From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #83 Reply-To: ammf@smoe.org Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Saturday, July 11 1998 Volume 01 : Number 083 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: m-pact? (was Re: my Moxy Web page...) [jenncyn@aol.com (JennCyn)] Le Pout [melziepi@wam.umd.edu (Cuddly Cheesecake)] Re: jeopardy [fruwench@aol.com (FruWench)] Re: branching out in musical tastes... [jimcclur@ews.uiuc.edu (Jordan I. ] Re: Talking Heads, and repeated band seeings (was Re: nyc!!) ["fraud" ] Re: branching out in musical tastes... [ceelove@ibm.net (Colleen Campbell] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 11 Jul 1998 09:42:58 GMT From: jenncyn@aol.com (JennCyn) Subject: Re: m-pact? (was Re: my Moxy Web page...) > M-Pact? That most awesome of North American a capella acts? > Is that you here on ammf? (How can a "mailing list" be posting to a > newsgroup? Hmmm...) ah... oops. :) No, it's still me, Jenn, but you're close. My mother Ann and I maintain the m-pact mailing list (snail-mail and email), and since we occasionally need to post their concert schedules to rec.music.a-cappella, Newswatcher on the main computer is set up with m-pact's mailing list address as the default. I just neglected to change it to my personal info when I posted. At any rate, I'm glad someone recognized the "source" of said posting. It's great to find fellow fans in unexpected places. And Colleen, if you're reading this, thanks for sending in your response card from the album... it was quite cool to see a familiar name when picking up stuff from the PO box! back to your regularly scheduled programming (and my regular email address), - jenn (p.s. m-pact's new album, "2," is coming out in just a couple weeks -- it's gonna be amazing!) ------------------------------ Date: 11 Jul 1998 09:09:27 -0400 From: melziepi@wam.umd.edu (Cuddly Cheesecake) Subject: Le Pout Well, I know we have quite a few Fruheads that fell head over heals for Great Big Sea -- at the Columbia concert I agreed to meet up with at least 8 others at IOTA for their local DC/VA concert -- just wanted to announce that the show's been cancelled :( [geeeeeeeez...and after a really decent write-up in the Washington Post too! :( ] Hmm..since camping for however many weekends has left little of my body unbitten -- I may take this weekend off and head to Philly...say hi if'n ya see me! Love and Such Melzie aka the DBX 1 Project ------------------------------ Date: 11 Jul 1998 14:25:55 GMT From: fruwench@aol.com (FruWench) Subject: Re: jeopardy So get a photo and prove it!!! ladywench (trying to cause trouble and start a pilgramage) FruSpace - We came, we saw, we slept on the floor . . . ------------------------------ Date: 11 Jul 1998 17:52:09 GMT From: jimcclur@ews.uiuc.edu (Jordan I. K. McClure) Subject: Re: branching out in musical tastes... kat kunz (katkunz@erinet.com) wrote: : : rheostatics : sloan : odds : tragically hip : great big sea : nields (specifically, _gotta get over gretta_) : da vinci's notebook (specifically, _bendy's law_) : jim's big ego A few more that come to mind are: yeP! Elivs Costello Eddie from Ohio (haven't heard any of them yet but their name comes up a lot)... Guster jordan - -- B: Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering? P: Uh, I think so, Brain, but we'll never get a monkey to use dental floss. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 20:32:15 GMT From: "fraud" Subject: Re: Talking Heads, and repeated band seeings (was Re: nyc!!) After having been a talking heads fan for years before i doscovered moxy fruvus i was shocked and amazed to hear them play psycho killer at concert and on the live noise cd-though they do a great job covering the song i do aggree that there is no way to top the charisma of david byrne (not even jian can top him kat) but i will admit that they did a great job with the song live. I also own the stop making sense tape and i love it-i have had it for years and i have found that it makes a good video for background music at party-type atmospheres. Actually i would love it if moxy copied the style of the talking heads concert featured in that video with the developmental show-perhaps starting out with only say jian and a bongo for hte first song and adding people each song after that--but if you havent seen the vidoe you are missing out, its great. Oh well theres my input into the moxy/talking heads discussion. - -eric shultz "i kissed america while she was fleecing me" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 20:56:37 GMT From: "Jennifer Williams" Subject: Re: branching out in musical tastes... >bottom line: what cd(s) would you recommend me purchasing by the above >groups? what is it about this group that makes fans of fruvous enjoy their >music? and are there other groups that should be on this list? James, my boyfriend, recommends Tragically Hip - Fully Completely! Great suggestion! I recommend GBS - pretty much anything by the boys from The Rock! Jen ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 20:34:42 GMT From: "fraud" Subject: Re: Help! I've been Moxified! What-there is a cable channel that shows moxy-wow you are a lucky soul-wish my cable system showed more than just infomercials all night long. - -eric shultz "burning down the house" chris wrote in message <6o717u$bbj$1@news2.ee.net>... >Moxy is on one of our cable channels all night long. I think the >program is called "Planet of Sound." At first, I thought Moxy was >some hack cable-access band, but now I see they are much more than >that. > >Ohhh! There they are again! You will go to the moon... > >-- chris ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 20:58:42 GMT From: ceelove@ibm.net (Colleen Campbell) Subject: Re: branching out in musical tastes... On Sat, 11 Jul 1998 07:01:48 GMT, "kat kunz" wrote: >rheostatics Very quirky, odd, not necessarily sensical band. One of Mike's favorite groups, actually; I was just listening to them this afternoon. Incorporate lots of styles, intelligent and sometimes incomprehensible lyrics. Try "Whale Music" or "Introducing Happiness." >sloan Don't care for the little bit I've heard, no. >odds Grew on me. A bit syrupy for me, but talented; a little retro-80's, in my opinion. >tragically hip I have *never* understood the Canadian fascination with this band. They seem extremely standard, to me; and why go for that when there are so many fantabulous Canuck bands out there? >great big sea Yay! Lots of energy: a pop-rock Celt band with few pretensions and plenty of oomph. I like "Up," but "Play" is also good, from what I've heard. >nields (specifically, _gotta get over gretta_) GGOG is their most commercial and "rock"iest album; I actually prefer earlier, folkier work (and their latest, "Mousse"). Intelligent, socially quirky and slightly twisted, unusual harmonies and voices. Good stuff, but it did take me a while to warm up to it. >da vinci's notebook (specifically, _bendy's law_) Competent a cappella, though occasionally a bit too much in the same vein--very silly, giggly stuff. I'd actually like to see them tackle something a little more solemn, push the envelope. But I do enjoy "Bendy's Law," and if you're a huge Fruhead, you have to get it for "Shoehorn with Teeth," where they're joined by Fruvous. >jim's big ego Aaaaaaahhhh! These guys are superb. Jim by himself is superb, and the musicians he tends to surround with himself are superb. Brilliant, medleying styles more seamlessly than some musicians manage to medley songs, skipping from rap to folk to balladry to rock. Goes from caustic and biting to hilariously neurotic to pitty-patty sweet. Highly, highly recommend him, especially live. Get "Titanic," I'd say. Other groups? Sheesh. Don't get me started unless you'd like me to spend a good half hour on my own personal likes and dislikes; there are a hell of a lot more likes than there are dislikes, and I'll ramble endlessly on them. If you're Celt-centric, ask me about Canadian Celtic music, my favorite genre. And did you need to know more about Eddie From Ohio, Dan Bern, Ani DiFranco, other a cappella--? what in particular are your tastes, what would you like us to comment on? cee, ever-ready to prattle about music ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V1 #83 *******************************************