From: owner-exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com (exotica-digest) To: exotica-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: exotica-digest V2 #911 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 Tuesday, March 6 2001 Volume 02 : Number 911 In This Digest: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re:=20Re:=20(exotica)=20Different=20Neighborhoods=20=A0On=20?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?Finland?= (exotica) Bye bye flexi discs Re: (exotica) Barbarella 2001 Re: (exotica) Different Neighborhoods ÊOn Finland Re: (exotica) Different Neighborhoods ÊOn Finland Re: (exotica) "Tikiville" =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re:=20(exotica)=20Different=20Neighborhoods=20=CAOn=20Finla?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?nd?= Re: (exotica) casino royale Re: (exotica) CD-Rs - Labels vs. Booklets Re: (exotica) Different Neighborhoods =?iso-8859-1?Q?=A0On?= Finland Re: (exotica) CD-Rs - Labels vs. Booklets Re: (exotica) CD-Rs - Labels vs. Booklets Re: (exotica) Different Neighborhoods  On Finland (exotica) Oh, it's BAD TV you want... Re: (exotica) "Tikiville" Re: (exotica) CD-Rs - Labels vs. Booklets Re: (exotica) CD-Rs - Labels vs. Booklets Re: (exotica) CD-Rs - Labels vs. Booklets Re: (exotica) CD-Rs - Labels vs. Booklets Re: (exotica) CD-Rs - Labels vs. Booklets (exotica) Re: Collectors Re: (exotica) CD-Rs - Labels vs. Booklets Re: (exotica) Playlist for Dial-ated Pupils: March 3, 2001 (exotica) Has anyone used spun.com? Re: (exotica) CD-Rs - Labels vs. Booklets Re: (exotica) CD-Rs - Labels vs. Booklets (exotica) Freddy (exotica) Freddy Quinn Re: (exotica) Freddy Quinn (exotica) the mysterious moai (exotica) n-pst-r alternatives (exotica) Flexis/Cardboard Discs Re: (exotica) CD-Rs - Labels vs. Booklets (exotica) Some fill-ups in my exotica collection (exotica) Old=Good New=Bad ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 08:58:44 +0100 (CET) From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re:=20Re:=20(exotica)=20Different=20Neighborhoods=20=A0On=20?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?Finland?= citerar Colleen Pyles : > Magnus, don't apoligize for saying that! We have the dumbest TV > shows in the world! (With the exception of some british sitcoms) No > offense taken...believe me! > Allright Coolleen, but I still felt I went to far, and there are no point at all to complain over situations far away from the "exotica" issue. I am very glad to have the oppurtunity to be able to speak with people who is as entuastic over this as I am. And about "the real world" out there, actually I am lucky as long as they are not putting me in a concentration camp: This is hip hop. This is eurotechno. We will make you appreciate the beauty of it Magnus. We are gonna make you one of us. One of us one of us Magnus # 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: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 03:00:38 From: jschwart@voicenet.com Subject: (exotica) Bye bye flexi discs Eva-tone claims: >Our founder Richard Evans would love for you to see what his dream has actually become. I hope the founder of this 75 year old company is alive and well for them to make such a claim -- because if not, I'm sure he's crying in his grave at what they did. And, haven't flexi discs, pardon me, "soundsheets," been around much longer than 40 years? # 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: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 03:12:09 EST From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Barbarella 2001 In a message dated 3/5/1 11:03:57 PM, colleen7@ireland.com wrote: >Sharon Stone would be a very good choice Colleen If you like a surefire blockbuster of an investment-returner, sure, but one thing about new movies....new actors are working very hard to get noticed and often eclipse the box-office suresells...ask me for an example? lemme think.......ah, the names don't get as easily remembered, but with a remake can't it be remarketed as, say, "Oceans 11 2001", then the proud history, retold along with previous footage from the vintage edition and a couple of compelling moments of engaging dialog from the newbies....??...Then again I don't work there nor do I invest in films (that I know of) JB/mutual fund innocence reigns at this address # 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: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 03:14:48 EST From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Different Neighborhoods ÊOn Finland In a message dated 3/5/1 11:37:26 PM, colleen7@ireland.com wrote: >We have the dumbest TV shows in the world! quite likely, but name 3 dumb Scandanavian Sitcoms...Quickly!!...JB/point taken # 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: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 03:18:08 EST From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) Different Neighborhoods ÊOn Finland In a message dated 3/6/1 2:59:49 AM, m.sandberg@telia.com wrote: >We will make you appreciate the beauty of it Magnus. We >are gonna make you one of us. One of us one of us What you need is a good cup of coffee. What you need is a good cup of coffee. What you need is a good cup of coffee...JB/Stepfordized long ago ANNNND loving it! # 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: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 03:50:15 -0500 From: alan zweig Subject: Re: (exotica) "Tikiville" At 10:30 PM 3/5/01 -0800, Christine Karkow wrote: .