June 1998 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Knobcheese and Arsebiscuits for Supper
by PJMiller 19 Jun '98

19 Jun '98

Peter - please >renew your campaign to get Linda to post finally, at least one thing >to the list, even if it's just arsebiscuits. I was just wondering if anyone knew the name of that Welsh bloke who appeared on Dad's Army once? 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 . Somos todos conejitos felices que tararean . consonancias felices del conejito - no somos? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Sinister: Talking through their b-sides
by Keith Watson 19 Jun '98

19 Jun '98

>I hadn't heard about this new ruling on what constitutes a single. > >Are these sort of rulings something that just happens in the UK? > >If so then for the benefit of those outside the UK these spurious >rulings are made by the people who compile our music charts. Record >companies then pretty much have to comply if they want their releases >to get listed in the charts - and most do. > >The death knell for vinyl was sounded in the UK when they made a similar >ruling about the maximum number of formats that could be counted towards >a single's sales and, if I remember rightly, there was a rule introduced >around the start of the eighties to stop record companies giving away weird >and wonderful free gifts with records in order to boost sales. > >None of these rules could really be said to have enhanced pop music. > >Kevan Oddly enough, regarding this ruling stuff (hehe) in about 1992 they ruled (heheheh) that a single could be no longer than 40 minutes in length. The other day I was listening to the dark and long single by Underworld, which I haven't listened to for ages, but once it finished the CD player shows how long the whole single is, and by accident or design, it's 39 minutes 59 seconds - not bad is it. Indeed the number of tracks on a single has been reduced from 4 till 3, however no-one seems to have pointed out that B+S's last single quite happily got in the charts. NIce trick that. Bit strange as well how you could easily get around this sort of thing. The Stone Roses' Standing Here for example, sounds like two separate songs really, could you claim that your six songs were just sections of the same song? I think we should start a petition to get Genesis to release "Supper's ready" which is a fuckoff big multi-parted thingy (or so my friends tell me ;), just to test the water. Cheers, Keith. ps : in particular the list rules (This is cut and pasted from Paul's web page) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Somos todos conejitos felices que tararean . consonancias felices del conejito - no somos? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: Sinister: when is a single not a single?
by Adam Robinson 19 Jun '98

19 Jun '98

Tim mentioned "Celtic" by Hurrah! It just so happens that I bought this single in my local Oxfam only this week and it is indeed fab. They seemed to avoid my radar when they were about, so can anyone recommend further acquisitions ? Is there an album available ? While I'm here I may as well recommend the wonderful Pale Fountains compilation "Longshot For Your Love" which came out on recently on the mighty Marina label. I'm surprised that no-one else has yet, I think there are trace elements of the Fountains present in B&S. If anyone's interested in any Pale Fountains/Shack/Michael Head drop me a line and I might just send you a tape. Have a nice weekend y'all. Adam. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Somos todos conejitos felices que tararean . consonancias felices del conejito - no somos? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: new
by GoFkYrSlfz＠aol.com 19 Jun '98

19 Jun '98

hi...i'm new to the list i was just wondering if anyone on the list has a copy of Tigermilk?, and if this person or persons would be kind enough to tape a copy for me...i'll pay. with unbelievable appreciation... greg ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Somos todos conejitos felices que tararean . consonancias felices del conejito - no somos? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Two lost messages
by Honey 19 Jun '98

