Chalkhills Digest Volume 5, Issue 56
Date: Monday, 11 January 1999
Chalkhills Digest, Volume 5, Number 56
Monday, 11 January 1999
Today's Topics:
Enough Is Enough
DM
screws
This World Over and over?
Re: Mr. Hanky
FS: XTC 'Acoustic Tales' CD (or trade for a cd-r version)
Song Stories
An Andy Interview...
The Nigels are here!!!!
Virgin 25!
Vinyl non release.
Elvis
Responses, sil vous plait
A little clarification about Andy's "stage fright"?
Re: Rush
Vinyl again.
Behind the Music feature?
New XTC pic in the archive
Procession Towards Learning Land
I just don't get it?
Ebay XTC posting
New XTC fans
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ERA1970@aol.com Message-ID: <bf948aa3.36969d11@aol.com> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 19:04:33 EST Subject: Enough Is Enough >And I'm having a panic attack knowing that a Chalkhills subscriber listens >to Rush Limbaugh. I'm having a panic attack knowing you're going to bring up the damn political belief thread. Look, it's very simple: Political beliefs do not necessarily have anything to do with one's enjoyment of music either way!!!! Why must you waste bandwidth being so damn narrow-minded? I have listened to Mr. Limbaugh for years; in that time he has played XTC,Squeeze,Talking Heads, Dave Brubeck,Miles Davis, James Brown, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles and about a zillion other things that might surprise you.(James Brown, for instance is a lifelong member of the Republican party). Maybe there's other who don't conform to your world/social view. I guess we should make sure they're not buying anything by XTC (never mind their money is the same color as everyone else's, the band, I'm sure wouldn't want tainted conservative money)! Anyway, that's my rant for the day,please,feel free to go back to discussing produced vs. overproduced. Chris w PS message to David Oh: Dude please find the "s" key and stop using the "z" key. The content of your post sounds intelligent, but with the bad punctuation and grammar, you come across like a 15-yr-old hacker. Just a thought.
------------------------------ Message-ID: <002e01be3b69$211ff560$695791d2@johnboud> From: "John Boudreau" <aso1@mocha.ocn.ne.jp> Subject: DM Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 09:42:19 +0900 >I've just read a lot of the stuff about XTC's drummers over the years >and there seems to be one other element about a drummer that defines >their 'quality': their selection of drums/cymbals. Selecting >distinctive drum tunings and cymbal types is halfway to getting your >style. Dave Mattacks will tell you that any day (he's a very rigid >methodist in the way he tunes his drums The following quotes are from an article in DIRTY LINEN : . "When people ask me what I do, I always say, `musician.' That's not to say that I'm not proud of being a drummer. But, I'd like to consider myself, for all my lack of ability on the instrument, as a musician first, somebody who has a certain amount of knowledge about music." "I'm more concerned with tone and sound and cymbals and response and that whole side of the instrument than I am with any abilities or any kind of facility on the kit. I'm very interested in the drums. I concentrate a lot." Each song on the album uses a different snare drum and cymbal set-up. "They all sound different," Mattacks said. "I love to pick the tone colors. I picked the cymbals and snare drum to suit each track." Fairport provided an entry into a much different world. "This was a real turnaround for me," Mattacks said. "I knew that there was an alternative type of music and I wanted to be involved. It was almost like a light bulb going on," he recalled. "It had quite an effect on how I saw and listened to music. It really changed how I played and how I wanted to play. I started listening to songs and not to licks and technique. I started becoming much more aware of form and lyrics." Mattacks' moment of enlightenment was reflected in his approach to the drums. "It made me appreciate even more straight-forward drummers who swung. I became less concerned with trying to show everybody how clever I thought I was and more concerned with trying to support the song and the singer." Jazz has been a constant source of inspiration. "I've heard all the rock drummers I need," Mattacks said. "I get more inspiration from listening to Paul Motian, Jack DeJohnette and Tony Williams. There's a lot of great cats coming up. That's what I'm listening to these days. It satisfies me more. I really like to play it. I'm trying to get better."
