From: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com (exotica-digest) To: exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: exotica-digest V2 #571 Reply-To: exotica-digest Sender: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes exotica-digest Sunday, December 19 1999 Volume 02 : Number 571 In This Digest: (exotica) El Records Christmas Cd Re: (exotica) California Dreamers? Weekend finds Re: (exotica) What is the First Babada Sunshine Pop Song? Re: (exotica) blank media levy (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour (exotica) Such a deal on Stomp! (exotica) Re: Those pesky CDNow coupons (exotica) What is the First Babada Sunshine Pop Song? (exotica) Obituaries Re: (exotica) Obituaries (exotica) Liza! RE: (exotica) Obituaries (exotica) righteous bros still have that lovin feelin Re: (exotica) Obituaries Re: (exotica) Exotica ? ? ? ? Obituaries Re: (exotica) Obituaries (exotica) Soulful Strings Xmas LP (exotica) WHERE's Such a deal on Stomp? (exotica) sex in space? (exotica) Re: Those pesky CD Now coupons (exotica) More Shaggs, Fresh off the wire.. (exotica) (exotic) most performed tune of your century (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, December 19 Re: (exotica) Lester Bowie RIP? Re: (exotica) El Records Christmas Cd IMPORTANT ADMIN MESSAGE (was: Re: (exotica) That early?) Re: Saddam.Exe was (exotica) Lester Bowie RIP? (exotica) shaggs reunion report (exotica) Re: Green Hornet reissue/ VAGABOND CINEMA POPS (was: twink) (exotica) cover scan Zounds! What sounds! (exotica) Project Pimento (exotica) Bedazzled! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 12:33:36 -0800 (PST) From: chuck Subject: (exotica) El Records Christmas Cd I understand El records aka Mike Alway records, has a Christmas cd out available at other music. I'm expecting this to be modern day soft pop classic. As Mo has pointed out a few times on the list, Mike Alway has his hands in many soft pop modern day projects. Theres also a new childrens cd on the Siesta label like Algebra Speghetti, that he's involved in. I'm going to my post office now to see if they have arrived Easy listening in the Big Easy Chuck __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 15:51:30 -0500 From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) California Dreamers? Weekend finds At 10:25 AM 12/17/99 +0000, Charles_Moseley/LON/Europe/MCKINSEY-EXTERNAL@MCKINSEY.COM wrote: > >With mention of the Califrnia Dreamers, I've just remembered a couple of >weekend puchases. > >I got a reissue of Tom Scott and the California Dreamers. Don't remember >the title, very psychedelic cover, but is this what you mean by Soft Pop? >Very vocal without a lead vocal, quite jazzy and very 'soft'? I don't know that particular record but if it's got those Dreamers, then yes you probably have unwittingly dipped your toe into the vast pond of soft pop. (Or bababada as we like to call it.) If it's anything like Gabor Szabo's "Wind, Sky etc", it's probably got a bit too much "jazz" and instrumental soloing to qualify as classic soft pop. But it's definitely a related item. The California Dreamers themselves were classic soft poppers and released record(s) under the name "The Love Generation". You can't really generalize about the stuff enough to say that usually there's no lead vocal or that the singing is very jazzy. Think of the Ray Conniff singers with slightly longer hair or a couple of guitars in the mix. Think of The Lettermen when they started covering rock tunes. Think of the Beach Boys doing less rockin material like "In my Room". It's really just a subgenre of late sixties pop/rock that's been "elevated" to a full blown genre. But if you have any late sixties/early seventies "rock" records, you probably have some soft pop lurking there. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 16:15:48 -0500 From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) What is the First Babada Sunshine Pop Song? At 09:13 AM 12/17/99 -0800, chuck wrote: > > With this discussion about "Sunshine Pop" as performed in the mid?