Chalkhills Digest Volume 6, Issue 84
Date: Friday, 21 April 2000
Chalkhills Digest, Volume 6, Number 84
Friday, 21 April 2000
Topics:
RE: Coelecanth?
I need your songs. Give me your songs.
SPOILER: Keep "Boarded Up" 'til 5/23, (if you want)
Metallica and Napster
The rights to works
Nonsuch
plug
at the risk of being ridiculed...
AUTOreverse 10: Martin Newell
Them's Fightin' Words
Prince of Orange
Randomness
EricJohnsonNonsuchChurchOfWomen
CDR Problems
Another newbie arises...
bitch bitch bitch
Japanese Demo Tracks - virgin [unopened]
Second Planet (AV2)
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 12:13:29 +0100 From: "Smith, David" <David.Smith@tfeurope.com> Subject: RE: Coelecanth? Message-ID: <802EE5D7277AD21188D10008C728D44803255DED@TFSECMSG02> OK, OK, After reading two solid hours of Chalkhills (17 Chalkhills in the 10 days I was on vacation - thanks!), I'd love to be able to respond to some of the more contentious postings - but I can't remember them! What sticks out for me was Harrison's sign off from his 6-65 posting, which read: <Harrison "Freebooter! Coelecanth! Bashi-Bazouk! Ectoplasm!" Sherwood> Harrison, not by any chance a "Captain Haddock" fan from the TinTin books? If my memory serves (which it probably doesn't) that was the string of abuse he hurled at the Tibetan monks in TinTin in Tibet. If so, all I can say is "CHANG!". Oh, and something else - Napster . . . *takes deep breath*. I've got about 40 of my favourite singles on my PC at work, to get me through the day. They were all downloaded from Napster. I also own them all on CD at home. I think the big deal here is that Napster are doing no more than making piracy easier - the piracy itself comes from us, the users. Who, in their lives, can honestly say they've NEVER taped a record, video'd a film, bought a bootleg etc. There's no difference. Don't blame the rail company 'cos some git nicks your seat! Dave Smith Marketing Executive, Thomson Financial ESG
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:10:35 -0500 From: "Wiencek, Dan" <dwiencek@crateandbarrel.com> Subject: I need your songs. Give me your songs. Message-ID: <CCCF24B992E6D311BE670050DA793DE03AD1F6@escorp1.crate.barrel.com> *** No XTC content whatsoever. You have been warned. *** It's like this: I'm writing an article on mix tapes for Pop-Culture-Corn (http://www.pccmag.com). Or rather, the article is about *pre*-mix tapes: tapes that already have the songs selected and arranged, so that you simply pick the tape you want, dub the tunes, download the artwork, and go. There are seven different pre-mix tapes, each on a particular tongue-in-cheek theme (see below). Where I need your help is in picking the songs. Each tape will have a list of ten "main" (well-known) songs and a shorter, "grab bag" list of slightly lesser-known songs (between 6-8) from which the reader is supposed to choose. If I racked my brains, I could possibly pick 18 songs for every one of these; however, I think it'd be a lot more effective (funnier) if the lists reflected a wider taste and knowledge of music than my own. So I ask for your help. Send as many song ideas as you can, for any or all of the following topics. Send them OFF-LIST. I'll say that again: SEND THEM OFF-LIST. I don't want to clog the list with this. Please use my Netscape address: nonsuchdan@netscape.net (easy to remember, eh?). Generally, the better known the artist/song is, the better it will work for the article, but any style or genre is acceptable. I guess "familiar-but-unexpected" is what I'm shooting for. (And XTC is just fine.) I'll credit everyone whose submission(s) I use. Thanks very much in advance. And now, the topics: 1) "I Want to F*** You. Right Now." [Heavy, steamy grind music; James Brown, Barry White, etc.] 2) "This Relationship Isn't Big Enough For the Two of Us" [Vicious, piss-off-and-die breakup songs] 3) "I Have Been, Am, and Will Be Watching You" [Surveillance, unhinged love, creepy possessiveness. "Every Breath You Take"; Beatles' "Run for Your Life"; Costello's "I Want You" or "Living in Paradise," etc.] 4) "Life Is Miserable and Will Only Get Worse. Why Not End it Now?" [Really, really depressing shit; songs about doing yourself in] 5) "I Have No Imagination or Creativity Whatsoever" [Completely lame, overplayed frat-boy classic rock, AOR, and eighties teen-pop; nothing after 1989. Steve Miller, things like that.] 6) "I Am So in Love With You Even I Find it Nauseating" [Nightmarishly sickening love songs; "I Just Called to Say I Love You," etc.] 7) "My Parties Suck" [Lamest, most overplayed party songs imaginable; "Celebration," "Dancing Queen," "Hard to Handle" etc.] Thanks again ... Chalkhills roolz! Dan W.
