From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V3 #49 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Monday, January 18 1999 Volume 03 : Number 049 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: oh my fruheads [Fru-Monique ] Re: oh my fruheads [petit_chou@juno.com] Re: CDnow ranking ["livviefru" ] Re: CD Now Thing [bbwminors@aol.com (BBWMinors)] Two questions on content [bbwminors@aol.com (BBWMinors)] switching instruments ["Hell Hotel" ] Numerous threads rolled into one! [driedmonkey@zdnetmail.com (Stiff, Drie] songs on the new album [Paul ] Re: Transportation in Toronto... [chad schrock ] Re: song wishes [drea1@my-dejanews.com] Lee (was Re: Numerous threads rolled into one!) [seymour pigeons ] Re: switching instruments [kpfruhead@aol.com (KPFruhead)] Re: song wish list [chad schrock ] Re: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V3 #48 [acegelka@bonita.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 20:36:44 GMT From: Fru-Monique Subject: Re: oh my fruheads Welcome Gus! It's refreshing now that I'm not one of the newest people. > OoOoO i told you all! i will prevaiL! gus will prevail!!!! mwhahahahaha And you sound almost as crazy as I am. You'll fit right in here. Bwhahaha, "Monique" _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 20:14:54 GMT From: petit_chou@juno.com Subject: Re: oh my fruheads Lori, when listing the delights of the ng, said: >Oh, and any thread about Murray's pants... Or lack thereof... ( ) Heather Moore (taking a moment to relive the thread about Murray in a kilt...) ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 15:03:41 -0000 From: "livviefru" Subject: Re: CDnow ranking You go to CDnow, and go to the same place to vote. There are 2 choices, vote or check. At least for me there was. I checked their placement before I voted!...#8, baby!! - -- pam :) Live life for today before tomorrow is gone... Zainab wrote in message <01be41e9$ec12e800$30689cd1@labbox1>... >Okay so like I voted [for this band called >Moxy Fruvous--heard of 'em?] and I want >to go back to CDnow and check their >ranking like all of you seem to be doing. >I don't know how, tho. Can someone >help me??? > >Zainab > ------------------------------ Date: 18 Jan 1999 20:14:40 GMT From: bbwminors@aol.com (BBWMinors) Subject: Re: CD Now Thing >Although those are both good choices (Celine more than Matchbox), I just had >to go with 'N Sync....just because that guy with dreadlocks pigtails scares >me so much! :) Okay, if I can throw in one more funny coincidence here ... the "dreadlocks guy" (Chris Kirkpatrick, isn't it disgusting that I know this???) is my daughter's favorite NSync guy and Jian is her favorite Fruvous for the same reasons. In her words: They're both really funny and they both have cool hair." Of course, she added on Jian that she also likes him because he has a good voice and is "really cute" (the first time she's ever ever said this about any guy) and that he smells good. Okay, she didn't say that last part. I made it up. ------------------------------ Date: 18 Jan 1999 20:09:07 GMT From: bbwminors@aol.com (BBWMinors) Subject: Two questions on content I have two questions regarding content of songs that I'm hoping you folks can answer. 1) Is/was there really a Mary Lane? Was this like some major murder case (student marries professor and kills him) in Canada, a cause celebre or something? 2) I came across a magazine article about a woman dying of leukemia in Ohio, who has started a lawsuit because she and several others from her high school believed they were in a "cancer cluster"because there had been all sorts of toxic waste dumped on the site of the school. Since I'd just finished "A Civil Action" that morning, I found it interesting. The thing is, they all went to RIVER VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL and it became known as the "River Valley" cluster. However, the suit wasn't filed until 1997. Is this "the" River Valley or just a coincidence? I Am Curious Queen Lisa ------------------------------ Date: 18 Jan 1999 20:21:48 GMT From: "Hell Hotel" Subject: switching instruments Hey fruheads, I was just looking at some pictures on FDC and noticed that in many of them it seems as tho the guys are switching instruments, for example, dave on bass, murray on drums(in the corner of a picture, looks to be murray) , jian on guitar, mike on bongos. my question are they all such skilled musicians, instrumentally that is? Man the FruLads impress me more and more every time i find out something new. - -Eric Http://i.am/HellHotel **************************************************************************** fruvous: (froo`ves)n 1. Magical monk-baked pastry loaf. 2.High stakes Mesopotamian board game. 