Subject: Alex Ayuli and Lush
Subject: Recommendations for Pittsburgh?
Subject: Re: Alex Ayuli and Lush
Subject: Time Stereo Postage
Subject: eyesore data, interviews, and sleeve scans
Subject: Stina Nordenstam + Annie Williams = Anja Garbarek
Subject: Area (was Re: Third Mind Catalog)
Subject: XMAL Deutschland Peel Sessions
Subject: Re: Time Stereo Postage
Subject: Re: Time Stereo Postage
Subject: Was it Area? I will show you how!
Subject: Re: XMAL Deutschland Peel Sessions
Subject: Re: la petit morte [sic]
Subject: Re: la petit morte [sic]
Subject: Re: sweet f.a.? bultler
Subject: Re: Was it Area? I will show you how!
Subject: related contecnt:looking for research, playlists from 1987-1990
Subject: Area, Agate Lines, et al
Subject: STP tape cover
Subject: Tortoise
Subject: Re: Third Mind Catalog
Subject: Re: Third Mind (was Re: einexile the meek - Mr. Reviewer)
Subject: Milk and Kisses + HK
Subject: Re: Milk and Kisses + HK, Cranberries?!?
Subject: Re: Was it Area? I will show you how!
Subject: milk and kisses
Subject: Re: XMAL Deutschland Peel Sessions
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 00:48:32 -0500
This may be a bit obscure (or maybe not), but I'm wondering if Lush ever
had a member named Alex Ayuli. I ask because in a book I'm reading on
world politics and globalization called _Global Dreams_ there exists this
"Alex Ayuli, a member of the English band Lush, calls the group's music
'dream pop.' 'It's kind of a nihilistic thing, a way for kids to get away
from this horrible English life; it allows you to lose yourself in music and
get away from your factory job."
Was this person ever actually in the band?????? I don't think so,
but I'd like to know.
thanks
jason eugene
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 23:57:51 -0500
A friend of mine is going on a business trip to Pittsburgh for the next
few days and is completely at a loss as to the sorts of thislisty/indie
sorts of things to do while in P-burgh. If any kindly hipster types
could make any recommendations with regards to record shops, cool
venues and shows, and other fab indie diversions that I could then pass
along to my friend, it would be greatly appreciated.
Danke,
hk
--
[email protected] and [email protected] or
"oh, bother." - winnie the pooh, the original bear of very little brain
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 23:50:38 -0700
On Sat, 27 Apr 1996, Read Dawkins wrote:
> This may be a bit obscure (or maybe not), but I'm wondering if Lush ever
> had a member named Alex Ayuli. I ask because in a book I'm reading on
> world politics and globalization called _Global Dreams_ there exists this
> quote:
>
> "Alex Ayuli, a member of the English band Lush, calls the group's music
> 'dream pop.' 'It's kind of a nihilistic thing, a way for kids to get away
> from this horrible English life; it allows you to lose yourself in music and
> get away from your factory job."
>
> Was this person ever actually in the band?????? I don't think so,
> but I'd like to know.
I think this is an error. Alex was a member of A.R. Kane, the group
that first described their music as "dream pop."
The term has, of course, been used to describe many bands since then,
including Lush.
David.
__________________________________________________________________________
David McCallum [email protected]
http://www.efn.org/~mccallum/arkane.html
-a shrimpy shrine to the music of a.r.kane
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 10:40:42 +0200
I got that Time Stereo List o' Tapes (with bookmark), and I feel like
ordering stuff. New Grape & HNIA in Mexico fer shure. Which other
tapes are more must-have than the rest? I have ESP Summer. Help me!!
Help meeeee!!!1!?
Oh, and postage -- how much more $ should I add per tape for postage
to Europe? $2? $3? Or something like that?
--
"Yes. The journey through the human heart
would have to wait until some other time."
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 08:39:53 +0200
That is -- I seem to remember interviews being posted on this list.
I'd like to include them in the eyesore data base. So mail 'em to me,
and I'll stick them in there somewhere.
