Chalkhills Digest Volume 6, Issue 273
Date: Wednesday, 20 September 2000
Chalkhills Digest, Volume 6, Number 273
Wednesday, 20 September 2000
Topics:
RE: Call me Deacon Greenman
Another ridiculous tie knot....
True Confessions
Rain Until September
Ya Never Know WHO You'll Meet
Open and Shut Doors...
The Dome
German Translation and stuff
More Rambling (I Just Can't Stop Myself)
speaking of rain....
Leap of Faith
Re: Why Does Your Sack Swing So Low?
Revenge Of The Great Lost Kinks MP3s
Re: Soundtracks
Re: I'm Drunk, I'm Lonely
Re: turn on
Stuff and things...
xtc? I should say.
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 09:36:45 +0100 From: "Smith, David" <David.Smith@tfeurope.com> Subject: RE: Call me Deacon Greenman Message-ID: <4BBE67B71C1DD411A23600508B65F71E686263@tfsecmsg04.tfseur.co.uk> Right, here we go-2-3-4 Cathryn Myers, I was, in general agreeing with your post re Mummer and Big Express vs Wasp Star . . . and then you ruined it. I quote: "But I still maintain that WS represents XTC doing Steely Dan (albeit better than Steely Dan does Steely Dan, but Steely Dan nonetheless)." Errrrrrrr, no. Seriously, no way on earth. Apart from the endless Standing In For Joe/Barrytown debate, there is NOTHING on any XTC album that makes me think "a-ha, that's a Dan-type song" and vice versa. The only link is the sheer depth of musicianship and song-writing skills and perhaps the "eminently local" feel of each band. However the reason they are not alike is exactly that. Steely Dan are quintessentially West coast America - laid back jazzy riifs, with an undercurrent of East coast hidden sleaze. XTC are (you see where I'm going here?) quintessentially English, with in-your-face pop riffs layered with orchestral arrangements. One would almost say "quirky". (Joke, honest!). If you're still not convinced, try this . . . imagine Andy and Colin re-recording Aja or Gaucho; alternatively, imagine Becker and Fagen doing their version of Oranges & Lemons or Mummer. It doesn't happen, does it? My two favouritest bands ever - I've always seen one as the antidote to the other, and vive la difference! But then again, "Love on a Gaucho's Wages" - we may just have something here! Smudge "West coast. west country" Boy E-Mail: david.smith@tfeurope.com
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 12:27:57 +0100 From: Adrian Ransome <Adrian.Ransome@tsi-ltd.co.uk> Subject: Another ridiculous tie knot.... Message-ID: <497FEA72C392D3118AE700508B7311776C6C7E@NT4SERVER03> David "Sir Smudge of Boy" Smith wrote of the Smashing Pumpkins: >Have you ever seen a sadder example of ageing pop >stars..... ..right after he posted a glowing tribute to Sir Elton of the John..... go, as they say, figure. Anyway, Smudger, I'll ignore the vicious Jeff Banks-esque critique on Jimmy Chamberlin's sartorial style on the grounds that you called me a genius a few digest ago ; ). On the subject of 'Pop/Rock stars who should know better re the "for God's sake act your age" issue'.... Aerosmith; who should rename themselves Aeroflot. Is it true they now travel to gigs cheaper because of their Senior Citizen's Bus Passes? The only band who make Lycra look saggy. Tom Waits; I mean come ON fella; rumpled suits? Designer stubble? Get with it guy, this ain't the eighties, get yourself some silver combat pants, black string vest and a black body warmer, then your records might get in the charts!! XTC; Comfy Trousers?? Shirts??? Jackets and Ties???? What is this, a management meeting at Safeways?? Jeez! At least get some sequins on that flat cap, potato features!! And Moulding, get yer hair cut!!! Adrian P.S. Has anyone else heard the cover version of Genesis' "Follow You Follow Me" by Germany's male answer to Britney Spears? **shudder**
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 20:25:47 +0200 From: "Mark Strijbos" <mmello@knoware.nl> Subject: True Confessions Message-ID: <20000919181903.166D7A6D07@mail.knoware.nl> Hi, my name is Mark and i too have misheard lyrics. I clearly and painfully remember my very first misheard lyric incident. I was still a cute little boy, perhaps 10 or 11 years old and very much "into" the Beatles and the Who. Ooh, how i loved to sing their songs - never mind the fact that i did not understand most of it. Anyway, one Sunday afternoon i was stupidly happy 'singing' away something from Tommy - probably I'm Free - and somehow, from the back of my as yet very pure mind, out rolls the word "masturbation". The adults present laughed their heads off and i insisted that somebody explain to me why i had said something so funny... And, to make matter worse, my mother _did_ explain. The horror, the horror! PS: i'm alright now. the doctor says everything will be fine as long as i take my pills Mark
