November 1997 - Sinister

Re: Re: Sinister: pyschik warriors of shambling
by Smundy97＠aol.com 29 Nov '97

29 Nov '97

In a message dated 28/11/97 9:08:44 pm, Andreas.Hering(a)stud.uni-hannover.de wrote: << >I'm familiar only with the Dog-Faced Hermans rendition. Which song was >that in now? >> Didn't the Dog-Faced Hermans do something which collapsed into the theme from Coronation Street played on a trumpet over their mad no-wave jazz type stylings - or was that another of my weird childhood dreams? Honestly, there's loads of things from when I was about 16/17 that I can't remember whether I imagined or not ... when I first heard The State I Am In (wow, B&S content!!!) I thought I recognised it from 1987 or something ... am I psychic or just stupid eg.... 1. All you good good Scottish people ... anyone remember a band called This Poison! and a song called Poised Over The Pause Button? 2. Who did a song (late 80s) called Let's Go Out - very upbeat, played by Peel 3. Did anyone else think that I Beg Your Pardon by Kon Kan was the greatest thing ever released for about ... oooooh ...... two weeks - what the hell was all that about? simon directing traffic on the disco floor ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Poetry? Java?
by David & Katrina 29 Nov '97

29 Nov '97

it's just something that i discovered elsewhere, but i've been teaching myself Java and managed to get a Java Applett going of the famous fridge magnets game of Magnetic Poetry. i'm trying to customise it so that it's Belle and Sebastian orientated. so, if you've got a java enabled browser (Netscape 3 or above will do fine - IE doesn't handle Javascript or java as well, but it should still work), take a look at what we've currently set up, mail us back letting us know if you think it's any good and how long it took to work. and the important bit, i need 50 or so words and parts of words to use as the tiles, so any and all suggestions would be welcome. thanks david kitchen PS: it's currently at http://www.totalweb.co.uk/bluesoda/test/ -- ******************************************************************** http://www.totalweb.co.uk/bluesoda/ mailto:bluesoda@totalweb.co.uk ******************************************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Sinister: Loveless
by Perfection As A Hipster 29 Nov '97

29 Nov '97

At 16:33 28.11.1997 -0500, dina passman wrote: >as per mr. dan tracey, this is rather old news and no one is going to >save a grown man from himself. News here, although songs such as "Far away and lost in joy", "As John Belushi said" and "Now that I'm a junkie!" provided for hints ... I don't know whether you have as much experience with heroin addicts, but I'd suggest the ability to save a grown man from himself is given ... sadly enough, today's society is apparently not willing ... "None of this will matter when you're dead" ... Some B&S content ... am I correct in assuming the following lyrics for "A century of fakers" ? "There are people going hungry far away They've got nothing on their plates And you're filling your fat face With every different kind of cake If you ever go lardy or go lame I will drop you straight away Well that's the chance you're gonna take For every stupid thing you say There are people going lonely And they'll stay Lonely far into the year" >duckless lordless loveless > dina "A stranger to myself" > andreas The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella But more upon the just because The unjust steals the just's umbrella (Charles Baron Bowen) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: turncoat
by Graham Hodge 29 Nov '97

29 Nov '97

Kitty's jumping ship. What do we think about that? I think we should bombard her with good reasons to stay on the list. And don't forget to send them to her personal address in case she's already unsubbed. As Ron Pickering would say: Away you go! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Not good news at all ...
by Ian Turton 29 Nov '97

29 Nov '97

Just read this on the Galaxie 500 mailing list, guess some of you'd want to know. Apologies if some one has already posted something with similar content. ------------------------------------------------------------ Rock Experimentalist Epic Soundtracks Dead At 37 Former Swell Maps co-founder influenced Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr and others. Pictured on cover of a recent album. Epic Soundtracks -- the pioneering drummer and keyboardist of the band Swell Maps whose influence was palpable among American rockers such as Dinosaur Jr's J Mascis and Sonic Youth -- was found dead in his London apartment on Saturday (Nov. 22). A cause of death has yet to be determined; a coroner's report is expected later this week. Soundtracks was 37. "They're not quite sure how long he was dead," said Tom Prendergast, a spokesman for Bar/None Records, the label for which Soundtracks recorded. He said authorities have not ruled out suicide as the cause of death for the musician, who was presumed to be in good health. The spokesman said he had not known Soundtracks to be depressed of late. Prendergast said he had spoken with Soundtrack's brother and partner in Swell Maps, Nikki Sudden, but said only that, "(Sudden) was very sad -- he was his brother." Soundtracks, born Paul Godley, formed Swell Maps at the tender age of 12 with Sudden in Solihull, England. The pair, along with bassist Jowe Head and guitarist Richard Earl, developed a reputation as confident experimentalists who loved the German avant-garde rock band, Can. Although the group recorded only two albums (A Trip to Marineville and Jane From Occupied Europe) before disbanding in 1980, they later proved to be quite influential, especially among American artists on the vanguard of punk and indie rock, including R.E.M. and Pavement. In the late-'70s, Soundtracks played with Mayo Thompson's reformed Red Krayola before moving on to play with Sudden again in a band known as the Jacobites. He also logged time as a drummer for Australia's Crime and the City Solution. Eventually, Soundtracks and his partner in Crime Rowland Howard (ex-Birthday Party) left to form These Immortal Souls, who issued Get Lost (Don't Lie!) in 1987 and reunited for I'm Never Gonna Die Again in 1992. When Soundtracks surfaced as a solo artist that same year, he abandoned his drum kit to refashion himself as a singer and songwriter, and enlisted many of the stars who he'd influenced to lend a hand. His first disc, Rise Above, featured contributions from Howard, Mascis and Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo and Kim Gordon. After releasing Sleeping Star 1994, Soundtracks embarked on a tour with the Lemonheads' Evan Dando. His most recent record, 1996's Change My Life, was produced by Primal Scream's Henry Olsen. A funeral for Soundtracks will be held in his hometown of Leamington Spa, England, on Monday Dec. 1). Chris Nelson [Tues., Nov. 25, 1997, 9 a.m. PDT] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Cock fun and fanny magic
by mctag＠mcmail.com 28 Nov '97