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 11:31:18 -0400 From: fagnello@ascap.com Subject: SPOILER: Keep "Boarded Up" 'til 5/23, (if you want) Message-ID: <852568C7.0055C4B3.00@notessmtp2.ascap.com> MAJOR SPOILER AHEAD!!! Hello Chalksters: Now that I've gotten everyone's attention, some thoughts about Wasp Star: "Playground" - I love to hear Colin reinterpret Andy's demo bass parts. The fast scale near the end of the demo sounded impressive until I heard Colin's off-the-wall lick separating the first chorus and verse on the final. I exclaimed "Yeah! That's why HE'S the bass player..." I find young Holly's vocals irresistible. Hope I'm not becoming a dirty old man... The guitar lick reminds me of Paul Kossoff (Free)...Song comes complete with Black Sea anvil... "Stupidly Happy" - Andy must be using that Dennis Fano guitar (sounds here like a high-rent Jazzmaster.) Can't sound EXACTLY like Keith...If they do a video, they could use the same studio that animated the tilefish on "The Sopranos," -- if we need extra proof... "In Another Life" - It's interesting that 2 of Colin's 3 songs here are bassless.. One thing I've noticed about the finals is all Beatle-like production touches of the demos are gone -- except for this one (sounds like a "lost" 3rd song from the "Free as a Bird"/"Real Love" sessions)...Robyn Hitchcock comes to mind, too...My favorite lyric on the album -- Bowie's "Heroes" for a 40-something couple... "My Brown Guitar" - You can't take the Beatle-isms out of the writing, though.. Crunchy vibrato-ed guitar compliments the sensuality of the lyric...don't let its unassuming nature fool ya, this is top-shelf Partridge... "Boarded Up" - Don't fret so much, Colin. Your town's not that far from Oxford and London. I have to go into the city, we're "two-by-four-ded up" in my 'burb, too...Though it made less sense, I liked the drunk woodworm of the demo better than the "sophistoplot" of the final... "I'm the Man Who Murdered Love" - This song is positively reborn. Raising the key a half-step to Eb puts the vocal right in Andy's wheelhouse - he's never sounded more engaging or effortlessly commercial. The bass part has been simplified, too -- transforming a clunky folker into a "#1" (in a just world, of course.) "We're All Light" - He's pretty darn commercial here, too... My candidate for least changed song from the demo (excepting the theremin and hip hop drum)..."I Don't Want to be Here" is not here because this one's a little like it and blows it away... "Standing in for Joe" - Sounds like Colin was listening to 10cc, especially bassist Graham Gouldman... The guitars are like Gouldman's Wax bandmate Andrew Gold...Favorite double entendre: "This actor he plays all the parts..." "Wounded Horse" - Andy visits the "Stagger Lee" chord progression... Thought this was the weak link here, until I realized the melody had taken up long-term residence in my brain... "You and the Clouds Will Still Be Beautiful" -- Changing the groove from Afro-Arabic (see Song Stories) to Dave Matthews jam-band seemed regressive; but, as many Chalksters mention, the less you hear the demo, the more you like the final...Love the trombones... "Church of Women" - Again, as long as I don't hear the demo, I think the big space between notes at the beginning of the guitar solo is acceptable, even tantalizing.. Dave Gregory was right about that demo, merely off-the-top-of-Andy's-head fast scales... "Wheel and the Maypole" - The "Everything Decays" segment is one of my all-time favorite Andy passages. Sublime marriage of chords and melody, the likes of which we used to get from Paulie Macca... This suite almost gives 70's prog-rock a good name...Thought they took it a little too "outside" in the long fade, though... Taken together, AV1 and AV2 shows a brace of songwriter/performers with more range than the '99 Mets infield. They may be older, but their learning curve keeps ascending. The only way for most younger acts to compete with this kind of prowess is not to, and pretend they're not there (which, sadly, has worked so far.) These guys can do no wrong. I'll go wherever they care to take me... . Cheers, F.A.
