Chalkhills Digest Volume 2, Issue 152
Date: Monday, 2 September 1996
Chalkhills Digest, Volume 2, Number 152
Monday, 2 September 1996
Today's Topics:
Explode Together lyrics
just some tidbits
Just lucky I guess
j@zz
my thoughts
Hans de Vente again.
CHANGES IN POP MUSIC: WILL XTC BE INFLUENCED?
XTC In America Pre-Dear God
Musings galore...
That Todd Thing
_O&L_ 3 CD-3 request repost blah blah blah
Producer for upcoming XTC album
Influence Theory Management
More Dukes?
Re: Chalkhills Digest #2-151 (honest!)
Sugarplastic for Sale
Big Days
now now what's all this then
The Sugarplastic
too few Brits
Voice of Andy
Earn Enough for Poole
in denial/bass varlet
The Blue Up?
All these demos I keep hearing about
I have made a convert!
Fireworks!! (In more ways than you think!!)
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 18:37:45 +0200 From: sellheim@zfn.uni-bremen.de (Erich Sellheim) Message-Id: <9608281637.AA39133@alf.zfn.uni-bremen.de> Subject: Explode Together lyrics Hello everyone, as promised,here is the rest of the Explode Together lyrics: Cairo ===== Well,let me tell you about my girlie She goes by the name of Sleepy Shirley She become a real life wiro Since she learned how to do the Cairo And she go Up up down down Up up down down She pours out the sand on the kitchen floor Then we start to camel through the living room door She was cool to me,but now her heart's afiro Since she learned how to do the Cairo And she go The Rotary ========== I'm warning you I'm warning you now Look out people as it's the holy cow It's the rotary I told you 'bout the spinning top And that's a dance you gotta drop Because the rotary is in The rotary,the rotary The dance you've got to top is the brand-new spinning top That's out,this is the rotary The rotary This is a thing that's definitely gonna make Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band look bad They thought they had it with the "blimp" Well I'm talking to you about the rotary People will be coming,will be twirling,twirling,twirling,twirling The rotary You can jump it,I can jump it Everybody can jump it Grab an armadillo,grab your husband,grab anybody The rotary The rotary,the rotary,oh,the rotary It's the thing that's for me and you Ooh,ooh,the rotary I can see the precision They're lining up,falling over They're going crazy They can't get enough of the rotary Yes,siree The rotary Turning,turning,turning,turning... You're burning,burning,burning... With the rotary,ooh Yes,siree The rotary I shouldn't want you to get this confused with any other dance craze Because this is the one Oh,the rotary You'll be burning all your clothes And you'll be burning all of your jewellery You will be the rotary It's nothing like anarchy No,siree It's,it's the rotary The rotary,the rotary... R.O.T.A.R.Y. Rotary,the rotary You'll want to do it,do it with me You'll want to do it,you can do it for free The rotary Go on Terry,play the rotary How do you think he got the second half of his name? Terry is the last part of Rotary Drum it up,drum it up... I Sit In The Snow ================= I sit in the snow The town lights aglow The air is alight We drown in the night New Broom ========= We need a new broom To sweep it all clean We need a beat boom We need a new scheme Break all the deadlocks And spill all the beer Mr Ditko was right Mr A so near Break out the paints and the brushes And spill out your hearts No amount of soft soap Can ever give you a fresh start We are walking on a tight rope We can slip beyond religion The answer's in your cranium And not on independent television Also included are hand-written lyrics for Take This Town (I think the version in the Chalkhills archive has some mistakes): Take This Town ============== Living in a rabbit tunnel Keep the doggie in her kennel Mustn't let her see the world Oh no,don't treat her like that Oh no,don't treat her like that Living under mum and daddy Carry hope just like a caddie Mustn't let them see you're killed Oh no,don't treat her like that Oh no,don't treat her like that Shout it clear for all to hear You won't shoot this bird down Shout it clear for all to hear We're going to take this town Turn a deaf ear to the orders Keep them as your perfect daughters Mustn't let them know their minds Oh no,don't treat her like that Oh no,don't treat her like that Turning on to only music Breaking from their childhood attic Mustn't let them open the blinds Oh no,don't treat her like that Oh no,don't treat her like that It's time she stopped being your ornament It's time she put that in the past for permanent You can't hold her if she wants to roam around You can't hold her dream and keep it gagged and bound I hope this was of interest; greetings to all of you, Erich
