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Sinister: Return of the Lovin Spoonful baiter!
by Jonathan Wren 18 Mar '98

18 Mar '98

Warning all Lovin' Spoonful fans, I am back on a permanent basis! Anyways, a few things have happened since I've been away and I've got a couple of questions, too. Whilst walking through the 60s concrete hell of Dundee's Overgate Centre the other week I saw a guy walking through carrying, what I think was a guitar case with Snow Patrol written on it. This was a somewhat surreal experience as I'd just been looking at their single in Virgin. Do they come from Dundee? Also, since I was last here I got my hands and fell in love with the Dog On Wheels E.P. How on earth does Stuart Murdoch make the line `7 to 8 years old, well that's pretty small' sound like the saddest thing on earth?! And The State I Am In is the best song I have ever heard. Ever. It has a beautiful melody, stunning lyrics and is sung by a cracked angel. God, that song got me through some pretty miserable times recently; I used to just sing the opening lines to myself over and over again. Also, Tigermilk. DON'T HIT ME! What is the protocol for swapping stuff etc. in order to get a taped copy of aforementioned album? I thought I could wait until whatever time they choose to re-release it, but each day, that empty gap in my record collection is gnawing away at my soul. All the best, Jon...back for good. -- ***************************************** The unofficial Leyton Orient Mailing List For info on joining mail me at jwg.wren(a)dial.pipex.com or Chris Uwins at web-orient(a)clara.net ***************************************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: mmmmmemories
by blink＠inexpress.net 18 Mar '98

18 Mar '98

Hello dollfaces, >Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 11:26:00 +0000 >From: OMUser=Olafia Svansdottir <olaf7(a)tr.is> >Subject: Sinister: nbs or no content for that matter, feel free to skip this one > >>Ah, the heady BritPop summer of '95. Happy days! > I was watching bbc prime the other day and I saw a show >called Britpop now- remember? it was in the blome of britpop and had: >Blur(in school uniforms singing country house), Echobelly, Sleeper(oh >they still exist), Elastica,Menswear and Supergrass,,, it took me >back,,, some bands did come out of that area ok, and are still live >and kicking and I dont mean to trash any of them. Aaaaah! I know EXACTLY what you're talking about,oh I must've watched that so many times offa MusiquePlus! When Pulp peform at the end i had every little move Jarvis did memorized (he was so funny when he tried to jump in the air!) Especially when he did that finger twirly thing....geez,he has the long finger! And when Marion came on we all almost fainted from excitement of Jaime Harding and his passionate ways....(same with the 'Sleep' video...purple satin bed with Jaime...oh my it's getting hot in here....) If it hadn't been for BritPop I would probably never be listening to Belle & Sebastian....when I was 10 the only two groups I listened to were INXS and U2... I liked Oasis ok (I still think Cast No Shadow is a lovely song!)..and I bought this magazine call 'Q' for the very first time with somebody I'd never heard of before named Jarvis Cocker....then suddenly,Brit-Mad I went..I bought Cast,Sleeper,Supergrass,Blur,Pulp,Babylon Zoo,Spacehog...I don't listen to all those bands anymore,but I am still Brit,Eire and Scot Mad!It was destined for me...to buy that Q... I remember listening to Great Escape,Pablo Honey and Different Class so much the tape wore out....one particular day I remember,it was a beautiful spring day fresh from the cold winter,and the lake was sparkling and me and my friend took a portable cassette player outside and lied in the still damp ground with the sun warming us,writing letters to Damon Albarn and Jarvis Cocker.... Ahhh Menswe@r...I remember the day my friend got that album and I got Pulp s His 'n Hers..I was so upset at the time,cos i felt like I got the crap album...my opinions now are quite different..I never really liked the members of Menswe@r (too full of themselves!) That Chris was sweet though...but Johnny Dean...he needs a smack..I wanted to beat him up..You know Menswe@r were actually in Seventeen magazine...pages of them in stylish clothes..they were more of a fashion band weren't they? Well anyways,then I discovered Suede and everything seemed to change.. my REAL shame: I fancied Gavin Rossdale. Yes..that..that Potato Man! I kissed the screen and fell to my knees when he came on this one show and played!I bought that 'sexy' Rolling Stone magazine with him on it,where he's biting his finger?...ewwww...I learned quickly though,and used ot torment my friend (who still liked him) by watching that one Jimminy Cricket video of him in slo-mo...he really do look like Jimminy Cricket...I still have the magazine cover on my wall though...you know how some ppl they get a tattoo,and they don't like it,or it got messed up and they could get it fixed but they choose not to? They choose to keep it? The same reason i keep that potato man on my wall (and also cos now i can just laugh at it!) ohmygoodnes,Grease is coming back to the theatres! (...those summmmer niiiihiiights...) sweet cakes and milkshakes, Genevieve boys will be boys! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: another reason to say 'tah' to mark r
by tuffen＠opgc.univ-bpclermont.fr 18 Mar '98

