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tmbg-list Digest, Volume 14, Number 10
Sunday, 10 January 1999
Today's Topics:
Re: TMBG: Re: tmbg-list Digest #14-8
Re: TMBG: Talk of the Nation Real Audio
TMBG: Interpretations
Re: TMBG: Interpretations
Re: TMBG: progress?
Re: TMBG: Interpretations
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Message-ID: <19990109161708.10067.qmail@hotmail.com>
From: "Nathan Mulac DeHoff" <xornom@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: TMBG: Re: tmbg-list Digest #14-8
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 08:17:07 PST
John Landis wrote:
>For me, much of their appeal has been in their lyrics. As I'm sure
>that
>many of you have discovered, If one can read far enough into these
>lyrics, one finds somthing mor akin to philosophy or social >commentary
>than nerdiness. I'd be interested to know what you all think.
I'm sure that many people would consider analyzing the lyrics in any way
at all to be "nerdy."
--
May you live in interesting times,
Nathan
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Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 11:23:58 -0500
Subject: Re: TMBG: Talk of the Nation Real Audio
Message-ID: <19990109.120507.9502.0.captainmarvel2@juno.com>
From: captainmarvel2@juno.com (Derek A Klein)
I seem to have a problem with my real player. Everytime I click on a real
audio file, I get a message that says it couldn't open it. And when I try
to save it to pen it off line it says "trying to connect" for a few
minutes, and then that it couldn't connect. Does anyone know what to do?
Thanks.
Derek
"What is everyone staring at?"
>Hey! TMBG on Talk of the Nation can be heard at
>
>http://programs.npr.org/archives/totn/Day.cfm?Date=12/30/98&Program_ID=TOTN&FileName=TOTN123098
in Real Audio. I'm listening to it right now and it is suepoib!
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Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 13:28:05 -0500
From: Misty <k4zk@Maristb.MARIST.EDU>
Subject: TMBG: Interpretations
I don't know how many people on this list agree with me, but I just want
to go on record as saying that I don't like to read the interpretations
of the songs very often. Like the Johns say, I believe most of their
songs have more than one way to interpret it, and, well, I just like to
keep my mind open to all the possibilities. This is not intended as an
offense or anything to the people who do submit their interpretations to
tmbg.org, I just don't read them very often.
Misty
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From: IamSam98@aol.com
Message-ID: <7522c47e.3697b1fd@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 14:46:05 EST
Subject: Re: TMBG: Interpretations
> of the songs very often. Like the Johns say, I believe most of their
> songs have more than one way to interpret it, and, well, I just like to
> keep my mind open to all the possibilities. This is not intended as an
Ditto. I like to make my own interpretations, such as how I think that "Don't
Let's Start" is about a girl taking a guy to an action movie. Their songs are
like poems that you can't quite understand ... even if you think you know what
the meaning is, when you think about it another way, it seems different. Why
then, do we even think we NEED a meaning? They might have just been using
whatever words that came to Them at a certain time. Except for that verse in
"Hotel Decective" ("that's where I want to know you") which bugs me. It could
just all be a secret agent thing.
-Samantha
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Message-ID: <19990110033912.10622.qmail@hotmail.com>
From: "Todd Wetherbee" <morning_pilaf@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: TMBG: progress?
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 19:39:11 PST
> I'm not sure if I have a skewed view of the genius of TMBG lyrics, but
it
>seems to me that with FS and the new songs on STD, Their songs are
losing
>their lyrical crypticness. I remember when I first heard Lincoln, The
Pink
>Album, and even John Henry, I would have almost zero idea about what
they
>were talking until I looked at the interpretations at tmbg.org.
However,
>since FS almost all the album songs have been nearly popishly simple.
Is
>this a decrease or increase in quality? Or has this trend just been an
>attempt to garner more attention? I hope it is just a grab for
popularity,
>because I'm dying to to hear some new, seemingly impossible, yet
fiendishly
>simple lyrics.
> Ben
>
I agree that the lyrics from those albums, especially Lincoln, are sheer
genius, and that it has been some time since we have seen anything
remotely comparable from them. At the same time, what we are seeing is
a much better musical quality. The full band has helped that and their
shows are a lot looser, which I can appreciate. I'd like to see them
fuse the two in the future, and I think that that may happen. Maybe
they just need more drugs :)
Farside
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From: "Todd Wetherbee" <morning_pilaf@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: TMBG: Interpretations
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 19:54:04 PST
>I don't know how many people on this list agree with me, but I just
want
>to go on record as saying that I don't like to read the interpretations
>of the songs very often. Like the Johns say, I believe most of their
>songs have more than one way to interpret it, and, well, I just like to
>keep my mind open to all the possibilities. This is not intended as an
>offense or anything to the people who do submit their interpretations
to
>tmbg.org, I just don't read them very often.
>
>Misty
If you believe 'most of their songs have more than one way to interpret
it', why aren't you eager to check out all the different interpretations
of the song rather than avoiding all of them?
Every interpretation of a song isn't an opportunity to define the song,
it's a chance to make up cool shit. I for one think that Famous
American Polka, my new favorite TMBG song, is about Archie Bunker
watching Entertainment Tonight.
Farside
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