Chalkhills Digest Volume 13, Issue 45
Date: Saturday, 1 December 2007
Chalkhills Digest, Volume 13, Number 45
Saturday, 1 December 2007
Topics:
defeating musical burnout
Music Suggestions
Re: Talent Show
Londoners - come see my play!
Re: Lifelong Love Affair With Music Ends At Age 35
Help Me If You Can I'm Feeling Down
I'm Not Making This Up...
REMOULDS
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:16:40 -0800 From: "Jemiah Jefferson" <jemiah.jefferson@gmail.com> Subject: defeating musical burnout Message-ID: <4c8ad16b0711251916o4b79c3f6ldfb786d152a65f0c@mail.gmail.com> I certainly don't listen to music quite as much as I used to - but when I think about it, it's really only just barely a tick less. However, I often listen to music that's less challenging and adrenaline-surging as what used to be my bread-and-butter when I was younger; a big part of it is that as I listen to music at home, I am so frequently working with text - reading it and writing it - and I can no longer process two streams of verbal information at the same time, so I listen to a lot of music that is deliberately instrumental in nature. Still, that leaves me with a very rich survey of different kinds of music, and different artists - a ton of classical radio, quite a bit of big band music, lots of non-vocal electronic music from high energy dance music to the chillest of ambient. And lots of music that has vocals, but not being sung in English - French hip-hop (yes, sorry, 90% of Chalksters, I actually do like that horrible rap stuff, as well as that horrible brainless and soulless music all done with synthesizers, computers, and turntables). And lots of jazz of all kinds, especially the newer approaches by bands like the Cinematic Orchestra. Anyone who can listen to "Ode to the Big Sea" and find it brainless... well, I don't know what they do with their brains, but mine is activated along the whole spectrum. I won't try to explain further, but seeing them live made me cry buckets of grateful tears that they exist. But most important for my lack of burnout is the fact that due to the fact that I have a limited income, and limited time to spend listening to all the great music that's out there, I have chosen to wait to get into certain bands and artists until I had the time to really devote to them. It may evince an eyeroll of "You're not really that swift, are you?", but I have only just discovered the music of Jeff Buckley, and his music is of the type where if I had nothing else to listen to, I'd be perfectly content. Only a few artists have ever been that way for me - XTC is another one of them. I also like to put XTC away for years at a time, and then come back and listen to them again, with all the things I've learned from listening to other artists now able to help guide me. I listen to and appreciate XTC completely differently now than I did in 1989 when I first started listening, because I hadn't heard almost any of their influences. Now I've heard about 80% of them - of Andy's, anyway. And there's still more to seek out, listen to, and return to the source. Love from Jemiah, who only posts when she's indignant about something, or goofy in love with something new. i.e., in this case, Jeff Buckley.
------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:51:14 -0800 From: idahlberg@verizon.net Subject: Music Suggestions Message-ID: <7B7C13BF-A0F3-4F5E-9450-7AD11002CF68@verizon.net> Some stuff I've been digging on recently The Go! Team - Doing It Right Noisettes - Scratch Your Name The Bird And The Bee - (Latest EP, great stuff) Autamata - Jellyman The Poor Richards - Too Much Fun Ian
------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:49:37 -0800 From: "Benjamin Lukoff" <blukoff@alvord.com> Subject: Re: Talent Show Message-ID: <2a720bde0711252149l59cad600y51ff2a2bdacf8080@mail.gmail.com> > From: Ben Gott <ben@loquaciousmusic.com> > I heard "Talent Show" by The Replacements on the radio today. > Remember when you could hear a song on the radio and it would make you > happy? Those were the days. Wow, listening to new music *was* different when I was 14, wasn't it? *Don't Tell a Soul--*what a great album. Might be their poppiest and least favorite of "true" Replacements fans, but I don't care. "Talent Show," "Back to Back," "We'll Inherit the Earth," "I'll Be You"....great stuff. I still have my "I'll Be You" 45!