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 12:22:32 -0500 (CDT) From: "Todd A. McCullough" <tmccullo@jaguar1.usouthal.edu> Subject: just some tidbits Message-Id: <Pine.3.88.9608291144.A13613-0100000@jaguar1.usouthal.edu> Hi, all. This is just a quick message about two distinct, but nonetheless tangential, XTC items. One: I saw the Cure (The Cure?) Tuesday night. While it was my girlfriend's idea, it was a solid, rockin' 2-and-a-half hour show. BUT... the ubiquitous pschedelic video backdrop (required by law, I guess) was a shock to see because it was *Exactly* like the moire pattern on the _Great Fire_ 7". And it went on and on, back and forth, for at least 45 mins. That wasn't enough to write in, but then I noticed the backdrop itself, which was two-layered with slashes in the front to expose diaphanous puff-throughs from the back. Guess what? - the spirally, cross-hatched pattern formed the huge letters (no kidding - ~25 ft.): X T C. I swear. Unfortunately, I kept going on about XTC, and not the Cure, so I am still apologizing for "Ruining the show." Whatever. My record guy today told me that Virgin is not being co-operative in promoting _Fossil Fuel_ (is there an "S" on the end?). There will be 500 vinyl copies, period, They Say, and HMV and Tower in London have already spoken for them; tough for the US vinyl collectors/aficionados. My guy also said that September 11 was his in-store due date, due to various importative snags. So, if you are on the beam and have your copy lined down (CD or vinyl), congratulations. If anyone knows whether the vinyl will be *that* much more special, let me know. Well, that's my vaguely-XTC related content for now. Bye.
------------------------------ Message-ID: <MAILQUEUE-101.960829142544.288@library.uta.edu> From: "L. Gutierrez-Ross" <GUTIERREZROSS@library.uta.edu> Organization: UTA Libraries Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 14:25:45 CST Subject: Just lucky I guess Well, I keep hearing people mention that their partner can't stand XTC. Call me a circus freak, but me and my husband both love XTC. Of course this happened way before we met each other, maybe that's the trick. One interesting difference I have noted is he will play O&L and Nonesuch, (in fact he's one of the factors that finally got me to listen to Nonesuch carefully) to clean house, work on projects, etc... whereas I generally choose, ES and D&W. Hmmmm. I will be playing Elvis Costello and XTC in-utero (ooh, gross) to our soon to be child in hopes of influencing his/her musical taste! I'll let you know how it turns out. I just can't picture myself playing Kenny Loggins' baby songs, it's inhumane. God, I've become so domestic, Rice Crispy treats anyone? Laura I don't want the world, I just want your half
------------------------------ From: myke <jerk@earth.execpc.com> Message-Id: <199608292309.SAA05640@earth.execpc.com> Subject: j@zz Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 18:09:49 -0500 (CDT) John Coltrane and Charlie Mingus are the only jazz that matters. Myke, being seriously narrow-minded and elitist as always :)
------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 10:05:04 +1000 Message-Id: <v01540b01ae4c6d9bec73@[203.111.6.65]> From: eliot@magna.com.au (Eliot Fish) Subject: my thoughts Just thought I'd post my thoughts, >Andy is currently in the middle of promoting this forthcoming release >throughout the UK and Europe. What about Australia!!!?? *sniff* >An internet conference will be set up very soon so that you will all be >able to speak to Andy directly. Awesome! Fantastic! Amazing! Yee-haa! >Also at the end of the year there will be a video compilation release made >up of various videos, TV and filmed performances. About time, eh? Wonderful! >A new album (possibly a double) will be released in the new year of '97. >Suggestions - who would be your favourite producer for the band? What about Ted Nicely? He's done Girls Against Boys, Jawbox, Throwing Muses and he gets such a big, warm, detailed, pop sound! Either that, or the band just do it themselves! Actually, I'll do it! Pick me! Bye folks, I'm going to go re-listen to Nonsuch (I haven't in 2 years) Eliot. "He who laughs, lasts." eliot@magna.com.au http://www.magna.com.au/~eliot/bhshome.html
