Hi list,
this is my first mail to the list; I've been reading it for a week now and I'm
thinking with a little luck I could actually learn anything about B&S here...
Sorry to bother you all with such factual, non-nostalgic, direct questions,
:-)) but... can anyone tell me who plays what in B&S, and who writes the
tunes, and who's the poet behind the lyrics?...
I was looking at the script from the B&S Chat and I suppose it should make
some more sense if I could connect the names to... something.
TIA,
Pedro
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sorry this has no B&S content but could anyone tell me if Mr Scruff has
released anything other than chipmunk/fish on ninja tunes and large pies
on cup of tea records as they are a couple of the bestest tunes I've
ever heard for a while?.
Bad Records:
ziontrain
aphex twin - i only got it for the one in the "orange telecom" advert
honest!
army of lovers
rage against the machine (I was young okay?)
Good Books:
"The Cat in the Hat" by Dr Seuss
oh and "green eggs and ham"
I thought Microserfs was a good read but didn't like shampoo planet
also 253 by geoff ryman which is also on the net @
http://www.ryman-novel.com
It's good I reckon to dip into occasionally
I also wondered what are lists views on mp3's? A useful way of sharing
music or blatant piracy which should be stamped out as soon as possible?
I am involved in a project which involves using an mp3 player for a car
stereo so I would be intrested to hear your views.
the spod
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A few random thoughts:
Good to see Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead cropping up on a reading list. That
and Atlas Shrugged are truly two of the most monumental books ever written.
It always amazes me that they're so little known over here in the UK.
The phrase The American Belle and Sebastian keeps appearing. I don't think
such a concept is possible. I mean, I worship the USA in all her glory n'
all, but nothing so special could ever come out of there. I too saw Acetone
when they played with the Verve and Oasis, at the Riverside in Newcastle.
They were totally mediocre. I chose to talk to a balding friend called
Kevin instead of listen to the fledgling Gallagher's. The Verve blew the
power out half way through their set, which was fun. I did manage to see
the Oasis gig at the Riverside the following year, when they started
beating the crap out of an audience member who'd had the audacity to punch
Noel. Apart from the grotesque violence involved, it was an incredible
concert. All 5 songs of it.
Debbie's point about American Psycho is spot on. It's the foulest, most
unpleasant, sordid piece of shit I've ever read and should not be taken
lightly. I started reading it in Spain last autumn and it almost ruined my
holiday, it was so gross. Is it politically incorrect to be sensitive like
that?
Lullaby for the Working Class are OK. I got their recent CD, but haven't
listened to it a great deal. It's just not that compelling. Hopkirk and
Lee, on the other hand, are growing on me every day. Those four songs are
just wonderful. I urge all of you to get hold of a copy. Believe me, it
really is gorgeous.
My favourite 10 songs of all time, just for the sake of it:
Rock and Roll Friend - Go Betweens
The Last Kiss - J Frank Wilson
Gone til November - Wyclef
Sowing Seeds - JAMC
Perfume - Paris Angels
Mr Tambourine Man - The Byrds
Nobody Loves Us - Morrissey
Rain - Martin Stephenson and the Daintees
Modern Rock Song - BandS
She's A Real Good Time - East River Pipe
Have a lovely weekend,
Keegan for Chairman
DAVID
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Speak gently, Spring, and make no sudden sound,
For in my windy valley yesterday I found
New born foxes squirming on the ground -
Speak gently.
Walk softly, March, forbear the bitter blow.
Her feet within a trap, but blood upon the snow,
The four little foxes saw their mother go -
Walk softly.
Go lightly, Spring, oh give them no alarm;
As I covered them with boughs to shelter them from harm,
The thin blue foxes suckled at my arm -
Go lightly.
Step softly, March, with your rampant hurricane;
Nuzzling one another and whimpering with pain,
The new little foxes are shivering in the rain -
Step softly.
Lew Sarett
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Just wondering if anyone out there has read the new Ted Hughes poetry collection, Birthday Letters? I want to read it (because didn't we *all* have that only-Sylvia-understands-my-pain phase?), but I'm not sure if I want to shell out the $20 or so dollars to buy it.
