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 #13-12 tmbg-list Digest, Volume 13, Number 12 Saturday, 12 December 1998 Today's Topics: Re: NON TMBG: WhoWhere? Re: NON-TMBG:Edward Gorey Re: NON TMBG: WhoWhere? Re: TMBG: Factory Showroom YAY!!! Zippie Da Doo!! Re: NON TMBG: WhoWhere? TMBG: lost in the translation.... :) TMBG: Flans voting script Re: TMBG: vote for Flans in Time Poll, and cheat! Re: TMBG: Anyone out there still like Flood? Re: TMBG: Factory Showroom YAY!!! Zippie Da Doo!! Re: TMBG: Factory Showroom YAY!!! Zippie Da Doo!! Re: TMBG: Flans voting script non TMBG: first album Re: non TMBG: first album Re: TMBG: Flans voting script TMBG: Confus TMBG: XTC vs. America banners & Re: TMBG: Confus TMBG: Constellations and Mince Re: TMBG: Confus TMBG: passing on the news TMBG: Kind of a grab bag.... Re: TMBG: Confus Re: NON TMBG: WhoWhere? Re: non TMBG: first album TMBG: the mighty and influential Flans TMBG: First album TMBG:Floodies TMBG: Album covers TMBG:weird al/ celebrity sightings Re: TMBG: Anyone out there still like Flood? Re: TMBG: Anyone out there still like Flood? Re: non TMBG: first album Re: TMBG: Factory Showroom YAY!!! Zippie Da Doo!! Re: TMBG: XTC vs. America Re: TMBG: Kind of a grab bag.... TMBG: Vote for Flans! Over and over and over and over..... :-) TMBG: First Album and Flood TMBG: TMBG on "World Cafe" Re: NON-TMBG:Edward Gorey Re: TMBG: vote for Flans in Time Poll, and cheat! Re: TMBG: TMBG on "World Cafe" Re: TMBG: Factory Showroom YAY!!! Zippie Da Doo!! Re: TMBG: TMBG on "World Cafe" Re: TMBG: Album covers Re: TMBG:Floodies TMBG: Everything Re: NON TMBG: WhoWhere? Re: TMBG: TMBG on "World Cafe" Administrivia: If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing send mail to tmbg-digest-request@tmbg.org for instructions on how to be automatically removed. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The views expressed herein are those of the individual authors. --------------------------------------------------------------------- tmbg-list is digested with Digest 3.5b (John Relph ). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Alterian@aol.com Message-ID: <5866307e.367071c1@aol.com> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 20:13:37 EST Subject: Re: NON TMBG: WhoWhere? Suburb of Rochester (RHAAACHESTER) NY Junior in a highschool, hanging out, waiting for my sleep time to come. -Amber the Transcendent Mistress of the Known Cosmos, Empress for Eternity ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 19:21:39 -0700 (MST) From: Jim Kuemmerle Subject: Re: NON-TMBG:Edward Gorey Message-ID: On Thu, 10 Dec 1998 Igraine81@aol.com wrote: > Alright, I just bought my first Edward Gorey book this weekend called > The Epiplectic Bicycle. I thought it was the funniest thing that I've > ever read. I then proceded to purchase the following books by Mr. > Gorey, The Gashleycrumb Tinies, and The Doubtful Guest. I was just > wondering if any of the listees here were Edward Gorey fans, all of his > books are just so Morbidly funny, I dont know, it just seemed like > something that TMBG followers would be into. ohhhhhhh yeah! i love edward gorey! i've been a fan of his ever since i was a wee boy sitting in front of the TV and catching the opening sequence to "mystery!" on pbs. man, i was always sooo disappointed when that intro was over and then it would be live action people. i would've given anything, even my star wars action figures, if they'd done a full-length animated edward gorey feature. :) my favorites? the epiplectic bicycle is up there, as are the curious sofa, (get ogdred weary, the font based on his lettering in t.c.s. at http://www.nondairy.com/font.cgi), the gashlycrumb tinies, the west wing, the beastly baby, the awdrey-gore legacy (confetti!?!?), etc., etc. (i guess i haven't really come upon one i *didn't like!) my favorite above all others, though, was the sopping thursday. --jim kuemmerle, who uses the ogdred weary font for just about everything... j.kuemmerle@m.cc.utah.edu http://www.geocities.com/soho/gallery/4668/zivio/ ------------------------------ From: Igraine81@aol.com Message-ID: <9f85eb9e.367070c3@aol.com> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 20:09:23 EST Subject: Re: NON TMBG: WhoWhere? Alright, i want to answer a question now dammit. I never get to answer a question. I live in Kansas City, Missouri. Im still in Highschool, it sucks, and I have yet to meet a real They Might Be Giants fan. I've heard that they exist in Missouri, but apparently are rarely seen. Alright, I guess that thats about it. Thanks. Oh, by the way, were any listees at the William Jewel (or possibly Jeul. im not sure) TMBG concert. Thanks. I just feel obligated to ask a question with each of these that I post. Sorry bout that. Lisa not cool enough to have a quote ------------------------------ Message-ID: Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 22:24:47 -0500 (EST) From: Lawrence P Solomon Subject: Re: TMBG: Factory Showroom YAY!!! Zippie Da Doo!! Excerpts from internet.music.tmbg: 10-Dec-98 Re: TMBG: Factory Showroom .. by EmarZero@aol.com > SEXXY: The most pimpin' song TMBG has, or ever will, have. is that a good thing or a bad thing? I think it's bad, but, then again, I don't particularly care for the song, either... the live version is much better (because it's shorter) > Til My Head Falls Off: Instant party classic. an excellent song. and to think that some reviewers didn't like it... it's the most "pop-like" song on the album... > How Can I sing Like A Girl? :Eh. SO so. agreed. I heard one of the earliest live performances of this (Fairfax Fair, 1996) and it was pretty decent. Then they added the weird voice synth and it became a rock song. I think the best I've ever seen it done was at the late show in Philadelphia last fall... accordion, guitar (clean), and bass. that was great... > EDGuy: Hhehe.... better done live. seriously? I think it's one they should really consider retiring. They've been doing it for two years now, and been pretty much everywhere with the puppet heads.... I mean, it's fun once, but after that, it gets kind of stale... and now that most of the fans who go to concerts in their areas have seen it, they can put it away... > Metal Detector: Nifty stuff with the "metal detector" noise. I really wish they'd play this live - they could do such a kickass version with Dan on keyboard and Linnell on accordion... get it close to the album... > NYC: My *favorite* on the album. Cute, and really romantic. I really like TMBG's arrangement of this... however, having seen it performed by all three groups that play it, I'd have to say the best live version is still by cub - they have more energy on stage than TMBG or Mono Puff. (I saw Mono Puff do a very toned down version of the one we all know and love in June of 1996... first time I ever heard the song...) > XTC: I've gotten used to it. I like it better after STD>.. heh. this is one of the few songs I still don't like after hearing it live. (concerts have on occasion made me like songs that I don't like the album versions of - Actual Size, Twisting, S-E-X-X-Y, and so on... but not XTC) > Spiralling Shape: A musical masterpiece. INCREDIBLE harmony. definitely. I love the vibes.... > James K. Polk: Heh, what can I say? i *love* it. one thing I never understood is why, if the recording was made in Spring, 1996, and they started playing it in December, 1995, with Linnell on piano, they recorded with accordion for the album, but then continued to play piano live... why not pick one and go with it? > I Can Hear YOu: Neat, but I'd rather have SWAHD (97) it gets on my nerves after a while, but one time it's cool. if I could get rid of the obnoxious fuzz, it would be great. > Bells: Audio ORGASM. The harmony on that song is *mindblowing.