------------------------------ Message-Id: <199608300008.CAA20664@utrecht.knoware.nl> From: "Mark Strijbos" <mmello@knoware.nl> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 02:07:55 +0000 Subject: Hans de Vente again. Dear Chalkies, Brookes Mckenzie asked about my fellow countryman Hans de Vente being mentioned on the Mummer inner sleeve. Yes, you are right: this was meant literally as 'inner sleeve'; not the crummy CD booklet Virgin pasted together... My Dutch Mummer LP has with the original inner sleeve and it says: "...and thanks to Hans the wind for De Vente" I hope everything is clear now... BTW: a big thank you to Paul Bailey for all the wonderful news he posted in the last Digest. I'm really thrilled that They are going 'online'! ta, Mark Strijbos at The Little Lighthouse http://utopia.knoware.nl/~mmello/index.html ===> Mark's useless XTC quote for today <== There is no muscle in our tongues to tell the world what's in our hearts
------------------------------ Message-Id: <v01540b00ae4ba1d5de2b@[169.132.99.96]> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 20:59:25 +0100 From: pjmuck@mail.idt.net (Peter McCulloch) Subject: CHANGES IN POP MUSIC: WILL XTC BE INFLUENCED? Ted Harms wrote: >But, I'm wondering if anybody knows if Colin plays with his fingers or a >pick (or plectrum, for our non-N. America readers)? The pictures I've >seen of him are sans pick but the string attack on said track is so >friggin' even, it's almost inhuman. Actually, Colin plays with both his fingers and a pick, depending on the song. I've only seen him play with his fingers on "Burning With Optimism's Flames", while songs such as "Life Begins At The Hop" he usually uses a pick. The real question is: Has he ever slapped? Peter
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Aug 96 20:02:20 CDT From: Paul Gelpi <PGELPI3@UA1VM.UA.EDU> Organization: The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL Subject: XTC In America Pre-Dear God Message-Id: <960829.202415.CDT.PGELPI3@ua1vm.ua.edu> Greetings Chalkhillians, Although a long term XTC fan I am very new to Chalkhills and this is my first post. I've read in the last two Chalkhills about XTC's popularity in the US and the importance of Dear God to it. Well here's my 2 pence. My first exposure to XTC was in late 1982 or early 1983 through a sunday night show on WBCN in Boston (by 1985 the show was called Oedipus' Nocturnal Emissions but I cannot recall its name in 1982/83) which was generally an AOR station playing the hard rock hits of the day except for this show. Anyway after hearing "Generals and Majors" (I believe) I was intrigued. By the time I entered high school in the fall of 1983 I was hooked on XTC (put this way it kind of sounds like an addiction :) ). Regarding Trey Gunn guesting on the new material...is there any confirmation of this rumor. An avid King Crimson fan I've not seen any mention of this in Crimso circles. For those unfamiliar w/TG's work he's rather amazing and a thoroughly nice chap. Happy listening, Paul
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 29 Aug 1996 23:00:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199608300300.XAA19591@cyber1.servtech.com> From: Joshua Hall-Bachner <particle@servtech.com> Subject: Musings galore... One wrote: >For my serious musician friends I will >use "Miniature Sun" (although many of them make fun of the bridge). What? The bridge is the best part of the song! (And an exception to the general rule that Andy's bridges tend to be weaker than the songs that contain them. Off the top of my head, BWOF is another...) And another: >In Joshua-hills, oops, I mean Chalkhills #150 (but didn't it seem like every >post in that last one was from Mr. Hall-Bachner?) That isn't a flame, is it? Sorry, when I get a notion I dash off a note. Can you blame me? :) And XTC's manager: >An internet conference will be set up very soon so that you will all be >able to speak to Andy directly. Yippee! Can hardly wait! Hopefully the maturity level will be a bit higher than on most of these types of things. >Also at the end of the year there will be a video compilation release made >up of various videos, TV and filmed performances. Yippee! (Wait, already said that.) How complete will this be? Any more info than that? >The band are currently in negotiations with various record compani8es in >regard to finding a new label due to leaving Virgin after 19 years. We knew that...hope they get a deal soon. >A new album (possibly a double) will be released in the new year of '97. >Suggestions - who would be your favourite producer for the band? Everybody who posted those "Face it, Andy isn't going to read your posts and say, 'Aha, that's the perfect producer!'" posts, would you prefer your words with ketchup or without? :) >XTC are currently developing their own web site to include access to >merchandising (T - shirts as we know them Jim!), the 'Andy Partridge Game >Show' (fully interactive), news, views and any other ideas that comes out >of the time capsule that is Swindon! Great. "The Andy Partridge Game Show"? Oh yes. T-shirts...can never have too many T-shirts. >May your world be large. Wouldn't have it any other way. Okay, enough rambling for today... /---------------------------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)"-----/
