The Avalyn Digest
Vol.98 #100
July 14th, 1998
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~chief/avalyn.html
Today's Topics:
ten contemporary masterpieces...
Re: ten contemporary masterpieces...
TRADE
slowdive poll
Re: SLOWDIVE POLL
SLOWDIVE POLL
Re: SLOWDIVE POLL
Re: SLOWDIVE POLL TO SENDER
olive
Re: SLOWDIVE POLL TO SENDER
Re: SLOWDIVE POLL TO SENDER
...and because.
[non-poll ;-)] Coupe la Monde!
Re: SLOWDIVE POLL TO SENDER
Re: ...and because.
Re: SLOWDIVE POLL
Re: ten contemporary masterpieces...
Re: ...and because.
Re: Coupe le Monde (Soccer is irrelevant to this list)
Re: SLOWDIVE POLL
Re: SLOWDIVE POLL
mice gaze at the caseous moon
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Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 23:17:16 -0700
From: "r/r coseboom"
Subject: ten contemporary masterpieces...
hello,
i don't mean to sound depressing, but as a songwriter, musician, etc., i often
hears songs that are absolutely incredible, beautiful, whatever, and i
think, it's such a shame that more people won't hear them due to lack of
promotion, commerciality, etc... the following is a list of such songs that
i have kept 'thislisty'...
1. lamb: gorecki. (on self titled lp) how can i compete with this.
beautiful.
2. gusgus: polymovie. (standard stuff...) the definitive version.
3. lovesliescrushing: every female werewolf... (pyewackit) guilty
shoegazery pleasure... takes me back to '91/92...
4. massive attack: risingson. (mezzanine) forget liz, it's all about 3d
on the new album. and that distorted sequence...
5. sweet trip: jellycharm. (halica) roby of sweet trip is the man.
programming on this track is sooo nice. remixes?
6. siddal: mystery and the sea. (mystery and...) it grew on me.
beautiful open space. it begs for beats, though. this track is
one of the great lullabies...
7. trashcansinatras: safecracker. (a happy pocket) i could listen to
this one 4 or 5 times in a row. sad, isn't it?
8. babybird: 45 and fat. (uglybeautiful) dodgy title, but one of the
saddest and prettiest songs that i have ever heard. c-o-c-a-c-o-l-a goes
the chorus. brilliant.
9. avenue: oceanliner. (dewdrops compilation) scanning through two
discs full of 'dreampop' paid off. this track is rough, but sooo nice.
great vocals and melody. don't know if they have an album, but someone
should sign 'em if they aren't taken yet.
10. an april march: this is... (adagio e.p.) okay, it's the second
bedazzled track on this list, you'd think i knew 'em or something...
anyway, important to this list because anyone subscribed to this list that
heard this song would want to buy the album...
there you go, if you made it this far, thanks for indulging me. hell, i'd
tape 'em for ya if you wanted, but you should definitely check 'em out.
ryan.
http://home.pacbell.net/cosboom home of 'halou' and 'anymore'
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Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 23:58:26 -0700
From: "daniel lee"
Subject: Re: ten contemporary masterpieces...
It's inevitable, but I have to ask just *where* did you come across this
recording? And I know a great offer when I see one and this is an
opportunity methinks *hint*
> 3. lovesliescrushing: every female werewolf... (pyewackit) guilty
> shoegazery pleasure... takes me back to '91/92...
>
> there you go, if you made it this far, thanks for indulging me. hell, i'd
> tape 'em for ya if you wanted, but you should definitely check 'em out.
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Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 06:16:14 EDT
From: ALTONBARNS@aol.com
Subject: TRADE
In a message dated 11/07/98 20:35:14, you write:
<< Ant...let me know if you still want to do the trade... ciao >>
Allan
Thanks for the vote.....should be interesting. As for the trade....I have
everything ready now...I am very sorry for the delay!!! It WILL be sent Monday
forst thing!
Best Wishes
Antony
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Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 04:43:55 PDT
From: "Over the ocean"
Subject: slowdive poll
1. losing today
2. when the sun hits
3. avalyn 1
4. spanish air
5. dagger
album. just for a day, souvlaki and blue day are all equally great!
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Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 19:43:04 +0100
From: "Ricardo Fiel"
Subject: Re: SLOWDIVE POLL
Favourite SLOWDIVE TRACKS (From any release or live tracks)
1. Shine
2. Where The Sun Hits
3. Dagger
4. Waves
5. Blue Skied and Clear
Favourite SLOWDIVE ALBUM (Just For A Day, Soulvaki, Pygmalion, Blue Day)
All of them are great.
