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krj
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response 48 of 131:
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Oct 28 21:38 UTC 1999 |
I've seen the domestic release of the new Luna album.
Mike was wanting me to review my import copy, but I haven't been able to
think of much to say about it: it's the only contemporary rock album
getting any player time at all right now, for whatever that's worth.
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mcnally
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response 49 of 131:
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Oct 28 21:58 UTC 1999 |
maybe I'll pick up a copy, then..
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krj
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response 50 of 131:
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Nov 8 20:02 UTC 1999 |
Pete Townshend items: (1) There is a live benefit album out of Townshend
playing a lot of old favorites. Anyone heard it?
(2) www.livedaily.com reports that Townshend's rock opera "The Lifehouse"
will be released as a six (!!) CD set. The work itself covers
two hours, and then the rest is related material, outtakes, and Stuff.
Townshend was working on "Lifehouse" back in 1971 and when he
shelved it, some of the material emerged as the album "Who's Next,"
probably the Who's greatest recording.
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scott
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response 51 of 131:
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Nov 8 20:53 UTC 1999 |
"Lifehouse" will be aired on the BBC early December, and release of box set
#1 will coincide. There's also some kind of limited preemo box set coming
out, too.
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orinoco
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response 52 of 131:
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Nov 8 21:27 UTC 1999 |
Is there any way to get just the work itself without the outtakes and Stuff?
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mcnally
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response 53 of 131:
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Nov 8 23:15 UTC 1999 |
Slashdot ( http://slashdot.org ) had an item on "The Lifehouse" claiming
that a special edition of the set would be available as an "adaptive"
music project -- the idea is that the purchaser can enter information
about themselves into a program that will adjust the music in certain
ways according to the parameters entered, providing a customized listening
experience for each user.
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goose
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response 54 of 131:
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Nov 11 20:38 UTC 1999 |
I am completely geeked about this.
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krj
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response 55 of 131:
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Nov 20 06:52 UTC 1999 |
Would anyone care to write anything about New Model Army?
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dbratman
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response 56 of 131:
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Nov 22 23:50 UTC 1999 |
[Insert historical disquisition on Oliver Cromwell here, but I doubt
that's what you were thinking of.]
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orinoco
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response 57 of 131:
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Nov 23 02:41 UTC 1999 |
Maybe Ken would like to elucidate what New Model Army means in a musical
context?
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krj
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response 58 of 131:
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Nov 23 05:09 UTC 1999 |
New Model Army was the name of a British punk band.
I knew about them as a band since forever, and I was surprised when
I ran across the Cromwell reference a couple of years ago.
There are rumors that the band has faint folk influences in spots.
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mcnally
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response 59 of 131:
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Nov 23 17:01 UTC 1999 |
I've got a track or two by New Model Army on various collections I own,
but not enough to express much of an opinion on them. Don't think I've
ever noticed any particular folk influence but maybe I'll go back and check.
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gnat
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response 60 of 131:
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Nov 24 01:15 UTC 1999 |
I don't think they're really a punk band (in the Sex Pistols sense of
the term). Highly political, though, if I recall correctly.
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eeyore
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response 61 of 131:
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Nov 24 03:55 UTC 1999 |
re:56...if you're gonna bring it up, then you need to bring up the fine
historical dissertation on Oliver Cromwell by Monty Python's Flying Circus.
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krj
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response 62 of 131:
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Dec 13 06:35 UTC 1999 |
I'm back in my hate-everything mode, so I'm going to be kind of quiet
for a while.
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krj
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response 63 of 131:
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Feb 10 17:58 UTC 2000 |
Well, sometime in late January the hate-everything stage went away.
I have a big pile of entertaining new discs here and I should try to
crank out some reviews.
It's discouraging to me, though, that retail shopping is becoming
less and less relevant to my folk music interests. Essentially I'm
looking at buying the promo items which wash up in the used market
-- thus depriving the artist of a sale, guilt guilt -- or mail
order.
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dbratman
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response 64 of 131:
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Feb 18 22:03 UTC 2000 |
Please do crank out the reviews, though there's nothing more
discouraging than reading a glowing review and then discovering I don't
much like the record. I think the advent of the Oyster Band was the
first sign that I was drifting away from Britfolk.
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krj
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response 65 of 131:
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Mar 9 06:02 UTC 2000 |
There's some stuff you should hear: I've mostly been thinking of
Tannas and Fernhill, and maybe Lais.
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mcnally
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response 66 of 131:
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Mar 9 16:05 UTC 2000 |
Are Fernhill Welsh by any chance?
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krj
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response 67 of 131:
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Mar 9 21:57 UTC 2000 |
Yes they are, why do you ask?
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mcnally
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response 68 of 131:
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Mar 10 03:54 UTC 2000 |
"Fern Hill" is the name of a poem by Dylan Thomas..
"..he's so unhip -- when you say 'Dylan,' he thinks you're talking about
Dylan Thomas, whoever *he* was. the man ain't got no culture.."
[from "A Simple Desultory Phillippic", by Simon & Garfunkel]
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dbratman
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response 69 of 131:
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Mar 13 18:34 UTC 2000 |
I've jotted down those names in #65, Ken, and will keep an eye out the
next time I get to Down Home, whenever that is. I'm still hopeful for
good new music, though it's been close to ten years since I was blown
away by anything new to me ...
But don't take my comments of alienation too seriously. I've been
steadily growing alienated from science fiction since 1977, which is the
year of the advent of Orson Scott Card, an author whose appeal utterly
eludes me. And that was only three years after I started reading the
stuff.
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krj
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response 70 of 131:
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Mar 19 03:11 UTC 2000 |
I'm looking for any thoughts on the Welsh band Gorky's Zygotic Mynci,
since a favorable review of their most recent album turned up in
"No Depression" magazine, of all places.
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tpryan
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response 71 of 131:
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Mar 20 17:21 UTC 2000 |
Last week on Lay Jeno, I saw Tom Waites sing one of his new
songs. It sounded like he was chopping brocolli:
"There's this house no one lives in...
we call it the house no one lives in.... etc.
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gnat
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response 72 of 131:
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Mar 21 04:56 UTC 2000 |
Gorky's are pretty cool... lilting psychedelic-tinged pop, much of
it sung in Welsh. Their latest is mostly in English, though. They're
touring right now, but I think the closest they're coming to these
parts is Chicago.
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