Errors-To: owner-tmbg-digest@tmbg.org Reply-To: tmbg-digest@tmbg.org Sender: owner-tmbg-digest@tmbg.org Precedence: bulk From: owner-tmbg-digest@tmbg.org To: tmbg-digest@tmbg.org Subject: tmbg-list Digest #2-70 tmbg-list Digest, Volume 2, Number 70 Sunday, 10 March 1996 Today's Topics: B'sDAS: South Carolina Narrow your eyes Movin to the country, gonna eat a lot of peaches... Moxy Fruvous... presidents of USA MacArthur's Park & that terrifying rap CONCERTS! Administrivia: CHANGES!!!!! The digest volume and issue numbers have been set to reflect the year and day. This year is volume 2, the issue number should match the day of the year. The ftp server has been reconfigured. Now the _only_ way to get back archives is from ftp.tmbg.org. For all administrative issues, such as change of address, withdrawal from the list, etc., send a message to the following address: tmbg-digest-request@tmbg.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- The views expressed herein are those of the individual authors. --------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 09:56:48 -0500 (EST) From: Benjamin Hauck Subject: B'sDAS: South Carolina Ben or Been hererererere, advertising for Ben's Dial-A-Song (614) 823-BLUE which now features the Sesame Street sounding "South Carolina" by John Linnell (offa his "State Songs" EP) Many people everyday play this song four times in a row. It'll be off soon because I very soon go on break! Give it a call, Ben or Been Check out the General Semantics Homepage Search for: ~isgs ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Mar 96 03:13:09 UT From: "Alan Cook" Subject: Narrow your eyes In response to Tracy the Great's question.... I LOVE Narrow Your Eyes. It describes perfectly the emotions one feels when seeing a lost lover a while after the breakup. At least it does for me. I still get a tear in my eye every time they get to that "race to the bottom of a glass" line. . Also, your porno song list was fun. I really enjoy your lists. Are you sure you are not David Letteman? Or at least the lady who keeps breaking into his house claiming to be his wife? anyway, keep up the good work. :) ---Alan O- Pinky: Are we going to push the edge of the envelope? Brain: No, but we might reach the sticky part! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 23:27:01 -0500 From: shelton@coeibm.rutgers.edu (Bryan Shelton) Subject: Movin to the country, gonna eat a lot of peaches... Okay so that song has nothing to do with my post, but what does? Hmmm...Alex my friend... I can recall your posts about Elvis songs (have never heard the carwash one) and found them fascinating...it did not fall on deaf ears as they say...I definitely think there is no harm in using other song lyrics... I mean writers use famous lines in poetry/prose every day, why can't They weave their lyrical spell about an already existing song? I say it's cool cool cool. Um this is the last time that I think I will be mailing from this account, because tomorrow is the last day of my spring break and tomorrow afternoon my roommate and I are driving back to skull :) (ok bad pun) -- anyway, my stinky Marywood account should be up and functional...I won't have to pretend to be Bryan anymore...unles (I left off the last S for savings) my academic computing friends can't save my butt :) c'est la vie. Okay I think I had a lot of monumental things to say before I sat down and logged in but now they are gone...anything I have to say is kind of un-TMBG related and would probably be frowned upon so I won't spend an entire post talking about what movie I just saw (Hideaway -- just can't like that Jeff Goldblum) or what book I'm reading (Drawing of the Three -- Stevie K. is the man) or the fact that my best friend from high school didn't find my song parodies funny (the nerve)...I'm just bored and felt like venting...anyway I'm supposed to be talking about TMBG....right....um let's come up with a top ten list on the spot and see how funny it is: (oh btw am I the only one who gets a severe case of the shakes and nervous sweats when I listen to What Bothers the Spaceman?) Tracy's Top Ten Band Names that She's Made up in the Past or Just Now that John or John Used to be In (or Maybe That Was The Weird Guy From The B-52s) Just Kidding These Are Just Band Names I Came Up With: 10. Bloody Ice 9. Oral Modem 8. Circle of Poultry 7. Fang Implants 6. Semolina Flour Infestation 5. Murray Herschfield and the Polka Maniacs 4. Stool 3. Wanktest 2. That Friendly Boy Named Richard 1. Underscranton Feel free to use one if any of you all decide to start a band for psychotic people :) just kidding.... Writin' a book, writin' a book, Gotta stop before I have to go back to school b/c I have no time but I'll be up all night 'cause that's just....Tracy Please don't make me read "Billy Budd, Sailor." This all relates to the Giants, I swear. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 23:54:41 -0500 (EST) From: "DAVID A. MEYERSON" Subject: Moxy Fruvous... now i know a bunch of you crazy guyz and galz like Moxy Fruvous, but i just spent about 45 minutes today, listening to one of their albums, and i really couldn't find one song that i liked. my impression of them (if you have to respond, do it privately and DO NOT involve the list): 1/4 of a cup of those singing guys on "where in the world is Carmen Sandiego" 1/4 of a cup of the guitar and ideology of a modern Simon and Garfunkle 1/4 of a cup of the wackiness of Weird Al Yankovic 1/4 of a cup of some obscure yet "too weird to work together" lyrics yes i laughed once or twice, but even though i hate him too, insults to Pat Buchanan don't belong in songs. they belong in public, on tv, in debates, and just about anywhere else. maybe i'm just too annoyed with anything too political or anything with a cause in my music. on a lighter note: i wore my TMBG coffee cup t-shirt today and i think it helped pick up a woman. so hip, your friends will freak. dan ------------------------------ From: Christopher Mascis Subject: presidents of USA Date: Sat, 9 Mar 1996 20:46:29 -0800 I saw the P of USA open for tmbg last summer here in Seattle and was = totally unimpressed, although many at that show probably ran right out = and bought the single. The p's sure took off from there, so perhaps = it's due to finding Their audience. The theory of the P's name has it = that it came from playing a gig for the local democrats when Clinton was = in town. ------------------------------ From: klamb@ecentral.com Date: Sat, 09 Mar 1996 23:31:43 -0700 Subject: MacArthur's Park & that terrifying rap On March 8th our multi-addressed Tracy wrote: > please > tell me I'm not the only person who knows the song MacArthur Park... I know I'm not the first person to say this, but I too know that song. It includes a bit about not having a recipe. and: > I can do a > fine job of recalling MC Hammer too I'm am quite ashamed to admit that I can still remember all of the words to 'Can't touch this.' It's quite sad really, how impressionable minds can be corrupted and filled with such worthless material as rap lyrics. Especially when you'd really rather get hit in the head with a rather large and blunt object than still remember those lyrics. oh well, these things do happen. Just thought I'd let you know that you're not alone, Tracy. Se bien, marty ------------------------------ Subject: CONCERTS! Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1996 02:01:35 -0500 (EST) From: "** JEN TSAO **" I went to the past two concerts in Northampton and Biddeford. They were so awesome! The one at UNE (Biddeford) tonight was so high-energy. Much more so than the Northampton show. The sets were different, too. They played the new stuff at both (the songs "Brooksie" posted from the Merc Lounge shows). Did anyone else see these shows? ------------------------------ End of tmbg-list Digest #2-70 *****************************