* Listen to > it on a *good* system, or with *good* headphones. WOW. yeah. too bad the live version is boring. and only got played once. ever. maybe now that they have a five piece band they'll actually start playing it... and letting Dan get his solo this time! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 22:21:31 -0500 (EST) From: "Eric C. Near" Subject: Re: NON TMBG: WhoWhere? Message-id: Uh, I'm a freshman at Marshall University. I have to admit I am a floodie at heart though I first encountered they on Tiny Toons. :) I have all the albums except Factory Showroom which I don't really like. I have no ep's at all. :) * ------------------------------------------- Eric C. Near Email: near1@marshall.edu Web: http://webpages.marshall.edu/~near1 http://members.tripod.com/web_tonight/ ICQ: 5935820 AOL: Near1980 * ------------------------------------------- Opinions are either mine or not. On Thu, 10 Dec 1998 Igraine81@aol.com wrote: > Alright, i want to answer a question now dammit. I never get to answer a > question. > > I live in Kansas City, Missouri. Im still in Highschool, it sucks, and I have > yet to meet a real They Might Be Giants fan. I've heard that they exist in > Missouri, but apparently are rarely seen. Alright, I guess that thats about > it. Thanks. Oh, by the way, were any listees at the William Jewel (or > possibly Jeul. im not sure) TMBG concert. Thanks. I just feel obligated to > ask a question with each of these that I post. Sorry bout that. > > Lisa > not cool enough to have a quote > ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 20:34:33 -0700 (MST) From: Tara Weber Subject: TMBG: lost in the translation.... :) Message-ID: If you've all run out of ways to procrastinate--perhaps you're, oh, i don't know, supposed to be writing a paper on ways in which the self is constituted by narrative or performative strategies and the extent to which we may understand the "fashioned self" as a response to the intensifying forces of markets and commodification in the Renaissance period. Or maybe you're not. I am. Either way, go check out http://ciips.ee.uwa.edu.au/~hutch/hal/Wacky.phtml. You type stuff in and it translates it into another language and then back into English again. Things get lost in the translation in very amusing ways. :) Here's what it came up with for a certain section of "Kiss Me, Son of God": German: I structured a small realm from somewhat crazy waste, which was called the blood of the used function category. But they've overcome their Shyness, now the they're, which calls me your sovereignty. And a world screams, " kiss me, son of the God!" Portugese: I constructed to an empire small rejection of some wild trash called the blood the explored classroom of functioning. But they've surpasses its shyness, now they're that its calls me highness. E a world cries out, " kisses me, son of the god! " Spanish: I constructed a small empire outside a certain crazy sweepings called the blood of the operated working class. But they've surpasses its timidity, now they're that calls his to me highness. And a world shouts, " kisses to me, son of the God! " Italian: I have constructed to a small empire from one sure immondizia crazy call the spirit of the code category of taken advantage of operation. But they' ve sormonta them shyness, hour they' king who calls it yours highness. And a world grida, " kisses it, son of the God! " French: I built a small empire out of some insane refuse called the blood of the exploited working class. But the they' ve overcome their timidity, now they' Re calls me your highness. And a world shouts, " embrace me, wire of God! " how does "son" translate into "wire"???? Anyway, enjoy. :) --Tara ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 23:12:26 -0500 (EST) From: Josh Axelrad Subject: TMBG: Flans voting script Message-ID: Well...I know a lot of people want to see Flans at the top of the People of the Century Poll. I would like to suggest using this page: http://hybrid.advance.net/supercheat/ You can just leave a window or 5 running that open...it will automatically vote for Flans over and over...it is already working. I know this was posted before but it seems to be doing a good job so...there you go -- Jish TMBG.net and the EFnet #TMBG Home Page http://www.tmbg.net/ ------------------------------ From: KdsInThHal@aol.com Message-ID: Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 22:33:08 EST Subject: Re: TMBG: vote for Flans in Time Poll, and cheat! here's a look at the competition. ;) ~ http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Track/4309/ http://msanews.mynet.net/MSANEWS/199810/19981006.14.html http://webster.unh.edu/~gwd/links.html http://www.ddb.com/~raphael/jain-list/msg01582.html i'm bored so i think i'll make a couple banners... yeah.. i'm not a fan of banners, but what the hell. it'll be fun... and somehow maybe we can come up with a way where when you click on them, it automatically votes for john. who knows. sarah ------------------------------ From: tmbgirl@juno.com Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 21:26:26 -0700 Subject: Re: TMBG: Anyone out there still like Flood? Message-ID: <19981210.212644.19598.2.TMBgirl@juno.com> > hahaa! think if they still did stump the band and they had to ask >you!! > that would be amusing. >> >Hey! I knew of other songs...I just didn't own any of it.... well i was implying if they asked the "what was the first album you ever owned" but hey :) take it easy, JOrdaN http://www2.netcom.com/~arnot/joda/bootlegs.html 12/11 Harvey Danger, Soul Coughing, Cherry Poppin Daddies, and Love & Rockets... "come on and dig me cause i'm the fly pygmy" :P ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ From: tmbgirl@juno.com Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 21:26:08 -0700 Subject: Re: TMBG: Factory Showroom YAY!!! Zippie Da Doo!! Message-ID: <19981210.212644.19598.1.TMBgirl@juno.com> >SEXXY: The most pimpin' song TMBG has, or ever will, have. erg, i always have, and always will interpret this song along the lines of "XXY babies" and well, it just doesn't seem so "pimpin' fresh" when you look at it that way. I have an interview (don't ask me which) where linnell hints that Flans had that in mind when he wrote the song but then is wuick to point out that neither of them discuss the meaning of their songs with each other... >How Can I sing Like A Girl? :Eh. SO so. see, i got all psyched before FS came out when they were promoting HCISLAG as the single and then to have SEXXY be released instead i was a bit disappointed... i think this song seriously had potential but what do i know? >NYC: My *favorite* on the album. Cute, and really romantic. "everyone's favorite songs are the one's we didn't write" >Spiralling Shape: A musical masterpiece. INCREDIBLE harmony. hehee.. here's a song that reminds me of a movie :P >I Can Hear YOu: Neat, but I'd rather have SWAHD (97) so on my trip out to see all those groovy "hello" bands (and others!) when my plane made the crash landing in the parking lot in milwaukee everyone was whipping out their cell phones