------------------------------ Message-ID: <MFzCxXAXGql2EwoN@emdac.demon.co.uk> Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 00:23:51 +0000 From: Phil Hetherington <phil@emdac.demon.co.uk> Subject: screws Not that I'd take anything with the words "News of the World" in it seriously (those of you not in the UK need not ask), but this article contains so many inaccuracies it's almost unreal. I give the person who typed it the benefit of the doubt. >From today's "Music News of the World" (in the online magazine Addicted to >Noise): > >XTC End Silence With New Label Deal And Box Set >Transistor Blast is the group's first album since 1992's Nonsuch. Well, it's not a studio album, and much of it has been out before, and if such things count then what about 'Fossil Fuel' or 'The Greatest' or whatever that other one was called. For that matter, what about 'Drums And Wireless'? >XTC, which had been with Virgin UK since 1977, haven't released any new >material since 1992's Nonsuch. Apart from 'Cherry In Your Tree' etc. >The band signed with TVT in the summer, and TVT released a live XTC box set, >Transistor Blast, on Dec. 8. Three of the box's four discs feature >performances recorded for the BBC in 1977 and 1989; the fourth captures a >1980 performance at London's Hammersmith Palais. Clearly didn't listen to disc 3 very carefully. >The band stopped touring in 1992 because of Partridge's stage >fright. They toured in 1992? Damn! >The live music compiled on Transistor Blast represents "songs we did from >'77 to '89 and it was the best of the stuff they didn't erase," Partridge >said. "They're not too different from the record[s], although they're played >with a bit more fire." Didn't hear many 1989 songs in the 1980 concert. OK, I suppose the session tracks were sort of live-(ish)-in-studio. Perhaps I'm being somewhat picky here. >XTC were formed in 1977 in Swindon, an industrial town in Northern England. Weird. It was in Wiltshire a couple of weeks ago when I went from London to Swansea on the train. It was still there when I came back too. Atlases aren't too expensive, are they? >Partridge, for his part, said he couldn't care less what fans might think of >the new records. Can we quote him on that? There's a world of difference between the above statement and what they actually quoted him as saying: >"I'm not interested in winning back old fans," he said. "I don't care if the >devil is stoking their asses in hell. I'm just interested in making music. I >suppose I'll panic if nobody buys it. But if people like it, they like it. >I'm not going to ram it down anybody's throat." Well, sorry about that. I nearly resisted but it was that bit about Swindon being in the north that finally did it. As for the best of '98, I've come up with a list of 10 albums but have yet to pick an overall winner. Hopefully next weekend. BTW, to the person who picked Alain Bashung's album, did you realise that Martyn Barker of Shriekback (Barry Andrews' band post-XTC) played on it? Oh yes, and to the person who picked the Luka Bloom album, I'm very jealous - it's not out yet in the UK. Phil PS: New Blur album due March-ish. This is promising to be a good year... -- _ |_) |_ * | Me: http://www.emdac.demon.co.uk/phil/ | | ) | | Then for Shriekback add: shrkindx.html =========== Or for Gang Of Four: gof/gof_indx.html
------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 21:11:43 -0500 From: Dave Rutherford <drutherf@TECHMAIL.GDC.COM> Subject: This World Over and over? Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.00.9901082057000.524-100000@esun1006> On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, simon@nonsuch.dircon.co.uk wrote: > Speaking of 'This World Over', I have to put my lot with those who say > it is indistinguishable from the album version - I haven't yet found a > single difference in vocal or instrumentation. It's very similar, and might even be a different mix of the same session, but it's not identical. At least on my copy of TBE, TWO starts off with two a capella lines which aren't on the TB version. Actually I had an impression that ``Poor Skeleton'' might be the album version 'cause it sounded so familiar, so I put it on one CD player and the O&L version on another, and switched back and forth. They're not the same -- it probably just seemed familiar from Drums & Wireless -- but what was interesting was how faithful the performance was to the original recording in tempo and structure. I could just cut back and forth and be in the same part of the recording I switched to as the one I'd left. Oh, this one has a backing vocal or a sound not on the other, but what really comes across is the raw energy (and higher dynamic level overall) of the TB version. Dave (PS. Dave O'Connell, are you still with us? Please drop me a note.) (PPS. David Oh, I see you've used up your quota of the letter Z for '99.)
