Chalkhills Digest Volume 4, Issue 118
Date: Thursday, 23 July 1998
Chalkhills Digest, Volume 4, Number 118
Thursday, 23 July 1998
Today's Topics:
XTC bingo
Anti-deity lyrics: an epidemic?
RE: Hot button issues
Something to Say!
XTC Chats
Martin Newell Poem
No Sock In His Mouth
Language, Lungs, and Colin's Lost Demos
Veil of the Black Man
Why Didn't Any of You Bastards Warn Me?
Fruit with which to pelt
Ian / Another Satellite / Mission Impossible
Smiling Pets / Seagulls Screaming..? (fwd)
Waxworks (Some Singles)
Re: Urban Dance Squad
No CC98 orders yet
Urban Dance Squad and no end
Richard = Petty Human Being
Dead God
This is Pop, Tart.
XTC 45s & Adventure Club CDs for sale
Funk Pop A Roll Seduced My Vole....
I apologise
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <B82F8C4D16A0D1119FDC0001FA6A4BC9010FD9C2@hfd-exch003.hartford.aetna.com> From: "Witter, Karl F" <WitterKF@aetna.com> Subject: XTC bingo Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 16:06:33 -0400 In the Wall of Sound article, I got "trippy", "eccentric Brits", "stagefright" and "legions of fans patiently waiting". I'd have had bingo if the article mentioned "quirky". Anyone else come close? I'm not very eloquent about this, but Wonderland has too much feeling and musical warmth behind it to dismiss. I can overlook the syn-drum &c; I enjoy it for the flow between music and subject. Verrrry romantic in a way which (patented XTC phrase again) "simply isn't done". "The Hammers is the nickname of what English football team?", Karl
------------------------------ Message-ID: <19980721201619.22681.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "k. siegel" <beatlebird@hotmail.com> Subject: Anti-deity lyrics: an epidemic? Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 13:16:19 PDT Michael Versaci pointed out: >Okay, let's review some lyrics, shall we? >Andy Partridge: >"Dear God" >"I don't believe in heaven or hell No saints no sinners no devil as well... If there's one thing I don't believe in - it's you" >John Lennon: >"God" >"I don't believe in Bible... > I don't believe in Jesus" etc. >"Imagine" >"Imagine there's no heaven... >No hell below us, above us only sky As if irony hadn't had its day already, Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor has composed some lyrics like: "God is dead, and no one cares If there is a hell, I'll see you there" and "Hey God, I'm all alone in a world you must despise..." The coinkydink: XTC has recently signed to TVT Records, NIN's first and former record label. And, Reznor has cited XTC as being one of his earliest musical influences, mentioning in an interview their "brilliant song writing." --Kristi
------------------------------ Message-ID: <19980721202329.11023.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "k. siegel" <beatlebird@hotmail.com> Subject: RE: Hot button issues Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 13:23:29 PDT Derek Miner suggested: >As some have pointed out, Andy considers "Peter Pumpkinhead" to be >a song that fits all martyrs. So "Peter Pumpkinhead" could be Jesus Christ or John F. Kennedy. What makes the song that way is the universal nature of the theme. It just so happens that Jesus Christ and John F. Kennedy are both considered to have been put down by the ruling order because of ideas dangerous to that ruling order. How about adding John Lennon to the list of martyrs? (grin) Sorry, I couldn't resist. Back to you, Derek & Harrison. --Kristi
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From: btm@ns1.mindmagic.com
Message-ID: <35B4BBE1.1341@ns1.mindmagic.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 17:03:57 +0100
Subject: Something to Say!
Tschalkgerz!
OK, now here's a topic I can get in on, and actually have something to
say - really!
