOP READING FOREVER Visit http://evilpettingzoo.com/dave/key.html for GnuPG 1.0 public key. Key Fingerprint: E79F 7344 84A1 A0F2 653B F700 9CDF B8D4 DA73 2AF7
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 10:33:30 -0600 From: "Joe Funk" <twosheds@mindspring.com> Subject: Cyberspace Jamming Message-ID: <016701c0556b$1e425860$7721fea9@user> Well... Not exactly jamming, but collaboration... Sorry for the shameless self promotion, but I think y'all might find it interesting that a couple of list members, Randy Hiatt and Moi, have a song up at mp3.com: http://stations.mp3s.com/stations/107/instant_everything.html It's actually a tune I wrote, "Waltzing with You", with Jason Doggett (on Chapman Stick) for our band; Two Sheds... We recorded it in a studio here in south Austin, sans drums..... I had been corresponding with Randy for some time when I finally got a wild hair: Your a drummer..our demo needs drums.. Can you do it? I sent him a copy (via snail mail), and,......WA LA!! Here you have it... The song is on a station that was put together by members of Joytown, a Kevin Gilbert list... Daresay... are there any Flautists out there? XTC content.. I am also collaborating with another list member (whose name shall remain anonymous to protect the guilty) on an XTC cover... No, its not Funk Pop a Roll.... Joe "Mellotron would be nice, also" Funk
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 11:36:49 -0800 From: "Macdonald, Robert " <RMacdonald@bcbc.bc.ca> Subject: Music for All Us Children Message-ID: <46C2D3D3D981D41187E300508B6670347611D7@bcbcmail.bcbc.bc.ca> Hello All I am keeping busy these days with my new bundle Zoe who is now over ten weeks old. I know, I know ...please spare me the details! Just found something though that I think will appeal to many here on Chalkhills....those with children as well as everyone else. Last weekend I bought a "children's" cd by the Canadian band The Rheostatics called The Story of Harmelodia. I don't recall anyone mentioning this cd, but it is really amazing! It's one part psychedelic, one part prog rock, one part XTC pop, and one part Children's story. The music rocks a little hard at times for most kids therefore will probably be listened to much more by their parents. The cd is beautifully packaged as an illustrated book. Here are a couple other review clips: Thomas Hayden, Newsweek "the Rheostatics re-invent the fairy tale as a concept record. Gently sad and slightly scary, it is the musical equivalent of an Edward Gorey tale" Jeff Batemen, The Record We've heard the "there's no place like home" message before, of course, but never with this degree of tunefulness, mischief and merriment. Child-like wonders never cease from the Rheos. Reviewer: Juan S. Alemparte from toronto Just fantastic! Children`s story mixed in with a dash of "Lamb lies down on brodway" a pinch of "ogden`s nut gone flake" a little rheos magic and presto "harmelodia". Get the point? Didn`t think so. Anyways,Get it! Any of you who would like more info on this just send me some mail Cheers Rob Macdonald Victoria BC
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