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From: ST102315@BROWNVM.BITNET (Jake)
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Subject: Re: pdqbach
Date: 9 Nov 92 03:55:04 GMT
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>        Hey, all this talk about PDQ Bach has startet to jog my memory.
>I sang a song of theirs in high school choir.  It was a christmas tune,
>something about `throwing the yule log'.  Can anyone hunt down the actual
>title of this piece, and the album it's on as well?   Thanks!
>
>Laura L

"Throw The Yule Log On, Uncle John", found on an album whose title is
something along the lines of "A Portrait of P.D.Q. Bach".  Other festive
Christmas carols included, "Oh Little Town Of Hackensack" and "Good King
Kong Looked Out".

Glad to be of help,
jwgh

"There can be no doubt that Beethoven had a profound influence on
     PDQ Bach's music; and there can be no doubt that PDQ Bach had
     a profound influence on Beethoven's deafness."
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From:         jkh2001@ANDY.BGSU.EDU
Subject:      Re: Bravery & Cowardice

>Sounds like you know about stupidity,  you know more words of a Jethro
>Tull song.  I thought you only knew of Jethro from the Beverly Hillbillies.

Hear ye, Hear ye!

Citizens of the ALLMUSIC kingdom.  We have fought a valiant battle, but
alas and alack, I fear it is time to admit our defeat.  We have been felled
by the rapier sharp wit of Mr. McNab.  His keen mental powers have proven
to be our downfall.  Therefore, I'm afraid we have no choice.  We must
declare Daron the King of ALLMUSIC.

Three cheers for King Daron.

Hip Hip Hooray, Hip Hip Hooray, Hip Hip Hooray!!!

Daron, we turn over the keys of our kingdom to you.  You are now in charge
of the ALLMUSIC list.  We are prepared to follow, like litlle lemmings,
your every command.  May God bless you and may your narrow-minded ignorance
serve you well.

                                Your Humble Servant,

                                        Jeremy

"Love makes you feel like a roadkill porcupine; all warm, wet, and prickly,
        But still dead." - jkh
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Subject: There's a pig screaming on that CD!
Date: 6 Nov 92 20:07:00 GMT
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From: R_GELINAS@UNHH.UNH.EDU at INTERNET 11/6/92 1:23PM (1193 bytes: 18 ln)
Subject: Gentle Giant oops

>  Received Ask The Ages and Jack Johnson yesterday.  Only ordered them
>on Tuesday.  I live 30 minutes upstream from Noteworthy.  Didn't really
>get a chance to listen to them (dinner guests), but what I heard I
>liked.  Sander's sax reminds me of my 1 year old pbbbbhttt'ing his
>lips!

Yeah, that too. But, if you listen to "Promises Kept", about half way in,
there's a pig screaming, I'd swear it. :-)

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Subject: [Insert catchy phrase here]

>   I *am* surprised that you like _ATA_ better than _STR_.  Maybe there's
>hope for you yet.  ;*)  Now, we need to get "n.n" to advise you on what
>Holdsworth you should hear (right, no-nicker?  :*)

He already has - _U.K._ for starters, but Holdsworth is harder to find than
Sharrock. My Noteworthy catalog should be coming soon, and "n.n." said they
have _U.K._

Did you know your smiley resembles Ed McMahon? :-) (-:

Seeya,
Gary

Sam:  "What's up, Normie?"
Norm: "My nipples, it's freezing out there."
From: CC29@IONA.BITNET (Ilia)
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Subject: Gentle Giant
Date: 5 Nov 92 19:12:20 GMT
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     On Wed, 4 Nov 1992  "Michael H. Bloom" <MHB@MITVMA.BITNET> said:

>From:         RTURNBUL@TOROVM1.VNET.IBM.COM
>Subject:      Hawkwind
>
>> I also happened along the Gentle Giant CDs last night (didn't pick any up).
>> I've been meaning to check these guys out for awhile, but I don't know that
>> much about them. Any hints?
>
>I think real highly of, in order of release, _Three Friends_, _Octopus_, _In
>a Glass House_ (extremely and criminally out of print), _The Power and the
>Glory_ and _Free Hand_. Gentle Giant were unparalleled at counterpoint:
>their grooves would consist of three interlocking riffs for bass, keyboard,
>and guitar-- or some more peculiar ensemble; they also doubled on violin,
>cello, vibraphone, sax, trumpet, etc.

