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Sinister: Football, and B&S
by Colin Campbell 09 May '98

09 May '98

Today is a momentus day in scottish football, rangers failed to win ten in a row, well done celtic, nevermind hibs. It amazes me though that rangers fans really do believe that it is good for scottish football if their team wins every year,had an argument about it on the bus last night. Heard seeing other people today in a cafe, the canadian muffin company in aberdeen, first time i've ever heard B&S in a shop, i played guess which member of staff put it on. bye colin. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Sinister: (NBSC) The Remains, Cyrkle, etc.
by Perfection As A Hipster 09 May '98

09 May '98

Mick McFussy wrote ... >> thirdly, if you're looking for another brilliant P!O!P! "band to have ever >> ever come out of Boston" you should check out The Remains who formed at >> Boston University in early 1963. > > Isn't that "Barry and the" Remains? You're seeking to confirm your elitest "indiepop" snob status, aren't you !? §;^D Trial and error, though ... you've been mislead by the title of the reissue. >Anyhow, while you're at it, you >ought to search through the dollar LP bins and see if you can't find >anything by the Cyrkle (aren't they from Boston proper?). I thought they hailed from San Francisco, but what do I know. Whatever, there are also at least two reissues easily available, namely the _Red Rubber Ball (A Collection)_ CD and the _Neon_ CD reissue ("Two rooms" is probably my favourite Cyrkle tune). >They all put interesting twists, though, like the Left Banke, >who are a mix of the Beatles & classical baroque, if I'm not mistaken. A lovely description, but the "classical baroque" influence is exactly the reason why I don't appreciate The Left Banke ... too Cheesy'n'Easy (yes, borrowed from Nice'n'Sleazy) for my liking, but here again this is only the humble opinion of yours truly and why should you care ... they obviously seem to have the Belle And Sebastian seal of approval. As much as I'd like to continue writing about excellent Sixties stuff ... you don't care, do you ? Besides, apologies to any fellow human listee who may have been offended by one of my most recent mails. I solemnly resolve to change for the better ... "Maybe after he's gone" (The Zombies) §;^D Andreas The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella But more upon the just because The unjust steals the just's umbrella (Charles Baron Bowen) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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by Over the ocean 09 May '98

09 May '98

sarah wrote : "Air are great. They are the future of pop" Right ? Wrong! Belle and Sebastian are the future of pop ! ______________________________________________________ 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 . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: 5-tone whirly doo
by Alan Prior 09 May '98

09 May '98

Message text written by Kimberly Rivas-Plata >Though the one thing that I did remember about them was that they had a glow-in-the-dark fluroescent toy thing that looked like a floppy light saber. They called it a 5-tone whirly doo, and one of the band members was meant to be an expert at it.< hey! i have one of them. it's very classy. much fun was had when i was 10. or something. although i think the fun was probably more in twatting my sister over the head with it rather than whirling it round my head. though both could be done simultaneously, producing some interesting noises... Maybe B&S could add one to their multiple instruments onstage... they could have an extra member standing at the edge of the stage, whirling it around and hitting any over-excited fans on the head. or Sarah/Isobelle could play it. Or perhaps not. just a thought. it's been ages since a mentioned B&S in any post, so i had to get them in somehow... keep on swingin' love, Debbie xxx. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Bloody sod yer then
by Barrett R 09 May '98

09 May '98

Hurrah! Bobby Chariot's back tonight! Anyway Sinister peeps I've loads to say but seeing as I only post about once a month to the list I better get going Re: The Trial. Saw the film recently and I can't say I found it remotely funny. It wasn't bad, I just didn't get any humour in it. Am I thick? The Orson Biog "Rosebud" reckons it's a masterpiece but I prefer "Touch Of Evil" any day. Up til now I've always thought that our old mate JJ was a fine upstanding bloke. A Divine Comedy fan, a fan of the (ahem) Mighty Reds, he even insulted a friend of mine over the list which gave me a good laugh but Big Country???? Sorry mate, but I'm disappointed. The Divine Comedy are an obvious one in the books/band name thing. Not only is the name borrowed, but large chunks of the lyrics are taken from literary types - "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" is an F Scott Fitzgerald short story shortened further, "Lucy" is a Wordsworth poem set to music and so on. This is either theft or genius. I go for the latter. A combination of boredom and RRRRRRRoooodd's lyrics quotes at the end of his messages got me thinking about my own fave lyrics. I don't know if there's a thread in this or not, but here's a few that I love any way. I've no idea why. Hopefully a couple of you will know the songs and think "yeah, that's a good one". I didn't bother with any B&S, I'm sure ye all have loads of them. Anyone else have fave lyrics out there? (If you can be arsed) "I wore my fringe like Roger Mc Guinn's I did it only to impress So frankly camp it made you laugh Tomorrow I'll buy myself a dress" from Orange Juice's "Consolation Prize" "Just wait until tomorrow I guess that's what they all say Just before they fall apart" From New Order's "Regret" "When a woman learns to walk She's not dependent any more A line from your letter May 24" From The Go-Betweens' "Bye Bye Pride" "If there ain't a heaven that holds us tonight They never sang Doo-Wop In Harlem" From Prefab Sprout's "Doo Wop In Harlem" I've said too much already Ronan ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Sinister: Re: jane, sassy, mary jo, etc
by vlass＠interlog.com 09 May '98

