November 1998 - Sinister

Sinister: Top of the Chops
by Niceaction＠aol.com 23 Nov '98

23 Nov '98

evenin all. ok, i may well be very mistaken here, and if i am, you may beat me with a lamb chop... preferably on my bottom. :o) Were B&S asked to do a bit on Top of the pops on the release of the last single ?? but due to other commitments couldnt do it. If this is the case, will they have a little time to go on there to do Modern Rock Song.? I can just imagin the croud going from watching the tamperer sing some god awful tune, to seeing B&S. !! Jamie In my cd player - Eliza Carthy - Red Rice +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: To Happiness and HiFi
by Iangstl＠aol.com 23 Nov '98

23 Nov '98

Alexander the occasionally great wrote: >> But speaking of dancing to B&S, the piano part in Seeing Other People gives me a kind of Vince Giraldi Trio "Charlie Brown Theme" type vibe. Every time I hear it I'm forced to do a sort of shuffle like Schroeder does in the Peanuts Xmas special. << I too have used this description when trying to convert my unknowing and often unwilling friends. It makes me wanna dance on one foot then the next, alternating sides that I bop my head. The xmas special is the reason I have often thought this song extra wintry. carl wrote: >> if you haven't seen "happiness" yet, go see it! now! i mean it. i don't want to bastardize any of the movie, so i'll just say, "wow, it's quite a movie". << I completely agree!! I saw it last week and it has upped the ante for filmmaking. I havent been so moved to silence in a long time. I'm still digesting and processing most of it. I'm gonna try to see it again soon. Finally, on a consumer high last week, my vacuum tube amplifier and magnaplanar speakers were delivered on Friday. And although belle and sebastian sound great on my discman and everywhere else I have played them, I must admit they simply sparkle through my new system. So I am an audiogeek!! The tears that came upon my first listening to B&S came streaming again as I listened to Judy whilst sitting in my sweet spot. If you get a chance, go to a hifi shop and sample some B&S on some electroplanar speakers. When I was shopping around I used several songs for testing and a salesguy even wrote down the title and band name for himself. I know not everyone can appreciate or afford to get a similar system: mine came with several years of saving and a very teeny inheritance from my mom. But to hear every small breath Stuart takes is a simple thing that makes this not so young girl sigh. ciao for now, Dawn (Vintage68 Libra) np on her Adcom player thru her Conrad Johnson CAV50 and Magnaplanar 1.6's... the divine Sarah Vaughn +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: why me
by yellow submarine 23 Nov '98

23 Nov '98

why is everyone so hung up on having a crush? "why is nobody crushing on me?" blah blah blah, is that all that is important in life, finding someone? sorry for my rather dark attitude, it's my current mood. does everyone on the list see their main focus in life to find that one person in life to be with? what is wrong with being alone? why does everyone try and set me up, when i don't want to be? what is wrong with enjoying your isolation? not wanting to go to some club every saturday night to watch druken slobs attempt to pick up the first girl that looks at them? does anyone else feel completely out of place in this world? kind of hate everyone and everything but i love them all the same? anyone read A Long Days Journey into Night? one character feels he would have been much more successful being something else, just not a human being. i agree. like that interpretation of Fox in the Snow. has anyone found a way to escape? i've travelled all over the world and attempted to get away but it is impossible. momentarily you can escape, but reality always sneaks back in. is it possible to find your soulmate? i think that is what my troubles are. if there is truely only one person out there for each of us, what is the likely hood that that person will be plunked down in the same city as you, when there are 6 billion people in this world? seems impossible. do you all settle for less? and i don't want to go to clubs anymore, all i want to do is sit in my room and cuddle my cat, the only one who understands me. i want to get piss drunk sometimes and not worry about ending up in some louts bed the next morning. i want to sit alone in the park reading or go to the movies by myself. i want to live my life happily but that doesn't seem to be happening. oh i get into these moods sometimes. more often than not recently. i can't believe that anyone is still reading this. i don't know why i wrote. i'll regret this as soon as i hit send. why can't i be happy being alone, and why isn't that okay with everyone else? not everyone is meant for someone. why do i try.......... ______________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: csa
by kellym＠raygun.com 23 Nov '98