Re: the guitar sound in "Another Satellite"
If any of you has visited my website:
http://www.angelfire.com/fl/sapringer
-or raided the Chalkhills archives, you'll see that I did a MIDI file of
this particular song. In doing so, I had to contend with reproducing
this sound with the instruments that we're stuck with using in making
these files (for those of you in the dark, these General MIDI files
utilize a range of128 instruments of all kinds, but they're fairly
generic - and your choices are limited at times, depending on the music
you're trying to recreate). While I'll concede that a
sampled-and-modified guitar chord is one way that this sound could have
been produced, it isn't necessarily the only way. The instrument I used
(called a 'Metal Pad'-#94 GM) comes fairly close. There is a particular
sitar-like quality to the sound on the recording, and my synth has a
non-GM sound that I use when I do the song for a gig that comes even
closer to the original, and it ain't a guitar.
Just my $.02 worth...
> Regarding English Round-'n'-round< ("English Roundabout")>it is most
definitely in 5/4.<
Correct. Wonderful tune, ain't it? Partridge is a diabolically clever
musical genius.
>Although I'll have to consider "Burning in Optimism's Flames" in 4/4. The
main guitar riff is a figure that offsets itself, repeating every 3 bars,
creating 3 bar phrases.<
Correct-a-mundo again! I am in the process of doing this tune in MIDI
also, and that's what it is - 4/4.
And don't anybody get confused if you're checking out a song for its
time signature, and you find a measure or more that doesn't do what the
rest of the song does - there is music, especially classical, that will
utilize all kinds of time sig changes, so you don't have to be stuck
with the same throughout a piece. Heck, I've seen scores that have a
DOUBLE time signature at the beginning, like 4/4-3/4 - which tells the
player that every OTHER measure is one or the other time sig!!
Put that in yer pipe and smoke it.
-Brian,
the one who doesn't mind the Beatles.
------------------------------ From: MFa2707621@aol.com Message-ID: <d4ea39bb.35b50460@aol.com> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 17:13:03 EDT Subject: XTC Chats Chalkers, I'm not sure if this will make it for this Thursday's chat, but I just wanted to mention that I'm starting an IRC chat called, #XTC. I'll be trying to do this chat every Thursday night at 10pm EST. Also, I've started a message board about XTC on my web page. I hope you look at it. The address is http://members.tripod.com/~MollyFa/index.html. Go check it out. I know the 4 CD set probably won't be released in the US, which bums me out. If they want money, they should release it everywhere. I know that won't work, because it's not the band's decision. Also, it would probably be more for an import, and I can't afford it. There should be some way to get a special for the Chalkhills members. There should be a special discount or something. Well, that's all I have to say. Molly
------------------------------ Message-ID: <35B53D9F.62D5321@earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 18:17:19 -0700 From: Wesley Hanks <whanks@earthlink.net> Subject: Martin Newell Poem Chalks, Clipped the following: The Independent - London Copyright 1998 Newspaper Publishing PLC Friday, July 10, 1998 Features Pop: Lyric Sheets Martin Newell Billie Piper, a 15-year-old from Swindon has gone straight to No 1 in the pop charts. Other famous Swindonians include Gilbert O'Sullivan, Justin Hayward, XTC, Mark Lamarr, Dr Desmond Morris, Diana Dors, Melinda Messenger and Rick Davies from Supertramp. Ode To Swindon From Paddington to Swindon The gateway to the west And home of Desmond Morris It takes an hour at best Where Brunel's railway navvies Saw fit to set up camp And Gilbert formed a rock band With Rick from Supertramp The miniature museum Up on the Old Bath Road Displays a long-dead badger Some kindly soul bestowed In modest terraced houses Guitarists learn their licks The embryonic rock gods Of Swindon SN6 And those who gain the knowledge Meet those who never will While slouching down to college By way of Prospect Hill It's where you mail things back to When book clubs get it wrong Where Justin Hayward hailed from And XTC belong The home of Anchor Butter And sundry media tarts It's Swindon, Jewel of Wiltshire The cauldron of the arts MARTIN NEWELL Watching the fires break out, Wes Las Vegas
