Chalkhills Digest Volume 2, Issue 158
Date: Wednesday, 18 September 1996
Chalkhills Digest, Volume 2, Number 158
Wednesday, 18 September 1996
Today's Topics:
Re: Fossil Fuel: First Impressions
Spoiler Warnings, Please!
Video Tape tree
misc
All You Falkner Fans
Jason Falkner
spit'em out!
REM and XTC
Big Day
matches
I'm SO happy ...
misc
I'm Baked
re: sugarplastic dates/most with loud family/XTC videos?
Let's see if we can ever work out these lyrics...
Fossil Fuel / Loud Family w The Sugarplastic Tour Schedule
FOSSIL FUEL / _Dear God_ strings / _Holly up on Poppy_ lyrics
THEY'RE IN THE LIMELIGHT, AHA !!!
Our radio's in motion
Ul-Terior Responds
There's no place like Chalkhills...
My God you guys are so friendly!!!
Holly Up On Poppy
Tour Dates for The Sugarplastic
Re: Fossil Fuel & Matches
Looking (again) for something.....
Testimonial Dinner
Fish Story?
Fecundity
XTC USA 1980 bootleg
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-Id: <v02110101ae6478d66777@[134.32.48.166]> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 16:58:56 +0100 From: varga@ferndown.ate.slb.com (Stephen Varga) Subject: Re: Fossil Fuel: First Impressions I've just made an embarrassing error. Heaven is Paved with Broken Glass 12 inch mix is on the Rag'n'Bone Buffet CD. That just leaves Goodnight Sucker and some of the King for a Day mixes which are the only previously released studio tracks which have never appeared on CD. Or have I missed any out? By the way, if there are still any doubting Thomases out there regarding the credentials of Paul Bailey, may I confirm that he is definitely genuine. Read the first page of the latest Little Express (issue 40) if you don't believe me!
------------------------------ Subject: Spoiler Warnings, Please! From: wwilson@mail07.mitre.org (Wesley H. Wilson) Message-Id: <960917130310.1313@mail07.mitre.org.0> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 96 13:03:11 -0400 I don't mean to sound stuffy, and I love the Chalkhills crew, but... Some of us don't have "Fossil Fuel" yet; could those who do have it please post "spoiler warnings" before telling us all about it? I for one like the element of surprise when I get anything "new" by XTC. Just precede your comments by <SPOILER WARNING!> or something to that effect. I'll try to remember to do the same. Thanks very much, Wes P.S. Anyone want to buy my Sugarplastic "Bang, the Earth is Round" CD, slightly used? E-mail me.
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 11:10:07 -0600 Message-Id: <199609171710.LAA04665@river.city.saskatoon.sk.ca> From: Erik Anderson <Erik.Anderson@city.saskatoon.sk.ca> Subject: Video Tape tree I just shipped 10 new copies of the video and have about 12 more to do. I am leaving town for two weeks and will get to the last batch when I return. If this is the first you've heard of the xTc video tape, please do NOT ask me for a copy as I cannot make any more dubs. I have already destroyed one VCR and had to borrow a second one to finish this project. Ask the other members of the list for a copy if you really want one. As for those who need a PAL version, I will send the master tape off to a friend in Toronto and he will post something to this listserve. Look for that before the end of the year! Erik
------------------------------ Message-Id: <2.2.16.19960917170724.08d75746@soapbox.lanl.gov> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 11:07:24 -0600 From: DeWitt Henderson <dewitth@lanl.gov> Subject: misc Hey Chalkers - let me add my name to the list of those who have absolutely NO idea where/how to get a demo tape - please email me privately if you can sell me one, copy it for me, etc. It gets increasingly irritating when everyone is talking about all of these songs when one hasn't heard them! (and this isn't the first time I've asked about this). C'mon, don't hoard these things for yourself! I'm a fellow fan - a Chalkhillian! OK, a somewhat related topic: what is this "Through the Hill" album/CD people keep mentioning? Don't know a thing about it... Re misheard lyrics: you might find this amusing - at my last job, when the John Mellencamp "Big Daddy" CD came out, the first single was "Pop Singer", with the line "Never wanted to be no pop singer, never wanted to write no pop song". A co-worker thought the lyric was "Never wanted to be no Bob Seger", which cracked me up, and a co-worker and I would walk past her office and sing "Never wanted to be no Bob Seger, never wanted to write no Bob songs". OK, maybe you had to be there... * ------------------------------- DeWitt Henderson "Too many cooks in the kitchen" * -------------------------------
