Chalkhills Digest Volume 2, Issue 146
Date: Monday, 12 August 1996
Chalkhills Digest, Volume 2, Number 146
Monday, 12 August 1996
Today's Topics:
Frost Circus
Skipping songs
Decorating Tip #23
Hi, It's Alan Burston
Punch And Judy
Go Easy on Homo Safari!
on typos, christians and longboxes
Longboxes
Living in a Haunted Heart
Sam, Terry and more
Fossil Fuel release date
All That Nazz
Desert island XTC
Camera Club?
Trib Tape Status
Wrapped In Grey
Bootlegs
Whoa, Hey! Wait just a minute here! (yes, this is about the trib. tape)
strange phenomena...
A slight XTC bootleg dub change of plans / Bells, bells, lot of bells.
Re: Germany
Fossil Fuel - The Press Release!
XTC Lauded in record review
This dub over
Wanted: XTC CDs
XTC ja ja ja
Videos/Producers/Conspiracy Theories/Pseudonyms/Quotes
Chips...
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 19:48:25 -0700 (PDT) From: alizarine <jemiah@teleport.com> Subject: Frost Circus Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.92.960808194720.422B-100000@zoe.teleport.com> Hey, I *like* "Frost Circus"... =) -alizarine (jazzed about new her $6 CD of "Black Sea" with the B-sides in the middle)
------------------------------ Message-Id: <199608090353.NAA26810@warchives.riv.csu.edu.au.> From: "Simon Knight" <sknight@warchivegw.riv.csu.edu.au> Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 12:59:50 +0000 Subject: Skipping songs Re: all this recent talk of skipping bad tracks Believe me, XTC songs are not like most artists. Their songs can be a little more difficult to get into than most. But don't skip over songs you don't like! Just let the albums play through and one day you might be surprised at how much your opinions change. Something might suddenly catch your ear and you'll think "Why haven't i noticed how interesting that is before?" I personally have always found English Settlement very difficult to get into. Other than Colin's songs, the singles, and (you guessed it), the brilliant "All of a sudden", it leaves me cold. I'm not worried though because i know one day i'll put it on and discover how great it is. I thought "Go 2" was appalling until a few months ago, now it's one of my favourites. One thing i loved about working my way through their back catalogue was no matter how smug i was, thinking there was nothing left they do to shock me, there would always be at least one song on each CD that would give me pause. You know what i mean, you're playing the CD and enjoying it, and then suddenly WHAM! you're thinking "What the hell is this???" How many artists can you say that about? There are no bad XTC songs. Some are just more difficult than others. Invest some patience and time and you will be rewarded. Five XTC songs i hated and now love: Blue overall Human alchemy Wait till your boat goes down Reign of blows Here comes president kill again (I can't believe i once thought that WTYBGD had a bizarre melody - it sounds perfectly natural to me now. And it is "Very singalongable", as Andy says). Anyone else out there have the same experiences of discovery? Any particular songs you especially hated and now love? I'd like to hear about it. Maybe someone can point me to their own personal highlights of ES. (And to the ChalkNazis out there, ever ready to flame and shower us with criticism, and who are quick to tell us to stop talking about things they don't find interesting whilst offering no topics in return: i direct you to the alt.bitch newsgroup. Failing that, go try out for Melrose Place. Bitch to the trees! Bitch to the sky! Tell it to someone who gives a shit! Just stop bitching here!).
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 23:39:22 -0400 From: WES HANKS <W_HANKS@wow.com> Subject: Decorating Tip #23 Message-ID: <199608082339_MC1-84A-7189@compuserve.com> Hi Chalkhilians, Try this one...several images from the Chalkhills archive make attractive wallpaper. "Wait till Your Boat Goes Down" works nicely for the pc at work, "25 O'Clock" and the Uffington horse photo are most attractive in the home. Simon Sleighton mentioned "jokingly" about the "themes" of XTC albums as they relate to the cover art. He then wondered what the next album's "theme" could be. I was thinking...every new hotel that has sprung up the last five years here in Las Vegas (home) has had its own "theme", e.g. pirates, pyramids, castles, etc... For XTC's next albums theme, I vote for "All you can eat!" Blessings, Wes