------------------------------ From: Packge@aol.com Message-ID: <285a1fc4.35b54215@aol.com> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 21:36:20 EDT Subject: No Sock In His Mouth Out of lurkdom and into the fire, After two short years of being on this list (or simply pulling up digests striaght from the website), this is likely only my third post ever. I enjoy reading some of what is written (to varying degrees: I love any news from Mitch, as it usually means GOOD stuff!) and find some of the entries less than interesting and sometimes plain boring or dull. Yet, I believe in our collective rights to say most anything we want. Having said that, I must point a finger to Will, author of the following lines: >Attention all chalkhillers who don't want to discuss "Dear God" and God >anymore, that's what this entire post is about, so if you're not into it, >feel free to move on to the next message... ...and say, "OK, we can page down to avoid the subject matter, but use a little discretion, man. You took up nearly one-quarter of the whole digest (#4-116) with your opinions. Find a way to keep it brief!!" Having said it, I'm slipping back. Cheers, Patrick song of the day: "Faster Than Light" - Neil Finn XTC song of the day: "Cynical Days"
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Message-ID: <35B5CC18.FF56096C@po.twin.ne.jp>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 11:25:14 +0000
From: michaelw <michaelw@po.twin.ne.jp>
Subject: Language, Lungs, and Colin's Lost Demos
Hey Summer Chalkies!
Sorry to see the Dear God thread get snipped (Scissor Man!),
but if you want to read more on the subject, there are a lot of
past interviews with Andy in which he talks about the reasons behind
writing the song, etc. On to other things...
My compliments to Harrison upon his fine literary take on my
second or third favorite song off of Black Sea...spot on!
Lastly, what a BUMMER to hear about Colin getting rid of his demos..
Only two?? Perhaps the new stuff he recorded over the old stuff, he
feels, is better....can't wait to hear his new songs!
Working for Paper and for Iron,
Michael Wicks
------------------------------ Message-ID: <2F0511E8CF12D2118A8500A0C983459F3F526E@PIBCRMEXH001> From: "McDonald, Roger" <McDonaRF@prose.dpi.qld.gov.au> Subject: Veil of the Black Man Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 16:30:55 +1000 Dear Jonathan, Regarding: (The chalkhill man visits Australia Anyone like RogerOz want to claim responsibility for the outline of a massive man recently drawn and spotted in the outback ?) Not guilty, but you might ask those recalcitrant scallywags Paul Culnane and Iain Murray about it. I wouldn't be at all surprised at the shenanigans those two get up to in God's own country!!! Lordy, Lordy - or should I say Dear God? (Snigger, snigger...) RogerFromOz
------------------------------ From: DBMEIER0@wcc.com Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 02:15:31 -0600 Message-Id: <000CD7F7.1586@wcc.com> Subject: Why Didn't Any of You Bastards Warn Me? Schmuckhilligans You know, it really bothers me that I was not properly informed of the hazards involved in acquiring the 95/96 demos (and most dangerously, listening to them). I've bided my time for the past 2 years, holding out for the finished product (with every intention of adding the demos to my larder before the taste of an initial listening to the 'product' had left my pallet). And then the well-meaning but terribly misguided Mr. Phelan posted his generous offer to provide demo copies and I cracked. I rationalized that the demos would temporarily satiate my desire to hear new art from the only people that have the ability to make me desire new art. It has had precisely the opposite effect. I don't think I can make it to January now. THIS MUSIC IS PURE.... well, it's pure! (Thanks Jason, and I love the Chipmunk sampler at the end of B side ;@)) I know that Relph has forbidden talk of time signatures but I'm feeling the defiant chalk child tonight, sooo... can any of you time signaticians tell me what the hell is going on with Prince of Orange? It sounds to be all over the place to my untrained ears. Dan - can't wait to inflict 'some lovely' on my lovely - Meier
------------------------------ Message-ID: <c=US%a=_%p=SELECT_Software_%l=SELECT_OX_MAIL-980722104856Z-720@selectmail.selectst.com> From: Catherine Sweeney <CatherineS@selectst.com> Subject: Fruit with which to pelt Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 11:48:56 +0100 'ello, 'ello', 'ello. why don't you try Dom's web page at this address; members.tripod.com/~Lampard/xtc.html You'll either like it or hate it, and if you hate it, then it gives you more ammunition with which to beat him up. That metaphor doesn't work, does it. It should be something like 'it gives you more rotten fruit with which to pelt him'. I guess I'm not as clever with the English language as Harrison, me being the thick arse wot I am. To be perfectly frank, I quite enjoyed it, so no fruit from me, Dom. Re Colin's divinity. There's no 'if' about it in my book. Colin IS God and always has been. Just thought you should know.