>speaking of SCTV-anyone know where I can get some videos of that show? I >am especially interested in the ones where Andrea Martin (I think this is >her name) is wearing leopard skin clothing and playing the organ Tex and Edna Boyle? I've seen SCTV tapes at the video store but I doubt you could get a tape of nothing but commercials for Tex and Edna Boyle and their Organ Emporium. # 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: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 10:05:37 +0100 (CET) From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re:=20(exotica)=20Different=20Neighborhoods=20=CAOn=20Finla?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?nd?= citerar DJJimmyBee@aol.com: > What you need is a good cup of coffee. What you need is a good cup of > coffee. > What you need is a good cup of coffee...JB/Stepfordized long ago ANNNND > loving it! > I havent time, first I have to go to the gym, then work hard and a lot overtime, then to the gym again and then see the new exciting Will Smith movie. So you see, I have not time for coffee, coffee breaks are unnecessary. I only invest in things that gain me as an individual in the collective. Magnuz in block 123BX Long live Marx long live Jesus Long live Wood and Wei # 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: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 06:46:48 EST From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) casino royale In a message dated 3/5/01 8:18:17 PM Pacific Standard Time, mjmarch@charter.net writes: << robert blahut wrote: > just wondering if anyone caught the screening of this fine example of > the 60's movie yesterday afternoon on AMC? Yeah, it's a hoot. Never fails to make me laugh and shake my head just at the sheer everything AND the kitchen sink wackiness of it. I keep telling my wife that she needs to get a machine gun installed in her bagpipes just like Ursula Andress. > is there a soundtrack available, or just a cd comp of the main title theme? Yes, there's a bonafide soundtrack out there. >> there is an OST on CD but the quality is kinda poor --- still worth having tho. 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: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 06:49:02 EST From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) CD-Rs - Labels vs. Booklets In a message dated 3/5/01 9:08:21 PM Pacific Standard Time, kevin@kevdo.com writes: << Jeeze folks I'm not a total idot... :-) The side read by the laser is the top, right? -Kevin -- >> yes, and i do think that a label would help keep the "foil" from getting scratched. that is where the info is. i think kev was right in his assumption of such. 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: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 13:24:22 +0100 From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) Different Neighborhoods =?iso-8859-1?Q?=A0On?= Finland > citerar Colleen Pyles : > > > Magnus, don't apoligize for saying that! We have the dumbest TV > > shows in the world! (With the exception of some british sitcoms) No > > offense taken...believe me! National pride forces me to disagree: WE have the dumbest AND most boring TV shows in the world! "Einigkeit und Recht und Frei-i-heit..." Mo - -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... n.e.u. Thierschstrasse 43 D 80538 Munchen Germany # 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: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 14:15:53 +0100 From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) CD-Rs - Labels vs. Booklets Rcbrooksod@aol.com schrieb: > > << Jeeze folks I'm not a total idot... :-) The side read by the laser is > the top, right? first I thought you are joking... > yes, and i do think that a label would help keep the "foil" from getting > scratched. that is where the info is. the CD is of course read on the side where the label NOT is. insofar a label cannot possibly protect this side of the CD. Maybe against extreme cases of sun rays from its backside or something... > i think kev was right in his assumption of such. I still think he was joking... > - -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... n.e.u. Thierschstrasse 