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 11:49:57 -0400 From: Keith Hanlon <keith@orchestraville.com> Subject: Metallica and Napster Message-ID: <a04310101b524d66a0509@[216.233.248.162]> Bill Douglas wrote: >The only reason Napster exists is because radio is not >serving any real function promoting new music, and the >record labels are not doing enough to get the radio >stations to play new music. Now that, my friend, is a great point. This coming from the guy who defended Napster a couple of digests back. This issue is more complicated than "stealing." I'm sure performers said the same thing when radio was first introduced in the 30s. It'll be interesting to see where we'll be five years from now. Keith
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 17:50:52 +0100 From: "Steve Pitts" <spitts@thesaurus-computers.co.uk> Subject: The rights to works Message-ID: <802568C7.005C8E15.00@mail.thesaurus-computers.co.uk> Chalkfolks, > Billy Bragg is another artist who owns the copyright to his own records < The most obvious example I can think of is Roy Harper, who has bought back the rights to all his albums (no mean feat, since his back catalogue comprises some 20 studio albums plus another dozen live/radio performances) from the various record companies, and reissued them all on his own label, Science Friction. It seems that such a situation is fairly rare though, which makes the debate over Napster an ironic one in my book. Not in the least it seems to me that the record companies have far more to lose, from any radical alteration to the way that music is distributed, than the artists do. As for overrated XTC albums, I don't see how any of them could be. The one factor that makes XTC stand out in my record collection is that every album that they've ever released is good enough to warrant listening to again and again, and indeed I'd have trouble even picking out individual tracks that I dislike. Whilst other artists with considerable bodies of work come close to this in my estimation - Squeeze, The Jam, Roy Harper, Billy Bragg, Peter Gabriel, Joe Jackson, Tom Petty, The Beautiful South, Steely Dan, Talking Heads - none of them quite achieve it, and there are others - Mike Oldfield, Elvis Costello, The Clash, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Wire, Suzanne Vega, Paul Simon, OMD, King Crimson, Steve Hillage, The Fall, Ian Dury - who have produced some real howlers in amongst the gems. Sacred cows - from the discussions so far I'd say the most sacred of them all is The Beatles. FWIW I've never grokked their stuff at all, and I run a mile every time one of their tracks assaults my ear-drums. Maybe that's just the old punk in me, but then how do you explain away some of the other artists listed above, or maybe it is just a rebellion against their utter ubiquity?? Cheers, Steve NP: Independant Intavenshan - Linton Kwesi Johnson
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 18:35:06 +0100 From: "David Seddon" <D.Seddon@btinternet.com> Subject: Nonsuch Message-ID: <00be01bfaaee$c5c93720$c89701d5@default> Ed said that more people on the list slag off Nonsuch than praise it. "Not, of course, that I'm in any way willing to fish through the digests gathering statistics..". Well no sweat, Ed. I'm sure you're right, tho' I for one will always maintain that it's their best album (till I hear one better!). To me Skylarking is the overated one. And, I think it's fair to say that letters in praise of it have far outweighed letters against it.