------------------------------ From: "Lemoncurry" <dieling@hrz1.uni-oldenburg.de> Organization: University Of Oldenburg Comp.Center Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 13:34:00 MET-1METDST Subject: Ian / Another Satellite / Mission Impossible Message-ID: <27646845621@hrz1.uni-oldenburg.de> Hi everyone ! Responding to Ian in last digest: I thought the guitar in Another Satellite was simply send through a flanger or phaseshifter or something like that, but sampled pianos ? Wow, how did you find that out ? (If you didn't read it in an interview with Dave or something like that.) If Mission Impossible is the grandaddy of 5/4 tunes, then Dave Brubecks Take Five is the great-grandaddy, but then again, even in renaissance lute music 5/4 measures are to be found, and in medieval religous chants, too, so there are the true methusalems. By the way, I come directly from an uni exam, where I had to play guitar to two profs, and had a theoretical part about acoustics, and: I did it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So now I'm a happy bastard. Bye, all. Lemoncurry residing in The Lemon Lounge at www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/9259 lemoncurry@geocities.com XTC Song of the Day: Big Day
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 13:09:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Whitman <bwhitman@WPI.EDU> Subject: Smiling Pets / Seagulls Screaming..? (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980722130725.26812D-100000@wpi.WPI.EDU> I just got this album. IT'S GREAT. You all (especially you all Beach Boys 'Pet Sounds / Smile' lovers HAVE to get it. Seaguls Screaming appears to be a japanoise female-fronted group. Real cool. The best tracks are the Secret Chief ones, followed closley by OTC's and then the guy from Tortoise's renderings. It's on Sony Japan. Brian Whitman - bwhitman@wpi.edu http://www.netspace.org/users/bwhitman "..." I wrote: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Subject: Smiling Pets / Seagulls Screaming..? I was browsing the Secret Chiefs Trio's website, and they said that they were on a Beach Boys tribute album called 'Smiling Pets', released only in japan. It sounds great -- lots of cool people are on it, SC3, OTC, Thurston Moore, et. al... then there was this one group called Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her... who are / is this / these people / person?