------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 12:01:29 +0100 Message-Id: <199608301101.AA26134@felix.dircon.co.uk> From: nonsuch@dircon.co.uk (Simon Sleightholm) Subject: That Todd Thing FROM Dave O'Connell >Todd has everything to gain and nothing to lose from being on a >compilation album, even one with a less than stellar lineup of >artists. >Also, no artist can be held responsible for the quality of the artists who >might appear alongside him or her on a compilation album. I'm afraid you misunderstood me or, as is more likely, I didn't make myself clear. The compilation was an anthology of Rundgren's own work. (I should have used the word "collection" not "compilation", I know). I think, in fact, it was called the Todd Rundgren Anthology, released in the UK by Castle Communcations. Believe me I really tried to like it, but it was not to be. >Anyway, the gloating part of my post was not meant to be taken seriously. I know, and neither was my deliberatly irrational balancing of the figures. I was just tying to respond in a similar vein. A failure to connect on both sides, I think. This time I really wasn't trying to start a fight. Simon * --------------------------------------------------- http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~nonsuch/bungalow.htm * --------------------------------------------------- No Thugs In Our House, only XTC.
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From: mark allender - king of the universe <mallende@kent.edu>
Message-Id: <199608301326.JAA139866@kent.edu>
Subject: _O&L_ 3 CD-3 request repost blah blah blah
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 09:26:42 -0400 (EDT)
just to keep checking...
does anyone have or know of an edition of the _Oranges and Lemons_ 3"
3 CD set that they have seen or would want to part with. e me
prively. thanx.
--
-makotu
mallende@Phoenix.kent.edu
uh...
------------------------------ Message-Id: <9608301349.AA08918@pop1a.mail.mci.com> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 08:48 -0500 (CDT) From: Michael Faulkner <Michael.Faulkner@mci.com> Subject: Producer for upcoming XTC album >A new album (possibly a double) will be released in the new year of '97. >Suggestions - who would be your favourite producer for the band? Might I suggest Beck! I'm not referring to Jeff... Mike
------------------------------ Message-ID: <D234D72F01291300@ametsoc.org> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 96 09:57:00 -0500 From: dgershmn <dgershmn@ametsoc.org> Organization: AMS Subject: Influence Theory Management "vancha@online.microcity.com" wondered: >Subject: CHANGES IN POP MUSIC: WILL XTC BE INFLUENCED? >Will XTC just keep making great records and do it as they have in the past, >or will they be influenced by any of the developments with regard to >making pop songs and albums? Let's see! "Let's see!"?? I don't know about you, but it seems pretty clear to me, even if I hadn't already heard the new demos, that the answer to that is no, of course they won't be influenced by any of that. Any similarities will most likely be coincidental...I doubt that they really pay much attention to what other people are doing when it comes to how they do their own music. Why would they want to start sounding like everyone else? Give them a little more credit than that! >From "Jeffrey with 2 f's Jeffrey": >Since many of us had been talking about Sugarplastic, I thought I'd let >the list know they're touring the US opening for the Loud Family - who >might be described as an American XTC, in that they're a pop band who >incorporate some avant-garde-ish ideas and textures as well as very >intelligent & witty lyrics....Scott Miller, the Loud Family's main writer, headed >Game Theory in the '80s (for us 30+ types making up the plurality of the list!). I second the idea of Game Theory/Loud Family as something like an American XTC...Scott Miller is a brilliant and very inventive songwriter, though possibly a little less consistent than Andy. I suspect a lot of you would like them a lot, if you haven't already discovered them (pick up "The Big Shot Chronicles" for a taste of Game Theory at their best). And finally, we received this from a "Paul Bailey": >Hi all you children of the Chalkhills >As management for XTC, GOOD NEWS FOR ALL. HURRAH!... ...and he went on to talk about "Fossil Fuel" and Andy currently promoting it in the UK and Europe, and