------------------------------ Message-Id: <v01540b02ae303bbde560@[169.132.99.79]> Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 02:24:32 +0100 From: pjmuck@mail.idt.net (Peter McCulloch) Subject: Hi, It's Alan Burston I don't wish to alienate any fellow chalkhillians who don't happen to own some of the home demos and such that are circulating throughout the list, but I have a few questions regarding some of the demos/side projects material I've obtained. Indeed, I didn't own too many of them a couple of months ago, but I've found there to be many cool people on this list who are eager to trade and share the material they have (myself included). Any way, here are my questions: 1. Who's Alan Burston? Why did Andy record a couple of short demos in his honor? 2. What female-fronted band recorded a version of, "Roads Girdle the Globe?" 3. For techies only: What's Andy's home studio setup, equipment-wise (i.e. keyboards, drums, etc.) The string and orchestra samples are mint! I must have them! 4. Anyone familiar with Andy's work with Terry Hall? Is it any good? Terry Hall's post-Specials stuff is not widely available here in the states, and quite frankly, after the Fun Boy Three dissolved I stopped paying attention to his career. But the Specials are one of my all-time favorite bands and I'm always intrigued by him. The latest incarnation of the Specials, sans-Terry however, seems to have gone the commercial reggae, "Wailing Souls" route. (You'd think that with bands like Rancid and Goldfinger blatantly ripping them off, that they'd be better off riding the wave of Ska resurgence). 5. Who has copies of the James and Giant Peach songs and is willing to trade for other demos? Seems everyone I've communicated with who has the Giant Peach stuff also happens to have every demo ever made as well. I've got about 99.9% of the demos (or at least all those known demos that are listed in the Chalkhills discography), and I'm always into trading. 6. Does anyone actually listen to their copy of, "Through the Hill" with any degree of regularity? Cheers! Peter
------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 09:56:42 +0100 Message-Id: <199608090856.AA26386@felix.dircon.co.uk> From: nonsuch@dircon.co.uk (Simon Sleightholm) Subject: Punch And Judy From: mnaran@village.ios.com (Matt Naranjo) >To inform Simon Sleightholm of the status of the American CD >"Longbox"--It's pushing up the daisies! Thanks for the info, I hoped it had gone the journey. From: fisher@easynet.co.uk (Mark Fisher) >...box set of Go2, Drums and Wires and Black Sea with the added >novelty of the CDs being picture discs (basically copies of the album >covers, except the D&W colours are way off). Thanks Mark. I wish I'd got it now. From: John M Rader <jmr0244@kgv1.bems.boeing.com> >the producer thread has relevance only >because it defines the readers of this list. If you don't care what >people want for XTC sound and production, don't read it. The validity is >to see how diverse elements in the fan base for the band still enjoy the >band. Nicely put, John. I lost interest in the producer thread after a couple of lists, but that was the best validation for it I've read. From: "Daniel Prendiville" <modjp@indigo.ie> >I'll continue to submit my postings, and I'll try not to disagree with you >in future. It would help if I knew what we could *agree* on... Why bother? As soon as we agree on something, you seem to change sides. To be honest I'm fed up with this. When you first mailed me we agreed that there were certain threads we found dull, and that we'd try and think of some new threads to introduce. I should have realised - after your next post, the really really angry one, that you we're best left alone. Sure, it's quite nice to see the back of the producer list and even - guilty as charged - the six degrees of seperation one, but I didn't think then that the thread you would choose to take was one turning your blanket condemnation of the Chalkhills crowd solely towards me. I admit that for a few weeks I was pretty bored by the list, when there seemed to be little or no interesting content - that is, interesting for me - but it was obviously interesting for others. At no time did I consider unsubcribing though. You don't need to threaten me with extracts from my mail, I'd post it in here myself if I thought anyone was interested - "let's light a fire under the bastards" was, I think, one of the quotes, and there were others equally "inflamatory", I'm not ashamed to say I was sick of the list for a couple of weeks. I'm sure many others get that way too. But it's free, it's fun and it's well worth sticking with. So you sent me a big list of moans about the list, some not very rational - I assumed these were tongue-in-cheek but now I'm not so sure. You have turned this particular thread into the very thing you always railed against - a waste of time with little or no XTC content, and something I'm sure many, many Chalkies are skipping through. So to wrap up, you asked me what I though were "interesting, important or vital" topics. Well, all I can say for sure is that for me, and many others, this particular topic is none of those. I think the other Chalkies will have had enough of this for now, if you want to continue this then let's do it privately, otherwise let's follow the wise words of Ron Nasty and "Let It Rot". I'll see you outside, Simon * --------------------------------------------------- http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~nonsuch/bungalow.htm * --------------------------------------------------- No Thugs In Our House, only XTC.