43 D 80538 Munchen Germany # 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: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 08:29:01 EST From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) CD-Rs - Labels vs. Booklets In a message dated 3/6/01 5:14:25 AM Pacific Standard Time, moritz@derplan.com writes: << first I thought you are joking... > yes, and i do think that a label would help keep the "foil" from getting > scratched. that is where the info is. the CD is of course read on the side where the label NOT is. insofar a label cannot possibly protect this side of the CD. Maybe against extreme cases of sun rays from its backside or something... > i think kev was right in his assumption of such. I still think he was joking... >> i think this needs clarification. kevin and i are of the mind set that a custom made label placed on the "top" (or foil) side of the CD will keep the "foil" from being scratched off. i have had CDs where the foil side got a little nick taken out of it and it caused the cd not to play right. you can see light shine thru a kicked cd. in otherwords, the label would have to be scratched before the foil, thus protecting the foil. and let's make sure we know what i am talking about when i say "label". i am talking about a home made label that is placed on top of a CD-R. and i assumed that that is what kevin was talking about. did anyone else think that kevin and i ment differently? i am not sure how anybody thought we would but a label on the "bottom" side of a CD. it would make the CD un-readable. like kevin said "i'm (we're) not a total idiot." then again, with my half of idiot added to kevin's, we might approach a "total" idiot. 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: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 13:40:23 From: "Robert McKenna" Subject: Re: (exotica) Different Neighborhoods  On Finland >National pride forces me to disagree: WE have the dumbest AND most boring >TV shows in the world! > >"Einigkeit und Recht und Frei-i-heit..." > >Mo Mo has a point. German TV is legendarily boring. We all have astonishingly dumb TV, we just also get all the american dumb TV and other people's only if it is good. Same with the movies, if a non-American film gets any promotion here it has already undergone a preselection. rob _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.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: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 08:48:27 -0500 From: Brian Phillips Subject: (exotica) Oh, it's BAD TV you want... From the UK, there was: Chalk - What I saw of it did nothing for me. Kelly Monteith - Sort of unfair; we Yanks sent him to you, but YOU put him back on the air! In the US, there was: The Neighbors - a game show hosted by Regis Philbin and actually got housewives to participate in such games as "Who Spread the Rumor?" Here is a sample, "Here's the rumor, girls. If Kathleen talked in her sleep, she would whisper, "Raoul, Raoul...", who spread the rumor?" At this point, one had to guess which was telling the truth and which of the others were lying. It not only spawned a TV Guide article "Malice Doesn't Live Here Anymore", but it was the first time that I ever wrote to a network about the shoddy quality of a show. It got canceled. You're welcome. "What's It All About, World?" - A variety show that I heard was bad and I heard right. Dig my review here: http://us.imdb.com/Details?0063966#comment On an on-topic note, my local PBS station showed an hour and a half special about Dean Martin, which featured whole song clips. Not bad, eh? Don't get me started on Homeboys in Outer Space, Brian Phillips # 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: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 08:35:53 -0600 From: "Robert Blahut, Jr." Subject: Re: (exotica) "Tikiville" At 03:50 AM 03/06/2001 -0500, you wrote: > >At 10:30 PM 3/5/01 -0800, Christine Karkow wrote: >.>speaking of SCTV-anyone know where I can get some videos of that show? I >>am especially interested in the ones where Andrea Martin (I think this is >>her name) is wearing leopard skin clothing and playing the organ > >Tex and Edna Boyle? >I've seen SCTV tapes at the video store but I doubt you could get a tape of >nothing but commercials for Tex and Edna Boyle and their Organ Emporium. i am not sure, but i have seen SCTV on after conan o'brien a couple of times (don't ask what i am doing up at that hour) perhaps you could check your local listings and set your vcr. i did see the count floyd program that starred dr tongue in the 3D remake of "midnight cowboy" followed by a panel discussion of the movie tablah # 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: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 15:55:49 +0100 From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) CD-Rs - Labels vs. Booklets Hmmm... are you saying you scratched a CD so deeply from the back side (=label side) that it became unreadable? This didn't come to my mind of course... that's a severe damage. You are talking about making a hole into a CD. I still don't think, that the additional bit of paper from a stick-on label would help much to prevent the CD from that much violence. Mo - -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... n.e.u. Thierschstrasse 43 D 80538 Munchen Germany # 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: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 06:58:52 -0800 From: Kevin Crossman Subject: Re: (exotica) CD-Rs - Labels vs. Booklets Moritz R wrote: > > Rcbrooksod@aol.com schrieb: > > > > > << Jeeze folks I'm not a total idot... :-) The side read by the laser is > > the top, right? > > first I thought you are joking... > > > yes, and i do think that a label would help keep the "foil" from getting > > scratched. that is where the info is. > > the CD is of course read on the side where the label NOT is. insofar a label cannot possibly protect this side of the CD. Maybe against extreme cases of sun rays from its backside or something... > > > i think kev was right in his assumption of such. > > I still think he was joking... Yes, I was... - -Kevin - -- *********************************************************** * Kevin Crossman kevin@kevdo.com * * http://www.kevdo.com - The Narrow Interest Portal * * Lip Balm Anonymous, Ultimate Mai Tai, Exotica Archive * *********************************************************** # 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: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 15:02:51 +0000 From: Michael Jemmeson Subject: Re: (exotica) CD-Rs - Labels vs. Booklets Moritz R wrote: > > Hmmm... are you saying you scratched a CD so deeply from the back side (=label side) that it became unreadable? This didn't come to my mind of course... that's a severe damage. You are talking about making a hole into a CD. I still don't think, that the additional bit of paper from a stick-on label would help much to prevent the CD from that much violence. I know nothing about CDRs, but on standard CDs the layer with the information is much nearer the top (labelled) side, and hence can be scratched from the top. If you look at a CD from the side you can see the difference in the thickness of the plastic coating. Of course the unhelpful solution is to try not to scratch either side... # 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: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 16:44:02 +0100 (CET) From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: Re: (exotica) CD-Rs - Labels vs. Booklets citerar Michael Jemmeson : > Of course the unhelpful solution is to try not to scratch either >side... The truth is we handle our belongings very differently. Anyone who has ever searched for LPs on a fleamarket will agree. I care for them little things, and so they always sing for me! (without an argument!) Magnus # 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: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 10:59:21 EST From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) CD-Rs - Labels vs. Booklets In a message dated 03/06/01 10:28:19 AM Eastern Standard Time, michael@moreover.com writes: << I know nothing about CDRs, but on standard CDs the layer with the information is much nearer the top (labelled) side, and hence can be scratched from the top. If you look at a CD from the side you can see the difference in the thickness of the plastic coating. >> and . . . <> i guess if we are getting technical this is what happens. the laser actually DOES read the top of the CD. it reads little indentations in the foil. so the laser shines up from the bottom (on most players) passes thru almost the entire thickness of the Cd and reads the indentations in the foil which is applied to the top of the CD. it does not take much to damage the foil at all. if you place a sticker on the top/foil side and then pull the sticker off, the foil will actually come off with it. if you drop anything sharp or pointed on the top/foil of the CD it will damage the foil. i don't think the foil is "embedded" in the CD at all. it is applied to the top surface and maybe lightly "coated" with some polymer to give it some durability. get you and old (and not exotica related) CD and try scratching the top with various methods and you will see what i mean. on this note btw, someone posted about a year and a half ago (i think it was Chuck in New Orleans) that he tried to remove one of those home made sticky labels and it pulled off nearly the entire foil. when people talk about repairing "scratches" on a CD they usually talking about polishing the bottom of the CD. they are just making the bottom smoother so laser can read better. if the foil layer is damaged there is not repairing the CD. the previous discussion a year or so ago pointed out correctly that everyone worries about the bottom side and neglects the care for the top/foil side. that is where the information is. you can even hold up a CD on it's side and see that almost all of the CD is clear and that the foil layer is right on the surface of the top side. does any of this sound familiar? 