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 #14-10 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 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 <relph@sgi.com>). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 DinnerBell@tmbg.org http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/5447/ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ 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! ___________________________________________________________________ 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: <36979FB5.2690@maristb.marist.edu> 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 ------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------ 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 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Message-ID: <19990110035405.18529.qmail@hotmail.com> 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 ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of tmbg-list Digest #14-10 ******************************