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| From | Miles Goosens <outdoorminer@mindspring.com> |
| Subject | around the horn |
| Date | Wed, 10 Dec 2003 11:49:25 -0600 |
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me, then Bill Holmes on Matthew Sweet:
>> * It's on the Superdeformed label.
>> * It's shrinkwrapped, but doesn't have the top-of-CD seal thingy.
>> * I paid $14.99 for it instead of the usual much-costlier Japanese import
>price.
>
>Raced to Record Archive after seeing the message yesterday and picked mine
>up.
Glad to have helped!
>After all the talk about the Stones DVD and the Big Box monopolies,
>wouldn't it be ironic if they sold this CD _only_ through independents and
>bypassed the mega-stores? (And even a better story if it became a hit
>record).
My understanding from the Grimey's folks is that this is exactly what's happening: it's being sold only in indie stores.
Bill again, this time on listening habits:
>Am I in the minority when I say that I listen to most records in their
>entirety and I'm not a track-jumper? (I make mix discs for that). Usually
>when I'm zeroing in on a track, it's to repeat it or to play one specific
>song for someone who is standing still only long enough to indulge me.
I feel that we might be in a minority, but yeah, I do the same thing -- if it's just me listening, I always listen to the entire album all the way through. I do remember being surprised to discover that other people *don't* listen this way a few years ago when this came up on Loud-Fans.
One of my wife's friends from grad school had only a cassette player in her car (this was the early '90s, when car CD players were far less common), and would make a "mix tape" of whatever her favorite song was at the time, repeated over and over and over for 90 minutes. I'm not making this up. I remember she used to have a pet dog who ran around in circles whenever he was let out of the apartment; maybe he'd heard too many of these tapes! Just getting with the circular nature of it all, I guess...
Kelly:
> I suppose it's hard to separate the fact
>that I am an american from the fact that i find it a
>bit heavy-handed and not all that funny of a satire,
I'm an American who *agrees* with the sentiments of the song, but I too find it heavy-handed, unfunny, and just not a very good song, period.
>but if mike bennett is right i am more apt to blame
>the fact that i really dislike Tim's work vs. Neil's,
>because i never found him to be as subtle or as crafty
>a songwriter.
I'll give you a high five on that. I also detect a *lot* of Tim influence on the other WOODFACE song I detest, "There Goes God." Neil works for me; Tim doesn't.
>That said, I also defend anyone's right to attack
>Andrew Lloyd Weber.
Amen!
me, Mark Tate, me, Mark Tate:
>> >>Both Duane Jarvis and Frank Black have done versions of "This Is Where I
>> >>Belong."
>> >
>> >Even better is Bill Lloyd's version
>>
>>...which I didn't mention since Dave had already singled it out for praise
>>in his original post asking about Kinks kovers. :-) I like Bill's, but
>>I'll take Frank Black's, thanks.
>
>Thanks for the spanking, Jack!
I am Jack's spanked ass.
Suggestions for "the first rule of Audities is..."?
later,
Miles
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