------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 08:00:47 -0400 Message-ID: <20B2A370.@messaging.tfn.com> From: barkerw@messaging.tfn.com (Welton Barker) Subject: Go Easy on Homo Safari! I've noticed quite a few disparaging references of late to Frost Circus. Everyone, of course, is entitled to an opinion (and even if they weren't, who could stop them?), so I thought I would add mine (for which everyone is breathlessly waiting). Frost Circus is a really interesting little piece. It is certainly not what you would choose to play for an all night bachelor party (except at the end of the night, perhaps), but I think it works very well on its own terms. The Homo Safari series in general is probably best listened to as potential film or theme music. As a matter of fact, I had a brief sojourn on a local college station several years ago, and named my spot "Frost Circus", using the eponymous tune as the theme music (of course, there are those who would blame this choice for the brief lifetime of the show!). I hope this won't be regarded as a flame--just my humble opinion. On an unrelated note, what is the cutoff for cover tunes for that compilation? And what is the email address? Please forgive my call for repetitious info, but I don't always have a chance to read the entire digest. Thanks in advance! Welton weltonb@ix.netcom.com
------------------------------ From: jrsnipp@interserv.com Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 05:31:26 -0700 Message-Id: <199608091231.FAA19499@m1.interserv.com> Subject: on typos, christians and longboxes A couple of thoughts.... >From the Fossil Fuels press release: > The Mayor Of Simpleton (sic) I am sorry but I don't see the misspelling. A few people have echoed the following sentiment: > Sam(nee Leslie) Phillips is married to T-Bone Burnett, and they are both > professed and practicing Christians. However, this doesn't stop them from > creating some of the more interesting music you'll ever hear. I don't want to make a huge deal about this, but there are A LOT of religious artists who write "interesting music," Peter Case, Peter Murphy, Peter Garrett and the Call come immediately to mind. Please don't succumb to stereotyping. Finally a word on longboxes: While, for environmental reasons, I don't long for the longbox return, they were at least something for those of us who mourn the death of big format album art. Many were boring (cd-sized album cover on field of black), but some used the space effectively, blowing up parts of album covers or even using different art and layouts. I even clipped and saved my faves, including Oranges and Lemons (top half of album cover blown-up and sideways) and Nonesuch (pretty much the album cover on field of red, *yawn*). These could be some of the more obscure and useless XTC memorabilia out there. Anyone with something more obscure and USELESS? The loving's coming! Joe Snipp PS I for one, Peter Dresslar, know Holland is a city in Michigan. We stopped there one family vacation when I was seven. I still have my wooden shoes. (Talk about obscure and useless.)
------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 13:03:16 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199608091703.NAA12857@cyber1.servtech.com> From: Joshua Hall-Bachner <particle@servtech.com> Subject: Longboxes >At the same time, retailers wised >up and noticed that by converting shelving for cd's, they could stock many >times more product in plain view to buyers. So... the longbox has not been >seen in the US for over 2 years. And then came another flash of "Genius": the "artificial longbox". Many CD stores now use these plastic things which fit around the CD and extend it's length to 12 inches, replacing the wasteful (but recyclable) longbox with a wasteful and non-recyclable ugly plastic thing. Isn't progress wonderful? Another Chalkline on the Pavement read: > >Just wanted to say that I now enjoy listening to The Big Express. I've >owned the CD for 4 years, and really disliked it until last week. >Weird. Good. :) It's a great album, although defintely underrated. I mean, it has "wake up" and "Smalltown" and "Soul Coal" on it. >Perhaps I'll warm to Go2 in 2001. While it's hardly my favorite album, it's got some great tracks on it; Meccanik Dancing, Battery Brides, The Rhythm, Are You Recieving Me?, Red, My Weapon (don't laugh! I like this song!), and I Am The Audience. /---------------------------Joshua Hall-Bachner---------------------------\ | particle@servtech.com http://www.servtech.com/public/particle/ | | "Life is like a jigsaw. You get the straight bits, but there's something| \-----missing in the middle."--XTC, "All Of A Sudden (It's Too Late)"-----/
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Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 11:52:38 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <v01510101ae30d58d7010@[199.4.94.112]>
From: wine@wco.com (Glenn Siegel- The Wine Spectrum, Inc.)
Subject: Living in a Haunted Heart
Living in a Haunted Heart
Ab Eb Ab Cm G
I stumbled in and I fell straight asleep in the chair Swear I did
Ab Eb Ab Cm G
Woke with a start and I thought I saw you floating by Swear I did
Ab Bb Eb Bb
The fixtures and furniture's the same
Eb Eb (Dbass) Cm
As the second you walked out the door
Ab Bb Eb Ab
But here in my head you put a ghost train
Eb Eb (Dbass) Cm
And I can't go 'round any more
C7 F
And I hear the passengers scream
Dm G C Bb
I'm living in a haunted heart
Ab C F
And I tell myself it's all a bad dream
Dm G C Bb
I'm living in a haunted heart
Ab
Too proud to beg you to come back
Eb
One more drink, the fairground fades to black
Ab Eb Ab Eb Eb/ Bdim/ Ab/ Abdim
Every night
Ab Eb Ab Eb
Days last for years 'til the dark, like a bear,
Cm G
Puts his claws around my brain
Ab Eb Ab Eb
Smack! Bang on time, with your laugh, you walk in
Cm G
Through the walls around my brain
Ab Bb Eb Bb
The curtains and carpets are the same
Eb Eb (Dbass) Cm
As the day you dissolved in thin air
Ab Bb Eb
Now here I go queueing for the horror ride
Eb Eb (Dbass) Cm
Knowing I don't have the fare
C7 F
And I hear the passengers scream
Dm G C Bb
I'm living in a haunted heart
Ab C F
And I tell myself it's all a bad dream
Dm G C Bb
I'm living in a haunted heart
Ab
Too proud to beg you to come back
Eb
As the ghost train rattles 'round its track,
Ab Eb Ab Eb
Every night
B C#
I can't exorcise you or cause you to reappear
B
But if you want to know what nothing looks like
C# Eb Bdim Ab Abdim
Well just peel back my chest and take a look inside here
Ab Eb Ab Eb Cm G Ab Eb Ab Eb Cm G
Ab Bb Eb Bb
The fixtures and furniture's the same
Eb Eb (dbass) Cm
As the second you walked out the door
Ab Bb Eb Bb
But here in my head you put a ghost train
Eb Eb (dbass) Cm
And I can't go 'round any more
C7 F
And I hear the passengers scream
Dm G C Bb
I'm living in a haunted heart
Ab C F
And you're shaking me apart at the seams
Dm G C Bb
I'm living in a haunted heart
Ab C F
My reality is pushed past extremes
Dm G C Bb
I'm living in a haunted heart
Ab C F
And I tell myself it's just a bad dream
Dm G C Bb
I'm living in a haunted heart
Ab
Too proud to beg you to come back
Eb
One more drink, the fairground fades to black.
