From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V6 #42 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Thursday, February 16 2006 Volume 06 : Number 042 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] potentially droolworthy [2fs ] Re: [loud-fans] potentially droolworthy [Chris Prew ] Re: [loud-fans] potentially droolworthy ["Stewart Mason" ] Re: [loud-fans] potentially droolworthy [zoom@muppetlabs.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:59:03 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: [loud-fans] potentially droolworthy On 2/14/06, Steve Holtebeck wrote: > On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:55:51 -0800, 2fs wrote: > > > --------- Forwarded message ---------- > > http://www.ape.uk.net/news/news_stories.php?newsid=183 > > > > Andy Partridge Working With Robyn Hitchcock > > Date: 13/02/06 > > > > Andy and psychedelic Soft Boy Shaman Robyn Hitchcock have been writing > > and recording together recently.Robyn has been touring with members of > > REM.. > > Early song titles include 'Turn Me On Deadman" > > I wonder if there's any connection between "touring with members of > REM" and "borrowing song titles from LOLITA NATION"? I don't know - but did Bill Lloyd (who recorded a song called "Turn Me On Dead Man" on his _Standing on the Shoulders of Giants_ album) every tour with R.E.M.? - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 16:23:41 -0600 From: Chris Prew Subject: Re: [loud-fans] potentially droolworthy On Feb 15, 2006, at 3:59 PM, 2fs wrote: > >> On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 16:55:51 -0800, 2fs >> wrote: >> >>> --------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> http://www.ape.uk.net/news/news_stories.php?newsid=183 >>> >>> Andy Partridge Working With Robyn Hitchcock >>> Date: 13/02/06 >>> >>> Andy and psychedelic Soft Boy Shaman Robyn Hitchcock have been >>> writing >>> and recording together recently.Robyn has been touring with >>> members of >>> REM.. >>> Early song titles include 'Turn Me On Deadman" >> >> I wonder if there's any connection between "touring with members of >> REM" and "borrowing song titles from LOLITA NATION"? > "Turn me on Dead Man" was a 30 second experiment (throwaway) track on the Swell Maps first album. I think Scott's title for his 30 second experiment was probably a nod to that. Sorry, just needed to take my music geekery out of the closet and let it stretch its legs. Chris Who realized he forgot to vote for the Decemberists Picaresque on the 05 Survey. So give it a couple more points. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 18:18:00 -0500 From: "Stewart Mason" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] potentially droolworthy - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Prew" > "Turn me on Dead Man" was a 30 second experiment (throwaway) track > on the Swell Maps first album. I think Scott's title for his 30 > second experiment was probably a nod to that. > > Sorry, just needed to take my music geekery out of the closet and > let it stretch its legs. All of them are a nod to what you hear if you play the "number nine" part of "Revolution 9" backwards. Handy backmasking site, with audio clips: http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking.htm Random geekery: the backwards track on LOLITA NATION is Scott idly humming the chorus from "Bad Year At UCLA" while strumming the chords on an acoustic guitar. S ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:59:52 -0600 From: 2fs Subject: Re: [loud-fans] potentially droolworthy On 2/15/06, Stewart Mason wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Prew" > > "Turn me on Dead Man" was a 30 second experiment (throwaway) track > > on the Swell Maps first album. I think Scott's title for his 30 > > second experiment was probably a nod to that. > > > > Sorry, just needed to take my music geekery out of the closet and > > let it stretch its legs. > > All of them are a nod to what you hear if you play the "number nine" > part of "Revolution 9" backwards. Handy backmasking site, with audio > clips: > > http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking.htm My music geekery's out and running about, talking in the streets: listen to the holler - When The Shazam covered the Beatles' "Revolution 9," rather than use a BBC engineer saying "number nine" over and over again, they recorded someone (presumably, one of the band) saying "turn me on dead man"...and then reversed that for the "number nine, number nine..." bit. > [on-topic posting deleted] - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 23:39:14 -0800 (PST) From: zoom@muppetlabs.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] potentially droolworthy > When The Shazam covered the Beatles' "Revolution 9," rather than use a BBC engineer saying "number nine" over and over again, they recorded someone (presumably, one of the band) saying "turn me on dead > man"...and then reversed that for the "number nine, number nine..." bit. Doesn't William Poundstone have some rational explanation for all this in one of his SECRETS books? Yes, Satan had help. Yeah Satan, he organized, oh, he organized his own religion. Yeah, when he knows he should, how nice it was delicious, he puts it in a vat he fixes it for his sons and gives it away, Andy A friend of mine had a cassette--manufactured by the record company--with 77 on one side, and More Songs About Buildings And Food on the other. I remember it coming in a paper box that looked like a cigarette box-box-pack-thing, with that sort of angled hood. It was an amazing object. That's how I was introduced to the band, when I was about 12. But I thought the people singing on those records were crazy. I had been brought up in fairly sheltered environment, musically, where we listened to Crystal Gayle and John Denver and Billy Joel, and then I heard "Don't Worry About The Government," and it took me months to figure out what the hell Byrne was talking about. There was no real precedent for what he was doing with those lyrics, I don't think. He was singing about working in a building, but even at 12 I was pretty sure David Byrne didn't work in a building like that. So I had to reconcile so many confusing elements: Why was he singing about a building like that? He had such a strange voice--had anyone told him that? Still, why did he seem so cheerful? And how could he be singing about a building at all? No one else I'd ever heard sang songs about their coworkers and the conveniences contained within offices. That was, I'm pretty sure, my introduction to what a friend of mine later called haute banal. I still think that's a good term for what Byrne was doing lyrically back then. To this day, those remain some of the oddest words ever sung by man. - --Dave Eggers, from the liner notes to the reissue of TALKING HEADS 77 ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V6 #42 ******************************