Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 05:07:40 -0400 From: Mick McMick <mick@indiepop.com> Subject: Sinister: A Pleasant Surprise & a Father's Day tape In unrelated news, I spent a large portion of my day making my father a mixtape for tomorrow. I want to tape him a B&S song, as he's shown a bit of curiosity about them, but I don't know which song... He really likes the Beatles, the Beach Boys, & Steely Dan (hehe). Keep in mind that I've only got IYFS & Dog on Wheels (waiting for that EPs comp that has been pushed back FURTHER *groan*) and some stuff that is bad recording quality. Any suggestions? So far the best I can do is "Me and the Major." =D

Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 13:21:39 +0100 From: "Gary Done" <gary@argentt.globalnet.co.uk> Subject: Sinister: CIN makes me want to smoke crack.

Hi Katrina,

First off, £1.99 for CD singles is a very fair price, when you consider you can more often than not pick up CD albums for £11.99 first week of release featuring 12-14 tracks, four tracks for £4.99 was bad enough, £4.99 for 3 tracks is going to be a complete rip off. 99p for 7" even though I hardly ever buy them is great and probably the only good thing to come out of

Hmm. you have a cool dad. Mine goes for Enigma for some strange reason as far as new music goes. older things, he's a Judy Collins fan. When i was growing up, I was able to tolerate her just because I lived in that household. It's sort of like Stockholm syndrome. Last time my parents were in town, they were playing one of her CDs in the car and I was sitting in the back dying to jump out the whole time. Anyway, they were in my apartment and I had Belle and Sebastian in the CD player. My dad stopped and started to laugh saying something about how the singer sounded out of tune. Since my dad is well versed in singing in the atonal scale and can't even find the beat to a sousa march, I take his word for it. this

new ruling will be the inevitable resurgence in the 7" format when the punters say "sod that extra track on the CD, I'll get the vinyl for a damn sight cheaper price".

Hell yeah, you cheapo Brits. :^) Do you know how much it costs us Americans to buy a single? $4. Or, to translate, somewhere around 3 quid. True, in general, to buy a full length album, we don't have to pay as much and all the major releases are on sale, but in general, when you buy a single from an american release, the b-sides are either remixes or other cuts off the album. So, not only do we pay more for singles, but after listening to that song and 3 remixes of it, you REALLY want to retire it after only 2 listens. It's all an evil ploy just to make us buy the album. The last time I was over there, I thought that if I had a CD player (over there, I only had a radio and walkman) then I would have gone crazy in the singles aisle.

WE WANT FOUR TRACKS ON OUR CD SINGLES....... OR SOMETHING, DEATH TO CIN AND THE MONEY GRABBING MAJORS..... FREE GEORGE JACKSON..... ERRR.... AND LOTS OF OTHER SOCIALIST COMMENTS WHICH I HAVE NO IDEA ABOUT..... NURSE!!!!!, MY PILLS PLEASE.

Woohoo! Kill everyone!

Actually I think I've found a good reason to cut CD singles down to three tracks. Think about it, less tracks by horrible boy/girl bands being released..... and Stereophonics as well. Wouldn't the world be a better place with 6 less Boyzone songs a year being released ?. 87)

Maybe making more tracks will keep them preoccupied and off the streets. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@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@majordomo.net . Somos todos conejitos felices que tararean . consonancias felices del conejito - no somos? -----------------------------------------------------------------------