23 Nov '98

gateau du wizz wrote: |jessica - | |yikes....cool irish bands include: ... |the catchers ... |the catchers have a new album out...i had forgotten they existed |because the last time i saw them they supported a house at the garage |in london - 1994 - i guess i had a crush on alice lemon. she had |enormous boobs i remember. and a too-small top. saw the new album in |rough trade the other day and nearly fell over. i will purchase when |i hear something about it. Oh, oh, oh. I've been dying to recommend this album for the past two weeks but was brutally affraid people would think i was making stuff up in order to squandor your hard earned cash on something people have never heard of. BUT, I guess people do know of them so I shall heartily recommend it. Its a really hard album to lump into any set genre (file under easy listening?), so its a bit hard to find a context in which to put it in. It has some really beautiful sparse accoustic numbers filled with longing, love lost, love got, etc, as well as some sort of (don't make me say techno-ish) um... techno-ish (damn!) songs, but I say this in a very good way. Lots of violins and guitars and melody. It has a very good winter kind of feeling too it. The lead singer is male with a sort of um... irish i guess, kind of voice (does that make sense? he says "aout" for "out" hehe) and there is also a female who does some vocals. Pretty Pretty Pretty. Anyway, its by "catchers" and is titled "stooping to fit" and is out in the uk on setanta records. No US release has been worked out that I know of. -Kelly Ryan McGuire the not so indie rock critic +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: P. Parrot can't come to school as she is in intensive care.
by Mark Casarotto 23 Nov '98

23 Nov '98

As I was the naughty boy who wouldn't read his Italian poems at university, only grudgingly doing so when made to stand in the corner with my trousers on my head (that bit was voluntary), I am probably not the best person to be prosthletising (*buggered* if I know whether that's spelled right) about the joys of rhyme and verse. So, erm, I won't. Not until tomorrow, anyway. You see, the parrot is unwell. She accidentally brutally fell down a flight of stairs before getting up, staggering about and walking into a door. Several times. As a result, she doesn't feel up to entertaining you all today, and has asked that you give her 24 hours to recover the use of her legs and the sight in her left eye. Poor psittacene. So apologies for now, and congrats to the rather saucy Lady P for the longest email in the world - EVER! Though anyone who recommends the Stunning may not be quite all there, so tread carefully, pop kids, or it may be Corrs hell for all eternity... Mark xxx Currently in my toaster: 2 slices of Mighty White +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: dancin' to b&s
by lorelei tremelor 23 Nov '98

23 Nov '98

do they play b&s in your indie club? i was so amazed saturday when nick mark put "the boy with the arab strap" on at tiswas here in nyc. of course i was drunkenly trying to win tetris and couldn't step it up on the dance floor. lorelei ______________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: WARNING: High Smut Content
by Kevan Cooke 23 Nov '98

23 Nov '98

Hello folks, Someone mentioned gnocchi, which is a wonderful cross between pasta and potatoes, is a fine alternative to pasta in many a cheese laden recipe, and also sounds a bit rude. Well, it does to me with my smutty mind anyway. Talking of smut someone asked about Sid James. This came up on the Tindersticks mailing list about six months ago, and it took me several weeks to come to terms with the concept that there are people around the world who have lived their entire lives without ever seeing a Carry On film. This is pretty unthinkable in the UK where scarcely a week goes by without one of them being dredged up to fill the TV schedules. Basically Sid James was a South African hairdresser with a face like a prune and the dirtiest laugh in the history of the world. He moved to England and starred in a load of tacky, camp, low-budget, poor-taste comedies. These were the Carry On films. Sid James dedicated his life to the pursuit of busty blondes, both on and off screen, so if he talks to you like God then I have nothing but respect for you. Not Piccadilly Records! How could they? I bought IYFS there in 1996. Twice. And now I suppose David will have to go round there with a big stick and beat them up for selling dodgy Tigermilk CDs. Fools! Like Carmen, Fluffy, Sister Disco, and probably everyone else here, I am fond of several types of music. In my case this is largely due to the cross-genre nature of smut. Can anyone recommend any particularly rude musician types that I might like? Mail me directly, as not everyone on the list has my high smut threshold. I for one was very sorry to hear about Fluffy's accident. I wonder if the knee injury in some way reduced her ability to encourage people to vote for her. It would appear so. I make no apologies for the smut content in this message, smut has a bona fide connection to Belle and Sebastian now that they have appeared in the News of the World. Kevan The Fat Slug *********************************** chickclick.com girl sites that don't fake it. http://www.chickclick.com http://www.chickmail.com *********************************** +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: b+s=belle and sebastian, r+b=ruth brown
by Carl Polgar Jr 23 Nov '98

