January 1998 - Sinister - missprint.org

RE: Sinister: The Godlike Genius of Scott Walker (N&BISCO)
by Nigel Turner 15 Jan '98

15 Jan '98

Dina Passman wrote: i know i will offend some by saying this, but the walker brothers kick scott's solo ass by a mile. (i have yet to hear the jacques brel record-so hold your tongues!) You obviously haven't listened to much solo Scott Walker, then. All of his classic early lp's (1 - 4) contain at least 2 or 3 Jaques Brel songs. And they are all quite wonderful, especially, as Adam says, 'Scott 4'. Nigel xx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Tag wrote :
by Adrian Evans 15 Jan '98

15 Jan '98

>Jeez, >What's going on? I'm now getting as many digests as I was getting >mails two weeks ago. Don't you people ever sleep? Funny you should say that, but I'm a genuine insomniac who is currently still f***ed off my head on last nights Nitrazepam thinking, "mmmmm...It's going to take me at least till 5o'clock in the morning to read this back-log of digests. Actually it's not very funny at all, but i'm sure all you sick bastards will have a giggle at my expense. -- Adrian Evans ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: a shit-eating indie-schmindie sheep writes...
by Keith Watson 15 Jan '98

15 Jan '98

>3 Guy Chadwick - what a tosser pt4: "It's going to be a long hot >summer/gonna stay in gonna be a bummer" What about the amazing clanger : "Destroy the heart she said, I'm gonna bake you a loaf of bread" Keith. Actually : I love the House of Love and don't really care if he's a tosser or not (which he evidently is) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: a shit-eating indie-schmindie sheep writes...
by stephen troussé 15 Jan '98

15 Jan '98

More stuff: 1 Ahhh.. the old 'licking railings' conundrum raises its head once more. I always thought it was something to do with 'Irn Bru' which our scottish brethren persist in insisting is made from 'girders'... If you're going to _drink_ bits of metal, what harm can a quick lick do? 2 On University Challenge last night, Jeremy Paxman told us that Saint Lucy is always depicted carrying a plate of eyeballs. Can her earthly representative, Tag, confirm this? 3 Guy Chadwick - what a tosser pt4: "It's going to be a long hot summer/gonna stay in gonna be a bummer" 4 I think a B&Smobile is a fantastic idea... they could drive around like those crazy kids in the new Levis ads. Incidentally, I've discovered that the song from that ad is by The Lilys... is the album worth buying, anyone? 5 Following on from Andy's recommendation of the Iain Banks radio play, did you know that BBC Scotland are screening an adaptation of Alan Warner's "Morvern Callar" this year? If anybody hasn't already read this book, I urge them to buy it now. It's like Catcher in the Rye crossed with, um, an Arab Strap song. Steer clear of the follow-up, "These Demented Lands", however. Because it's crap. 6 I'm grateful to everybody for all the Northern Soul info. How educational! We ought to get some kind of Arts Council grant... 7 S Wells wrote: "This ever-so-slappable crowd of shit-eating indie-schmindie sheep ". Whaddya say we all pop round to Kings Reach Tower and do some slapping of our own, eh gang? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------ The Poetry Society Website http://www.poetrysoc.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Potato head + Ultrasound
by Keith Watson 15 Jan '98

15 Jan '98

>Dear "nicely jumpered skinny students", > >I just laughed my surrogate tits off. Doesn't he know everyone needs >a bosom for a pillow? I've never been able to figure exactly why Steven Wells has a job at a music paper, and not at the likes of Living Marxism, I'd personally get embarrassed at trying to tie in his own brand of "politics" (i.e. opposing absolutely anything anyone in a position of power does) into pieces of music that's got nothing to do with party politics. He makes a point occassionally that all music is political which in a sense may well be true, but it certainly isn't party political, a topical example being Ian Brown's new single which appears to be about the conquest of space being used for military purposes - would swells therefore point out that Brown is a communist perhaps? (Unlikely - cause he's the only one with the moral highground). Oh and remember kids... vote for Scargill [crap attempt at irony - remember, my degree's in computer science] Oh dear, I'm ranting again... right two more things. 1. It appears that Ciara McLaverty is in fact the cover star on Tigermilk and Dog on Wheels. Well that about clears that one up. 2. There was a tape on the NME a month ago or so which I immediately threw in the bin without listening to as they're normally shite, however my mate Kev last night played me a track off it by Ultrasound which was fucking brilliant. If anyone's got the tape out there, go and have a listen if you haven't done already cause it's great! Cheers, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Ve Haff Ze Teknologie
by ELIZABETH DAPLYN 15 Jan '98