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: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 16:47:47 +0100 From: Johan Dada Vis Subject: (exotica) Re: Collectors >Okay, here's my question for You vinyl collectors out there. >Are you purchasing that LP for the cover or for the music inside? for the music only, and yet, if it comes without a cover, i feel an urge, i have to have it _complete_ even if the cover is awful to look at. i guess that's the collector in me... >And if it is out on CD, do you still want the LP? no. CDs are far easier to get, and most of the time (for Europeans!) cheaper than the original vinyl. 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: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 13:05:29 -0500 From: "m.ace" Subject: Re: (exotica) CD-Rs - Labels vs. Booklets OK, I tormented a cheap CD-R "coaster". Results: Scratched (using moderate pressure) on top with fingernail. No damage. Scratched with back end of wooden paintbrush. No damage. Scratched with dull tip of a metal nail. No damage. Slashed with a razor blade. Damage. Foil top peels right off. Easily. Kind of contradictory. It seems to be very fragile, but you have to work to exploit the fragility. There really shouldn't be a problem if you treat your discs sensibly. But if you really want to get heavy duty, check out the BASF CD-R Master blanks, with a "hardened, white ceramic" top. http://www.emtec-group.com/Professionals/Studio/Audio/Cd-R_Master/ - --m.ace # 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: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 18:15:44 From: "Daniel Shiman" Subject: Re: (exotica) Playlist for Dial-ated Pupils: March 3, 2001 > >PERCY FAITH Black Magic Woman Black Magic Woman LP Columbia > >THE 3 RING CIRCUS Fantastic Voyage Groovin' on the Sunshine LP RCA > >JOHNNY KEATING'S KOMBO Delilah Percussive Moods LP Phase 4 > >Good choices! >Can you get this online? >I don't really know what else to say about those cuts except that I own >them and I like to see them here, especially the Three Ring Circus. >Do you ever play the vocal cut "Lovin Machine"? That's the one I tend to >put on compilations more than any other. Thanks for the nice words Alan - yeah that 3 Ring Circus LP is fascinating, and "Lovin' Machine" is probably my next favorite cut after "Fantastic Voyage". But what an odd album! - and so few credits. Another aging record producer's vague idea of what it was to turn-on and get psychedelic, I suppose. I'm not sure I've seen the album mentioned here before - seems like it would especially appeal to the now-sound and sunshine-pop people on the list. - -Dan - ------------------------------------------------------------ Hear! "Dial-ated Pupils" -- every Saturday 4-6 pm CST exclusively at www.radio1austin.com. I will lead you safely through the perilous dark jungles of Austin's scratchiest record collection. Exotic jazz. Obscure Latin, Afro, and Eastern grooves. Easy listening arcana. Bring your bug spray. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.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: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 13:24:24 -0500 From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) Has anyone used spun.com? http://www.spun.com/music/browse-alpha.jsp?topgenre=Easy+Listening&subgenre=1640 I've just stumbled across this cd-exchange site. Has anyone used them? Worth a try or run for the hills? lousmith@pipeline.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: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 13:44:39 EST From: Dj45rpm@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) CD-Rs - Labels vs. Booklets Actually, if you get a deep enough scratch on the label side of the CD (it'll take more than just fingerprints to do it), you'll end up with a nice little "sticking" sound coming out of your speakers. Of course, there are some CDs that actually end up sounding better this way... - -DavidH < I know nothing about CDRs, but on standard CDs the layer with the information is much nearer the top (labelled) side, and hence can be scratched from the top. If you look at a CD from the side you can see the difference in the thickness of the plastic coating. >> and . . . <> i guess if we are getting technical this is what happens. the laser actually DOES read the top of the CD. it reads little indentations in the foil. so the laser shines up