------------------------------ Message-ID: <19990109014137.3660.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "Amanda Owens" <daveizgod@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Mr. Hanky Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 17:41:36 PST Howdy ho! (she says in her best Mr. Hanky imitation) Robin did sayeth: >Whilst listening to "Drums and Wireless" I've found it incredibly >enlightening to turn off the left or right speaker on the stereo and >listen to Dave's playing. I have tried this with "Scarecrow People" and >"Roads Girdle the Globe." If there's a way of learning XTC guitar >parts, I think I've found it. Lovely little gems like Dave's bit behind >the "steer me, Anna" section of RGTG have been revealed. Also, I really >reccomend listening to Dave's acoustic guitar part on "Scarecrow People" >on D&Wrls. as a tribute to the sheer hard work that this man puts into >the playing and study of his instrument: it appears to be a single >take. I tend to do that speaker bit so I can hear Dave's backing vocals. Works best on Skylarking and Oranges & Lemons, especially "Season Cycle" and "King For a Day". Jim McGowan did sayeth: >And I'm having a panic attack knowing that a Chalkhills subscriber listens >to Rush Limbaugh. Well grab your Valiums because there's more than one on the list who listens to Rush. (As if some of you didn't suspect that of someone like ME already.) Ken Herbst did sayeth: >>From Duncan: >>Sinatra did, does and will always just totally, completely SUCK ASS. Flame >>away, kiddies. >>IMHO he bites - bigtime. > >Ditto Duncan. > >The only person that's as overly worshipped as Sinatra is the much overated >Elvis Pres. Never speak ill of the dead, my dear. Tis all for now, Amanda C. Owens "People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with welcome written on it."-Andy Partridge XTC song of the day-Scarecrow People non XTC song-Come Sail Away-Eric Cartman PS-Add me to the list of people whose Transistor Blast cases have cracked.
------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 23:37:53 -0500 Subject: FS: XTC 'Acoustic Tales' CD (or trade for a cd-r version) Message-ID: <19990108.233848.-187805.17.blorp@juno.com> From: blorp@juno.com (philip e kasiaras) Greetings fellow Chalk-heads! I'm currently accepting bids on the following CD: XTC 'Acoustic Tales' (Hand Made) HAM 06 CD (1989) (Acoustical Oranges & Lemons) Live on KROQ FM LA May 29, 1989 1) Scarecrow People 2) Mayor of Simpleton 3) Medley:Senses workeng../Grass/Love on a Farmboys... 4) Blue Beret 5) Medley: Great Fire/Dear God/Big Day 6) King for a day 7) Medley: One of the Millions/Hungry Heart Beats/Garden of earthly delights BBC TV Special 'XTC Play at Home' 1983 8) Train running low on soul coal BBC Session April 6, 1989 9) Poor skeleton Steps Out 10) Here comes president kill again BBC Session June 11, 1989 11) King for a day 12) Garden of Earthly Delights 13) Scarecrow People 14) One of the Millions BBC Session January 1987 15) The Meeting Place 16) Earn enough for us You'll notice that there's other BBC stuff here that wasn't included with TB & the 'Acoustical Oranges & Lemons' section is excellent quality & features Andy in typically humorous form! Odd how they do several medley's of older songs, even though their promoting Oranges & Lemons! (Chalk-Head Jeff Ogata points out) I wouldn't let it go for any less than $20 though... Highest bid by the end of next Saturday gets it. I'm happy to trade a cd-r or tape version if you have something that interests me. Offers? Thanks! Philip blorp@juno.com
------------------------------ Message-ID: <19990109080906.6560.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "* Hobbes *" <hazchem25@hotmail.com> Subject: Song Stories Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 00:09:06 PST Didn't anyone else notice that they forgot "Rip Van Reuben" AND "Always Winter, Never Christmas"? Obscure maybe, but definitely "Officially released". And if there was so much stuff from the interviews left out, how about getting Neville to release the tapes to us Chalkhillians? I'd be quite happy to donate some transcription time so we could all read just what didn't make it in. ;-) Yeah, i know, dream on mate. Ah well, not long till the apple lands! BTW, i used to have a couple of lovely xtc videos which have been missing in action for at least two years now. It'd be really nice if someone would return them to me one of these days....
