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From: dave@bradley.bradley.edu (David Vessell)
Subject: Re: They're Coming To Take Me Away ...
Organization: Bradley University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 21:16:58 GMT

mbiehl@daimi.aau.dk (Morten Biehl Christiansen) writes:

>S.E.Rigden@newcastle.ac.uk (Simon Rigden) writes:
>
>> Can anyone give me the lyrics to "They're Coming To Take Me Away" as it
>>appears on the CD by "LARD"?
>> Also, can anyone give me any clues as to the origins of this song - I'm sure
>>LARD didn't write it originally (although their version may be slightly
>>different to the original - if there ever was one on vinyl)?
>
>As well as I remember someone called 'Napoleon 13th' did it in the
>early 80's. Haven't heard about him/them since though.

Oh dear, the song is much older than that!

"They're Coming to Take Me Away (Ha Ha)" was a #3 hit for Napoleon XIII in
1966.  It was the only song he ever did.  In fact the flip side was the
same song....backwards.  It also holds the dubious distinction of being the
song registering the biggest single-week drop on the Billboard Hot 100 in
its history.  After peaking at #3, it dropped to #5, and then plummeted 33
places to #38 the following week.

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From: raivio@niksula.hut.fi (Perttu Raivio)
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
Subject: Re: They're Coming To Take Me Away ...
Date: 15 Dec 92 09:17:33
Organization: BREWTeX - Wine, women and song
Distribution: world
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In-reply-to: mbiehl@daimi.aau.dk's message of Mon, 14 Dec 92 18:06:45 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.180645.7877@daimi.aau.dk> mbiehl@daimi.aau.dk (Morten Biehl Christiansen) writes:
>
> As well as I remember someone called 'Napoleon 13th' did it in the
> early 80's. Haven't heard about him/them since though.

	Apparently he was right about them taking him away then...

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From: jay@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Jay Novello)
Subject: MAS:  A Caribbean Christmas Party CD
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:29:37 GMT

There's still time.  Pick up the phone NOW and order the best Christmas
CD of the year:  Ryko's MAS:  A Caribbean Christmas Party.  Produced by
the ARChive of Contemporary Music in NYC, this is a lovingly crafted and
superbly packaged and annotated anthology of Christmas tunes from
Trinidad and Tobago, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, and
Guadeloupe.

The quality of this compilation is so good, I just want to send Ryko my
charge card and say "send me everything in this series"...it's the first
of ??many??.

Contents of CD (Ryko RCD 10150)

1.  A Party for Santa Claus -- Lord Nelson (2:50)
2.  Nwe`l la Rive -- Lionel Benjamin (4:31)
3.  Santa Clause (Do You Ever Come To the Ghetto) -- Carlene Davis and
    Trinity (7:55) ***
4.  Soca Santa -- Machel (5:16)
5.  Noe:l Pou Yo -- Claudette et Ti Pierre (6:06)
6.  Asalto Naviden~o -- El Gran Combo (3:22)
7.  Deck the Halls -- Jacob Miller and Ray I (6:05)
8.  Santa Claus is Comin' to Town -- Joseph Spence (2:54)
9.  Quand J'entends Chante' Noe:l -- Eddy Gustave (18:28)

*** worth the price of the CD alone.  Hmmm, I thought the vocalist on
this was Hortense Ellis.  Will check the vinyl version at home tonight.

Ryko's order line is 800-232-7385.  It'll set you back $13.98 plus $3.00
for UPS ground; I got mine in three business days, MA to NC.
 

-- 
                   Jay Novello                 jay@ecsvax.uncecs.edu
University of North Carolina Institute for Transportation Research and Education
                         Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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From: geigel@seas.gwu.edu (Joseph Geigel)
Subject: **** Best of 1992 Poll **** (repost)
Keywords: vote
Organization: George Washington University
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:42:50 GMT


  Well, the winter holidays are upon us which means that it's
  time for...


      THE 5th ANNUAL USENET BEST ALBUM OF THE YEAR Poll.


   Participation is easy, simply send a list (of up to 20 albums)
   that your consider to be the best of 1992 (in order of goodness)
   to:
         
                     geigel@seas.gwu.edu


   I will be taking votes from now until January 15th, 1993 (for those
   of you who wish to wait until the year is actually  over).  Results
   will be posted soon thereafter.

