From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V5 #172 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Tuesday, July 11 2000 Volume 05 : Number 172 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: don't kill me Paul! [lulfstedt@amadeus.net] Re: Alloy: don't kill me Paul! [Paul Baily ] Re: Alloy: don't kill me Paul! [CRACKERS ] Alloy: Cloudburst At Shingle Street ["Melissa R. Jordan" on 08/07/2000 04:05 GMT Please respond to alloy@smoe.org |---------> | | |---------> >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> | | >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> >-------------------------------------------| | | >-------------------------------------------| |---------> |To: | |---------> >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> |alloy@smoe.org | >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> >-------------------------------------------| | | | | >-------------------------------------------| |---------> |cc: | |---------> >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> | (bcc: Louise Ulfstedt/NCE/AMADEUS) | >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> >-------------------------------------------| | | | | >-------------------------------------------| |---------> | | |---------> >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> | | >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> >-------------------------------------------| | | >-------------------------------------------| |---------> |Subject: | |---------> >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> |Alloy: don't kill me Paul! | >---------------------------------------------------------------------------> >-------------------------------------------| | | >-------------------------------------------| HAPPY BIRTHDAY (yesterday) TO YOU PAUL, beloved founder of Alloy!! love and lots of kisses, xxxxxx Robin T ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 23:14:10 +1000 From: Paul Baily Subject: Re: Alloy: don't kill me Paul! > HAPPY BIRTHDAY (yesterday) TO YOU PAUL, beloved founder of Alloy!! Aw thankya! (wasn't I mentioning something about wanting to keep it quiet? ;-) Thanks also to you Melissa my sweet, absolutely no apologies necessary, it's only me here. Paul. This message powered by Beyond The Sea off Mugzy's Move/Royal Crown Revue (thanks Robin! x) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 12:12:46 -0400 (EDT) From: CRACKERS Subject: Re: Alloy: don't kill me Paul! Happy Birthday to Paul You are loved by us all Happy Birthday dear Pa-aulllll Never sit on an awl! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 23:36:58 -0400 From: "Melissa R. Jordan" Subject: Alloy: Cloudburst At Shingle Street Oh, boy. I have always loved Cloudburst. It's such a well-crafted song, and it has such hope in it. I've been of (at least) two minds about the song since my first days of listening to TGAOW repeatedly until each song was permanently burned into my brain. :-) Before I get to that, I think I should explain my feelings about TGAOW in the first place. I've always thought of the album as being stories from a big family album, some modern (like "Weightless") and some reflecting back on relatives seen in fading photos. In my head, I have my own videos that each feature Dolby representing the different family members - be it the submariner in the spam tin or (as I see it in my head) the late '30's/early '40's era radio show host in "Airwaves", trapped in New York, broadcasting messages to loved ones, countrymen, and spies across the ocean or the mundane suburbanite - oh, wait! I better save that stuff for talking about later Songs of the Week. So, Cloudburst... when I first heard TGAOW, I thought Cloudburst was a happy ending for "One of Our Submarines". I saw it as the submariners coming home - and the revelation of coming above the water permanently - the joy and the release, emotionally and physically. They were the "cork(s) in the ocean, been bobbing in the North Sea"... But later I saw it differently - another Dolby family character - maybe a hidebound academic, with nose stuck in books for years - who's finally found himself in love with the most amazing person and is just so in love with life, it's like an explosion, with happiness and awareness not known since childhood. The image of running naked into a sudden rain - mindless - says a lot to me. You have to feel confidence and exuberance - and a little craziness - - to do that. I don't know if I've ever really been in love, but I'd like to think that's what it's like to fall head over heels. And to want to feel something on your face, to be unburied from burdens, released of the plaster and concrete that held you back. What a great feeling. And the music - the rain starts tentatively, with small drops, it builds, and then there's a momentary clearing - as a sunshower moving on - when Dolby sings "and it's dawning on me..." and then the rain is back with a massive downpour for the "cloudburst, cloudburst..." bit. And the storm ends with that last thought... "When I was small I was in love with everything Now there's only you" Oh, dear... now I'm thinking of it in an entirely new way - much darker... aaarrg! I'm stopping now (I bet y'all stopped reading long before this!) I'm not very good at this analyzing stuff... Good night, all, Melissa, the Far From Concise - -- Melissa R. Jordan Owner/Artist/Rubber Maven, Compass Rose Studios (http://crstudios.com) Chief Navigator, Compass Rose Consulting (http://askcrc.com) ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V5 #172 ***************************