/late 60s >by the Association, Harpers Bizarre, Spanky etc,, I have been wondering >what might be the first sunshine pop song? Any suggestions are welcome. > >As food for thought, Leslie Gore's "Sunshine Lollipops" certainly contains >many elements of Sunshine Pop. Well it depends on what you think the hallmarks of bababada are. Is it more the sunshiney lyrics and themes or is it more the bababada chorus singing? If it's the chorus singing, it would be hard to identify the first song because that kind of vocal arrangement goes back to so many other genres of music. Brian Wilson says he studied the vocal harmonies of uh.. I'm going to get this wrong... The Freshmen? Or the Brothers something? Brothers Four? Then there's all those folk trios and quartets. You could call The Mamas and The Papas one of the first sunshine pop bands but they morphed out of groups like the Kingston Trio that had a similar but folkier sound. Same with the First Edition who had elements of sunshine pop before Kenny Rogers was pushed out front. One day they had cardigans and short hair and sang protest songs; the next day they combed their hair forward, put on flowing robes and sang about peace and love. So if you're talking about the roots of the genre, you'd have to go back before Lesley Gore. But if you're talking about the first "official" bababada group, I'd have to choose The Association. (Also you're sort of confusing the issue by bringing Sunshine pop into the mix. What's the difference between soft pop and sunshine pop?) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 16:26:49 -0500 From: Nat Kone Subject: Re: (exotica) blank media levy At 02:01 PM 12/17/99 -0500, m.ace wrote: > >Canadian brethren & sistren, stock up on blank media post haste. A new tax >levy is going into effect. Yeah it's a bummer. It was supposed to go into effect last April and when it didn't, I thought they had changed their mind after reading my protest letters. But unless I'm reading it wrong, it's way way less onerous than they were talking about originally. When the bill was passed, they were talking about levying a per-minute charge. As much as five cents a minute. So a 90 minute tape would cost an extra four dollars and fifty cents, effectively tripling the cost. All so Celine Dion would be able to afford to buy eggs and sperm from supermodels without dipping into her direct royalties. It seems like it's basically twenty five cents on a tape and sixty cents on a CDR which certainly adds up but is nothing like those greedy bastards in the music industry wanted. But I'm going to stock up anyway if it's not too late. Hopefully my guy hasn't read the paper yet. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 15:27:11 -0600 From: "Darrell Brogdon" Subject: (exotica) Retro Cocktail Hour With the holidays soon upon us, we've added the annual Retro Cocktail Hour Christmas show to our web page a few days early! You'll find Yuletide-flavored goodies by Esquivel, The Three Suns, Billy May, Duke Ellington, Les Baxter, The Soulful Strings and lots more. We'll sample most of the exotic Christmas classics, from The Three Suns' "A Ding Dong Dandy Christmas" and Esquivel's "The Merriest of Christmas Pops" to rarities by the Randy van Horne Singers, Art Carney (!) and Marco Rizo (dig his Latin version of "Sleigh Ride"). Also, something new by the a capella quartet Vox Bop -- imagine "We Three Kings" colliding head-on with the "Mission: Impossible" theme! To hear The Retro Cocktail Hour on the Web, go to: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html You'll need a minimum 28.8 Internet connection and RealPlayer. If you dial us up, please let us hear from you! Thanks for the space, and happy holidays to all! Darrell Brogdon dbrogdon@ukans.edu The Retro Cocktail Hour KANU FM 91.5 Broadcasting Hall The University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045 Visit The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro.html Listen to The Retro Cocktail Hour at: http://kanu.ukans.edu/retro/retrolisten.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 16:39:38 -0500 From: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer) Subject: (exotica) Such a deal on Stomp! =46or you Mac folk, the Stomp CD labeler from Bottom Line, a great source fo= r savings on all things Apple. And they ship all over the world from Planet Austin. Catalog and sign up for their weekly specials eletter at http://www.bldistribution.com/. Some good deals on CDRWs too. Stomp Inc. CD/DVD Stomper Labeling System Part Number : 7215 Old Price : $39.99 New Price : $9.99* http://www.bldistribution.com/bld_desc.t?af=3D64774226&edp=3D21411 19.99 + 10 mail in rebate with the purchase of a label refill kit, part #721= 7 Mimi # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 17:21:38 -0800 From: "B. Yost" Subject: (exotica) Re: Those pesky CDNow coupons This problem surfaced recently on another music list I'm on. A more devious approach was sent in by someone, whose solution is below. The indomitable ingenuity of the human spirit, blah, blah, blah. - -- Brad > Have you ever wanted to use a CDNow coupon, but after you ordered your > items you were still short of the minimum purchase requirement for the > coupon? There's a way to get around this. > > Suppose you have a coupon worth $15.00 off, with a minimum purchase of > $29.99. After putting the CDs you want in your shopping cart, your total > is only $21.99. If the items in your shopping cart are "in stock", find > another disc costing more than $8.00 (putting your total over the $29.99 > minimum), but make sure that the item will have to be BACKORDERED (i.e. > not in stock). > > When you check out, specify that you want the items shipped separately as > they become available (this is the default option, so you shouldn't have > to do anything). When the "in stock" items become available, they will be > shipped immediately and you'll be notified via e-mail. The e-mail will > show that the FULL AMOUNT of the coupon was applied to this first > shipment! > > You can now CANCEL the backordered item. You won't be charged for this > CD, and the $15.00 coupon is applied to the $21.99 worth of items that are > already in the mail. Using this method, I got the new Mr. Scruff > album on Ninja Tune AND the new Blame 2xCD "Two Revolutions" for a > total of $11.81, including tax and shipping. > # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 14:43:36 -0800 (PST) From: chuck Subject: (exotica) What is the First Babada Sunshine Pop Song? Soft pop is best exemplified by the Teddy Bears' To Know Him is To Love Him, or the wonderful Fleetwoods, or Donna by Ritchie Valens,. This soft pop continued unabashedly through the 60's into the early 70's and believe it or not it was around in the 80s and is blooming on fertile ground in the 90's on the Siesta label and various other labels. The first soft pop song I think is Gonna Get Along Without You Now, (1956). Our own Jill Mingo first alerted me to the term "Sunshine Pop" to describe the bababada music of the late 60's Association, Mamas & Papas(I keep hearing Monday Monday's ba da ba baba das) as opposed to the Fleetwood's style of soft music. Then the releases came out on Sequel with the name Sunshine Pop and other releases such as the great Sunshine Days collections on Varese Sarraband label came out and it seemed like consensus that this describes well the vocal harmony groups with the bababadas and the late 60's hippy influence. DjJimmy also mentioned the folk influence. I think your bababada is a great test to determine if the song is soft pop or sunshine pop. ba, ba,,, ba ba ba da ba, ba,,, ba ba ba da Chuck - --- Nat Kone wrote: > (Also you're sort of confusing the issue by bringing Sunshine pop into the > mix. What's the difference between soft pop and sunshine pop?) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 00:48:12 +0100 From: "Kristjan Saag" Subject: (exotica) Obituaries Some days half of this list consists of obituaries. What's this got to = do with exotica? It may be that a profound interest in easy listening = music of the 50:s seems morbid in itself, but that's no reason to flood = everyone of us with data about who has died and how and when. I=B4n = fact, in the land of echoed strings and theremins everyone is eternally = young, floating on a sout sea wave. That's the reason for listening to = that damned stuff! So quit that lugubrious undertaking, will ya, or = leave it to the undertakers' mailing list! Kristjan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 00:20:12 -0000 From: "Robbie Baldock" Subject: Re: (exotica) Obituaries Kristjan Saag wrote: > Some days half of this list consists of obituaries. What's this got to do > with exotica? Oh yes, this old chestnut again...! I was the last person to object to these postings but still they carry on. I have to say, though, it is of interest to know when luminaries in the genre pass on (and this week it was particularly sad to hear about Walt Levinsky's passing) but there do seem to be many many obituaries which are completely irrelevant to this list... Robbie - ---------------------------------------------------------- ** ** ** * Spaced Out - the Enoch Light Website * ** ** ** ** ** ** * http://www.rcb.easynet.co.uk/light/ * ** ** ** - ---------------------------------------------------------- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 19:34:30 -0500 From: Elisabeth Vincentelli Subject: (exotica) Liza! A friend took me to Liza Minnelli's comeback show at New York's Palace Theater yesterday, and I just have to share. It definitely was one of the weirdest, creepiest, most oddly intoxicating spectacles I've ever seen. First of all, a lot of the arrangements were very Copa circa 1963 and the orchestra kicked ass, so we were shimmying in our seats. And then, what can I say: the mold has been broken, they don't make entertainers like her anymore. Sure, her voice is a bit raspy and her diction is weird--her sybillants are very off, like when she sang "It's lovely to sit in the garden," my friend leaned over and said, "Did she really sing 'It's lovely to shit in the garden'?"