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 20:25:47 +0200 From: "Mark Strijbos" <mmello@knoware.nl> Subject: Rain Until September Message-ID: <20000919181904.D7D8DA6D07@mail.knoware.nl> Dear Chalkers, Those sad songs sure strike a chord, eh? > Feel Like Buddy Holly - Ted Chippington i dunno, i don't think Buddy actually feels much. But if he did he certainly wouldn't feel very happy > Not many rain songs? huh? indeed. i'd go as far as to say that rain has probably inspired more songs than sunshine has. Rain is also a very powerful metaphor for that state of mind we call "the blues" of course. And feeling sad & blue has always been far more inspirational to artists than happiness. After all, the sad stories are always the best - Tristan & Isolde, Romeo & Juliet, Tom & Jerry; the list is endless. Or take a look at fairy tales, probably the oldest stories in existence. "they lived happily ever after"... the story actually ends once happiness sets in! No misery, end of story. I rest my case yours in xtc, Mark S. @ the Little Lighthouse www.come.to/xtc
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 15:06:35 EDT From: IMSUNBAKE@aol.com Subject: Ya Never Know WHO You'll Meet Message-ID: <6a.6bd6b5c.26f9133f@aol.com> Darling Chalkers - I saw Marshall Crenshaw in Annapolis, Md., USA last week (fabulous acoustic set) and bumped into 4 of my neighbors. I usually only see these folks when I'm walking my dogs, so this was a nice opportunity to say hey and talk about other than my dogs and the weather and their kids. We got to talking about what bands we would LOVE to see ... I now take every single opportunity to blab about XTC, so I threw the band's name on the table, not expecting anything. Well. As someone so eloquently said, "shitfire!" One of the guys almost lost his eyeballs from shock. "Annamarie? An XTC fan???!!!" (I'm thinking I'm way too Mary Poppins and need to Britney Spears-it-up-a-bit.) His first question was: "What do you think of Mummer?" "I LOVE IT!" I exclaimed (really, truly) "What's your favorite cut?" "GREAT FIRE! BEATING OF HEARTS!" The conversation went fabulously from there :-) He really almost died when I gushed about Dukes. Man, did he misjudge ME! Ha! He has his tickets from the cancelled tour (how jealous I am!); all the music in vinyl -- was there from the beginning, unlike my poor novice self. His long-suffering wife just groaned and put her head on the table, as my spousal unit would have if he hadn't been at work. He groaned upon my re-telling and said he would have to change his opinion of this particular neighbor! Cool! A new bud, in living color. Re: HUMAN ALCHEMY. Ok, ok, ok. I've had several long commutes to carefully listen to this song. It really is quite something. I don't know when I'll ever be "in the mood" to listen to it, but I no longer hop over it, and don't dread its approach. TK, aka Kingstunes, thanks for your patient guidance :-) IN THE CD CHANGER: Rag & Bone Buffet Kevin Gilbert's "Thud" Kevin Gilbert's "Toy Matinee" Wasssssppppp Star! Apple Venus (is River of Orchids just perfect, or what?) Blatheringly yours on a very rainy day in Washington, D.C., Annamarie
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 17:35:15 -0400 From: Neal Buck <nealhbuck@earthlink.net> Subject: Open and Shut Doors... Message-ID: <B5ED5453.17%nealhbuck@earthlink.net> Chalkboards & Erasers, Thanks to everyone who answered my Doors question, i.e. "I'm Horny, I'm Stoned" on "Other Voices," a sans-JM Doors album. I may try to pick up a copy anyway, as that song has sentimental value. How about this for a post-Sad Songs thread? Beautiful Songs - of the achingly kind. The ones that make you go, "Ahhh!" (as opposed to "Wahhh!") To start things off, from the top of my head: "The Man With the Child In His Eyes" - Kate Bush "Easter Theatre" And a winner in both categories, "I Can't Own Her" (!), sad, yet that crescendo! Misheard lyrics - Well, not really misheard 'cuz I KNEW what he was saying, but every time I hear the Police's, "Does Everyone Stare," it sounds like Sting must have an allergy; you know, "Does everyone stare this way Ah-Choo!" And yes, I thought Hendrix was saying "kiss this guy" at first! I've given some opinion on WS, but for the record, regarding AV1 vs. WS, I'd say it was Apple (Venus)s and Oranges (and Lemons). They're two different kinds of music, one for sitting and listening (maybe w/headphones), and the other for dancing around the room (or someplace). That's why I can't understand people who can't enjoy the whole range of XTC's career. It's not one OR the other - it's ALL great! - but for different reasons/purposes. And of course, each album isn't black or white either, "Greenman" gets my body moving (granted, in a Dead-like Indian trance-like way, but moving just the same), and "Boarded Up" is a sit-down and listen song, for example. Enough for now, Neal
