July 1998 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: list crushes
by david kitchen 17 Jul '98

17 Jul '98

to aid the perpetuation of list crushes i've developed a new postcard script (plus the old one broke!). anyhow, you can now send anon postcards, as the only thing the receiver sees is your name (which you can make up). and after you've sent a card and the other person picks it up the script will e-mail you to let you know! cool eh? this means you can measure your own popularity by seeing how many ppl actually pick up your postcards! and to top it all off, a new press photo is now available on the site (under the news tab) and can also be sent as a postcard. have fun! david kitchen ----------------------------------------------------------------------- david kitchen : merchandising and websites : jeepster records visit the site at : http://www.jeepster.co.uk/ or mail us at : shop(a)jeepster.co.uk jeepster recordings ltd, 217 canalot, 222 kensal road, london w10 5bn ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For unsubscribing, list rules, Tigermilk and sessions tapes, . please see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . *** B&S new LP worldwide release 7th September, tour news etc. at *** . *** http://www.majordomo.net/sinister/news.html *** . Coinini athasach ata muid - ag canuint amhrain na . coinini - nach bhfuilimid? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: You're rendering that scaffolding dangerous
by Keith Watson 17 Jul '98

17 Jul '98

>Joss, > >Fair enough you dont like Gold Blade - thats fine and dandy by me. But beleive >me my post was no attempt to bate people. I have, to my regret, seen all these >bands and these are all genuinely held opinions. Yeah, I didn't see that as a baiting attempt - however I'd be tempted to agree with you on almost all points, I'd agree that almost all of these bands are shit too. The only thing really that makes me believe in Arab Strap is the mix of David Holmes's Serge Gainsbourg's Don't Die Just Yet, which is brilliant. I bought the Delgados album on the recommendation of lots of people on this list and frankly find it pretty dull. Some of it's OK, but mainly shite. I can't agree with all you say though, cause I don't really wanna have Morrissey's babies - for the moment anyway, even if I did, it'd have to be in some sort of daft, Hawtrey-esque manner. I can agree with Ian Turton about Chris Leonard, I was having a hearty chuckle last night at the thing he stuck on Stuart David's Looper guestbook a few weeks ago. Well funny. James Errington - that wee bit about Blur going on TOTP looking like the Stone Roses was a bit of a joke really, although they did.. but I'm not having a go at them for that, that song was OK I thought. In my opinion they continually try to make themselves look like innovators however, when they are basically just copy people - they're pretty good at it I suppose, at least they have a tune, but most of it doesn't really do it for me. There's that one "Oily Water" which is their sort of MBV chorus one, which is very good at doing MBV, that one I like. I am unconvinced of anyone's ability to invent something like Britpop though - where all Britpop appears to mean is copying bands from the sixties. Hey Tim - cheers for your filling in the remainder of the guitar solos top 10. They were all great - maybe... If I'd heard of any of them! One thing right that's been on my mind recently - and has become a bit of a pub debate, which I'm wondering if you lot can help with. Do you remember in the 80's when everyone and his bloody aunt decided that Prince was a total Genius? Well, now were a good decade on from this time and we were trying to work out whether or not he is... I can see he's knocked up some great songs, SIgn of the times and Alphabet Street standing out for me, but genius, I dunno - throw enough mud at the wall, maybe... So what do you lot think? Prince - purple genius, or pint-sized twat. Cheers, Keith. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For unsubscribing, list rules, Tigermilk and sessions tapes, . please see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . *** B&S new LP worldwide release 7th September, tour news etc. at *** . *** http://www.majordomo.net/sinister/news.html *** . Coinini athasach ata muid - ag canuint amhrain na . coinini - nach bhfuilimid? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: first post....um ...hopefully
by Cires 17 Jul '98

17 Jul '98

Hi People, I was wondering if anyone knew of any B&S gigs in Scotland (esp. Glasgow) anytime soon? Thanx. Now Playing: Cabaret Voltaire - Radiation (BBC Recordings 84-86)

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Re: Sinister: a mad wolf
by Ihamilt＠aol.com 17 Jul '98

17 Jul '98

Joss, Fair enough you dont like Gold Blade - thats fine and dandy by me. But beleive me my post was no attempt to bate people. I have, to my regret, seen all these bands and these are all genuinely held opinions. And anyway, isnt the Belle and Sebastian/pastels/Arab Strap consensus ultimately just as suffocating as the Oasis/Verve/Weller one that is casuing so much damage today. Iain ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For unsubscribing, list rules, Tigermilk and sessions tapes, . please see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . *** B&S new LP worldwide release 7th September, tour news etc. at *** . *** http://www.majordomo.net/sinister/news.html *** . Coinini athasach ata muid - ag canuint amhrain na . coinini - nach bhfuilimid? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: artyfarty nonsense
by ELIZABETH DAPLYN 17 Jul '98