------------------------------ Subject: All You Falkner Fans Message-ID: <19960917.132547.3806.0.Wiggum@juno.com> From: wiggum@juno.com (Kerry P Hinton) Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 13:26:32 EDT Hello. There's been a little traffic on Jason Falkner and his new album (released late August in the US), and the few posts regarding it have been positive. Well, if you like Falkner, you will also enjoy a new record by Brendan Benson. over 1/2 of the songs on "One Mississippi" (on Virgin! Sorry...) were co-written with Falkner. Some can't stand the beauty... Kerry
------------------------------ Message-Id: <199609171425.KAA05451@ngw2.hns.com> From: Fritz Stolzenbach/HNS <Fritz_Stolzenbach@notesgw.hns.com> Date: 17 Sep 96 10:24:38 EDT Subject: Jason Falkner Hey -- this is amazing! As a dyed-in-the-wool Jason Falkner fan, I was surprised to find not one, but two references to this gifted songwriter in the last Chalkhills digest. Hence this note. To begin with, someone mentioned that they had two mystery songs they needed to identify on the tail end of an XTC demos tape. I don't recognize the second set of opening lyrics posted, but the first couplet comes from "Very Best Years" from RoShamBo, the debut (and likely only) album by an amazing band called The Grays. The song was written by -- Jason Falkner, who played guitar/bass and sang on a number of cuts on the album. Later in the digest, someone mentioned "Artist Unknown," Jason Falkner's new solo album, on which he plays _every_ instrument, and displays an amazing talent for beautiful pop song craftsmanship. I won't bore you with a long-winded song-by-song review, but I do want all Chalkies to know that the album is just fantastic, in a Kinks-meet-the-Beatles-meet-10cc-meet- the-Buzzcocks kind of way. Please, please, please buy this record (and RoShamBo by the Grays, if you can still find it). You will not be disappointed (hey -- there's a reason why I mentioned Jason Falkner in my list of 10 fave composers that made the rounds a few months ago). In fact, if any of you wonderful people do buy the album on my recommendation, I'd love to hear what you think of it. I guess the topic isn't XTC-related enough to post to the digest, but you may certainly e-mail me at my personal address, fstolzenbach@hns.com. Sorry for the lack of XTC stuff in here...um...lemme think of something... oh, yeah, if the band or their management is lurking out there, here are a few producers to consider: Jack Joseph Puig, Geoff Emerick, or --hey, why not -- Roy Wood. Cheers, FS
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 13:45:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <v01510100ae6458a8648d@[128.230.1.202]> From: pebrantl@mailbox.syr.edu (Paul Brantley) Subject: spit'em out! Given all the noble and ingenious attempts at deciphering the new demo lyrics, doesn't this suggest perhaps *one* of the reasons for our group's lack of popularity? Not only is the lyrical quality unusually dense, not to mention that the vocals are characteristically mixed as part of the overall gestalt, and we don't even need to acknowledge their charming accents -- but they do tend to go for the musical delivery (hear hear) at the expense of diction clarity -- on the albums as well as the demos. Paul