Enjoy!
Glenn Siegel
Sebastopol
Sonoma County, California
------------------------------ From: BObannon@aol.com Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 15:22:30 -0400 Message-ID: <960809152230_255954521@emout16.mail.aol.com> Subject: Sam, Terry and more Speaking of XTC album cover art, has anyone noticed the clever way in which "XTC" is spelled on the cover of Black Sea? Look just above the heads of the members of the band and you'll see a flying bird (left) whose body is contorted in a position that resembles the letter X; the mast of the ship (center) sticking up to resemble the letter T; and a quarter moon (right) which resembles the letter C. I'm surprised at the pleasure so many on this list received from hearing the "suck more piss" story about Terry Chambers. Come on, folks, is it really that funny that a drunkin sod spewed forth a few juvenile words that he probably never remembered he ever said? Terry was a great drummer, but it sounds like he was equally great at being a self-indulgent whino. >>I was moved by the person who (rather flippantly) said that Sam Phillips was now "Godless". No criticism meant to you, but it is not known by ME that Sam's belief in God has lessened any or at all. What is known is that the "Christian Music Industry" applied it's standard set of "rules" to Leslie Phillips and she could not accept that (apparently).<< While it's true that Sam's departure from the Christian music industry has nothing to do with whether she is a Christian or not, it is also true that the absence of even one direct mention of faith in Christ over the course of her last three albums certainly casts doubt about the strength of her claims. What does and does not come out of one's mouth speaks volumes about what makes that person tick. >>Sam's born-again husband, T Bone, once said-something to the effect that he would rather sing about the things Jesus said and did, rather than singing ABOUT Jesus.<< What!? That sounds like premeditated doubletalk to me. Besides, neither of them sing about things Jesus did anyway. "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." -- Jesus Christ. Bob
------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 16:06:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Ted Harms <tmharms@library.uwaterloo.ca> Subject: Fossil Fuel release date Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960809160301.5247A-100000@library.uwaterloo.ca> Does anybody know if FF be released to N. American markets or will it only be available as an import? What about a price? I'm not that interested in paying wads of cash just for a fancy picture of ammonite (sp?) As well, would Sept 9th be the UK release date or is that the N. American date as well? Ted Harms Library, Univ. of Waterloo tmharms@library.uwaterloo.ca 519.888.4567 x3761 "I got it all when I gave it back." N. Young
------------------------------ Message-ID: <341CD72F01291300@ametsoc.org> Date: Fri, 9 Aug 96 16:39:00 -0500 From: dgershmn <dgershmn@ametsoc.org> Organization: AMS Subject: All That Nazz DeWitt Henderson said: >Anyway, it was a great treat at the time, and I was just wondering if any others >heard our faves on this "tour". I don't know how many cities they visited. Yep, I heard about their radio tour fortunately early enough to be ready to tape their local appearance here in Boston on WFNX (couldn't be around for the one on WBCN later that day, though)...it was actually the very first stop (at least in America) on the radio tour, so I guess I heard live their very first performance here since they stopped touring (along with quite a few others of you out there, I'd imagine). And fortunately I have NOT taped over it since then...I was already an XTC fanatic at the time, so I immediately broke off the tabs so that no accidental taping could take place. And Christopher Coolidge queried: >Speaking of Todd, anyone else think The Nazz's "Open My Eyes" is one of the >greatest rock and roll songs ever recorded? That intro puts me into rock >and roll heaven every time. Yes, absolutely...an amazing feat of pop songwriting, especially considering Todd was merely a teen when he wrote that. A pop prodigy he's always been. His "Couldn't I Just Tell You" is another all-time favorite of mine...a truly great song (as is the entire *Something/Anything* album, for that matter). As for a new label, I vote strongly for Rykodisc also, as I've stated once before...they truly seem to care about their artists and usually do a very nice packaging job for their releases. Merely a man in a shaking skin house, Dave Gershman
------------------------------ Message-ID: <4C1CD72F01291300@ametsoc.org> Date: Fri, 9 Aug 96 16:39:00 -0500 From: dgershmn <dgershmn@ametsoc.org> Organization: AMS Subject: Desert island XTC Okay, Chalkhillbillies, I know a survey is currently in progress about "who we are," but if you have the capacity for it, I'm going to start another one: Maybe this has been done at some point in the past before I joined the list, but I'd like to do a poll of your "desert island" XTC songs. Sure, include "Desert Island" if you'd like, but what I'd like you all to e-mail directly to me is your list of the TOP 5 XTC songs you would absolutely have to have with you if stranded on that proverbial desert island. I will collect all of your answers and report back with a countdown of your picks (limiting it to the Top 20-40, depending on the variety of answers). Just consider me the Casey Kasem of the Chalkhills list! I'll tally any responses that I get by Sept. 6, approximately one full month. Please do not vote more than once, by the way. I'm looking forward to those answers! E-mail me at: dgershmn@ametsoc.org Dave Gershman P.S. Just to make it even a little more interesting, if anyone's personal Top 5 turns out to be the same as the overall final Top 5, I'll make them a compilation tape of the Top XX songs off the list (XX = however many I can fit on one tape). Sure, that person might likely have all those songs already, but it might still be a great compilation to pop in the tape deck or pass off as a "conversion" tape to someone else. In the event of more than one person "qualifying" for the tape, I'll make a random drawing to decide who gets it.