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 22:30:07 +0100 From: "David Seddon" <D.Seddon@btinternet.com> Subject: The Dome Message-ID: <000a01c02280$c957b2e0$8668073e@default> Kirk quoth: >Speaking of Peter, has anyone actually gone to see that OVO show at the Millenium Dome? My wife and I were in London recently, and decided to skip it. Took a round on The Eye instead, and enjoyed. That dome thing seemed >like it might suck. Anyone actually seen it? Yeah, I was at the Dome for the first time thisMonday. I absolutely loved it. It really is an amazing day out. The thing is all the people I know who had been had told me that it was good, yet it gets such a bad publicity. It doesn't deserve it, but it's become a soft target to bash at...a metaphor for political correctness and a classic target for the ever cynical British press. Forgive, if you will a (short) bout of soap-boxing, before I tell you about the show: I have only one criticism of the Dome...they should have built it in Derby (the other main suggestion for a site). Many more people would have gone. I put Dome-bashing down to PC ness and a cynically, party-pooping mentality. The argument goes...why waste another |40 million on the Dome when we could give more to the NHS? Well, I say why not follow the argument through to its logical conclusion? Let's spend no public money on the arts at all! Thank God the ancient Greeks had more sense! I suspect that most of these folk who moan are the same people who would buy fags and lottery tickets and would prefer to spend their money in the pub instead of on their kids. They see fit to attack the State's morality, but not their own. They think the State should be only about nursing them, never expanding their horizons. If they'd been in ancient France they would have decried the Cave painters thus: "get out and plough a field, you lazy git. That's a worthless thing you're doing." They are the same sort, who in Paris at the end of the 19th Century, didn't want the Eiffel Tower building. The vast majority of locals, we are told, felt like that. Try telling a Parisian today that we should knock down their Tower. You can bet that hardly any of those who moan on have been to the Dome. I am prepared to believe that there are those who have been and not enjoyed, but by all accounts they are in a small minority. The show is very exciting, colourful and engaging to all ages. I am not a theatrical type. I prefer music and the written word, but it was damn good. It is part circus, part theatre, part dance and part story telling. Neither am I a particular fan of Peter Gabriel, tho' I do appreciate his talent. The music is well written and quite world-ethnic. There's a bit of a lot of genres in there, but it's not a mush. There are vocals that reminded me of Kate Bush and I wouldn't be surprised if she had a hand in it, being a friend of PG as she is. The show builds nicely and there are many spectacular moments. A friend of mine said recently, that the show alone is worth the entrance fee (you can get in for a tenner with several deals, and when you consider the cost of a footie match that ain't bad). The rest of the Dome is fascinating...there is something for everyone and bits that different people would wish to miss out. I liked the Rest Zone the best. It was a tingling place for all the senses. If you are in two minds whether to go...go and make your own mind up, away from the baying of the newshounds. Advert over...but if we can discuss the Australian Olympic opening ceremony, which lasted but briefly, then surely there is space for a brief defence of the Dome, which goes on a whole year. Deborah discoursed: >The sad song thread is no longer a thread.. more like a rope.. and I agree that it should be allowed to R.I.P... I will let it go after I say this.. composer Freyderyk or Frederic Chopin can really twist the knife without the utterance of a single garish word.. I'm thinking of a shorter salon piece.. >Raindrop Prelude.. Absolutely, Deborah. My favourite composer since childhood and the most poetic of then all. I think that it was Debussy who said; "Chopin is the greatest of us all, for through only the piano he discovered everything." The famous E Major Etude is the one that is sadest for me, and indeed was Chopin's favourite of all the music which he ever wrote.