23 Nov '98

someone, maybe lesley, wondered what segment of the whole gen-x thing they fell into. my theory is that someone in my age group (around 21 or so) doesn't really fall into any generational category. to me, i'm too young to be a part of generation x (god, i hate writing that). while i am in my twenties, i think the term applies to those who were in their twenties during the early nineties, mainly those who were in their twenties when the term came into popular use and during the subsequent years after. in my little world, i narrowly avoided such a fate. i also think that people my age are too old to be a part of the pepsi-sponsored generation next, since that seems to apply only to pepsi's target audience of teenagers. so that's my theory. maybe i just came up with it as a way to avoid being labeled, which is not among my favorite things that i like to have done to me. my friends who are my age seem to agree with me. my older friends do not -- they happily tell me i'm a gen-x-er and that there's nothing i can do about it. boo to them. a cheap way of getting posters and flats of your favorite bands is to make friends with someone who works at a record store. record companies send out tons of flats, posters, stickers, promos, etc. all the time -- a couple of them stuff bumber stickers into their packages, i guess when they run out of styrofoam peanuts. i work at a rather, crappy record store (peaches music and video) and we keep everything the record companies send us in a big crate in our warehouse (hey, that was a really blatant run-on sentence!). since my store is rather sucky, though, we mostly get stuff from the major record labels. we don't deal much with matador so i probably can't get much belle and sebastian stuff (so you don't have to make friends with me). but cool stuff comes in every once in a while -- i got a really neat mini-comic book promoting the eels new album, and i have tons of free t-shirts from really crappy bands (if anyone wants a monster magnet t-shirt, just ask -- it's never been worn). one last thing, if you haven't seen "happiness" yet, go see it! now! i mean it. i don't want to bastardize any of the movie, so i'll just say, "wow, it's quite a movie". love to all, carl. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: dundee
by Tjonrr＠aol.com 23 Nov '98

23 Nov '98

so i know im new and everything, but has anyone tried to explain to the americans on the list about Dundee, as mentioned in Seymour Stein? around here in the NE of Scotland Dundee is regarded as a bit of a dump. i live about 30 miles up the road, and that is quite close enough for me, thank you. has any one else ever been to dundee? didnt stay long, right? our local claim to fame is that the chip shop that i go to in Stonehaven is the one that invented the deepfried MarsBar, which someone was talking about the other day on the list. Actually thats the second nearest chip shop to my house, but we dont go to the one down the road ever since the fat kid that works there was caught by his boss... to paraphrase a hefner song... making himself go blind. Suffice to say, anyone who still goes there is careful not to ask for salad cream on anything. sorry if i have put anyone off their dinner, but every word is true. anyway ive digressed... the other thing about dundee is that B+S labelmates Snow Patrol from Northern Ireland have recently moved there and there is also a growing local music scene, so im told. last time i was there, bout a year ago, i couldnt even find any half decent record shops and this beardy busker made a sort of miaow/growl sound at my brother and we both ran away. if i have offended any dundonians i apologise, you have my utmost sympathy just living there. from tjohn on my stereo: too much maudlin music. i really should get out more. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: carried away on irsh bands
by gateau du wizz 23 Nov '98

