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Grex > Music2 > #196: NP #4: Music to Conference By |  |
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mcnally
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response 137 of 503:
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Sep 8 17:53 UTC 1999 |
Pet Shop Boys -- "Very"
(the album whose title answers the unasked question: Are these guys gay? ;)
an excellent album from the "fanatically over-produced" end of the musical
spectrum..
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tpryan
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response 138 of 503:
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Sep 8 22:17 UTC 1999 |
Thanks to Paul Estin, Eclectica #11: Raspberry Particle Rainbow Polka
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mcnally
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response 139 of 503:
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Sep 9 00:01 UTC 1999 |
Talking Heads -- "Stop Making Sense"
in honor of the 15th anniversary of the film, Sire has re-issued the
soundtrack with all of the tracks they deleted for the original issue,
which include many of the best tracks.
"Stop Making Sense" is one of my few completely positive memories from
my early college days in Ann Arbor. I saw it many times at the Michigan
Theater. It was a popular midnight movie in the mid-to-late eighties and
everybody in the crowd would get up and dance in the aisles. I still
consider it the finest concert film I've ever seen (not that it has a
great deal of serious competition..)
You really should see the film in a huge theater full of enthusiastic
fans, but if you can't you can at least listen to the restored versions
of "Heaven" and "Genius of Love"..
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krj
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response 140 of 503:
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Sep 9 04:13 UTC 1999 |
The film STOP MAKING SENSE is getting a theatrical reissue;
I can't imagine that it won't appear in Ann Arbor.
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lumen
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response 141 of 503:
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Sep 10 22:33 UTC 1999 |
resp:137 The Pet Shop Boys released a version of that album that
combined that material with (I think it was an EP or something) an album
called _Relentless_, hence, it was titled _Very Relentless_.
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tpryan
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response 142 of 503:
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Sep 11 00:49 UTC 1999 |
Eclectica #17: Christmas in July.
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scott
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response 143 of 503:
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Sep 11 00:51 UTC 1999 |
Bjork, "Debut".
I really must see about some more recent issues from this person.
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gnat
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response 144 of 503:
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Sep 11 04:02 UTC 1999 |
Robyn Hitchcock, "You and Oblivion." Odds and sods. I can't resist
a song that begins, "The frogs are mating on the table, but you just
pick your nose and squint."
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katie
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response 145 of 503:
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Sep 11 04:44 UTC 1999 |
Innocence Mission, a promo CD for the new CD "Birds of My Neighborhood."
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omni
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response 146 of 503:
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Sep 11 15:40 UTC 1999 |
Pulp Fiction soundtrack. I like this one, esp the Royale with Cheese thing.
Jackson and Travolta were great in that flick. However, I did think it was
a little cheesy for Tarentino to appear in his own movie.
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mcnally
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response 147 of 503:
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Sep 11 20:59 UTC 1999 |
He's no Hitchcock, that's for sure..
(What was cheesy wasn't necessarily the fact that he appeared, but the
fact that he gave himself a medium-length speaking role for which he wasn't
qualified. Apparently a cameo wasn't enough to satisfy his raging
egomania..)
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orinoco
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response 148 of 503:
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Sep 12 00:29 UTC 1999 |
(What are these "Eclectica" mixes that y'all keep mentioning?)
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tpryan
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response 149 of 503:
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Sep 12 13:48 UTC 1999 |
Acoustic Cafe on The River, produced in Ann Arbor.
Eclectica is a series of mix tapes (now CDs) started by a freind,
Paul Estin. They feature the weird and the wonderfull, the fun and the
funny. An interesting way to gather those single tracks you want to
listen to, but want something else to come afterwards.
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gnat
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response 150 of 503:
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Sep 12 14:41 UTC 1999 |
What sort of stuff is on them? Can you give a track listing?
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tpryan
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response 151 of 503:
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Sep 12 22:42 UTC 1999 |
re 150: home.intranet.org/~estin/eclectica
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gnat
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response 152 of 503:
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Sep 13 21:16 UTC 1999 |
Momus, "Stars Forever." "Portraits in song" commissioned by their
subjects for $1000 a pop. The $$ goes to pay for Momus's court
costs after he was sued by Wendy Carlos for... mentioning her in a
song, I think. The lyrics are very clever, the music very grating.
3 stars, maybe 3.5.
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tpryan
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response 153 of 503:
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Sep 13 22:25 UTC 1999 |
Eclectica 13: Bureau 13. The rare place where the Rude Girls
(I can See your Aura) can follow David Bowie (Space Oddity).
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mcnally
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response 154 of 503:
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Sep 14 03:00 UTC 1999 |
The Kinks -- "Lola Versus Powerman and the MoneyGoRound"
Everyone knows the song "Lola" (which is somewhat odd, as it's not your
typical radio-single subject matter) but what's totally shameful about
this album is that you never ever hear "Apeman" played anywhere.. What
a great song!
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gnat
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response 155 of 503:
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Sep 14 03:20 UTC 1999 |
The Magnetic Fields, 69 Love Songs promo sampler. This is great!
Maybe I'll be shelling out that $32 for the box set after all.
Four stars.
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mcnally
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response 156 of 503:
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Sep 14 05:00 UTC 1999 |
If you're planning on buying the boxed set you may have trouble finding
it in stock in town. I couldn't get it at SKR last week -- went on
Wednesday and they'd sold every one they'd received on Tuesday. Tower
claimed they'd be getting some *this* Tuesday but SKR seemed to think
that the distributors (or the one-stops, anyway) were sold out already.
You can, of course, get the three separate discs.
Or, if you want the box set and are willing to mail-order it, try CDNow,
which is having one of their weird promotions right know if you know
the secret URL to visit. Besides their announced 30% off sale, they
also have a promotion going that's worth $15 off any purchase over $30,
making it perfect for buying "69 Love Songs" With the discount, plus
shipping, approximately $24..
(visit http://p01.com/r.d?PkGrnpRMZLs=cdnow/from=rel:x:cdn:bk6906
for the promotion..)
Obligatory on-topic information: Now playing -- Donald Fagan's "Kamakiriad"
The futuristic science-fictiony theme of his second solo release contrasts
interestingly with the 50s-nostalgia tint of his first one ("The Nightfly")
Doesn't have anything quite as groovy as "I.G.Y." or "New Frontier", but
"Countermoon", "Snowbound", and "Tomorrow's Girls" are all great tracks..
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krj
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response 157 of 503:
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Sep 14 19:43 UTC 1999 |
The Grateful Dead, "Workingman's Dead." Ah, vinyl... or even worse,
tapes from vinyl :)
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orinoco
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response 158 of 503:
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Sep 14 20:03 UTC 1999 |
Me'shell Ndegeocello doing a cover of Hendrix's "Can This Be Love?"
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tpryan
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response 159 of 503:
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Sep 14 23:31 UTC 1999 |
Dr. Demento's Basement Tapes #1 (on CD). I wonder what inspired me
to get these out.
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carson
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response 160 of 503:
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Sep 15 11:24 UTC 1999 |
(something off of Styles Of Beyond's _2000 Flow_. I managed to miss
whatever hype had been associated with the album, and instead was VERY
pleasantly surprised when I reviewed it for the station a couple of
weeks ago. reading through PULSE, I learned that the album was
originally released independently back in 1998, and that the version
we have at the station is a re-release on the Dust Brother's Hi-Ho
label.)
(anyway, it's my album to broadcast for the hour, as I feel like
being a lazy DJ.)
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gnat
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response 161 of 503:
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Sep 15 21:41 UTC 1999 |
Re. #156 - thanks for the info!
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