The Avalyn Digest
Vol.98 #096
July 7th, 1998
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~chief/avalyn.html
Today's Topics:
Top ten sounds
Re: Disposition of Slowdive Fans and the proliferation of unwanted jargon-based text packets
RE: Disposition of Slowdive Fans
Re: Disposition of Slowdive Fans
Unidentified subject!
Re: Disposition of Slowdive Fans
Unidentified subject!
Unidentified subject!
recent top 10
my top 10
Re: Lorelei & Swirlies
Re: Sorry 'Bout Your Girlfriend
Re: Disposition of Slowdive Fans
Re: recent top 10
Re: Disposition of Slowdive Fans
Re: recent top 10
in my ears currently
Top 10 bands and top 5 songs to commit suicide to...
blah blah 10
while we are at this......
Re: Disposition of Slowdive Fans and the proliferation of unwanted jargon-based text packets
on the bandwagon
GALAXIE 500 !
secret shine
Re: while we are at this......
trembling blue stars
Re: GALAXIE 500 !
Re: on the bandwagon
Administrivia:
To unsubscribe from the Avalyn Digest mailing list:
* send e-mail to: avalyn-d-request@lysator.liu.se
* with the Subject: unsubscribe
To post to the Avalyn mailing list:
* use the address: avalyn@lysator.liu.se
Digest back issues can be found through FTP and HTTP:
ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/texts/uxu/avalyn/
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~chief/avalyn.html
() Please take care not to include the entire digest in your
() reply, only the message(s) you are replying to.
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 16:32:46 EDT
From: SFord56089@aol.com
Subject: Top ten sounds
Top ten sounds of the moment:
1. Spiritualized
2. Mogwai
3. Miles Davis (in particular the Bill Laswell remix)
4. Tortoise
5. Cocteau Twins (i am thinking of victorialand in particular)
6. Olivia Tremor Control
7. Underworld
8. Slowdive
9. Enya
10. Bob Marley (interest re-kindled by the Bill laswell remix)
11. Laura says that she likes Curve
Being new to this list I am assuming that I need not praise the music of
Spiritualized. I have been lucky enough to see them at Glastonbury and the
Royal Festival Hall in the last week, both shows were excellent proving the
superiority of Jason Pierce and co. over the majority of bland meaningless
music we are subjected to in the UK these days.
Cheers....
Steve
PS I heard rumours that Neil was joining Bernard Butler's backing band for
tour purposes. Can anyone confirm or deny this.
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 17:08:19 -0600
From: Brad Nicholson
Subject: Re: Disposition of Slowdive Fans and the proliferation of
unwanted jargon-based text packets
In no particular order:
->Slowdive - Pygamalion
->Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
->Rocketship - A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness
->Swirlies - What to Do About Them
->Mogwai - Young Team
->Spiritualized - Fucked Up Inside
->Spacemen 3 - Playing With Fire
->Bardo Pond - Bufo Alvarius, Amen 29:15
->Roy Montgomery - Temple IV
->Telstar Ponies - Voices From the New Music
brad.
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 18:11:06 -0500
From: travis salisbury
Subject: RE: Disposition of Slowdive Fans
Here's my top 10
1.Slowdive - Pygmalion
2.Valour 100 - of color brite
3.His Name is Alive - Home is in your Head
3.Lovesliescrushing - Xuvetyn
4.Mahogany - Comp. Tape
5.Slowdive - Souvlaki
6.Perfume Tree - Feeler
7.Enya - In Memory of Trees
8.Windy & Carl - Depths
9.Bethany Curve - Skies a Crossed Sky
10.Mojave 3 - Ask me Tommorrow
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 18:52:58 -0500 (CDT)
From: Sara Johnson
Subject: Re: Disposition of Slowdive Fans
i love these, here's my top ten as of today
slowdive - pygmalion
american analog set - the fun of watching fireworks
my bloody valentine - ecstacy and wine
v/a - glass arcade
hood - the song thats on the ptolomaic terrascope #24 7"
majestic 12 - nothing on tv
boyracer - present tense
rocketship - hey hey girl
labradford - s/t
david bowie - space oddity
sara
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 16:58:22 PDT
From: "john kupchik"
Subject: Unidentified subject!
i know people have talked about grimble grumble on this list before, but
they are so amazingly good, i thought i'd reference them one more time.
their s/t album on won't go flat records is one of the most creative,
moving albums i've heard in ages. you people who haven't heard this
REALLY don't know what you're missing. the last track "cut-off#5
(goodbye)" is so beautiful i nearly burst into tears whenever i listen
to it. it's "holding our breath" beauty, and i love it. their new 7" on
amberley UK called "fucked in the head"/"return" is similar brilliance,
with the former track sounding like faith/pornography-era cure and the
latter sounding like beautiful slowdive that makes you dizzy just
listening to it. LISTEN!