As for Douglas Coupland, I have loved every one of his books except the Deadhead one. I recently reread Microserfs, and cried at the ending all over again. That it made me cry ranks it right up there with The Incredible Journey and The Velveteen Rabbit - but no animals die or are in peril in Microserfs.
Thinking martini thoughts,
Paige
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A very good friend of mine from the states has just sent me the most
marvellous book in the world ever. It's called Griffin and Sabine by Nick
Bantock, and it's the story of a post card artist in England who gets post
cards from a mysterious woman on a tropical island...basically the book's only
a few pages long as it is all told on postcards and letters...it is wonderful
because:
The artwork is divine, a real joy to look at
The book is about long distance friendships (and romances) developing via
letters, quite a *sinister* thing to do I guess
It really feels like you're reading other people's mail, always a slightly
perverse thrill
Apologies if this is old news, especially to US listees, but it really did
blow my mind, and I've never seen it in this country.
And I feel happy today because the sun was shining, and I had my sunroof open
in the car, blasting out B&S as I sped along...bliss..
Gesundheit
Risso
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Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 13:08:26 +0000 (GMT)
From: G R Thomas <grthom(a)essex.ac.uk>
Subject: I Really should be going...
Sender: G R Thomas <grthom(a)essex.ac.uk>
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Well, it's about that time again...
Another term has past, another great term for the list, and it's time
for me to go home, having finished uni 'till April 20th. This of course
means no e-mail access so I'm also unsubscribing as of today. If anyone
needs/wants to contact me (J.B./Mylene/anyone else) then you know the
address. Actually, I'll mail you both privately. Sorry list!...
Anyway, time to go, eagerly awaiting the new singles/LPs as we all are,
Cheers, and keep on keeping on,
See ya all April,
GIDEONxxxx
"Make your on kind of music,
Sing your own special song,
Make your own kind of music,
Even if nobody else sings along..."
Kyle Daydream
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Well, it's about that time again...
Another term has past, another great term for the list, and it's time
for me to go home, having finished uni 'till April 20th. This of course
means no e-mail access so I'm also unsubscribing as of today. If anyone
needs/wants to contact me (J.B./Mylene/anyone else) then you know the
address. Actually, I'll mail you both privately. Sorry list!...
Anyway, time to go, eagerly awaiting the new singles/LPs as we all are,
Cheers, and keep on keeping on,
See ya all April,
GIDEONxxxx
"Make your on kind of music,
Sing your own special song,
Make your own kind of music,
Even if nobody else sings along..."
Kyle Daydream
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Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 21:57:45 +0000 (GMT)
From: G R Thomas <grthom(a)essex.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Sinister: Nostalgia ain't what it used to be
Sender: G R Thomas <grthom(a)essex.ac.uk>
To: Stuart Gardiner <skg21(a)hermes.cam.ac.uk>
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On Wed, 18 Mar 1998 17:11:17 +0000 (GMT) Stuart Gardiner
<skg21(a)hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>> I really got into indie music purely thanks to the Radcliffe
graveyard
> shift show. I remember listening to the first ever show he did on Radio 1
> (and even a few of the shows he did on Radio 5 on Wednesday evenings - Hit
> The North I think they were called) and thinking, yeah, it's really funny,
> shame about the music. This was in a period of my life when my taste
> wasn't very developed (Confession time: forget Menswear, anyone remember
> the London Boys?!?) and Radcliffe's music seemed too obscure. But as time
> went on, and I listened more and more, I came to love the music as much as
> the comedy, and I haven't looked back since. The man is indeed a genius.
> And that's where I first heard B&S...
And I'm exacyly the same. Not about the London Boys bit (yeah, I do
remember them), but all the rest. I first started to listen to Mark and
Lard in the summer of '96, mainly so it was so rib-ticklingly funny.
But I started listening more to the music, and really started to get
into it. All my 'indie' type taste spring from listening to Mark and
Marc, as well as my love of poets like Ian Macmillan and the Bard of
Marsden, Simon Armitage.
I have M+M to thank for B+S ('Judy' was the first track I heard),
Kenickie, MSP etc etc. I stil listen to the few shows I have taped,
including the whole of the last week. Oh, how we cried on that last
night....
Oh, well, they're still about, if only on t'afternons.
See ya,
GIDEONxxxxx
"Oooh yeah, baby"
FAT HARRY WHITE
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