18 Mar '98

the guy introduced me to television (the band!) and captain beefheart, both of which turned up on 'out on blue six' a few years back. no, he didn't introduce me to radio. oh, and the flaming groovies (always was a great name forra band. I played those three because they all sound like captain beefheart which in the case of the second one is hardly surprising because it WAS captain beefheart. and if you can't sound like yerself, whocan you sound like? 'i sound like myself and i like myself sound' - what a philosopher i am eh kids) oh shit this is serious, i actually know some of his segways off by heart! from 1993! hugh ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Nostalgia ain't what it used to be
by Nicole Elger 18 Mar '98

18 Mar '98

(No B&S Content) On Wed, 18 Mar 1998 the tall guy who hadn't posted much for ages returned and wrote: >On a completely different (and almost entirely irrelevant) note, has >anyone out there seen Acetone live? They're described in this month's >Select as an "American Belle and Sebastian", and they're supporting >Spiritualised here on Saturday; is it worth turning up early for them? Hmmm, I can't say I see any similarities between the two whatsoever, although no doubt some reviewer out there has also mentioned VU in terms of Acetone because they do in reference to 80% of the music in my collection. Acetone sound a bit country, sort of slow and sad and pretty. They're one of those bands that I fully expected to grab me and drag me gloriously under, but when I listened to them not much happened. It's like how some people can be just perfect for you in a textbook way, except for the fact that you're not at all in love with them. So anyway, I think Acetone is a talented band, and I did mildly enjoy their last s/t release, but then forgot I had it until I read your post. I haven't seen them live, and I don't know you well enough to say what you'd think of them, but just don't go early based on that B & S mention. - Nicole . . . . n i c o l i n a @ d r i z z l e . c o m . . . . i've concluded once again that i'm too fickle for a signature file. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Sinister: no contiene nada de Belle y Sebastian, lo siento
by Essexdog5 18 Mar '98

18 Mar '98

In a message dated 3/18/98 11:40:37AM, you write: << Maybe essexdog is right: IRC just isnt suitable for this. But it's all we've got. The Kevin Shields AOL chat shows questions formally put by an interviewer and answered in an ordered way - frankly very much like an NME interview but with a brain, but presumably with questions asked beforehand by fans? >> No, the questions were sent in 'live' to a central controller - he passed them on to Kevin who then chose which one to answer online. maybe I only mentioned that chat because I managed to get half a dozen questions answered (including "What's your favourite Spice Girl?" - and before anyone gets sarky on my 'ass', Smash Hits turned me down for a job, OK?). Re: The quoting of my posting about the "Is Stuart gay or not?" 'issue', specifically "It's a LARF, innit?" - That was intended to mean that ultimately the mystique element is very important, and frankly one doesn't really want to chat to people in a prosaic setting where "oooh I've just spilt crisps on the floor" takes precedence as a posting over 'fan' questions. There's no way the band could have done that chat without coming across as either flummoxed, aloof, anal, smug or flippant. Unfortunately they chose the latter. Whatever. As a journalist who happens to adore B&S, the music is the most important thing. I'd rather they wrote fiction or did something akin to the Melody Maker NYC diary than 'succumb' to the interview procedure. Do we actually CARE which is SM's favourite Felt song, or, indeed, what colour socks he wears? Belle Lettres is much more relevant. They have to realise that if they're going to enter into media-esque shenanigans, however, that an attitude reminiscent of the '86 shambling era (or, at least, the way it was portrayed by the NME and suchlike at the time) comes across as less than charming in print/IRC transcript. Stephen. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: sinister: a wee bit b&s
by Euan Leitch 18 Mar '98