Data -- there's quite a few releases I have no data on. Mainly
because I don't have the releases in questions. So could someone have
a peek through the eyesore at ifi and mail me the missing pieces?
I didn't think I was going to do any more sleeve scans, but I seem to
have changed my mind. I've digged out (about) 20 items for scanning,
and if the scanner isn't dead, I'll be entering them into the data
base tomorrowish.
--
"Yes. The journey through the human heart
would have to wait until some other time."
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 13:23:35 +0200
New hairdo, new albums, new eyesore. Me happy!
Note -- none of the following is my opinion. It is objective fact.
Deal!=20
Lush - Lovelife
Like, like -- yecch! It's not that this is a bad album, but as a
group that has produced near-godhead (the Mad Love ep, for instance),
this just won't do. Elastica does this thing badly enough -- we don't
need Lush to do a second-rate imitation of something that's definitely
not worth imitating in the first place. I have yet to hear anything
that could be termed "britpop" that didn't such wet farts out of dead
pigeons. Oasis, Blur, Cast (ad nauseum) -- burn in hell! I'm not
declaring Lush dead just yet, though. They may still have something
worthwhile in them. Let's hope this album flopped miserably so that
Emma can take over the band and do more dancey & dreamey stuff.
Cocteau Twins - Milk & Kisses
Y'all said that 4 Calendar Cafe sucked, so I didn't buy that one. (I
have everything else the Twins have done, so that took some self
control on my part.) Then y'all said that this album was better. So
I bought it. =ABSnore=BB has been my must audible reaction so far. It's
kinda like all those old CT albums I love, only not very good. (That
doesn't make sense, but.) I've listened to the album tons of times,
and nothing has stuck. Lalala. Boooring. I declare CT officially
dead as of now.
David Bowie - 1. Outside
Speaking of the dead, here we have one zombie that seems to be getting
rather frisky. After those horrible eighties, Bowie tried his best on
that "White Tie Black Noise" album, but it didn't really work. He
then plagiarized his own early seventies' albums on the soundtrack to
"The Buddha of Suburbia". And it worked! (For a few songs.) And now
he's done an album that actually is good. I'm amazed. Chaotic &
messy & good.
Anja Garbarek - Ballon Moon
Yes, she's probably the daughter of that Jan Garbarek jazzbo guy. I
don't really know fer shure. This album is being given a quite
massive push in Norway right now, and all the papers say that she's
the Norwegian Bjork. Which is total nonsense. She's more like Stina
Nordenstam coupled with Annie Williams; or rather Laika, AC Marias &
the Wire guys. And "Mother Stands for Comfort" by Kate Bush. With
some Crammed snuck in there as well. But not like anyone, come to
think of it. She does the "sing-all-over-the-place" thing very well,
and then she does that "let's-use-absolutely-all-samples-on-this-sampler"
thing, and she also does the "sweet-tune-that-sounds-a-bit-like-jazz-
but-isn't" thing. Plink, plonk, wheee-ooh. I think I'm in like.
Perhaps even in love. Perhaps not. This album will be foisted upon
the rest of the world this automn (or something like that). Prepare
to be puzzled, because you *will* hear this album.
Pet Shop Boys - Before
Well, I mentioned David Bowie, so I have to mention the Boys. I read
in a review that this single sounded more like Behavior than Very, so
I natcherally expected "Being Boring II". Instead I got a plain
boring song. I think this has to be the most lack-lustre thing the
otherwise brilliant Pet Shop Boys have ever done.
David Bowie - Hello Spaceboy
PSB remix DB! Wowsie. They've added a dance beat to a very chaotic
track, and it totally rocks! It rocks! So there! Nice to hear Neil
sing duet with David, although they're not exactly a well matched
pair. I mean, Bowie can actually *sing*! Neil kinda just wavers
around tunes. Sounds *mahvellous*, though.
Hm. 3 out of 6 items actually have some sort of relevance to this
mailing list. I'm slipping rapidly into relevancy! Stop me before I
write on topic again!
--=20
"Yes. The journey through the human heart=20
would have to wait until some other time."
