Sinister: Tigermilk (Clearing things up)

[Honey]

On Sun, 3 May 1998, Chris Borne wrote:

> The real solution is for the Jeepster to re-release the album, on vinyl and
> CD.   
> 
> ...
>
> RE-RELEASE TIGERMILK!!!

The call echoed around the world - but it's important to remember
that it's the *band* who don't want to release it yet - and they've
signalled their intention to do so at "some" time in the future.
Just for fun here's two excerpts from the "pish" chat -
"belleandsebastian" is Stuart Smirnoff talking (and note me putting on
my sensible trousers):

 <eilatana> How do you feel about the fact that now hundreds of
 people have a taped copy of Tigermilk and it will soon be circulated
 to many more around the worl d via tape exchanges?  <StuartD> Dear
 eilatana, who gives a fuck...  <honey> well its a serious question
 Stuart - is the answer that you dont?  <StuartD> No

 * huxley - 9 people have asked if tigermilk will be re-issued (or
 rather pleaded), but don't want to ask you themselves. so what of
 it?  
 <belleandsebastian> TMilk will be out sometime
 <belleandsebastian> I'm sorry, it hasn't been the right time to
 release it and make a good job of it

David and Katrina have left the list now, which I think is a pity but
I guess they have their reasons - tangling the list up with
Jeepster's official position was always a problem and nice though a
job is, it's hard when it gets mixed up with your friends.

Let's just make it clear once more that this list doesn't represent
the record company, band or anyone - it represents YOU, and it's
completely independent.  Jeepster have taken a position on this with
regard to specific media types and I've got to say in my opinion the
distinction always *was* going to get them a slagging, because it's
artificial - of course copyright makes no reference to whether the
medium is digital or analogue.  They don't want to know if you're
doing it, privately, for non-profit, ok, and I guess because people
kept telling the list, they felt they had to cover their ears and
leave.  My interpretation.

<sensible trousers off>

Bearing in mind we all accept that this list fills a gap in all our
lives when we're bored stiff or haven't got any friends, who is the
saddest of them all?  Just for fun I looked at the archives and foudn
out who's posted the most since August last year (based on number of
messages and not size).  Here we go:

keith at qss.co.uk (283)
pjmiller at arrakis.es + oc245d8aff at colon.net (264)
tangent at lineone.net + tangent at mail.zynet.co.uk (181)
honey at Majordomo.net (175)
d.kitchen at virgin.net + bluesoda at totalweb.co.uk (151)
jeepster.uk at virgin.net (149)
mctag at mcmail.com (111)
sarah at elsato97.demon.co.uk (107)
rod at begbie.com (99)
parachute at earthlink.net (94)
blink at inexpress.net (87)
johnj at seahouses.u-net.com (80)
aevans at env-dept.devon-cc.gov.uk (75)
John.Johnston at capgemini.co.uk (68)
skg21 at hermes.cam.ac.uk (66)
rnorth at amos.co.uk (66)
t.hopkins at lancaster.ac.uk (62)
amh20 at hermes.cam.ac.uk (62)
kschaffe at trinity.edu (56)
j.stuart at efp.com (53)
cleonard at MURRAYJ.COM (51)
susannah at tormentor.clara.net (50)
Andrew.Dean at bull.net (49)
Andreas.Hering at stud.uni-hannover.de (49)
timminsc at tcd.ie (46)
s9720251 at student.let.uva.nl (44)
nigelt at uk.uu.net (44)

Aren't the top ten brilliantly predictable?!  I thought this was
great - Keith and Peter steam ahead in front, clearly having no
friends.  I'm embarrassingly antisocial too. I like the way some of
them try to fool us by changing their email addresses.

I did it for subjects too: no surprises for the number one slot here:

Tigermilk (39)
Fun for the Family! (24)
TIGERMILK REGISTER (22)
magnetic fields? (19)
influences and a request for some taping (19)
Domain membership of list (15)
Belle and Sebastian Quiz (14)
Arab Strap (14)
Favourite track (13)
An Eighties Quiz! (Minimal B&S, but what the hell) (13)
13th Note (13)
Compo (12)
registers... (11)
Some Questions (11)
Manchester Gigs (11)
your mail (10)
to dream the impossible dream (10)
the radio song (10)
that sound... (10)
Sons of Showaddywaddy (10)

Great last one there - I must go back and look at it in the archives.

<sensible trousers on again because i'm at work>

Honey xxx

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