09 May '98

>Could somebody explain who Ralph is, and what a keg party is? I know what >a key party is; is it a typo? Is Ralph the dull bloke that none of the >girls want to end up with? We never had that kind of party at college >here. Of course, now I do it all the time..... > >;) >C. what an endearing question... i can't figure out if you're being serious or not! it's just that american slang is stupid i suppose.. "to ralph" is another way to say "to throw up" and i don't know what a key party is but it's probably the same thing as a keg party - a party with kegs, ie those barrel-y things, of beer. aren't these common at all colleges? i guess i'll find out when i start university next year... i don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.. still yawning, teri xxxx ===- vlass(a)interlog.com it's still just a baby: http://members.tripod.com/~meltingsnow/ ==== ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: eurovision and peter hook
by Sarah 09 May '98

09 May '98

hiya Sinister dudes! strange dream, last night, i dreamt i was Peter Hook. ok, well not BEING Peter Hook, i was just playing the bass in New Order, it was so cool! i was in front of loads of people, and then i thought, SHIT i don't know how to play this bass, but it was OK, cos i COULD play it!!! i was so cool, givin it all that funky slap bass thing, i rocked. what relevance that has to anything is debatable if you're bored. EUROVISION tonight, wooohoo! i am going to vote for Iceland. well, if its anything like last years i will anyway. Katrina and the Bloody Waves, that was a travesty, i don't believe we WN with that. and Imanni, thats PISH as well. I heard its a phone vote this year, but you can't vote for your own country. and apparently, the germans really love teir dude, so i heard they are planning coaches to France/Switzerland whatever, so they can go and ring up for THEIR dude. who feels things are goign a tad too far?! Air are great, i think they are the future of Pop, quite simply. along with teh super furries. i'm going to see them on Saturday yes yes yes! i love them so much and i am happy happy joy joy! I'M GOING NOW BYE!!!!!! Sarah " fotherington thomas who does lark around saying hello trees hello flowers. he is a wet and a weed and i shun him utterly" http://www.elsato97.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 . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Re: jane, sassy, mary jo, etc
by Tara Widmer 09 May '98

09 May '98

<< every so often i get the urge to lug out all my old school sassy magazines .... i was outraged when it turned into another ym clone.. i decided to buy -jane- magazine.. ergg, not as good as sassy>> too right!!! I LIVED for Sassy as a 15 year old (yeah i know, it was a small town, friends were scarce)... always dreaded the day i would get "too old" to be seen reading it and all. Then it all went horribly wrong when they were bought out by some LA publication and by that time i didn't care. but in the halcyon days of 1990 or so, they had brilliant bits from the likes of Kim Gordon and Evan Dando, whose best story ever was that his friend Polly Noonan was looking for a man with the surname of "Knight" so she could name her firstborn Morning Noonan Knight. (aack I guess you had to be there) Also, does anyone remember the "win a Date with Spike Jonze" contest? and only about 3 people entered, but mind you this was before he was *the* Spike Jonze. Jane magazine, however, is... how you say? merde. Relieved that I'm not the only who saved my issues of Sassy... can we call you teri underwear now? sorry;-) taralulala ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Re: sinister-digest V2 #169
by Suzanne Schroeder 08 May '98

08 May '98

> > Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 09:52:21 +0100 > From: Chris Leonard <cleonard(a)MURRAYJ.COM> > Subject: Sinister: This is heroin, mister > > The best bit was, after half an hour of arguing my dad saying "is it an=20 > argument your looking for? I'll argue if you like". This totally=20 > confused me and i think i lost. Big bastard. =20 > So i proclaimed "I'm moving out!" and stormed off, on the huff. > I suppose I really should have moved out by now anyway. yeah, that's when you know its time to leave. Not when people tell you, but you get this creepy sensation that you're going to be 30, in the attic, sneaking members of the opposite sex home (or out of the house), and you have the need to hide things like beer bottles and other adult pleasure devices even though you know you're not doing anything bad or wrong for your age. See? I think that is a parent's secret trick to getting the lazy bums out. They don't just tell you to get out. Nagging never works. They just take away all the pleasure of being an adult. Worked for me. > Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 16:47:39 -0700 > From: Tara Widmer <TWidmer(a)xil.com> > Subject: Sinister: Re: jane, sassy, mary jo, etc > > Relieved that I'm not the only who saved my issues of Sassy... I have one issue of sassy. It's the one with the story about the mother who made her daughter strip for a living. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: ok, i really *am* leaving after i correct this GLARING error
by mkl206＠is8.nyu.edu 08 May '98

08 May '98

At 1:06 PM 5/8/98, ahalter wrote: >"I'm Afraid Of The Dark Without You Close To Me" > Magnetic Fields >i always thought that this was from a superchunk song... >100,000 fireflies? am i wrong? oh sure, you didn't mean it, but how could you not know???? 100,000 fireflies was written by the magneitc fields and covered by superchunk. apparently mac from superchunk is a big fan. and the magnetic fields are brilliant in my opinion and have beautiful lyrics. i actually think i hadn't said anything about them to this point which is almost miraculous (ask anyone who knows me and they'll agree). oh, by the way, i'm not making this a personal attack alison. i actually rather like superchunk, but the original is just hopelessly brilliant, and i'm not the only one who thinks that. after all, though some people may disagree, it just means that they're wrong and i'm right. xox a rather cheeky megan mkl206(a)is8.nyu.edu visit the magnetic fields web page at: http://www.dissemination.com/megan/magneticfields/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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