   To avoid a rush of Top 20 list posts on the net, only E-mail votes
   will be counted.  So please E-mail, do not post.


   This notice will be re-posted periodically during December and
   January as a reminder.


                             Vote now, vote well,

-- 

                            -- jogle
                               geigel@seas.gwu.edu

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From: glad@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Clayton Glad)
Subject: Re: A Ray Shea Wannabe? (was Re: Bands with black bassists)
Organization: Stanford University CSLI
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 22:51:02 GMT

dmb@case.ai.mit.edu (David Baggett) writes:

>Even better, brag about the breadth of your musical knowledge!  We're
>in such awe!

No time, Dave -- I'm too busy trying to come up with one-letter band
names, per your request!

ObMusic: the new David Murray on Black Saint is his best in some time.
I think there's a black bass player on it, even.

-- Clay
      	  "Existence is existence throughout all of existence."
				-- Stephen Grossman
From: bi011@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bill King)
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
Subject: BMG # request
Date: 12 Dec 1992 20:30:28 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: bi011@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bill King)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


I tried to find the FAQ but didn't see it posted, so could someone
please E-mail me the # for BMG? I belong, and I remember it was
close to 1-800WAMADEUS or something like that. When I tried calling
it, though [as well as a few variations] I didn't have any luck.
Thanks for the info....
Bill
-- 
Hey, hey champ, was she a "whoo"?  No, she was a "WHOOOOOO!" --Ric Flair
From: shaun@iris.mincom.oz.au (Man in Polyester Suit)
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
Subject: About the Jansen/Barbieri album
Date: 14 Dec 92 06:29:09 GMT
Reply-To: shaun@iris.mincom.oz.au (Man in Polyester Suit)
Organization: Mincom, Brisbane, Australia.

This is directed to "Jonas", who asked about Jansen/Barbieri's
"Worlds in A Small Room" CD, since his mail address bounced
severely on an email reply:

> Ok, does anyone know of a place where I might find
> Worlds In A Small Room by Steve Jansen and Richard
> Barbieri, both formerly of Japan?
> I have been ordering it from various sources for
> over a year and a half and still haven't caught
> up with it. 
> Any help would be most appreciated.
>                
>                               Jonas

I can't really help you that much, except to recommend that you 
try and get hold of the Japanese version (Viktor VDP-1008).  It
has a different cover to the European release (which has a still
from the video that this album is ostensibly a soundtrack for),
and includes and extra track recorded for the Japanese version
that consists of one of the tracks reworked and with added vocals
by Jansen (quite Sylvian-esque, unsurprisingly).  

In case you don't have it, there's also "Stories Across Borders" 
(Virgin, CDVE908) in the same vein (instrumental).

Good luck (they're worth the effort, IMHO),
-Shaun

-- 
    -----   "The Devil has designed my death, and he's waiting to be sure      
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             The eight legs of the devil now are crawling up my spine" - Galas
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From: lazlo@triton.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble)
Subject: Re: GRIPE!
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 21:46:46 GMT
Organization: Usenet Power Elite: Crush-The-Innocent-Newbies Strike Team

rock@medch.b17b.ingr.com writes:

> How many of you like that damn silver tape that they seal cd's with when
> they are shrink-wrapped inside the long-box? 

For what must be the hundredth time: use some vegetable oil, peanut butter,
or WD40 on it.  It'll break down the adhesive and wipe away with a few
seconds of rubbing.  (This works on price-sticker goo and other similar
problems too.)

I like the stickers just fine.  An intact sticker is a pretty good sign that
the store I'm buying the disc from isn't trying to sell me a re-shrinkwrapped
used CD at a new-cd price.  That may not be much of a problem now, but it
will be in a few months once the longbox goes away.

--
Lazlo (lazlo@triton.unm.edu)
From: ray@unisql.UUCP (Ray Shea)
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
Subject: Re: MOVING TARGETS & Ken Chambers
Keywords: Moving Targets, Ken Chambers
Date: 15 Dec 92 14:59:23 GMT
Organization: UniSQL, Inc., Austin, Texas, USA

In article <JLBsVB3w165w@adi.ka.sub.org> ernst@adi.ka.sub.org (Ernst Hoefer) writes:
>i've got 3 records of the Targets and one of Ken Chambers. Is there
>anything new after "FALL"? Does the group still exist?

