April 1998 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: more sad songs
by Jose Maria Sagúillo (hijo) 02 Apr '98

02 Apr '98

hello I want to tell to the list some songs that make feel sad THE SMITHS "Please, please, please let me get what I want" BELLE AND SEBASTIAN "Beautiful" HANK WILLIAMS "Wedin' Bells" "My son call another man daddy" "A Mansion on the Hill" THE FIELD MICE "Canada" LE MANS "Perezosa y tonta" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: My hero!
by Stip / Blue Music 02 Apr '98

02 Apr '98

Inspiring women of the world. Many, many - most of whom are in some way debatable and hence I shall provide no examples. All this talk of pigeon street, however, got me thinking. I had my own heroine as an infant - she was sexy, sassy, and she had the greatest theme on TV. I adopted her moniker as a tribute to her infinite brilliance. Long Distance Clara. Need I say more? So age five, and to the delight of my parents, I found my goal in life. Lorry Driver. Perfect. I called myself Clara for about a year. No one seemed to pay a blind bit of notice, and only my very best friend referred to me as I had deemed appropriate. Perhaps this was because previously I'd insisted on only responding to the name Matilda, after learning and loving that wonderful ode to our friends down under. You'll come a waltzing indeed. It must have run in the family. When my little brother finally agreed to leave the house without adorning his full spiderman regalia and webbed balaclava, he had an accident on his bike and had to be brought home by the police. He'd told them his name was Michael Knight. -- Nicola M Stip / Blue Music www.stip.demon.co.uk ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: the saddest story ever told
by Richard Lander 02 Apr '98

02 Apr '98

-----Original Message----- From: Mike Appelstein <ciflux(a)hotmail.com> To: sinister(a)majordomo.net <sinister(a)majordomo.net> Date: 01 April, 1998 6:22 Subject: Sinister: the saddest story ever told >The Chills are always good for inducing a tear or two, especially the >_Submarine Bells_ album (one of the best of the '90s if you ask me) and >the single "The Great Escape." I would agree with you totally about this track. Another song, which appeared on the Lost EP and on the Kaleidoscope World CD is 'This Is The Way'. I love this, 'The Great Escape' and 'Pink Frost' so much. 'Randolphs Going Home' by Shayne Carter & Peter Jeffries is also an incredibly haunting and sad song about a friend/fellow musician who was killed in a train crash. Richard rclander(a)netfront.net ICQ: 4039573 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Fun for the Family!
by jon g. 02 Apr '98

02 Apr '98

-----Original Message----- From: ELIZABETH DAPLYN <EDAPLYNR3N00297(a)kiadroch.kiad.ac.uk> To: 'jon g.' <jon.g(a)btinternet.com> Cc: 'jon.g(a)btinternet.com' <jon.g(a)btinternet.com> Date: 02 April 1998 13:02 Subject: RE: Sinister: Fun for the Family! >> Subject: Re: Sinister: Fun for the Family! >> >> All this being fifteen stuff is quite >> exciting, but bethey's sister Eleanor has bought her own copies of >> Lazy Jane >> and Sinister and she is 12 or 13 (I can't remember which). However, >> she's >> not on the list and is still partial to bit of Natalie Imbruglia etc., >> so >> she only half-counts. >Hey! Is Bethey's full name Elizabeth? I ask because mine is, and my >sister's called Eleanor too. Wierd. Anyhoo, keep on with the fine work >there. Sorry, I'm an old person of 19 massive years, and my sister's >even older. And she doesn't even like B&S, although she's quite nice >apart from her frankly worrying Ocean Colour Scene tendency. bethey is still at school, so I'll answer this one. It used to be Elizabeth, but she had it legally changed cos she hated it. Eleanor does have a Ocean Colour Scene tendency, I think. My brother (13) does too. How embarassing. >> Adrian Evans mailed me privately and I now apologise profusely for >> saying >> that those over 20 wouldn't remember pigeon street. I'm very very >> sorry. >So you should be. I'm going to be 20 this year, and I remember Pigeon >Street vividly, thank you very much! I've even got an old Pigeon Street >annual somewhere. It's got a story about the people on the street >clubbing together to build a swimming pool in the middle of a really hot >summer. Marvellous. And I quite liked the electro-tom-tom sound for >the pigeons. > I think I can remember that one. Pow Pow say the pigeons in my head Actually, it was more of a peeoooww peeooowww. >> jon g. >> Chairman of the Fifteen Year Olds Taking Over Sinister List Campaign >> (FYOTOSLC) >Don't do that! What's going to happen to all us old people? First >against the wall when the revolution comes... > I'm not really going to. However, careless talk costs lives, so I should be more careful. It's just that this thread has been going on a while now and I can imagine some of the silent list members getting angry. Daytime TV has been fabulous today - especially Style Challenge. For those who are not in the uk/employed/got better things to do, it's a show where two tired people come in and are given a makeover by a team of fashion gurus. It's wicked. Anyway, today there were two postwomen on the show and when one of them looked in the mirror, she started crying because she was so happy with her new look. It was a truly touching moment. Maybe Stuart M should write a song about it. "Well, I saw you on that Style Challenge You were crying at your new look into the big mirror there the big mirror there. Six months on, the clothes have gone. the disenchanted postman left his house with the postwoman the postwoman got lonely" I think it would be a new one to add to our list of sad songs. Well, I'll be off then I think I should get out more. jon g. jon.g(a)btinternet.com - http://www.btinternet.com/~jon.g/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Sleaze police
by john wigham 02 Apr '98

