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Re: Sinister: here comes the science bit ... concentrate!
by Richard Cooper 01 Apr '98

01 Apr '98

LISTEN UP YOU PHILASTINES B&S ARE COOL BUT THE STONE ROSES RULE -----Original Message----- From: Rod Begbie <rod(a)begbie.com> To: Strange Bed-Fellows <sinister(a)majordomo.net> Date: 01 April 1998 18:16 Subject: Sinister: here comes the science bit ... concentrate! >hey kids! > >just about finished off the new edition of PopGob, which'll go on-line in >the next hour or two. two issues old, and already it's not as funny as it >used to be. i'll spare you the full blurb, but here's the short >announcement: > > .oPYo. .oPYo. .oPYo. | PopGob ... http://www.begbie.com/popgob/ > 8 8 8 8 8 8 | the internet's leading pop gossip magazine > 8 8 8 8 8 8 | > 8YooP' `YooP' 8YooP' | as featured in bbc radio one, need to know, > 8 ....::.....:8 ....: | the guardian and the scotsman > 8 ::::::::::::8 _::_:|_ | > ..::::::::::::.(_|(_)|_) | more facts thank you can shake a stick at > _| > >i've spent all day doing it, so i can't be bothered pressing the shift key >to get capital letters. normal service'll be resumed tomorrow. anyhoo, >here's the contents of my brain today... > >On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Eimeir Tereasa McCartan wrote: > >> Could anyone tell me when the new single by the dandy warhols >> is out > >april 20th, 'parrently (although that's the day that virgin are claiming >'modern rock song' is coming out, so who knows). their album's available >on import in HMV for #12.99. anyone know if it's worth it? > >> why is neil hannon fucking alive when >> hes a vile smug little wanker > >anyone see "him" on 'stars in their eyes'? the audience hadn't the first >f---ing clue who he was meant to be! > >On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Sarah wrote: > >> "I'm not a trendy asshole i do what i want..." >> and lets see which Sinister dudes can NAME the song and artist from >> which that quote came.... GO ON I DARE YOU! > >i think that admitting to owning a tape of this album would be more >controversial than admitting liking the spice girls, but it's 'smash' by >'the offspring'. > >> "I try to make everyones day a little more surreal" >> ***Calvin!**** > >one of my favourite calvin strips of all times, that one (i still do the >"i'd like to order a pizza' thing myself.) > >On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Alan Prior wrote: >> Oh, and Rod; All Saints are better than the Spice Girls. > >hmm.. the jury's still out on that one... but the saints wouldn't be here >today if it weren't for our pioneering girl power chums. > >> Film Quote of the day; "if i ever start refering to these as the best days >> of my life, remind me to kill myself" This is in my school yearbook >> profile, where it also says i am "intense and glittery". Hmmmmm. > >ooh! i know that one, but can't place it for the life of me. heathers? >my uni yearbook entry had questions for "in ten years time i would like to >be..." and "in ten years time i will probably be..." my answers were >"living off the royalties of my wife, sporty spice" and "31. or dead." > >On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Rob B wrote: >> [sad songs] >> boo radleys - lazarus, spaniard > >that's interesting, cause i always have 'lazarus' down as a happy song. >something about that powerful trumpety fanfare just makes me shiver with >niceness. > >On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, susannah wrote: >> [sinister sleaze test] >> 10) Have you ever 'got off' with a list member? >> Five points, double if Northy or Begbie, ten points for actual penetrative sex. >> Fifty if it was up the arse. And you can double that if it was Tag. > >which raises all kinds of metaphysical questions. did i spend my teenage >years building up a collosal sleaze score? i think we should be told... > >on a less flippant point, apologies to any offended by my use of racist >language. not at all intentional -- i paused before typing it, but >definitely not for long enough. believe me, i'm the least racist guy on >the planet. > >3 days to the spice girls concert... > >rod. > > Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | >+----------------------------------------------------------------------+ >| Real programmers don't document > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >. 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 >. 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Re: Sinister: London has let me down again?
by Richard Cooper 01 Apr '98

