January 1998 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Chitchat
by Honey 12 Jan '98

12 Jan '98

Lots of people have mailed me asking for help with getting on to chat. I haven't replied - bit swamped. David Kitchen's offered to take over chat advice, so if you can't get on and are completely stuck please mail him - he's at d.kitchen(a)virgin.net. I bought some more C60s today. Next single vote no. 1: Slow Grafitti Honey -- Smithers - release the hounds. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Toooooooo Tall.
by Adrian Evans 12 Jan '98

12 Jan '98

Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 18:26:42 +0000 (GMT) From: CMD LOO <C.M.D.Loo(a)Bradford.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Sinister: Much too tall for a boyfriend. On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Keith Watson wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > From: Adrian Evans <aevans(a)env-dept.devon-cc.gov.uk> > To: 'Sinster' <sinister-digest(a)majordomo.net>; 'StuartG' > <skg21(a)hermes.cam.ac.uk> > Date: 09 January 1998 17:21 > Subject: Sinister: Much too tall for a boyfriend. > > > >>Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 21:07:45 +0000 (GMT) > >>From: Stuart Gardiner <skg21(a)hermes.cam.ac.uk> > >>Subject: Sinister: All sorts really... > >>Stuart G > >>The tallest man in the world, apparently... > > > >How tall ? > >-- > >Adrian Evans > > > He's about 16ft 14 inches. >16ft and ... 14 INCHES ....wow...thats >LOOOOOONNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGgg!!!!! Wow indeed !!! Gargantuam. He must stand in the stair-wells of double-decker buses??? Can we have varification from the man himself ? -- 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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Sinister: Are we in the presence of something really special? I think so.
by Northy 12 Jan '98

12 Jan '98

I got a phone call from a friend a minute ago. He said that on a whim he bought 'If You are Feeling Sinister' from HMV. (to see what all the fuss I was making was about). He loves it and now wants to borrow my three EPs. Shall I let him? Well I have a tape of the BBC sessions now and Tigermilk is coming (or is it Steve?) so I think I will. The word is growing. Oh and I think someone who has a huge collection of music said they have a rack of 24 cds and stuff which he/she listens to the most. just out out interest - what is in the 24? Convert Count - 2 and growing..... Northy Isn't it weird - you want as many of your friends to hear B&S as possible but wouldn't you hate it if everyone liked them and you were just another fan.........I think this.......I don't want to be just another faceless fan. We are priveleged. Let us enjoy our position while we can ________________________________________________________________________ ``Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.'' - David Lloyd George. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: if you wanna be a star.....tell a monkey where you are!
by Northy 11 Jan '98

11 Jan '98

> Oh, and Rialto's new single went ibnto the charts at 20, and apparently > the album is due in March. I'm sorry buy why has this bloody Rialto song got so much attention recently? It is very, very shit. Monday Morning 5:19 was millions of times better. If you don't agree on an opinion basis at least look at it on a musical basis. The song has no melody. It has a moderately catchy beat but the chorus!!!! What is it? Some bloke shouting Untouchable to hide the fact that their is no melody there. I really am flabbergasted about how this song gets so much attention! Tell you what though - Rialto have been appearing on everything from Planet Sound to TFI Friday.....and I tell you what.....they speak **** bye Northy ___________________________________________________ ``Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.'' - David Lloyd George. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: pop quiz - we got some answers read on!
by Sarah 11 Jan '98

