That "Feltrospective" album contained some mouthwatering unreleased tracks, so it might well be worth waiting for.... I don't know whether I'm subscribed or not at the moment, I put it all down to the Cancelbot lurking down Honey's trousers. Whatever, I got a load of old messages this morning, including one form the Duke: and with respect to Stax, well yes i realise that there was a mish mash of noise on Stax, as indeed there was on Motown, but you can't let little details like actual facts ruin your theories, now can you? Pop theorists have an unimpeachable right to make up any old bollocks if it sounds funny and/or pretentious enough. i mean did Marcus Greil let the fact that Bruce Springsteen records are actually shite deflect his arguments? No he did not. I rest my case... Quite right. It's just this concept of "the Stax sound" that's doing the rounds these days, and although I think I know what they mean, I'm not sure. I know what "the Motown sound" means, even though it was often veered away from with wild abandon. I think the problem may be that we use the word "formula" as a kind of shorthand for "series of formulas". Hmmm. Yes, I'm sure that's it. By the way, I got a smutty, childish and frankly pathetic mental image when Duke wrote: As for a sequel to Young and Foolish, well there is the Felt book that will hopefully come together this year, as long as Lawrence doesn't pull out. Terrible, I know. It's because of "Grandad's False Teeth" I suppose. Normally I don't stoop quite so low. Madame Oooon and her secret team of scientists are trying to produce evil elephant clones in Thailand, and Leonard DeCaprio has inflicted his hairy coconuts on the peaceful island of Pee Pee. All this from the BBC, as well as the shocking fact that 60% of records are bought by women. Let's hope they all vote for B&S in the Brit awards, so that we get to laugh at Stuart at the ceremony. WHO content: The other day I went to the pictures and I saw a trailer and it was Bug Story or something, with computerised ants and caterpillars and what not, and the music was 70s WHO, which should be a nice surprise for the kids who go and see it. It was "Baba O'Riley", perhaps it was chosen for the ant-like quality of the opening synthesizer sequence that we all know and love. And then I saw a film, Very Bad Things, and it was good and you should go and see it if you want to. Fluffy, our prayers are with you for a speedy recovery. Sister Disco "Dexy's Midnight Runners are shite!" - anonymous grafitti on Midland Red bus, 1983 +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" +---+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+