------------------------------ Message-ID: <001301be3bef$da078120$867862ce@candyman> From: "Erik Candiani" <candiani@spiritone.com> Subject: An Andy Interview... Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 08:48:13 -0800 Sorry if you guys already know about this one... but I can't remember reading about it in the digest. Here's the link: http://westnet.com/consumable/1997/07.24/revxtc2.html Enjoy! Erik.
------------------------------ Message-ID: <000701be3c12$54b0bfa0$13716420@oemcomputer> From: "timothys" <timothys@gateway.net> Subject: The Nigels are here!!!! Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 15:55:00 -0500 Well ladies and gentlemen, What can I say? It's been a long time but the time has come again! The Nigels, America's finest musical tribute to XTC is back with a vengence. We are planning shows for early spring,and we won't stop until we see you all! XTC,XTC, and nothing but XTC!! Yes, we did take a long break since 1994, but it was time to get some affairs in order. Drummer Tommy Joyner opened a new recording studio in Philadelphia called Milkboy. GuitaristVocalist Timothy O'Byrne recorded an album with his band the Hunt Club at Tommy's studio. Bassist/vocalist Kieran Mulvaney recorded albums with Spite and Malice and joined the Hunt Club too. And Guitarist/vocalist Kevin Cavanaugh did anything he damn well pleased!! The Nigels have their own website where you can follow their whereabouts, as well as contact them about playing your favourite songs live! Please tell us where you are from and any info you'd like to pass on, and we'll keep you abreast of the dates. Looking forward to hearing from you, Cheers, Timothy Here is the Nigels website. It's new and under construction, so please bear with us www2.netcom.com/~hntclb/nigels.html
------------------------------ From: "Benjamin A. Gott" <bgott@Bowdoin.EDU> Message-Id: <199901101925.AA02382@polar.bowdoin.edu> Subject: Virgin 25! Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 14:25:49 -0500 (EST) Chalkies, I just saw a TV spot for the new Virgin Records 25th Anniversary collection, and our boys are prominently mentioned in the voice-over! Of course, so are about 40 other artists, but at least they made the cut. The song included on the comp is "Making Plans for Nigel." Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells III" has been living in my car for the past week. It's amazing. Is anyone else watching the M-TV video cliche thing? "Weird Al" is co-hosting, and it's awesome to see him back on the circuit. Also -- doesn't that new Sheryl Crow song sound like Aimee Mann? -Ben
------------------------------ Message-ID: <01BE3CD6.DDB38430@e1c2p23.scotland.net> From: Robert Wood <wobbit@bigfoot.com> Subject: Vinyl non release. Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 20:21:53 -0000 Per asked in 5-53... >> Since CDs sounds so bad, I really hope that Apple Venus will be released on vinyl. Is there anyone out there that have any information from the record company? << I *do* have that information and sadly, it's bad news. I actually e-mailed Cooking Vinyl and asked them whether they'd be releasing AV on vinyl and I received a reply that there were no plans to. It was actually very good of them to reply, most record companies wouldn't bother. They did day that if there was enough interest they might do a vinyl release but I have to agree with them that that's pretty unlikely. I have to agree with Per, listening to CDs is a pretty grim experience. There are over 100 albums that I would have bought over the last few years had they been released on vinyl. An album has to be exceptional for me to purchase it on CD. CDs are great if you're one of these people who has music on as a background thing but if you actual sit down and *listen* to music they're truly horrendous. CDs, along with the awful production techniques of the 90s, have massively reduced the amount of time I spend listening to music. In the sales after Christmas I was far more interested in going to the video section of HMV than going to look round the music to see what was about. If only people listened to good hi-fi, and didn't believe the marketing hype that the record companies put out to brainwash people into believing CD was a viable way of listening to music, we'd still be able to listen to music in the analogue domain instead of having our ears blown off by the harsh pap that is digital audio. Ah well, that's "progress".