------------------------------ From: wwilson@star.zko.dec.com Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 13:02:14 -0400 Message-Id: <98072213021412@star.zko.dec.com> Subject: Waxworks (Some Singles) It suddenly dawned on me that I don't have Waxworks on CD. I saw it today and it doesn't have the white plastic strip on top with the name of the CD and the artist. I wonder why? Anyhoo, if someone has this on CD, can you testify to the sound quality? Thanks. And to the person who berated astrology in the last issue of 'hills... yes, I used to think it's nothing more than hooey until a college professor of English mediaeval literature explained the system of astrology over several classes. Astrology predates the Copernican revolution and the "Scientific" view of the cosmos, but for many people (yea, even today) astrology holds more meaning as a cosmological system for the universe. Quite frankly, our current common thinking of the cosmos leaves me (and I'm sure others) feeling quite cold about it all. Yes, on one level the sun is just another star in the cosmos, but of what use would this "truth" have been to an agrarian society that depended on it for sustinence? Wouldn't it have made more sense for them to deify it, symbolize it, and worship it? Until a few years ago, Western medicine scoffed at acupuncture, until people began getting better from using it. I'm using this as an example to show that not ONE system provides all the answers. I'd rather leave myself open to thinking that, although I am not personally interested in astrology, there are I am sure aspects of it that help people feel more connected to the cosmos. I'll bet that several hundred years from now people will be ridiculing our bright and shining scientific "truths." When Andy says, "I'm like a miniature sun," he's making the star made from hydrogen gas around which the earth and other entities rotate... relavant to the way he feels. So which is a better explanation of what the sun is? Science's definition...or Andy's? Now, on to another reason for my note - two CDs that XTCers might want to note are Catherine Wheel's "Adam and Eve" (underrated, that) and Jesus & Mary Chain's "Monki". Hey! Coupla's religious references there! Guess that put me officially in the "honest to God" C-hill debates. :-) X 1,000,000 Wes
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 20:25:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Erich Sellheim <sellheim@zfn.uni-bremen.de> Subject: Re: Urban Dance Squad Message-ID: <Pine.PCW.3.92.980722201544.4271C-100000@hepburn.zfn.uni-bremen.de> Hello everyone, in the last digest Hank Wirtz asked about the possibility of Urban Dance Squad being XTC fans. I haven't heard the song with the NLIOL quote, but I remember that some time ago a friend of mine who was into their music showed me a CD of theirs which contained the obligatory thanks list with the mention of "Andy Partridge, master of lyrics" or something like that. I can't say that I didn't like the band, but I remember feeling they should have written "Master of lyrics AND music". Or they did and I remember all of this wrongly. Best wishes, Erich
------------------------------ Message-Id: <72EDB966944AD1118DC90080D820748847C21E@ex-campus2> From: "Pedretti-Allen, Richard (Richard)" Subject: No CC98 orders yet Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 11:35:17 -0700 Chocks, Please do not send me orders for CC98 yet. I will only send them back. There will be only 100 tapes made this time. I will start accepting orders on September 1 via acoustic mail. No reservations will be taken via electronic mail. If your postmark is before August 31 and orders are heavy (there is usually an initial surge), your letter may fall to the bottom of the stack. I will post the ordering information to Chalkhills on August 26. Yes, I know the website has ordering information... I will have the ordering date added (and to the ONE order that I have already received, it will be honored). Cheers, Richard
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 20:29:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Erich Sellheim <sellheim@zfn.uni-bremen.de> Subject: Urban Dance Squad and no end Message-ID: <Pine.PCW.3.92.980722202635.4271D-100000@hepburn.zfn.uni-bremen.de> Come to think of it, I think Andy Partridge said some way back that Urban Dance Squad wanted him as a producer and sent him a tape of their songs, but he didn't like any of them and turned down the offer. Erich
------------------------------ Message-Id: <199807221901.PAA27878@camel14.mindspring.com> Subject: Richard = Petty Human Being Date: Wed, 22 Jul 98 15:02:39 -0400 From: ms165283 <racerwholesale@mindspring.com> I'm not going to go into a diatribe about Richard's flaming of me yesterday on the list, but in my defense... I never committed to provide Richard with a version of "Towers of London". When he sent out his initial request for submissions, I "reserved" Towers Of London. This was back in Nov/Dec of 97. Shortly after reserving the song, I joined a productive original band that took up 125% of my time. Alas, recording someone else's song (albeit one of my idols) was of low priority when the record label we were on had paid thousands of dollars to secure a quality producer, Caram Costanzo (Talk Show, STP, Matthew Sweet, Pearl Jam), and an expensive recording studio. So I never got to record that version of Towers Of London. Instead I'm touring the Southeast United States, and gearing up to tour the rest of the nation and possibly Europe. However, I never said I would record it. I only reserved the song. Richard never received a confirmation from me saying I would get him a version of Towers of London. For him to delay his compilation on my behalf is ludicrous. The blame lies solely and squarely on his shoulders. If he's in charge of this compilation, he should have never banked on my reservation of the song, especially since he hadn't heard anything from me since then. I refuse to be his scapegoat. And BTW, Richard, if you wish to further discuss this, let's keep it out of the list. It's between you and I. It was a pretty petty thing for you to flame me to an entire crowd and make me you scapegoat.. And racerwholesale@mindspring.com is not my email address. It's my work address. My email addresses are... tedlee@slippeddisc.com theflinch@hotmail.com Love Spit Love, Ted "Spit" Lee
------------------------------ Message-Id: <72EDB966944AD1118DC90080D820748847C21F@ex-campus2> From: "Pedretti-Allen, Richard (Richard)" Subject: Dead God Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 13:03:23 -0700 ...sorry, that was a typo.