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 07:32:37 EST From: "Iain Murray" <halfmanhalflager@hotmail.com> Subject: German Translation and stuff Message-ID: <F302sn2Yf0scL9NtDEJ0001121e@hotmail.com> >From: "Roger Fuller" <fullerfamily@sprintmail.com> >Subject: Uebersetzung, aber flott jetzt! > > >"Heeresnachrichtendienst ist ein Widerspruch in den Bezeichnungen." >- Karl Marx > > >translation please Iain > >I'm not sure of the original quote (Is this a back-translation from > >English into German using a web-translator?) > >but it looks like the ever-famous: > >"Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms"- Ding ding ding! Hot dog, we have a wiener! (I work for the Australian Army - although they can barely speak English, I thought I should translate that quote into German just in case. Crediting it to Karl Marx was a good idea at the time) >From: Martin Herles <herles@isis.wu-wien.ac.at> >Subject: Re: Jumbo Shrimp > >I'm not Iain, Shit, can you imagine *two* of me? (and I think to myself, what a wonderful worrrrrrrld.....) >still, the translation reads: >'Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.' >In fact, I think the German is dodgy, it's well possible it's a >re-translation from English. After all, good ol' Marx lived in London >for >a long time... Yep again. I've lived in Australia all my life, and my entire knowledge of German was taken from the movie "Top Secret". Waiter, I want a schnauzer with my wiener schnitzel. >From: "Smith, David" <David.Smith@tfeurope.com> >Subject: RE: All things Reg > >Well, great ceremony, but you rather ruined it for me by getting Cathy >Freeman to light the flame. Sorry, that was my idea. I take full responsibility (Ric Birch wanted Damir Dokic to do it, and I had to put my foot down). >From: KirK.Gill@equifax.com >Subject: Sax Crimes > >Ed K. sez: "Actually, this Foreigner thing has reminded me of >something; >one of my most all-time detested sounds is the "80s sax part", of which >there is a perfect example on 'Urgent'." Wasn't that sax part played by Junior Walker? Has someone already mentioned this? I've just been skimming the digests lately, y'see, so I might have missed it. Iain "Anyone dumb enough to want to be in the military should be allowed in" -- Bill Hicks
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 19:45:29 -0400 From: Sylvan <psiogen@mindspring.com> Subject: More Rambling (I Just Can't Stop Myself) Message-ID: <39C7FA99.AC06DC7F@mindspring.com> Organization: ttp://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/ > Bonus Tracks: Personally, I would order the mummer b-sides: 1. Desert Island (album quality) 2. Toys (silly) 3. Gold (catchy) 4. Jump (uninspired version of Seagulls) --------- (Cutoff line. Snip!) 5. Frost Circus (boring) 6. Procession (unfortunate) > On the other hand, as long as we're re-writing history, everyone with a > CD-burner should replace the original "Dear God" with Sarah M's version. Don't forget to remove Omnibus from Nonsvch. <snip> As a matter of fact, Bungalow and That Wave can go, too. <snip, snip> > Let's see, doing movies, did concerts, did bands that suck, what's left? > Hmmmm... > > By Jove! Eureka! How about this? How where you turned on to xtc? Oh, boy! A life story thread! I originally heard about them years and years ago through my stepfather (still the only XTC fan I've ever met), but didn't think a whole lot about it until recently, when I picked up a copy of Upsy Daisy Assortment at some record store. Within hours, my CD player was stolen, with the disc inside. Being extremely stubborn and wanting my money's worth, I downloaded Napster and fished around for the tracks, reconstructing the album with my CD burner. The only hitch was that the version of Chalkhills and Children was from O&L, so it began with the last few seconds of Miniature Sun's fadeout, of which I had vague memories from hearing the album many years previously. In the end, that little snippet grew on me so much that I had to get the album. So began my $10.99 a day habit... > I like Church of Women the best, I think, because no one > can write lyrics like Andy. Unfortunately, despite the wonderful lyrics, the actual music of the song does absolutely nothing for me. Maybe I should join Doesn't Like Church of Women Anonymous. Although it's better than Boarded Up and Wounded Horse... -- Sylvan "The hamster is still dead." --Leonard Nimoy
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 19:58:53 EDT From: RblTrouser@aol.com Subject: speaking of rain.... Message-ID: <b9.6edc510.26f957bd@aol.com> don't forget, oh most glorious chalkies.... "It's Raining Men" I'm sorry. wombles, Sarah "I like TWATM! Honestly!" D.