15 Jan '98

Hello all you people. I am extremely worried about certain members of the list who appear to be showing symptoms of technical competence and awareness of mechanical issues in relation to music recording systems: <<A CD player reads a single circuit on a CD and the sum of all the bits on that circuit doesn't match the checksum stored at the end of that circuit then it will skip. All oversampling CD players do is attempt to read the circuit a number of times in an attempt to get it correct before actually playing it, they will also skip if unable to match the checksum.>> This is very scary, and should be stopped as soon as possible, preferably by electro-shock "therapy". Or with huge amounts of psycho-repressive drugs. Or something. On the subject of mental health, did anyone apart from me and my friend Charlotte watch or remember the series Taking Over The Asylum which was on a couple of years ago on BBC 2? For those who didn't, it was about a double-glazing salesman who was also an amateur radio DJ who got relegated to the post of spare-time Station Head at a mental hospital in Glasgow, and the various japes (suicide, job loss, Spike Milligan) which ensued. I just mention it because a)it was fantashtic; b)it had a kind of B&S feel to it, now that I come to think about it, in the sort of hopelessly grim romanticism which we all know and love. Regarding the Albert Hall: > There are also choir seats and some really bad sightline seats which > you > can't really sell. > >>I KNOW! I was in the Schools Prom in 1996 (ah, when I was but a wee A-level student. How time flies) and the choir I was in was placed in those selfsame choir stalls (not unnaturally) which proceeded to terrify us: we were very high up, we were next to the bass organ pipes (pretty fuckin' loud, since you ask), the leg-room is cripplingly absent, and we were all in permanent danger of leaning too far out while standing up to sing and falling right out of the bastards. These pieces of furniture are NOT comfortable places to be, take my word for it, darlings. Having said that, however, the Hall itself is a lovely place, although I'm not quite sure what purpose the giant ceramic mushrooms suspended from the ceiling serve. > Hmm, I really do think that Radiohead fans just don't like music > >>Thank you very much, mister. I personally hate all tunefulness, truth and beauty. I only like eardrum-shattering squeals and strange clankings sounds, and would much prefer it if all pop music vocals were done by the computerised voice from Fitter, Happier. Then, oh if only, the world would be a much better place. Oh, and it goes without saying that I revile Belle & Sebastian too. Obviously. I'll just go off and drown some kittens now shall I, with Pablo Honey playing in the background. > If one must decide which cartoon characters the members of Belle and > Sebastian have a resemblance to, then it recently occurred to me how > much > Stuart M. reminds me of Tintin, the reporter. > >>No no no! Stuart is the cartoon Sebastian from the 80s series, still looking for his mum and getting into amusing situations with circuses and the like, > and the Dog On Wheels is > Snowy > >>OBVIOUSLY, it's Belle, the Pyreneean Mountain dog from the series. Good grief, have you no soul? People have written to the list about a 70s live-action series called Belle & Sebastian, which I, not being born until 1978, did not glimpse. Was the later cartoon series based on the live-action one, or is it a particularly spooky coincidence? HoneyPaul, great online photties of the band at Manchester. Mmm, I never knew looking up La Murdoch's nostrils would be so alluring... Are there going to be more pictures? I particularly want to see the lauded vixen Mick, and also Wee Chris's pantaloons. Anyway, I believe I'm supposed to be going down to the darkroom to develop some pictures of a wall or something, so I'd better go now. Oh, can anyone recommend a starter album of Scott Walker? Neil Hannon does sound awfully like him, doesn't he? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Brian from Scotland
by Sami Keinanen 15 Jan '98

15 Jan '98

I lost your email-adress. Could you please write me to my email, so that I can write you back. Couldn't find your adress from University of Edinburgh pages. Sami sami.keinanen(a)tk-opisto.fi ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: we get knocked down and we get up again
by barzy＠networkmags.com 15 Jan '98

15 Jan '98

>Well, I can't tell you how sorry I am for being middle-class and >university educated, not to mention breast fed. Thank God, I didn't >go to public school. > >Tag Hum....can we guess what Tag has on his porridge? Golden Syrup or salt....let's take a vote! Or...I could wait till morning and just look.....* *just kiddin biscuit!!! :) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Letter to PBS
by GntlTuesdy＠aol.com 15 Jan '98

15 Jan '98

what is that address to write to pbs to get the belle and sebastian show up? thanks in advance. neal ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Jack+Momus= when I was king Jacques!
by Javier 15 Jan '98

15 Jan '98

> Kelly (a.k.a.Laurie Lemans) said : > "Jack are alright, but the Jacques CD, despite the lovely cover and everything > is not really that good" well, i have to realize that I haven't heard the whole album, but there is one song I know, "When I was king", wich is for me one of the best songs of the year....really incredible! the kind of song you could boy an album just for it! Anyway, I also love the wonderful Tindersticks! And do you like spanish group Le Mans? Javier

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