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 #9-23 tmbg-list Digest, Volume 9, Number 23 Sunday, 23 August 1998 Today's Topics: TMBG: Girls Re: TMBG: video, posters, and STD Re: NON-TMBG: The Onion interview Re: TMBG: Linnell in "Apples and Oranges" Re: TMBG: other parody NonTMBG:Accordion players (Boston show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) TMBG: A very disturbing website Non-TMBG: Soul Coughing Re: Non-TMBG: Soul Coughing Re: Non-TMBG: Soul Coughing TMBG: Consumable STD review Re: TMBG: Consumable STD review Re: TMBG: Consumable STD review Re: TMBG: Linnell in "Apples and Oranges" Re: Non-TMBG: Soul Coughing Re: TMBG: For the kiddies Re: TMBG: Linnell in Re: Non-TMBG: Accordion players Re: TMBG: Consumable STD review 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 ). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <35DE64CF.58AA@asan.com> Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 02:27:27 -0400 From: "Robert J. Plass" Organization: Schick Technologies, Inc. - The Leader in Digital Radiography Subject: TMBG: Girls Hello exquisite living people, The song "Girls" is a cover of a 1968 Betty Wright song. She was 15 when she recorded it and it was a Top 40 hit. For more info, try: http://www.asha.com/html/bw-main.htm Love, Rob Plass ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 02:38:47 -0400 Subject: Re: TMBG: video, posters, and STD Message-ID: <19980822.024836.8774.0.Superman75@juno.com> From: superman75@juno.com (Adam Schaaf) hi. ><< sounds like that's dial-a-song? dollars to donuts says the number >on your poster is 1-718-387-6962. >> > > >ummmm, no it says "karten an allen bek. vorverkaufsstellen + bei >tickets per >post tel. 0 69/49 04 06" which translates into something like: "cards >at all >booking offices with tickets by post office Tel. 0 69/49 04 06".....=P > >Alias Athena~ > well then, i owe someone a donut. adam schaaf, mmm...chocolate glazed. _____________________________________________________________________ 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 Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ From: thought@weblink.org (Jesse McClusky) Message-Id: <26d1e8ea.u10t12e.59852-thought@weblink.org> Subject: Re: NON-TMBG: The Onion interview Date: Sat, 22 Aug 98 02:07:42 Organization: Advanced Computer Interactions -> bill tatalovich (wt3@cec.wustl.edu) Aug 21 But you forgot the best reason to read the Onion: Most of its articles are bogus! Oh, sure, they start with a smattering of truth. Sometimes. But then somebody says, "Wouldn't it be funny if..." and thus the article is born. Jesse, who now returns you to all things Giant. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 07:25:36 +0000 From: Chris Combs Subject: Re: TMBG: Linnell in "Apples and Oranges" Message-id: <3.0.5.16.19980822072536.49078122@entropy.muc.muohio.edu> >So kids. Today i was *hangin out* with my friends here on my last day in the >NYC area, and found this... *different* little 'zine in this very odd store. >The 'zine is called "Apples and Oranges" - unintentionally named by Linnell* If it is named for popular culture, I would venture a guess toward that fantabulous Pink Floyd single from the mid-sixties. Chris "Got a flip-top pack of cigarettes in his pocket, feeling good at the top" Combs (doesn't smoke, but had to paraphase the lyrics somehow). ------------------------------ Message-ID: Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 10:27:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Lawrence P Solomon Subject: Re: TMBG: other parody Excerpts from internet.music.tmbg: 22-Aug-98 Re: TMBG: other parody by The Li'l D. Boy@tmbg.org > People don't realize this very often, but not all parodies are exact rip > offs of the original version with new words. A parody can be as simple of a > connection like Particle/Spider or as complex of a complete copy. well, just to check this out, I went to the dictionary, and yes, you are correct in stating that the music does not have to be identical, *BUT*, Particle Man is a parody of nothing for this reason: definition 1.a. A literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule. since Linnell has stated *many* times that they did not intend for Particle Man to be taken as deliberately comic or ridiculing anything, it cannot be called a parody. Lawrence Solomon http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~lps/ lps@andrew.cmu.edu "Everything sticks until it goes away, * This space