------------------------------ From: shaefner@falcon.cc.ukans.edu Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 13:02:32 -0500 (UTC -05:00) Subject: REM and XTC Message-id: <01I9L48F74368ZQA7Q@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU> Ok, so we've figured out that XTC and REM have played together (thanks rimshot3@ix.netcom.com). I was thinking that REM did in fact open for XTC in the past, but it was just a hunch, so I didn't write in. As an REM bootleg collector, I can (almost) confirm that REM has never covered an XTC tune. I would take the almost out of their but it would probably come back to haunt me. Besides, I wasn't at every show they played obviously. But I have looked over setlists on the near comprehensive list of REM boots, and an XTC song title would have jumped out at me. BTW, if you don't have REM's latest, New Adventures in HiFi, I highly recommend it. It is excellent, and it has put an end to my worries about their direction. So if you're holding out 'cause you didn't like Monster, wait no longer. Definitely not "tiresome" as Daniel Prendiville <modjp@indigo.ie> suggests. -Scott http://falcon.cc.ukans.edu/~shaefner
------------------------------ Message-Id: <199609171825.UAA03544@utrecht.knoware.nl> From: "Mark Strijbos" <mmello@knoware.nl> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 21:02:30 +0000 Subject: Big Day Dear Chalkies, Am I the first who has the new Fossil Fuel compilation? Today, Tuesday September 17, I received a package from the UK with the limited edition CD, the regular CD and the double cassette. All three items look absolutely beautiful But, of course, the ltd. edition is the prettiest... The front of the box is sculpted/shaped into an ammonite. Is this another XTC first? Were there any other shaped boxes released? BTW: I got a mint UK Science Friction single and the French Disappointed promo 12" yesterday. I was so excited when I bought them I wanted to scream & shout... Anyway, the (real) reason I wrote in is to make sure that at least someone mentioned Dave G.'s coming 44th birthday on September 21. Hip hip hooray! yours ecstatically, Mark Strijbos at The Little Lighthouse http://utopia.knoware.nl/~mmello/index.html ===> Mark's useless XTC quote for today <== Decorate the inside of your heads
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Message-Id: <323EACBB.5C74@mci.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 13:50:51 +0000
From: Jeff Langr <jeffrey.langr@mci.com>
Subject: matches
Jon Eva wrote:
>There is a rather obscure picture of a match inside the cd case, I've
>never really understood XTC's minor obsession with matches ('England's
>Glory ... A Striking Beauty!' and the cover to 'Wait 'Till Your Boat
>Goes Down' spring to mind). Can anyone explain this to me?
Don't forget the sound of a match striking at the start of Set Myself
on Fire. Fire is also rather prevalent, with the following coming to
the top of my head:
Burning With Optimism's Flames
Great Fire
Books are Burning
Sacrificial Bonfire
"You tire burn" from Roads Girdle the Globe
"How bright are the fires of thought" from Chain of Command,
"How bright is the medical torch" ditto
"Science friction burns my fingers"
"When you *flick on* your lamp" from Hang on the Night
"I'm really burning..." from Extrovert
"more of a stormtrooper to burn the books..." from Happy Families
"Shooting arrows of fire" from Gangway! Electric Guitar
As far as what it all means, sounds to me like Andy is Beavis in
disguise (Fire! Fire!)...
Jeff L.
------------------------------ Message-Id: <199609172219.PAA05192@sgi.sgi.com> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 15:12:45 EDT From: "Todd Bernhardt" <tbernha@columbiaenergy.e-mail.com> Subject: I'm SO happy ... ... to once again have access to e-mail. Just started a new job and took some time off between jobs (it was lovely, thank you) and so was without Chalkhills for ONE WHOLE MONTH! Needless to say, I was overjoyed to find it in my mailbox a little while ago. Since I've been gone, I won't jump in on any XTC-related threads til I've got the gist of thangs, but I will say to Kerry Hinton and DeWitt Henderson that the first time I saw the "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me..." line was in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (the book, that is), which I'm sure pre-dates Tom Waits or Fernwood 2night (great show, BTW). Who knows, however, where Ken Kesey might have lifted it from... Take note of my new address, Chalkie friends! Now that I'm up 'n running, I'll be hounding you with annoying little messages soon! :^) ByeBye!