Three records?  I've got two, _Burning in Water_, which I thought was their
first (from 1987), and one other which came out a few years ago.

>I saw them last year and they were GREAT !!!

There's an issue of _Forced Exposure_ from about 88 or so that has a family
tree of all the people who have been in Moving Targets and all the bands that
they've been in.  It took up a whole page, with very small type.



-- 
Ray Shea                                      
UniSQL, Inc.                             Sometimes I feel like a blue dog.
unisql!ray@cs.utexas.edu                                     -- The Blue Dog
DoD #0372 -- Team Twinkie -- '88 Hawk NT650
From: gtaylor@vme.heurikon.com (Gregory Taylor)
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
Subject: Rockin' and rollin' with Seth Katz
Date: 17 Dec 92 15:44:18 GMT
Reply-To: gtaylor@vme.heurikon.com (Gregory Taylor)
Organization: Heurikon Corporation, Madison, WI

sik@grosz.esd.sgi.com (Seth Katz) writes:
>
>Have you listened to Penderecki yet?
>Try "Utrenya" in the series of CDs 
>released by Polski Nagrania (or something
>like that- I don't have the disk here).

Is this recording from the "later" Penderecki stuff where he's returned
to tonality, of does it sound more like, say, Ligeti? I've still not
really heard much of his ah... "newer" work. If this *isn't* the neotonal
stuff, could you suggest something that *is*? Thanks.

>Also, Part and Penderecki remind me (in 
>their use of choir) of the sort of music
>played by Hilliard Ensemble and Tallis Scholars.
>You may want to try Hilliard's Ockhegehm.  
>Come to think of it, that's who does the
>vocals on "Misere", right?  Also check out
>Tallis SCholars' Josquin and Tallis' "Spem in Alium".  

Yep, it *is* Hilliard on ALL the Part recordings on ECM. We
should maybe say something about the Tallis "Spem in Alium"
for the more curious net reader, I think (this is what got
*me* interested in it, anyway): It's a motet (a form of choral
music) written for *40* voices. Yep, 40 different parts, organized
into "groups" of 8 choirs, with each choir having 5 voice parts.
This kind of high-numbers stuff was, for a brief time, the way
that one proved their coolness and craft (there's another motet
that I've heard from the Italian composer Gabrieli that also uses
40 voices). If you've heard the Kronos Quartet's "Black Angels", you
have heard a multitracked version of the piece for strings. *Don't*
assume that that's what it sounds like - the Kronos piece is muffled
and the parts are hard to discern because a string quartet can'ts
*speak*. The real thing is so massive but airy that you can't really
believe that Tallis could keep that many balls in the air at one 
time. There's a recording of the Tallis by the Tallis Scholars on
Gimell that features the 15 or so minute "Spem in Alium" that I
actually wound up *buying*. One other cool feature: there's this one
place in the motet where everybody suddenly singe the same text
simultaneously that still give me goosebumps every time I hear it.
This is just about my favorite classical recording to play LOUD.

>Finally, you owe it to yourself to listen to 
>Havergal Brian's First, or "Gothic" symphony.
>There's only one recording widely available
>and it's on the Marco Polo label.  When you
>see how many musicians it takes to perform this 
>piece, you'll see why its not performed often. 

Hmmmm. I'll look for this one. Thanks.
--
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courts accept the lowest superstition/into evidence. And we embrace quickly in
the rain,/conceiving a hale infant with hands to wrinkle/the bedsheets toward
it, wave by trough by wave./Gregory Taylor/Heurikon /Madison, WI/608-828-3385
From: rost@tecrus.dec.com (My name is Brian Rost)
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
Subject: Re: Bands with human bassists
Date: 18 Dec 92 20:37:08 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


I've heard that in the days before industiral music and hip-hop that human
beings used to play some form of four-stringed instrument called a "bass",
although I've heard references to it as a "Precision" or "Rick".  Anybody
actually know of anyone who used one of these things?

					Brian Rost @tecrus.enet.dec.com

					508-568-6115

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Newsgroups: rec.music.misc,rec.music.cd
From: caine@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dark Lord of the Sith)
Subject: Re: NEVERMIND's 13th track??
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:47:58 GMT
Keywords: nirvana, nevermind


>well if you have the song yes there is ten minutes of silence
>and of course the tape doesn't have it at all.....
>now if anyone understands the complete lyrics to this song i would be impressed

Try looking at the Nirvana scrap book that can be found in music stores that
carry sheet music for pop music and other stuff like that.  Try Disc Jockey
or MusicLand if you can, I know they have had it.  I don't remember if the 
words are in it, but it's possible...