------------------------------ Message-Id: <199807222006.PAA10982@indy3.indy.net> Subject: This is Pop, Tart. Date: Wed, 22 Jul 98 15:09:25 -0500 From: Rednoise <rednoise@indy.net> >Jill wrote: >The term "pop" is short for "popular," >***snip*** >I'd like to suggest that we Chalkhillians develop a new >term to describe the music of XTC, so the misused term, >"pop," can be returned to its rightful place: >-- with Michael Jackson. Jill Oleson First, I can't agree with Jill's logic, but I certainly wouldn't want this to appear as some 'assault' on her personally. I'm for everyone expressing their views , so here is mine. (minor point) Andy has stated in interviews that the genesis of the song "This Is Pop" was due to the repetitive and mind numbing question, " What do you call what you do?" Music can be discussed, obviously, but it is an art form which exists in it's own 'realm'...just as with the visual arts....speaking of it only takes you to a given threshold, after which there literally is "no language in our lungs" Blah blah, huh ? This leads to my (MAJOR POINT) I'd like to suggest this alternative to any chalkhillians who are considering allocating time to develop some new buzz word to 'describe' XTC; Spend that time reading anything on the workings of music; from remedial intros to in-depth theory (depending on you current literacy regarding music) It will reward you in exponential and unimaginable ways. I have a long standing (and winded) theory that the tragic state of current 'pop' music owes to the decline in the general publics 'hands on' knowledge of music. Up until the not-too-distant past, if you wanted to hear music, you made it yourself. Blah-blah, huh ?.... if it sounds simple it's because I wouldn't expect you to page down 5 times for one post One who likes his Pop tart and tangy, Red
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From: Richard.PedrettiAllen@exchange.Octel.com
Message-ID: <72EDB966944AD1118DC90080D820748847C221@ex-campus2>
Subject: XTC 45s & Adventure Club CDs for sale
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 14:45:41 -0700
For Chalkhills vinyl hounds... I found the following 45s available at
http://www.nstar.net/RGP/Alt3.html
Generals And Majors / same DJ RSO 300 NM $5
Making Plans For Nigel PC/DJ Virgin 67009 NM $5
Ten Feet Tall PC/DJ Virgin 67004 NM $6
This World Over (post-card sleeve) PC UK Virgin 721 NM $10
No Thugs In Our House (theatre sleeve) PC UK Virgin 490 NM $12
Senses Working Overtime/ same DJ Epic 02875 NM $4
Supposedly a carton or two of the Adventure Club CDs were found in a
warehouse. This CD contains songs by XTC [Blue Beret], Frank Black,
Jellyfish, Catherine Wheel, James, Cranberries, Blur, His Name Is Alive,
Lilac Time, Trash Can Sinatras, Lemonheads, Posies and a few others for
$15 postpaid.
...and in the fiercely contested cupholder wars, the new Honda Odyssey
will hold its own with a total of nine libation stations.