02 Apr '98

I don't want to be bore, but can we cut out all this sleaze quiz stuff? When I said it wasn't very B&S, I wasn't referring to the lack of B&S content, but to the fact that it just doesn't match the mood of B&S lyrics. Susannah - what is it exactly do you think is filthy about being gay, or about anal sex, or about having sexual fantasies?? It seems to me that by making those sort of judgements, even in a joky, indulgent sort of way, you just perpetuate the whole unhappy uptight history of sexuality in the west so tragically started by Saint Paul (not you honeypiesweetness, the other one). So let's save language like sleaze for the Conservative Party and enjoy ourselves with no hangups, eh? Whatever gets you to the light.. -- john wigham xxxxx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Sad Songs
by Tiago Andre' Figueiredo 02 Apr '98

02 Apr '98

Hello to the lot of you, sinister people. After reading so much about sad songs, I decided to compile my own list of them. Four minutes were more than enough time to realise that one such list would have no ending, so after taking out at least half of the songs, this is what I came up with: - R.E.M.: "Find The River", "You Are The Everything", "Nightswimming", ... - Jay-Jay Johanson: "The Girl I Love Is Gone" - Nick Cave: "The Ship Song", "Brompton Oratory", ... - Lambchop: "Theone" - Jack: "Dress You In Mourning", "Hope Is A Liar", ... Anyone knows what happened to Jack since the remarkable "Pioneer Soundtracks"? - Divine Comedy: "Someone", "If...", "Lucy", ... - Mick Harvey: "Manon" - Tindersticks: "Let's Pretend", "The Not Knowing", "Kathleen", ... - B&S: "Beautiful", "The Boy Done Wrong Again", "Fox In The Snow", ... (here's your B&S content) - Mojave 3: "You're Beautiful" - Apartments: "Not Every Clown Can Be In The Circus", "She Sings To Forget You", ... - Red House Painters: "Katy Song", ... The order is completely irrelevant, as to how sad this or that song is. I find it impossible to distinguish between them. And I know I must've forgotten some, but what the heck... screw it. Tiago Figueiredo ------------------------------------- | Happy the man, and happy he alone | | He who can call Today his own | | He who, secure within can say: | | "Tomorrow do thy worst | | For I have lived today" | ------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: belle and sebastian in the news: on-topic worthless cack
by Hopkins T 02 Apr '98

02 Apr '98

There it was, front page of yesterday's Guardian. I mean, I knew the band was getting big, but I didn't think their arguments were front page material just yet. Nevertheless, there it was... "I'm no liar, says Campbell as Murdoch row continues" There was obviously some standard Grauniad-style mix up, because the story underneath was some guff about Tony Blair pressing his secretary or somesuch. But I wonder what the real story was? Was the row started by Staurt M? Or about him? Who had accused Isobel of lying? And why? Has Isobel worked out a secret deal whereby she gets the lions share of the royalties to keep her in resin (for her bow)? Did fighting break out when the rest of the band worked out that 'Century Of Elvis' was about a cat and not a vegetable, as everyone had been led to believe? Katrina? Oh, and another thing. Sarah wrote: >Songs that reduce me to tears: :~) Uh-oh. We have a problem now. How can we tell if that is a sad face or the most sarcastic face in the world? I don't know how we're going to deal with this one at all. I hope you consider the time you have spent reading this message to have been fruitful. Why don't you just switch off your pooter and go out and do something more boring instead? tim ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: sad songs, and the Amish
by sarah :o] 02 Apr '98