Caine Schneider

Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
From: ss5774@albnyvms.bitnet
Subject: Eric Johnson 
Reply-To: ss5774@albnyvms.bitnet
Organization: University of NY at Albany
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 08:05:48 GMT

 Does anyone have any information on the new Eric Johnson album? I just
 erad in Guitar mag that he was voted  guitarist of the year. 

 erad in Guitar mag that he was voted  guitarist of the year. 
 
 read in Guitar mag that he was voted  guitarist of the year. 

                                    Thanks in advance, 
                                                          Saleen Shah
Organization: University of Maine System
Date: Saturday, 19 Dec 1992 16:44:31 EST
From: M.A. Murphy <MURPH@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
Subject: Re: Return of the Son of the Non-Top Ten best (4 of 5)
 <1968@heurikon.heurikon.com> <1992Dec18.202346.17034@Csli.Stanford.EDU>

In article <1992Dec18.202346.17034@Csli.Stanford.EDU>, glad@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Clayton Glad) says:
>
>gtaylor@vme.heurikon.com (Gregory Taylor) writes:
>
>>The one vocal technique that I've not heard anywhere else, though, is
>>this eerie choral effect that sounds like the entire choir does a pitch
>>bend *down* in unison.
>
>A vocal doppler effect.  Stunning.
>
>It's even more rewarding to have your ears reopened by a post like Gregory's
>than to learn about something new.  Thanks.

Yea, someone recently posted about the Klezmatics _Rhythm + Jews_ which I
had received a week or two previous.  The CD had not yet bubbled up to the
'must listen to these soon' pile, but was immediately placed ahead of the
pile after reading the review.  I was not disappointed.  Excellent album
of noisy, raucous, fun (which isn't the right word, but if you've heard
it you'll probably understand) stuff.  I don't know much about klezmer
music, but this definitely piques my interest.

Thanks to whoever posted about it.  I'd have gotten it into the player
eventually, but am glad someone prompted me to get it in sooner.
-------

                                            Murph

                                            Michael A. Murphy
                                            MURPH@MAINE.BITNET

If you do not understand my silence
you will not understand my words.
From: dmb@case.ai.mit.edu (David Baggett)
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
Subject: Re: Dave Baggett goes ballistic
Date: 14 Dec 1992 17:06:28 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
NNTP-Posting-Host: case.ai.mit.edu

In article <WARKENT.92Dec14124044@ltisun14.epfl.ch> warkent@ltisun14.epfl.ch (Ken Warkentyne) writes:
>I am sad to announce that Dave Baggett has succumbed to the ballistic
>condition; if only he had taken his own advice and read about USENET.
>Here is an excerpt from "A Primer on How to Work With the USENET Community",
>by Chuq Von Rospach (easily found in news.announce.newusers).
>
>		      Use Mail, Don't Post a Follow-up

Sorry to hear you're sad!  And I was starting to feel all warm and
fuzzy inside about how Ray had temporarily stopped insulting people
with one-liners.

Of course, RSAP members are exempt rules like the ones you've given
above, and can therefore flame people with wild abandon.

Don't you see that your inspid followups only further the impression
that you're a bunch of spolied brats who like to cut people down?
Sorry if I offended your little club by asking for some civility from
Ray when he was busy telling people things like "Oh, I see, I didn't
realise those were just YOUR opinions -- that's means I don't give two
shits about them because you're just an ignorant .edu site kid."

I don't see why the readers of this group should have to put up with
that sort of thing.  No knee-jerk defense of Ray you can contrive is
going to excuse it.  The easiest thing for you (pl.) to do would be to
cut it out.