23 Nov '98

jessica - yikes....cool irish bands include: a house an emotional fish aslan something happens the stunning engine alley john holmes experience the fountainhead virgin prunes thin lizzy the undertones / fergal sharkey the pogues microdisney / fatima mansions the harvest ministers the frank & walters blink into paradise hinterland brian the fat lady sings the coletranes the catchers the floors divine comedy the golden horde the forget me nots luka bloom's "the accoustic motorbike" is *so* worth checking out. gawd, i used to follow the stunning (galway) around when i when to school...i was kind of obsessed with the singer steve wall....they released a mini album in 1990 called "paradise in the picture house" which is fairly difficult to get outside of the homeland but is definately worth tracking down for the title track alone...gorgeous melancholy lyrics sung by the honey-sweet tawny voice of sexy sir steve wall. ah, memories! a house (dublin) released one of my favourite albums ever, one of the most original and under-rated bands ever...definately get a copy of "i am the greatest"...their other stuff is very hit and miss - but IATG is a safe bet. i hear they broke up last year and the singer, dave couse, is working on a project with briana corrigan (who used to be in the beautiful south when they were good). engine alley were a band of kilkenny freakazoids who released a decent album in 1992 called "a sonic holiday" which had a great lead single called "mrs winder"....they had to go through all the typical bullshit irish bands do...the obvious "next huge thing" pressure etc. anyhow, it looks like their record company dropped them 'cause i haven't heard anything of them since that album was released....oh YES I HAVE - they had an excellent single called "switch" which i don't have a copy of. that single was bloody brilliant come to think of it. canice, the lead singer, was a bit hot actually and when he sang "switch" he pronounced the word "radio" like "ray jo" in the cutest possible way. bless his little heart. that single came out in '94ish....but that was it. the band themselves looked as if they were modelled on early split enz (ooooh boys in make up - how *daring*!). it was really sad - everytime they appeared on tv they all wore exactly the same thing...i understand the need for consistency but their record company just (what we call in ireland) "mean cavan bastards" something happens looked like bon jovi. (i think they were from dublin)...they released a nice album called "struck together with gods glue"...and followed up with some dreadful rocker album with a chicken on the cover (AVOID AT ALL POSSIBLE COSTS!!)...they got back on form at the end of '94 and released "cc incidentally" and i have no idea what happened then. the forget me nots were *gorgeous* sisters and released one of my fave irish singles "so good"...they released an album called "hullabaloo" which had it moments but didn't have me popping open bottles of bubbly with excitement as it's title might suggest. an emotional fish were dubbed u2 wanna-bes because they were on the mother label initially. they released a huge single called "celebrate" which was kinda cool and their debut album (an emotional fish") has some lovely sweet songs on it like "julian" and "lace virginia". nice. went awry on the follow up album and were dropped (i think) by mother. third album was such a change in direction...they became indie rockers and shopped in second hand stores....released a gorgeous & *fabu* single called "times on the wall" (or something like that) and i've heard nothing since...that was '95ish i think. into paradise were another one of my fave bands...i was so upset when they split up....they played a farewell show at the rock garden on crown alley. they had a beautiful single "why don't you". john holmes experience were a teeny weeny band who had a great song about a girl who had "perfect nails". ah, the hits hurt. the catchers have a new album out...i had forgotten they existed because the last time i saw them they supported a house at the garage in london - 1994 - i guess i had a crush on alice lemon. she had enormous boobs i remember. and a too-small top. saw the new album in rough trade the other day and nearly fell over. i will purchase when i hear something about it. the floors were from carlow and released a mini-album on the setanta label ("truths and distortions") which is worth hearing for (a guesting) maria mckee singing the line "oooh i love your ears, i love your eyes....c'mon let's rip her to shreads!" heh heh...they recorded some sessions on the dave fanning radio (ray jo) show...one track was called "thanks, i'm speechless" and was so yummy and showed off david donoghue's amazingly under-rated song writing skill. the fat lady sings released the single "arclight" about four times before it became a hit. it's such an uplifting song...has the lines "shine like a book that's never been read, burn like a saint who knows he's right"....the album "twist" was eventually released and had some appaling tunes ("gravy train" being the main offender IMHO) on it but "be still" (later recorded by sinead, peter gabriel and some other famous celebrity types with heads up their own arses for the "peace together" movement), "dronning maud land" and "arclight" made up for it. it's worth owning. avoid the follow up "johnson"...the band were supposed to play on st patrick's night in 1994 at the mean fiddler in london but suddenly broke up and nick kelly (the singer) went back to being a lawyer....i think he released a solo album this year but i haven't heard it. the golden horde were another really great irish group...they released the most *fabu* single ever in the history of all humanity (ish) called "friends in time"...which was a duet with maria mckee (she gets around this chick, non?). simon carmody, the singer, is a bit of a glam merchant and i think i crushed on him for a while too despite the fact he looks like the arse end of a bus. i think they only released one album and it is so great! it has that amzing single i just mentioned and other toons like "paula" and "house of girls"...one of the tracks on the album has the line "that girl is like a coca-cola bubble bursting in my head"....ah the hits hurt indeed. i wonder if they are still together. they are a great live band. the virgin prunes were kinda original for an irish band and released a great album which i can't remember in the early 80's....sounds really kitch now tho'. they were fronted by gavin friday who had since released a couple of solo albums and had a minor hit single with "falling off the edge of the world" (which had maria mckee on it as well - such a musical slut!) which is a gorgeous song....however, gavin thinks of himself as a bit of an innovator / mover and shaker on the irish music scene....he gets a lot of mileage out of the u2 associations (he went to school with bono and the edge). i saw him perform once and the whole thing was so pretentious i just had to laugh. picture it: an irish man sitting on a stool on a darkened stage with only his face lit from below, smoking a cigarette in between reeling off shite lyrics about how he is a tortured soul...eeeeEEEeek! i forgot to mention the slicked back oily black hair, and the "i am so cool, i could be serge gainsbourg" tone. a horrible man who will one day surely have his comeuppance. everyone knows the pogues, hothouse flowers etc etc. the other night i was soooo smashed and wanted to track down shane mcgowan in a pub near the angel....i knew he drinks there coz i saw him a few times before. under the affluence of incohol (dilliberate error proof-readers!), and under dare by my pal will, i went up to have a chat with shane. and stayed with him until i was kicked out at closing time. it so sad - i am such a star fucker. damn. just can't help myself. blink were a group from dublin who sounded like nobody else from ireland at the time. i'm not sure if they are still together or if they ever released an album but "going to nepal" was a great single. they had other similiarly fab singles but never had a huge hit. damn. brian have just re-released their debut album which is really great. they have the greatest song ever (no mediocrity with me!) called "understand". i hope this is useful to you....i hope you'll love ireland - galway is my favourite city but dublin is really buzzing also - i try to go every few months. nearer the time pri.mail me and we'll organise a meet up. if you want some reccommendations on contemporary irish writers: john mackenna (a year on our lives), joe o'connor (secret world of the irish male, desperados, play: red roses and petrol), colm toibin (heather blazing, the story of night). lady penelope, gateau du wizz. _________________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". 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