December 1998 - Sinister

Sinister: Tree Trimming
by Adrian Evans 24 Dec '98

24 Dec '98

Alexandra wrote : I might be if I wasn't nursing a red wine hangover from a tree trimming party we threw last night for all of our friends. Is it just me or is this just the most piss-poor excuse for a party in the world ever ? Tree-trimming ?? I don't need an excuse to party....I ROCK. I also own three radiohead albums. Ho ho the Duke will never speak to me again. In self-defence and a tri-lateral attack on the late great Dick North (is that an erection?) I think that they are mediocre at best and that someone should give that Thom Yorke something to really whine about. Anyway, enough of this nonsense otherwise we'll be back round to the thread about the finer points of Catatonia. I'll start...there aren't any. Declan McDeclan wrote sometime ago but then my e-mail hasn't been too efficient : does someone know a slightly smaller-yet-similar list to this? i mean = this is great an all but it just a bit of a chore trying to read all the = stuff sent to it. set your own list up Declan. alternatively just send messages to yourself and reply to them :) Subscribe to the digest and just skim read, it's so much easier. I had my card from Oooooooooooooooooooooooon this morning. Thank you Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon !!! It's got a beautiful Thai girl on the front who would be my ideal mail-order bride, only she's not real. I bet she's not as beautiful as Oooon though. Pleas don't take offence at the mail-order bride bit, it was just a joke. I find all my women on 0891-50-50-50. Is it just me or does anyone else on this list find the members of B*Witched very unattractive ? Like Edele would be okay, but she's got a big whole in her head. I used to like adolescent girls, but now I guess I'm just getting old. Did I tell anyone it was my birthday on Tuesday. I'm 27 now and spent the whole of yesterday with my head in a carrier bag. Mark C scathed : Does anyone know if Electrasy are on an indie or a major? Cos I fucking hate them with a passion that possibly outdoes my loathing for Embrace - that "Best Friend's Girl" song is easily the most loathsome song of 1998. here here...I don't care what label they're on, I just hope a terrible death becomes them all. what's more they talk funny like me, and have an annoying habit of playing shite venues in Tiverton and Plymouth and probably Woolfardisworthy. I would say they're probably on a major, though I'd like to think that they are on a Pan-Am jet flying over Iraqi airspace just now. On one of my more pleasant notes, my I wish you working types that are still with us a very merry electrasy free christmas, and a happy radiohead free new year. Adrian...xxx PS. Honey, hope you are a lot better and back with us in the new year. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: and now: my top ten (just kidding)
by Evan Gregg 24 Dec '98

24 Dec '98

oh well just a thought not to be rude but its kind of a dissapointment this list cant handle something like that but then again most other lists are restrained and less fun overall now all that making sure i bought all the great indie records this year added up to nothing more than good music, maybe someone will want to hear my top lists ill stand in the middle of the town and read it aloud, until i get arrested for public display of good taste ok well nothing much else to say so ill prolly just disappear for awhile or until someone says something interesting -----Ev np-Mark Eitzel-Caught In a Trap And i Can't Back Out Cause I Love You Too Much Baby (this would be a top...if such a thing existed) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: happy kwanzaa
by Tara Widmer 24 Dec '98

24 Dec '98

hmmm... now that resident studboy Dirk/Robbie has flown the coop, anal beads in hand, to go play with his "hard" mates in Shanana (double entendre intended, oh yes), and let it fall in my lap to spread the smut on Sinister, it is with regret i look to another to carry on the tradition. well, not too much regret really. I've got, like, work and vacation and stuff to deal with and can't be bothered to come up with anything smutty enough or even vaguely RIBALD to share so whoever wants to have a go, please feel free. The cryptic lad who once accused/praised/whothehell knows this list of being "nail" was spot on, even if I never could figure out what he meant, but alas, in a desperate effort to be like all the cool kids I, too unsubbing for the holidays. It's gotten kind of down lately too, which makes me what, the 4,132nd person to say so... Perhaps Honey's deafening silence means he has left...which is a shame, this list was an exceptionally wonderful place, especially looking thru the archives and realizing how different it was from the average mailing list. yet there are still lots of happy bunnies around, if anybody is flaming Genevieve personally they need to be taken out to the bike racks after school and roughed up by those shanana types (the band or the list, whatever)...and the duke of h's recent anti-radiohead diatribe was pretty inspirational... so it'll all work out in the end, yes? *mwah* now have a delightful new Year and happy holidays to all, I look forward to meeting various Sinister types in the coming weeks, be it Brighton, Glasgow or a dark alley somewhere the middle of a cold winter's night... oooh yeah. NME ticketline is the work of the devil, you know. tata! tara +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: The Festive 50
by John F. Monroe 24 Dec '98