------------------------------ Message-Id: <2.2.16.19960917223451.08d78ad2@soapbox.lanl.gov> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 16:34:51 -0600 From: DeWitt Henderson <dewitth@lanl.gov> Subject: misc One more comment, my friends, since REM seems to be creeping into the conversation fairly often lately, I just thought I'd see if you'd heard this one: when asked about influences, specifically the Beatles, Stipe said they were never anything more than "elevator music" to him, which really pissed me off. I mean, OK, maybe he was slightly on the young side to have been a part of that experience, but to me, instead of just saying that they weren't an influence on him, what he said was a slam against the Fab Four, which amounts to heresy in my book. BTW, I've been a big fan of REM since Day One, but I've experienced what others in this list evidently have been through, which is that my interest has dropped considerably with the last couple of albums. Haven't heard the new one - who knows, maybe it's good. But when I read Stipe's comments on the Beatles, it cast a tarnish on 'em in addition to their flagging creativitiy on the last couple CD's. (OK Scotty, shields up! Up! Full Power!) * ------------------------------ DeWitt Henderson Los Alamos National Laboratory CIC-13 MS P223 Los Alamos, NM 87544 505/665-1434
------------------------------ Message-Id: <199609172359.JAA22818@warchives.riv.csu.edu.au.> From: "Simon Knight" <sknight@warchivegw.riv.csu.edu.au> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 08:50:41 +0000 Subject: I'm Baked In the last chalkhills digest dave wrote: In #155, Mark Cuevas said: >"She has escaped from the world where they bake beautiful girls . >. ." When Holly is riding Poppy she is in her own world, oblivious >to the nastyness of the cold cruel world we live in. >"Bake" beautiful girls? Unless that was a typo, I believe the line >is "MAKE beautiful girls" and Andy's just imagining there is a >world somewhere where beautiful girls come from and she has escaped >from that one to ours. I've always assumed it was "bake", given his love for alliteration (most evident on Skylarking and Nonsuch). It also ties back into his nursery rhyme / fairy tale interests too. Holly is on her rocking horse, escaping from a dangerous land in her imagination, where wicked Hansel and Gretel-style witches do indeed "bake beautiful girls". At least i hope it is "bake", it's a much more interesting lyric. (I hope it really isn't boring old "making love" in Cherry in your Tree). Metaphor as mistake anyone?
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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 19:17:44 -0400
Message-ID: <23F31720.@metagroup.com>
From: RobertD@metagroup.com (RobertD)
Subject: re: sugarplastic dates/most with loud family/XTC videos?
For more info on Sugarplastic and other band on tour for that matter
check out this spot on the web:
www.pollstar.com
I stumbled on it when I scrolled to the end of the Sugarplastic site.
All the SP dates are listed, with clubs and other info.
ALSO, anyone with XTC video please e-mail me. I have the promo clips -
later released as Look Look in the UK, and a one-hour performance from
German TV, including a bio on the band through ES all in German!
Any other video material, I'd love to try to get copies of. Tell me
your specs. Thanks in advance.
Bob D.
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 22:12:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199609180212.WAA12124@cyber1.servtech.com> From: Joshua Hall-Bachner <particle@servtech.com> Subject: Let's see if we can ever work out these lyrics... It's meeeeeeeee again. :) Anyway, AFAICT Brooks' version of Easter Theatre is almost right... >If we'd all breathe in and blow away the smoke I'm 100% certain that this line ends with "snow". Why? It reinforces the "you are like the coming of spring after a long winter" metaphor. >New life >We'd [uphold?] her new life That sounds better than mine (won't flaunt...) >Gambling with spring step That would be "Gambolling", as in hopping around and dancing merrily. >As the [prompters?] fingers through her spinning [screech?] Yeah, I believe that is "prompter's" because of the Theatre metaphor. >[Free ties?!]... everywhere "eat i'd"? I'm curious...am I the only person who would rush out to the store to buy them if XTC were to release a digitally remastered, static-free, high-quality 2 CD Jules Verne's Sketchbook/The Bull With The Golden Guts set? JVS is *really* good; other than the two songs that have been released since the cassette (which both sound better in their "real" incarnations), every song on there is well worth listening to. And while TBWTGG is a bit weaker (Was A Yes, Difficult Age, etc.) it's still good. Someone else: >If "freakin' awesome" means in American what "fuckin' appalling" means in >Ireland, then I'll agree with you :-) <snip> I deal with this person more directly in my e-mail to them, but for the record just let me say here that it seems to me that (a) this is a pretty blatant troll and (b) if it's not then it's pretty rude and obnoxious. So there. /---------------------------Joshua Hall-Bachner---------------------------\ | particle@servtech.com http://www.servtech.com/public/particle/ | | "And I see nations playfully hurl snowballs packed with stone and clay."| \--------------XTC, "You And The Clouds Will Still Be Beautiful"----------/