Dave Baggett
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Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
From: dgray@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Daniel Gray)
Subject: Marillion
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:10:59 GMT


	Could someone either post or email me the address for the Marillion
mailing list?
				Dan Gray
From: mlsa@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (MICHAEL LAUREN SHERMAN)
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
Subject: Re: Bands with Purple Drummers
Date: 19 Dec 92 01:59:57 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <4406@unisql.UUCP>, ray@unisql.UUCP (Ray Shea) writes:
>
>Keith Moon probably turned a few shades of purple right at the end.
>
I hear that the drummer for Kiss used to paint himself purple when they were
strictly a Bar Mitzva Band


>
>
>--
>Ray Shea
>UniSQL, Inc.                             Sometimes I feel like a blue dog.
>unisql!ray@cs.utexas.edu                                     -- The Blue Dog
>DoD #0372 -- Team Twinkie -- '88 Hawk NT650
>
-- 
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ten days now, my life is so much clearer, i pledge to do my best to never
have a long .sig again.  i don't need one because i'm good enough, i'm smart
enough and god darnit, people like me.  ob info: mlsa@lehigh.edu, mike
sherman phone# 758-0207 disclaimer, we don't neeeed no steeenking disclaimer.
From: emp1@crux2.cit.cornell.edu (Ernest M. Paik)
Subject: Re: They're Coming To Take Me Away ...
Organization: Cornell Information Technologies
Date: 16 Dec 92 21:33:38 GMT

mlsa@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (MICHAEL LAUREN SHERMAN) writes:

>WILL SOME ONE PLEASE JUST POST THE FUCKING LYRICS?

                 They're Coming to Take Me Away
                        Napoleon the 14th

Remember when you ran away
And I got on my knees and begged you
Not to go because I'd go berserk?

WELL,

You left me anyhow and
Then the days got worse and worse
And now you see I've gone completely
out of my mind,

AND

[chorus 1]
They're coming to take me away,
Haha, they're coming to take me away,
Ho ho, hee hee, ha ha,
To the funny farm
Where Life is Beautiful all the time
And I'll be happy to see
Those Nice Young Men
In their Clean White Coats
And they're coming to take me AWAY,
HA HAAAAA

You thought it was a joke,
and so you LAUGHED, YOU LAUGHED
When I had said that losing you
Would make me flip my lid,

RIGHT?

You know you laughed.
I HEARD you laugh, you laughed
And laughed and laughed
And then you left,
And now you see I'm Utterly Mad

AND

[chorus 2]
They're coming to take me away,
Haha, they're coming to take me away,
Ho ho, hee hee, ha ha,
To the Happy Home with Trees and Flowers
And Chirping Birds and basket weavers
Who sit and smile and
Twiddle their thumbs and toes
And they're coming to Take me Away,
HAHAAAAAAAAA

I cooked your food,
I cleaned your house,
And this is how you pay me back
For all my kind unselfish loving deeds

RIGHT?

Well, you just wait,
They'll get you yet,
And when they do, they'll put you in
the ASPCA, you mangy MUTT,

AND

(chorus 1)
(chorus 2)
(chorus 1 trailing into mumbles in the distance)



 


From: koppes@hp-ptp.ptp.hp.com (Rosaine Koppes)
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:36:53 GMT
Subject: Van Morrison San Fran Tickets @ Cost
Organization: HP Pacific Technology Park - Sunnyvale, Ca.
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc



Posting for a friend.

For Sale at cost:

   Two tickets to VAN MORRISON in San Francisco
   Thursday, December 17th.
   Reserved seats - Center floor, 12th row.
   For sale at cost $34.25/ticket.

Respond via phone or e-mail(not this account).


Tom Jack       408/447-4239       taj@cup.hp.com
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From: steam@selway.umt.edu (raw seize black gust)
Subject: rec.music.misc
Followup-To: steam@selway.um.edu
Keywords: Killing Joke
Organization: University of Montana
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 01:01:43 GMT


Need to know what is up with the Jaz Coleman and Youth reviving the Joke. Is this a malicious lie pointed to hurt? Is technology and Frater perduabo a false face? Unspeak me.
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Sunday, 13 Dec 1992 21:50:47 CST
From: Angus MacGyver <U20190@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
Subject: Help! Need song title for these lyrics

     There was this one song I heard recently that sounded really great
but I didn't catch the title or the name of the band. The only lyrics I
can recall went like:

"Senses overloading/Drowning in a pool of love
 Sweet temptation/Never gonna get enough"

 and the refrain went

"Oh the sky is blue/When I think of you
And I couldn't get much higher
And you make my day/When you turn and say
Gonna set your heart on fire."

    If anyone can tell me the title and artist I'd be most grateful.

-=> AM
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