01 Apr '98

-----Original Message----- From: John Hucker <john.hucker(a)virgin.net> To: sinister(a)majordomo.net <sinister(a)majordomo.net> Date: 18 March 1998 13:35 Subject: Sinister: London has let me down again? >Hi, > >Sorry no B&S here. Just wanted to ask a favour. I might be moving to >London and wondered whether any kind soul might enlighten me on a decent >area to live. Any comments off the list gratefully appreciated. > >Choose Loaf, >Jxhn. > > > >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >. 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 >----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 Matthew Neimark 01 Apr '98

01 Apr '98

These songs have made me misty eyed at times: You and Your new Boyfriend - Rocketship Going to California - Led Zeppelin Underneath the Window, Underneath the Sink - Orchids We Rule the School - Belle and Sebastian Matt ______________________________________________________ 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: gasping but somehow still alive
by Eimeir Tereasa McCartan 01 Apr '98

01 Apr '98

i think the saddest song ever written was "uncle joe" by the red house painters or "spirit ditch" by sparklehorse.however the saddest and most poignant moment ever comes in the film "midnight cowboy" when rizzo dies and jon voights character puts his arm around the body and the bus drives on to the midnight cowboy theme tune by john barry.even hard bitten old cynical me cries like a baby to that everytime and ive seen the darn thing about thirty times corm ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: here comes the science bit ... concentrate!
by Rod Begbie 01 Apr '98

01 Apr '98

hey kids! just about finished off the new edition of PopGob, which'll go on-line in the next hour or two. two issues old, and already it's not as funny as it used to be. i'll spare you the full blurb, but here's the short announcement: .oPYo. .oPYo. .oPYo. | PopGob ... http://www.begbie.com/popgob/ 8 8 8 8 8 8 | the internet's leading pop gossip magazine 8 8 8 8 8 8 | 8YooP' `YooP' 8YooP' | as featured in bbc radio one, need to know, 8 ....::.....:8 ....: | the guardian and the scotsman 8 ::::::::::::8 _::_:|_ | ..::::::::::::.(_|(_)|_) | more facts thank you can shake a stick at _| i've spent all day doing it, so i can't be bothered pressing the shift key to get capital letters. normal service'll be resumed tomorrow. anyhoo, here's the contents of my brain today... On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Eimeir Tereasa McCartan wrote: > Could anyone tell me when the new single by the dandy warhols > is out april 20th, 'parrently (although that's the day that virgin are claiming 'modern rock song' is coming out, so who knows). their album's available on import in HMV for #12.99. anyone know if it's worth it? > why is neil hannon fucking alive when > hes a vile smug little wanker anyone see "him" on 'stars in their eyes'? the audience hadn't the first f---ing clue who he was meant to be! On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Sarah wrote: > "I'm not a trendy asshole i do what i want..." > and lets see which Sinister dudes can NAME the song and artist from > which that quote came.... GO ON I DARE YOU! i think that admitting to owning a tape of this album would be more controversial than admitting liking the spice girls, but it's 'smash' by 'the offspring'. > "I try to make everyones day a little more surreal" > ***Calvin!**** one of my favourite calvin strips of all times, that one (i still do the "i'd like to order a pizza' thing myself.) On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Alan Prior wrote: > Oh, and Rod; All Saints are better than the Spice Girls. hmm.. the jury's still out on that one... but the saints wouldn't be here today if it weren't for our pioneering girl power chums. > Film Quote of the day; "if i ever start refering to these as the best days > of my life, remind me to kill myself" This is in my school yearbook > profile, where it also says i am "intense and glittery". Hmmmmm. ooh! i know that one, but can't place it for the life of me. heathers? my uni yearbook entry had questions for "in ten years time i would like to be..." and "in ten years time i will probably be..." my answers were "living off the royalties of my wife, sporty spice" and "31. or dead." On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Rob B wrote: > [sad songs] > boo radleys - lazarus, spaniard that's interesting, cause i always have 'lazarus' down as a happy song. something about that powerful trumpety fanfare just makes me shiver with niceness. On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, susannah wrote: > [sinister sleaze test] > 10) Have you ever 'got off' with a list member? > Five points, double if Northy or Begbie, ten points for actual penetrative sex. > Fifty if it was up the arse. And you can double that if it was Tag. which raises all kinds of metaphysical questions. did i spend my teenage years building up a collosal sleaze score? i think we should be told... on a less flippant point, apologies to any offended by my use of racist language. not at all intentional -- i paused before typing it, but definitely not for long enough. believe me, i'm the least racist guy on the planet. 3 days to the spice girls concert... rod. Rod Begbie @ http://www.begbie.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Real programmers don't document ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 Reggae
by PJMiller 01 Apr '98