--and her stamina is gone, but by golly she can still turn up the star wattage! We were afraid she would collapse on stage (between the hip replacement, drug and alcohol problems, and too many twinkies, she was wheezing at times) but she held up like the trooper she is, and made us feel like *we*, the audience, were propping her up--in addition to her 5 hunky boys, of course. It was like a rollercoaster: scary and exciting, and even nausea-inducing . . . in a good way! The theme of the show, by the way, was "Minnelli on Minnelli" so she did only songs from Vincente Minnelli's movies. And the good news is: you can probably see half of it for free if you show up around 9:10pm and second-act it as they don't check who goes back in the theater after a smoke outside, and there were *plenty* of excellent empty seats. We ourselves moved down from the cheap $35, oxygen-mask requiring balcony to the $75 cushy mezzanine. That's Elisabeth-with-an-S to you! # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 18:43:51 -0600 From: "Indy Rutks" Subject: RE: (exotica) Obituaries Robbie Baldock wrote: > Kristjan Saag wrote: > > > Some days half of this list consists of obituaries. What's this > got to do > > with exotica? > > Oh yes, this old chestnut again...! I was the last person to object > to these postings but still they carry on. Fortunately for those who don't like the obits, the subject line always contains "[obit]", so you can delete 'em as soon as you get 'em! (FWIW, I like the obits) - -Indy Rutks (rutks002@tc.umn.edu) # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 19:01:12 -0800 From: Jim Gerwitz Subject: (exotica) righteous bros still have that lovin feelin Saw the Righteous Brothers at the intimate off-strip Orleans Hotel/casino showroom in Las Vegas last summer, and they put on a great show. Bobby just NAILED the high notes in a spine-tingling "Unchained Melody", but unfortunately didn't have much left for Lovin Feelin. He also introduced a couple audience members a la Ed Sullivan: his young drop-dead gorgeous daughter and Jackie Mason, who I think made a hand gesture as a joke. Wonderful show all around by two very talented gents and their band. I loooove Las Vegas, repository of Liberace's red white and blue bicentennial leather fringed & sequined hot pants outfit, with matching Rolls Royce of course!!! JB Le Noir # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 22:39:36 EST From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Obituaries In a message dated 12/17/99 6:51:11 PM, kristjansaag@swipnet.se wrote: >Some days half of this list consists of obituaries. What's this got to do with >exotica? It may be that a profound interest in easy listening music of the 50:s >seems morbid in itself, but that's no reason to flood everyone of us with data >about who has died and how and when. This has come up before so I'll re run my response. Its OK to report the obits because they are always representative of the cultural zeitgeist to which this list is prone. Its not like Lou reports on the deaths of 6 firefighters in Massachusetts. He is selecting obits that in a cool and strange way seem to tie in to the development of music of a non-rock/non-jazzbo, yet cool period that we are all interested in uncovering...Jimmy Botticelli # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 07:58:28 EST From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Exotica ? ? ? ? Obituaries In a message dated 12/17/99 3:51:11 PM Pacific Standard Time, kristjansaag@swipnet.se writes: << Some days half of this list consists of obituaries. What's this got to do with exotica? >> Don't complain Kristjan, I got yelled at for posting about CD-R burning. Just use the delete key on the obits if you want. BTW, I got yelled at because I said to just use the delete key too. TB # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 08:01:45 EST From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Obituaries In a message dated 12/17/99 4:44:58 PM Pacific Standard Time, rutks002@tc.umn.edu writes: << Fortunately for those who don't like the obits, the subject line always contains "[obit]", so you can delete 'em as soon as you get 'em! >> Ooo! You gunna get yelled at too! TB # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 10:03:47 EST From: Pearmania@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Soulful Strings Xmas LP In a message dated 12/17/99 3:26:49 PM US Eastern Standard Time, owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com writes: << I *finally* had my first listen to the Soulful Strings' MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS (Cadet 1968) which showed up on my doorstep and it is one of the hippest, coolest xmas LP's I've ever heard. Includes the great Dorothy Ashby on harp on many tracks and a truly amazing cover of Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy with Ron Steele on sitar. Find it! >> When I think of the number of times I've seen this LP in thrift stores I begin to think those obsessive/compulsive thoughts familiar only to record collectors. It just goes to show that you never know what's hiding behind all of those insipid thrift store LPs. Now that I'm looking for it, I'll probably never see it again. Sean # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 09:31:39 -0500 From: mimim@texas.net (Mimi Mayer) Subject: (exotica) WHERE's Such a deal on Stomp? An exoticat contacted me offlist to say he followed the link I posted for the cheap cheap CD labeler Stomp, and found it was listed at $34.99. I'm not sure what happened, but here's a possibility. Maybe the special deal is available only to people who sign up for Bottom Line's Weekly Specials mail list. The mails come every Friday. You can sign up at http://www.bldistribution.com/mail_list. BL has been advertising Stomp for the past few weeks, so it probably has a pretty good stock on hand--enough so if you sign up now for the mail list, you'll get an announcement next Friday (12/24) with the special price on Stomp. Otherwise, you could try contacting Bottom Line from their web page. Sorry that the link didn't deliver the $9.99 price. I just assumed that Bottom Line would offer deals to everyone from their site, not just people who subscribe to their mail list. Puzzled Mimi # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 11:20:01 -0500 From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) sex in space? Oh, Jane... A little Scientific American article on sex in space: http://www.sciam.com/2000/0100issue/0100scicit1.html Unfortunately it just dances around the edge of the subject. m.ace ecam@voicenet.com OOK http://www.voicenet.com/~ecam/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 15:26:19 +0100 From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Those pesky CD Now coupons this is not an answer to Wayno's search for a $1 CD, it's just about the way i spent a $10 coupon: i bought a japanese import: Walter Wanderley's "Kee-Ka-Roo" (Verve POCJ-2561). it normally costs around $24, but i used a $10 coupon, and payed low postage -- non-US cds ordered by european customers are shipped from CDNow's Dutch branch. so i ended up paying $16, which is a bit below the regular price of domestic (euro) cds - -- a good deal, as this is a brilliant cd! Johan ----- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 05:58:59 -0500 From: "Kevin Kovelant" Subject: (exotica) More Shaggs, Fresh off the wire.. Found this on the newswires this morning.... - -Kev - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Cruise in Tune With 'Meet the Shaggs' Project By Oliver Jones NEW YORK (Variety) - Tom Cruise is going low-fi. His production company has optioned a New Yorker article called ``Meet the Shaggs,'' about an obscure pop group decreed by Frank Zappa to be ``better then the Beatles.'' Cruise, along with his producing partner Paula Wagner, will develop the project through the duo's Paramount-based shingle, C/W Prods. The article was written by New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean, whose novel ``The Orchid Thief'' is being turned into a feature at Columbia Pictures. Orlean's Shaggs article follows the group's rise, fall and eventual rehabilitation. Formed in the hamlet of Freemont, N.H., the Shaggs consisted of the Wiggins sisters, three shy, awkward teenagers with unfortunate haircuts and thick New England accents. Despite their lack of musical interest or ability, their Dad forced them to record a rock album because his mother had a premonition that they should. They went on to make 1972's ``Philosophy of the World,'' a record that was commercially DOA until Zappa heard it. Rock historians have since rediscovered the record (available on CD from RCA Victor), declaring that its arrhythmic, out-of-tune bleating augured every dissonant music movement from Ornette Coleman to Sonic Youth. Two of the sisters performed in November at NRBQ's 30th anniversary celebration at the Bowery Ballroom. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 14:13:42 -0500 From: Bump Subject: (exotica) (exotic) most performed tune of your century in the words of Nick Cave, "FLAME ON!"