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Sinister: List songs
by Neil Dewhurst 18 Aug '98

18 Aug '98

Don't know how many of these have been mentioned, so apologies to all and sundry... It's the end of the world as we know it, is the most obvious, although someone has now mentioned it. Subterranean Homesick Blues at least sounds like a garbled list, regardless of what BD is on about. If 'Hit' counts, then 'Friday I'm in love' could go on. 'Glad' by, I think, Spaghetti Head. The crown choice though would be an eighties song called 'Hey Matthew', by Karel Fialka (or something like that), in which a small boy tells someone what he watches on TV. U2's Numb is almost a list song, except that it's really lots of things that you should or shouldn't do - like "don't be in U2, don't sing like Bono, sell less records in your home country than Daniel O'Donnell..." When I saw the video for the Hillman Manx song, I couldn't help wondering whether the line "I've had enough of Angus Deayton making large amounts of money purely by being smug and ironic" would appear anywhere in the song. Neil +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Ugly rumour
by Cassell Professional Publishing 18 Aug '98

18 Aug '98

Apparently, Pop Will Eat Itself are reforming to record a tribute to the Spice Girls, called Beaver Forever. Sorry David +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: heartfelt plea
by ELIZABETH DAPLYN 18 Aug '98

18 Aug '98

Hello my darlings. I trust that we are all in good health, hayfever notwithstanding. All non-London persons avert your eyes NOW (or use your delete button if you want to be technical about it). I'm venturing forth with my friend into the big scary capital for the September 7th concert, and I was wondering...if any gorgeously pouting gig-bound London listee is going to have any floor space free that night for the purpose of me and Charlotte sleeping on it... If anyone is prepared to be thus lovely, could they email me in the next week or so, as I'm buggering off on holiday Friday week and only coming back on the 5th or 6th. Bonjour et au revoir, Liz. ************************************************************* Cultivo una rosa blanca, en julio como en enero Cultivo una rosa blanca, en julio como en enero Para el amigo sincero que me da su manera franca. ************************************************************* +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: List songs
by Adrian Evans 18 Aug '98

18 Aug '98

I'm awful busy and have only been skim reading in recent weeks, but I don't believe that anyone has mention the fantastic CUSM "Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere". Probably because you were all doing something better in the first half of the nineties. "There's no such thing as Doctor Seuss, Vodka and Tomato juice, Moonshine, Firewater, Captain Morgan, Johnnie Walker, Southern Comfort, Mothers Ruin, Happy hours of homeless brewing..etc..etc." Can't imagine why I liked this song. Still can't beat the Dukes original suggestion of Beloved's "Hello". Peter Miller...quit associating my good name (?) with that terrible book you tricked me into buying - I'll not lower myself to read it. Teeny Marie. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: List songs
by Mark Iles 18 Aug '98

18 Aug '98

>Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 11:48:41 +0100 >From: JJ <johnj(a)seahouses.u-net.com> >Subject: Sinister: yes yes Ikea have got the Robin CD cabinet in! in GREEN > >How many other list songs have there been? I remember the Billy Joel >song We Didn't Start The Fire, and of course A House's Endless Art/ >More Endless Art (and it's erm tribute, the Divine Comedy's Booklovers) >but there must have been more. There's also 'It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)' by REM, which is ace. And 'Hit' by the Wannadies is kind of a list song - he lists the days of the week at least. >I think that Hillman Minx song is >utter rubbish though. Just WHY has he had enough of all the things he >mentions? We never find out. I think he's just sick of them. All the things he moans about could be described as 'ubiquitous' so I guess he's just tired of seeing the same mediocre things again and again and again. The only one I can remember, though, is Ginger Spice. I quite like the song, myself. It'd be funnier if they'd included Angus Deayton in the list of people he'd had enough of - well it'd be funnier when you watched the video (which starts well but runs out of steam after about thirty seconds). Mark +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Re: Sinister: RE: List songs
by Michael 18 Aug '98

18 Aug '98

List songs -there's Paninaro, by the Pet Shop Boys, and that Mary Popins thing _________________________________________________ Michael Barrett, Broadcast R & D, Advanced Technology Division, SONY Broadcast & Professional, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG22 4SB, England. E-mail: Michael.Barrett(a)adv.sonybpe.com Tel: +44 (0)1256 483501, Fax: +44 (0)1256 810950 +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: RE: List songs and Unamerican Activities
by Shearer, Calumn 18 Aug '98