oh, i thought i'd add my top ten
1- slowdive -pygmalion
2- grimble grumble -(everything they have put out)
3- windy&carl -(ditto, but especially "a dream of blue")
4- once dreamt - drifting 12"(tie)
5- mahogany- what will become of the key of reason 12"
6- movietone- day and night LP
7- smashing orange- "not very much to see"/"collide" 7"
8- difference engine- breadmaker lp
9- mbv- ecstacy and wine
10- locust- morning light & truth is born of arguments Lp's
that's just of the top of my head, i know i forgot some things i really
love....oh well
warm regards,
john
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 20:20:09 -0400
From: "avalyn"
Subject: Re: Disposition of Slowdive Fans
Man, top ten?
I try and rotate music a lot but here is what I'm listening to
Mark Burgess - paradyning (just got this a few months ago - excellent)
Prince -3 disc greatest hits (incredible genius -to bad his sound became so
mundane)
Puressence - self titled (soooooo good)
New Order - Republic
And Also the Trees - Virus Meadow
Clan of Xymox - self titled
Cocteau Twins - treasure
This Mortal Coil - Filigree and the Shadow
Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
Chameleons - Script of the Bridge
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 17:41:36 PDT
From: "john kupchik"
Subject: Unidentified subject!
oh what the heck, i just thought of a bunch of other stuff....so here's
top ten #2
1- slowdive -"beach song"/"take me down" 7" (thanks cory!!!)
2- lilys- eccsame the photon band
3-shiFT- a folding sieve ep
4- blueshift signal -"halo"
5- syd barrett
6- bethany curve (thanks tim!!!)
7- auburn lull/mahogany split 12"
8- spectrum- soul kiss(glide divine)
9- spiritualized- lazer guided melodies
10- tapes of my songs.....(not that they'r good or anything, i just
listen to them a lot)
ok, that's it. promise.
john
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 98 19:32:51 CST
From: Crios@dminet.davidson-marketing.com
Subject: Unidentified subject!
Hey does anybody know When Daniel is getting back?
I'm interested in picking up some stuff...
And who is this Bill Laswell guy?
Crios
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 20:33:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: professor plum
Subject: recent top 10
hm. i usually don't participate in these pointless endeavors, but hey, i
know i'm cooler than all of you anyway. :)
- mogwai. remixes 2cd.
- windy and carl. depths.
- bark psychosis. hex.
- boymerang. balance of the force.
- photek. modus operandi.
- ride. nowhere.
- june of 44. four great points.
- portishead. dummy.
- sweet trip. halica.
- sonic youth. a thousand leaves.
your mom,
; e.
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 19:36:22 -0700
From: "Matt"
Subject: my top 10
10 CDs that I have been listening to lately:
The Jesus and Mary Chain "Cracking Up" CDS
The Jesus and Mary Chain "Munki"
The Rolling Stones "Satanic Sessions Vol. 1 disc 4"
The Misfits "Static Age"
Slowdive "Just For A Day"
Mojave 3 "Ask Me Tomorrow"
Clay Allison "Vespers" (bootleg compilation)
The Jesus and Mary Chain "Honey's Dead"
Social Distortion "White Light White Heat White Trash"
The Jesus and Mary Chain "Hate Rock N' Roll"
And my favorite songs from those CDs at the moment:
"Commercial"
"Degenerate"
"Majesties Honky Tonk (take 10)"
"Hollywood Babylon"
"Ballad Of Sister Sue"
"Tomorrow's Taken"
"Sailing Boats"
"Reverence"
"Gotta Know The Rules"
"Something I Can't Have"
--Matt
Check out my websites:
http://www.thegrid.net/loststar/intro/intro.htm
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 23:07:57 -0400
From: avalyn@chesco.com
Subject: Re: Lorelei & Swirlies
The best thing Lorelei did was a 7" on Slumberland awhile back called The
Bitter Air. It is very Slowdive-ish. They then went through a line up
change i think and put out the ep Asleep, which is pretty decent. Kinda
noisey semi-rockin guitar stuff. I never got into their album though. The
best Swirlies release was What To Do About Them, their first album. It's
good noisy indierock stuff. I haven't heard their latest.
what i've been listening to a lot lately
new JAMC
new Trembling Blue Stars
Ivy-Apt Life
Spiritualized-Abbey Road ep
Daft Punk-Homework
Windy & Carl-Depths
new Smashing Pumpkins
Fatboy Slim-Better Living...
mbv-loveless
Spacemen 3 tribute
lots of beatles
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 23:22:22 +0600
From: box-and-whiskers
Subject: Re: Sorry 'Bout Your Girlfriend
just fyi, there's a local band here (d.c.) called sorry about your daughter.
haven't heard them, but i would be surprised if they weren't terrible.
yours sounds like an interesting project though.
susan.