02 Apr '98

OH! I forgot the one i set out to write about :P Aw, i always feel like crying when i hear Motion Picture Soundtrack by Radiohead. It's one of those songs where I can't be doing things when i listen to it, i just have to stop right there...the chorus, 'I will see you, in the next life,' ever so lovely. I don't know how you girls and boys feel about Radiohead, and i can't explain how i do. But it's sort of like this; if Belle and Sebastian became really grand and famous, you wouldn't stop loving them ever, would you? That's what it is :~) I also fins Suppertime by the Odds makes me wishy washy, it's got a heavy, wistful mood, i quite like it when in the mood, although its the one track on my cd that skips like the dickens :) and while i'm being honest, a day in the Life by the Beatles. I can't help myself! It's so vivid, so real. Except for the part in the middle of course :o) woonderful. While i'm here, does anyone agree that the best time to listen to B&S in on long rides in the window seat? I don't really fly much (there is so much room for jokes right there) but i was recently on a 12 hour trainride, and it's so lovely to just sit and look out the window with your earphones up high. It was especially nice for me because there were 4 amish people sitting behind me and the talked non stop for the whole ride as loudly as was humanly possible. "Look, a river...ooo ooo GARBAGE, a pile of garbage!!!" "Ha Ha, silly girl tell tale," you say. But i kid you not! thanx for listening ;) sarah ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: Animal House (again) - NO B&S !!
by ben ferneyhough 02 Apr '98

02 Apr '98

Dear Lovelies, Was in the pub last night, and picked up the local Nightshift paper that tells what bands are playing Oxford and where, and there was a super review of the Animal House (who feature 1/2 of Ride) gig me and a few other listees went to. I remember I had difficulty in describing what they were like, so here's how a journalist tries to describe it..... ANIMAL HOUSE. Bullingdon Arms. Re-invention is the theme of the evening. We are, after all, in the new, improved Bullingdon Arms. Tonight it is full of a mighty buzz as the glitterati of the Oxford music scene gather in force to cast an eye over Animal House - who feature (in case you slammed yourself in the freezer after 'Austin Powers' and have just woken up) Mark and Loz out of Ride plus Sam Williams, ex-Mystic and Supergrass producer. Unlike most supergroups (from Blind Faith to the Travelling Wilburys), they know how to keep it short, strolling on at 11 and playing five songs. They have also succeeded in creating a new sound for themselves which seems to have practically nothing in common with their previous projects and they are able to project themselves as a group, not as a collection of separate egos struggling for the spotlight. In fact, there is no spotlight. Animal House play swathed in back projections, phrases from their lyrics flashing up in between abstract images and kaleidoscope patterns which admirably suit their clean, trippy modernity. And modern they are, in the strangest combination of ways. Sam and Mark play guitars and sing - so for so traditional - while Disco 45-er Jason king supplies imaginative keyboard flourishes. But Mark's former 60s wishfulness (most recently seen on last year's 'Magdelen Skies') only surfaces here in his trademark Byrds-y harmonies: otherwise this is a much harder-edged sound... but without the eccentric twists and lurches beloved of the Mystics. Heavy sampled beats are the (new) order of the day - referring occasionally to the junglist 90s but more frequently to early 80s electro and its autobahn-crazed precursors. Bassist Hari and drummer Loz lock in effortlessly (clunk, click, every trip) and the motorcade is off, cruising linear grid system mapped out by Kraftwerk and JG Ballard. 'Ready to Receive' goes the first song, but don't bother to search skies - these signals come from inner space and it'as all clean lines and mathematics here. The organic and irrational are a constant subversive presence in this music and its greatest strength lies in this contrast between the mechanistic and the chaotic, order and disorder, sampler versus human. 'Welcome to the Animal House' sing Mark and Sam on the penultimate song and continue the story with the succinctly titled finale 'Animal'. Get the picture ? Yes, we see. Maybe we are a little overcome by the excitement of this celebratory debut...maybe we've been staring at the lightshow for too long... but, even though it's not quite what we expected, we think we might be back again soon to visit the Animal House. Harry Lime. That mammoth epic was taken from nightshift, who have an internet site at: http://www.oxlink.co.uk/nightshift/ Sorry if that was boring, but I said there was no Belle and Sebastian content !!!! Ben. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: new from jeepster
by maruta kazuya 02 Apr '98

02 Apr '98

Hello Does anyone know Snow Patrol?- new comer from jeepster-. A friend of mine heard their song called My Last Girlfriend and told me it was good. I haven't heard any of songs yet. Here are some sad songs I love: Heywood lane - Gorky's zygotic mynci Fall apart button - Geneva The Book Lovers - Broadcast Helicon 2 - Mogwai Mary Louise - Dawn of the replicants I feel the weight - The Hybirds kaz caz(a)mvc.biglobe.ne.jp ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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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