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:10:47 -1000 From: "Jim Smart" <jismart@ksbe.edu> Subject: plug Message-ID: <38FF6444.72D7B91B@ksbe.edu> Organization: 3Tripper I'd like to take a moment to plug a magazine I just got. It's the latest issue of AUTOreverse. It's an indie mag full of sass and attitude, yet it also provides helpful information and lengthy interviews with photos. The current issue has a LONG Martin Newell interview, as well as a short side interview with Dave Gregory. The magazine also features a nice interview with our own Mitch Friedman, and is in fact put together by our own Ian. Very worth the five bucks it costs. Get it at: http://AUTOreverse.net/ Jim
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:31:55 -1000 From: "Jim Smart" <jismart@ksbe.edu> Subject: at the risk of being ridiculed... Message-ID: <38FF6938.CEA68E49@ksbe.edu> Organization: 3Tripper *SPOILER ALERT* Um, as far as the debate about which is Colin's worst song, Standing in for Joe or War Dance, I can't really participate because I like them both a lot. I've always felt War Dance is one of the better songs on Nonsvch, and it's one of my favorite Colin songs. Bungalow is much less interesting to me. And Standing in for Joe has a really strong beat provided by the string section. It's Colin's stongest song on Wasp Star. It rocks. I guess that beauty is in the ear of the wasp holder. In Another Life is OK, but the lack of bass throws me off, and the way the lyrics spin off into oblivion at the ending kind of bugs me. At first the song seems to be about marriage, and the choices we make, and what other choices (or other universes) might be like, and it seems to be working. But then he starts making rhymes about cigs and pigs and "test matches we might win" and ends with the meaningless "and your mother buys her gin"....which seems to have no purpose other than to rhyme with win, which wasn't a very compelling line anyway....so the whole thing just unravels for me at the end. "Boarded Up" I'm actually starting to like, though it doesn't fit on this album. It would fit on the White Album, maybe! It's lyrically very good. I love the line about the death watch Beatle band, because...um....I'm in one! Yes, I play the part of Paul in a local Beatle tribute band called the Daytrippers. So I get his point there. The song I am starting to skip when I play Wasp Star is Wounded Horse. It's just starting to grate. I'd be better off not having heard the great songs that could have been chosen instead of this one. In fact, if there were ever an Apple Venus III (which there won't be, unless it's in another life), and it had all the demos not yet recorded, it would be at least as good as I and II. Man, this post was supposed to be about me sticking up for War Dance, but now it's spun out of control, not unlike what I accused Colin of in Another Life. Hmmm. Jim "well if that isn't the pot calling the kettle black" Smart
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 16:23:47 -0400 From: Ian C Stewart <ian@autoreverse.net> Subject: AUTOreverse 10: Martin Newell Message-ID: <38FF6752.DD51F25A@autoreverse.net> Organization: http://www.AUTOreverse.net/ http://www.autoreverse.net/ AUTOreverse HOMEPOP EXPLOSION ISSUE Featuring Martin Newell AUTOreverse, the magazine for, by and about home recording artists around the world, features a long (13 pages!) interview with Martin Newell in its newest issue. It's a hilarious and revealing portrait of The Jangling Man himself, offering a rare glimpse of the man behind the poetry and pop music. To commemorate this special occasion, the AUTOreverse website, in cooperation with Jarmusic (http://go.to/jarmusic), is offering an exclusive MP3 of Martin's band THE CLEANERS FROM VENUS. The song is "Incident In A Greatcoat" and it's from the forthcoming CLEANERS compilation "My Back Wages," out this summer on Jarmusic. You can download it now or listen to the song in streaming Real Audio! AUTO10 also includes interviews with US homepop mack-dads Jason Garcia of Household Names, Pat Dull of Break Up! Records, Mitch Friedman (of Mitch Friedman) and Ben Gott! There's also a suprise with Dave Gregory and R Stevie Moore... Shhhhhh.... Top secret stuff. In addition to the interviews there's over 100 reviews of self-released and microlabel recordings from all points on the glob. If you've put out a CD, record or cassette of your own music, send us a copy for review in the next issue! It'll be fun! Follow the link on the AUTO homepage to order the magazine. Distributors get in touch for wholesale rates. cheers! Ian C Stewart, editor, tea boy, camel clutcher AUTOreverse you record it | we review it http://www.autoreverse.net/
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 18:22:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Molly Fanton <mfanton99@yahoo.com> Subject: Them's Fightin' Words Message-ID: <20000421012238.2633.qmail@web1302.mail.yahoo.com> Nonsuch dull, tripe? What the bleedin' hell world do you come from? Nonsuch is a great album. I love about 95% of the album. It's in my top five XTC albums ever next to Skylarking, Oranges & Lemons, Mummer (yes, I like Mummer got something wrong with that?) and Apple Venus Vol. 1 (for the people who hate this magnificant album :p, I LOVE this album too). I like most of XTCs albums, except White Music and Go2, but I have to relisten to them, so maybe my mind will change. I know we have every right for our own opinions, but calling Nonsuch sull or tripe is like saying Oranges & Lemons is overproduced, don't get me started on this one. (It's NOT overproduced, I don't judge an album because of it's productions if it sounds good to me I'll get it.) Molly ===== Molly's Pages http://www.angelfire.com/mn/mollyfa99/index.html