------------------------------ Message-Id: <m0v3GQ8-000ExGC@mail.airmail.net> Subject: Fossil Fuel / Loud Family w The Sugarplastic Tour Schedule Date: Wed, 18 Sep 96 01:54:32 -0500 From: Della & Steve Schiavo <schiavo@airmail.net> Hello All - I am just looking at the new ICE and there is no listing for Fossil Fuel throught November 26. Looks like the UK folk are one up on us Yanks this time. Maybe things will change. Here is The Loud Family's tour schedule. I think The Sugarplastic is on all the dates. Things seem to be fluid, so check with the venue first. - Steve 9/18 The Mohawk Club Buffalo, NY 9/19 Middle East Cambridge, MA Fri 9/20 Silk City Lounge Philadelphia, PA Sat 9/21 Black Cat Washington, DC 9/22 - 9/23 Brownie's New York, NY 9/24 - 9/25 Local 506 Chapel Hill, NC 9/26 The Point Atlanta, GA Fri 9/27 The Nick Birmingham, AL Sat 9/28 The Cowhaus Tallahassee, FL 9/29 - 9/30 Electric Lounge Austin, TX 10/1 - 10/2 Hollywood Alley Phoenix, AZ 10/3 Spaceland Los Angeles, CA 10/4 The Press Club Sacramento, CA
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 10:01 +0200 Message-id: <199609180801.V3J6@memo.volvo.se> From: =?iso-8859-1?q?P=C4R?= NILSSON <PVKU.PARN@MEMO.VOLVO.SE> Subject: FOSSIL FUEL / _Dear God_ strings / _Holly up on Poppy_ lyrics Good morning! I received my copy of FOSSIL FUEL yesterday. The two discs do contain an excellent assortment of XTC songs, and it's nice to finally have plugged the _Wait till your boat goes down_-sized hole in my collection, but I was disappointed by the packaging. Virgin obviously didn't spend more time and money than necessary - which hardly comes as a surprise, though. The centre spread of single covers is a nice touch, but there's no mention of who XTC are and were, no pictures of the band, no release or recording information, no producer credits, no discographical information, no band history, no band commentary to the songs, no various other small details that would have been nice to have. Compared to the more or less corresponding 2CD set of my other fave acronym band, NRBQ's PEEK-A-BOO, FOSSIL FUEL's packaging is a third-rate effort at best. I have the _Dear God_ single but haven't had a record player for years, so yesterday I had the first listen since I don't know when to that song. It has a rather nice string arrangement, and I wonder who wrote it - Dave Gregory or Todd Rundgren, or even Andy himself? Maybe the answer is on the single cover, but my copy is stashed away in an attic 100 miles from here, so... Dave Gershman wrote regarding _Holly up on Poppy_: >"Bake" beautiful girls? Unless that was a typo, I believe the line is >"MAKE beautiful girls" and Andy's just imagining there is a world >somewhere where beautiful girls come from and she has escaped from >that one to ours. I seem to recall that the beautiful girls are indeed baked, not made, in that world of Andy's - but I don't have NONSUCH with me at the moment, and thus cannot be absolutely certain. Cheers, Par pvku.parn@memo.volvo.se
------------------------------ Message-Id: <v02110102ae6554acea12@[134.32.48.166]> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 11:02:47 +0100 From: varga@ferndown.ate.slb.com (Stephen Varga) Subject: THEY'RE IN THE LIMELIGHT, AHA !!! OH MY GOD! XTC ON PRIMETIME TV! Date 17 Sep 1996 Time 20.59 BST There I was watching Brookside (Scouse soap to our overseas friends) and after the programme had finished, I inadvertantly left the TV tuned to Channel 4 with the adverts running. (Normally I would have turned over by now to catch the headlines of the Nine O'Clock News on BBC1) Bloody good job too! ALL OF A SUDDEN I heard the sounds of SENSES WORKING OVERTIME. I can't bloody believe this! FOSSIL FUEL advertised on primetime TV! Just think of all those millions of people watching who forgot about this band years ago! I can remember when The Stranglers greatest hits was advertised on TV. It did really well in the album charts. That means with a bit of luck we'll be finding copies of FF in all the mainstream shops such as Asda, Sainsbury, Tesco, Woolworths etc etc etc. They're in the LIMELIGHT aha! What was in the advert then? Well, I've only seen it once so far, so I can't give a 100% accurate description, but here goes anyway. It starts of with a snippet of SENSES WORKING OVERTIME followed by a voiceover by famous Radio 1 Scouse DJ, John Peel. The picture on the TV screen is then interspersed with images of the Ammonite Fossil (as seen on the front page of the CD booklet. You know, the one with the white flecks in it - not the embossed one on the LTD ED cover) with clips of other videos shown in black and white. They include MAKING PLANS FOR NIGEL, THE BALLAD OF PETER PUMPKINHEAD and I think TOWERS OF LONDON. I can't remember the other clips as I could hardly contain my excitement! Oh yes and the four star review from Q magazine appears on the screen too. Finally it ends with John Peel saying something like marvellous, buy it! I'll see if I can video it when it next appears and give a really detailed review. In the meantime, if any of you British Chalkies out there have seen the advert or even have it on video already, perhaps you might like to beat me to it. It would be ironic if this became XTC's most successful record ever at a time when they have just lost their Virginity and went into profit for the first time only last year. However, it would give the band a great start to their new label. 1. It would make them more desirable than ever to any potential label. That means more bargaining power for the band and a really good deal. 2. If the band decided to start their own label, the royalties from FF should enable them to make this happen as it did with The Stranglers Greatest Hits. 3. Either way, it can only be an excellent start to the next album! Keep an eye on the album charts Chalkiholios!
