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, Volume 42, Number 27 tmbg-list Digest, Volume 42, Number 27 Wednesday, 27 June 2001 Topics: Re[2]: TMBG: Re: Man it's so loud in here TMBG: Re: TMBG Mink Car Advance Promo ... Re: TMBG: Re: Mink Car release date?? Re: TMBG: Free show in Atlanta Re: TMBG: Free show in Atlanta Re: TMBG: Mink Car Advance Promo - Talk about disappointment Re: TMBG: Mink Car Advance Promo - Talk about disappointment Re: TMBG: Mink Car Advance Promo - Talk about disappointment TMBG: Linnell journal Re: TMBG: Re: TMBG Mink Car Advance Promo ... Re: TMBG: Linnell journal Re: TMBG: Re: TMBG Mink Car Advance Promo ... Re: TMBG: Re: Mink Car release date?? Re: TMBG: Linnell journal Re: TMBG: Re: TMBG Mink Car Advance Promo ... Re: TMBG: Re: TMBG Mink Car Advance Promo ... 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Re: TMBG: Linnell journal Re: TMBG: nashville show Administrivia: For all administrative issues, such as change of address, withdrawal from the list, etc., send a message to the following address: ÁÁowner-tmbg-digest@tmbg.org The views expressed herein are those of the individual authors. tmbg-list is compiled with Digest 3.7b (John Relph ). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 10:03:12 -0400 From: karinh@sterl.com Subject: Re[2]: TMBG: Re: Man it's so loud in here Message-ID: <2542181285@sterl.com> >And now it's longer still. ...Bump Bump ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 10:05:26 -0400 From: "Casey Schreiner" Subject: TMBG: Re: TMBG Mink Car Advance Promo ... Message-ID: <001601c0fe49$100366e0$90640818@brln1.ct.home.com> Organization: Boston University Funny stuff in here, y'all. -Casey <> ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 13:56:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Brown Subject: Re: TMBG: Re: Mink Car release date?? Message-ID: On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, scratch wrote: > September 11th. > My birthday. w00t! -=Matt Brown=- GaTech cs/phys undergrad | web: http://thm.askee.net/dynamic/ | "Every Day is a Good Day" email: thehangedman@death-star.com | -Zen Proverb AIM: THM42 ICQ: 10933909 | ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 13:55:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Brown Subject: Re: TMBG: Free show in Atlanta Message-ID: On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, John Ferrer wrote: > > Joydrop is playing before TMBG, are they any good? I used to have an idea > of who they were, but I've lost it. They sing that "beautiful like you" song. My girlfriend really likes them, so I assume they are pretty good, although I don't know any of their other stuff. -=Matt Brown=- GaTech cs/phys undergrad | web: http://thm.askee.net/dynamic/ | "Every Day is a Good Day" email: thehangedman@death-star.com | -Zen Proverb AIM: THM42 ICQ: 10933909 | ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 14:19:17 -0400 From: "Colleen Anne McClanahan" Subject: Re: TMBG: Free show in Atlanta Message-ID: <008201c0fe6c$830cc870$2d3091d0@consolidate.internal.maxweb.com> Matt Brown: | On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, John Ferrer wrote: | > | > Joydrop is playing before TMBG, are they any good? I used to have an idea | > of who they were, but I've lost it. | | They sing that "beautiful like you" song. My girlfriend really likes | them, so I assume they are pretty good, although I don't know any of | their other stuff. I saw Joydrop last year (or maybe it was 1999), and it was a pretty decent show. However, it was at a popular dance bar, and half the people there weren't paying any attention. But make sure to catch their set, it's entertaining enough. :) Colleen Anne ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 18:57:29 From: "John Ferrer" Subject: Re: TMBG: Mink Car Advance Promo - Talk about disappointment Message-ID: > >Let's Flans know how you feel about the Mink Car line up - go to >http://www.livejournal.com/users/john_flansburgh. His latest entry lists >the >songs and asks what we all think! Um, this would appear to be fake, but I suppose it doesn't have to be. It's funny anyway, but it's also strange. He, whoever he is, talks like he hates Linnell. The first entry says he got in a fight with him because Linnell didn't want Mr. Xcitement on the album. Then later he says Robin (is it not Robyn? maybe not...) and he think the song isn't very good and that Linnell really wants it on there. But the whole thing sounds extremely fake, especially the incessant name-dropping. (My friend M. Doughty convinced me to write this, my wife Robin agrees with me, my pals the Elegant Too did this remix, Dan Miller is mad at me.) Apparently Flans only has friends who are well known to TMBG fans. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 15:26:10 EDT From: FreeMiniPops@aol.com Subject: Re: TMBG: Mink Car Advance Promo - Talk about disappointment Message-ID: <79.16b58dc1.286a3bd2@aol.com> In a message dated 6/26/01 11:58:11 AM Pacific Daylight Time, aceduke@hotmail.com writes: > Apparently Flans only has friends who > are well known to TMBG fans. > Yeah, and isn't it strange that he listens to nothing but his band's music? On each entry, he's listening to TMBG. I mean, I know I listen to them alot, but I'd think that when you're actually a member of the group, you might get kinda' sick of it. But I still like to think that this is real. It's pretty cool when he talks about all these stupid little things that happens in his everyday life. It makes him look like a real person (as opposed to the super hero like way I tend to think of my favorite musicians). I mean, it's funny just hearing him talking about little things that happens with his wife, his friends, and the stuff about borrowing Chicken Run from Henry (and then wanting to go to KFC afterwards). That was great! And man, would I love to sit around playing Super Nintendo with John Flansburgh and Doughty. And speaking of Doughty, I tried searching for his journal, but couldn't find it. So, I guess this very well could be fake. Whoever did it though... thanks - you made me laugh. For those who didn't bother looking at it, go check it out: http://www.livejournal.com/users/john_flansburgh Alex "I wanted to eat lunch at Pizza Hut. I mentioned that I am thinking of suing them and they told me to leave." - John Flansburgh (maybe) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 14:41:48 -0500 From: "Gary Kilper" Subject: TMBG: Linnell journal Message-ID: <009101c0fe78$0ca5ffb0$90169396@dra.com> I was curious: since Flansy had a livejournal, I tried a John Linnell link of a similar format. It contains some perfect insight into the character of Linnell and the John-John bond. http://www.livejournal.com/users/john_linnell Ya' know: Right now I feel exanimate too!! Gary TMBG Ambassador to Missouri ((Note: the ambassadorship to Missourah is, as yet, unclaimed)) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 15:49:24 EDT From: EmarZero@aol.com Subject: Re: TMBG: Re: TMBG Mink Car Advance Promo ... Message-ID: <http://www.livejournal.com/users/john_flansburgh. His latest entry lists the songs and asks what we all think!>> This is so unbelievably fake. What's with all the Flansy-hate? This is obviously made by a psychotic Linnell sycophant. Feh. -HX ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 15:54:37 EDT From: Kaylum@aol.com Subject: Re: TMBG: Re: TMBG Mink Car Advance Promo ... Message-ID: In a message dated 6/26/01 3:50:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time, EmarZero@aol.com writes: > This is so unbelievably fake. What's with all the Flansy-hate? This is > obviously made by a psychotic Linnell sycophant. It's not as bad as the tmbg livejournal community where a few posters have made "funny" posts making Flans look like a complete idiot. What a disappointment that community's been so far. Kay ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 14:00:24 -0600 From: "makebase" Subject: Re: TMBG: Linnell journal Message-ID: <9hapng$25dm$1@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Organization: They Might Be Giants, Unofficially http://www.tmbg.org > Gary > TMBG Ambassador to Missouri > ((Note: the ambassadorship to Missourah is, as yet, unclaimed)) If your will is strong enough, it matters not whether your state is claimed or not. :) Shaun TMBG Ambassador to Utah, People's Republic of "You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen."--Vizzini ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 16:02:16 EDT From: EmarZero@aol.com Subject: Re: TMBG: Re: TMBG Mink Car Advance Promo ... Message-ID: <66.10c39b05.286a4448@aol.com> In a message dated 6/26/01 3:55:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Kaylum@aol.com writes: > It's not as bad as the tmbg livejournal community where a few posters have > made "funny" posts making Flans look like a complete idiot. What a > disappointment that community's been so far. > > That's because it's LIVEJOURNAL. On the UNTERNET pecking order, Livejournal is below IRC, USENET, and even below E/N sites. Livejournals are really just sorta sad. Especially the disturbing ones where people post pictures of their nasty boobs or whatever. Just my five cents. -HX ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 13:58:29 -0700 From: "Bryan T. Hoerber" Subject: Re: TMBG: Re: TMBG Mink Car Advance Promo ... Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20010626135801.00a5bb98@mail.aviationpage.com> Hey, I have a live journal and have not posted nasty pics of my boobs yet. Or is that a request? *hehe* At 04:02 PM 6/26/2001 -0400, EmarZero@aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 6/26/01 3:55:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Kaylum@aol.com >writes: > > >>It's not as bad as the tmbg livejournal community where a few posters have >>made "funny" posts making Flans look like a complete idiot. What a >>disappointment that community's been so far. > > >That's because it's LIVEJOURNAL. On the UNTERNET pecking order, Livejournal >is below IRC, USENET, and even below E/N sites. Livejournals are really just >sorta sad. Especially the disturbing ones where people post pictures of their >nasty boobs or whatever. > >Just my five cents. >-HX ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 17:05:25 -0400 From: scratch Subject: Re: TMBG: Re: TMBG Mink Car Advance Promo ... Message-ID: <3B38F915.34D86653@the-pentagon.com> Organization: They Might Be Giants, Unofficially http://www.tmbg.org Ahem. He didn't say "nasty pictures of their boobs", he said "pictures of their nasty boobs". -scratch "Bryan T. Hoerber" wrote: > > Hey, I have a live journal and have not posted nasty pics of my boobs yet. > Or is that a request? > *hehe* > > At 04:02 PM 6/26/2001 -0400, EmarZero@aol.com wrote: > >In a message dated 6/26/01 3:55:26 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Kaylum@aol.com > >writes: > > > > > >>It's not as bad as the tmbg livejournal community where a few posters have > >>made "funny" posts making Flans look like a complete idiot. What a > >>disappointment that community's been so far. > > > > > >That's because it's LIVEJOURNAL. On the UNTERNET pecking order, Livejournal > >is below IRC, USENET, and even below E/N sites. Livejournals are really just > >sorta sad. Especially the disturbing ones where people post pictures of their > >nasty boobs or whatever. > > > >Just my five cents. > >-HX ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 14:16:03 -0700 From: "Bryan T. Hoerber" Subject: Re: TMBG: Re: TMBG Mink Car Advance Promo ... Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20010626141518.00aaed58@mail.aviationpage.com> Ok, so that is pictures of their nasty boobs and not nasty pictures of their boobs? Ok, that will be $4.50 at the first drive through window. At 05:05 PM 6/26/2001 -0400, scratch wrote: >Ahem. He didn't say "nasty pictures of their boobs", he said "pictures >of their nasty boobs". > >-scratch > >"Bryan T. Hoerber" wrote: > > > > Hey, I have a live journal and have not posted nasty pics of my boobs yet. > > Or is that a request? > > *hehe* ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 18:15:51 -0400 From: "Amy :)" Subject: Re: TMBG: Linnell journal Message-ID: >Gary >TMBG Ambassador to Missouri >((Note: the ambassadorship to Missourah is, as yet, unclaimed)) "I'll be deep in the cold cold ground before I recognize Missourah!" --Abe (Grampa) Simpson _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 01:10:17 -0000 From: "Nathan Mulac DeHoff" Subject: Re: TMBG: Mink Car Advance Promo - Talk about disappointment Message-ID: PR Mega: >It seems "Mr. X-Citement made the cut, but not "You're Mom's Alright". But didn't the radio promo say that "Your Mom's Alright" would be on the album? So much for not wanting to deceive the radio stations... >I think I'd be much happier with this if I hadn't already heard all but one >tracks. *Sigh* Damn Emusic and my lack of willpower. Well, what if there were 17 new tracks, and you hated most of them? At least this way you know that you like some of the songs. (Well, unless you hated all of the versions you heard on Unlimited, that is.) -- May the light shine upon thee, Nathan DinnerBell@tmbg.org http://www.geocities.com/fablesto/ _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 01:12:00 -0000 From: "Nathan Mulac DeHoff" Subject: RE: TMBG: Mink Car Advance Promo - Talk about disappointment Message-ID: Jason Fickley: >I just wish they'd at least leave off the Long Tall >Weekend tracks and add some new songs. They were kinda >released already. They WERE released already, with no "kinda" about it. The versions on Mink Car will be different from those on LTW, though, so at least we're not just getting the exact same tracks. -- May the light shine upon thee, Nathan DinnerBell@tmbg.org http://www.geocities.com/fablesto/ _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 01:20:05 -0000 From: "Nathan Mulac DeHoff" Subject: Re: TMBG: Mink Car Advance Promo - Talk about disappointment Message-ID: John Ferrer: >>Has 17 NEW Tracks: 1. Bangs 2. Cyclops Rock 3. Man, It's So Loud In Here >>4. Mr. Xcitement w/ Doughty 5. Another First Kiss 6. I've Got A Fang 7. >>Hovering Sombrero 8. Yeah Yeah 9. Hopeless Bleak Despair 10. Drink! 