then things too good to be true, like an Internet conference with Andy and the vaunted video compilation release we'd all been hoping for... I was actually considering the possibility that this might be legit, until I got to this: >A new album (possibly a double) will be released in the new year of '97. >Suggestions - who would be your favourite producer for the band? YEAH, RIGHT!! After all we've been through "choosing" producers!?? They're taking suggestions? Ha! Nice try! Like we're going to believe that you didn't know about that whole thread all along and aren't just trying to play some sort of horrible practical joke on us?! What do you take us for, fools?! (But, uh, just in case.... T-Bone Burnett!) :) Oh, and lest you think I forgot... DESERT ISLAND TOP 5 XTC SONGS! You know, just you and a Walkman and 5 XTC songs on cassette in the middle of nowhere, out of all contact with civilization...what would those 5 songs be? Send 'em to me ASAP! Thank you. Dave Gershman
------------------------------ From: Pete Philips <pete@corp.netcom.net.uk> Message-Id: <199608301430.PAA22167@corp.netcom.net.uk> Subject: More Dukes? Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 15:30:44 +0100 (BST) Well I've checked the FAQ and the list archives and even though I'm sure it must be an FAQ... Will there ever be another Dukes album? Which XTC album is most similar in style to the Dukes material? Many thanks, Pete. ------------------------------------------------------ | Pete Philips \|/ | | E-mail: pete@corp.netcom.net.uk O | ------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 11:18:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Natalie Jane Jacobs <gnat@umich.edu> Subject: Re: Chalkhills Digest #2-151 (honest!) Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95.960830104958.15329E-100000@qix.rs.itd.umich.edu> A number of comments... First of all - an XTC web site? I'm flabbergasted! "Into the atom age," indeed. Surely this is a troll... :) Lyrics corrections (or, Natalie recapitulates the anal stage of her childhood development): >From "You and the Clouds": "Every Troy with wooden horse will take to water but just can't make it drown" (something like that - I don't have the tape with me) >From "I'd Like That": "...if you could slide me from this wire/Toasting fork, I'll be done..." and "kissing glue" (not "kissing blue") >From "It Didn't Hurt a Bit" - "If you see her again" (not "see the king"), and "piece of GRIT got in my eye," not "grape"! (Sorry - it's a good transcription but that one just cracked me up.) Also, I think "It Didn't Hurt a Bit" has great lyrics. Very simple, and combined with the melancholy music, very poignant - the words of a man totally and utterly lying to himself, but at the same time realizing that he's lying to himself. It's one of my favorite Colin demos, and I don't know why it didn't go on an album. I second the words of the Chalkhillian who enthused about Mervyn Peake. The "Gormenghast" trilogy is truly wonderful. Check it out - it's easily available at used bookshops and in England there's some very nice trade paperback editions with illustrations and interpretive essays. Re. Joshua "Mr. Prolific" Hall-Bachner's call for song interpretations, I thought of taking you up on that but I had no idea what you meant by "interpretations." Analysis of the lyrics? Personal significance? Reviews? Please explain further. Thanks. Natalie Jacobs Visit the Land of Do-As-You-Please! http://www-personal.umich.edu/~gnat
------------------------------ Subject: Sugarplastic for Sale From: wwilson@mail07.mitre.org (Wesley H. Wilson) Message-Id: <960830134136.9558@mail07.mitre.org.0> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 96 13:41:37 -0400 I have the Sugarplastic's "Bang! The World Is Round" CD for sale. You'd swear it's new. $8.00 including shipping Please e-mail me. Also, I feel I've been missing out on some XTC-related stuff lately. Of course, their last studio album was "Nonsuch" and I have everything related to that. I have L'Affaire Louis Trio (w/Colin), "The Off-White Album" and I'm getting "Without the Beatles." As a completist, anything else I should try to get ahold of? Wes P.S. Thanks to the person who posted about Siren Records in California as being a source for the limited edition "Fossil Fuel" 2CD. Can't wait 4 it!
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Message-Id: <199608301817.DAA10057@mita2.cc.mita.keio.ac.jp>
Subject: Big Days
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 03:17:41 +0900
From: NAOYUKI ISOGAI <b9400863@mita2.cc.mita.keio.ac.jp>
Howdee, Chalkies!!!
I didn't know that no less than 3% of Chalkies were Japanese...