or using the Airfone's... i just couldn't get that song out of my head... prolly cuz i was in like some trance like state of shock but hey... memories eh? :) >XTC: I've gotten used to it. I like it better after STD>.. so along the lines of "only 7 people don't like BNL's one week" i think i'm one of like 7 people that didn't mind eric schermerhorn... eh. >James K. Polk: Heh, what can I say? i *love* it. anyone else get a little sentimental for the Istanbul version? >EDGuy: Hhehe.... better done live. uh... better live? they typically don't even play it live... just groove with the puppet heads... take it easy, JOrdaN http://www2.netcom.com/~arnot/joda/bootlegs.html 12/11 Harvey Danger, Soul Coughing, Cherry Poppin Daddies, and Love & Rockets... "come on and dig me cause i'm the fly pygmy" :P ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 00:26:55 -0500 Subject: Re: TMBG: Factory Showroom YAY!!! Zippie Da Doo!! Message-ID: <19981211.002718.8774.0.Superman75@juno.com> From: superman75@juno.com (Adam Schaaf) hi. we're missing a track. Token Back To Brooklyn - soft and trippy. much better the DAS version. such a great intro to the album (or any album) and really captures that old school TMBG style. your underking of pop trivia, adam schaaf * ------------------------------------------ Philly Tour Dates Dec. 12 - The Bouncing Souls Dec. 18 - The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion * ------------------------------------------ ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 00:29:26 -0500 (EST) From: Josh Axelrad Subject: Re: TMBG: Flans voting script Message-ID: OK, the guy who wrote this put it on a new site. It is much better and splits the load...the old site directs to it or you can go to: http://87advil.painful.org/ -- Jish TMBG.net and the EFnet #TMBG Home Page http://www.tmbg.net/ On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Josh Axelrad wrote: > Well...I know a lot of people want to see Flans at the top of the People > of the Century Poll. I would like to suggest using this page: > > http://hybrid.advance.net/supercheat/ > > You can just leave a window or 5 running that open...it will automatically > vote for Flans over and over...it is already working. I know this was > posted before but it seems to be doing a good job so...there you go > > -- > Jish > TMBG.net and the EFnet #TMBG Home Page > http://www.tmbg.net/ > ------------------------------ From: KdsInThHal@aol.com Message-ID: <92526de0.3670b140@aol.com> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 00:44:32 EST Subject: non TMBG: first album okay, i was goingto quote jordan tmbgirl but i accidentally deleted it. first tmbg album for me (1995): misc. t first cd for me (1989?): the new monkees (ow, leave me alone! i was 8 years old... they were... cool.. um.) sarah ------------------------------ Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19981211010712.007aa690@mail.clemson.edu> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 01:07:12 -0500 From: Adam Tyner Subject: Re: non TMBG: first album At 12:44 AM 12/11/98 EST, KdsInThHal@aol.com wrote: > >first cd for me (1989?): the new monkees (ow, leave me alone! i was 8 years >old... they were... cool.. um.) Mine was...."UHF" (the soundtrack by Weird Al). "Flood" was my first non-Weird Al CD. :-) -Adam -- /=---------------- http://www.he-man.org/ctyner/ ----------------=\ http://www.crystal-night.com/~ctyner/tuscadero.html http://www.awod.com/gallery/rwav/ctyner/ He-Man, Tuscadero, "Weird Al", Yoo-hoo, Killer Tomatoes, & more! ------------------------------ From: tmbgirl@juno.com Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 22:30:10 -0700 Subject: Re: TMBG: Flans voting script Message-ID: <19981210.232804.19198.0.TMBgirl@juno.com> >http://hybrid.advance.net/supercheat/ > >You can just leave a window or 5 running that open...it will >automatically >vote for Flans over and over...it is already working. yeahyeah... i've got 3 going right now... props to whoever made/found this :) take it easy, JOrdaN http://www2.netcom.com/~arnot/joda/bootlegs.html 12/11 Harvey Danger, Soul Coughing, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, and Love & Rockets... "come on a dig me cause i'm the fly pygmy" :) ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ From: "Leon X. Deggs" Subject: TMBG: Confus Message-Id: <913363856.14408.919@excite.com> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 00:10:56 PST Hello. Again. Look, someone clear something up for me. Why was 'Dead' called 'Bag Of Groceries' on the US versions of Flood? At least I think so, cos there is NO 'Bag Of Groceries' on European versions of Flood. we have - and I quote [ahem]: 1. Theme From Flood 2. Birdhouse ... 3. Lucky Ball & Chain (not Ball & Chain from XTC) 4. Istanbul (not ...) 5. Dead 6. Your Racist Friend and I could go on... To satisfy the one guy that mentioned it: Factory Showroom is a stomping album. Admittedly there are a few non-TMBG-like tracks (S~e~x~x~y; XTC vs. Adam Ant [cracking title Mr. F.]) but finishes simply with the best end-of-album track they've ever written. In summary we have: 1. Rhythm Section Want Ad 2. Kiss Me, Son Of God (I think - no death threats for mistakes please) 3. Road Movie To Berlin 4. Space Suit 5. The End Of The Tour 6. The Bells Are Ringing 1. is good, but stifled by their 1986 style. A good track nonetheless. 2. gets swallowed up in the pattern of the rest of the album. 3. Simply different (and NOT AT ALL commercial. People are confused. The most commercial of their albums is Apollo 18 - to cash in on the success of Flood - think about it.) 4. A filler track that sometimes needs ignoring. How many chords are there? Three? Four? 5. A fantastically misleading song. I only recently discovered that it's about a car crash. The title alone designated that it should go straight to the end of the album, not pass start and not collect the $200. 6. contains one of my favorite lyrical imagery things. (ran out of clever words) 'one thousand people staring; they pull away her earplugs'. What an idea of mass conformism squeezed into two lines. THe one person daring to go against the flow is forced to conform by the 'powerful masses'. Is the guy describing communism in any way? Or have I misunderstood something blindingly obvious? Anyhoo. Sarah Whassaname from There. I'm from Britain. I was born in Blackburn, England and currently live in Berlin, Germany. Are you now sated? Hope so :-) Until next time (sorry this was so long, but sixteen-million questions can only be ignored for so long) Leon. _____________ Leon X. Deggs _______________________________________________________ Get your free, private e-mail at http://mail.excite.com/ ------------------------------ From: "Leon X. Deggs" Subject: TMBG: XTC vs. America Message-Id: <913365134.766.870@excite.com> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 00:32:14 PST Hello. Third time. So, people of this great country of yours [America], someone enlighten me as to the problem with 'XTC vs. Adam Ant'. As far as I - a mere XTC fan of some MANY years - am concerned, this song is Mr. J. F's tribute to two largely underrated and much forgotten bands. Sure XTC are huge-ish in the US, but in the UK (their origin country and my homeland) they are unheard of. TMBG were simply trying to combine two of the most influential POP groups (cos Rock is an insult to either band - wake up) into one song. Sure, I agree the song