11. My >>Man 12. Older 13. Mink Car 14. Wicked Little Critta 15. Finished With Lies >>16. She Thinks She's Edith Head 17. Working Undercover For The Man >> > >Actually, that's awesome. That's quite a perfect track list, if that's >how >it's going to be Weren't you complaining earlier about there being Long Tall Weekend tracks on there? Or do you mean that this track list is perfect IF the LTW tracks have to be there? >except that WUFTM isn't really a good ending song. I'm not sure "Bangs" is a really good beginning song, either. Does anyone know if it will be a different version from the one on the McSweeney's disc? >But at least we do get one absolutely new song, and Hoovering Sombrero >and >Bangs popped up again. So, I'm happy with this. Except for the one >little >thing that was already mentioned. Thunderbird is the greatest >song ever. >Ever. I would have liked for "Your Mom's Alright" to have been on there, too. There's still a possibility that it and "Thunderbird" will pop up as B-sides, though (assuming there's a commercially available EP). Incidentally, what songs do people think are potential B-sides, if such an EP is released? Maybe we'll finally see a real release for "Hell Hotel," and hear that "It's Not A Game" song that was supposed to have been on the Working Undercover EP. Or maybe the EP will just have three more versions of "Older." We really don't know, but I'm hoping for a good EP that I can actually find in a record store. -- May the light shine upon thee, Nathan DinnerBell@tmbg.org http://www.geocities.com/fablesto/ _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com [Attachment omitted, unknown MIME type or encoding (message/rfc822)] Well, the point is I'd rather have something previously unreleased than reworked versions of Older and Edith Head. It just seems like they're dismissing the fact that LTW was released. To me it's no different than if we were getting new versions of (for example) Dr. Worm and S-E-X-X-Y instead. It makes no sense. Why not let the LTW songs be and release two new songs instead? And where's Thunderbird? :) --Jason-- --- Nathan Mulac DeHoff wrote: > Jason Fickley: > >I just wish they'd at least leave off the Long Tall > >Weekend tracks and add some new songs. They were > kinda > >released already. > > They WERE released already, with no "kinda" about > it. The versions on Mink > Car will be different from those on LTW, though, so > at least we're not just > getting the exact same tracks. > -- > May the light shine upon thee, > Nathan > DinnerBell@tmbg.org > http://www.geocities.com/fablesto/ > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at > http://explorer.msn.com > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 01:23:59 -0000 From: "Nathan Mulac DeHoff" Subject: Re: TMBG: What happened to... Message-ID: John Ferrer: >>I heard someone mention Thunderbird not on there, but I'm wondering whats >>the deal with "Museum of Idiots". That the song I really wanted to hear in >>studio form. >> >>Dan >> >>p.s. the only let down on the album besides that is "Mr. Xcitement" That >>is quite a terrible song. >>_________________________________________________________________ > >When I first heard of that song, it was when They were planning to do >an >all-brass album after this one and No!. I don't know if they still >are >planning that I kind of hope they're not. I mean, if "Museum Of Idiots" is released, I want it to be a brass version, and a few other brass tracks would also be nice. A whole album of it would remove the diversity that is a large part of the appeal of TMBG (for me, anyway), though. >Anyways, I think that one's really great too, though this is the first > >time I've heard anyone else say so. The lyrics are superneat. Hey, I love it, too. I'm hoping it's released soon, although I guess I'll have to stick with my live MP3 until that time. -- May the light shine upon thee, Nathan DinnerBell@tmbg.org http://www.geocities.com/fablesto/ _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com [Attachment omitted, unknown MIME type or encoding (message/rfc822)] Lawrence Solomon: >John Ferrer wrote: > > > What's so terrible about Mr. Xcitement? I'll probably disagree once I've > > heard it, since I have on everything else that most people hate, but I > > haven't