24 Dec '98

here is a little bit of Peel's festive 50, I don't get to hear the show myself, so all inconsistencies are just due to me copying this from another source. maybe someone hearing the show wants to post if belle and sebastian get another one in? predictions were for ' the boy with the arab strap' to be somewhere up near the top :) i have no idea if the show is now past 26, or what 50 through 34 were... 33 Mercury Rev - Goddess on the highway 32. The Fall - Pat Trip Swaize or Male Nurse - My Own Personal Patrick Swaize 31. The Freed Unit - Widishins (?) 30. Billy Bragg - way over yonder in the minor key 29. Super Furry Animals - Ice hockey hair 28. Fat Ass Slim Chance - Rockerfeller Skank 27. Clinique - Monkey On Your Back 26. Belle & Sebastian - Sleep The Clock Around now i am off to borrow my neighbor's pants... -john +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Re:
by Julien Boeldieu 23 Dec '98

23 Dec '98

--- Cynthia Someone <csomeone(a)hotmail.com> a �crit : > > Hello darlings > > anyway, I feel I must apologize if anyone felt I was accusing > the list of being apathetic to the world around them. That > wasn't what I was getting at, no ... I pretty much just wanted > to say what was really going on at my end. Oh well. I didn't want to say anything else, but I feel I must apologize as well if anyone felt, etc (can't find better words). Julien == "Je ne remets jamais � demain ce que je peux faire le surlendemain" ** Alphonse Allais ** _________________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Glasgow meet up
by Keith Watson 23 Dec '98

23 Dec '98

Hello everyone, how's it going? I said I'd post about the Glasgow meet up. I can't think of anything better to do than to just meet up on the 31st at 4:00 just outside Hillhead underground. I figure we can probably work out what to do from there. Anyone's welcome to come along, and I'm sure it'll be a laugh. See you there. By the way, has anyone else realised why Cher is so young looking - it's because she's actually a robot, if you listen carefully to her recent record you can hear her voice malfunctioning occassionally. Cheers, Keith. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: There is a light, that will, most certainly, never go out.
by Ben Parker 23 Dec '98

23 Dec '98

If the last few weeks have indeed taught me anything at all, it is that "Willow" by the field mice is both the best thing in the world to listen to after breaking up with a girlfriend, and the worst. I'm starting to see why I fell in love with the smiths all those years ago; music can, yet agian, allow me to wallow in my own self obsessiveness. Nice one. (She didn't really like belle and sebastian anyway, so sod it). Nice to see Black Star, and rawkus records, getting a mention, by someone out there. A breath of fresh air really. An album cruelly missed out by both of the weekly music papers end of year lists. Along with almost everything i have brought over the last year, really. Better than the manics last stuff anyway. Jesus. And MOgwai are pretty decent live. Although, when i saw them they were sort of a bit quiet really. Needed a bit more noise to lose myself in tthe music. It was in a little pub as well, so you'd think it would be loud. And while i'm at it, what are they doing supporting the MAnics? Getting themselves known i suppose, but...I dunno.(Does the mind rule the body...or does the body rule the mind?) God! now i'm even quoting the smiths. Better watch meself before i become douglas coupland or something. Who's last book incedently, in my humble opinion, was a little bit crap. reminded me of watching that my so called life program that was on channel 4 the other year: watchable, yet nothing more. Like the breakfast club without the humour, or the irratating, yet lovable, best friend getting drunk on the eve of his 21st birthday and trying to be profound whilst telling you his never last his virginity. Or something. BeN _________________________________________________________ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: record labels & the cardigans
by Jim Schmidt 23 Dec '98