01 Apr '98

-----Original Message----- De: Hopkins T <t.hopkins(a)lancaster.ac.uk> Para: 'sinister(a)majordomo.net' <sinister(a)majordomo.net> Fecha: miércoles 1 de abril de 1998 16:46 Asunto: Sinister: Reggae and worse: How low can you go? >Youuuuu...yabby yabby youuuuuu.....youuuuuu...flabby flabby youuuuuu. >Buy the Yabby LP Peter, if you can stretch to the price. I don't have it, >but am familiar with the LP 'Conquering Lion' which is included in its >entirety I believe. Beee-autiful. 'Heart of The Congos' is another absolute >classic roots album, which I cannot recommend highly enough to you fine >folks. Thank you, Tim. My dithering days are over. What's the betting some bastard's beaten me to it? I think I can stretch to the price because I'm a right flash bastard, and what's more, after days of frenzied calculations, I worked out that it's cheaper here than in the UK! Because of the Millenium Dome's effect on exchange rates. A bonus like that is not to be sniffed at... The Congos album is indeed loveliness itself, I doubt even Nealy Wealy could match it for sensitivity. >Talking of reggae, the saddest song I can recall (apart from perhaps 'Brass >Buttons', 'A Song For You' and '$1000 Wedding', all by Gram Parsons) is a >reggae tune, 'The Long Way' by the marvellous Junior Byles. Top drawer, I >can tell you. Oooh, I'm filling up just thinking about it. In keeping with my new role as reggae expert I've been trying to think of a sad reggae song, but all I've come up with is "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?" by Culture Club. And "Don't Break My Heart" by UB40. Both top tunes, but I think I need to do a bit more reggae research before I open my mouth to make any more pronouncements. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: all i wanted was to sing the saddest song...
by punch drunk 01 Apr '98

01 Apr '98

This thread that I'm replying may be from a long time ago, i don't know because i havent' checked my email in a while. Songs that reduce me to tears: :~) I cried for the longest time when listening to Radiohead after i saw them in the summer, partly because of the songs and partly because of the new crop of I love that song Karma Police" girls and boys (j/k, sort of) But the songs that make me sad, but in nice way are lucky and No surprises mostly. Also, Jeff Buckley's So Real is just simple beauty, as is the whole album Grace. sarah >does anyone else hear songs that they absolutely love and yet cannot bea= >r >to listen to because the songs make them too sad? and which songs are >these?< > >oh wow, yes...all the time. especially spiritualised's 'broken heart'. it= >'s >the most beautiful song i have ever heard, yet makes me want to cry every= > >time i hear it <sigh> >but the sad songs are always the best (eg. manics, b&s). i have so many >home-made compilation tapes of sad songs. somehow they always seem to mak= >e >me feel a wee bit better...though listening to your favourite song when y= >ou >are really, really sad can sometimes ruin it and that is a bad thing. am = >i >making sense? probably not...but i'd better go before i start making you >all feel sad too. > >love always, >Debbie xxx. = ______________________________________________________ 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: Reggae and worse: How low can you go?
by Hopkins T 01 Apr '98