heard what's wrong with the song. Is it boring? Stupid? Poorly > > carried out? Is it just Doughty's vocals? I like Your Mom's Alright, >so... > >What's so terrible about it? It's *NOT* a TMBG song, that's what's so >terrible about it. It's not their style, it's mostly not even their >writing. >So what the hell is it doing on a TMBG album? I guess they wanted to do something different. I agree that the song is pretty bad (although I've only heard it once), but isn't diversity part of the appeal of TMBG? I'm sure some people will love it. >There are a dozen songs I'd >rather see in its place - I mean, if they're re-re-re-releasing WUFTM, >Older, >Edith Head, and all those, why not give us something we *really* want, like >Certain People, Reprehensible, On the Drag, or Rest Awhile? are these >songs >*really* gone forever now? Um, they were on Long Tall Weekend. I realize that you know this already, but I don't think the songs that only appeared on there count as "gone forever" any more than songs than only appeared on Lincoln, Flood, Apollo 18, etc. (Is "Narrow Your Eyes" really gone forever?) >It seems to me also that TMBG have become very poor judges of what their >best >material is. That's a matter of opinion, isn't it? Maybe they think the stuff that they're putting on Mink Car IS their best. We really don't know. I find it hard to believe that I'm embarrassed at me for being upset over acting so contemptuously...uh, I mean, that they consider "Older" and "I've Got A Fang" to be among their best songs (I mean, I like 'em all right, especially the live version of "Fang," but there's just not much to them either musically or lyrically), but there you have it. -- May the light shine upon thee, Nathan DinnerBell@tmbg.org http://www.geocities.com/fablesto/ _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 21:43:29 -0400 From: "Charlie Miller" Subject: TMBG: My two cents on Edith Head. Message-ID: <002801c0feaa$91252540$03fe1fac@millerfamily.org> I was just gonna say somethin, for once. My opinion IS important, nyah, hwey! So yeah. She Thinks Shes Edith Head. I may be a minority, but I really liked the LTW version. It was fast-paced, it was fun, it had flans shouting. Now comes the new version. It sounds like nearly the same music, only with different vocals. But they have no energy anymore! They are sung low, and to me just don't convey that there is anything going into it. Thats the problem; you can't just rerecord a song (and not improve upon it) and then re-release it. Remember, LTW was supposedly an album. So, the songs on it shouldn't be reappearing on the next album, unless in the RARE case that it is completely changed (radiohead's "morning bell" comes to mind). Bah, I dunno, the whole thing is making me a little underwhelmed about Mink Car...which is surprising, because I've loved every single tmbg album that has come out. Oh well! Those were my two cents. -Charlie Miller http://flipse.com/dirky/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 01:46:32 -0000 From: "Nathan Mulac DeHoff" Subject: Re: TMBG: What happened to... Message-ID: John Ferrer: >>It seems to me also that TMBG have become very poor judges of what their >>best material is. The songs from the Factory Showroom sessions are some of >>the best creations they've ever come up with, and yet, it seems the best >>we'll ever hear them is low quality mp3 versions on Long Tall Weekend. >>(and yes, I have the promo CD, but it's no better - it was clearly made by >>converting those mp3s back into wavs and then putting them on CDs) > >That's not really fair to accuse them of not knowing what among their > >songs are good. Opinions vary, for one, and for another, there's all > >sorts of reasons they might like a song that you might not like. Maybe > >Reprehensible was just a fun, meaningless song to them, while S-E-X-X->Y >held some deep dark secret about Flansy's past. From what I've heard, "Reprehensible" WAS going to be on Factory Showroom, but Elektra didn't want it on there. So blame Elektra for that, not the Johns. As for why they put it on LTW instead of saving it for an official CD release, it might be because they just didn't like it that that much, but there are a few other possibilities, as well: 1. It was convenient. They already had a good-quality studio recording. 