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Message-ID: <2D4CD72F01291300@ametsoc.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 96 09:04:00 -0500
From: dgershmn <dgershmn@ametsoc.org>
Organization: AMS
Subject: Our radio's in motion
Wow, Chalkophiles,
I just had one of those nifty "brush-with-XTC-music" experiences, akin to
hearing "King for a Day" Muzak in a supermarket! Well, it's not much, but it
was cool anyway...
My girlfriend and I just last week moved in to an apartment just northwest
of Boston. This morning, her radio alarm clock went off (at 5:00 a.m.,
however relevant that may be). Turns out she had it tuned to a New Hampshire
station, WGIR 101 ("Where All We Do Is Rock!" as their motto goes), a
station that I'd never heard before while living IN Boston. Anyway, as I
drifted into consciousness, a song was ending, and before the next song
began, they did one of those little 10-second station ID pieces. Well, that
ID piece began with a few very familiar-sounding chords followed by a
"sniff-sniff," followed by a few more chords (with "WGIR, where all we do is
rock!" voiced over by one of those cliched macho-radio voices). I was
instantly fully awake, realizing that they had used the intro to "New Town
Animal"!! (They edited it to end right before the other instruments kick
in.) I was so charged by hearing that so unexpectedly (it sounded so great
in that context) that I couldn't fall back to sleep. I listened to the
station for a little while longer to see what sort of music they played, and
it's seems to be basically an "alternative"-type station focused more on the
"rock" sound (Everclear, Smashing Pumpkins, etc.) but with the odd twist of
playing something like "Born to Be Wild" by Steppenwolf for someone calling
in to request some "driving music." Apparently not too self-consciously hip
to play older rock as well. But also not really the type of station who I
think I could ever expect to hear the full version of "New Town Animal" (or
just about any other XTC song) on...just those few cool chords. But I'll
have to keep listening, to see if maybe they play even more of a potpourri
of songs than I caught on to in that half hour of listening. Maybe someone
>from NH can fill me in.
Anyway, I've been feeling good all day since hearing it...those chords are
actually a pretty great way to wake up in the morning. Try it sometime!
In a new town and a furnished cage (though there's still some unpacking to
be done),
Dave Gershman
------------------------------ Message-Id: <m0v3Mmr-000FR5C@mail.airmail.net> Subject: Ul-Terior Responds Date: Wed, 18 Sep 96 08:42:26 -0500 From: Della & Steve Schiavo <schiavo@airmail.net> >Subject: Re: XTC Producer & Etc. >Sent: 9/18/1996 6:57 AM >Received: 9/18/1996 8:28 AM >From: Paul Bailey, ul-terior@easynet.co.uk >To: Della & Steve Schiavo, schiavo@airmail.net > >Thanks for your suggestions Steve, we'll give a copy of this email to XTC. > >We will endeavour to keep you up to date with all current XTC info and we >will let you know in good time the date of the conference so you can speak >to the guys yourself. > >Thanks for your interest. > >Molly. Did anyone else email Mr. Bailey? - Steve
------------------------------ From: Ben Gott <bgott@mail.hotchkiss.pvt.k12.ct.us> Subject: There's no place like Chalkhills... Message-ID: <SIMEON.9609180648.A@muahost.mail.hotchkiss.pvt.k12.ct.us> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 06:56:48 +0000 Hey, Chalkies! I'm back! It's been a long summer without all of you, but I've managed to survive (barely...) I kept up with the website (working at a bookstore, and all), and am psyched about "Fossil Fuels." There's so much to say...I'm a proctor (senior prefect) in a dorm here at (bored)ing school, and I lent ES to one of my proctees - he loved it. His exact words were, "It's like nothing I've heard before!" I saw a Todd Rundgren concert in Poughkeepsie, NY this summer (@ The Chance). Prairie Prince rocked! (As did Todd, for some of the songs.) I've ordered the Sugarplastic CD, have bought more Blur, and ordered two copies of "Chalkhills and Children" through my bookstore. (If anyone's interested...) As Colin said, "It's good to be Bach." I agree. I'd love to hear from anyone out there...how did your summers go? I'd also like to hear from any TEENAGE Chalkhillians (myself being 17)...according to the survey, there are some of you out there! ---------------------- Ben Gott "Save us from the ball and chain..."