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 02:25:29 +0600
26 Apr 1996 23:18:00 CDT
> Did someone say Area?
> >> Area Agate Lines
> LP/CD 1990
> What is 'Agate Lines'? I have 'Fragments of the
> Morning' and it was also released in 1990 but on C'est
> La Mort Records.
> 'Agate Lines' is similar to 'Fragments' then I'd
> probably like to get a hold of it as well.
Me too! but alas ...
Agate Lines is a pretty rare (i've never seen it, and i'm always on the lookout
for Area) compilation that includes songs from all four albums (i believe) and a
few songs that i think were only released on tape before their C'est La Mort
days (prior to their debut LP on Office records). There was a full-on
discography/everythingography a year ago (or was it two or three?) that was
compiled. Is the keeper of this thing still on the list???
Those stinkers at Projekt (Relic) keep saying they're gonna rerelease the old
*Area* CD's but i don't see it in the catalogue. Sure, they're too busy
arranging cool concerts in Chicago just as soon as i leave the midwest. Ahh,
what do i care? I've got the CDs already ... but what if they fall apart like
all the vinyl freaks keep saying? what if i'm left without Lynn's lovely lunar
lullabies at night? What if i go insane and think i can't hear them anymore
because of the power of suggestion? ... um, i'll go to sleep now and stop
bothering you all. :)
-cz
Fragments of the Morning, Between Purple and Pink, The Perfect Dream, Radio
Caroline. (the earliest two have Henry Frayne too but it's not much like M7X)
always teatime!
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 07:18:39 -0400
just picked up this XMAL release at Tower yesterday....I've never seen it
before, does anyone else have this or even heard of it before??
It only has 4 tracks on it:
"Polarlicht"
"Der Wind"
"Jahr um Jahr"
"Autumn"
on the Dutch East India Trading / Strange Fruit label
#DEI8313-2
Just wondering what the general opinion was on this compared to their other
releases.
[email protected]
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 07:30:42 -0400
In a message dated 96-04-27 03:21:30 EDT, you write:
>I got that Time Stereo List o' Tapes (with bookmark), and I feel like
>ordering stuff. New Grape & HNIA in Mexico fer shure. Which other
>tapes are more must-have than the rest? I have ESP Summer. Help me!!
>Help meeeee!!!1!?
>
>Oh, and postage -- how much more $ should I add per tape for postage
>to Europe? $2? $3? Or something like that?
>
>--
> "Yes. The journey through the human heart
> would have to wait until some other time."
>
>
>
Well, personally I highly recommend ESP-Beetles and the Ohms... both of which
you'll like if you're into the "noise" thing. There are a few others too
that are well worth the $4.50, such as: Godzuki (perfect compliment to the
new CD!)Time Piano, and the Little Princess...and don't forget to order your
Buttercake incense!!! Word has it that they're coming out with Sausage
incense next...they're going for the whole breakfast thing.
As far as postage goes...I think $2 per tape is fair enough compensation....
but I'm going to try and get a hold of Davin today about other stuff, and
I'll ask to be sure.
~~toodles
[email protected]
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 13:43:37 +0200
>Oh, and postage -- how much more $ should I add per tape for postage
>to Europe? $2? $3? Or something like that?
Tapes are $ 6,- each incl. air mail to Europe.
Frank
+++++++++++++++++++
Frank Brinkhuis
[email protected]
+++++++++++++++++++
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 07:59:49 -0700
On Sat, 27 Apr 1996, cz wrote:
> Those stinkers at Projekt (Relic) keep saying they're gonna rerelease the old
> *Area* CD's but i don't see it in the catalogue.
They're too busy releasing Ordo Virtuum Solis (or whatever the hell?) and
Human Drama junk. We can expect out Area reissues around the same time as
the next Star Wars movie. (Bleagh.)
> I've got the CDs already ... but what if they fall apart like
> all the vinyl freaks keep saying?
Maybe you ought to make dozens of backup copies on tape, and distribute
them strategically around the country...just in case something
*unfortunate* should happen to you or your record collection. ;)
e
(Does anyone here have that Hannant/Husik fulllength?)