11 Jan '98

thank you all you lovely ppl for helping me out! here are all the answers we've got.....if you can help me get them all i would love you for ever! and if there are any very silly mistakes they are probably mine, so let me know! 1. Complete the sequence... 8, 3, 7, ? (4) i believe it's four since 8+3=11 and 7+4=11. lower and raise each alternate # by one and each pair continues to add up to eleven... 2. Complete the sequence... 43, N/A, ?, 22, 38 (5) CHART POSITIONS FOR ??? 3. Si tu etais un ange... Comes from which current single? And what does it mean? (2) UNTOUCHABLE - RIALTO MEANS 'IF YOU WERE AN ANGEL' 4. What was the UK's best-selling single of 97, and what was Europe's? (2) ELTON BLODDY JOHN -CANDLE IN THE WIND 5. Lauren Laverne is currently seeing which journalist? (1) SIMON PRICE? BUT HAS BEEN DENIED?!?!!? 6. Who released an album last year named 'Ice Cream'? (1) SALAD 7. Name the band/track from this lyric "Idiot - Slow Down" (1) RADIOHEAD - THE TOURIST 8. Name the band/track from this lyric "Too much Montechristo No 4 - Pass The Ventolin, I need some more" (1) SUPER FURRY ANIMALS - HERMANN LOVES PAULINE 9. Name 5 Welsh bands who have had top 40 hits in the last year. (5) CATATONIA, SUPER FURRY ANIMALS , MANIC STREET PREACHERS, STEREOPHONICS, GORKYS ZYGOTIC MYNCI 10. A Brimful Of Asha on the WHAT? (1) 45 11. Name Embrace's debut single and record label it appeared on. (2) ALL YOU GOOD GOOD PEOPLE - FIERCE PANDA 12. Name any three singles which have been re-released under different mixes. (3) WILDCHILD - RENEGADE MASTER SNEAKER PIMPS - SPIN SPIN SUGAR MY LIFE STORY - SPARKLE 13. Who, if we take everything he says literally, does Thom Yorke want to be? (1) JIM MORRISON - FROM 'ANYONE CAN PLAY GUITAR' OF PABLO HONEY 14. Complete the sequence... I?CP?WSHIWMB?MSRSCPNP?CCO?NINCAMGIFC (10) 15. Name the only duo to have two top 40 mid-price LPs in 1997. (2) RADIOHEAD WITH PABLO HONEY AND THE BENDS 16. "That worm-pie you made me, you made me eat from the butchers" : By whom, and what is it? (2) SILVER SUN - LAVA 17. "I stole his shoes and ran away trying jolly hard to see if we could catch him round the bend" : Again - artist and track please. (2) MENSWEAR - I'LL MANAGE SOMEHOW 18. Gene's debut single only half appears on the debut album. How and what is it? (2) FOR THE DEAD - ONLY APPEARS STRANGELY ON AN AMERICAN IMPORT SO..... 19. What year was Babies by Pulp released? (2) 1992 ORIGINALLY, THEN 1994 ON THE SISTERS EP 20. So Make Sure That she's old enough, before.... What? (1) "YOU BLOW YOUR MIND" - U16 GIRLS BY TRAVIS It's out of 50 - so just try your best. I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!!! 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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Sinister: politics?
by mctag＠mcmail.com 11 Jan '98

11 Jan '98

Richard North wrote: >But on a non environmental basis I am a Tory voter > >Please respect my opinion > >I respect and understand yours - but just 'cause I don't agree with >it, please don't attack me and later... >Isn't it funny that if you put a group of students in a room, they >will always end up talking about the cartoons they watched when they >were young? > >I noticed that they do.... Here's a wry observation. Have you noticed how if you put a Tory on a mailing list, he starts warbling on about keeping politics out of it. Guilty conscience, I reckon. Red Tag ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Other bands that get you off musically...
by Sarah 11 Jan '98

11 Jan '98

> OK, I'll start, > Steve Reich i've heard of Steve Wright, would that count? > Loudon Wainwright III Um, heard of London?!?! > John Fahey My cousin is called John. here's a few of mine: Dexter Gordon - out of dexdexter? ooh, i remeber Romo.... Jon Hassell - Les Baxter - Ena's husband? Ernest Tubb - sounds like a bath tub maker to me I feel so mainstream :) heres some of my top pop artistes. Manics Super Furries Gorkys Dogmanstar suede, not as much Coming Up suede. not intensely intense enough really. but the most pop MUSIC album i own really. i got it cos it was six quid at the Zoo. hmmm. St Etienne John Shuttleworth Spiritualized Tom Jones Radiohead heehe. and may i say that i HATE bjork. and as for catatonia, cerys might as well be bjork but without the beats. bjork and the dullards? i liked Bleed, i saw them on TFI and wanted to shoot them. hmmm. no doubt i may change my mind soon. i tend to often. eg i bought the ADF cd on last thurs. hated it. listened to it again sat and thought it was great. ooh the shallowality of it all. I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!!! Sarah "I am, Yet what I am no-one cares, or knows" -- John Clare OR! "I 'yams what i 'yam" --Poppeye ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: cartoon....
by Northy 11 Jan '98