inadvertently And the truth is we don't know anything." -TMBG * left blank. ------------------------------ Message-ID: <35DEA82E.44124F4A@tmbg.org> Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 11:14:55 +0000 From: Feeny Subject: NonTMBG:Accordion players (Boston show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) I Own+Play+Take Lessons on the Accordion:-) My accordion teacher is really into doing stuff the old fashion way(he's reaaaaly old!) Like it took him 2 lessions to get me to go up the scale his way! I also take Guitar lessions a few times a month, I'm learning Ana Ng, I can play it but he wan't to be able to play it as fast as on the CD. ---ALSO--- Is there any TMBG music for Accoridons out there? Christopher Feeny Campbell Chris Feeny Campbell Mr.Chris Mr.Feeny Mr.Campbell C. Feeny Campbell Chris F. Campbell Chris Feeny C. C. F. Campbell Chris F. C. C. Feeny C. C. F. C. FEENY > any accordian players out there besides me? ------------------------------ Message-ID: <35DEE566.2BAC@asan.com> Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 11:36:06 -0400 From: "Robert J. Plass" Organization: Schick Technologies, Inc. - The Leader in Digital Radiography Subject: TMBG: A very disturbing website Hello exquisite living people, I have constructed a very bizarre and disturbing website concerning They Might be Giants. The URL is http://www.asan.com/users/plassrob/website/wslawsd.htm Before you go there, please be warned that it is extremely unsettling. I made it as a macabre tribute to TMBG. I wanted to do something different and creative rather than the typical TMBG page. You have to have a sick and twisted sense of humor to get the jokes. I'm sure there's plenty of you out there who fit this category. ON-LINE REVIEWS I'VE GOTTEN SO FAR FROM THE INTERNET: "That's hilarious. In a sick, twisted, perverted kind of way. " "I love the site" "Why? Where would a person get this idea? Why TMBG? Who did this?" "what kind of morbid person could think up such things" "I think I'm going to hell now for looking at it." "Memo to myself: never, never go there again. " "That was sick. Truly, truly disturbed." "I think the John's should definitely take out a restraining order" Love, Rob Plass --------- ------------------------------ From: tmbgirl@juno.com Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 16:40:18 -0600 Subject: Non-TMBG: Soul Coughing Message-ID: <19980822.164021.14398.0.TMBgirl@juno.com> Hey HEy! whoa... i just heard that soul coughing got $50,000 for a GAP ad... anyone, seen it yet? know what song they used? did they write a new one for it? take it easy, JOrdaN http://www2.netcom.com/~arnot/joda/bootlegs.html http://members.tripod.com/~tmbgirl/index.html August 22nd: Eagle Eye Cherry on 96.5 *bootlegged! August 22nd: Eagle Eye Cherry @ Mercury Cafe (will try to bootleg it...) _____________________________________________________________________ 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 Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19980822232127.00c2f0d4@cybnetonline.com> Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 18:21:27 -0500 From: "The Li'l Depressed Boy" Subject: Re: Non-TMBG: Soul Coughing At 04:40 PM 8/22/98 -0600, tmbgirl@juno.com wrote: >Hey HEy! > >whoa... i just heard that soul coughing got $50,000 for a GAP ad... >anyone, seen it yet? know what song they used? did they write a new one >for it? > Wow! The Gap Kids commercial? If it's that one the words went along these lines: "Fall into the Gap, Fall into the Gap, Fall into the Gap..." etc. per aspera. LDB -- (this site cuts the amount of URL's I put in my Sig) My Web Page Index: http://www.cybnetonline.com/users/njack/ TMBG | D.U.M.B. NEWS | Mr. Gone Font -- Contemporary Cartoon Militia is (C) & TM 1998 S. Steven Struble and Kris W. M. Struble. The Li'l Depressed Boy, Phreeck, Spyder Hunt, and all related characters (C) & TM 1998 S. Steven Struble ------------------------------ From: tmbgirl@juno.com Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 17:42:22 -0600 Subject: Re: Non-TMBG: Soul Coughing Message-ID: <19980822.174230.14398.1.TMBgirl@juno.com> >Wow! The Gap Kids commercial? If it's that one the words went along >these >lines: > >"Fall into the Gap, Fall into the Gap, Fall into the Gap..." etc. per >aspera. grr... there are a lot of other commercials... i think smash mouth made one that wasn't just "fall into the gap" take it easy, JOrdaN http://www2.netcom.com/~arnot/joda/bootlegs.html http://members.tripod.com/~tmbgirl/index.html ***don't ask me... i don't watch TV!