from the bottom (on most players) passes thru almost the entire thickness of the Cd and reads the indentations in the foil which is applied to the top of the CD. it does not take much to damage the foil at all. if you place a sticker on the top/foil side and then pull the sticker off, the foil will actually come off with it. if you drop anything sharp or pointed on the top/foil of the CD it will damage the foil. i don't think the foil is "embedded" in the CD at all. it is applied to the top surface and maybe lightly "coated" with some polymer to give it some durability. # 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: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 20:33:15 +0100 From: Moritz R Subject: Re: (exotica) CD-Rs - Labels vs. Booklets Rcbrooksod@aol.com schrieb: > i don't think the foil is "embedded" in the CD at all. it is applied to the > top surface and maybe lightly "coated" with some polymer to give it some > durability. I hate to admit it, but you seem to be right. I never noticed that. I always thought that the foil is in the middle of the CD body. The surfaces even seem to differ in material. when you try to scratch into them with a fingernail, the top surface seems to be softer, like clear finish, as you say. Mo - -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... n.e.u. Thierschstrasse 43 D 80538 Munchen Germany # 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: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 11:44:48 -0800 (PST) From: Ben Waugh Subject: (exotica) Freddy Anyone familiar with a German pop singer from the 60s called "Freddy"? I figured there might be some amusement value: anglicized name being responsive to the British pop explosion... and with just one name maybe a melding of Heino and Oliver? Or is he simply bad? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.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: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 21:15:32 +0100 From: Moritz R Subject: (exotica) Freddy Quinn Ben Waugh schrieb: > Anyone familiar with a German pop singer from the 60s > called "Freddy"? I figured there might be some > amusement value: anglicized name being responsive to > the British pop explosion... and with just one name > maybe a melding of Heino and Oliver? > > Or is he simply bad? yes. no amusement value whatsoever. pop-singer? hmm... sang sailor shanties mostly. sounds like a softie version of Heino. non-outed gay from Hamburg. tragic: got 50$ for his million seller hit "Junge komm bald wieder", because he was just hired as a "studio singer". was in N.Y.C. for one year in 196x and thinks he is a world star since. peinlich! Mo - -- studio R senses for a senseless world http://moritzR.de ......................................................................... n.e.u. Thierschstrasse 43 D 80538 Munchen Germany # 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: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 12:30:55 -0800 (PST) From: Ben Waugh Subject: Re: (exotica) Freddy Quinn Bummer. Maybe I can exchange him for the Richard Anthony I left behind. "Fich le Camp, Jack", (and don't you better not come back no more) BW - --- Moritz R wrote: > yes. no amusement value whatsoever. pop-singer? > hmm... sang sailor shanties mostly. sounds like a > softie version of Heino. non-outed gay from Hamburg. > tragic: got 50$ for his million seller hit "Junge > komm bald wieder", because he was just hired as a > "studio singer". was in N.Y.C. for one year in 196x > and thinks he is a world star since. peinlich! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.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: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 15:39:44 -0500 From: nytab@pipeline.com Subject: (exotica) the mysterious moai http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1119290339 All you Easter Island "heads" should check out the above URL. Be sure to scroll to the bottom. lousmith@pipeline.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: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 16:21:37 -0500 From: "m.ace" Subject: (exotica) n-pst-r alternatives Someone asked about N-pst-r alternatives. Here's a batch of download and/or comment links. Some are fresh, some are a little old. http://www.zeropaid.com/ http://download.cnet.com/downloads/1,10150,0-10001-103-0-1-7,00.html?tag=srch&qt=napalt&cn=&ca=10001&SWlink=false?tag=srch1 http://www.zdnet.com/downloads/prespick/0301/index.html http://dailymp3.com/otherutil1.shtml http://www.beachbrowser.com/Archives/eVoid/July-2000/Napster-Alternatives.htm http://www.indiatimes.com/infotech/downloads/napster.html http://music.neopages.com/napster/alternatives.shtml http://www.msnbc.com/news/471197.asp?0nm=B27F&cp1=1 Actually, the latest thing the last couple of days is utilities for encrypting filenames! I've