------------------------------ Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 21:57:20 +0100 Message-Id: <199608092057.AA11324@felix.dircon.co.uk> From: Simon Sleightholm <nonsuch@dircon.co.uk> Subject: Camera Club? Picked up while trawling the net:- "it seems that Video Killed the Radio Star was first released by "Bruce Wooley and the Camera Club", a band that featured Wooley, Downes and Horn, and a then unknown keyboard player by the name of Thomas Dolby." "Camera Club was primarily Bruce Wooley's group...Thomas Dolby did some synth work for them...and i read somewhere that vocalist/ guitarist Andy Partridge of XTC was somehow involved." Anybody know anything about this? Simon * --------------------------------------------------- http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~nonsuch/bungalow.htm * --------------------------------------------------- No Thugs In Our House, only XTC.
------------------------------ From: richard.pedrettiallen@octel.com Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 15:28:01 -0700 Message-Id: <20BBFA70.1240@corp.octel.com> Subject: Trib Tape Status I currently have eleven tapes. ELEVEN out of 34 (original count). I am expecting six or seven more which will make this tape an agreeable length (70+ minutes). I have omitted the list of people who bagged out. If you want to send them an ecurse, call up the old list and do the subtraction. Some of those jam tarts had very good reasons. grrrrrrrr. For those listed below who have promised and not yet delivered... we're counting on you! If you choose to fall down before the finish line, I will personally slaughter your cattle and burn your crops. If you need more incentive, The Swindon Trio WILL receive a copy of this tape. Well... that may be a deterent for some. Aw hell, use a psuedonym! Just send your recording. (And please do not back-mask any stalker-style love messages, okay?) Here is the list as of 09aug96. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: AWAITING TAPE OR EMAIL OR CARRIER PIDGEON: Phillip McEachern ? Curtis Settino Scissor Man Steve Lutz Season Cycle Dolph Chaney Respectable Street Gene Yoon Everything Erich Walther Travels In Nihilon Christopher Coolidge Wrapped in Gray ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: PROMISED: Robin Myrick Kaleidoscope John Hedges Disque Bleu Randy Christopher Sacrificial Bonfire Ned Robie Rocket From A Bottle John Neil I'm Bugged OR Ballet For A Rainy Day Christopher Burgess This World Over OR All Of A Sudden ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: RECEIVED: Ben Gott Battery Brides Chris Spillios Dear God Harrison Sherwood Living In A Haunted Heart John Christensen 1000 Umbrellas Mitch Friedman "XTSea" Medley Naoyuki Iso Goosey, Goosey Steve Perley My Love Explodes Peter Fitzpatrick Making Plans For Nigel Eric Day It's Nearly Africa Tim Kendrick Chalkhills & Children Tom Slack Meeting Place :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Ship your tape today!! Fedex is free, when you mail from work! Richard
------------------------------ From: ZITTEL@aol.com Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 19:20:16 -0400 Message-ID: <960809192016_256094226@emout19.mail.aol.com> Subject: Wrapped In Grey Darren A Peace <dpeace@flat7.demon.co.uk> wrote: >Incidentally, does anyone know if "Wrapped In Grey" got a proper >release anywhere? I know some UK CD singles were pressed up (because >I've got a couple - I think there were 100 made, but most of them got >destroyed when the release was cancelled in the UK), but I don't >think they ever made it to the shops. The UK was the only country that I know of to release "Wrapped In Grey". And I believe that the UK copies that did get out were mostly for promotional purposes. While my copy of the CD single does not have promo written anywhere on the disc, it did come with a seperate sheet of paper that has a brief promotional announcement by Virgin. It reads: "ALL WRAPPED UP" "XTC have a new single, 'Wrapped In Grey' (VS1426) released on September 7th from their top thirty album 'Nonsuch'. It is their third single from the LP, and follows on from 'The Disappointed' and 'The Ballad Of Peter Pumkinhead' (a number one Alternative Radio hit in the States)." "'Wrapped In Grey', an Andy Partridge composition, is available on 7" backed with the album track 'Bungalow'. There will also be a CD single (VSCDT1426) which features two rarities - the original demo version of 'Bugalow' and the previously unreleased demo of 'Rip Van Reuben'."