------------------------------ Message-ID: <01BE3CD8.B790DF80@e1c2p23.scotland.net> From: Robert Wood <wobbit@bigfoot.com> Subject: Elvis Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 20:35:08 -0000 Ken said in 5-54: >> The only person that's as overly worshipped as Sinatra is the much overated Elvis Pres. << <G> Yep, or the Burger King as we like to call him!
------------------------------ Message-ID: <19990110205149.24204.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "Amanda Owens" <daveizgod@hotmail.com> Subject: Responses, sil vous plait Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 12:51:48 PST Now that we've got that out of the way...... Steve said: >I agree with Jennifer from the recent posting. I, too, am >interested in how XTC will sound without Dave Gregory. "Skeptical" >might be how I'd describe my feelings on future quality. Amen to that. >It seemed to me that Dave was an integral part of the group. I >liken XTC to a three-person corporation consisting of the >Entrepreneur, the Engineer, and the Administrative Assistant. Take >away any of the three and you don't do business. Each performs a >different, but vital function. I couldn't have said it any better, medear. >I hope I'm proven a fool for doubting Andy and Colin, yet I can't >help but wonder if ego(s) have ruined a good thing. Indeed they have. On both sides. But IMNSHO, Dave wasn't very happy for a LONG time, the whole Apple Venus incident was just the straw that broke the camel's back. Dave Gershman wrote: >Okay, David, let me put it to you straight: Do you not see that your >style of writing is so damn annoying to the majority of people >reading it that you could be writing the Great American Novel >chapter by chapter in your posts and no one would care because they >couldn't bear to read on? Trust me -- it may not be obvious to you, >as I can only imagine that you think you're being incredibly clever, >but your posts are the best reasons to exercise the "Page >Down" option that I've seen in Chalkhills since the last round of >the "Dear God" debate! Now now, to each his own. The new AMANDA (Molly) wrote: >Chalkers, > Some of you disappoint me. I mean you would rather buy a Japanese >import than the US version. Ummm....why should that disappoint YOU? Nobody's saying you have to buy any imports. >I think most Japanese imports are too >expensive. I know yeah they would have extra tracks, but I can't >afford Japanese imports. Well Molly, that's you. There are some of us on the list who can and usually do buy anything/everything XTC they can get their hands on. >Man, you people just don't get it. Oh dear. You're setting yourself up. I'm going to give you some advice it took me a long time to start following: choose your words carefully on Chalkhills, or your butt will be flamed so bad you'll have to find a new way to take a shit. (No offence meant, take it from the voice of experience.) Tis all for now, Amanda C. Owens "People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with welcome written on it."-Andy Partridge XTC song of the day-Life Is Good In the Greenhouse non XTC song-Chocolate Salty Balls-Chef
------------------------------ Message-Id: <v04011701b2bc1cd840a7@[208.240.250.142]> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 14:39:45 -0600 From: Ken Herbst <ken@bamadvertising.com> Subject: A little clarification about Andy's "stage fright"? Okay, I've been confused for years over the references to Andy's supposed breakdown when XTC was on tour in the 80's. I remember reading in "Chalkhills & Children" (by Chris Twomey), that Andy started having panic attacks on stage due to "fatigue and road weariness", not due to some extreme aversion to performing itself. My take on his avoidance of touring today is that he's painfully aware of the effects that the road has on his mental health, and he doesn't want a repeat episode. This interpretation makes plenty of sense to me, because if you've ever spent time on the road you know how distorted your sleeping/eating/thinking patterns can become. This has been pretty thoroughly researched over the years by the US military [big surprise!] in order to minimize the effects of jet lag on troops being sent across the world to combat situations. I remember reading that ordinary jet lag can cause extreme reactions in certain people including panic attacks, hallucinations, and extreme mood shifts. I myself experienced a humiliating, all-consuming panic attack after landing in New Delhi after not sleeping for two days. I got the shakes, starting seeing floating geometric patterns and fireworks bursts, and became nauseated and completely disoriented. I could barely walk, and my cognitive abilities almost shut down. It was like having the world's worst acid trip. While I've seen no reference to Andy experiencing symptoms like these, everything I've read about his episodes points to extreme fatigue rather than some kind of phobia. What do you think? -- K.H.