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 23:20:54 +0600
From: box-and-whiskers
Subject: Re: Disposition of Slowdive Fans
_just for a day_ could be the soundtrack of my life.
oh the angst,
susan.
quoth mark fenkner:
> I wanted to briefly poll the group on a question I had regarding the
> disposition of Slowdive fans. From observing myself and a few other
> people that I know whom like Slowdive and similar music, we are a
> depressive bunch. Does this ring true to you also? In a certain
> system of pop psychology, there is a personality categorization called a #4,
> the Tragic/Romantic, which seems to be quite attracted to this style of
music
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 23:21:36 +0600
From: box-and-whiskers
Subject: Re: recent top 10
i'll induldge too. here're mine for this evening (in no order but
alphabetical):
an april march - impatiens
bark psychosis - hex
breathless - heartburst
cocteau twins - victorialand
curve - doppelganger
hugo largo - drum
lycia - a day in the stark corner
pan american - s/t
secret shine - untouched
v/a - battery point
susan.
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 22:43:38 -0500 (EST)
From: bLenDER
Subject: Re: Disposition of Slowdive Fans
> _just for a day_ could be the soundtrack of my life.
> susan.
it practically IS mine...
my friends are sick of it...
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 21:19:03 -0700
From: "Kalhoun"
Subject: Re: recent top 10
Mine:
Autour de Lucie-immobile
Secret Shine-Untouched
Drugstore-White Magic for Lovers
Seefeel-Polyfusia
Colfax Abbey-Drop
Pulp-His N Hers
February-Tomorrow is Today
Sleeper-Pleased to Meet You
Massive Attack-Mezzanine
Tricky-Angels with dirty faces
In no particular order.
Tim
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 1998 22:37:56 PDT
From: "Pearson R. Coefficient Greer"
Subject: in my ears currently
right now its:
1. Savage Republic-Live in Europe
2. Current 93- Imperium
3. Ozric Tentacles-Strangeitude
4. Eight Frozen Modules- the Confused Designer
5. Training For Utopia-Plastic Soul Impalement
6. MBV-You Made Me Realize
7. Magnog- More Weather
8. Cypress Hill-Cypress Hill
9. Stereolab- Dots and Loops
10. lisan al-gaib- the practice tapes
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 15:44:44 +1000 (EST)
From: athomas@postoffice.utas.edu.au (Alister Thomas)
Subject: Top 10 bands and top 5 songs to commit suicide to...
Hello!
I love the idea of doing Top 10 band lists (because you can see what other
people listen to), so thought I'd better do one but I also thought that it
might be an idea to do a list of Top 5 songs to listen to when you're
feeling suicidal (a bit of a playful pisstake of the image of
Slowdive/shoegaze type listeners as being morbid depressive types etc...).
Well, the Top 5 suicide songs list just goes to PROVE that I'm a
tragic/romantic type (and if I am, then I'm taking time out to laugh at
myself!!!!). Ha ha!!!
Top 10 bands in no particular order:
1) Flying Saucer Attack
2) Moose
3) Spiritualized
4) Rollerskate Skinny
5) The Church
6) Big Star
7) Super Furry Animals
8) Red House Painters
9) This Mortal Coil
10) Windy & Carl
There!!!
Now for top 5 suicide dirges (also in no particular order):
1) Black Tape for a Blue Girl - "Of these reminders"
2) Red House Painters - "Katy song"
3) The Cure - "All cats are grey"
4) Slowdive - "Avalyn 1"
5) Chameleons - "Second skin"
Well, there are probably better songs than those but they were just off the
top of my head... there! I've just proven what an unhappy person I am!!!
LOL!!!!!!
And that's it for today!!!
Alister
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 06:21:37 -0700
From: kGB
Subject: blah blah 10
My Bloody Valentine- Loveless
Swans- Soundtracks for the Blind
deconstruction
Bauhaus- The Sky Has Gone Out
John Frusciante- Niandra Ladies & Usually Just a T-Shirt
Slowdive- Souvlaki
Funkstorung (has anyone heard their remix of Bjork? ...swoon...)