2. They wanted to concentrate on newer stuff for the next CD album. >Besides, be glad you like a band that has more throwaway songs then > >released ones, which is an EXTREME rarity Wait a minute. Why should we be glad about that? >and that even the throwaways are great, and thanks to the heavy >Internet >fanbase, an MP3 goes up when one of them sings in the shower, >so you have >plenty of great material. As long as you can download and play MP3's, and don't mind the quality being less than stellar. (Note that I fit these qualifications, but I still prefer to get official copies whenever possible, and a lot of great songs are never released that way.) >>I think they had enough material that they could have easily planned out >>the next few albums - track lists and everything - and then when they got >>a record deal, gone and recorded the songs they wanted for the first album >>and released it, then two years later, done the same.... then it would be >>like.... 2005 before all the really weak material (like Mink Car and >>Wicked Little Critta) started showing up at all... > >Who's saying they won't do something like that? Probably not, but >there's >no reason to assume that they won't put out another album >using the >leftovers. There really aren't THAT many. I mean, not to >bring up >Radiohead again, but they had about 40 songs, and released >some of them on >two different albums. They didn't do it based on >quality, the second one >isn't the rejects from the first, it's just >the songs that go together. XTC did much the same thing with their two Apple Venus albums. They wrote all of the songs during their seven-year strike against Virgin Records, and then released the more pastoral songs on Apple Venus Volume 1, and the louder, more rocking songs on Volume 2 (a.k.a. Wasp Star). >And again, this is all crazy, because the Johns aren't that likely to >do >that, but so what? True, although I wouldn't put it past them to use a few tracks written in the past few years (or even before that) on the next studio album (after Mink Car, I mean). After all, they put "Which Describes How You're Feeling" on Apollo 18, released seven years after the demo tape on which the song originally appeared. -- May the light shine upon thee, Nathan DinnerBell@tmbg.org http://www.geocities.com/fablesto/ _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com [Attachment omitted, unknown MIME type or encoding (message/rfc822)] ok....YOU (yes YOU) kill me.....BWAH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAAAAAAAAAAA...........! All I have is a $10. Got change? 'wTTJ' Jim Mohan TMBG Ambassador to MN "Bryan T. Hoerber" wrote: > Ok, so that is pictures of their nasty boobs and not nasty pictures of > their boobs? Ok, that will be $4.50 at the first drive through window. > > At 05:05 PM 6/26/2001 -0400, scratch wrote: > >Ahem. He didn't say "nasty pictures of their boobs", he said "pictures > >of their nasty boobs". > > > >-scratch > > > >"Bryan T. Hoerber" wrote: > > > > > > Hey, I have a live journal and have not posted nasty pics of my boobs yet. > > > Or is that a request? > > > *hehe* ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 02:12:40 From: "John Ferrer" Subject: Re: TMBG: Mink Car Advance Promo - Talk about disappointment Message-ID: >Weren't you complaining earlier about there being Long Tall Weekend tracks >on there? Or do you mean that this track list is perfect IF the LTW tracks >have to be there? > That's what I meant, but even so, I really don't mind as much now that I know they're making an effort to do something pretty different with the new versions. Even though I don't like all of the new Edith Head, it doesn't mean I'd rather have the LTW version on there. Which is strange, I guess, but to be honest, I would probably love the new version if it wasn't for already hearing the first one. But I guess just seeing an actual track list made things more realistic, so now I'm too busy being excited about a new CD, especially a free and autographed one, to keep whining about what should and shouldn't be on it. At this point, it doesn't really matter. And to add to the excitement, Tenacious D's first release comes out just 14 days after. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 19:13:45 -0700 From: "Bryan T. Hoerber" Subject: Re: TMBG: Re: TMBG Mink Car Advance Promo ... Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20010626191315.00a9d470@mail.aviationpage.com> Of course I have change. Do you want it? At 07:09 PM 6/26/2001, you wrote: >ok....YOU (yes YOU) kill >me.....BWAH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAAAAAAAAAAA...........! All I >have is a $10. Got change? > >'wTTJ' Jim Mohan >TMBG Ambassador to MN > >"Bryan T. Hoerber" wrote: ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 02:16:01 -0000 From: "Nathan Mulac DeHoff" Subject: Re: TMBG: Giants Radio Waves Message-ID: Bryan Hoerber: >Boss of Me was played to death on Local TOP 40 crap stations like KROQ, >KYSR (Star), and KIIS 102.7. Also KROQ played Dr. Worm sometimes. Sad to >say but they have a better chance of making it onto the Dr. Demento show >than any main stream station. Especially considering that they keep including "I've Got A Fang" on promos. I mean, I'd love to hear that song on the radio (more so than "Mr. Xcrement," certainly), but it probably has less chance of being played than just about any of their other songs. (And what was that about TMBG not wanting to be considered a novelty band?) Incidentally, what TMBG songs HAVE been played (regularly, not during interviews with the band and such) on the radio? I don't mean just recently, but throughout their entire career. I know "Ana Ng" reached number one on college/alternative charts, and "Birdhouse In Your Soul" was a really big hit in Britain. I think I've heard reports of "Snail Shell," "Don't Let's Start," and "S-E-X-X-Y" being played occasionally, and the kids' show on WXPN (Philadelphia) used to (and maybe still does; I haven't listened to it in years) play "Particle Man," "Istanbul," "Birdhouse," and "Why Does The Sun Shine?" (it was actually the first place I heard those last two). Any other examples of TMBG songs in fairly frequent radio rotation? -- May the light shine upon thee, Nathan DinnerBell@tmbg.org http://www.geocities.com/fablesto/ _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 02:17:08 From: "John Ferrer" Subject: Re: TMBG: What happened to... Message-ID: > >>Besides, be glad you like a band that has more throwaway songs then >> >released ones, which is an EXTREME rarity > >Wait a minute. Why should we be glad about that? Because it's great. I think it's really nice to be able to buy all the albums, wish you had more of the fine TMBG sound, and then come online to find out "Oh, hey, there's 800 more songs here." There's just something wrong with a band that puts all its songs on the albums, and if the drop-out material is accessible, it's easy to revel in your hardcore fandom. I mean, Talking Heads have literally 8 songs you can find that were never on an official release. And listening to them, you can tell why they weren't. Think about if there were only 8 unreleased TMBG songs, with the albums as they were. Not fun! _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 21:25:12 -0500 From: "James & Kimberly Mohan" Subject: Re: TMBG: Re: Mink Car release date?? Message-ID: <3B394408.1FBCFD1D@uswest.net> It's not MY birthday.. woo-hooooooo! Matt Brown wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, scratch wrote: > > > September 11th. > > > > My birthday. w00t! > > -=Matt Brown=- GaTech cs/phys undergrad | > web: http://thm.askee.net/dynamic/ | "Every Day is a Good Day" > email: thehangedman@death-star.com | -Zen Proverb > AIM: THM42 ICQ: 10933909 | ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 21:25:18 -0700 From: Daniel A Kelley Subject: Re: TMBG: Linnell journal Message-ID: <20010626.213101.-681747.0.NormalLikeYou@juno.com> hey, that's me! i am the ambassador to missourah, er, missouri! On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 14:00:24 -0600 "makebase" writes: > > Gary > > TMBG Ambassador to Missouri > > ((Note: the ambassadorship to Missourah is, as yet, unclaimed)) > > If your will is strong enough, it matters not whether your state is > claimed > or not. :) > > Shaun > TMBG Ambassador to Utah, People's Republic of > "You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen."--Vizzini > > > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 21:32:35 -0700 From: Daniel A Kelley Subject: Re: TMBG: nashville show Message-ID: <20010626.213310.-681747.3.NormalLikeYou@juno.com> anyone? or would we all rather talk about peep shows and rant about why we don't approve of tmbg's timeliness (sp?) of releasing an album? ;-) On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 17:31:49 -0700 Daniel A Kelley writes: > hey all, > > i'm heading to the nashville show this week, and was wondering if > anyone > had any concrete info on the show. i'm in st. louis right now, so i > don't have access to local papers and such - before i came home for > the > summer, i was under the impression that it was a free show at > riverfront > park and they were playing with superdrag. the information i found > here: > > http://nashville.citysearch.com/profile/11487178/ > > says otherwise.... or am i just reading it wrong? if you know > what's > going on with this show, please let me know, before i drive 6 hours > for a > big misunderstanding! > > thanks! > daniel ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! 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