3.Sound produced when yogurt dollops are dropped in searing liquid. adj 1. Unflappable(after legendary crusader Marion~) 2. Multi-legged and aural. see MOXY FRUVOUS **************************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 12:13:49 -0800 From: driedmonkey@zdnetmail.com (Stiff, Dried, Creaking Monkey) Subject: Numerous threads rolled into one! I've talked to Dave on several occasions about "Lee" mostly to compliment him - I think it's a lovely song, and the imagery is killer. Dave wrote it, but according to him, Chris O'Malley played the piano. Dave said he never plays it because the mood is almost never right, in his words "it's such a weird little song." For some reason, all the Fruheads I know say it's the worst song off YWGTTM or by MF ever! It's so sweet and calm. Oh well. Dave did say that it was played at the "Show on Halloween" (still trying to figure out which one that was), when O'malley actually came up on stage and played the piano part. I wonder if Dave actually knows it. I've noticed a correlation between the folks who dislike Wood and Lee. Oh well. Peace, Tamdakh Arulean *** Posted from RemarQ - http://www.remarq.com - Discussions Start Here (tm) *** ------------------------------ Date: 18 Jan 1999 20:54:25 GMT From: Paul Subject: songs on the new album Hiya! Here's a Q for you all... The new album is coming out right? One would think that all the new heavy rotation songs will be on there... right? Sad Girl, I will Hold On, Pisco... right? Well, has Fruvous ever had a new song that they played in heavy rotation at shows, and everyone thought it would be on a new album, but never made it to one? Excluding the off-beat songs and mixes like GE&H, Dancing Queen, Love Potion, Billie Jean, etc. I guess I am wondering what the odds are that maybe one of the above mentioned new songs won't be on their new studio album? They are all growing on me, and I would love to hear studio versions of all of them! Thanks-- Paul ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 15:34:38 -0500 From: chad schrock Subject: Re: Transportation in Toronto... Brent McNamee wrote: > >> What should I expect in the way of transportation between the > >> airport and the Ramada? How much would a cab cost? > THE MORE EXPENSIVE (BUT MUCH EASIER) WAY > ======================================== > > There are MANY shuttle busses to downtown - you can find more > information at the "Lester B. Pearson International Airport" > OFFICIAL SITE. http://www.lbpia.toronto.on.ca/ > > They even have a page on "Getting to the Airport" at > The Pacific Western Airport Express is the major bus company > providing service to downtown. It will cost $12.50 each way, > and stops at the Ramada, as far as I know... This is by far > the easiest and worth-the-money way to get downtown! cool. this works for me! thanks. - -- chad at radix dot net Be the Lizard Danny ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 20:47:45 GMT From: drea1@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: song wishes > That said, and keeping in mind the Murray-dictum (as in "no, stuff, we actually > play" or whatever it was), I guess I should consider myself lucky then that I *have* heard Lazy Boy (Nov. 97 Thunder Bay) *g* Of course, this was also the same show that I heard Fell in Love, GE&H (long version with intros!), and a lot of the songs from Moon for the first time. However, only having 13 shows total (9 of them this year), my wish list is still fairly long (and these are just songs that I haven't heard yet! *lol*) Love Set Fire Misplaced Bed and Breakfast Nuits (actually, pretty much anything from Wood) Morphee Bittersweet all the new songs that have been done since Nov. That's Any Good (wishful thinking, but a girl can dream) Signed, Sealed Delivered medley Want to hear again songs: GWS, If Only You Knew, Raja, Misstra, Lee (another dream *sigh*), Follow the Road, Early Morning Rain. (Yes, these are infrequently played..this *is* a wish list after all *g*) Drea (Snowy/Northern Spice) "Everyone's a novelist, and everyone can sing...but no one talks when the tv's on..." (32 days to Frücon!!) - -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 20:59:01 GMT From: seymour pigeons Subject: Lee (was Re: Numerous threads rolled into one!) Tamdakh Arulean wrote: >For some reason, all the Fruheads I know say >it's the worst song off YWGTTM or by MF ever! It's so >sweet and calm. Oh well. what!? you *must* be talking to the wrong fruheads! at least two of the four SmithFrus (me included) count it as our favorite song off of YWGTTM. it's *beautiful*! >Dave did say that it was played at the "Show on >Halloween" (still trying to figure out which one that >was), when O'malley actually came up on