Anyway, the last two weeks have been quite big days to me. This is
because I traveled in the U.S. and had a really enjoyable time with
a few American Chalkies there. I had a nice conversation with D.G.
by phone in Boston (not Dave Gregory, of course), I had a quite
pleasant lunch with T.B. in Washington D.C., and I spent three
fantabulous days with C.B. in Cleveland (of course we went to the
Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame). I'm really grateful to them, and I will
never forget these experiences forever. And of course, I'm grateful
to J.R. (everybody knows who he is) who gave me an opportunity to get
acquainted with them...
Thanks a lot for everything!!!
BTW, is there anyone out there who can transcribe the lyric of "Pupil
Hayes"? I'd LOVE to sing it for "Purple Haze" when I go to `Karaoke'
next. :^)
Cheers!!!
---- NaoyuKing, the department "I'm merely a man and I bring
of Economics in KEIO Univ. nothing but love for you...
I'm merely a man and I want
E-mail : b9400863@cc.mita.keio.ac.jp nothing that you can't do..."
------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 16:04:51 -0400 (EDT) From: "k.a. hehir" <angelo@mustang.uwo.ca> Subject: now now what's all this then Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95.960830155228.27257C-100000@mustang-a.uwo.ca> hello all, i've been away for a couple of months so forgive me if this redundant all over again, but: Paul Bailey mentioned Fossil Fuel, is this the first mention of this ceedee? i just read in Q this morning a glowing preview of the set. it gives the song list(albeit indirectly) and has a photo that will make some of us dig out our skinny neckties and wax "it wasn't that bad, was it?" i don't know about the u.s. but the canadian release date is september 9. this news from my man jumping jimmy at the HMV, who is an XTCphile from waay back. he's hoping to score a freebie from the emi rep. best of luck to all returning to school and my cocondolences to all of you in the real world. kevin
------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 13:40:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Stephen Mahoney <stephenm@nethost.multnomah.lib.or.us> Subject: The Sugarplastic Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960830133547.28627B-100000@nethost.multnomah.lib.or.us> The Sugarplastic were mentioned in previous chalkhills, but I can't seem to remember what exactly was said. On the 5th of September they are playing at E.J.'s ( which used to be a strip club ) in Portland, Oregon for only $5. The loud Family plays after them, another band I haven't the vaguest notion whom they are. "i bought myself a liarbird he came with free drinks just to blur the lies falling out like rain on an average english summer's afternoon" Steve (port, or.)
------------------------------ From: Stephen Larson <MereBrian@worldnet.att.net> Subject: too few Brits Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 01:01:48 +0000 Message-ID: <19960831010146.AAA7203@LOCALNAME> gondola@deltanet.com (E.B.) writes: <<Re people wondering why Chalkhills has more Americans than Brits: Um, how about the fact that there are far, far more people in the United States? I don't know the exact population ratio, but even 1 out of 100,000 people in the States would add up pretty quick....>> Actually, the ratio in the CH poll was 66% to 7% US to UK Chalkhillians. The population ratio is only about 4:1 US:UK. Of course, the number of home computers in the US may be closer to the 10:1 ratio...
------------------------------ Message-ID: <3227A603.34D7@earthlink.net> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 19:40:03 -0700 From: Joe Binfet <xtc16@earthlink.net> Subject: Voice of Andy Excerpt from the LA New Times review of Voice of the Beehive's - Sea & Misery CD: ".... vocals as nauseatingly sweet as Equal, the whole darned thing so decaffeinated it doesn't keep you awake past noon. But I'll take 'Blue in Paradise' off the new Sex & Misery over anything found on the last two Madonna records: Cowritten by Tracey Bryn and XTC's Andy Partridge, it's a lovely, lilting little dance/faux R&B track that builds toward a slow burn and climaxes in a tiny inferno; its'a smart enough song --- sad words purred over an insinuating melody - that single-handedly rescues sister Bryn and Melissa Belland from the obscurity granted them after such epic non-entities as their debut ...." You get the idea - once again Andy kick's some ass!