doesn't work all that well, but that comes from such a difficult topic. The title alone had me spunking in me keks. Sometimes these great songwriting geniues forget where they came from. XTC and Adam Ant are obvious in Mr. F's tunes. For those with the trained ear to listen. Buy some XTC (ANY album will do) or some Adam Ant (recommend earlier stuff but NOT 'Dirk Wears White Sox') or both. And train yourselves to understand what Flans was trying to say. Thank you and good morning. Leon. _____________ Leon X. Deggs _______________________________________________________ Get your free, private e-mail at http://mail.excite.com/ ------------------------------ From: KdsInThHal@aol.com Message-ID: <8f92541a.3670d8ce@aol.com> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 03:33:18 EST Subject: banners & Re: TMBG: Confus In a message dated 12/11/98 3:12:13 AM, ldeggs@excite.com writes: >Look, someone clear something up for me. >Why was 'Dead' called 'Bag Of Groceries' on the US versions of Flood? >At least I think so, cos there is NO 'Bag Of Groceries' on European versions >of Flood. it wasn't. i know, i was going to say something about this too, but i didn't. anyway, here are some lame banners i made. use them or not. who cares. and be sure to link them to http://87advil.painful.org/ http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Basement/9911/banner6.jpg (my favourite) http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Basement/9911/banner1.jpg http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Basement/9911/banner3.jpg http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Basement/9911/banner4.jpg http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Basement/9911/banner5.jpg http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Basement/9911/banner_2.gif http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Basement/9911/banner_7.gif sarah 9025396 long distance operator don't play those tricks ------------------------------ From: "Leon X. Deggs" Subject: TMBG: Constellations and Mince Message-Id: <913371077.20767.732@excite.com> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 02:11:17 PST People: I lived in a house with real proper Welsh drug dealers. (For those to whom this makes little sense, the Welsh are a race of people living in England West) And these drug dealers were really bad salesmen. They spent most of their time smoking/taking their wares than they did selling. So I KNOW exactly what it's like to have a stoned guy talk AT me. What is he on about? For proof: see Beatles ca. 1965+ But as far as TMBG are concerned - to give this post some TMBG reference, as is important - I would really hope that the Two Johns don't need to dabble with piss-poor drugs to induce their lyrical states. If so, Linnell must be on a constant trip. But I can fully understand that the Two Johns come into much close contact with those in 'higher' states of induced unreality. And they're welcome to it. Why do Americans (and I'm already searching for a hiding place) insist on referring to obvious Pop groups/entities as Rock? Have we dumb-assed limeys missed the point or something? Pop means Popular. Surely to call TMBG Pop is a compliment. Or am I just dumb, still? >[drug users] are overwhelmed by the obvious. Like the fact that they are sitting, standing, breathing, talking [incoherently], giggling [moronically] etc. etc. But they seem to constantly fail to see that they ARE BORING ME TO TEARS. How does this work? That's enough - ed Leon. _____________ Leon X. Deggs _______________________________________________________ Get your free, private e-mail at http://mail.excite.com/ ------------------------------ From: Kreadoubt@aol.com Message-ID: Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 08:38:17 EST Subject: Re: TMBG: Confus In a message dated 12/11/98 12:12:13 AM Pacific Standard Time, ldeggs@excite.com writes: << Why was 'Dead' called 'Bag Of Groceries' on the US versions of Flood? >> It's "Dead" on the US version. ------------------------------ From: tmbgirl@juno.com Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 07:21:37 -0700 Subject: TMBG: passing on the news Message-ID: <19981211.072140.19758.0.TMBgirl@juno.com> John Linnell has a son! Posted by Rabid.Child on Thursday, 10 December 1998, at 10:59 a.m. "Yup! According to Margarita, who designs books jackets in SMP's Art department and whose boyfriend works at Hornblow, the kid's name is Henry. She also said she might have a picture of the tot saved on her computer, so with any luck we'll find out what the little guy looks like. " take it easy, JOrdaN http://www2.netcom.com/~arnot/joda/bootlegs.html :::never posts anything worthwhile... ha!::: ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ From: "Stephen Shores" Subject: TMBG: Kind of a grab bag.... Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 10:43:22 -0500 Message-Id: <19981211105755.f6c000fc8ddc11d2af630000b4839961.in@mail.orthotrac.com> Also characteristic of Floodies is that they > don't realize Flood was, in fact, TMBG's *third* album, and not their > first, and that the others are also quite good. Actually, that was me. I didn't realize they had other albums until three or four months ago, when I decided, on a whim, to see if they had any web pages. Boy, did they! I've been frantically downloading TMBG MP3's ever since! > Sarah wrote: > > > Hey Everybody. I don't want to be a bug... no pun intended (josh) but I > > was just curious as to where everyone is from and such. Snellville, Georgia. A growing town 15 minutes east of Atlanta. I've been here 17 years and am bloody sick of it. School for me would be Dekalb College (local) soon, and I work at a place called Orthotrac Management Systems. > >what is stump the band? > > Stump the band is a game that TMBG played on the 1994 tour ... > They also played "spin the dial" ... Does anyone have any mp3's of these shows? Anyone want to make the tape into mp3's? I hate tapes personally, and don't own a tape player! > I can see your point. The unfortunate thing is that EP's go out of > print so quickly. VERY, VERY frustrating. It angers me when artists (or the responsible record dealers) take certain songs off of the market, don't release them on CD, or don't have a wide enough base of fans due to their reclusiveness... Peter Gabriel is my primary example here- he has SO MANY singles that have never been released on CD or even tape, and there's no compilation in sight... I don't really see why a song should be given such a > limited time on the market just because it doesn't fit into an album > sequence. Of course, _Superfueled Freaksicle_ would solve this problem, > but it doesn't look like we'll be getting that any time soon. What _is_ Superfueled Freaksicle? A bootleg? > I don't. Sure, FS contains some excellent songs. Overall, though, it's > not that great an album. It is rather haphazard, as you say. It seems to me that most of the songs on that album would work by themselves, but don't really segue properly as is. Perhaps the order was awkward? > I know I've harped on this before, but whether it be on an album or an ep > of some sort, TMBG needs to "officially" release Certain People I Could > Name, for my sake :) I've listened to the mp3 countless times, but I don't > have my own computer up here at school, so I can only listen to it at home > over breaks. Not only would it benefit me personally to have it on cd, but > I