Tear Garden- To Be An Angel Blind.. The Crippled Soul Divide
The Glove- Blue Sunshine
the Cure- Faith
mogwai- ten rapid (which i've seemed to have left in 'the hotel')
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 07:49:20 EDT
From: Ethereal01@aol.com
Subject: while we are at this......
Greetings,
I am new to the slowdive list, but not new to the band………..
who is bill laswell? bill laswell is considered to be one of the foremost dub
artists around. he is incredible, he re-did an ambient translation in dub of
some of bob marley's greatest hits. it is simply breathtaking. he also
remixed some of miles davis's stuff as well that was released in may. It is
called panthalassa. It is wonderful as well. it contains some never-before
heard versions of davis's works. panthalassa is not as laswell influenced
like the bob marley disc. also worth checking out are some of the APC volumes
by bill laswell. i have volume I and II. i really enjoy them. (normally i
am a little bit more expressive/articulate than this, sorry!)
my favorite albums would be:
1. spiritualized's lazer guided melodies, pure phase, and fucked up inside
2. slowdive's just for a day
3. cocteau twins victorialand (an absolutely heartbreakingly beautiful album)
4. curve's cuckoo
5. sianspheric's turbulent hydrodynamic
6. 7% solution's all about satellites and spaceships
7. bowery electric's beat (fear of flying is my fix-everything-that-feels-
wrong song)
8. flying saucer attack's further (i love the way david pearce uses the
acoustic guitar)
9. enya's memory of trees (the cd in my collection that i have listened to the
most)
10. bill laswell/miles davis panthalassa
well, that is a little bit of what i enjoy listening to.
peace, love, and high altitudes
laura
PS how many people are on this list? in the 100's?
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 07:11:56 -0500
From: o_o_o
Subject: Re: Disposition of Slowdive Fans and the proliferation of
unwanted jargon-based text packets
I've seen this name misspelled several times in the last few days, and I
can hold my tongue no longer. It is spelled GalaxIE 500. no "y".
At 17:29 06-07-98 -0400, Mark Stancombe wrote:
> Hey guys...
>
> Well, heres my top ten over tha past month or so...
>
> 01.) Galaxy 500 - On Fire
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 09:27:07 -0300
From: Shaun Schmeisser
Subject: on the bandwagon
Top ten:
1.Joy Division "unknown pleasures"
2.Slowdive "pygmalion"
3.Nick Drake "pink moon"
4.Tindersticks "2nd album"
5.Belle & Sebastian "dog on wheels ep"
6.MBV "loveless"
7.Spiritualized "lazer guided melodies"
8.Underworld "second toughest of the infants
9.Low "i could live in hope"
10.Public Image Ltd. "second edition"
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 09:09:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Michael Gilham
Subject: GALAXIE 500 !
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, o_o_o wrote:
> I've seen this name misspelled several times in the last few days, and I
> can hold my tongue no longer. It is spelled GalaxIE 500. no "y".
Right, exactly! After the name of an old American automobile! ... Forget
which make the GALAXIE 500 was .... :-)
best,
m
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 08:48:58 +0000
From: "wade@tapehouse.com"
Subject: secret shine
Is there anyone on this list who happens to know of anyplace or
anyone that has the secret shine untouched cd to sell?
wade@tapehouse.com
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 08:53:00 -0500 (EST)
From: bLenDER
Subject: Re: while we are at this......
hey, have we began listing our ALL TIME favourite CDs, or just what we've
been listenig to recently. I though it was the latter, but if it's the
former, my list will be very different...
later
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 08:28:39 +0000
From: "wade@tapehouse.com"
Subject: trembling blue stars
what do trembling blue stars sound like?
w
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 11:09:15 EDT
From: M242557sm@aol.com
Subject: Re: GALAXIE 500 !
galaxie 500 was a ford, i used to have one, my second car =)
shane.
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 11:08:29 EDT
From: M242557sm@aol.com
Subject: Re: on the bandwagon
finally, someone mentioned joy division!!
i cant believe someone actualy listed the top five songs to kill yourself too,
and not one joy division track made the cut.. how unreal.
shane.
------------------------------
End of Avalyn Digest Vol.98 #96
********************************
* To subscribe/unsubscribe to the Digest version of the list, send your
request to: avalyn-d-request@lysator.liu.se
* To subscribe/unsubscribe to the Live version of the list, send your
request to: avalyn-request@lysator.liu.se
* All messages to the Live mailing list should be sent to:
avalyn@lysator.liu.se
* The digests can also be found in in ASCII format at ftp.lysator.liu.se
/pub/texts/uxu/avalyn
and in HTML format at
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~chief/avalyn.html.
This page was last updated Jul 7, 1998 by Erik Söderström