December 1998 - Sinister

Sinister: precocious rock critic? moi?!!
by alex tobin 19 Dec '98

19 Dec '98

hmm, well phil, this is just to salvage that little faith people have in rock critics... as a so-called... erm... 'rock critic', i know many colleagues that receive albums about an hour before the deadline, only get a chance to listen to it once and have to deliver a review... a personal experience of mine relates to listening to rem's 'automatic for the people' years ago and hating it, thinking the songs were drab, boring, and tuneless (yes, i await a bombardment of mail telling me that indeed the songs are drab, boring, and tuneless and that rem is crap). but after those first five listens, it started growing and growing on me... after ten listens, i loved it. now the album is one of my faves (sorry for those offended that rem is on a major! silly twats!). lesson: always beware! if i like an album instantly and the songs are catchy right off the mark, i'll probably learn to despise it very quickly. many excellent records are 'difficult' and take a few spins to work their magic. and who knows? - maybe one day 'the gate' will be heralded as a classic. you know, one of those songs enclosed in a wee capsule on the moon... nah! doubt it. your 'rock critic' and b&s fan (an anomaly?) alex p.s. as i've plugged before, for those german-speakers, there's a lengthy 'rock critique' of the boy with the arab strap (stop those bloody abbreviations!) on my page... ----------------------------------------------------------- alex tobin pater romboutslaan 14 6419 be heerlen the netherlands phone +31.45.5711883 fax +31.46.443.3937 mobile +31.6.50603533 e-mail alex(a)tobin.demon.nl webpage http://www.tobin.demon.nl +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Out of curiosity...any musicians in Philadelphia?
by bkim0＠dept.english.upenn.edu 19 Dec '98

19 Dec '98

Sorry to be so off-topic, but I'm curious if there are any musicians here on Sinister that also reside in Philadelphia that might be interested in "jamming"...and when I say that I don't mean trade off solos, but rather make some nice melodic hushed pop that isn't exactly like B&S (why try?) but at the very least in that vein. If so, e-mail me please! The "pop musician" community here seems to have dwindled down to single digits....* Sorry to the non-musicians, you just have to understand that it gets a little lonely when it seems like very few people would listen to the same things that you do, much less play an instrument. Seems like in Glasgow you couldn't throw a rock without hitting someone like this! Lucky bastards.:) I just want to make some music, is that so wrong. Xavier -- BXK M o t h e r , M a y bkim0(a)dept.english.upenn.edu I S l e e p http://www.english.upenn.edu/~bkim0 W i t h D a n g e r ? X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X---X +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: immortal beloved
by Archel 19 Dec '98

19 Dec '98

peter wrote, endearingly: ****** Does anyone else fear that B & S is so good that something must be wrong? ****** This is brilliant. Especially with all the narkiness on the list lately, and then someone goes and reminds us all what we're here for. Something IS wrong - B&S are clearly angels disguised as (admittedly pretty angelic) humans. Their mission is to communicate the divine music of the heavenly spheres to us mortals, though why we deserve it I don't know. This would explain everything. I listened to TBWTAS in bed last night (for the first time in a while what with TEAJAMMERS) and it made me so happy that I could hardly stop myself from getting up, throwing on some clothes and running into the street (or at least my housemate's bedroom) to shout 'This band are so bloody wonderful that I can barely breathe when I listen to them. Buy everything they've done NOW!' And at the same time it was a kind of sad happiness, because there's such beauty in the world at the same time as such horribleness. I don't want to be at war, but no-one asked me. I'm unsubbing for Christmas on Monday. I hope I'll be back. To steal from the Duke: keep the faith. Luv Archel ------------------------------------------------------------------- Rachel Playforth rap101(a)york.ac.uk http://members.tripod.com/~RPlayforth/welcome.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------- "We're the younger generation, we grew up fast. All the others did drugs, they're taking it out on us." +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: We All Live in a Melting Submarine!
by PJMiller 19 Dec '98