personally think that it would make an outstanding album track. Man, get a CD recorder! I've been downloading TMBG MP3's from the Web for months now, converting them to MP3, and putting them on CD! I have 7 CD's worth of bootlegs that you could spend years finding via tape traders! (Better quality, too!) I'm sure there's people out there (including myself) that could convert it to WAV format and put it in CD for you. > From: EmarZero@aol.com > Message-ID: <6e6e732e.36706a45@aol.com> > Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 19:41:41 EST > Subject: Re: NON TMBG: WhoWhere? > > Macon GA, (Mercer U) REPRESENT! Big hello to all who were at the TMBG show > in ATL in October... (I was the dude in the Clerks T-shirt... and I *still* > want a bootleg of that show! It's my GF's xmas present... well... *PART* of > it....) I WAS THERE! THAT SHOW ROCKED!!!!!! The first TMBG concert I've ever seen, and they blew me away! Remember when Linnell slowed down his singing to deliberately screw up the audience? And "I Am Not Your Broom"? Ohhhh, man, that was the most fun concert I've ever been to. Just wish they'd ditched the opening band. They were boring. The closest I've seen to that show are some badly recorded MP3's from later on in the tour. There's a complete recording of "Shoehorn With Teeth", with the hilarious intro (bringing out the instruments, Dan getting ready to play, etc.) They're up on TDK's TMBG page. I can get you the URL for it if you want, or just send them to you, whatever... Let me know if you find anything at all relating to that show- I wanted to record it but don't have a recorder... Stephen ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 08:39:56 -0500 From: Eric C Near Subject: Re: TMBG: Confus Message-id: <367120AC.922CD3C6@marshall.edu> Organization: Marshall University My copy of Flood says "Dead." I got it through BMG about 5 years ago. Leon X. Deggs wrote: > > Hello. Again. > > Look, someone clear something up for me. > Why was 'Dead' called 'Bag Of Groceries' on the US versions of Flood? > At least I think so, cos there is NO 'Bag Of Groceries' on European versions > of Flood. > > we have - and I quote [ahem]: > 1. Theme From Flood > 2. Birdhouse ... > 3. Lucky Ball & Chain (not Ball & Chain from XTC) > 4. Istanbul (not ...) > 5. Dead > 6. Your Racist Friend > and I could go on... > > To satisfy the one guy that mentioned it: > Factory Showroom is a stomping album. Admittedly there are a few > non-TMBG-like tracks (S~e~x~x~y; XTC vs. Adam Ant [cracking title Mr. F.]) > but finishes simply with the best end-of-album track they've ever written. > > In summary we have: > 1. Rhythm Section Want Ad > 2. Kiss Me, Son Of God (I think - no death threats for mistakes please) > 3. Road Movie To Berlin > 4. Space Suit > 5. The End Of The Tour > 6. The Bells Are Ringing > > 1. is good, but stifled by their 1986 style. A good track nonetheless. > 2. gets swallowed up in the pattern of the rest of the album. > 3. Simply different (and NOT AT ALL commercial. People are confused. The > most commercial of their albums is Apollo 18 - to cash in on the success of > Flood - think about it.) > 4. A filler track that sometimes needs ignoring. How many chords are there? > Three? Four? > 5. A fantastically misleading song. I only recently discovered that it's > about a car crash. The title alone designated that it should go straight to > the end of the album, not pass start and not collect the $200. > 6. contains one of my favorite lyrical imagery things. (ran out of clever > words) 'one thousand people staring; they pull away her earplugs'. What an > idea of mass conformism squeezed into two lines. THe one person daring to go > against the flow is forced to conform by the 'powerful masses'. Is the guy > describing communism in any way? Or have I misunderstood something > blindingly obvious? > > Anyhoo. > Sarah Whassaname from There. > I'm from Britain. I was born in Blackburn, England and currently live in > Berlin, Germany. > Are you now sated? Hope so :-) > > Until next time (sorry this was so long, but sixteen-million questions can > only be ignored for so long) > > Leon. > > _____________ > Leon X. Deggs > > _______________________________________________________ > Get your free, private e-mail at http://mail.excite.com/ -- Eric C. Near Email: near1@marshall.edu Web: http://webpages.marshall.edu/~near1 http://members.tripod.com/web_tonight/ ICQ: 5935820 AOL: Near1980 * ------------------------------------------- Opinions are either mine or not. ------------------------------ Message-Id: <367153B5.25D62E00@tc.umn.edu> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 11:17:41 -0600 From: Laura Miller Subject: Re: NON TMBG: WhoWhere? Sarah wrote: > Hey Everybody. I don't want to be a bug... no pun intended (josh) but I > was just curious as to where everyone is from and such. I'm from > wonderful swampy Michigan myself and I am a sophomore at Western > Michigan University. > So how 'bout yerselves? > > ~Sarah > > *I'm your only friend, I'm not your only friend. But I'm a little > glowing friend, but really I'm not actually your friend. But I am* > > >>>Visit my homepage!<<< > http://www.angelfire.com/me/momerath > >>>Don't Forget to Sign my Guestbook!<<< I'm from Minneapolis, Minnesota. I'm a graduate student in chemistry. I was subscribed to the list before, unsubbed for a while and now I'm back on again. Laura ------------------------------ Message-ID: <367155A4.219BD9DC@cnr.edu> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 12:25:56 -0500 From: "Sarah Starr" Subject: Re: non TMBG: first album > first tmbg album for me (1995): misc. t > > first cd for me (1989?): the new monkees (ow, leave me alone! i was 8 years > old... they were... cool.. um.) hee hee. the first tmbg cd I owned was Apollo 18....the first I heard were Flood and the Pink Album... the first cd I owned was Wham! Make it Big....."Everything She Wants" was my favorite song back then when I was like 7....:) sarah "everythins she wants is everything she sees" faye ------------------------------ Message-ID: <19981211173924.1939.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "Todd Wetherbee" Subject: TMBG: the mighty and influential Flans Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 09:39:24 PST Flansburgh has blown past Mohammed. Bring on Ric Flair! ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Message-Id: <36715A87.5ECCC596@tc.umn.edu> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 11:46:47 -0600 From: Laura Miller Subject: TMBG: First album Here are the TMBG albums I own and in the order I purchased them: 1. John Henry 2. The Pink Album 3. Factory Showroom 4. Apollo 18 5. Flood 6. Lincoln 7. Miscellaneous T Yeah, my order of purchases is just kind of random. John Henry was the first I purchased because that was the latest album that was out around the time I started getting interested in TMBG. It all started when a friend recommended I listen to John Henry. I *loved* it, bought it, and the rest is history. I still don't have Severe Tire Damage yet and I'm debating as to whether or not to buy it. One reason is that there isn't a whole lot of songs on it that aren't already on another album I own. Except for Dr. Worm. But I might buy it anyway so I can get the precious little Dr. Worm. Also I've heard bad reviews about this album and in a strange way its made me want buy the album even more. To see if there's any truth or validitiy in what they're saying. I don't have any EPs, eventually I'll get around to buying these too. Its hard for me to pick a very favorite album. What I particularily like about the group is that all their albums each have their own distinctive flavor yet in a way they're similar enough so that they're still distinctly TMBG. I've known other music groups where the second album is so different from the first, you wonder if its even the same group! I suppose if I had to pick a favorite it would be the Pink Album. I'm not really sure why I like this the best, maybe because its where it all started. I haven't heard much comment either way on this album. So I'm wondering if people on this list don't have the album or just see it as an average TMBG album- not being particularily good or bad. Also I like XTC vs. Adam Ant and I guess I'm puzzled as to why so many people here seem to dislike it. But I think my favorite song on Factory Showroom though, is a tie between "Before My Head Falls Off" and "Metal Detector" Laura Miller ------------------------------ Message-Id: <3.0.32.19981211094203.0077fb74@mailbox.ucdavis.edu> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 09:42:11 -0800 From: Nicole the Wonder Nerd Subject: TMBG:Floodies >this just struck me..the whole "floodie" thing coming up again. n i guess >by definition i am a floodie--thats the first tmbg album i ever heard and >spurred me to buy more. Nononono. You aren't a Floodie; Floodies think they're True Fans(tm). Surely you've met a true Floodie--they cling steadfastly to these tenets: 1) TMBG are such a hilarious novelty band! 2) Flood was their first album, and, duuuuude, it's SO funny! 3) What? You mean they have other albums? Serious songs? No way! Anyone who has made a serious effort to aquaint themselves with other facets of TMBG is, in my book, not a Floodie. >I, for one, am a architecture major at CalPoly, San Luis Obispo, in >Sunny California. Sunny California??? Here in Sacramento we're freezing our posteriors off. (Computer Science & Engineering major, UC Davis; originally from the South Bay area.) >You know, the Giants rarely get over to this coast, and it irritates me >to no end. You easties really don't know how very luck you are. Sure they do. :> We remind them. Constantly. :> >Hello. >One (no longer) virgin poster. HaHA! The deflowering of virgin posters continues unabated. Welcome aboard! >(for those on the list in high school and looking at colleges - if you >like computer science or engineering, consider CMU - it's good for >those, *and* it's 6 hours or less driving from Cleveland, Columbus, >Cincinnati, Detroit/Ann Arbor, DC, Philadelphia, New York, Buffalo, >Rochester, and Toronto. What does this mean? road trips! Cork it, Lawrence; you're making me regret my choice of colleges. :) I don't suppose you know my friend Jarrett Carberry? >I know I've harped on this before, but whether it be on an album or an ep >of some sort, TMBG needs to "officially" release Certain People I Could >Name, for my sake :) Yes, that they do. It's such a neat song! It'd be such a shame if it never saw the light of day. But, y'know, Weep Day languished in DAS obscurity for years before they finally released it... I fear a similar fate awaits neat songs like CPICN and What Is Everyone Staring At?. >Factory Showroom only had 13 songs, CPICN was recorded, why didn't it make >it onto the album? Six songs were cut from the final tracklist of FS, including CPICN. (The others were... lessee... On The Drag, Reprehensible, Older, They Got Lost (a studio version, not the same as on STD), and Rat Patrol. The Giants' reasoning was that the six songs didn't fit in with the rest of the album. That's their perogative, and I defer to their judgement, but it is kind of a bummer. >my favorite question of the entire trip, "oh, you live in colorado? how >many horses do you own?" I travel internationally quite a bit, and one question I've fielded more often than I care to think about is: "Oh, you live in California? Do you surf every day, or just on weekends?" Gaaa. >I'm from Venice, Florida and one day will buy my own road, name it >Mysterio Lane, and will live there in a motion detector controlled, >rotating house :) Cool! Can I live there, too? --nicole twn (p.s. thanks for the birthday wishes. :) *** "Today you'll be learning how to model your love lives as a series of second-order ordinary differential equations."--former math professor Visit Nicolopolis! http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~carlsonn ICQ #11984736 Public PGP key at http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~carlsonn/key.html ncarlson@mail.arc.nasa.gov nmcarlson@ucdavis.edu ana.ng@tmbg.org ------------------------------ Message-Id: <36715B8D.1B6FD828@tc.umn.edu> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 11:51:09 -0600 From: Laura Miller Subject: TMBG: Album covers What I also like about TMBG is their cool looking album covers. Which one is your favorite? Cover that is, not the songs. I think Lincoln is my favorite, followed second by flood. I guess my least favorite is John Henry because I don't like pictures of little girls with hatchets and skulls. Laura ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 10:18:25 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff Edmonston Subject: TMBG:weird al/ celebrity sightings Message-ID: xornom@hotmail.com wrote: >>> That's where Weird Al went to school, y'know. (He was a architecture > major, too, for that matter.) Are there any shrines to him there, or > maybe an Alfred M. Yankovic Hall?<<< I met Weird Al at a TMBG show in LA ~92...all i could think was 'guest accordian appearance and polka jam!!'...didn't happen has there been 'celebrity sightings at shows' string? Jeff Edmonston archivalurker edmo@ocf.berkeley.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 11:27:05 -0700 (MST) From: Scot Westwood Subject: Re: TMBG: Anyone out there still like Flood? Message-ID: Although Flood was the first TMBG cd I bought, it didn't get me hooked. I bought it, liked BHIYS, Particle and Istanbul and really didn't listen to the rest. It wasn't til a girlfreind introduced me accidently to number 3 that I knew there were ther TMBG albums out there. I heard number three and loved it, ran out and bought both the pink album and Lincoln, thats what got me hooked. ------------------------------ Message-ID: <19981211183035.26051.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "Nathan Mulac DeHoff" Subject: Re: TMBG: Anyone out there still like Flood? Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 10:30:35 PST Batbrain wrote: >I happen to like Flood still. Flood is what got me hooked as well >(I'm >assuming that goes for most everybody?) Well, sort of. The first TMBG songs I heard were from _Flood_, and I had heard the majority of _Flood_ (as well as some stuff from the other albums) before actually purchasing any TMBG albums for myself. The first album that I bought was not _Flood_, though. -- May you live in interesting times, Nathan DinnerBell@tmbg.org http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/5447/ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Message-ID: <19981211183723.16490.