18 Aug '98

Might be dragging this subject on a little, but: PF project and "choose life" (from Trainspotting) - It's not particularly good, but it _is_ a "list song" ... Oh, and how about "Choose Cheese" by Chris Moyles (the Radio 1 spoof) Or how about Tom Waits and "Step Right Up" - he just rhymes off the small print from dodgy ads... How about a list of list songs? I had a look at unamerican.com a while ago and am currently blue-tacking some of his posters around the place. So if you see one around Glasgow (try Java cafe on Gibson St.) , it weren't me ;-) My favourite has to be "It's getting worse and your not helping" - very depressive, but fun. Trying not to get my expectations raised for the gigs, but failing... cal +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Errol Did A **** On His
by PJMiller 18 Aug '98

18 Aug '98

Genevieve enquired: how does Adrian Evans know my (past tense) Pom-Pom bunny? I'm afraid Adrian has been trying to lead us all into his den of iniquity and hellfire. The term "pom-pom" is used in his favourite book "Blue Movie" by Terry Southern to refer to something really rather rude. It's near the end if anyone wants to go and grub through it in a bookshop. Richard She Devil of the Hollywood Hills Hutt asked: I'm about to start work on a Beach Boys documentary, and I have a little window of opportunity. To whit - I'm trying to think of people we could interview, beyond the obvious punters. By which I mean to ask - can anyone suggest modern day artistes who have an affinity for or liking of the Beach Boys? David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Dougal from The Magic Roundabout, The Fat One from REM, Garbage, Doctor Murdoch, Spiritualized, the entire psychedelic population of Wales, The WHO, Sonic Youth, that Eric Matthews bloke who I've never heard, Hattie Jaques, and so on. I don't know how many of those are famous enough without being too obvious. You could always ask the Beach Boys freaks on the mesage board at http://www.cabinessence.com if you haven't already. Some people are quite helpful, other send in things like "hey, this is nail, look at my knob". Occasionally there are messages from people who actually played on the records and other breathtaking achievements. I'm sure you'd get more ideas than you can shake a stick at. I wish I was making a Beach Boys documentary. Some negative opinions would make a nice change. Fluffy wrote: Hillman Minx. Out today. I couldn't find it in HMV but didn't want to drag my grany all the way down to Action :( Shall get it layter! Can we have some more messages from your granny, please? There's a big hole in the list since Arthur Bergman stopped being our friend. I apologise for the lack of B&S. It's my self-awarded tea break and there are no biscuits in the house. This was a biscuit substitute. Sister Disco +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Re: Sinister: American Radio and TV Commercials - Double Take
by Tara Widmer 18 Aug '98

18 Aug '98

<<did anyone notice the velocity girl song in the volkswagon commercial a year back? >> they must have some hip'n'happening young'uns at the VW commercial-making place because there are lots of offbeat songs featured in their ads, in addition to lush/stereolab/velocity girl/moonpools&caterpillers, they used "little fluffy clouds" by the orb for the new Beetle ads and erm, Hurricane #1. So points for originality at least. And is that "lust for Life" in the new one or just a rip-off? There was a Saint Etienne song used in some shampoo ad too, my heart nearly burst with happiness upon recognizing it! did anyone else catch that? <<There's "Girl 7" ... basically a list of places, alternating between bits of London and exotic places "Primrose Hill, Statton Island ???, Tulip Farm...".>> There is a lovely lyric database for this top p!o!p! crew at www.saint.etienne.net. They also have another "list" song called "Fake '88" featuring Stephen Duffy wondering what people will remember the decade for, then name-checking Transformers, ET, rah-rah skirts, Dirty Den and lots of people whom I might recognize had I grown up in England. (Phil Redmond? Stephen Waldorf? Steve Lynex?) Also does REM's "It's the End of the World..." count as a list? <<If B&S decide what sort of commercial to have their music played with, I wonder what sort of products they would endorse?>> Obviously they're going to continue in their tradition of corporate whoredom and pandering the masses by doing a Gap advert, maybe "khakis are pish" or something. Oon's poems were lovely! ta ta tara PS props to HoneyHoney for making the digests, more um, digestible +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Re: Sinister: American Radio and TV Commercials - Double Take
by Lzylnepntr＠aol.com 18 Aug '98

18 Aug '98

yeah..tottally, i think a friend at school mentioned that, but i can't remember who..hmm...... +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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