19 Jun '98

Yeah well - god, it's been a long day. I've upgraded something (perl) at work on what I like to call the "Sinister" machine and it (=I) messed up - I need to upgrade the mailing list software now as it's incompatible, but it's a bit of a job, so I've bodged it for now by delving into the code... Anyway, how tedious, all I am saying is (a) I'm very tired and achy, (b) the list is probably fine, if held together with sellotape for a bit, but tell me if you see big problems, and (c), sorry to Tara and Dr Nick whose messages bounced but are below. Can I go home now please miss? honey who's looking forward to seeing Stuart Murdoch in a cassock on Saturday xxx Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 09:14:39 -0700 From: Tara Widmer <TWidmer(a)xil.com> To: sinister(a)majordomo.net Subject: Re: Sinister: Joke stuff here... warning absolutely no B+S conten t If you enjoyed that, you should check out the "Letters From A Nut" books by Ted L. Nancy. They are a collection of ridiculous letters this guy wrote to large corporations, and their subsequent responses.... things like, offering Mickey Mantle's toe clippings to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Pretty funny, with a forward written by Jerry Seinfeld. ta t:-) Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 17:44:34 +0000 From: Dr Nick Morton <ggy3swm4(a)novell2.bham.ac.uk> To: Sinister(a)ph.ed.ac.uk Subject: Its a sinister scandal! Is anyone else miffed that under a new ruling UK singles are going to be restricted to a maximum of three tracks? Mansun and Embrace have already complained but... one track is more than enough from them as far as I'm concerned, what about our beloved B&S? The EP has been a perfectly good format for 40-odd years, why the sudden probem now? And if we have to then buy 2 versions of the CD single to get the same amount of music, thats hardly a solution either. And where does that leave "hidden" tracks, e.g. 3...6...9 Seconds? At this rate it'll be a criminal offence putting FIVE tracks on the same single!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ And the sad part is..... You do my world the world of good e-mail: ggy3swm4(a)novell2.bham.ac.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 . Somos todos conejitos felices que tararean . consonancias felices del conejito - no somos? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: i thought that if you had an acoustic guitar that meant you were a protest singer
by debbie 19 Jun '98

19 Jun '98

om my goodness, yesterday was the best day of my life EVER. well, about three hours of it was, anyway: I saw Bernard Butler play live in Glasgow and Edinburgh and met him afterwards. Wow. this may sound pretty tragic to most people, but i have been madly in love with him since ever and have never gotten to see him live before. he ruled. and contrary to popular press opinion he is lovely and was really nice and chatted with us for ages and wrote funny messages on our cds (and my packet of Supernoodles) and was really sweet. then we got told to move on by the security people for holding up everyone else. bah. i just thoought id share that with you cus i was supposed to be going into town to get my photos of the gig developed but the bus didn't turn up and there isn't another for 5 hours. forgot to ask him if he likes B&S. sure he does, though. *still* haven't seen any B&S t-shirts at gigs in Edinburgh, i would have thought there'd be plenty. oh well. debbie ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Somos todos conejitos felices que tararean . consonancias felices del conejito - no somos? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Tindersticks/Portishead concert in Vienne in July?
by Stephan Hammer 19 Jun '98

19 Jun '98

Hello everybody, does anybody know about this concert (which I found on the tindersticks website) ? And does anybody know where Vienne is (Belgium???). And is it a festival? I appreciate your help Stephan ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Somos todos conejitos felices que tararean . consonancias felices del conejito - no somos? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: to Katrina
by Jose Maria Sagúillo (hijo) 19 Jun '98

19 Jun '98

Hi all Katrina, would you please to give me some information about two australian bands. The first are THE KILLJOYS I bougth a cd last week for 500 pesetas (2 pounds more or less) and it's fantastic and the other band is The lucksmiths, here in spain the cover of the cd says "The sound of this record is in the middle of the go-between's and belle and sebastian". How I'd love to be next sunday in that picnic. Cheers from spain. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Somos todos conejitos felices que tararean . consonancias felices del conejito - no somos? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Talking through their b-sides
by Kevan Cooke 19 Jun '98

19 Jun '98

I hadn't heard about this new ruling on what constitutes a single. Are these sort of rulings something that just happens in the UK? If so then for the benefit of those outside the UK these spurious rulings are made by the people who compile our music charts. Record companies then pretty much have to comply if they want their releases to get listed in the charts - and most do. The death knell for vinyl was sounded in the UK when they made a similar ruling about the maximum number of formats that could be counted towards a single's sales and, if I remember rightly, there was a rule introduced around the start of the eighties to stop record companies giving away weird and wonderful free gifts with records in order to boost sales. None of these rules could really be said to have enhanced pop music. Kevan ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . 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 . Somos todos conejitos felices que tararean . consonancias felices del conejito - no somos? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Book,Music and Feeling Sinister
by Ivo A P Escossia 19 Jun '98

19 Jun '98

I am reading The Buddha of Suburbia ( O Buda do Suburbio,in my language) by Hanif Kureishi I am listening to Rose Melberg album called "Portola". The book is great. The Cd is amazing. .....and i am feeling sinister. Salako ? a good band ? Ivo A P Escossia Sonar E-zine http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Stadium/1389/ "...Soon we'll be away from here, step the on the gas and wipe that tear away..."

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