July 1999 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: Back from the pub posting
by SSharp5210＠aol.com 16 Jul '99

16 Jul '99

Hi poptarts, Just back from the pub and slightly,ahem,"delicate".However this simply means that big words will be scare and badly spelled.The point is that I asked 9 people about B&S and got 2 "No clues",3 "The band that rigged the Brits" and 4 "The really cool bands"....Is this media penetration not going too far?...Blah,blah basically a nothing post but I do love you all.;) Steve.Lubricated yet still sunny natured.xxxxxxx +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Bunch of Loopers?
by Steve Genge 16 Jul '99

16 Jul '99

as in, any plans yet for a New York sinisterine pre-looper gig meetup? if not, I'll volunteer my services to help arrange one. email me privately and we'll collectively sort something out. I've got my own cubicle at my internship now. moving up in the world, I tell you. moving to different offices at least. and we've got a PANTRY (not break room, mind, PANTRY) with free fountain soda in Viacom cups. MTV is one floor down. anyone else on the list work in the Paramount building on Broadway? we could do lunch. I'm tempted to download mIRC on my computer here and chat clandestinely, like Honey and Keith (Who?) and Timmy P!O!P!kins did in the old days. sigh. and in light of recent allusions to Wilco, I saw the Old 97s play last night and they ROCKED. if you like _Summerteeth_ give their _Fight Songs_ a try. lead singer Rhett is a big b&s fan, apparently, and it seems that the handclaps on the song "Oppenheimer" were b&s-inspired. go figure. so NY looper-bound listees, drop me a line. au reservoir, Amanda . . .. . .. . .. . "If you are good at anything, that is beauty." --from _Taxi Driver Wisdom_ >>visit *Red Roses for Me* fanzine<< http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Cabaret/9043 +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: British Rock Symphony
by PJMiller 16 Jul '99

16 Jul '99

What a swizz! The British Rock Symphony album only features Daltry on two tracks - "Kashmir" and "Let It Be". No way am I buying that. What's more, Duke will have to time his canal towpath cycle-by very carefully to catch Daltry in action. The other tracks are stuff like "Comfortably Numb". Not a whiff of Hawkwind though. I haven't seen the new edition of T yet, but already confusion clouds my...erm...sky. I seem to recall being told that the Cd would retail at about 7 pounds, and that there wouldn't be any tits on the cover. Did this turn out to be true, or was it another oversight at Jeepster? Speaking of which, I visited the Jeepster website the other day (to see the new artwork) and was greeted by the bizarre legend "Belle and Sebastian because the kids are alright". Have I missed something? Surely if Jeepster must bootleg perfectly good WHO titles they could choose something a bit more appropriate, like "Belle and Sebastian because we won't get fooled again" or "Belle and Sebastian because love ain't for keeping" or "Belle and Sebastian because I'm your Uncle Ernie and I welcome you to Tommy's Holiday Camp". The other day I came across a K Records sampler that came free with an expensive magazine a few years ago. The last track is "Wishing Well" by Glo-Worm, from an album called "Glimmer" (KLP 54). There are no writing credits. Is it you, Pam? The song lasts 1 minute 48 seconds or thereabouts. I quite like "Ally McBeal". I don't think anyone should be proud of their country, in fact I think everyone should emigrate, like a huge international game of musical chairs. My slogan is "PRUSSIANS IN PRESTON!" I'm beginning to get on my own nerves now. I look forward to reading about Tim's triumphal bounceback into the limelight, the most anxiuosly awaited pop resurrection since the Jasmine Minks or Blondie. Cheers, Peter +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Mick Cooke
by Chris Jones 16 Jul '99

16 Jul '99

chris.jones(a)saqnet.co.uk http://www.saqnet.co.uk/users/saxtead/chris.htm Apologies for the relevant subject heading, I know it is a bit out of character. I may be being a bit dozy here, but didn't we get an e-mail from Mick Cooke the other day? Nobody has really mentioned this, and, if it was him this is the first time that I can recall a band member posting to the list. Sorry if I missed the 1001 messages that were actually about Mick Cookes e-mail, or if I have been fooled by a thinly disguised Mick Cooke hoax. Chris Jones. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: slander, libel, white horses
by Kevan Cooke 16 Jul '99