17 Jul '98

> Subject: RE: Sinister: list crush (again) > > DIRTY PAULY wrote: > > Send your list crushes to Peter Miller > >(pjmiller(a)arrakis.es) I reckon - he's doing nothing but frightening > >devout catholics and helping girl guides with their tent pegs all day > >anyway. Oh and send some rude dreams about your favourite crush > >too! That'll steam up his spectacles. > Pedro wrote: > This is untrue. I went to the beach this afternoon. Shall I tell you what > I > saw? I don't really need to, do I? It was like a scene from Picasso's > "Garden of Earthy Delights".... > Hey hey hey! Not that I'm pedantic or anything, but I really have to protest. "The Garden of Earthly Delights" is by Hieronymous Bosch, and was painted about 500 years before Picasso was an Iberian eye twinkle. Amongst Mr. Bosch's other fine works are "The Ship of Fools" and "The Haywain". Bird-headed demons a-gogo! > I hope the cover of the new album is an explanatory diagram of an "arab > strap", because I'm still not sure what it is. It's for blokes who can't > get > their Flight Lieutenant to do the watuzi, isn't it? How rude! > >> > The Boy with the Arab Strap I think that's being just a little too informative about your private life, Peter ;) ByeBye, Liz. ******************* silence .is a looking bird: the turn ing; edge, of life (inquiry before snow e.e. cummings ********************** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For unsubscribing, list rules, Tigermilk and sessions tapes, . please see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . *** B&S new LP worldwide release 7th September, tour news etc. at *** . *** http://www.majordomo.net/sinister/news.html *** . Coinini athasach ata muid - ag canuint amhrain na . coinini - nach bhfuilimid? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: Tape Trees/Gregorian Chant/B&S Content - long un
by John Johnston 17 Jul '98

17 Jul '98

I'm very excited about the incipient tape tree but I'm a little bit worried that my tastes are so relentlessly mainstream (I've never heard of half the bands mentioned on this list) that there will be few unknown gems for my treemates to enjoy. But I shall honestly try my best. The talk of Gregorian chant made me wonder if I might stick "a dope cut" (as they say down the Abbey) or two on my selection but I don't think that would really work. But anybody keen to get with the superflyest in Medieval Plainsong action could do worse that cop a load of Tomas Luis de Victoria - particularly his Requiem "Missa Defunctorum". This is without doubt the most beautifull piece of music I have ever heard and it's the only thing that has ever made me cry from the sheer beauty of it. I was sitting with my dad at home in Oxford looking out into the garden (well I say garden - acres of rolling parkland with muntjack deer and performing otters gamboling on the greensward,you know the sort of thing...) and we listened to the Victoria Requiem together. There's no instruments just human voices and there are moments of such intense beauty and glorious humanity that we both found the tears cascading down our cheeks.Then again that's what I love about my Dad - he cries so easily at the glory of the human spirit be it a Micheal Owen goal or a nobel peace prize winner. But that pure humanity in the music is something i see in bits of B&S - in some of those fragile moments when Mr M's voice offers up the lines before the music kicks in. Also on Cof Elvis just hearing the talking is something I've grown to love. Oh blimey I'm not really explaining myself that well but anyhow I know what I mean! Rollin' with da Friars xx John ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For unsubscribing, list rules, Tigermilk and sessions tapes, . please see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . *** B&S new LP worldwide release 7th September, tour news etc. at *** . *** http://www.majordomo.net/sinister/news.html *** . Coinini athasach ata muid - ag canuint amhrain na . coinini - nach bhfuilimid? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: First Posts
by Jen Jones 17 Jul '98

17 Jul '98

I apologize if this is already out of date. I print the digests on my way out of the office to read on the bus ride home. I am so grateful for the distraction. This in response to a question asked yesterday in one of the 2 digests I received. RE: Songs for Chicks by Chicks (although I know that wasnt the actual title) I am not sure how strict the theme has to be. But I thought I would list some songs that I found to be powerful love tools regardless of the gender singing them: 1) With a Girl Like you the Troggs. Best depicted in the movie Flirting where the boys stand on one side of the room and the girls stand on the other and nobody wants to make a move. Besides, any song where the ba-ba-bas or la-la-las are actually vocalized is a good one ;) 2) Girl from Ipenema (SP) Getz/Gilberto. It may be cliched but goodness when Astrud starts in, her voice could make you melt. I worked in a small record store for 7 impressionable years of my life and the fella who ran the classic store told me that when he was young this was the song to make-out to. That was a visual I didnt need but I definitely understood how it could lend itself to a make-out song. 3) Be My Angel Mazzy Star. I liked Opal better but when rough trade released She Hangs Brightly I thought Hope had dropped straight from heaven. I was only 16 that year and missed the opportunity to see them in 90. By the time I did see em (circa 93) it had lost a lot of the magic PLUS they didnt play this gem of a song!! 4) The Price I Pay Billy Bragg. Okay, this is a song about love lost but I LOVE to sing it at the top of my lungs (regardless of the fact I cant carry a tune) and a lovely sentiment at that. 5) Naomi Neutral Milk Hotel. This song actually gave me goosebumps when I heard the first time. I wish that someone would have that effect on me. Where they have filled every one of my senses to the degree that I can still smell, feel, and taste them. Its so overwhelming that I think that the person will explode into everything good. I have come close but my experiences dont seem as magical as this. This is truly a magnificent tribute to Naomi ( where ever she is) 6) Aeroplane Over the Sea Neutral Milk Hotel (again, different album) it could be that the Elephant6 collective is all Colorado has to offer but Ill tell you what: This song will fulfill every pop need you will have. Sure Jeffs vocal range could use some work on the high end but what a great song, What a beautiful face I have found in this place circling all around Sun One day we will die and our ashes will fly in an aeroplane over the sea. But for now we are young, let us lay in the sun and count every beautiful thing we can see love to be I could on and on. For girls singing about girls the Softies come to mind. Its Love is good although the best songs seem to be about breaking up. Yeah, ok, thats the end of my first post to this here list. I am little nervous with all the rules that I may have broken one with length but you gotta shoot for the stars right? Thank you all, in advance, for the daily distraction from my bus ride. Jen J