------------------------------ From: CCooli9575@aol.com Message-ID: <17c5aa98.3699ddd8@aol.com> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 06:17:44 EST Subject: Re: Rush >I'm sittin' here catching up on my vacation e-mail (Reading vol 5-50 as a >matter of fact), listening to Tony Snow filling in for Rush Limbaugh, and >coming in off of the 2:25 e.t. break I hear "Generals and Majors" being >played as bumper music. > >Did anybody else hear it? Does anyone care? I just thought it neat that >anywhere from 500,000 to 1,000,000 people could have heard a small snippet >of OUR favorite mistrals. > >That's all 4 now. >Mark D. I heard it too, I'll take my XTC any way I can get it. Rush also uses the intros to several Todd Rundgren/Utopia songs; so far I've heard "Itch In My Brain," "Too Much Water," "Zen Machine," and "Princess Of The Universe," all from their out of print albums on the defunct Network and Passport labels in the early to mid-80's. Great albums and worth picking up if you find them used or remaindered. I used to listen to Rush a lot more than I do now; I still tune in when I'm working but I don't find him as interesting now that it's pretty much a forgone conclusion that we'll either have a lame duck Bill Clinton in office until next year or AlGore. Either way we'll have a centrist Democrat in office, only in Gore's case he's sort of the Democrat answer to Ronald Reagan, his environment fixation aside. In other words, a decent enough guy but about as dumb as a bag of rocks. I'm still in hysterics over Dee Snider of Twisted Sister saying to him at the PMRC hearings(after he told Frank Zappa what a big fan of his work he was)"So Al, you gonna tell me what a big fan of my work you are too?" Personally I prefer some of Rush's replacements, especially Walter Williams and Tony Snow, both of whom are very intelligent and fair-minded. MIchael Medved should still with being a film critic though. What a sourpuss. "Beavis and friend" indeed. Can't bring himself to say butthead on the air. Sorry if most of you have no interest in the above, but I mostly listen to talk radio on the job these days, though if Rush starts boring me I prefer an XTC cassette... Chris
------------------------------ Message-Id: <199901110628.HAA10464@mb07.swip.net> Subject: Vinyl again. Date: Mon, 11 Jan 99 08:33:09 +0200 From: Per Aronsson <per@aron.pp.se> Do you think that vinyllovers live in the past? Well, some seems to think so. All I say is - listen. Your ears will hear the difference. So use your turntable and spin some LP:s. It will make your CD-player live in the past. Right before writing this I enjoyed Englist Settlement. I bought it 1982 and it still sounds great. The CD-version is not even close. But I agree with Jill Oelsen that vinyl has a nostalgic feeling. I think it has to do with that an LP has greater looks... One more thing. Someone asked if the orginal Jules Verne's Sketchbook has a blank cassette. The answer is no. The title and the songs are printed on the cassette. Per Aronsson.