------------------------------ Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 11:15:24 +1000 Message-ID: <199608100115.LAA15308@bukula.enternet.com.au> From: Colin Wright <loopy2@enternet.com.au> Subject: Bootlegs DeWitt Henderson's last posting reminds me that I have a very cool Australian made bootleg CD of the boys' radio tour called "K-Rocking in Pasadena". It's recordings of a series of broadcasts of xTc in a couple of radio stations in the US. Very unplugged and the chat is very funny. I could be talked into doing taped copies if anyone's interested. Also - Australia has been notorious for producing 'tribute' bands over recent years, notably, 'The Beatnix' - 'Bjorn Again' - 'the Australian Doors Show' - 'Sunday, Bloody Sunday' etc. etc. - most of which I wouldn't go near with a 30 foot sticky barge pole!! However, I recently read in the local gig guide an ad for 'Nigel - and xTc tribute band'. My curiosity is up and I'll let you know what they were like if they play again and I get to see 'em. Scary though eh? Going off to suck more piss and then go off. Keep chalkin' up a storm Colin ***************************************************************** * Colin Wright * * * Studio Manager * Partner * * Troy Horse Studios * Loopy Green Digital Studio * * P.O.Box 7, Alexandria * P.O.Box 704, Newtown * * NSW 2015 Australia * NSW 2042, Australia * * * * * Ph. 015 240 000 * e-mail- loopy2@enternet.com.au * ***************************************************************** *"If all the world be but a play - be thou the joyful player" * * Incredible String Band * *****************************************************************
------------------------------ Message-Id: <199608100401.VAA05391@dfw-ix1.ix.netcom.com> From: "Steve Perley" <huduguru@ix.netcom.com> Subject: Whoa, Hey! Wait just a minute here! (yes, this is about the trib. tape) Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 23:58:00 -0400 Hi, everybody! I posted a message a couple of issues back trying to encourage the stragglers to send in their contributions to the Chalkhills' Children tape, but some folks got the mistaken impression that I'm the guy who's putting it all together. This includes Colin from Australia who offered the services of a recording studio free of charge! I guess this IS the friendliest place in...well, you know, that overused word. Anyway, here's the address of the proper person to contact about the tape: richard.pedretti-allen@octel.com I thought that I wrote that I don't represent him in any way, but I may have been enjoying a cool, refreshing cocktail at the time, and I have erased my outbox since The Incident. Sorry for any confusion that this may have caused! Steve By the way, here's a plug for Colin Wright since he seems like a nice guy...
------------------------------ Message-Id: <199608101320.OAA20003@aoife.indigo.ie> From: "Daniel Prendiville" <modjp@indigo.ie> Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 12:53:25 +0000 Subject: strange phenomena... On the same day that I accessed #2-145, in which DeWitt Henderson signed of his posting with a quote from RESPECTABLE STREET, the Avon Lady called around to my house. Weird, huh? Burning With Optimism's Female, indeed Daniel Prendiville
------------------------------ From: Aeoconn@aol.com Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 17:31:38 -0400 Message-ID: <960810173137_256559768@emout08.mail.aol.com> Subject: A slight XTC bootleg dub change of plans / Bells, bells, lot of bells. Hi! Regardless of what I had told you before, I would like you to postmark your tapes no later than August 19th. That way, I can get everyone's tapes done by the end of August. I mean it! Don't make me have to use excessive force on your tapes! Seriously, obey me. I am your master. Another thing: In a recent Chalkhills post, someone bashed Todd Rundgren for the predictable flourish of bells that follow Colin's lyric about bells in "Big Day". My question is this: how do you know that Todd Rundgren was responsible for the addition of bells to that particular song? Do you have an interview in which Rundgren talks about the touches he added to that particular song? Were you there at the Skylarking sessions when they recorded that section of the album? Or do you just plain not like Todd and just use any old excuse to bash him? It could have just as easily been Colin's idea. Dave (who thinks Todd is a musical genius), York PA XTC song quote of the day: "...the..."
