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| From | "Michael Bennett" <mrhonorama@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Gimme a Tim.../Japan |
| Date | Wed, 04 Aug 2004 01:19:09 -0500 |
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1. When I was about seven or eight, and had been playing hockey for a
couple of years, I went to the barber shop. My barber pointed two chairs
down, and there he was...Stan Mikita. I was awestruck and couldn't get a
word out, but the barber snagged me an autograph...which my mom threw away a
few years later...
2. Japan got uneven critical response during their lifetime, but I always
liked what I heard. I have to check those albums out. In a somewhat
similar vein, I picked up an Ultravox comp, covering their pre-Midge Ure
years on Island. Some good songs, a few which became the template for Gary
Numan. Right now, however, I'm obsessed with the Bowie-esque "Rock Wrok".
Mike "Insomniac" Bennett
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>From: Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com>
>At 01:11 AM 8/4/2004 -0400, Jaimie Vernon wrote:
> >>I still consider Tim Horton to be hockey's premier cultural touchstone.
> >>Screw the Leafs, gimme an apple fritter and a large coffee to go.
> >
> >What, no Stan Mikita's?!? :-)
>
>Okay, has *everyone* just re-watched WAYNE'S WORLD or something? This is
>the third reference to Stan Mikita's someone I know has made since Charity
>and I got the movie from Netflix a couple weeks ago.
>
>During this ongoing debate tonight, I've been rather obsessively listening
>to two new Newbury Comics purchases, recent UK reissues of Japan's two
>classic albums, GENTLEMEN TAKE POLAROIDS and TIN DRUM. Nothing at all to
>do with the Beatles -- more like what would have happened if Eno had
>launched a revolution and taken over complete creative control of Roxy
>Music -- but I can't remember when I last listened to these albums (several
>years, at least) and, as always, I'm just incredibly struck by their sheer
>perfection. These albums are really the pinnacle of the artsier end of UK
>post-punk, and yet they actually had some songs that worked as singles too,
>like "Still Life In Mobile Homes" and "The Art of Parties." Highly
>recommended, if you've never heard them, and at least at Newbury Comics,
>nice-priced: $11.88 for the single-disc GENTLEMEN TAKE POLAROIDS (with
>three bonus tracks from the "Taking Islands In Africa" single, still my
>favorite thing this band ever did) and $16.99 for the two-disc TIN DRUM,
>which includes the UK-only THE ART OF PARTIES EP as a bonus disc and is
>beautifully packaged in a nice little cardboard box.
>
>S
>
>
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