And don't forget their vocals - quite artistic. Accappella lovers might ight
take delight in their tasteful vocal arrangements. (Well, you have to be
cautious here - one of the things that turned me off when I first heard the
sound of GG was their singing. It was one of those cases when they tried to
make it sound too powerful. "Their weak side is their strongest side").


>They had a certain medieval flavor too, especially in the
>first and last albums named. (They did two albums before that list, where
>the writing isn't good enough yet, and a handful of albums thereafter
>where they were getting a little too desperate to get a hit. I listened
>to their last, _Civilian_, last night, and while it's not as bad as the
>commercial music of today, it's decidedly lacking in focus.)

       Well, to tell the truth, the medieval flavor of _Three Friends_
goes a bit astray from my tastes. I enjoy the album, but IMHO it lacks the
melodic side of, say, _Octopus_. I would also recommend _Gentle Giant_.

                Ilia.
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From:         DARON MCNAB <IDPM@SNYCENVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Bravery & Cowardice

Sounds like you know about stupidity,  you know more words of a Jethro
Tull song.  I thought you only knew of Jethro from the Beverly Hillbillies.
From: gerry@keele.ac.uk (G.D.Pratt)
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Subject: any fans of The Feelies out there?
Date: 11 Nov 92 10:47:27 GMT
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Does anybody who gets/reads this list know about the New Jersey (I think)
band called "The Feelies"? Is it true they are an EX-band? Say it isn't so.

--
gerry pratt  --  workstation support  --  university of keele
email:  gerry@seq1.keele.ac.uk   *   telephone :  0782 583072
"..CAPTAIN BEEFHEART....RELEASE CAPTAIN BEEFHEART...RELEASE CAPTAIN BEEFHEART."
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From:         Ken Koester <MAINT2@ERS.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: ROCK AND ROLL
              8 Nov 1992 21:50:52 -0500 from <mjferzig@MIDWAY.UC HICAGO.EDU>

On Sun, 8 Nov 1992 21:50:52 -0500 <mjferzig@MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU> said:
>. . . . The only reason we have some decent objective standards to
>rate older classical music is that all the composers are dead, their trends
>and development can be noticed, we understand the conditions they worked
>under much more fully than we understand today's society, and everyone we
>can compare them to is dead too! Only time shows brilliance, through

Actually, we don't.  Have decent objective standards, that is.  Consensual
reality is still subjective reality.  Furthermore, quite a few classical
composers were recognized as hot-shit music-makers long before they shuffled
off this mortal coil.  But then fell back into oblivion--for many centuries
if it was more than 30 years old, it was passe, old-hat, not with it,
uninteresting.  It is only in the last, oh, 150 years or so that we have truly
developed a musical canon of all the ages.

>durability. I believe that music is alive and well and getting better all
>the time. The world is omly starting to recognize the a cappella music that
>I love so much with compilation albums, and therefore commercial success,
>but a cappella music existed before any other kind...

A nit.  Instrumental music, so far as we know, is as old as vocal music; at
least the instruments themselves are, and one presumes they played *something*.
For quite a long time, music simply *was*--one didn't particularly care if it
was sung or played.  The distinctions develop with good effect in the late
1500s.