TO ORDER ANY OF THESE RECORDS, SEND CASH, CHECK OR MONEY ORDER TO:
Reel George Productions
P.O. Box 280173
Dallas Texas 75228.
inquiries to: gimarc@nstar.net
I am not affiliated in any way with the above offer but in the Six (or
less) Degrees Of Seperation Dept. ("Mom! He's starting it again!")...
I got drunk with Becki DiGregario (one) on red wine after she saw my
name in the Mix Music Resources Directory (two) which lists Planet
Dallas Recording Studios (three) which recorded XTC playing Blue Beret
and was released by George Gimarc (four) on the Adventure Club CD (five)
which leaves me somewhere between PFM and BFD (sick).
Cheers, Richard "Closer to the latter" Pedretti-Allen
p.s. ya know... I have one of the XTC 45s of "Ten Feet Tall" (with the
rulers on the cover) around somewhere... is anyone really willing to pay
me money for that?
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From: Iain_Murray@hr-m.b-m.defence.gov.au
Message-Id: <4A256649.007732E9.00@ncc-notes.hr-m.b-m.defence.gov.au>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 07:51:22 +1000
Subject: Funk Pop A Roll Seduced My Vole....
To all those who told me to perservere with FPAR because it would
eventually grow on me - you were (almost) 100% correct. I was listening to
"Mummer" again last night, and this time the last track just *hit* me
(rather than sliding past virtually unnoticed). My first thought was "How
the hell did I miss this before?"
Rather than growing on me eventually, it stuck itself in my head very
suddenly (and, it seems, very deeply - I've been humming the damn thing for
16 hours straight). I figure it's about time I figured out what everyone
else already knew about this song. Now if I could just get my ears around
"Wonderland".... (sorry Molly, it *still* sounds a bit wet - each to
his/her own, I guess).
Again, to those of you who said it was just a matter of time, thanks a
heap. To those of you who E-Mailed me privately and, based on my original
dislike of FPAR, saw fit to question my heritage (and you know who you are)
: get nicked.
While I'm here, I want to thank Richard P-A for his swift reply to my
CC98 question. Pencil me in for CC99....
XTC Song Of The Day : Funk Pop A Roll (haha! what else?)
Non-XTC Song Of The Day : What I Don't Know About You - You Am I (they're
an Australian band
who cite XTC as a major influence)
Iain
------------------------------ Message-ID: <8191BF798BAFD111817B0001FA0E3A574EDCB2@ZSCED004> From: "ARCHER-MAY,Mark" <Mark.ARCHER-MAY@deetya.gov.au> Subject: I apologise Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 08:58:29 +1000 I apologise for my last entry it appears that I offended at least one person and possibly more. I had originally intended to email our fine organiser and ask him not to enter it. But when I read the information regarding the stopping of the religious entries I stupidly assumed that it would not me entered so laziness took over and there it was. I am not an idiot and I do know my history. I thank you all for some great conversation and some wonderfully polite and friendly emails. Mark
------------------------------ From: GFROBE@aol.com Message-ID: <78fe2acf.35b67120@aol.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 19:09:19 EDT Subject: No Subject <One of the things I loved the most about Chalkhills before my absence was <the references to less known bands and musicians that I might not have <heard about. Some great examples are Jason Faulkner, Poundcake, The Lilic <Time, Spooky Reuben, St. Surreal, Sugarplastic, Eric Matthews, and many <many others. <Is this now a taboo thread to pursue? <I sure hope not. <Who else are you folks listening to that bring these artists to mind? I've got two words for anyone who is a lover of smart, melodic songwriting at its finest - CANDY BUTCHERS. Lead singer Mike Viola sang (although didn't write) "That Thing You Do" from the movie of the same name and not only has an amazing pop voice but writes the best songs of anyone I've heard in quite a long while. Although still unsigned I believe, they did have an EP on Blue Thumb which is absolutely perfect and they also tour quite a bit so if you have a chance... I get nothing out of this other than to turn you on to America's best unsigned band. Regards to all
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