28 Nov '97

Hello you lovely lovely people, The pop quiz - super cock fun was had by all. Except that I managed to leave my prize (rare promo of SFAs 'Man don't give a fuck') on the train back to the rainy city...dozy fool that I am. Other highlights: Susannah's shock revelation of her usual name for quiz teams (see above); Katrina's unexpectedly spirited defence of Michael Hutchence, me confusing Noel Gallagher's bum with Stuart Murdoch's (didn't recognise it with the lights on) and getting a clip round the ear from Katrina; and you forgot to mention Stuart's impromptu set with the Spice Girls on backing vocals and Morrissey on the eukelele, all those new songs, and the cover of 'It's raining men'. Or was that a dream I had. I get so confused.... Elsewhere, 34 messages, Lord-love-a-duck. Tim wrote... >Lastly, I don't love B&S for their guitar-led brilliance. I love >them for their brilliance. ...and I couldn't agree more, but Lancashire is not miserable, my ma and pa live there, and it's OK. And the cheese, is that the smoked cheddar?..Oh yesyesyes. Glad you've lost your cherry, Dina. Please tell me more about 'telepathic sex'. And 'Journey to the Polar Dreams' is without doubt the best name for a radio show I have ever heard. Especially when it's in Spanish. That's all. I'm off to the Land of Polar Dreams. I love each and every one of you Mr Sparkly Orange xxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: meets and adam and joe!
by Sarah 28 Nov '97

28 Nov '97

I'm so glad you had a nice London meet! People up north, do you want to meet at a pop quiz somewhere? And lancashire is groovey! I'm in Peston, anyone from this a way going to Manchester gigs? And Dog Faced hermans?!?!? (or something), you're pulling my plonker. Seriously? I know people on his list know much more indie than me but c'mon! BTW THE ADAM AND JOE SHOW IS GENIUS!!! Just had to mention that. I have taped 'ball ball ball footie footie footie' from my TV and listen to it on the bus and piss myself laughing! I shall get locked away soon, I am v.sad I know! Does the guy who produces or something on their show subscribe? Could you mail me as I write a fanzine and I'd love to feature them in some way soon! please! and if they put expectations on all their tapes well they are even more godlike than they are already! au revoir mes amis!-- Sarah ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Sinister: and don't the kids just love it?
by Perfection As A Hipster 28 Nov '97

28 Nov '97

Nigel Turner replied ... >>Nope, I was referring to "A picture of Dorian Gray" by the * Television >>Personalities *, available on the "... and don't the kids just love it" >>album ... the loving kids know that they could have been bigger than the >>Beatles ... > >They always were, in my heart. I smiled all over until I read Robert's mail further below. Same here, even though I grew up with the Beatles and still appreciate them ... remember the reference in "All my dreams are dead" ? Could have been mine, "I must have cried for a week" ... >>The rain it raineth on the just >> >>(Charles Baron Bowen) > >I'm familiar only with the Dog-Faced Hermans rendition. Which song was >that in now? "The rain it raineth" ... available on the "Humans fly" LP, "Menschen fliegen" LP or the Konkurrel reissue CD ... no recommendation for fellow listees, though, far off from the B&S approch ... Honestly, never heard of anyone hailing both bands ... Robert McTaggart wrote ... >Yes, yes, yes. And now Dan Treacey is a heroin addict living on a >park bench, apparently. I could cry. Oh shit. PLEASE don't tell me that this is the truth. I've heard rumours about Dan being homeless ... but not heroin. First Epic Soundtracks and now this ... isn't there any anthusiast in London who may be of help ??? I can't believe this ... I've never felt more depressed ... >Andreas, living in Hanover - do you know a girl called Pia Zaborowski? >Mad and beautiful girl. Obsessive Smiths fan. My ex-. Married with >a daughter now. Just wondered. Nope ... you may know that Hannover is pretty dull ... "I live here for seven weeks now and I don't know anyone" ... well, not really, but certainly no Pia ... >Sorry everyone else I'm not. How can the British P!O!P! scene leave a pioneer such as Daniel Treacy behind ??? If only I had the money for a flight to London ... Spending the rest of the week listening to "The Painted Word" ... Andreas The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella But more upon the just because The unjust steals the just's umbrella (Charles Baron Bowen) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: (no subject)
by Kyriakos HIZANIDIS 28 Nov '97

28 Nov '97

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Re: Sinister: slow graffiti lyrics
by Perfection As A Hipster 28 Nov '97

28 Nov '97

Andrew Deen wrote ... >um, andreas, surely you mean '*the* picture of dorian gray'? Nope, I was referring to "A picture of Dorian Gray" by the * Television Personalities *, available on the "... and don't the kids just love it" album ... the loving kids know that they could have been bigger than the Beatles ... Andreas The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella But more upon the just because The unjust steals the just's umbrella (Charles Baron Bowen) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . We're all happy bunnies humming happy bunny tunes. Aren't we? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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