------------------------------ From: JH3@aol.com Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 22:52:17 -0400 Message-ID: <960830225216_273662190@emout19.mail.aol.com> Subject: Earn Enough for Poole This will sound pretty trivial compared to the news that XTC has a new manager who's subscribed to this list and that there really will be a new video comp released soon and that the band will even have their own web-site, but here goes anyway. There's a band based in Northern Virginia called Poole that has released a single called "Sparkle" that has a cover of "Earn Enough For Us" on the b-side. It's a pretty straightforward version -- Ian Stewart probably would've sent it back for not being weird enough, but it's understandable that they wouldn't want to mess with it too much. Anyway, I doubt they pressed very many, so if you're the sort who has to have everything (and who isn't?), get 'em before they inevitably break up. The label's address is Radiopaque Recordings, P.O. Box 16241, Alexandria, VA 22302. The band's address is P.O. Box 6952, Falls Church, VA 22046, or you can e-mail them at mrpoole@erols.com. It's odd that they themselves haven't posted something about this... who knows, maybe they did and I just missed it. If so, sorry to use up the bandwidth, and now it's back to our regularly scheduled digest... --John Hedges
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Message-Id: <199608310843.JAA22243@aoife.indigo.ie>
From: "Daniel Prendiville" <modjp@indigo.ie>
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 17:16:05 +0000
Subject: in denial/bass varlet
In #2-151, Joshua Hall-Bachner said:-
>> 2. Joshua Hall-Bachner suggests that the R&BB version of TEN FEET TALL
is the best version.
>Just curious, *when* did I do this? I don't think I've said so in
about three months :)
Er, in #2-148, he said:-
"And Ten Feet Tall (even though the R&BB version is better...)"
Slow down, Josh... all that speed is gonna get you in the end :-) And
let's not get into a tangle over the fact that you said *better* and not
*best*. I've had a Pauline conversion ("ooh, sound painful. Do you have to
do your poohs into a bag?") and I'm now into peace, love and all that shit :-)
Also in #2-151, Ted Harms <tmharms@library.uwaterloo.ca> wonders whether
Moulding uses his fingers to play the bass rather than a plec. As far as I
am aware, Colin is pretty much a finger man....BTW, I'd have to disagree
with you re. the consistency of his string attack on BURNING... on the
BBC1 CD; if you ask me, it's rather uneven (I haven't got the technical
jargon to cover this adequately, even though I've been playing the bass
for 14 years, badly, but you can hear a twanging sound every now again
rather like a thumb snap, indicating that more force is being applied to
the string). Not to mention Colin's fluff in and around the "dreadful
knitwear" bit...
Daryn Tidgrape, indeed
djp
------------------------------ From: kinterkn@winternet.com Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 12:20:20 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199608311720.MAA08182@icicle.winternet.com> Subject: The Blue Up? I was just listening to my The Blue Up? cd, "spool forka dish," and thought I'd post the lyrics to a song that should be of interest to this group. It's called "Blasting XTC," which I at first (until hearing it) assumed was a slam against you-know-who. Actually, it's a rather terrific salute to the world's most talented band. Too bad this (I don't know how far reaching) local Minneapolis band is no longer together. They were a talented trio of women. I will never ever leave, windy grass from which they weave, tales of gardens I believe, drowning in their blackest sea, headphones blasting XTC, and a thousand umbrellas with ladybirds all in flame, lit a runaway rocket that hissed as it hit the train, spilling mermaids and alchemists kissing inside my brain, I fly how far it flows, suround with sound that grows into a tiger kite that blows away, closest as I'll ever be to language spoken into me, wake me up with NRG, Sgr. Rock will wset me free, headphones blasting XTC, my senses never stop which I hear "This is Pop," I dance to my stereo blasting XTC, bop-bop-oom-ba-dop, this is pop! Copywrite issues aside, and disregarding the fact that it isn't a cover of an actual XTC song, it would a good addition to the tribute tape. Priscilla kinterkn@winternet.com
------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 15:42:36 -0400 (EDT) From: "Edward P. Aubry" <eaubry@wesleyan.edu> Subject: All these demos I keep hearing about Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.960831153921.21662A-100000@mail.wesleyan.edu> Okay, who's got some of these millions of demos that they can tape for me? Or, alternately, where do I have to send for them. I am starved for unheard XTC music and will take whatever I can get. -Ed
