4ad-l Mail for 01-01-1997

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Subject: OK...so this is what they call the 4AD POLL
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 00:58:36 -0500
From: Creig Jacobson ([email protected])
Subject: Play Black Jack like a professional
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 01:20:21 +0400
From: Equteq Software ([email protected])
Subject: Re: BIBLIOPHILE KOSTBARKEITEN
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 01:00:21 +0000
From: Greyson Welch ([email protected])
Subject: dead can dance
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 12:53:18 EST
From: Godstar ([email protected])
Subject: 1996 favorites
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 12:11:40 -0600
From: un homme et une femme ([email protected])
Subject: Albino Alligator
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 16:58:52 -0500
From: white schfuf ([email protected])
Subject: Re: BIBLIOPHILE KOSTBARKEITEN
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 15:38:58 +0600
From: cz ([email protected])
Subject: 4ad bands
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 18:15:24 -0500
From: My Razorblade Suitcase weighs Sixteen Stone
Subject: Re: BIBLIOPHILE KOSTBARKEITEN
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 18:36:14 -0500
From: Joseph Burns ([email protected])
Subject: Non4AD - Re: BIBLIOPHILE KOSTBARKEITEN
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 19:29:55 -0500
From: "[expletive]" ([email protected])
Subject: Re: 4AD-L Digest - 30 Dec 1996 to 31 Dec 1996
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 11:58:55 +1100
From: Matthew Kirkcaldie ([email protected])
Subject: 4AD bands & other frequent questions
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 18:05:15 -0800
From: Jens Alfke ([email protected])

Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 00:58:36 -0500
From: Creig Jacobson ([email protected])
Subject: OK...so this is what they call the 4AD POLL


Okay, gang...we did this last year with some success (I think).

Everyone was given a list of numerous categories (such as best 4AD album of
the year, best 4AD video, best 4AD-related concert, as well as some non-4AD
categories)  You are given TEN votes in each category which can be divided up
any way that you choose.

I will post the categories HERE before Friday under the name "1997 4AD POLL",
and I will take your responses until the last day of January.  I believe that
I posted results on Valentine's Day last year, but we'll make it short and
sweet this time around (the screaming new 200MHz Mac I'm gazing into at the
moment helps considerably).

So start thinking about your faves from the year...ALL are welcome to respond
to this year's poll...this is not to sway people's opinions, but to get an
idea of what people on the list as a whole are thinking.  If your opinions
verge from the norm, that's GREAT coz it's what makes you special.
I will ask that your responses NOT be posted to the list but sent to me direct
ly at [email protected]   (just to separate all the mailing list stuff from your
responses)...if you have any input to give, please let me know before Friday!
Thanks everyone, and have a peaceful 1997.
CJ
[email protected]


Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 01:20:21 +0400
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Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 01:00:21 +0000
From: Greyson Welch ([email protected])
Subject: Re: BIBLIOPHILE KOSTBARKEITEN


SHITE YOUR POSTING A MESSAGE IN GERMAN.  NOT EVERYONE HERE CAN SPEAK
GERMAN.

Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 12:53:18 EST
From: Godstar ([email protected])
Subject: dead can dance


wow... so here i am, innocently checking my email with the tv on in the
background..  the new jersey network (public television at its best) and
there's some sort of program on about comets and jupiter... the next thing i
know i hear _windfall_ by DCD piping out of my set...  shocked me almost as
much as the time _the portrait_ by the damned showed up on the show
moonlighting years back....

just thought id share
-=robn

Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 12:11:40 -0600
From: un homme et une femme ([email protected])
Subject: 1996 favorites


here's my "10 best" list for the year:

(some of these are probably late 95 releases; sorry)

1.  pram: music for your movies

2.  buffalo daughter: captain vapour atheletes

3.  atom heart: machine paisley

4.  kid spatula: spatula freak

5.  komeda: the genius of...

6.  kahimi karie: mike alway's diary (single)

7.  everything but the girl: walking wounded

8.  stereolab: emperor tomato ketchup

9.  the cardigans: first band on the moon

10.  color filter (demo tape from a tokyo-based band)



take care,
mark


Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 16:58:52 -0500
From: white schfuf ([email protected])
Subject: Albino Alligator


>Yippeee!!!
>
>Michael Brook and Kevin Spacey. Who said Canada was shit? Maybe THE shit!

What's Kevin Spacey got to do with Canada?

Now, Kevin *McDonald*, that would be a different matter...