16 Jul '99

hello folks, tigermilk sounds rather fine in glorious digital splendour doesn't it? i wish they'd left that dodgy synth track off though. ~ that review in select said the line in mary jo about the thespian with a caravanette in hull was struan's most morrissey-like lyric, but i would have thought it was the bit in i could be dreaming that goes "do you want to do it now? outside the butchers with a knife and a bike chain." anyway, what are we going to to about tigermilk? it never occurred to me before, but even sister disco must have found it impossible to get an amusing TWATTYBUS style permutation out of the acronym "T". i bought two copies of the cd this week, one for me and one for my dad whose birthday is today - this is in keeping with his christmas present in 1996 being a copy of sinister. i haven't been listening to T too much though. i've been listening to simon and garfunkel instead, due to the select review reminding me about the songs the b&s/sodastream/ v-twin supergroup played to entertain the queue at bowlie. i was wondering if anyone had a complete list of all the covers that b&s have ever performed live. i searched the archives, honest, but couldn't find a complete list. and when are they going to get around to playing white horses? kevan fat slug *********************************** chickclick.com http://www.chickclick.com girl sites that don't fake it. http://www.chickmail.com sign up for your free email. *********************************** +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: They've called it Electronic Renaissance
by Mick McMick at work 16 Jul '99

16 Jul '99

Hello, Wow, how fitting that by no intention of my own the song just started. Anyway, I would have jumped to the "rescue" of Electronic Renaissance the second it was maligned, but that would have been two posts in one day... but I really had no clue that so many people like it, which is outstanding. My favorite track on Tigermilk, one of my all-time faves too... Ben said something about it sounding like Procession by New Order. As pleased as I was to see someone other than myself mentioning New Order, I'm not sure if the song reminds me specifically of Procession the other songs from around the same time. In fact, I am not entirely certain that Gillian Gilbert (er, the keyboard player) was in the band at that point. I am certain she wasn't involved in the very first single, and Procession was the second single, preceeding the excellent Movement. It's also quite possible that Procession & its b-side are songs that were written as Joy Division but not recorded until they became New Order, as some of the early songs were. Even if she was in the band, at that point in time their songs to me sound less dance and more brooding, dark-sounding, and oddly jangly at times (see: Dreams Never End) which Electronic Renaissance is not. Furthermore, there are like 3 synth parts on Electronic Renaissance! Which is awesome, but I don't think even New Order did that, at least not until their later days, if at all. If you listen carefully to the new remastered version of Electronic Renaissance you can hear a tinkly synth at certain intervals. Anyway, I guess there is a bit of New Order in the song, but I'd say more of a Technique-era sound. Movement and Power, Corruption & Lies are more guitar-based than Electronic Renaissance. Er, yes, that was probably more than any of you wanted to know about New Order, but I'm at work and bored, so try to be understanding. Les Belles ought to do more synthy songs in the vein of Electronic Renaissance and Sleep the Clock Around. And someone should do a B&S night at a club here in New York. What I don't understand is how there have been so many over UK-way but not a single one here... Oh yes, and The Blair Witch Project is the scariest movie ever. I'm not kidding! I think I've returned to the state of being scared of the dark. Has anyone got a nightlight I can borrow for a few weeks? Well, I'll get by, but if anyone suggests a Sinister camping trip in Maryland you can count me out. Waiting to dance to Electronic Renaissance, Mick McMick at Work +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Re: Procession Confession
by Sam Devere 16 Jul '99

16 Jul '99

>like the glossily overproduced Technique, in my opinion. "ER" is very >lo-fi,really one of the loest-fi B&S have ever done. I love Technique, I think it's their best album. The production does sound very sonically (is this even a word?) clean. But it differs from other New Order albums in the dichotomy of the all synth vs. all guitar songs, versus previous albums which usually melded the two. Of course the World Cup anthem was the beginning of the downfall, it's either that or because they eased up on E or whatever else they were doing. We are so lucky to be able to enjoy B&S while they are unfolding. Unfortunately, I was either too young or unaware of other wonderful bands (Smiths, Lilac Time, etc.) as they progressed. Is Atari Teenage Riot worth seeing live? - Sammy _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Electronic Ren Opinion vs. Factory
by Sam Devere 16 Jul '99