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 21:34:29 EDT From: IMSUNBAKE@aol.com Subject: Leap of Faith Message-ID: <ad.bdde7a.26f96e25@aol.com> Wild Man Joe Easter sez in 6-#272: " I don't need Transistor Blast. I already have recordings of all those songs. Why do I need another one?" To those not converted. Take a leap of faith. Buy this set. It is worth three times what you pay for it. Probably more. Waiting for my Shaming of the True to arrive. You goddamn monkies have finally gotten a freakin' hold on me or something. I submit, I submit!!!! --- OKOKOKOKOKOK! I'm so easy to convince! Transistor Blast it is! And you'll love Kevin Gilbert's TSOTT... Gawd, I LOVE THIS LIST! Annamarie, One of those "goddam monkeys!"
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 22:11:29 -0500 From: "Christopher R. Coolidge" <cauldron@together.net> Subject: Re: Why Does Your Sack Swing So Low? Message-ID: <l03130300b5edda26e540@[208.13.202.136]> >Actually, this Foreigner thing has reminded me of something; one of my most >all-time detested sounds is the "80s sax part", of which there is a perfect >example on "Urgent". > Apologies to any sax players out there: I don't >hate the instrument itself, and there's quite a lot of jazz where I enjoy >it, it's just a certain pop sax sound that had its heyday in the 80s that I >can't stand. > >Ed K. Unfortunately, we can blame that 80's sax solo on none other than the great R&B sax player/singer Junior Walker, who was somehow roped in to play the solo. They must have paid him a pretty penny for that one. Better him than Kenny G for sure, or David Sanborn(who once played on an Ian Hunter album, come to think of it, the same one Jaco Pastorius played bass on) What do I know, my taste in saxophone is more along the lines of Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman and Captain Beefheart. And Andy and Lester Bangs too. Christopher R. Coolidge "A Great law protects me from the government. The Bill of rights has 10 GREAT laws. A Good law protects me from you. Laws against murder, theft, assault and the like are good laws. A Poor law attempts to protect me from myself." - Unknown
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 20:57:15 CDT
From: "vee tube" <veetube@hotmail.com>
Subject: Revenge Of The Great Lost Kinks MP3s
Message-ID: <F254gvyQsfbRxg9XnyT00012255@hotmail.com>
(If you haven't used my idrives before,
please see: Chalkhills Vol.6 #205
RE: Warbles)
Fuzzy disc 1 is WAYMUCH behind schedule. Sorry.
The best I can do right now is offer the 'Great Lost
Kinks Album' I left off 2 songs,'Everybody Else' and
'Plastic Man'. You can get these on any decent Kinks
collection.
Very seldom do I get serious on the 'Hill,But,
if you like the stuff the Kinks did around 'Face to
Face' and 'Something Else' You're gonna like this.
idrive.com/kinkyfish
On a less serious note, none of this would be pos-
sible without love from that wacky gang in Austin,TX.
Thanx Kids!
}---:)
P.S. Coming soon! (Ssshhhhh! Keep this quiet...
...Bumble Nova)
"All the elves in the shop think I just want
to sit on thier pointy boo-oots"OUT!
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 22:22:21 -0500 From: "Christopher R. Coolidge" <cauldron@together.net> Subject: Re: Soundtracks Message-ID: <l03130301b5eddc4d66a9@[208.13.202.135]> >As for sad songs, well at least very deeply felt songs that echo in your >soul, how about the Windmills of Your Mind?: > >from a truly great film...The Thomas Crown Affair. > >The original with Faye Dunaway and Steve McQueen is the best (esp chess >scene) ...song sung by Noel Harrison in pretty psychedelic vein. >However the remake with Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo is pretty damn clever >and good, too...song sung by Sting (not a bad version). I'm biased in favor of the original, if only because some of the outside shots used my uncle's house in Boston(also used for the 70's crime drama Banacek). If I ever see the remake it's got to suffer by comparison. Some good soundtracks: This Is Spinal Tap Sweet Talker James And The Giant Peach(it would have been better with Andy, though) Repo Man Road Kill Performance O Lucky Man Percy I'm sure I could think of many others, but these are all soundtracks that have a life of their own outside the movie and in some cases are better than the movie itself(Sweet Talker and Percy especially I hear are rather forgettable movies). Christopher R. Coolidge
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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 06:52:24 -0500
From: "Christopher R. Coolidge" <cauldron@together.net>
Subject: Re: I'm Drunk, I'm Lonely
Message-ID: <l03130301b5ed02145d51@[208.13.202.136]>
>Speaking of the Doors, I've got a question - Years and years ago ('74/'75)
>WHFS used to play a short "medley" featuring an Alice Cooper snippet ("...