>never liked troubador songs...but I learned about them in music class 600
>years or so after they'd been composed. Even though I gritted my teeth all
>the way through the record, I have a healthy respect for music that can
>endure that long.
>
I have a healthy respect for your *endurance*, if you were listening to 600
year old troubador music--that would make you 100+ years old, by my reckoning!
:-)   Anyways, medieval & renaissance music is an acquired taste for most of
us.  I don't know as making you grit your teeth is an especially good way to
get you to acquire it, though :-)  Still, as you like vocals, I'd suggest a
massive dose of Elizabethan or Italian madrigals (all right, French chansons
too).  IMHO, the vocal art at its all-time best.
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From:         mjferzig@MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: I like smokin' lightning

From:         mjferzig@MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      Re: Heavy Metal

> Watch it, Tom. I'm a woman who takes her toys VERY seriously.  How can you
> have any affection for a company that makes Barbie, the amazing
> math-hating,
> if-she-were-a-real-girl-she'd-be-5'9"-tall-weigh-63-lbs.-and-have-a-19-inch-
> waist, money-grubbing, wench? (I used to pop the heads off mine and let the
> cat play with them...) Are you a stockholder?

Our cat brought a Barbie doll head home just last month. Looked great on
the
welcome mat. So either our cat ranges as far as Chicago, or there's someone
in Boston who agrees with you.

First of all, I'm from Long Island originally, so the cat didn't have as
far to go...however, either the heads get passed generation to generation
or your cat's been hoarding it a long time....I think that either was we
have a biodegradable issue here....

> Legos are the pinnacle, the very zenith of toydom.

Yeah, Legos are swell! My wife's little brother had the kit with all the
gears
in it, and I remember spending a pleasant afternoon building an elaborate
structure that used *all* of them.

As you see, I'm married too, but you can be in my play group any time. How
are
you on Etch-a-Sketch?

I love Etch-a-sketch, but it has it's drawbacks. Ever had one explode/fall
apart on or near you??? nough to make you swear off them for life. I'm also
a purist...none of these tools, copiers, colors...etc.


Now for the real letter/ OMC.

I've been meaning to write this for days....Did anyone see 10000 Maniacs on
Saturday Night Live this past week? I've never been a fan, but I really
liked the stuff they did. Is it representative? What's the new album
called? Is there stuff by them that I should pick up because it's better
than others? Does anyone out there like them? I like the lead singer's
voice...really unusual!

Also, I've been haveing some trouble sending stuff....If you actually get
this...did any of my other posts in the last few days go through???

Marsha
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Date:         Sat, 7 Nov 1992 12:45:24 -0500
From:         mjferzig@MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU
Subject:      American Hot Wax

I just saw an old favorite of mine on HBO - _American Hot Wax_. Since we
all know that they repeat stuff over and over, you might want to catch it
some time this month. It's about Alan Freed, payola and the birth of Rock
and Roll. The soundtrack is fabulous, there are performances by Jerry Lee
LEwis, Chuck Berry and lots of others. There's a bunch of really fabulous
street-corner type stuff and a bunch of the original rock and roll
tunes...For those of you who wish you'd grouwn up in the 50's, it's a
classic. I'm going to try to find the soundtrack album. If any of you have
it, could you give me a review? In any case, this is a music-lover's movie
- so try to see it if you can!

Marsha "Poodle Skirt" Ferziger
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Date:         Wed, 4 Nov 1992 13:12:52 -0500
From:         Jason Briggs Cormier <CORJB@RHODES.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: My two cents on Madonna

I know that I said I'd never mention M. again, but you see, I am a politician
by nature and well, you know, during election time, nothing said carries the
weight of an oath(-not even an oath-)

And I just had to respond to this.

> Madonna is an entertainer.
>I don't think Madonna plays any instruments!  I've never seen her
>play one for real.

M. actually does play piano, drums and bass.  She may play one other instrument,
but for the life of me, I can't remember what it is.  It is doubtful that
she plays any of them very well.  They were merely stepping stools(-like so
many men-) on her road to stardom.

>Mike (it's stifling in this office) Masuda

Json
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Date:         Sun, 8 Nov 1992 15:12:06 CST
From:         Little Inquisitor <U33963@UICVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Biblio

You might want to pick up the following recent release from South End Press:
_Rockin' the Boat: Mass Music and Mass Movements_ edited by Reebee Garofalo, 34
0 pp. $ 16.00 in paper. By phone: 1-800-533-8478.