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Sinister: a mad wolf
by jossleag＠iol.ie 17 Jul '98

17 Jul '98

Hallo you. Iain, in an attempt to bait people, erred by mentioning: >'the mighty Gold Blade' Tee hee. You like old men in gold suits who try poorly to imitate Rocket from the Crypt and the MC5. Or else maybe they're just good at arm wrestling. joss PS >Brad- 1 (you may consider this doubled *blush*) PPS top 10 reasons I shouldn't have pressed 'send' 10: 515 people don't care that I think GoldBlade are tosh. 9: Now that my address has been revealed I may receive a shit in the post. Again. 8: I am actually paying for a phone call for this pointless thing. 7: Nickie will slag me. 6: Leagues will slag me. 5: Everyone else will grumble into their cereal before pressing delete. 4: Sir Cliff likes GoldBlade. 3: My cats breath smells of cat food. 2: I am shy and should be making the cover for my tree tape instead. 1: David Letterman may sue. PPPS JonG: EastSideStory by Squeeze was made the same year as you. Happy Birthday Tomorrow... ____________________________________________________________ Fin ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For unsubscribing, list rules, Tigermilk and sessions tapes, . please see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . *** B&S new LP worldwide release 7th September, tour news etc. at *** . *** http://www.majordomo.net/sinister/news.html *** . Coinini athasach ata muid - ag canuint amhrain na . coinini - nach bhfuilimid? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Sinister: first crush comp list
by Nick Dastoor 17 Jul '98

17 Jul '98

>Keith- 5 >Tag- 5 >Morrissey-4 >THE ENTIRE LIST- 2 >Living and Loving Matthew- 1 >Biondino- 1 >Tim Hopkins- 1 >Brad- 1 >Katrina- 1 >David- 1 >Bethey- 1 >Gary- 1 >and, finally, me, Kristen- 1 What's going on here? Only 3 votes for girls against 16 for boys (I'm not counting Morrissey until he subscribes). Are boys on the list too shy, too cool to participate, or just more loveable? And don't give me that gayboy fop excuse - come on, broaden your horizons. Girls are g-rreat too. Other things: You've all gone mad part #3: I think 'Simple things' or 'It could have been a brilliant career' would have been *disastrous* album titles. It's one thing having an overtly twee, detractor-baiting title (like Honey's 'Songs for Children'), but these two would have just been anodyne, nothing titles . They're fine as track titles, but an album is like setting out your stall to the world. You've got to dress to impress, like Roxette said. Or at least confuse. This Canadian artists thing can't run on any longer without a mention of Mary Margaret O'Hara. Morrissey once called 'Miss America' the best album of the 80's, and for once the old nag might just have been right. Nick xxx _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For unsubscribing, list rules, Tigermilk and sessions tapes, . please see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . *** B&S new LP worldwide release 7th September, tour news etc. at *** . *** http://www.majordomo.net/sinister/news.html *** . Coinini athasach ata muid - ag canuint amhrain na . coinini - nach bhfuilimid? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Sinister: morrissey
by Jose Maria Sagúillo (hijo) 17 Jul '98

17 Jul '98

Para todos los Españoles en la lista. A mi me gustaba muchisimo morrissey (The Smiths es el mejor grupo de musica pop de todos los tiempos) hasta que vi por television los ultimos videos de Miguel Bose, ahora para mi morrissey es una especie de M. Bose bastante caduco y con unas ideas fuera de onda. Y ademas vive en España. Y encima definitivamente pierde aceite. Morrissey is Dead ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". . For unsubscribing, list rules, Tigermilk and sessions tapes, . please see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister(a)majordomo.net . *** B&S new LP worldwide release 7th September, tour news etc. at *** . *** http://www.majordomo.net/sinister/news.html *** . Coinini athasach ata muid - ag canuint amhrain na . coinini - nach bhfuilimid? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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