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Date: Sun, 12 Jul 98 15:06:30 CST
From: Crios@dminet.davidson-marketing.com
Subject: SLOWDIVE POLL
Favourite SLOWDIVE TRACKS (From any release or live tracks)
1. Melon Yellow
2. Some Velevet Morning
3. Primal
4. Blue Skied an' Clear
5. Good Day Sunshine
Favourite SLOWDIVE ALBUM (Just For A Day, Soulvaki, Pygmalion, Blue Day)
1. Souvlaki
Closing date for poll - Saturday 18th July 1998 12:00pm GMT (UK)
Send votes to ALTONBARNS@aol.com
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Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 16:20:07 -0400
From: Andrew McMillan
Subject: Re: SLOWDIVE POLL
Not to attack anyone personaly here, but could eveybody please stop SENDING
THESE TO THE WHOLE LIST. Frankly, the final poll results might be
interesting, but I really don't want or need to see each and every vote. I
love the Delete key as much as the next guy, but enough already!
ranting and raving,
Andy
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Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 17:18:47 EDT
From: ALTONBARNS@aol.com
Subject: Re: SLOWDIVE POLL TO SENDER
In a message dated 12/07/98 20:17:40, you write:
<< Not to attack anyone personaly here, but could eveybody please stop SENDING
THESE TO THE WHOLE LIST. Frankly, the final poll results might be
interesting, but I really don't want or need to see each and every vote. I
love the Delete key as much as the next guy, but enough already! >>
PLEASE SEND ALL VOTES TO ALTONBARNS@aol.com NOT the list
Favourite SLOWDIVE TRACKS (From any release or live tracks)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Favourite SLOWDIVE ALBUM (Just For A Day, Soulvaki, Pygmalion, Blue Day)
1.
Closing date for poll - Saturday 18th July 1998 12:00pm GMT (UK)
Send votes to ALTONBARNS@aol.com
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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 03:22:44 +0300 (EET DST)
From: henrik
Subject: olive
morning,
this may not be the right place to submit this question, but it's
currently the only mailing list i'm on. has anyone found a good site on
olive? or maybe just a bad one? i just got 'extra virgin' sort of
half-accidentally and would now like to get some more information on who
they really are. - h.
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Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 21:32:49 -0400
From: eddiej7@juno.com (today forever)
Subject: Re: SLOWDIVE POLL TO SENDER
I like seeing each individual person's favorite songs...
It's interesting to know what some of the people who have been
on here forever consider their favorite songs. Also, which people
tend to like certain types of songs.
Evan
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Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 22:28:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: professor plum
Subject: Re: SLOWDIVE POLL TO SENDER
i think it'd be MUCH more interesting to see WHY people like certain
slowdive songs over others. what exactly they like about those songs, etc.
but even that's pushing it. it all reduces to inane banter in the end anyway.
brazil broke my heart today,
; e.
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Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 22:50:04 -0500
From: "whipsnade."
Subject: ...and because.
songs in no particular order.
1. blue skied an' clear (because it is beautiful. and because it makes me cry)
2. avalyn 1 (the buildup. the fact that it never fully explodes.
claustrophobia.)
3. crazy for you (brilliance. one line is, in essence, all a song needs.)
4. forty days (because it reminds me of someone i miss. for some reason.)
5. dagger (again, simply because it makes me cry.)
6. in mind (because i love the words. *sigh*.)
7. shine (another song that usually makes me cry. and reminds me of someone.)
i could not narrow it down. i am sorry.
album: pygmalion. i think, so far, i am the only one who picked this. this
is the most amazing, brilliant piece of art ever committed to tape. the end.
douglas...because.
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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 00:12:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Michael Gilham
Subject: [non-poll ;-)] Coupe la Monde!
On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, professor plum wrote:
> brazil broke my heart today,
huh?? (Well, sorry to hear that!) ;-)
I was quite pleased that France came through -- as they were
capable of doing, against an out-matched, on this day, Brasil side ...
The unfortunate part is, we could have had a much better final it
would seem: I'd have bet that, had it not been for penalty kicks [an
absolute bane, if you ask me!] we'd have seen a different final match-up
... i.e., Netherlands vs. France ...
But don't take my opinion on who has the better side; I direct
you to the greatest footballer of all time. In the words of Pele,
"Holland is the better side [than Brasil]." [Quoted the day before the
Brasil-Netherlands Semi].
Anyway, what a story-book championship for France ... gosh, to be
in France this week ... oh, how I would love that! :-)
Paris in the Summertime and all the great celebration on top of it!!!