stage and >played the piano part. The NoHo Halloween show. and ChrisO *did* play the piano, quite nicely. you can read the reviews on FDC. >I've noticed a correlation between the folks who >dislike Wood and Lee. I can see that - many/most of the Wood songs are mellower and/or sadder than what many people think of as "typical" Fruvous fare, and so is Lee. for those people who like only Fruvous's upbeat, bouncy side, songs like Lee and those on Wood could be... disappointing, i suppose. Wood surprised me at first, but now it just might be my favorite Fruvous album, inasmuch as i can pick a favorite. limping back into the shadows (cough cough), ~Caroline ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you put me in a box, make sure it's a big box, with lots of windows, and a door to walk through... --Dan Bern ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 21:03:10 GMT From: acegelka@bonita.com Subject: song chat >Hmmm. That's a toughie. It used to be Mistra Know-it-all, but Louisville >curer that (and Murray's doing Indoor Fireworks and my first hearing >of Follow the Road, which if it end up being a Fruvous song and not >a Jian song will probably be one of my favorites). After that it was >Nuits De Reve, but I've heard that a couple times now too. Isn't Follow the Road just incredible? I thought I was going to cry when I heard it at Noho (and that seems to be a trend, now that I look at the noho shows - maybe I was just extremely susceptible to tears that night? :) I would love to hear that again. Mistra-Know-it-All I heard at my second show - t'wasn't until Noho that I was looking forward to it. >I haven't heard Pork Tenderloin (the Quest for the Inadvert Pork >Tenderloin? The Revenge of the Estrogenated Pork Tenderloin? Hunt >for Red Pork Tenderloin? Oh I don't have any idea what the fullname >is now, do I?[1]). Perhaps I am still too much a newbie to know about the Pork. Do enlighten me! >Other songs I'd love to hear? Well, I personally loved the >Your New Boyfriend opening of Message->Poor Mary Lane->Doorstep. Almost >as good as a Laika->Jockey or Half As Much->Spiderman (did anyone else >really think that worked well at the all ages Bottom Line show?) opening... I did indeed like the Half-as-Much->Spiderman transition - I thought that was quite well done. Laika used to be on my dying-to-hear-list, but I've happily gotten that wish. Same with Darlington Darling (which continues to thrill me live.) On a side note, my kitten is named Laika - does anyone else have Frupets? My first cat was pre-Fruvous, so he's Frankenstein (I like to tell him he's named after the Edgar Winter song, though in actuality that was an afterthought.. :) Laika's been incorrigible - she's taken to slicing at my feet or (much worse!) lips when she wants me to wake up. I'm half tempted to declaw her! Ouch! >You won't be disappointed when you do hear it. Coming to Frucon? You >should! (http://www.fruvous.com/frucon2.html for more info if needed) I'm definitely going to be there! I'm taking 5 days off of work - needless to say, none of my coworkers can comprehend how I could want to vacation in Toronto in February. >Well, I don't know about the band being tired of it, but there are a >good number of Fruheads that were very vocally sick of it. My opinion >of why it isn't being played so much now is because it is pretty much >in the same vein as some of their other songs and in order to get a >good balance, they put in Jockey or Half as Much and not V'B'Ville. I wouldn't mind hearing VBville once in a while instead of the similar songs - just because I've only heard it that once. I guess that we Fruheads have all been converted at different song cycles. >Funny Video B'ville anecdote from the NKU show: >So, there were some people who came in late and Jian was teasing them. >Mike said they were the rich snobs who didn't want to wait in line and >wanted to come in at the right time. Jian commented about the "unsavory >third song", which was Video Bargainville and then threatened to play >the beginning of the show over again, soliciting a "not Video >Bargainville again" groan from some us. Of course he might not have >meant all that to be so funny, but I thought it was absolutely >hilarious. Your mileage may very. I'm sure it was hilarious - I guess a lot of you are burnt out on it! I guess everyone will know who I am next time they play it, though, cause I'll be the one squealing in delight.. :) - Chad >[1] Isn't it something like Hunt for the Dangerous Pork Tenderloin or > something? [2] >[2] Okay, I guess I have some idea. But not a lot. Call me a nerd, but I love footnotes. Aimee ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 21:08:31 GMT From: acegelka@bonita.com Subject: names >Remember the rules everyone, just call them "Honey", "Sweetie", "Baby" >and "Lover", that way you never get in trouble for ether forgeting or >using the wrong name. I've had it lucky (?) in that virtually every man I've dated has been named Brian (parents in the early 70s had a real lack of originality) - so I've almost never had to worry about calling out the wrong name at the wrong time (or the right time, as it were.. :) It got so bad that my parents numbered them in order of appearance so they'd know which one I was talking about. Aimee ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 20:51:47 GMT From: nicole.twn.is@ana.ng.at.tmbg.org (Nicole the Wonder Nerd) Subject: Re: oh my fruheads On Mon, 18 Jan 1999 18:49:49 GMT, Srm9988n@aol.com wrote: >The rest of us just exhibit with entirely too much abandon. *whoop* *whoop* *whoop* Straight line off the starboard[1] bow! :) - --nicole the wonder nerd is not even going to touch that one. p.s. Welcome, Gus! [1] Isn't that a pretty term? "Starboard". I think of it and think of someone out on a sailing ship, at night, looking up at the stars. "Port" isn't nearly as cool. *** "There are thirteen people who live there! All of whom are named Frank! Even the girl! She's popular..."--the Arrogant Worms, on Northern Ontario Visit Nicolopolis! http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~carlsonn Reply-to address is INCORRECT! Think of it as an intelligence test. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 16:14:52 -0500 From: chad schrock Subject: Re: Fruvous is at #31(was VOTE FOR MOXY FRUVOUS.......) Srm9988n@aol.com wrote: > Jen raised an ethical dilemma: > >ok. is anyone else just a little opposed to voting more than once? > well, of course. > > but this isn't a federal election or anything like that. and > you damn well know every other band's lunatic core of diehard > fans is doing exactly the same thing. Just pretend you're in Chicago. Now vote early, and vote often. > For the record, I only voted once. Because, like, if I spent > all that time at CDNOW.com, it would REALLY cut into my email > time ... Yeah! > priorities here. :D > -- Lori (degenerate cocoa spice) I thought you were Queen Spice? :P - -- chad at radix dot net ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 21:23:39 GMT From: acegelka@bonita.com Subject: albums >(Yeah, that's what we called 'em way back when. Albums. And >they came with real red-velvet covers, or with paper dolls inside ... >oops here I go again, digging myself a really deep hole...) Lori, you're so right! My dad has this great album collection (about 900 of them) and when I was a kid and we used to listen to the albums, I'd flip through them all the time. I loved the poster that came with Dark Side of the Moon (I had that hanging up in my dorm rooms until I graduated and handed it down to my brother - it's older than either of us).. and one of the Yes albums (though not THE Yes Album.. :) had a little pamphlet with pics of the band members in "candid" shots.. and who can forget the Cheech & Chong album with the giant rolling paper? I love the sound of CDs, but they're just not as satisfying in a tactile way. (Tried like hell to make "tactile" an adverb, but it just wasn't happening.. :) Aimee ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 21:25:12 GMT From: vika@ibm.net (Vika Zafrin) Subject: Re: Numerous threads rolled into one! driedmonkey@zdnetmail.com (Stiff, Dried, Creaking Monkey) delighted us with: >I've talked to Dave on several occasions about "Lee" >mostly to compliment him - I think it's a lovely song, >and the imagery is killer. Dave wrote it, but >according to him, Chris O'Malley played the piano. At the Halloween show he did, sure. >Dave did say that it was played at the "Show on >Halloween" (still trying to figure out which one that >was), when O'malley actually came up on stage and >played the piano part. I wonder if Dave actually >knows it. Yes, Dave knows it; to my best knowledge, he wrote it. The Halloween show in question is/was the one this past Halloween, at the Iron Horse in Northampton, MA. Vika Zafrin vika@ibm.net "This 'Jian scent' thread has brought us to an all-time low..." -COM ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 16:17:15 -0000 From: "livviefru" Subject: Re: CD Now Thing BBWMinors wrote in message <19990118151440.01072.00000252@ng-fi1.aol.com>... >>Although those are both good choices (Celine more than Matchbox), I just had >>to go with 'N Sync....just because that guy with dreadlocks pigtails scares >>me so much! :) > >Okay, if I can throw in one more funny coincidence here ... the "dreadlocks >guy" (Chris Kirkpatrick, isn't it disgusting that I know this???) is my >daughter's favorite NSync guy