                            Renato
From: crispen@EFFTOO.BOEING.COM (crispen)
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Subject: Re: A Capella and teleology
Date: 12 Nov 92 15:13:51 GMT
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Marsha asks (about Todd Rungren's _A Cappella_):

>I'll try ot get it...sounds fabulous! Has it been put out on CD?

Beats me.  Don't you just love people who are "helpful" this way? ;-)
The tape sounded pretty good, though.

OK, now it's officially "a cappella" (two p's).  Does that mean what
I think it does ("from the chapel", or "like they do in the chapel")?

I read your reference to vocal cord nodules in an earlier post after
I wrote my pep talk and consequently felt like a real ass.  Hope all
is forgiven.

Let's see, what was the alto solo in the Britten?  Was that "consider
my cat Jeffrey"?

And I haven't got good taste, I just got into choirs where they had
good taste.  Of course, there's the usual dreck, and a few guilty
pleasures -- the Wilhousky(?) "Battle Hymn of the Republic",
the Robert Shaw "Oh, Susannah", and "Ich grolle nicht".  So, see
what I mean about good taste?

And a definitely non-guilty pleasure I haven't had yet:
I've always wanted to be in a choir that sang "Last Words of David".

I wish I had the same feeling about "Rejoice in the Lamb".  There are
some wonderful bits in it ("Let Nimrod the mighty hunter..." and
Jeffrey of course) but except for one time in rehearsal the ending
let me down.  Might have been our conductor.  Probably was --
I quit after he made everyone in the choir go through auditions
again and some of my buddies got axed.  Also, the whole time I was
with him he never let the basses sing with a good "pop" in their
tone.

Oh, how the mind runneth.  Advice to fellow baritones: Brahms's
"Sonntag" is a sure-fire audition piece.  If you've got anything
close to a cantabile sound on the high notes and any kind of pop
on the low notes the conductor will like the music so much that he'll
let you in even if you can't sing melismata (is that the word for
all them 16th notes -- it's been a long time?).

Oooohhhh!  Dave Brubeck's "La Fiesta de la Posada".  Wonderful!  We
performed it in Tulsa with Brubeck.  I've been out of things for
so long that I don't know if this is a standard Christmas thing
by now or not.  It deserves to be.  But the recording of it
(Bob Warfield (?)) singers and Minnesota Orchestra) really bites.

I remember from the rehearsal that Brubeck was sorta walking by
the piano and sat down and started playing like Dave Brubeck.
Cool!

Oughta take my own advice and get back in.
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From: mjferzig@MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU
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Subject: Re: More Italian rhymes and a multi-ethnic beer session :)
Date: 7 Nov 92 00:31:08 GMT
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Marco the somewhat gullible writes:
>P.S.: about rhymes... can anyone of you suggest a rather intelligent and
>      sensible rhyme to "orange"? It's driving me mad... :)
MArco, did someone tell you to try? I'ts commonly known that there are no
rhymes to orange - at least not in English common usage...I hope you
haven't spent too much time pondering this!

Marsha
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From:         Tim Johnson <ST402711@BROWNVM.BITNET>
Subject:      RE: Jazz - delicious hot, disgusting cold!

>As for hearing music, I'm certainly no expert on the field, but ....
>That's not to say I have much of a technical understanding ....
>Paul 'my brain hurts now' Heroy

  Amen, brother Heroy.  That is the word.  Exactly what I meant.

                                    -T
From: CV01@SWTEXAS.BITNET (Demonic chuckotronic)
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Subject: Sharrock plays your easy-listening favorites
Date: 9 Nov 92 15:30:00 GMT
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Re: Sonny Sharrock doing a recording of Coltrane tunes.

   Russ sez:

>I'd pick that up in an instant.