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 09:43:13 -0600 (CST) From: AMANDA OWENS <ACOEA@jazz.ucc.uno.edu> Subject: My God you guys are so friendly!!! Message-id: <01I9MBDYP9428ZV1VO@jazz.ucc.uno.edu> Having been an XTC-phile for less than two years and a Chalkhillian for less than a month, I never realised just how awesomely nice and sweet and friendly and kind and I think I'm done kissing your butts here.....anyway I want to thank everyone for emailing me with offers to my requests. Now onto other things............. On You're My Drug, who in the world is singing????? It doesn't sound like any of them at all. That's all for now. Amanda Oh, wait, forgot something.....Andy ever give reason as to why he and Marianne called it quits???? PS-If I was Carol Moulding, after the eopisodes with all the groupies and ESPECIALLY the whole Debra Robertson thing, you'd better believe Colin's ass would've been kicked so far outta my house he'd land in Siberia! "Success is being a quote"-Andy Partridge
------------------------------ Message-Id: <199609181637.JAA03311@dfw-ix8.ix.netcom.com> From: "Mark G. Cuevas" <litserv@ix.netcom.com> Subject: Holly Up On Poppy Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 09:31:54 -0700 > In #155, Mark Cuevas said: > "She has escaped from the world where they bake > beautiful girls . . ." When Holly is riding Poppy she > is in her own world, oblivious to the nastyness of the > cold cruel world we live in. From: dgershmn@ametsoc.org > "Bake" beautiful girls? Unless that was a typo, I believe the > line is "MAKE" beautiful girls" and Andy's just imagining there > is a world somewhere where beautiful girls come from and she > has escaped from that one to ours. Au contraire, there jerky. "Bake" is what I meant and "bake" is the lyric. As to interpretation, go for it. MC
------------------------------ Message-Id: <199609181639.JAA03492@dfw-ix8.ix.netcom.com> From: "Mark G. Cuevas" <litserv@ix.netcom.com> Subject: Tour Dates for The Sugarplastic Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 09:34:24 -0700 Dearest Chalkmeisters: For those of you interested in The Sugarplastic, check this site for tourdates: www.pollstar.com/pssearch.exe/TARTIST?Sugarplastic For info on where to get the album, check the nearest Tower Records. MC
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Sep 96 17:51 BST-1 From: joeo@cix.compulink.co.uk (Psion plc Joe Odukoya) Subject: Re: Fossil Fuel & Matches Message-Id: <memo.889910@cix.compulink.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199609171555.IAA19633@mando.engr.sgi.com> Subject: Fossil Fuel > There is a rather obscure picture of a match inside the cd case, > Can anyone explain this to me? >Jon Eva Sorry if this states the obvious but the match is just a reference to the "fuel" of "Fossil Fuel". As for XTC having an obsession with matches don't all kids? :-) As for FF itself: It's great though I am disappointed with the limited edition cover (not as cool as I was hoping) and I wish they would release a tie-in video compilation too! - Joeo -
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 12:42:55 -0600 (CST) From: AMANDA OWENS <ACOEA@jazz.ucc.uno.edu> Subject: Looking (again) for something..... Message-id: <01I9MHQTSFMA8ZV0R3@jazz.ucc.uno.edu> Thre was an interview with Dave Gregory in a magazine called Diabetes Forecast from 1994. Our school computer has a summary of it, but does not carry the magazine. I think you know the question I'm going to ask..... Amanda Owens "What you can do with a guitar is noting compared to what you can do with a penis"-Andy Partridge (Not that I know this, of course..... :)