! i will give it props for its recording qualities it possesses but no more! it does not mean i will ever, first buy, then play this song to hear it...ever! it does not mean i will cover this song in my musical endevours...ever. "Whoa, Whoa, Whoa" is me! > I do think the appreciation >of music should cross genre lines, and a great song (and great recording) >should transcend whatever walls we create by digging our own "niche" as >it were. thats GREAT! its Great. your great. We're all great! i am one of the greatest Genre-crossers/Wall Transcenders there is! but i am trying to quit! too expensive! i am also a SWM! ;) i would just go as far as to say the song is, OK. as far as the "Sound/Vibe" of this most overplayed tune of our century (and make a motion to never have it played in the next one!), i would much rather listen most of the tracks on Scott Walker's solo albums. i could easily-listen to his first 4 LP's over and over (maybe its a character flaw) and maybe even "cover" a tune (if i were talented enough). So, i would suggest, (in FLAME TALK now) go watch THE BIG CHILL for the 20th time and try to pull yourself from the Spector Shrine! (before you go blind) ;} no longer causually dismissing, (are you happy NOW!) uptight, alright and outta-sight, bump - with all due respect. on a crusade beautify the world by to ridding it of sappy overplayed tunes. (for the children!) >> >>Performing rights group BMI has named "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' " >> >>as the most-performed tune of the century. > >> >> WHAT B.S!!! Aren't we lucky to be able to listen to so much cooler music? >> can i get a amen my brothas and sistas! > >With all due respect, no amen from me. "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' " >is classic Brill Building pop, flawlessly executed by Phil Spector and >his army of top class studio musicians (many of whom are lauded here for >their work on more exotica-oriented recordings). Absolutely not trying >to start a flame war here or anything, but I do think the appreciation >of music should cross genre lines, and a great song (and great recording) >should transcend whatever walls we create by digging our own "niche" as >it were. It is very difficult for me to imagine anyone with a keen >appreciation of quality music so casually dismissing this great Phil >Spector/Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil composition. ******************************** Bump Universal DJ Defective Records bumpy@megsinet.net http://www.defectiverecords.com "Music, Non-Stop" -- Ralf + Florian # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 16:56:15 -0500 From: cheryl Subject: (exotica) Playlist For Space Bop, December 19 Beyond kitsch, Space Bop is one hour of full galactical wonder, and can be heard every Sunday from 4 to 5 pm on CKUT 90.3 FM in Montreal, Canada, and on RealAudio (real time only, for now) at: http://www.ckut.ca As usual, all comments, questions, and feedback welcome. Space Bop #76 Have Yourself An Eclectic Little Christmas Sy Mann: Joy To The World "Switched On Santa" Mark Mothersbaugh: Blue Joy "Joyeux Mutato" Michael Nyman: Cream Or Christians "Ghosts Of Christmas Past" Hybrid Kids: Holly And Ivy "Claws" The French Impressionists: Santa Baby "Ghosts Of Christmas Past" Peggy Lee: I Like A Sleighride (Jingle Bells) "Hi-Fidelity Holiday" August Darnell: Christmas On Riverside Drive "A Christmas Record" People Like Us: Christmas Show (edit) "Turkey" The Stable (feat. The Two Wise Men From Bethlehem): Once In Royal David's Cattle Shed "Turkey" Thick Pigeon: Jingle Bell Rock "Ghosts Of Christmas Past" Dean Martin: Baby It's Cold Outside "Hi-Fidelity Holiday" Culturcide: Depressed Christmas "Depressed Christmas" Sparks: Thank God It's Not Christmas "Kimono My House" Mark Mothersbaugh: Only 12 Shopping Days Left "Joyeux Mutato" Der Plan: Fackel Der Sehnsucht "How Much More Black Can It Be?" Leonard Cohen: Hallelujah "Hi-Fidelity Holiday" Thanks for reading. cheryls@dsuper.net brian@phyres.lan.mcgill.ca # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 00:10:18 -0000 From: "Robbie Baldock" Subject: Re: (exotica) Lester Bowie RIP? Some nutter wrote: > he, your lame client cant read HTML, haha. > click attachment to see some stunningly HOT stuff I suspect this is a virus attachment - be very careful when opening. In fact, don't open it unless you have good anti-virus software. If anyone can safely establish that saddam.exe is a virus, please send a complaint to this fool's provider: abuse@iadfw.net Robbie # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 01:54:37 +0100 From: Mo Subject: Re: (exotica) El Records Christmas Cd c> I understand El records aka Mike Alway records, has a Christmas cd c> out available at other music. I'm expecting this to be modern day c> soft pop classic. As Mo has pointed out a few times on the list, c> Mike Alway has his hands in many soft pop modern day projects. Theres c> also a new childrens cd on the Siesta label like Algebra Speghetti, c> that he's involved in. Exotic Beatles Part 3 is out now, and it's good as usual. Mo # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 18:23:14 -0700 From: Lazlo Nibble Subject: IMPORTANT ADMIN MESSAGE (was: Re: (exotica) That early?) I've seen a couple