19 Dec '98

The list without Keith is like "On The Buses" without Olive, or "Get On Board With The Double Deckers" without Lenny Kravitz - almost unthinkable! I hope Northy's good old asshole will hold out, as Allen Ginsberg once said. I'm disappointed that we haven't received a deluge of over-excited ink polaroids from last night's festivities at London's notorious Po Caff. I can only assume that you're all hungover, like the cardie nibbling ninnies you undoubtedly are. Who was rude about Polly Jean? I love and respect her AND Hilda Baker - oooh oooh oooh honey! Must do a websearch for Arthur Mullard. Yesterday I was confronted by a naked man bending over and pulling his buttocks apart to reveal his hairy anus, which had a childish spider's web crayoned around it! Unfortunately, it was only a photograph, but it was good anyway. It formed part of an x-rated exhibition of modern art, which I stumbled upon in the bowels of the public library. I don't know, you artists today seem to think that you can get away with anything, regardless of public decency! Is this what we pay our taxes for? Thank goodness we have "The Gate" to uphold moral standards. As for Master Murdoch's mastery of the female psyche, I think it's a load of Jiminey Cricket. Apparently Tolstoy used to get loads of letters from birds who thought he understood their problems too. Mike Oldfield's probably equally on the ball, he just doesn't go on about it much. I don't think there's much difference between Stuart's lyrics and those of Phil Lynott, to name but one example. All right, perhaps I'm exaggerating a little bit, but at least it's on topic. One of the 467 reasons I like "Slow Graffiti" is beacuse it is the work of a fully matured artist, ripe for plucking and putting in a marvellous pop fruit pie of record-breaking dimensions, and it's about a boy. I like the ones about girls too though. Now you can see why I usually steer clear of this kind of thing. That bit about some boy's jumper is one of my favourite B&S lyrics, and the jogging bottoms that smell of pollen go down well too. "You Made Me Forget My Dreams" is my most hummed B&S tune, except the freaky bit at the end. Katrina Ann House, resubscribe us all to the Jeepster news list immediately, or I shall be forced to make diddy-dum-dum noises with my ruby red lips and little white hands. We all love Jeepster, and anyone who implies otherwise is simply pulling your leg. We all know you fancy the bloke out of Snow Patrol and that's why you're sulking. Tolstoy used to get loads of stick too, you know, and he lived to have a ripe old beard. By the way, my mate fancies you. Honest. Gary, you've caught me out, I'm afraid. I've never heard Chicory Tip, but I believe gnome expert JJ pointed out the similarity a few weeks / months ago. Sister Disco PS: China beat Thailand at football. PPS: Zorionak back +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: I have let London down this time
by Arantxa Sanz 19 Dec '98

19 Dec '98

Dear list : I had a sort of difficult day today, full of financial problems, as my scholarship cheque had been lost by the porters in our department (?)and took me several hours to find it all around the building. So, because of that fact and other ones I am not going to tell because I don't want to kill someone with boredom ,I had quit to attend the Poetry Cafe Chritmas Social.But when my cheque turned up , I thought it was still a quarter to five and maybe I had a chance to go...I went to the station and arrived in time to catch a train which had left in St Pancras at 19:30,not too bad, but if I got the ticket , I felt then my collaboration with the decay of British not-public-anymore transport was going to far just because of a late caprice and my financial troubles were due to start again, so came back home and watched Top of the Pops, wishing next Christmas Stuart, Isobel and above them all, Chris (I think Chris sex symbol side has been underrated in this list) will take the Pops' set by a surprise attack and no more groups of 3,4,5 girls in a row will give such me a stomach pain with their similar but not equal outfits and their sticky,slushy,cheesy songs all sounding the same. I will pray Santa and all the rest of the saints for that.If someone wants to help me... Arantxa +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: beware: depressing and may ruin your health:
by Cynthia Someone 19 Dec '98

19 Dec '98

hello everyone I haven't talked in a while but i'm still listening. Lately I've turned on to France Gall and sprinkle my mix tapes with her songs ( and B&S songs), and Ballet Shoes was one of my favorite books when I was a kid, I'd read it in the bath tub; it got soaked once and I tried to dry the pages ... now it's all taped up, beyond dogeared. I really wanted to say, that this world is falling apart and I've noticed that no one is talking about it. With my friends I've talked, but not on the list, not at work, why is that? It's apocalyptic. I don't mean like just getting out of bed and somehow not knowing where you are... I mean, Clinton, and the land mines of Bosnia, and the bombings in iraq. Why is it that America doesn't have a day of reverence for those they've killed in other countries, why is it that this whole impeachment thing just might not happen if we got over this party system, this system there purely to funnel power to few, and most importantly to make a lot of money... I have a friend who wants to work on the 10,000 year clock that eno and some others are putting together. A clock built to run for 10,000 years, and then stop. anybody, from any culture which may find it maybe 10,000 years after it stops, could start it again. the technology, beyond digital. The next great wonder of the world. With hope like that, to see beyond the year 2000... what makes us think we've run out of future. here's a theory. the reason why we haven't found life on other planets is because the time life is capable on a planet is so brief, in comparison with the length of time the universe has endured, it would be uncommon to find life on another planet. Cynthia ______________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Runaround Jue
by Corpora Arenacea 19 Dec '98