------------------------------ From: joel@custer.kenlaw.com (Joel Flaxman) Message-Id: <9608102127.ZM19454@custer.kenlaw.com> Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 21:27:41 -0500 Subject: Re: Germany James Isaacs Wrote about Germany: > Not only is the keyboard harder to use here, but I have yet to find a > record store here in Heidelberg (Ah, Heidelberg) nor Mannheim (Uh, > Mannheim) that have anything by the last sons of Swindon. While this > does not bother me at the moment, as I have everything but "The > Kitchen Sink", I can forsee problems down the road, such as future > releases and converting the pagans. Are there any German folks out > there? Am I the lone voice n the wilderness? Any clues of good > shops in the area I have overlooked? I went to Germany for three weeks earlier this summer and stayed in Heilbronn (close to Heidelberg). At a second-hand record store in downtown Heilbronn (Above a bookstore and hard to find) I picked up the bootleg Making Plans For Andy for 25 DM (approximately $16.66). They also had Explode Together and I think (not sure) Rag and Bone. I don't recommend making the trip just for that (you probably won't find the store). About music in Germany, when I was there I watched a lot of VIVA (German music station) and got very sick of the popular music (Does it say something about the U.S. that the Backstreet Boys -- who I heard are from Florida -- aren't popular? No, it doesn't Green Day was popular hear). At a party some German's I met assured me that they didn't all listen to this junky stuff and that the German charts were determined by 10 year old girls. Then they asked about slang from 2Pac songs. --Joel -- "Success is being a quote." - Andy Partridge
------------------------------ From: Darren A Peace <dpeace@flat7.demon.co.uk> Subject: Fossil Fuel - The Press Release! Date: Sun, 11 Aug 1996 17:32:57 GMT Organization: Grey Velvet Consulting Message-ID: <320e17d1.3631892@post.demon.co.uk> Further to my recent message regarding the "Fossil Fuel" press release, I've now scanned it, and it can be found at: http://www.flat7.demon.co.uk There's also a scan of the "Wrapped In Grey" CD single cover, for those who are convinced this item does not exist! I'm afraid that I don't want to sell my second copy, as I try and keep one copy of my XTC stuff mint. Details of how to contact the "Badlands" record shop (by telephone or e-mail), who will send copies of the compilation throughout the known universe, etc., are also on the page. Darren dpeace@flat7.demon.co.uk
------------------------------ Date: 12 AUG 96 13:29:14 EST From: PCulnane@dca.gov.au Subject: XTC Lauded in record review Message-ID: <0000gkimoccw.0000ftfnffbf@dca.gov.au> Today (12 August), my local paper, The Canberra Times, carried a review of The Sugarplastic's "Bang, The Earth Is Round". Here's some of what the reviewer had to say: "One of the more memorable bands of the 1980s was XTC, who managed to successfully fuse a myriad of styles that culminated in diverse, interesting and devastatingly catchy songs. Wjile Californian three-piece The Sugarplastic are not near claiming the "XTC of the 90s" mantle, it has managed to record an impressive collection of three-minute songs that demonstrates the trio knows its influences well." Then, blah blah blah, then, "...familiar (sounding) vocals of Ben Eshbach who is somewhere between vocalists of Talking Heads and XTC..." Blah blah blah blah, then, "...the first single, Polly Brown, is another stunning track which manages to create a perfect synthesis of The Kinks and (yes) XTC". The guy rates the album pretty highly. But hadn't our boys better do something soon, to avoid forever being known as "one of the more memorable bands of the 1980s"???? I also saw Andy Partridge as a clue in a recent Mojo magazine crossword. Do you think I should get out more? Paul-of-Oz
------------------------------ From: Aeoconn@aol.com Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 01:12:38 -0400 Message-ID: <960812011234_454216616@emout17.mail.aol.com> Subject: This dub over The dub offer has ended (if you're reading this after 12:00 AM EST Tuesday). If you try and e-mail me after that time, your message will be bounced back to you because I'm switching online services. I'll post my new address later this week in case anyone has any questions. I sent the first tapes out Monday morning, by the way. Reminder: postmark your tapes by August 19th! That is the deadline... Dave York PA P.S. Someone named Edgrrrrr e-mailed me about the dub offer but there was no return address included with his e-mail. E-mail me when I post my new address, whoever you are. By the way, I think Edgrrrrr is trying to scare me with his e-mail name, you know, adding all those r's at the end to make himself sound big and scary, like a lion. But I'm not scared at all. I'm only scared of real lions.
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From: IraHome@aol.com
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 10:39:38 -0400
Message-ID: <960812103937_176956065@emout10.mail.aol.com>
Subject: Wanted: XTC CDs
I will be eternally grateful to anyone who can help me find
the following CDs on the Extatic label:
XTC Demos 6
XTC Demos 7
I have already looked in Goldmine magazine, lots of local (Northern
Virginia) independent stores, local record conventions, and a
sampling of stores on the WWW.