*** _____________________________________________________________________ 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 Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19980822203316.006a6f78@mail.clemson.edu> Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 20:33:16 -0400 From: Adam Tyner Subject: TMBG: Consumable STD review It's a week old, but I haven't seen anyone post this. :-) -Adam They Might Be Giants, Severe Tire Damage- Bob Gajarsky REVIEW: They Might Be Giants, Severe Tire Damage (Restless) - Bob Gajarsky Brooklyn-based They Might Be Giants got their start almost 15 years ago. In that time span, they've gone from indie label to major and back again to an indie, have released 6 proper albums and countless B-sides and outtakes. This doesn't take into account their own Dial-A-Song, which has housed numerous unreleased tracks. So, the only question that remains with a live album is 'What took so long'? A mixed bag which is more likely to appeal to fans of John Henry and Factory Showroom more than their self-titled debut, Severe Tire Damage combines new and quirky with old and classic, along with a few (non-live) new songs. For the new and innovative, check out their cover of "Why Does The Sun Shine?", in which the children's song is turned into a punk slam-dancing, high energy educational jaunt. Or, look at the 'acoustic' (well, with accordion) version of "Meet James Ensor". However, it sounds as if They sleepwalk through some of their major hits, specifically "Ana Ng" and "Particle Man", where the vocals are a chore to listen to, if not to perform. The seventies sound which TMBG first embraced on "S-E-X-X-Y" is more evident on the live version, and seeps over, this time in the form of a faux game show from that same decade, onto the new single, "Doctor Worm". Another new track which will appeal to fans is "They Got Lost", in which the band jest about getting lost. Some of their older wit is back, when trying to find their way, noting that 'there should be a big crinkle, assuming this map is right.' Another treat for longtime fans, in addition to this album, will be unveiled next month. The Dial-A-Song service that was formerly only available via phone (It's free if you call from work!) will also be offered on the Internet, at http://www.dialasong.com - for a preview of forthcoming and unreleased material. -- /=---------------- http://www.he-man.org/ctyner/ ----------------=\ http://www.awod.com/gallery/rwav/ctyner/ The home of He-Man, "Weird Al", Yoo-hoo, Killer Tomatoes, and more! Demented music list admin O- MiSTie #67,326 ------------------------------ From: Kreadoubt@aol.com Message-ID: Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 21:41:35 EDT Subject: Re: TMBG: Consumable STD review In a message dated 98-08-22 20:39:25 EDT, ctyner@CLEMSON.EDU writes: << The Dial-A-Song service that was formerly only available via phone (It's free if you call from work!) will also be offered on the Internet, at http://www.dialasong.com - for a preview of forthcoming and unreleased material. >> Yeah, but they left out (718) 387-6962 Oh well, maybe next time... *sigh* "...and I'm beginning to feel some sympathy for this watershed of bombast." ------------------------------ Message-ID: <35DF4836.FC272EE1@tmbg.org> Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 22:37:42 +0000 From: Feeny Subject: Re: TMBG: Consumable STD review Adam Tyner wrote: > It's a week old, but I haven't seen anyone post this. :-) > > -Adam > > They Might Be Giants, Severe Tire Damage- Bob Gajarsky > > REVIEW: They Might Be Giants, Severe Tire Damage (Restless) > > - Bob Gajarsky > This review is one of the better ones I've seen of STD. It seems fair, and only says quirky once! I think this reviewer actually listened to the CD, different from some other articles I've read. :P He should've finished this quote from TGL though, the line isn't as funny unless you finish it. Just my $.02, Charis P.S. I have to unsubscribe along with Jason :( otherwise I'll spend most of my Bates College existence at the computer. Buh bye! Chris Feeny'll keep me informed about the list I'm sure. ------------------------------ From: KdsInThHal@aol.com Message-ID: <5c7e8f43.35df8274@aol.com> Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 22:46:11 EDT Subject: Re: Re: TMBG: Linnell in "Apples and Oranges" In a message dated 8/22/98 6:32:59 AM, you wrote: >>So kids. Today i was *hangin out* with my friends here on my last day in the >>NYC area, and found this... *different* little 'zine in this very odd store. >>The 'zine is called "Apples and Oranges" - unintentionally named by Linnell* > > If it is named for popular culture, I would venture a guess toward that >fantabulous Pink Floyd single from the mid-sixties. > no, in the magazine it *says* it was titled from the Linnell quote. lala, sarah ------------------------------ From: KdsInThHal@aol.com Message-ID: <9d6892c5.35df8310@aol.com> Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 22:48:47 EDT Subject: Re: Non-TMBG: Soul Coughing tmbgirl@juno.com wrote: >whoa... i just heard that soul coughing got $50,000 for a GAP ad... >anyone, seen it yet? know what song they used? did they write a new one >for it? *ahem* "fallintothegap fallintothegap fallintothegap fallintothegap... fall into the gap." yeah, that was one of the first of these gap ads actually. sarah ------------------------------ Message-ID: <19980823032021.25234.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "VoVat Quetzalcoatlus" Subject: Re: TMBG: For the kiddies Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 20:20:20 PDT Josh Buckland wrote: >>I wonder what a TMBG kids' album would be like? >> >>> > >It can't be THAT different prom the usual. Perhaps not, but one thing I like about TMBG is that They don't really have a "target audience." They perform the music that They want to perform, and the audience can pick itself. It's not specifically marketed as "children's music" or "adults' music" or "music for 42-year-old male delicatessen clerks with big ears." Also, such an album might contribute to the idea that ALL TMBG music is "kids' stuff." Still, it might be a lot of fun. -- Nathan DinnerBell@tmbg.org http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/5447/ "The puffin sipped at his herbal tea and sighed, 'You can't get the buttons these days.'" ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Message-ID: <19980823032356.13645.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "VoVat Quetzalcoatlus" Subject: Re: TMBG: Linnell in Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 20:23:55 PDT sarah wrote: >if you're in the NY area or you will be ..the store we found this at is Kim's >Video & Music (store location - 6 St. Mark's Pl, although they have other >locations).. also at www.kimsvideo.com according to the reciept.. you could >inquire if they have any more.. I think you've put your finger on the allure of St. Mark's Place. -- Nathan, who's only happy when he's sad DinnerBell@tmbg.org http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/5447/ "The puffin sipped at his herbal tea and sighed, 'You can't get the buttons these days.'" ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Message-ID: <19980823032739.4022.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "VoVat Quetzalcoatlus" Subject: Re: Non-TMBG: Accordion players Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 20:27:38 PDT Harlan Landes wrote: >>Excerpts from internet.music.tmbg: 21-Aug-98 Re: TMBG: Accordion >>players.. by "Harlan Landes"@udel.edu >>> ps...any accordian players out there besides me? >>> There's one sitting in my room right now... haven't played it for a = >> >>there's an accordion player sitting in your room?!? :) > > >yes, me! ;> > >but I was referring to the accordion. :> Your accordion is an accordion player? Does it play itself, or does it have a smaller model that it plays? -- Nathan DinnerBell@tmbg.org http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/5447/ "The puffin sipped at his herbal tea and sighed, 'You can't get the buttons these days.'" ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Message-ID: <19980823033307.6526.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "VoVat Quetzalcoatlus" Subject: Re: TMBG: Consumable STD review Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 20:33:06 PDT Adam Tyner wrote: >Or, look at the 'acoustic' (well, with >accordion) version of "Meet James Ensor". I assume the reviewer mixed up "acoustic" with "a cappella." The performance of "Meet James Ensor" WAS acoustic. -- Nathan DinnerBell@tmbg.org http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/5447/ "The puffin sipped at his herbal tea and sighed, 'You can't get the buttons these days.'" ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of tmbg-list Digest #9-23 *****************************