16 Jul '99

I had de-lurk, I couldn't resist this one. I LOVE Electronic Rennaisance. I do agree with Mick and Xavier and the early New Order reference (especially Mick's comment on B&S writing more synthy songs), but I think an even more appropriate Factory band would be OMD. ER sounds like the 'Maid or Orleans'/'Souvenir'/'Joan of Arc' days, though I'm unsure if they were still on Factory at that point. I love the fragile, off-kilter, gothic synth sounds of those three OMD songs and wish I could find more of that genre. Does anyone know what ever happened to Camouflage? As for New Order, Gillian joined in late 1980, in time to record the alternate version of Ceremony (which is different than the one on Substance, and better in my opinion). Also, the Other Two (Gillian and Stephen's) and Electronic released new ones in the past couple of months, haven't heard them yet. Sam _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Re: Those Numbers are Right alright
by Walkn10＠aol.com 16 Jul '99

16 Jul '99

It seems poor Matt accidentally mailed this only to me, but its obviously to the list to here it is: Howdy folks. This is my first post on the board. And, sorry to say, its a somewhat negative one. I would just like to get the record straight, if it hasn't already in later posts. The Blair Witch Project is completely fake. Ingenius as it is, it is, alas, not real. The directors hired the three actors, gave them camcorders, and told them to go out in the woods and ad lib. They left battery packs and instructions at certain areas for the cast to pick up. The directors would go into the woods at night, when the cast was asleep, and rustle around outside to scare them. It may seem real, but it is nothing more than a faux documentary. -Matt (Sebstian95(a)aol.com) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: stop the insanity!
by marie elia 16 Jul '99

16 Jul '99

oh, dear... as i sat in grand central station tonight waiting for my 9pm train, i thought, oh hell just splurge and buy Time Out even though there's never anything good in it... so i did... and there was a highly positive review of tigermilk (which by the way i received yesterday in the mail -- way to go, jeepsta! you all are the collective proverbial bomb! p!r!o!p!s!). except that -- they totally ragged on electronic renaissance... twice! the bastards! something like if b&s had left it off, the album would be a perfect pop album. sheesh! i agree with whoever said that it would have been easy to leave E.R. off the album but it's good they didn't -- soooo true! it's total silvery synth indulgence! admit it! you all shake yr boo-tay in the privacy of yr bedroom while listening to this track. i know it. mmm-hmmm. yes, mickmcmick!! we Must have a nyc b&s club night! and soon! before they send me kicking and screaming back to school in western pennsylvania -- which is, however, closer to my favourite state of ohio. c'mon! it's shaped like a freakin' heart! how could you not love a state shaped like a heart??? ohio -- the heart of it all... mmm... oh, um, mary jo slipped in: > i read an article in spin (i know i know, but it was > the same issue as the piece on rainer maria) that > lead me to believe that the blair with movie > story is completely false. A) ja wohl, it's totally a sham. which dun't make it any less freaky... B) do not... i repeat do NOT ... read the spin article on rainer maria... unless you already know and love them and can therefore disregard this piece of rubbish and icky ewwy orgy pic of a caithlin sandwich... what were they Thinking??? at least it's sort of funny b/c bill and kyle are all looking all into this naked thing, and caithlin looks obliviously bemusedly at the camera like, can you believe this?? blah! spin sux my lily white arse. oh, too much information... oh, enough rambling for one night. take care, all ... i'm off to sleep whilst listening to tigermmmmilk... programmed to repeat electronic renaissance a few times to fall asleep to, so there you blasphemers!! xoxo, marie === ************************************************************** "I was a proper snob in college, as only a future lifetime English major can be" - b. glass (jds) ************************************************************** "to me she was just marie." -mersault _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister(a)majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo(a)majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "jelly-filled danishes" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+

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