------------------------------ Message-Id: <199609181746.KAA16699@dfw-ix9.ix.netcom.com> From: "Mark G. Cuevas" <litserv@ix.netcom.com> Subject: Testimonial Dinner Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 10:41:20 -0700 Dear Chalkers: There have been a few postings lately about Testimonial Dinner. I've read things about St. Andy loving Sarah McLaughlin's version of Dear God and some Chalkboppers praising The Verve Pipe's rendition of Wake Up. But I haven't heard too much about what I consider to be the most creative work on the entire tribute (Terry & the Lovemen notwithstanding) -- namely, Ruben Blades' version of The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul. Now let me preface this with the usual gushing about the original version by the esteemed Boys o' Swindon. The original version is one *outstanding* tune. IMO this is one of Andy's best. But we can cite chapter and verse another time . . . About Mr. Blades' version. I love what he's done here. He's one of the only musicians who gave his chosen song a thorough reworking while maintaining the beauty of the original. I liken it to Oingo Boingo's version of the Kinks' classic You Really Got Me, where Boingo introduced meter change, trumpets, saxophones, etc. Any takers on this one? P.S. In the last verse of the Blades version, he says something in Spanish about XTC. Does anyone know what he's saying? =================================== Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering? ===================================
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Sep 96 13:47:00 EST From: "John Christensen" <christej@vrinet.com> Message-Id: <9608188430.AA843080047@PO2.VRINET.COM> Subject: Fish Story? Yeah, I was somewhat suspicious about the Paul Bailey/XTC Management post, but decided to send "Mr. Bailey" a message (figuring at worst, I would just give someone a good laugh at my expense -- no big deal). And in case it wasn't a hoax, I was anxious to pass along a summary of my "chat" with Elvis Costello about a possible Andy collaboration. (Elvis now has the idea rattling around in his head -- got to get it into Andy's also!) Well, if the whole XTC management thing is indeed a hoax, the perpetrators aren't ready to admit it yet . . . as the following reply shows: * ____________________________ Forward Header ________________________________ Subject: Re: Thanks Author: ul-terior@easynet.co.uk (Paul Bailey) at INTERNET Date: 9/18/96 7:46 AM John, Thanks for your suggestions. We will be giving Andy a copy of your email and you will also be able to talk to him when the conference is set up. Hope you've received your copy of Fossil Fuel by now. It's great listening and more. You know where we are. Molly. * ___________________________________________________________________________ You're the Wish You Are I Had, Jasper (Of course, the 7 lb. brown trout I caught Sunday is the real fish story!)
------------------------------ From: Marc_LaFoy@magic.ca (Marc LaFoy) Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 10:40:21 -0400 Subject: Fecundity Message-ID: <msg48970.843076354@magic.ca> Organization: TotalNet Inc. / Magic Online Re: River of Orchids Others have said they hear the following lyric: > "Want to walk into London smelling like a *pagan* rose" > I hear "beggar rose". I hear neither. I believe he sings "smelling like a "fecund" rose." Also Mark G. Cuevas sez: >Second, regarding Holly Up On Poppy, the song makes perfect sense when you >understand that Holly is Andy's daughter and Poppy is her rocking horse. Upon reading this it occurred to me that perhaps "Poppy" could be interpreted as Pop himself, Andy, giving his daughter a horsey ride. Wutcha think? And here's a quiz... Name the demo that includes this lyric: "I wouldn't hector if you'd be Helen of Troy" (just love the lyric I guess) Marc LaFoy
------------------------------ Message-Id: <199609182106.XAA22984@utrecht.knoware.nl> From: "Mark Strijbos" <mmello@knoware.nl> Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 23:43:46 +0000 Subject: XTC USA 1980 bootleg Dear Chalkies, Maybe someone posted this before but I have just received a tape of the XTC USA 1980 cd bootleg. And I have noticed that this concert was NOT recorded in the US but is in fact the same show featured on the Windsong BBC Live In Concert cd. It's a different, rougher mix but the same concert. Shame... take care, Mark Strijbos at The Little Lighthouse http://utopia.knoware.nl/~mmello/index.html ===> Mark's useless XTC quote for today <== Break the code of the whispering chimneys and traffic signs
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