Well, my condolences to the Brasil fans! :-)
And, if there are any French on the list: congratulations!! :-)
You were well past due for a 'Coupe' Championship! :-)
love,
Michael
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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 00:13:11 EDT
From: M242557sm@aol.com
Subject: Re: SLOWDIVE POLL TO SENDER
id have to say i think its great that brazil got crushed...
serves them right.. i mean, they are good and all, but they
probably went into that game with too much confidence..
congrats to france.
=)
shane.
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Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 23:37:41 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jason Morehead <00161068@bigred.unl.edu>
Subject: Re: ...and because.
> album: pygmalion. i think, so far, i am the only one who picked this. this
> is the most amazing, brilliant piece of art ever committed to tape. the end.
i'd agree with you, as would several other slowdive fans i know. the other
albums are incredible in their own right, but "pygmalion" saw them going
off into some new directions that are just incredible. still one of my
favorite and inspiring albums, even after listening to it countless times i
find something new. ranks right up there w/ "loveless" for me.
as for songs...
"catch the breeze" (the song that got me hooked. the build-up at the final
end just melts my heart.)
"dagger" (reminds me of someone, a friend that i turned onto slowdive.)
"melon yellow" (see above)
"crazy for you", "blue skied an' clear", "all of us" (beautiful songs,
proof that minimal and sparse music can be so overwhelming.)
"cello" (a song that is too short, but if it was any longer would have been
spoiled. i loved slowdive's use of cellos, and this song is the ultimate
of that.)
rambling...
jason
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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 08:33:09 +0000
From: "wade@tapehouse.com"
Subject: Re: SLOWDIVE POLL
At the moment:
1.40 Days
2.Song 2(not shine)
3.Machine gun
4.Avalyn
5.Alison
Favorite album=Souvlaki
wade
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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 11:21:29 -0500
From: mandragora louvareen
Subject: Re: ten contemporary masterpieces...
'every female werewolf ever, listed alphabetically by crime' is on the e.p.
"pyewackit" by soul whirling somewhere, another artist on projekt. not
loveliescrushing. simple mistake im sure..
> It's inevitable, but I have to ask just *where* did you come across this
> recording? And I know a great offer when I see one and this is an
> opportunity methinks *hint*
>
>> 3. lovesliescrushing: every female werewolf... (pyewackit) guilty
>> shoegazery pleasure... takes me back to '91/92...
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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 10:27:51 -0700
From: "daniel lee"
Subject: Re: ...and because.
pygmalion is definitely my favorite as well because it still holds
those slowdive elements (echo, floating sounds) and as an album, i think it
feels like a complete whole whereas both Just for a day and souvlaki seem
more splintered. Actually some of my favorite albums (Xuvetyn and Loveless)
are similar to pygmalion because I see them as a whole instead of individual
songs.
To me, the best albums seem to be the ones where you don't necessarily
fast-forward to your favorite songs as usually happens to me when listening
to souvlaki (my 2nd favorite), but the ones where you start from the
beginning and listen all the way through.
dl
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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 12:34:46 -0500 (CDT)
From: cory <1cc5776@unixstew.tstc.edu>
Subject: Re: Coupe le Monde (Soccer is irrelevant to this list)
I can assure you, people on this list would much rather read a list of
people's favorite Slowdive songs than this shit... which has nothing at
all to do with Slowdive... these are the messages that people need to
send privately... especially after Pplum's raving about not wanting to read
list member's favorite songs.
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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 13:23:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Lorraine Lelis
Subject: Re: SLOWDIVE POLL
fave album...
souvlaki
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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 13:22:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Lorraine Lelis
Subject: Re: SLOWDIVE POLL
slowdive faves
1. slowdive
2. melon yellow
3. so tired
4. morningrise
5. in mind
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Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 14:43:04 PDT
From: "john kupchik"
Subject: mice gaze at the caseous moon
many things...
firstly, much to my HORROR, not a single soul included
grimble grumble in their top ten's. this is absolutely mind boggling to
me, considering this is a slowdive list and all, and they're the ONLY
band to come close to slowdive's beauty (in my opinion)...
second, here's my top NINE(five just would not do!)
slowdive songs:
1-rutti
2-crazy for you
3-miranda
4-trellisaze
5-cello
6-j's heaven
7-visions of la
8-blue skied an' clear
9-all of us
favorite album: hmmmm....if you don't know then please unsubscribe
yourself from this list. thank you.
thirdly, i love the 'who do you love' ep.listen to it every
day. another ep in august?
that's it. give grimble grumble a try....
john
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