Larry, not surprised to find that Austrian spam is just as annoying as North
American spam


Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 15:38:58 +0600
From: cz ([email protected])
Subject: Re: BIBLIOPHILE KOSTBARKEITEN

              +0000

>   SHITE YOUR POSTING A MESSAGE IN GERMAN.  NOT EVERYONE
>   HERE CAN SPEAK GERMAN.

Probably, not everyone on here knows what a "shite" is either (most teenagers
from the US).  But why would you want to understand what was obviously a SPAM?
Please send your shouting e-mail directly to the sender of the offending article
since it is highly unlikely that he or she reads the list.

-cz

Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 18:15:24 -0500
From: My Razorblade Suitcase weighs Sixteen Stone
Subject: 4ad bands


THe only bands on the 4AD label i know of are Lush, Pixies, and The
Breeders... I know Im' missing out on a lot of other bands so can
someone out there give me a list of bands and stuff and a brief
summary of waht their like so i can get a better feel for this list
and not feel out of place?
thanks
ttyl
-lynn


Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 18:36:14 -0500
From: Joseph Burns ([email protected])
Subject: Re: BIBLIOPHILE KOSTBARKEITEN


On Wed, 1 Jan 1997, Greyson Welch wrote:
> SHITE YOUR POSTING A MESSAGE IN GERMAN.  NOT EVERYONE HERE CAN SPEAK
> GERMAN.


That's what you >delete< key is for. NOT your >caps lock< key!


Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 19:29:55 -0500
From: "[expletive]" ([email protected])
Subject: Non4AD - Re: BIBLIOPHILE KOSTBARKEITEN


 On Wed, 1 Jan 1997, Greyson Welch wrote:
> SHITE YOUR POSTING A MESSAGE IN GERMAN.  NOT EVERYONE HERE CAN SPEAK
> GERMAN.


Greyson, you ethnocentric dweeb....  The internet does exist outside the
borders of the US of A.  People are free to speak any language they want
on any list (as far as I am concerned), and if you don't like it then
just ignore the posts, or remove yourself from this mailing list.


And to quote a cheesy, but appropriate saying....

Greyson, if ignorance is bliss, you must be orgasmic.

--------------------------------
Robert Foster.  Guelph, CANADA.
[email protected]

Date: Thu, 2 Jan 1997 11:58:55 +1100
From: Matthew Kirkcaldie ([email protected])
Subject: Re: 4AD-L Digest - 30 Dec 1996 to 31 Dec 1996


Uh oh, yesterday saw FIVE "quote entire message then put a 2-line reply,
then a ten-line sig" posts in ONE DAY!  From ONE PERSON!  Hmm...
1.>Who's HMIA? Perhaps His "M"-Key Is Alive?
>Carol
2.>Geez, I'm sure he feels really good now. Nothing like having your musical
>taste called "cultural imperialistic". That wasn't intended as a
>compliment, was it?
>Carol
3.>Geez...how come we never get shows like this is podunk, Georgia?
>Sigh...
>Carol
4.>Heck, I never figured I'd see one of my favorites, Happy Rhodes,
>mentioned on 4AD-l! And then Deni Bonet...I mean, that gal's name takes
>me way back to the mid-80's when she was all over the local music scene
>when I lived in Morgantown, WV! Glad to see she's still rockin folks'
>worlds!
>Carol
5.>Shoegazing (is that chewing gum I see? ;-).... now drone & blisspop...
>Geez, now I'm really confused!
>Carol

Those observations filled one hundred and seventy-four lines of the digest!

I know this is mean, but then I get sick of this stuff.  E-mail's not hard,
really - and remember that nearly five hundred people are getting your
message duplicated.  Do I care that there are no good shows in Podunk,
Georgia?

I will probably be blasted for this message, but I'm tired and cranky and
back at work for the first time in a month ...

                Cheers,

                        Matthew.


Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 18:05:15 -0800
From: Jens Alfke ([email protected])
Subject: 4AD bands & other frequent questions


Lynn asked:
>I know Im' missing out on a lot of other bands so can
>someone out there give me a list of bands and stuff and a brief
>summary of waht their like so i can get a better feel for this list
>and not feel out of place?

In short (very short) some other well-known bands who've recorded for 4AD
are the Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, Throwing Muses, Belly, Bauhaus,
Modern English, M/A/R/R/S ...

The best thing to do is to read 4AD-L's Frequently Asked Questions list,
which includes a list of all bands who've ever recorded for 4AD. The
address is:


There's a heck of a lot more stuff in the FAQ, including directions on
how to unsubscribe (for the clue-deprived who've lost the directions) and
plenty of links to mail-order stores, other mailing lists and relevant
web sites.

You might also want to check the "Eyesore" site, which is a database of
all 4AD artists and releases:


--Jens [[email protected]]


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