   And Paul sez:

>Hot damn! Do it soon do it soon do it soon puhleeeeeze!!! :-)

   Finally, Da Beer sez:

>Hey, Sharrock is on Wayne Shorter's Supernova.  That is pretty
>burnin'.

   I wouldn't buy it to hear Sonny, but Shorter's playing is a different
story.

>Sharrock on Coltrane, I hope he can get Elvin and Charnette again.  Of
>course, if you have Trane's music, you _have_ to get Elvin.  Elvin and
>Charnette worked very good together.  It probably would be similar to
>ATA, because most of those heads could have easily been written by Trane.

   I'm with you on this one.  Sharrock has been interviewed about the
sessions for _ATA_, and he comments that at one point in the studio he was
listening to Elvin, Pharoah and Charnette, and he was just overwhelmed by how
much the groove resembled Trane's old bands (of course, it doesn't hurt that
Elvin and Pharoah were both in Coltrane's groups at one time or another).  He
says that it was like a flashback to that whole scene.
   I would hope that Sharrock would get the whole group from _ATA_.  You
can't underestimate how much Pharoah means to that whole sound, and as they
showed on _ATA_, there's plenty of room for both Sharrock and Sanders.

>Unless Sharrock has Giant Steps in mind..

   Hey, have you heard _Highlife_ by Sharrock?  The CD is generally mediocre
(cheezoid keyboards are largely to blame), but S.S. does a quick take from
the head of Giant Steps (less than a minute).  When I heard it, it had me
screaming "Do the whole f*cking thing -- don't cut it there!!"  If I were
Carol, I would say that it left with wet with aniticipation.  Since I'm not
her, I'll just say that it gave me a huge woodie.  :*)
   So, let's make a game out of it.  What tunes would you want S.S. to do if
he were to make a Coltrane recording?  What, you say I should go first?  Oh,
OK ... for starters, howzabout:

   Naima, Giant Steps, Afro-Blue, India, Welcome, Alabama ...


      bye,
      cmv ("chuckrateez")
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Date:         Thu, 5 Nov 1992 12:55:01 EST
From:         DARON MCNAB <IDPM@SNYCENVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Bravery & Cowardice

Apparently Bravery is confidence within a group!

Does that mean the group will run scared as individuals?

If you look at the so-called-fag-post, you'll see that there was no
direct "FAG" reference.

What you read into it is an example of your own perverse mind!

Daron

       "Die..Die..Die......."
                           - crowd chant from a recent Metallica show
                          to people who tell you what to do and where to go!
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From:         "Materials Program Mgmt.,
              Ayr (823-3189)" <drobb@SSMPRD.ENET.DEC.COM>
Subject:      RE: Songs Of Freedom

>>  Hosko (Vote for me and I'll set you free!) asks ...
>>
>>  However, has any heard _Songs of Freedom_ yet?

    Yes, a colleague of mine in the USA was willing and able enough to
    send me a copy, which I took possession of towards the end of last
    week, and I have to say it's a truly *excellent* set, covering the
    very early part of his career in the 60's, thru the commercial
    success of the 70's and early 80's.  From memory, it begins with
    his first-ever single ("Judge Me Not") on Disc 1, and finishes up
    with a superb live rendition of "Redemption Song" (taken from his
    last-ever concert in 1980) on Disc 4.

    In between, there are quite a few re-mixes and rarities to keep
    your toes tappin', and there's a thorough and interesting book to
    read to boot!

    The set is presented in a fold-out    =========================
    format as opposite, with ||           |           ||          |
    denoting the book's spine, and O      |           ||          |
    representing the position of each     |           ||          |
    disk.                                 |     O     ||     O    |
                                          |           ||          |
                                          |           ||          |
                                          |___________||__________|
    10/10 or *****                        |           ||          |
                                          |           ||          |
                                          |           ||          |
                                          |     O     ||     O    |
                                          |           ||          |
                                          |           ||          |
                                          |           ||          |
                                          =========================

    I'd be glad to hear other opinions from folks who buy if after
    reading this post.

    - Dougie (in Scotland)
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