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "Nathan Mulac DeHoff" Subject: Re: non TMBG: first album Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 10:37:23 PST Adam Tyner wrote: >At 12:44 AM 12/11/98 EST, KdsInThHal@aol.com wrote: >> >>first cd for me (1989?): the new monkees (ow, leave me alone! i was 8 years >>old... they were... cool.. um.) > >Mine was...."UHF" (the soundtrack by Weird Al). "Flood" was my first >non-Weird Al CD. :-) I can't exactly recall what my first album was. I seem to recall listening to a tape of songs from Disney movies when I was young. I know that _Abbey Road_ was one of my earliest albums, and I still listen to that one today (although I bought a CD to replace my burnt-out tape). My first CD was Weird Al's second Greatest Hits album (I already had the tapes of most of his albums at that point). I didn't purchase my first TMBG album until August (or possibly July) of 1997. At that time, I bought both _Then_ and _Apollo 18_, and I loved them (which was fortunate, considering that this was a fairly impulsive purchase). -- May you live in interesting times, Nathan DinnerBell@tmbg.org http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/5447/ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Message-ID: <19981211184508.22559.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "Nathan Mulac DeHoff" Subject: Re: TMBG: Factory Showroom YAY!!! Zippie Da Doo!! Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 10:45:06 PST Lawrence P Solomon wrote: >Excerpts from internet.music.tmbg: 10-Dec-98 Re: TMBG: Factory >Showroom >.. by EmarZero@aol.com > >> SEXXY: The most pimpin' song TMBG has, or ever will, have. > >is that a good thing or a bad thing? I think it's bad, but, then >again, >I don't particularly care for the song, either... the live version is >much better (because it's shorter) I don't like this song all that much, either. I might give a slight edge to the FS version, though, because of the quantity (and quality) of instruments used. >> Metal Detector: Nifty stuff with the "metal detector" noise. > >I really wish they'd play this live - they could do such a kickass >version with Dan on keyboard and Linnell on accordion... get it close >to >the album... I'm fairly sure that They played this at the one TMBG concert that I have attended, but I don't remember how it sounded. >> XTC: I've gotten used to it. I like it better after STD>.. > >heh. this is one of the few songs I still don't like after hearing >it >live. (concerts have on occasion made me like songs that I don't >like >the album versions of - Actual Size, Twisting, S-E-X-X-Y, and so >on... >but not XTC) I don't like this one all that much, either, and the _Severe Tire Damage_ version didn't really help matters (especially since the two versions are extremely similar). I can stand it, but it's hardly up to par for TMBG. It just sounds so _normal_. >> James K. Polk: Heh, what can I say? i *love* it. > >one thing I never understood is why, if the recording was made in >Spring, 1996, and they started playing it in December, 1995, with >Linnell on piano, they recorded with accordion for the album, but >then >continued to play piano live... why not pick one and go with it? I prefer it when They take a slightly different approach to a song when playing it live. This is especially true for the songs that made it to _Severe Tire Damage_. Maybe "Polk" should have been included on _Damage_. It would have been a better choice than the FS tracks that were included. -- May you live in interesting times, Nathan DinnerBell@tmbg.org http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/5447/ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Message-ID: <19981211185003.13173.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "Nathan Mulac DeHoff" Subject: Re: TMBG: XTC vs. America Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 10:50:02 PST Leon X. Deggs wrote: >So, people of this great country of yours [America], someone >enlighten me as >to the problem with 'XTC vs. Adam Ant'. > >As far as I - a mere XTC fan of some MANY years - am concerned, this >song is >Mr. J. F's tribute to two largely underrated and much forgotten >bands. Perhaps so, but that doesn't necessarily make it a good song. I like XTC, and the TMBG song was partially responsible for my investigating the band (XTC, not TMBG) in the first place, but the music for "XTCvAA" is somewhat "mainstream-ish," and the lyrics are repetitive. While the idea behind the song might have been a good one, it's just not all that great a song. -- May you live in interesting times, Nathan DinnerBell@tmbg.org http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/5447/ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Message-ID: <19981211185341.25816.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "Nathan Mulac DeHoff" Subject: Re: TMBG: Kind of a grab bag.... Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 10:53:41 PST Stephen Shores wrote: >What _is_ Superfueled Freaksicle? A bootleg? _Superfueled Freaksicle_ is (or will be, or should have been, or will haven be) a collection of songs from Elektra-era EP's (similar in concept to _Miscellaneous T_). -- May you live in interesting times, Nathan DinnerBell@tmbg.org http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/5447/ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ From: njh23@email.byu.edu Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 12:21:17 -0700 Subject: TMBG: Vote for Flans! Over and over and over and over..... :-) Message-id: <3.0.6.32.19981211122117.007c2550@email.byu.edu> It really does work! I've been watching the counter rise! Last night Flans fell behind The Prophet Mohammed, but now Flans is back! He's only 38000 votes behind Ric Flair, but Flans is powering up! in the last half hour I saw a 2000 point decrease in the gap! If every joins in we can win this battle and strike a blow for They Might Be Giants forever! insrtuctions got to this site: http://87advil.painful.org/index.shtml if you can, just leave the window open (on your browser!) The site will contiously vote and reload if you have the memory to do it try this out: open multiple windows! I think it will work (not sure) Good Luck! May THEY be with you! Anakin1 AOL IM :Anakin876 ------------------------------ From: Matthew Coon Message-Id: <199812111936.OAA22996@omni.cc.purdue.edu> Subject: TMBG: First Album and Flood Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 14:36:11 -0500 (EST) To jump in on a couple of threads, my first TMBG album was the first TMBG album. I saw the Don't Let's Start video on MTV (of all places), and I found that the voices in my head would just not leave me alone until I went to the Musicland in the mall (there were no good music stores in town). I bought it, and it was a life-changing esperience. Then, of course, came Lincoln, which was excellent as well. So I eagerly awaited Flood, and bought it on the day it came out. I ran home with it and waited for the magic. And after I listened to it, I said, "Huh." Some of the songs were pretty good, some were OK, and some (e.g., Women and Men) pretty much left me cold and unmoved. I have warmed to it over the years, but it still gets the least play of any of my TMBG material (even less than John Henry). I may also have bad associations with the many months of endless bickering it inspired on the mailing list... But now that I think about it again, there are some darned good songs on there. I think it's time for another listen. m@t ------------------------------ Message-ID: <36717304.D1D08AFF@btc.adaptec.com> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 12:31:16 -0700 From: Russ Josephson Organization: Adaptec, Inc Subject: TMBG: TMBG on "World Cafe" I heard on the newsgroup rec.music.dementia that TMBG were guests on the PRI show "world cafe" yesterday. http://xpn.org/sections/world_cafe.html Upcoming on the World Cafe Thurs., December 10 They Might Be Giants in the studio Check the above link for a station that will be airing this show. Russ -- WORK: HOME: Adaptec, Inc. Russ Josephson 1951 S. Fordham St. 1217 N. Aspen Dr. Longmont, CO 80503 Berthoud, CO 80513-1040 Phone: (303) 684-4722 (970) 532-0453 Fax: (303) 684-3020 (970) 690-1509 (cellular) mailto:russj@btc.adaptec.com mailto:russj@juno.com http://www.adaptec.com http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/7158 ------------------------------ Message-ID: <3671741A.442C@polbox.com> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 14:35:54 -0500 From: disenchanted Subject: Re: NON-TMBG:Edward Gorey yes yes yes, "amphigorey" is wonderful. i look at my roommate's copy when she's not home. i'm very naughty. becky ------------------------------ From: Alterian@aol.com Message-ID: <61f4937a.367176cf@aol.com> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 14:47:27 EST Subject: Re: TMBG: vote for Flans in Time Poll, and cheat! In a message dated 12/10/98 6:49:44 PM Eastern Standard Time, Jay@tmbg.org writes: << if it's good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for John >> Thats gotta be the funniest thing I've seen all day... -Amber the Transcedent Mistress of the Known Cosmos, Empress for Eternity ------------------------------ From: KdsInThHal@aol.com Message-ID: <37fe5aec.36717e55@aol.com> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 15:19:33 EST Subject: Re: TMBG: TMBG on "World Cafe" In a message dated 12/11/98 2:40:01 PM, russj@btc.adaptec.com writes: > Thurs., > December 10 > They Might Be Giants in the studio > >Check the above link for a station that will be >airing this show. well, if it was supposed to be live, we can assume they skipped out due to baby linnell.. sarah ------------------------------ From: EmarZero@aol.com Message-ID: Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 16:21:06 EST Subject: Re: TMBG: Factory Showroom YAY!!! Zippie Da Doo!! In a message dated 98-12-10 22:29:17 EST, you write: > SEXXY: The most pimpin' song TMBG has, or ever will, have. > > is that a good thing or a bad thing? I think it's bad, but, then again, > I don't particularly care for the song, either... the live version is > much better (because it's shorter) > Definately a GOOD thing. Pimpin' is GOOD. www.afrosquad.com. ------------------------------ From: tmbgirl@juno.com Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 14:31:57 -0700 Subject: Re: TMBG: TMBG on "World Cafe" Message-ID: <19981211.143406.20534.1.TMBgirl@juno.com> > Thurs., > December 10 > They Might Be Giants in the studio yeah and they're doing something for this american life on the 13th... take it easy, JOrdaN http://www2.netcom.com/~arnot/joda/bootlegs.html ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ From: tmbgirl@juno.com Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 14:34:01 -0700 Subject: Re: TMBG: Album covers Message-ID: <19981211.143406.20534.2.TMBgirl@juno.com> >I think Lincoln is my favorite, followed second by flood. there should be no contest here... Brian Dewan rocks my world! :) >least favorite is John Henry because I don't like pictures of little >girls with hatchets and skulls. persephone is going to be veeeery angry with you :P take it easy, JOrdaN http://www2.netcom.com/~arnot/joda/bootlegs.html ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ From: tmbgirl@juno.com Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 14:28:56 -0700 Subject: Re: TMBG:Floodies Message-ID: <19981211.143406.20534.0.TMBgirl@juno.com> if >you >>like computer science or engineering, consider CMU - it's good for >>those, *and* it's 6 hours or less driving from Cleveland, Columbus, >>Cincinnati, Detroit/Ann Arbor, DC, Philadelphia, New York, Buffalo, >>Rochester, and Toronto. What does this mean? road trips! > >Cork it, Lawrence; you're making me regret my choice of colleges. :) >I don't suppose you know my friend Jarrett Carberry? hehee... you begin to feel like *everyone* knows someone at CMU... Mathew Simcox and :::shiver::: cameron pope take it easy, JOrdaN http://www2.netcom.com/~arnot/joda/bootlegs.html ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19981211171533.007dac50@pop.mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 17:15:33 -0500 From: Ben Bradshaw Subject: TMBG: Everything In an attempt to tie all these threads together, I'm writing this post. Here in Richmond, Va, although hopefully in Charlottesville, Va, in two years, I am the most rabid TMBG fan I know, although several people are TMBG appreciators here. The first I ever heard of TMBG was on Tiny Toons, but then years and years later, two of my friends really introduced me to them. I soon surpassed them in TMBG fandom. I personally like John Henry and Lincoln the most, but that's only because they are the most recent ones I have gotten, and I have not had a chance to play them to death. For that reason, Flood and Apollo 18 are my least favorite, only in the sense that at some point I probably had listened to each of those albums around seven times in day. Now for TMBG-related stories. In AP history this past week, we got to James K. Polk's term, and I went insane. I knew everything, and I was so excited, so I brought in Factory Showroom to play for my teacher. She was very impressed not only because of the accuracy of the song, but because as she was looking through the liner notes she saw "I can hear you" was recorded at Edison's place. So naturally, as a history teacher, she wanted to hear it. I played it, and as the lyrics sunk in, she said, "I just don't understand music these days." The funny thing is that everyone else in the class was sayign things along the same lines. The Final story is that around 8th grade, I finally got into real music outside of the top forty shit. This came as a shock to my parents, and they always claimed that my new music was utter crap. Finally, to prove it wasn't, while we were on a car trip with my grandmother, I popped in Flood to prove that my music was good, and had tunes. We listened to the entire thing, and guess what the only thing my grandmother said was. "Yeah, it was ok, except for the part about the killing (meaning, 'killing jason off and countless screaming argonauts')," which was a pretty good review from a septogenarian. Ben ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 15:32:20 -0500 Subject: Re: NON TMBG: WhoWhere? Message-ID: <19981211.171645.22790.1.captainmarvel2@juno.com> From: captainmarvel2@juno.com (Derek A Klein) Troy, NY Junior in High School Derek "What is everyone staring at?" ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 17:20:51 -0500 Subject: Re: TMBG: TMBG on "World Cafe" Message-ID: <19981211.172053.22790.2.captainmarvel2@juno.com> From: captainmarvel2@juno.com (Derek A Klein) >> Thurs., >> December 10 >> They Might Be Giants in the studio > >yeah and they're doing something for this american life on the 13th... Is that an RPI station to? Hehe I like that...RPI is within walking distance from where I live. Derek "What is everyone staring at?" ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ End of tmbg-list Digest #13-12 ******************************