18 Mar '98

Thanks to whoever talked about The Beta Band. The single has made my working day a little bit skivier. I bought it with Mark Hollis new album. Get it. It is lazy, soft and slow and heavenly unlike Guy Chadwick who I saw in London on Friday being sluggish, bland and dull. I could have stayed in Embra and seen the Beta Band. He was worth enduring to hear The Catchers who haven't lost their sweetly painful touch. Did you know that last summer, while we barely heard B&S on the radio, an Athens station played them all the time? I mean, Greece? How? Books to reed: Italo Calvino - If on a winter's night a traveler... Umberto Eco - Foucalts Pendulum Truman Capote - In Cold Blood How have these book recommendations carried on without someone complaining? Uan ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Sinister: skeletons, not menswear in the cupboard, radical politics
by Essexdog5 18 Mar '98

18 Mar '98

In a message dated 3/18/98 11:55:29AM, tuffen wrote: << 'the story of the eye' by georges bataille (now, how twisted can a mind get?) >> Twisted? It's hardly a mindfuck on the level of those hoary old pervs Burroughs or Ballard, but what's interesting for me is the reclamation of the word 'cunt' as a sensuous word. Especially in the saucer of milk scene. <g> Thanks to whoever recommended Geek Love, btw. It's engrossing. My book list is probably too predictable but, hey, here goes: Paul Auster - Moon Palace + City Of Glass Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead Jean Cocteau - Les Enfants Terribles Martin Amis - Dead Babies Sussana Moore - In The Cut Stephen Fry - The Liar Theodore Rozenstein - Flicker (I may be wrong about the author's name) Donna Tartt - The Secret History Helen Zahavi - Dirty Weekend Plus the Douglas Coupland books, and Charlie Higson's novels are great too, if totally non-B&S. "We dress cheap, we dress tacky" Stephen. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: xtc/dukes/stone roses
by C Browning 18 Mar '98

18 Mar '98

the stone roses apparently asked john leckie to produce their album because they were such huge fans of the dukes. i'm sure they were fans of leckie's other works but i guess the dukes stuff still showed he could do his stuff seamlessly. both dukes albums are wonderful. i was trying to think of any link between xtc and belle andf sebastian but apart from the fact they are both marvellous i can't think of any. ho hum. chris ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: all i never said
by bradford 18 Mar '98

18 Mar '98

howdy pardner. i got a box of goodies from parasol in the mail today, including the new guy chadwick and the new trenbling blue stars. i haven't listened to the guy chadwick yet because i can't stop listening to the new TBS. it's so much more wonderful than i would've imagined. after the first album i was thinking "they couldn't possibly top this" and i wouldn't say they have, but it's just as good. equal. and i got that northern picture library album, too....but i haven't had a chance to listen to it either. and parasol had a copy of that harvey williams album i was asking about a couple months back, so i got it also. and i have listened to it. it's really good as well. keeping with my usual ways of not mentioning b&s on the b&s list, -brad ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Hear my song..
by Johnston, John CT 18 Mar '98

18 Mar '98

I've been wanting to post things to the list for ages but every time my hand hovers above the send button an image of Cliff Richard appears and asks me just how bored I want the list to be and I refrain. This time I'm fighting him off - get the behind me, Heathcliff! But I must chip in and say how gorgeous Mark and Lard were on the graveyard shift (and still are now they are daytime, I'm sure). Listening to their show made so HAPPY, it broadened my mind and of course introduced me to Belle and Sebastian, and Stina N and and and.... I had to go and work in Portsmouth for a while ( Hampshire's IT heartland!), I was put up in an anonymous hotel but listening to mark and lard in the evenings made it such a pleasure. I'd sit in my room and just smile and laugh at the bollox they talked or Lard's farty noises And for lovers of their comedy items there are some great websites. http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Academy/2549/main.htm has a good collection of sound files - my computer now says Arse! or Cobblers! whenever anything happens - quality. ta ta Flipper Crace (My mate always 'wins' the Porn Star game - that's what happens when you call your guinea pig "Winkle") ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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