23 Dec '98

heather asked: "Also, are the Cardigans worth listening to? Or is this just a bunch of recording label hype?" well, i saw this question and thought that this was the perfect example of a band that got swept away by a large label and have been repackaged for mass consumption...with mixed results for both the fan and the band. well, to answer your question, yes, the cardigans are definitely worth a listen...their first two albums are superb...i don't think anyone on this list would throw "emmerdale" on a burning pyre in disgust...i was quite a fanatic a few years ago when the band was relatively unknown, making sweet 60s music that appealed to the lounge culture...but after signing to a big label for their third album and creating a huge hit "lovefool"--which has been played ad nauseum--the band has definitely lost some of their charm...i give them credit for trying to reinvent themselves, or more accurately for presenting themselves as jaded and worn after monstrous touring and PR...nina even admits in interviews that if she has to sing "lovefool" one more time...! i still have a special place in my heart for the cardigans, but part of their specialness is lost forever...i hope this never happens to belle & sebastian. i'd rather they break up before they hate performing their songs live because they are sick of them; before their albums are repackaged and resold and start coming out in japan/u.s./europe/etc. with extra bonus tracks; before fans follow them and buy all of their singles only to be duped when they are released on a future cd with one new song; before going to see them live becomes a push-and-shove event; before the band aches to be left alone to live a private life apart from interviews and touring. there's a price for everything. i'd rather have to wait a bit longer/pay a bit more and not have everything turn into a franchise. not to say that people won't try to take advantage of consumerism...there's a "live" cd on ebay for belle & sebastian going for 55 bucks which supposedly has the bbc sessions on it...they're calling it "i'd rather be watching football"...i know it's a crock and i hope jeepster/bbc goes after the bastard...yeah, it's harder to get a few songs, but having a list like this allows for people to trade music...hell, i just sent a tape off (containing the radio sessions going for 55 bucks and more!) to sweden for someone that i'll probably never meet and i did it because someone was kind enough to do the same for me... so i guess my point is that labels like people aren't inherently good or evil...whether you want to make money, distribute good music or just get your hands on some new songs, it's the method you go about it that makes all the difference. whoa, i'm getting too syrupy around christmas...let me put my cynical sheen back on... everything is eventually ruined...it'll end in tears...yesterday i heard a danceclub remix of "here's where the story ends" and almost cried. have a nice holiday everyone and if you can't give the gift of love, you better get shopping! cheers.jim. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: chords to songs.
by Bluvelour＠aol.com 23 Dec '98

23 Dec '98

does anyone have an extensive collection of b&s songs that they've got figured out? i'd especially like "dog on wheels" and "slow graffiti"... and lots of others actually... e-mail back privately.. thanks a bunch! +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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: Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa....
by Shearer, Calumn 23 Dec '98

23 Dec '98

OK, I haven't wrote in a while, but I've been hiding at the back of the class, looking at Brad's dirty magazine and giggling at the dirty wimmin. well, chaps (and chapesses) I'm off. I'm outa here. It's goodnight from me and It's goodnight from me. I'm unsubscribing for Chrismas (giving up the list for lent?) but I'll have a sneaky look at the archives every now and again, just to make sure that whatever you're saying about me is truly filthy and hugely funny. and of course to see when that tigermilk thing's going to appear in my CD player. that would be a good "surprise present" - hey ho. Patience is a virtue though, and I'll just have to wait. A while back, someone (no web access at the moment, or I'd check the archives.... might have been "HMHB Gary" though I'm not sure why I think that) let slip a nugget (ooer) about Ninja records.... well, I got hold of a couple of their CD's and yes, whoever you were - they're fan-bloody-tastic. I'm also developing a bit of a soul fetish. I blame the lot of you. I've been ROTFLMAO at the acronyms discussion. Is it just me, or is the whole topic just a bit silly. A few messages for people left right and centre... If you're bored, scroll down to the bottom of the message, it's quite a good bit and has a joke about microsoft in the .sig Keith (&Tag?) - about this New Year thang..... any news? (I hate to hassle, but I'm trying to fill up me new year's diary. make it last about a fortnight, not that I'll remember much, hopefully) Her Royal Candarelness - Missed stopping off to say "HI!" on the way back up from London, sorry. I did try to get there, but the plane wouldn't stop. (I did see a girl down there with her thumb out, was that you?) And her Loyal footman, Gary - HMHB..... class. that is all. Kevan / Julie - you two still running these Tape Trees? I haven't seen any tapes for a while..... and on that subject - Who's got my tapes? Go on, Identify yourselves!! I wanna know how my babies are doing! Honey - I worry. I do. Are you OK? (I *still* have that damn pen. I told you I'd treasure it, Linda!) and I'm sorry about all the personal messages in this, but my e-mail at work's a bit iffy, and I need to get all this out quick. Serves them right for putting me in charge of the e-mail server. Duke - what's the chances of a signed copy of your book still lying around? I couldn't find a copy in Waterstones, Dillons or Johnney Smiths (despite the fact their PC said they had 3!) so, can I send you a cheque, then? Lesley Jo - *hug* with a snuggle thrown in. Marco#7 - there's a Chrismas pressie on it's way to you, but it'll be a bit late. and a great big mwwwwaaaaa! to everyone else. Merry Chrimble. (have a good Ramadan) I'M GOING NOW, BYEEEEEE! (in a cynical attempt to get the Fluffy Sahara marginal votes in the listcrush thingy) Calumn Shearer A Curlers He-Man (an anagram I *actually* like!) Mail me if you want a chat. (I might be in IRC now and then) ooh, eck... forgot the joke: Microsoft announced this week that due to Y2K problems, Windows 2000 will be delayed until Jan, 1901. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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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