Thanks,
Ira Rosenblatt
irahome@aol.com
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 16:54:06 +0200 (MESZ) From: Thomas Wuerger <wuerger@ub.uni-freiburg.de> Subject: XTC ja ja ja Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9608121633.A18384-0100000@ibm1.ub.uni-freiburg.de> Re to #2-145. Are there German pagans out there? A call out of the wilderness of Heidelberg by our hon. James Issacs. Hallo dear Chalkies, hello James Issacs, yes, there is - at least - one German out there. Me. ... Hicks :) Everyday - through the mist of a serious German beer intoxication I'm staggering through the University Library of Freiburg (down in South Germany - near Switzerland and France) to my American Computer, waiting for news out of the Chalkhooligan (oops sorry) Chalkholian universe. :) Great job Mr. Relphs. Many interesting news, but the Rockpalast Concert announcement came a little late. I missed the concert too. (No trace in my German TV-guide) But I get a poor copy (longplay mode, PAL) by a good friend of mine, taping the whole night. He's a POLICE fan (Are all Germans police-fans? :) Sorry, I meant POLICE fans) taping XTC only by chance. So, not a video-tape in good condition for making copies, sorry. But ... perhaps I mail to German WDR Fernsehen, if there will be another chance for me (us) .... I'm a fan of XTC since their first LP: "The pagan converted long ago" --> that could be our new producer. Oh. Sorry ... aehm no. Joke I meant our new drummer. :) Oh no. The title of the new virgin-free album of XTC. That's it. To the situation of records-stores in Heidelberg and elsewhere in Germany. Perhaps James will get all XTC album in Karlsruhe or Stuttgart. Here in Freiburg there's no problem to get every album you want. (But horrible prices! you lucky gyus in America.) If you're looking for German, French or Swiss release mail and perhaps I'll find it. I love you folks out there and sorry about my stuttering Thomas <ze Germ-man> "Es ist eine fremde und seltsame Welt" der PLAN Thomas "Crocodile" Wuerger Freiburg, Germany e-mail: wuerger@ub.uni-freiburg.de --------------o----\ _____ ////////// -------- ------------- \\\\\\\\\ \----------_____________ --------------------/_/---/_/-------------/_/---/_/-------
------------------------------ From: 101377.2113@compuserve.com Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 11:26:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199608121526.LAA11601@Arl-Mail-Svc-1.compuserve.com> Subject: Videos/Producers/Conspiracy Theories/Pseudonyms/Quotes In response to various postings from CH 2/143 through CH 2/145... Videos... UK fans may well recall a Channel 4 TV series entitled Play at Home. One prog featured XTC who, amongst other things, did three very low budget alternative vids for Farmboy's, Loving Memory and Train Running Low. The latter was a superb acoustic version of a song I had previously never heard, it being prior to the release of Big Express. I guess these don't really count as pucker vids to add to the ever growing videography but, more importantly, has anyone got a UK format video copy of the programme I could trade? Producers... Let's be daring and throw another log on the, already roaring, producer debate fire. Am I too laid back or am I the only one who doesn't really give a stuff who produces the next album? Pondering such a topic is a bit like worrying what tomorrow's weather is going to be like: you can chat about it as much as you like but it ain't gonna make one jot of difference as to whether the sun shines or the rain pours! Personally, I'm with John M Rader (aside: not being rude but could someone explain why Americans always use their middle initials?) and cast my ultimately pointless vote for John Leckie. The Dukes is proof enough for me that old Leckers is still top notch. Mind you, Terrible Todd did do one thing in my book. I remember a quote from Andy a few years back that basically said the only way XTC would make an impact in the US was by accident. I believe that the accident happened with Rundgren and Dear God. Conspiracy Theories... The conspiracy theorists amongst you may like to recall that as well as Van Halen doing a track called Jump in 1983 there was, at about the same time, a Scottish band called Big Country having a UK hit with a song called Wonderland. Spooky! Pseudonyms... In response to communications on how we XTC fans refer to ourselves, many moons past, whenever I penned something concerning XTC, I used to sign off as the Statuette of Liberty. Seemed a good idea at the time! Quotes... Let's open a new thread. Has anybody got any good quotes that seem to apply to XTC? My personal current favourite is: Condemn me, it does not matter. History will absolve me. By none other than Fidel Castro. Yours Gary Minns 101377.2113@compuserve.com
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Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 17:46:21 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199608122146.RAA19732@cyber1.servtech.com>
From: Joshua Hall-Bachner <particle@servtech.com>
Subject: Chips...
Hideho!
I finally found a copy of Chips From The Chocolate Fireball a few
days ago ($8.95 US at Circuit City!) I really, really like it. The pastiche
is done really, really well, and many of the songs are good all by
themselves. And of course, there's all the funny little interludes and
stuff. I notice that Andy couldn't resist some social skewery anyway. (The
chorus of Albert Brown, for example.) Like I said, I really like it. I'm
glad that it actually has fairly good liner notes (w/lyrics), unlike so many
of the other CD reissues. IMHO, it is *far* better than O&L.
PS: I just added 8 megs and a 28.8 modem to my computer. Netscape would take
approx. 5 min to load and completely read an average sized HTML file from
the hard drive before; now it only takes 22 seconds!
/---------------------------Joshua Hall-Bachner---------------------------\
| particle@servtech.com http://www.servtech.com/public/particle/ |
| "Life is like a jigsaw. You get the straight bits, but there's something|
\-----missing in the middle."--XTC, "All Of A Sudden (It's Too Late)"-----/
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