and Jian is her favorite Fruvous for the same >reasons. In her words: They're both really funny and they both have cool hair." > Um...ok I agree with Jian...but the 'N Sync guy? Whoah.... :) > >Of course, she added on Jian that she also likes him because he has a good >voice and is "really cute" (the first time she's ever ever said this about any >guy) and that he smells good. Okay, she didn't say that last part. I made it >up. hee hee! I haven't gotten THAT close....yet.... :) pam :) ------------------------------ Date: 18 Jan 1999 21:28:28 GMT From: kpfruhead@aol.com (KPFruhead) Subject: Re: switching instruments >I was just looking at some pictures on FDC and noticed that in many of >them it seems as tho the guys are switching instruments, for example, dave >on bass, murray on drums(in the corner of a picture, looks to be murray) , >jian on guitar, mike on bongos. my question are they all such skilled >musicians, instrumentally that is? Man the FruLads impress me more and more >every time i find out something new. You bet they play all those instruments!! Espically Dave, who can, and has, I think, played every instrument Fruvous uses except the Drums and a couple other little things (tin whistle, etc.). Other than that, he does it all, guitar (acoustic & electric), banjo, accordian, keyboard/piano, bass (on Pisco). Murray does play drums on Sad Girl, and guitar on Pisco, with a simple solo that just works so well in the song. Mike I believe is the only one who uses the bongos, so that's normal, although he does play bass on Sad Girl. Jian plays the acoustic on Sad Girl, and is the only one I've seen use a capo on the electric when he plays Pisco. So, in answer to your question, a very long winded yes!! They are all great musicians!! Ken, who pays way too much attention to this kind of stuff :) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 16:28:13 -0500 From: chad schrock Subject: Re: song wish list Trace wrote: > Chad Maloney wrote: > > >[1] Isn't it something like Hunt for the Dangerous Pork Tenderloin > > or something? [2] > >[2] Okay, I guess I have some idea. But not a lot. > > Well, the chorus includes "the hunt for the dangerous pork > tenderloin," and I believe that's how Dave referred to it at > the MLS show last year, so I would assume that is a good working > title unless we hear something to the contrary. To my knowledge > though, it has only been perfomed once in its entirety, and once > as a tease (MLS), so who knows if we'll hear it again. I'd certainly love to hear it again. Although, hearing Murray sing it in Annapolis was a great treat. (Especially with the, um, costuming that they did. :) Was that the only time it has been performed? > I'll put my vote with yours Chad, and say I'd love to hear it > played again. I was lucky enough to hear the whole thing and > the ending had us all crying with laughter :) I REALLY wish > someone had taped that show....*sigh* Yup. :\ I'm still searching for tapes of the NoHo shows..... - -- chad at radix dot net make me an angel that flys from montgomery ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 21:31:34 GMT From: acegelka@bonita.com Subject: Re: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V3 #48 >*sigh* valentine's day isn't my favorite holiday either. how is it that i >always manage to break up with the love of my life right _before_ suck up >day, as i've come to refer to it as :)? >oh well. strangely, due to a long-standing family tradition of mass reunion >followed by all-night guiness and the mummers parade, i, like jian, have >never spent a new year's eve with a significant other. blech. holidays are >so double faced--i like being with the fam, but they're one big love-bummer, >aren't they :)? I'm with you on that! I remember one New Year's where I was at my mom & dad's house and they were there, and my brother and his girlfriend, and my best friend and his boyfriend.. we had a great night, but at midnight, everyone had someone to kiss but me (I think I grabbed a cat or two - but no tongue!) Everyone had sex that night but me - I stayed up reading mystery novels and trying not to listen.. :) This year New Year's was great though cause I was at the Fruvous show.. didn't get to kiss anyone but Andrea blew me kisses (had to get an SRO ticket cause I didn't get to buy one earlier - chilly wait!) so I wasn't wallowing in self-pitying misery like usual.. :) Aimee, who's wondering if she should try alleviating her perpetually single status at the FruCon, or would that make matters worse? (I'm really not this desperate - but I do find that being single allows itself for much humor.. :) ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V3 #49 *******************************************