never even used Napster, but that new copy protection scheme for audio CDs rather annoys me. - --m.ace # 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: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 16:24:13 EST From: Dj45rpm@aol.com Subject: (exotica) Flexis/Cardboard Discs Can't say that I was a big flexi fan myself (the frigging things always became unplayably bent too easily, and Eva-Tone was notorious for refusing to press your record if it had "objectable" lyrics, as a few punk bands will testify) though it's always sad to hear of yet another format biting the dust. Are there any European/Asian companies still producing them? What I really want to know (and chances are you folks already discussed this in detail awhile ago) is who was responsible for pressing those CARDBOARD discs that used to appear on the back of cereal boxes, etc.? Were they just a flexi on top of a round piece of cardboard? (I found an Archies one a long time ago, but I ended up offering it as a premium during my station's fundraiser and another DJ nabbed it) - -DavidH # 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: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 17:02:45 EST From: Rcbrooksod@aol.com Subject: Re: (exotica) CD-Rs - Labels vs. Booklets In a message dated 03/06/01 2:36:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, moritz@derplan.com writes: << I hate to admit it, but you seem to be right. I never noticed that. I always thought that the foil is in the middle of the CD body. The surfaces even seem to differ in material. when you try to scratch into them with a fingernail, the top surface seems to be softer, like clear finish, as you say. Mo >> don't feel bad that you had not noticed it. that was the common comment when we discussed this a year or so ago. so now remember to pay more attention to the care of the top of the cd as well as the bottom. 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: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 23:09:20 +0100 (CET) From: "Magnus Sandberg" Subject: (exotica) Some fill-ups in my exotica collection Recieved some essential albums today, First "Afro Cuban influence" by Shorty Rogers, listen to it now and it seems as terrific as his "S R meets Tarzan" LP. It is one of those albums I have nearly bought a few times before but something other has been choosen in the last minute. I am glad I have it now. "Surfers Paradise" by Alex Keack, an album on Crown (Stereo CST 315), a little surface noise but not too bad. Very jazzy exotica, quite good, and probably own material. With Crown you seldom get any info of that sort. "Whistling on the beach of Waikiki" Muzzy Marcellino, Stereo Coral (CRL 757441). Terrific and beautiful, as I imagined, this is my second Marcellino LP i get. More swinging exotica comes from "JUN'GALA" Marty Wilson and his orchestra. (mono WB 1326) I am very fond of his kind of exotica, makes me feel really good. The girl on the cover looks like a girl I had a crush on some years ago. Last but not least, "Themes from horror movies" Dick Jacobs and his orchestra, Coral stereo (CRL 757240) an album I was totally unaware of until some weeks ago, found it on ebay, a really beat up copy but I had to have it as a start anyway, and it was really good, especially the track picked from "The incredible shrinking man". Bob MacFadden does the narration between tracks, speaks like Bela Lugosi and other horror icons, absurd background B&W image (just the way i like em) of a creature with three eyes and two tails. Tracks picked from "Son of Dracula", "this Island Earth", "Creature from the black lagoon" etc. Highly recommended if you enjoy that sort of neglected music. So why the h**l do I complain at all ;) If I lived in the fifties I bet you 1 million dollar that I had not found any of these records for sale, nor would I have had the possibility to watch the films due to swedens censorship policies back then. Magnus # 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: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 14:32:05 -0800 From: bigshot Subject: (exotica) Old=Good New=Bad >Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 01:04:27 +0100 >From: Moritz R >Subject: Re: (exotica) Lest we forget!....... > >Magnus Sandberg schrieb: > >> I exploded and I turned to him and said: 'YES! BECAUSE OLD >> MUSIC IS MUCH BETTER THAN NEW MUSIC!' > >You mean I could just take any record or CD, lock it away, and after a >while it would automatically turn into good music? Fifty years ago, the answer would have been yes. See ya Steve Stephen Worth bigshot@spumco.com The Web: http://www.spumco.com Usenet: alt.animation.spumco Palace: cartoonsforum.com:9994 Spumco International 1021 Grandview, 2nd Floor Glendale, CA 91201 # 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 #911 *****************************