------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 01:07:59 +0100 From: "Pete W." <peter.wright2@virgin.net> Subject: Prince of Orange Message-ID: <38FF9BDE.A9CDBD42@virgin.net> Organization: Netscape Online member "Jake Bryson" wrote....... > (re Wasp Star) > add Prince of Orange and the album would have been a classic. At last - someone else who recognises the brilliance of this track. I am amazed it isn't mentioned more when the AV demos are discussed and I was seriously pissed off when it didn't make the cut for AV1 or WS. Sadly , the only copy I have of the PofO demo is on cassette and wearing mighty thin (and it was about 10th generation to start with !!) Is there a CD available of all the AV demos (ie not Homespun) of reasonable quality ? Cheers chaps Pete
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 16:59:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Sean Robison <dabahbs1@go.com> Subject: Randomness Message-ID: <5683765.956275158308.JavaMail.dabahbs1@gomailjtp02> >From Todd Bernhardt: >Okay, Jake, as your e-mail address implies, you may be >a "bigtuffguy," but I've had about enough of this talk >from you and others on the Playground. There is NO Sting >on this album. Andy does not sound like Sting. He does >not write like Sting. Sting should be so fucking lucky. Ouch. Sorry, but I agree with the masses that parts of "You and the Clouds..." has a Sting-esque jazzy feel to them. BUT! This is not a bad thing. Andy just took a Sting sound and improved on it. >And "Wounded Horse" is funny, especially the "slice of >misery" solo. Why is everyone bashing "Wounded Horse"? It's a good song. Andy sounds like he's having fun playing and singing it. As for the Nonsuch bashers - c'mon, kids, this is a good album. If anything, AV2 sounds like the next logical step from Nonsuch. Nonsuch showed signs that the band's songwriting was becoming more commercial - less of the quirky elements that exemplified "Black Sea" and "English Settlement" - and a more mature sound that someone who has had 12 additional years of life behind them would write. Personally, I think Nonsuch could have been a hit had Virgin not let it gather dust in the corner. I applaud XTC for continuing to grow and mature in their songs. Any band that continues to crank out the same sounding album over and over again gets very boring (e.g. Rush). XTC manages to produce new and interesting sounds every time - they keep up with the new song styles and technologies and then put their "twist" to it.
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 21:28:12 EDT From: WESnLES@aol.com Subject: EricJohnsonNonsuchChurchOfWomen Message-ID: <90.3495720.263108ac@aol.com> THIS JUST IN: Eric Johnson's best disc is Tones, the other's pale in comparison by a LONGshot. I saw Eric during this tour in a very small venue, about 30 people. Also caught Holdsworth, WOW, in the same club a few weeks later. Holdsworth? Who, you ask? SHAME. Those two gigs were bettered by Joe Pass in a smoke filled basement of a jazz club. Holy shit could that guy play. Nonsuch, great to see so many folks take up for this album. The only troubling thing is that in the posts I don't see the best damn song on the album listed. "That Wave" is THE song on Nonsuch, a masterpiece. Oh, if I read one more post that doesn't give "Church of Women" it's due, I may just track all of you down and feed greedily on your sour innards. wesLONG http://members.tripod.com/~The_Last_Balloon/index.html
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 17:28:51 -0700 From: "Digitalmaster" <digitalmaster@earthlink.net> Subject: CDR Problems Message-ID: <001f01bfab28$9235bca0$0200a8c0@digitalpc> Tim here has a little question about how CDR's screw up: >>>>>I have just bought a Phillips CDR with Adaptec EZ-CD software included. My real problem is that it is not able to record the last track on the CD i.e.on a two track CD single its only picking up the first track, a four track single the first three and on a sixteen track album the first fifteen. Weird eh!<<<<< And what do I say?: There is a defect in either the software version (doubtful), bios version, or hardware. I would recommend returning it. It is burning the TOC at the end of the CD incorrectly. That is most likely your problem. The other problem would be that you are not closing the disk. In Easy CD Creator (assuming you have 3.5 or 4.0, when you start recording, you need to click on "Close Disk" in the properties section. That will solve your problems. If you did do that, then its the hardware. Companies never admit fault, so don't ask them. I knew a guy who worked for HP. He was a complete loser who dropped out of high school (not that dropping out is always bad, he was just really stupid). Most tech's on the phone are people who cant get real jobs making good money so they work for big companies as "dumb-fucks" answering questions that they know nothing about. Really, never call tech support. If you don't some of these idiots will have to get real jobs. Really, how many of you have ever talked with an intelligent tech support person on the phone? They are as retarded as the guy in elementary school who took a fucking hour to read one damn paragraph. Digital "I'm in a good mood today" master