of people commenting on a message with the above subject line, which seems to be an ad for an e-card site carrying a suspicious .exe payload. What may not be immediately apparent from the message is that though it mentions the list in the Subject: and From: headers, it did NOT come over the list. List postings have the name of the original poster in the From: line, not the name of the list. I'm afraid there isn't much I can do as list admin to prevent this kind of thing from happening. Had it been posted to the list it would never have made it for a number of reasons. Needless to say, if you have this message in your mailbox, you should delete it unread. - -- Lazlo Nibble - lazlo@studio-nibble.com - http://www.studio-nibble.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 24/7 music from the Nibble vaults! - http://www.studio-nibble.com/audio -- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 20:22:12 -0500 From: "telstar" Subject: Re: Saddam.Exe was (exotica) Lester Bowie RIP? > I suspect this is a virus attachment - be very careful when opening. > In fact, don't open it unless you have good anti-virus software. > > If anyone can safely establish that saddam.exe is a virus, please > send a complaint to this fool's provider: I suspect that it's a virus. On general principle I do not open .exe files, especially one as suspicious as this one (I trashed it immediately). It does seem that it is being sent to Exotica list subscribers. Mine had a "Mondo Bongos Playlist" subject line and it had exotica@lists.xmission.com indicated as the sender. If yours had a Lester Bowie subject, it may be attaching itself to posts previously made to the list. Allan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 22:50:38 -0500 From: Lang Thompson Subject: (exotica) shaggs reunion report Hi, Didn't somebody pass along a post on the Shaggs reunion that originated on another list? I can't seem to find it even in my deleted mail. Thanks, LT Full Alert Film Review http://wlt4.home.mindspring.com/fafr.htm Funhouse http://wlt4.home.mindspring.com/funhouse.htm # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 12:03:08 +0100 From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Green Hornet reissue/ VAGABOND CINEMA POPS (was: twink) has that Japanese Green Hornet reissue i got my copy of VAGABOND CINEMA POPS ARKESTRA's "Promotional Only" directly from the artist: Johan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 13:55:51 +0100 From: Marco \"Kallie\" Kalnenek Subject: (exotica) cover scan Zounds! What sounds! Could someone please send me a gif or jpg of the cover of Dean Ellliott's Zounds! What sounds? I need it for a CD-R. Thank you! Marco - -- Marco "Kallie" Kalnenek +------------------------------------------+ Record Collector's Heaven http://weirdomusic.freeservers.com/ +------------------------------------------+ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 16:44:02 +0100 From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Project Pimento thanx, Robbie, for recommending those Project Pimento MP3's, they're wonderrful! sound a bit like Combustible Edison, but with theremin. very good sound quality too. http://come.to/projectpimento/ MoonRiver MusicToWatchGirlsBy YouOnlyLiveTwice Desafinado (sounds REALLY odd: bossa nova with theremin...) Johan ----- # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 22:00:03 -0500 From: "Brian Karasick" Subject: (exotica) Bedazzled! I'm co-posting this to both "exotica" and "lavalamp" lists: Well with all the postive comments about it, and in spite of my normal aversion to Dudley Moore, I tuned in Bravo and watched Bedazzled! this weekend. I should have know better than to doubt the experts from the Exotica list! Great music and a good film to boot! We even managed to pick up a sample in it used by Ursula 1000. I know there were likely more films made before DM's Hollyood days but was he exclusvely in Stanley Donen films? I liked the use of the words "Julie Andrews" by the Devil, each each time he granted a wish. I wonder if they knew what was to come in later years although I figure it's probably a referencre to Mary Poppins! So the next question... does anyone have a copy of this soundtrack they'd be interested in allowing me to audition in exchange for like material? Judging from br Cleve's comment I don't anticipate finding a copy hanging around my local record store! Thanks for the recommendation! Brian Karasick Physical Planner McGill University Montreal, Canada # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info exotica" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email exotica@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. ------------------------------ End of exotica-digest V2 #571 *****************************