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:08:28 -0000 From: "Belinda" <b.blanchard@btinternet.com> Subject: Londoners - come see my play! Message-ID: <003d01c83014$4aef8730$c001a8c0@belinda402a39e> Hi all! XTC content near the end but please read through this - Londoners especially. A new play "A Good Sub Story" by Sam South (me) Directed by Victor Sobchak Act Provocateur Theatre Company, Lion & Unicorn Pub Theatre, 42-44 Gaisford Street, Kentish Town. LONDON NW5 2ED. Box Office booking 020 7485 9897 Or email art-vic@supanet.com Tuesday to Saturdays at 7.30pm Sundays 6.00pm Not Mondays. #10 / #8 concessions Ends Sunday 9th December. Company website (with some photos!) http://www.actprovocateur.net/home.html Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5567949763 Streetmap page http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=529083&y=184885&z=0&sv=NW5+2ED&st=2&pc=NW5+2ED&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf XTC Content? I wrote the play and chose most of the music and got Senses Working Overtime (when you see the links to the flier you'll see why....) Hope to see some of you there. Belinda x
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:30:14 -0800 (PST) From: Steve <ste7phen@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Lifelong Love Affair With Music Ends At Age 35 Message-ID: <652086.87522.qm@web53310.mail.re2.yahoo.com> From: hbsherwood@aol.com >For Simon: >http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30646 Hilarious... Simon, do you have enough advice?
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 13:31:58 +0000 (GMT) From: PAUL RODGERS <pledge7@btinternet.com> Subject: Help Me If You Can I'm Feeling Down Message-ID: <60385.56004.qm@web86402.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Simon (I'm taking a break from lurking.) Guess what I'm also feeling the same, there's very little new to obsess about. I had a bit of luck in that I've retrospectively discovered The Beach Boys and Brian Wilson (with a great big helping hand from this email list), so I've had loads of music to get into. So it's around 40 years old, but what the hell... Lately I can heartilly recommend the following (even though one of them had been lauded by NME and doesn't fit all of your criteria): Arcade Fire Neon Bible At last an album that will make you think, dance, sing, jump around and then think some more. It is fantastic, possibly the most lyrically astute record I've ever heard. Terry Hall and Mushtaq Hour Of Two Lights Yeah ok, white pop star (ha ha) decides to add some World music to his day? Well, no, far from it. This album ditches most elements of pop or rock in favour of the music of those Hall and Mushtaq collaborate with. It's an album made with the war on terror going on in he background and features musicians caught up in it or displaced from their homes by it. Needs several plays, but is 100% keeper. Paul
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:05:21 -0500 From: Benjamin Gott <ben@loquaciousmusic.com> Subject: I'm Not Making This Up... Message-ID: <5ED50890-BE4C-4B45-918F-D4E3B2CE9BBE@loquaciousmusic.com> Hello, everyone, I just wanted to share a story with all of you that I thought you'd enjoy. As most of you know, I'm a sixth-grade English teacher here in Connecticut. I work with an incredibly gifted and talented group of young people, and we're reading a number of novels, poems, and short stories that high school and college students would find challenging. One of these stories is by Amy Tan, author of "The Joy Luck Club." The story, called "Rules of the Game," is about a young Chinese- American girl who, at the urging of her family and because of her love of the game, becomes a chess champion. Early on in the story, Tan writes about the girl's mother, who wants her to become famous in any way possible. My students suggested that this was because all parents want their children's lives to be better than their own. In the midst of this discussion, a girl named Olivia raised her hand: "Mr. Gott," she said, "this kind of reminds me of 'Making Plans for Nigel.' Do you know that song?" Before I could collect myself and reply, another girl, Emma, said, "We used to have a cat named Nigel, and we'd sing that song to it all the time." "Yes, Olivia," I said. "It is kind of like the song. Parents just want their children to have brighter futures than they had, don't they?" Sometimes, XTC connections happen in the strangest places, don't you think? -Ben
------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 07:26:51 EST From: MVOMALLEY57@aol.com Subject: REMOULDS Message-ID: <c42.20cd3b48.3482ad0b@aol.com> Thanks very much to Steve, David, and Simon for your responses, and help, getting me a copy of Dave Gregory's Remoulds. Michael
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