01 Apr '98

The boy chariot said: > As of a week last Tuesday I am a huge reggae fan and always have been. Is > anyone familiar with a gentleman called Yabby You? I am considering a > major > purchase, the 2 CD package, Jesus Dread 72-77. I think I'm going to buy it > anyway, but if someone could just tip me over the edge, I'd be grateful. I > bought The Congos on saturday, crazy name, crazy guys. > Youuuuu...yabby yabby youuuuuu.....youuuuuu...flabby flabby youuuuuu. Buy the Yabby LP Peter, if you can stretch to the price. I don't have it, but am familiar with the LP 'Conquering Lion' which is included in its entirety I believe. Beee-autiful. 'Heart of The Congos' is another absolute classic roots album, which I cannot recommend highly enough to you fine folks. Talking of reggae, the saddest song I can recall (apart from perhaps 'Brass Buttons', 'A Song For You' and '$1000 Wedding', all by Gram Parsons) is a reggae tune, 'The Long Way' by the marvellous Junior Byles. Top drawer, I can tell you. Oooh, I'm filling up just thinking about it. Fans of bassical music might do well also to listen to the new Ninja Tune compilation, which glories in the delightful title of 'Funkungfusion'. It's a doozy, as they say. On a more serious note... Rod Begbie wrote: >Vodka?? Bloody hell, they're rich around your bit. The 15-year-olds here >are always after "Ol' Gutrot's Improbably Strong Scrumpy", price 45p for >2l from the nearest paki shop. Um, my guess is that I'm not the only one who was troubled and offended by the use of the phrase 'paki shop'....Rod, I would not suggest that you are being deliberately or consciously racist in this post, but you should be more bloody careful with the way you use language. 'Paki shop' is racist language and has no place on this mailing list. Enough said, I hope. Laters 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: happy
by MWaggner 01 Apr '98

01 Apr '98

In a message dated 98-04-01 03:52:33 EST, you write: > I'd like to mention that sometimes music can (whisper > it!!) make you impossibly happy. Some songs make me grin from start to > finish and revel in every second of their duration. These tend to be > Disco classics and above all "Disco Inferno". Yes indeed! Of course, having lived through disco in "real time" that particular genre still makes me cringe... high-waisted pants and platform shoes, perfect hair, gold chains.... stop! it's like a really bad flashback! The happiest music at this time of year, for me anyhow, are the songs that tell you SUMMER IS HERE!!! When I hear the Beach Boys "Fun Fun Fun" and "Surfin' Safari" -- and the beautiful "Surfer Girl" ... and Jan & Dean, and "Wipeout" -- it clears my head of all the duty and sludge of winter and puts me in the mind of days filled with sun and laughing and possibilities. The best thing is when you are stuck in traffic, just about this time of year when the weather is on the cusp of change, and you are grrrring at everyone around you, and suddenly you hear one of these golden songs on the radio. You put down the car windows, crank up the volume to full blast and start to laugh at yourself and the world around you. The grayness disappears and people passing on the street look up to see where the music is coming from -- and they start to smile as well. Maybe they are actually laughing at you -- singing off-key at a traffic light -- but it doesn't matter at all. You made them happy as well. For that minute all is sunny and warm, the light changes and you can drive really fast down the street pretending you are in a little deuce coupe with your hair blowing in the breeze.... Sad songs are too lovely and heartbreak is sometimes sooo bittersweet -- but it's good to remember that music can make one incredibly happy as well. It's true, as someone here recently said, that the music we love is caught up with our memories. When a song makes you cry, or laugh, or think of something bigger than yourself, no apologies are necessary -- the music is yours whether someone else thinks it's crap or not. That's why there are so many different kinds ... because there are so many different people with so many different strings to be plucked in their souls. Oops! approaching introspection ... going to go listen to "Sloop John B" --michele ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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: SPIN MAGAZINE MAY98
by Mike Gustat 01 Apr '98

01 Apr '98

B&S - featured page 106 in May '98 Spin Magazine CHECK IT OUT! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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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