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 14:46:25 -0700 From: "Steve Young" <sjyoung@hotmail.com> Subject: Another newbie arises... Message-ID: <20000420214835.7569.qmail@hotmail.com> My name is Steve Young and I hail from Northern California. I was first introduced to the works of XTC (let me just come out and say it... "the lads"! There, I really feel part of Chalkhills now) through TMBG's cover of 25 O'Clock. I first picked up a copy of O&L in my university's library, and dubbed some of the tracks (Garden, Skeleton, Loving, Pink, Chalkhills) to a cheesy, hissy tenth-generation audio tape. After a few months I could withstand no longer and sought to complete my collection utterly, definitively, eternally. During my "non-album tracks" phase I casually picked up a mint/sealed copy of "Beeswax" (CD) at my local record store, then sold it back for a pittance because: "wait, I already have all these songs." Alas, fellow Chalkhillians, I have since learned my lesson. Or have I? I passed up a cheap copy of "a school guide to XTC" not six weeks ago... Re: Wasp Star. I do have Napster, but in a month I have not seen a single track from the latest offering. That is to my benefit, of course. I am weak-willed. Besides, I will buy five hundred copies come May and play them simultaneously on five hundred stereos, each disc about .5 seconds ahead of the last. So the opening sounds of "Playground" will begin again & again & again, and wash up over itself, and as the song grinds into gear my head will explode. I am among those who have really enjoyed reading the first impressions of WS. A lot of the negative reviews (which seem mostly based upon defeated expectations) will probably help me enjoy the album, since I have tricked myself into expecting a dumbed-down barrel of shite. To coin a phrase. I need to draw a distinction between "music spoilers" and "lyric spoilers". I agree with the many who have argued that music cannot be spoiled through words. But I believe the intellectual satisfaction from reading lyrics is comparable to the satisfaction of hearing them sung - at least, more comparable than simply reading about a song's use of guitar and then hearing the licks yourself. So I just scroll down through lyrical bits (as soon as my eye catches them). No biggie. I'd like to throw in my vote for "Nonsuch". I realize there is a strong anti-faction on Chalkhills, but while the album serves me better as a collection of songs than as a cohesive LP, "Rook", "Wrapped in Grey", "Then She Appeared," and "Humble Daisy" give me outright chills. Chills! I mean - my god - what a frighteningly beautiful and overwhelmingly playful little bundle of musical and lyrical creativity. "Bye bye!" Steve Y.
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 16:00:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Tyler Hewitt <tahewitt@yahoo.com> Subject: bitch bitch bitch Message-ID: <20000420230029.29369.qmail@web2104.mail.yahoo.com> Someone didn't like my dismissal of Nonsuch, stating: You should try investing in a pair of ears, they're quite useful when listening to music. very odd, considering that just a few sentences before he wrote the following: ...the plastic sounding tuneless dirge that is River of Orchids... Which proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that it's not ME who needs to invest in a pair of ears...
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 15:30:37 -0700 From: Steven Reule <steven@obsessed-with-music.com> Subject: Japanese Demo Tracks - virgin [unopened] Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.20000420153037.00709d9c@pop.calweb.com> In Chalkhills 6-82 Thomas wrote: >>Fellow pink things, >>I'm fleshing out my collection & can't seem to find "Demo Tracks" (the Japanese/Virgin release from Nonsuch) or "Dear God/Homo Safari" on CD anywhere on the Net. Even Ebay came up dry. Anyone have any suggestions? ============ Yes! There is a SEALED version of Demo Tracks (Japanese EP) on ebay now, just posted. Go to: http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/music@obsessed-with-music.com/ and click on the item number Thanks! Steven
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 18:15:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Snyder <tim@cs.georgetown.edu> Subject: Second Planet (AV2) Message-ID: <200004202215.SAA09327@vivid.georgetown.edu> I pay only skimworthy attention to this list, so this may be a Suject retread. But I'll ask anyway: what's the situation with Apple Venus 2? Last I heard, it was to be released "following" AV1, and it was a more electric set of tunes than AV1. I need an update! Best/Enjoy, Tim
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