>You can turn me off...") and then a song that I thought was by the Doors
>that went, "I'm drunk, I'm lonely, I'm horny, I'm cold; Don't you know, life
>ain't so easy when you're on your own..." Anybody know anything about this
>song? Is it the Doors, or someone who sounded like them? Or was I just
>stoned (see last post)?
Believe it or not it's The Doors, but without Jim Morrison; they put out
two albums after Jim Morrison died, the first with Ray and Robbie splitting
the lead vocals the second augmented by three new members including a lead
singer.(nobody I've ever heard of) The only reason I recognised the lyrics
was I saw the sheet music for the first post-Morrison album(it's called
Other Voices, if you see it anywhere) on sale in a used record store that
also sold used sheet music. The song in question is "I'm Horny I'm Stoned."
They also tried out Iggy Pop as lead singer for one concert in LA, Iggy did
one great show with them then went off and scored some smack and
disappeared for six months. (I got that from an Iggy biography I read a
while back)
Christopher R. Coolidge
Homepage at
http://homepages.together.net/~cauldron/homepage.html
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 00:41:05 EDT From: Poisongold@aol.com Subject: Re: turn on Message-ID: <23.11e37a0.26f999e1@aol.com> In a message dated 9/19/00 7:45:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time, <owner-chalkhills@chalkhills.org> writes: << By Jove! Eureka! How about this? How were you turned on to xtc? >> Heard Todd R had produced latest XTC lp, wondered what it was like, borrowed brother's 12" single of Wake Up, dug it, remembered years ago had heard "Generals and Majors" on Michael Tearson's Gorilla Theater, remembered diggin' it, went out and bought Skylarking, dug it big time, devised bizarre interp of album not being summer-themed but rather being reminiscing-about-summer-in-winter-themed, got hooked, bought lots of lps & import singles, eventually bought CDs of most of them. MJC
------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 23:57:26 -0400 From: "D.V. Caputo" <alphacomp@earthlink.net> Subject: Stuff and things... Message-ID: <39C835A8.3450808@earthlink.net> Hey, 1st of all: I knew that it wasn't "she's so funky-os"!Really! It was a misheard quote!(this time I'm not kidding!) 2nd of all, I agree, the Extra tracks are pretty neat, especially the Somnambulist. 3rd of all... WIMP: Peter Gabriel,"Melting Face"(I suddenly got back into the album,regardless of the mis-quote... And Through the Wire is great) also, I don't get what's so bad about "Travels in Nihilon". I think it's a really good one! "Countdown to Christmas Party Time," however... Anyways, I'm tired. With merely Chrono Cross and some books of the Elric Saga keeping me energized through this week, I am losing strength...cannot talk anymore...must go to...bed! "and then did Elric leave Jhakor in pursuit of a certain sorcerer who had, so Elric claimed, caused him some inconvenience..." -The Chronicle of the Black Sword -D.V. p.s. Thanks for the suggestion, Jamie! I really have to try that,hope it works...
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 00:49:19 EDT From: Fenboy7282@aol.com Subject: xtc? I should say. Message-ID: <98.a555ccf.26f99bcf@aol.com> Dear Chalkhillers, Cathryn Myers wrote : 'Any XTC fans in search of a little burlap might want to checkout Sugarplastic. I read about them on the list and tracked them down. Well worth it. "Don't Sleep" has enough transitions and surprises to impress any XTC fan.' Couldnt aggree more. In fact their latest opus ' Resin' contains more memorable hooks, melody, wit and invention than either of xtc's last two offerings. Is it just me or are others feeling that xtc reached their peak a few years ago? I know it's heresy to say it and that instead i should be extolling the virtues of Wounded Horse, Any recent Colin Tune and You and the Clouds........zzzzzzzzzzzz XTC sound like two men in search of inspiration. their last two albums have included no end of 'clunkers', (see the above) relieved by a great songs, 'Easter Theatre' an example. Bands that have recently released albums better than either Wasp Star of AV1 Negro Problem Lilac Time Mutton Birds Moby Minster Hill Guster Ben and Jason David Gray Shawn Smith Marine Research Gus Jason Falkner Will now go and hide. LEEDS LEEDS LEEDS LEEDS
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