11 Jan '98

Isn't it funny that if you put a group of students in a room, they will always end up talking about the cartoons they watched when they were young? I noticed that they do.... On the subject of cartoons... I think that Belle & Sebastian should be called Pink Panther 'cause that was a great cartoon. Convert Count 1 (but trying harder) Northy...... (see me - http:/www.concentric.net/~Mystyang/Northy.html) ``Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.'' - David Lloyd George. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Stuart M's dimples/Other bands that get you off musically../ The Franks
by Mr Arefin 11 Jan '98

11 Jan '98

> So... I would really love to know which other bands get you *sinister* > people off...musically, that is. > > My own essentials include The Bathers, Apples in Stereo, Bedhead, Blueboy, > Cocteau Twins, The Divine Comedy, Field Mice / Northern Picture Library / > Trembling Blue Stars, Frank & Walters, The Magnetic Fields, The Innocence > Mission, Low, Red House Painters, Spain, Stereolab, The Sundays, > Tindersticks, Trash Can Sinatras, Versus, Buddha on the Moon, Shift, 7% > Solution, ESP Summer, and Nick Drake (OK, he's not a band, but I adore him). > distasteful or distilled and to be frank, I find that life has more appeal > without a driver who's asleep behind the wheel" > - Neil Hannon ("Don't Look Down", 1994) May I ask why the Frank and Walters (otherwise known as "The Sweetest Men In Pop" ) only come ninth on your list? Tut tut. I went to one of their gigs in April and the guy-whose-dad-is-a-priest-or-something-out-of-the-divine-comedy was there, looking extremly short... And talking of famous people I can indeed confirm that Jarvis Coker is a bit of a B$S fan coz me& friends bumped into him in the loos at the Union Chapel gig (after having first accidentally walked in on the mens' loos- it really was an accident an non of the blokes seemed to mind too much....) Anyway, whilst at this said Union Chapel gig my best-friend confided to me that she found Stuart M quite attractive. After almost choking on my drink, I asked why. She revealed that it was in fact his dimples which were so alluring... (Me, I liked the trumpet-blowing-cutie whose name i don't know) Love the up-till-now-secretly-lurking- Yaz PS Ben, Triumphant chorus of "We love you, we do, we love you Ben, we do " x10 Thankx & love from many north london Tigermilk-brandishing Belle &Seb converts. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Other bands that get you off musically...
by Ian Turton 11 Jan '98

11 Jan '98

the duke of harringay wrote: > > Surely a more interesting question would be, "what _non-pop_ music > > floats your boat?" > > Endless lists of pop bands are starting to drive me crazy in this > season > > of the top ten. OK, I'll start, Steve Reich > > Loudon Wainwright III > > aaagh! can't go with you on this one here... i > listened to a few tracks ages ago cos my mates > were into it and i couldnae stand it :-( > Always struck me as a bit of a smug fucker ol' Loudon. John Prine would be my preferred alternative, but sans electrification. He was fucking brilliant at Glastonbury three years ago. Randy Crawford soundtracked my summer with her 'Secret Combination' CD. WC and the Maad Circle's Curb Servin' continues to amuse me, in every possible sense. Jimmy Smith's 'Home Cooking' er, cooks. Lost my favourite Drifters CD, but ain't lost my Irma Thomas vinyl. Towering above all of 'em though is George 'No Show' Jones. Angelic. > ... and even though i'd say that these people make records that are > Pop to me simply because of how i'm defining that these days, here's a > few of mine: > > Dexter Gordon > Jon Hassell > Les Baxter > Ernest Tubb > > Actually i was just going to write a piece about the Country influence > in B&S. maybe tomorrow. > > the duke > Hmmm, this I'm looking forward to. Admittedly it's the wee small hours of Sunday morning after two heavy nights on the bevies, but I can't quite see it meself. Only links my (temporarily, honest) addled brain can come up with are the distinctive singing and the 'clever' lyrical content. But they're pretty different variations on the two themes. Then again, 'Country' covers a whole swathe of music from shit to shinola and back again. If you think Gram Parsons 'She' or 'A Song for You' or ''Hickory Wind' or plenty of others and then think B & S maybe you notice the ability to take 'mundane' subject matter and fashion something that touches nerves. Gotta stop now 'cos I'm making a bad job of doing the Dook's job. night night evabody yerluvinunvleTurt ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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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