19 Dec '98

To all the people I was going to see and meet in England: Ummm. Change of plans. I have to go to Israel. My grandmother got hit by a bus riding on her Vespa. In the cruelest of synchronicities: Right before I found that out I drove home thinking, "I should post about how great Rollercoaster Ride is, I never liked it before, but it's long and it makes me drive slower." Got home, checked my mail and found a note racking on RR, and my dad called me to tell me about the accident. Then I had to study, badly, in a panic. In fact, as we speak (well, as I write)I'm probably missing your meet-up. Siiiiiigh. Hope you're all enjoying yourselves. Special thanks to Herr Trou for offering up a futon. Someday soon. I will laugh right in the face of the poison moon. -Eran In my TV: "Motley Crue: Behind the Music". Hey, at the height of grungemania I e-corresponded with Nikki Sixx for about two years. Can't say I'm really fan, doe. Anyone know how to umlaut on a PC? ______________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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Re: Sinister: happy fluffy bunnies scurrying in the field
by Mew817＠aol.com 19 Dec '98

19 Dec '98

Hi everyone, This is the lurking megan who has come out of hiding. By the way, I've decided to go by my initials, mew, so as not to be confusing. And besides, (Magnetic) Megan is the original! And now I'm going to respond to a wee bit of her post: > i just want happy bunnies to > hum happy bunny tunes. I agree, that's what I want too! What's with all the mean stuff on the list lately? Maybe it's because it's the holidays and people are grouchy because they did not finish their shopping, that they have to spend time with weird relatives, that they've got the flu or a cold.... I don't know, it's just kinda sad. I don't really want to get into the whole "indie/ majors" thing, but I do want to say that I think that David has some good points and I can say that confidently from experience. It makes me sad that David and Katrina are upset (or seem to be). I think it's cool how involved they are. I mean, they do seem to care about all of us Sinisterines and they seem like genuinely sweet, nice people. It seems to me that above all, they are fans of B&S too. I don't want you guys to think that I'm kissing ass or anything, I just know how it must feel for them to hear all kinds of crap about Jeepster. I once worked for an independent label and I was a fan and would defend it to the end. Believe me, people did say stuff about that label and it sucks to hear that when you know it's not true. Sorry for going on so long about this... Ok, now that I've got that out of my system, I'm gonna go snuggle up in bed! Sweet dreams and Happy Holidays! mew x +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: three cheers for little baby jesus
by kellym＠raygun.com 19 Dec '98

19 Dec '98

hurrah. two weeks vacation, presents from co-workers (a martini shaker thing, a book on making mixed drinks and some 'sensual body oil... haha), a trip to london and a very drunken christmas party complete with me doing the rumpshaker with vicki in accounting, this christmas shit is great. of course, we all have to remember, that the holiday isn't about materialism and consumerism and all those things, its about celebrating the birth of my lord and saviour, my sheperd, Jesus Christ almighty. um... wait a second. nevermind. i thought i was someone else there for a second. um, so yeah, gifts and all that shit, its ace. i've finally found a place to stay in london. its near the paddington tube stop. its not gonna be pretty but i'm pretty sure that it beats living on the street for a week. so yeah. hurrah me. once again, i will be there from the 26th to the 1st of December/Jan. I plan on drinking a lot, wandering the streets and maybe smoking a little crack. that's about it. la la la. ok, i'm gonna head home now and figure something out. -kelly ryan mcguire "Is he truly sorted, sort of sorted or just plain assorted? It always takes so long to find out, doesn't it?" +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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Re: Sinister: I like my Belle and Sebastian just the way they are.
by Ivo A P Escossia 19 Dec '98

19 Dec '98

Philly1013(a)aol.com wrote: >Possibly, but I doubt we'd have a lovely song like "the Gate" >available to us. Yes, the song is exactly the sort of thing that would be >pruned out for an extra buck or two, and yet if such were the case I'd be >robbed of the song that's just about made my week of utter boredom (Which >isn't to say that any of the other songs one the new EP aren't in their own >rights fabulous, but "the Gate" just happened to be what I needed. Thanks Philly I agree with you. well..almost ! I got TIJAMRS today. and i can't understand why SO MANY listeeees did not like THE GATE. Can we go back to the subject cause i've got the Ep Now ? I am joking. of course, "I Know Where The Summer Goes" is the best song on this wonderful Ep. It reminds the day i got *..... sinister*. Megan Elise wrote: >i couldn't have put it better myself...when i found the smiths i thought that >the world could end in the nighttime or the daytime and it wouldn't matter >because of the passion and the poetry they filled every waking moment >with...and then these little sweethearts called belle and sebastian come along >and steal every minute of attention from their older siblings (the smiths) >like a newborn child or a kitten...i can't get them out of my cd player... >all i want to do is stay home everyday and analyze the brilliantly clever >lyrics and read the little stories they write... Would you like to marry me ? I am joking again, but ..... This was the best mail i read here in the past days. lovely, simple AND ..with passion. ALL WE NEED IS PASSION. Ivo A P Escossia +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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