------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 00:22:30 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199609010422.AAA05605@cyber1.servtech.com> From: Joshua Hall-Bachner <particle@servtech.com> Subject: I have made a convert! Yay! I've converted someone! :) Okay, remember how a long time ago I asked for suggestions on what to put on an XTC tape? Well, I sent out the following: Wrapped in Grey - Grass - Senses Working Overtime - No Language In Our Lungs - The Everyday Story Of Smalltown - Yacht Dance - Mayor Of Simpleton - The Meeting Place - Then She Appeared - Wake Up - The Loving - Season Cycle - The History Of Rock And Roll - My Bird Performs - Blame The Weather - The Disappointed - The World Is Full Of Angry Young Men - Chalkhills And Children - This World Over - Towers Of London - Ball And Chain - Ballet For A Rainy Day - Books Are Burning - Train Running Low On Soul Coal Anyway, after my "mark" received it she wrote to me telling me how much she liked it. In fact, this past week she went out and purchased O&L and Nonsvch! Aaahhh, to finally have a real convert...(my attempts to hook my friends on XTC rarely get a response more civil or reasonable than "Turn that crap off and put on some Rage Against The Machine!", and my TMBG converts "reverted" after a few months...) Anyway, just thought someone might find this mildly interesting. Anybody out there notice the odd way that demo outtakes (like Down A Peg) sound less "demo-ish" than the demos of released songs? Is there any particular reason for this, is it just my mind reacting strangely? Also, this seems to be "decreasing" with time; the earlier demos sound pretty shoddy compared to their corresponding official versions, the Nonsvch and post-Nonsvch demos are all good enough quality (not sound quality, I mean the quality of the actual performance and arrangement) that they could concievably be merely remastered and released, and they would sound perfectly fine. (Notice how Nonsvch is the first album to have some of it's tracks' demos officially released, and then notice how good they sound.) Again, just rambling my thoughts out into the air. /---------------------------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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Message-Id: <199609020514.AAA02514@zeus.anet-chi.com>
From: "LaShawn M. Taylor" <shonnie@zeus.anet-chi.com>
Subject: Fireworks!! (In more ways than you think!!)
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 1996 21:03:44 -0500
Hi! It's little ole me, delurking for a bit!
This Sunday, my favorite radio station, WXRT, hosted its 6th Annual
Fireworks display to end the Democratic National Convention complete with
music synchronized to exploding fireworks. In the overture, just before the
fireworks began, they played a small snippet of songs that had singers
counting off...and among them was our dear boys singing "1, 2, 3, 4,
5....senses working overtime!" Now, if I can convince XRT to actually play
an XTC song set to fireworks...
In other news:
>Also, there are certain XTC tunes (the aforementioned Dance Mixture, for
>example) that, IN MY OPINION, *might* sink below the usual XTC quality
>level
Hey!!! I love the dance remix better than the original! Andy's quirks in
the lyrics, the tinny drone of an airplane, Colin's stripped down bass, the
gorilla chuckling...I find it hilarious! For balance sake, though, I will
say that I do skip President Kill and Knuckle Down sometimes; often I'm
just too lazy to get up to push the FF button.
Dave transcribed "It Didn't Hurt A Bit" for us:
: My appearance isn't what you surmise
: It's just a piece of grape that got in my eye
Grape? Can one eat grapes so violently? Tee-hee!
BTW, the other day I found Dave Yazbeck's "The Laughing Man" at Borders.
Dave, simply put, you are a genius. Pure, simple genius. I haven't been
able to play anything else since I got it. Your songs are so, well,
"sing-along-able". Perhaps you should consider being the boys' next
producer. But then again...
Whoops. Got a little off topic. Sorry. Finally:
: An internet conference will be set up very soon so that you will all be
: able to speak to Andy directly.
Wait a minute. Andy? Our Andy? Our
I-won't-go-near-a-computer-except-for-music Andy? This I simply have to
see!
: A new album (possibly a double) will be released in the new year of '97.
: Suggestions - who would be your favourite producer for the band?
See above (aha! I knew I could connect it!)
: XTC are currently developing their own web site to include access to
: merchandising (T - shirts as we know them Jim!), the 'Andy Partridge Game
: Show' (fully interactive), news, views and any other ideas that comes out
: of the time capsule that is Swindon!
Hmm...XTC's going online? This is all to much for me! Well, there goes my
savings...
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/===\ LaShawn M. Taylor (shonnie@zeus.anet-chi.com)
|^ ^|\ Nice to meet you! Cream Stew!--Sailor Moon
\v/\| There's a forest in my heart. I must be crazy to believe that I
|\ could climb to reach the sky, for I know that in its time the sun
\| will come to me, and in warmth and love I will rise above the sky.
-PFR
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