------------------------------ From: "Will Kreth" <wkreth@twmaine.com> Subject: Behind the Music feature? Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 02:40:33 -0500 Message-ID: <000b01be3d35$abd4e5d0$145cd2cc@dhcj1.maine.rr.com> Isn't it time for an XTC interview on VH-1's "Behind the Music"? Either that, or a "Whatever Happened To?" segment. Their story has as much pathos, if not the usual drug habits (if you don't count Valium) as any of the other sad sacks they put on there. The "stage fright" angle hasn't really been covered on the show yet - now's their chance! Also, since XTC actually pioneered the "Unplugged" format for sister network MTV, they owe our remaining two blokes some air-time for that. Cheers- Will
------------------------------ Message-ID: <369A0444.BCA3326F@geocities.com> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 15:01:40 +0100 From: dieling <lemoncurry@geocities.com> Subject: New XTC pic in the archive Hi Chalkfellows! Happy New Year to all of you, first of all. I've just sent dear Mr Relph a new pic for the Archives, which I took from "The Cartoon History of Rock'n'Roll", you should be finding it in the galleries under Miscallenous in a couple of days. What's more, regarding the Top albums in 98, I just have to add one more to my list, which I bought a couple of days ago for a friend and promptly fell in love with: Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come Anyone out there who likes a bit of hardcore as well as drum and bass as well as complicated song structures should check these guys from Sweden out, it's a terrific album. Anyone who likes Thought Industry (though I guess I'm the only Chalkster who does) will love it. So, that's all for now, there's more news to come, but I'm not quite ready with it, so that has to wait. (Mysterious, innit ?!) Bye everyone ! -- Lemoncurry residing in The Lemon Lounge at www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/9259 lemoncurry@geocities.com XTC Song of the Day: The Day They Pulled The North Pole Down (it's snowing very lightly here in Northern Germany, and it's bitter cold !)
------------------------------ Message-ID: <19990111203014.4363.rocketmail@send105.yahoomail.com> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 12:30:14 -0800 (PST) From: Jon Rosenberger <wile1coyote@yahoo.com> Subject: Procession Towards Learning Land David Gershman wrote: "you think you're being incredibly clever, but your posts are the best reasons to exercise the"Page Down" option that I've seen in Chalkhills since the last round of the"Dear God" debate!" I agree! David O. Find the shift key, and spell them out. This isn't first grade. Jon Rosenberger
------------------------------ Message-ID: <19990111204515.2122.rocketmail@send102.yahoomail.com> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 12:45:15 -0800 (PST) From: Jon Rosenberger <wile1coyote@yahoo.com> Subject: I just don't get it? Now you have done it. Molly wrote "Chalkers, Some of you disappoint me." Stop it you are killing me! Who are you my mother? "I mean you would rather buy a Japanese import than the US version." Nope! I plan on buying both and the UK and the French and the Italian and any other country they deem to sell it in. I am a collector I will add them to my collection. If I don't have a collection then what kind of a collector does that make me? Some people collect baseball cards, I happen to enjoy searching for and trading or buying XTC albums. Does this make me a bad person? Could I get twenty years for excessive purchasing of the Drums and Wires LP? Get real!! "I think most Japanese imports are too expensive." Cheaper than a night out at the bar and alot of other things, but you are entitled to your opinion. "I know yeah they would have extra tracks, but I can't afford Japanese imports." Yeah extra tracks which justifys the additional cost. Just because you cannot afford it how dare you be disapponted in me because I can. "Man, you people just don't get it." No Molly you don't get it. I am getting it. I may even buy two!! I thank you for your opinions, but I would never be self righteous enough to tell others how to spend they're hard earned money. Jon Rosenberger
------------------------------ Message-Id: <v03102804b2c008f450c8@[165.227.110.102]> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:18:29 -0700 From: Richard Pedretti-Allen <richard@tactics.com> Subject: Ebay XTC posting Just saw the XTC / 3 Wise Men 45 - Thanks for Christmas posted on the Ebay Auction website for a starting bid of $45.00 (youch!) but there hasn't been any takers. It was first posted on 28dec98 and nobody has upped the bid. There were 54 items found with "xtc" in them. Cheers, Richard
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From: Adamette1@aol.com
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 17:48:12 EST
Subject: New XTC fans
Hello Chalkies
Rogerio of Brazil writes: "I completely fell in love with those melodies
and sounds all over the record [oranges and lemons]. I also bought the Nonsuch
CD..." Well, Rogerio, welcome to a great adventure, and be happy because you
can only go up from there!
Patrick
Go Go2
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