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 08:15:46 -0700
On Sat, 27 Apr 1996 [email protected] wrote:
> "Polarlicht"
> "Der Wind"
> "Jahr um Jahr"
> "Autumn"
>
> on the Dutch East India Trading / Strange Fruit label
I believe this stuff counts upon their last material as an actual,
credible band (before everyone with any talent was replaced). Polarlicht
made it onto Viva, which is my favorite album by a 4AD expatriate. The
mood borders the poppier, more melodic end of Tocsin, with the likes of
Polarlicht in the borderlands and broadening to include fun guitar pop a
la old Modern English and electronics that reminds me of early Bel Canto,
or Floodland. I am decribing this album because it is about as rare as
69, Ecstacy and Wine, and Pentamerous Metamorphosis put together...what
you have on that Peel disc, aside from Polarlicht, is a couple of b-sides
from a fairly rare single, and a song that to my knowledge has appeared
nowhere else.
> Just wondering what the general opinion was on this compared to their other
> releases.
If you like it, Viva is a sure bet. Tocsin is probably their best album
and has a unique feel to it which you can't really get anyplace else.
Fetisch is their first album. It rocks and is a ton of fun but is punky
and full o' noise, so not necessarily everyone's thing. And then there is
Devils, which is just a big pile of shit, = German pop metal in its
purest and mot vile form, and you don't need to think about it ever
again. :p
I believe the single I mentioned is for Sickle Moon and was only released
on Vinyl. (If anyone has a CD of this I will trade just about anything
for it.)
einexmal
(nineties music sucks)
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 11:55:36 -0400
David McCallum wrote:
>> this tampa bay band's newest album "la petit morte" is stunning. it is a
>> complete work of art, as opposed to an album composed of ten or so songs.
>
> Tres cool name for an album. To those who don't know "la petit morte"
>is "the little death" - a French term for a sexual orgasm.
It would have been even better if they had gotten the inflection right: it
should be "la petite mort"
Larry
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 09:37:26 -0700
On Sat, 27 Apr 1996, naranjas en la cabeza wrote:
> David McCallum wrote:
> >Tres cool name for an album. To those who don't know "la petit morte"
> >is "the little death" - a French term for a sexual orgasm.
>
> It would have been even better if they had gotten the inflection right: it
> should be "la petite mort"
Thanks, Larry. Not only did I not catch that but I wrote "sexual
orgasm" and have since learned that an orgasm by definition is sexual,
so to say "sexual orgasm" is silly of me.
__________________________________________________________________________
David McCallum [email protected]
http://www.efn.org/~mccallum/arkane.html
-a shrimpy shrine to the music of a.r.kane
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 11:56:09 -0700
You wrote:
>
><<<<
> As explained by Sir Norman of Leicester, FA stands for Fanny
Adams who
>was a young girl murdered, dismembered, and left in pieces in baggage
in
>railway terminals around the turn of the century (right so far, AN?).
The
>expression was used (pre-political correctness, I imagine) to refer to
canned
>mutton during the war (WWI?) and, hence, something of little worth.
What Suede
>song is this in?
>
> And what's happened to Bernard Butler? He was my favorite part of
Suede
>(a *classic* r 'n r guitarist in a '70s glitter sort of way) and his
parting
>ways with whats-his-name spelled the demise of the band in my book. I
play
>their performance from the tonight show every once in a while to
remember
>what rock and roll is all about. It's also amusing to see a clueless
Jay
>Lenno introducing them ("Suede? I thought she was a stripper in
Vegas.").
>
> Cheers, PC (that's pat
crimm)
>
Bulter has a wonderful effort right now with a guy by the name of
McAlmont, release is called 'Sound of McAlmont and Bulter' on Hut .
Vernon Yard I believe. so he's definitely around. euthelene
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 14:02:03 +0600
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 12:50:08 -0700
retained.
retained.
well, after surfing for about 5 hours, my eyes are bleary.
i'm writing several things right now and I could use playlists from
1987 - 1990 for college radio. like CMJ or Billboard or whatever.
I've visitied the CMJ web site and those blodd suckers want, 10 US
dollars for each playlist, that 520.00 us a year at four years. like I
have that kind of money. Billboards site has not been up for three
days now, i just get some html code when i connect.
so all you knowledgable people out there know where I could go on the
internet for this stuff without sacrificing food for the next three
year? or does even free stuff now have a price...
any ideas would be most appreciated. if I can't find these playlists
for these time periods, I'll have to change the time line to a more
recent year, which would kinda suck. the story wouldn't make as much
sense then
anyhow any info would have my etneral gratitude. I might even be
able to dig into my music library and find a few things which show my
gratitude
cheers, euthelene who's trying to write but the man is gettin' her down
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 15:08:17 CST
I haven't looked at the discogoraphy at the Moon 7 times site lately, but I
thought _Agate Lines_ was a really bad cut and paste greatest hits from two or
three albums, with no rare tracks. I could totally be wrong. I never bought it
because I think I have every other Area release, including compilations. I
personally don't think Relic (or anyone else for that matter) should waste
their time rereleasing the individual albums--they should release a box set, or
else cram all the non-album tracks onto the existing 4 (or 5, depending on what
you consider an "album") albums. Though there isn't all that much room on some
of them.
I'd have to agree with the person who said to work backwards if you liked
Fragments. My favorite Area album has always been _Radio Caroline_, which was
their first full length CD. But they are all very solid albums.
If anyone is interested, I'd be glad to tape off any of the Area you might
need in exchange for an equally compelling tape on your part.
--gary
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 17:29:00 CDT
This may have been discussed--it's a cocoon, right?
Lysa
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 18:12:34 -0500
I am not sure if they are considered thislisty or not, but since there was
some talk of them last week I thought that I would mention that they will
be in Chicago on 15 May. The show is at the Metro. I can't remember if
its doors or show at 9. Tickets are $12 through ticketmaster. What I nice
way to start the summer.. . the last final exam of my undergrauate career
is that afternoon!
-monica
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 23:15:22 GMT
Ed Klein
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 23:05:44 GMT
cz
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 22:34:48 -0400
Hi all:
I spotted this on a browse of the alt.asian-movies newsgroup:
-------------------------------
On Friday, April 26, I went to my local Chinese CD shop (Man Chi, 745 Clay
Street, San Francisco--between Kearny and Grant) and Milk and Kisses, the
new Cocteau Twins album with Faye Wong has arrived.
I've played "Serpentkiss," the song she sings on and it's very pretty, but
it doesn't sound like Faye. It sounds like the Cocteau Twins (who are
great, by the way!).--I have a hard time picking out Faye's voice. (Yes,
I got the right release. It mentions her in English in the liner notes.)
This will be quite a coup for Faye if she's actually responsible for
making the Cocteau Twins popular in H.K.!
--
Kent Johnson
San Francisco
([email protected])
----------------------------------
Thought this was of interest to folks on the list.
"Chungking Express," go for it (the Faye Wong mentioned
above is in it). I loved the photography
in it--overall, a very existential movie.
And on a thislisty movie vein, "James
and the Giant Peach" rocks too...it made me feel
like I was five years old again.
-B
=====================================================
Brendon Macaraeg
http://www.itp.tsoa.nyu.edu/~brendonm
Finger [email protected] for my PGP Public Key
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 19:59:11 +0000
> Thought this was of interest to folks on the list.
> BTW: If you get the chance to see Wong Kar Wai's
> "Chungking Express," go for it (the Faye Wong mentioned
> above is in it).
Also in this movie is an interesting cover of The Cranberries' "Dreams"...sung i
Mandarin!
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 22:59:43 EDT
With all the recent talk on Area, it might be worth noting that my tastes seem
to have changed a bit and I'm not as enthusiastic about their music as I once
was. So if anyone is looking for like-new copies of the Radio Caroline, The
Perfect Dream, Between Purple and Pink, and Fragments of the Morning CDs, the
right offer might compel me to (in the words of Sting) set them free. Please
e-mail me privately if interested.
Glen