Chalkhills Digest Volume 13, Issue 30
Date: Friday, 13 July 2007
Chalkhills Digest, Volume 13, Number 30
Friday, 13 July 2007
Topics:
RE: Walrus
RE: Colin's Hermits
info for digest
Recycling of Andy's melodies
Here's hoping everyone posts on 7070707
Senses Shopping Overtime
"Seagulls Screaming" is the MySpace song of the week
Stupidly Brian Blessed
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---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:47:29 +0100 From: "Darryl Bullock" <dwbullock@blueyonder.co.uk> Subject: RE: Walrus Message-ID: <CCDE6783A2114B1AB3B00ADE0B83A904@Benson> In Digest, Volume 13, Number 28 The Colonel wrote: "There is also an XTC version of "I Am The Walrus" with Colin on lead vocals. Dandy cover, that." Really? Where? I need to dig my copy of Without the Beatles out, but was fairly certain that the track appears credited to Colin's Hermits - ie Dave G and Andy P, who also performed Strawberry Fields Forever on the Through the Looking Glass 1967 collection - is there another version somewhere? D
------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:55:26 +0100 From: "Darryl Bullock" <dwbullock@blueyonder.co.uk> Subject: RE: Colin's Hermits Message-ID: <9093FBBAE8E544F8832B3A65F3D410E7@Benson> Me again. having checked, it seems that the incarnation of Colin's Hermits on the Without the Beatles version of I am the Walrus is: Colin Midnite (vocals, tambourine), David Dreams (vocals, keyboards), Jet Pastorius (vocals, bass), Rex Rapier (vocals, guitar, radio operator), and Bongo (drums), with The Proteus Orchestra. In other words this recording is a Dave solo effort. Dave G also appears on the Cleaners from Venus' version of Day Tripper. DG also used the pseudonym David Dreams for his version of Hendrix's Third Stone from the Sun for the If 6 was 9 compilation, and he previously used the Rex Rapier moniker on the Cud album Leggy Mambo. D
------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 20:45:29 -0500 From: "Laura Sylvester" <Lsyl@hughes.net> Subject: info for digest Message-ID: <4686A4CC0001F07A@n054.sc0.he.tucows.com> (added by postmaster@bouncemessage.net) Hello, Todd Bernhardt told me about this list and how to use it. Thanks to him for that! I recently did an interview with Andy for my webzine Junkmedia. You can read it here: http://www.junkmedia.org/index.php?i=2095. I hope you enjoy and I look forward to being a member of the list. Cheers, Laura Editor, Junkmedia www.junkmedia.org
------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 13:51:10 +0100 (BST) From: PAUL RODGERS <pledge7@btinternet.com> Subject: Recycling of Andy's melodies Message-ID: <881193.53707.qm@web86408.mail.ird.yahoo.com> I know I got it wrong last time re Jarvis Cocker and Love On A Farmboy's Wages, but on the rather marvellous new Polyphonic Spree album The Fragile Army there's a track called Guaranteed Nightlite which has a brass line which closely mimics the main melody of the chorus on Church Of Women. That's not a bad thing as I love both bands. Incidentally anyone previously put off The Spree by the robes and the long rambling songs should give this new album a listen if they can as they've lost both. Getting a producer in has really helped. There's only one song over 5 minutes and half the tracks clock at a more pop under 4 minutes. Back to lurking now (and with crash helmet on) until Andy stops talking about Moonstrance songs on myspace. I'm really sorry, but I've totally lost interest in what was a great sequence of insights to XTC songs. Paul
------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 18:32:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Ryan Anthony <hamsterranch@yahoo.com> Subject: Here's hoping everyone posts on 7070707 Message-ID: <496576.47973.qm@web51108.mail.re2.yahoo.com> It's now 070707 in Swindon, although not yet in America, and it's time to post to Chalkhills, as I'm on record hoping everyone in this community, including the lurkers, will on this auspicious date. If you count the days of the week beginning with Sunday and ending with Saturday, today is actually 7070707. Here's some breaking XTC news of sub-microscopic importance: Apple's latest version of iTunes, release 7.3, has reformed its alphabetization regime. Names of artists, albums, and songs beginning with "A," "An," and "The" are now alphabetized by the second word, numerals now follow Z instead of preceding A, and punctuation marks are now ignored for purposes of alphabetization. For example, the spoken track "'... And Accordinge As I Desired Ther Cam A Letter To Me Out Of Germany ...'" (double quotes around single quotes are intentional) from Sting's classical album *Songs From the Labyrinth*, instead of leading off my library of 9,300 songs, is now nestled alphabetically under "And." Artists such as 4 Non Blondes and 10cc go from the front to the end of the line. The The is (or "are," for speakers of British English) not affected by these changes. What's this have to do with XTC? Andy's "Zonked Right Out On Life" is no longer anywhere near the bottom of the list. It's followed by a couple of dozen numeral titles, including Andy's "2 Rainbeau Melt" and "1000 Umbrellas." Admittedly, this is news so small you need a scanning electron microscope to read it. But do we XTC fans have anything else to talk about? Ryan Anthony An independent Internet content provider
------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:48:18 -0400 From: Benjamin Gott <ben@loquaciousmusic.com> Subject: Senses Shopping Overtime Message-ID: <0912E6FF-0168-4FFD-A647-7DE9F5A7B154@loquaciousmusic.com> Yo geeks, I was shopping in Ikea (Sergeant Drive, New Haven) yesterday when what to my wondering ears should appear but "Senses Working Overtime" on the store's P.A. system! I guess those Swedes really know their music. (Of course, the next song up was "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" by Pet Shop Boys, so that kind of killed the moment.) Hey, have you ever heard Jonathan Coulton's song "Ikea"? You haven't? Well, you should listen to it: [ http://www.jonathancoulton.com/mp3/Ikea.mp3 ] "Long ago in days of yore It all began with a god named Thor There were Vikings and boats And some plans for a furniture store It's not a bodega, it's not a mall And they sell things for apartments smaller than mine As if there were apartments smaller than mine..." And so it goes... Speaking of GREAT SONGS, how about that new Crowded House single? With Johnny Marr on guitar? And Steve Lillywhite producing? Although I love Tim's contributions, too, it doesn't seem as if the single suffers much. In fact, this song sounds almost exactly as if it belongs on "Woodface." [ http://www.crowdedhouse.com/news.php?id=1681433 ] Hope all's well with everyone in Chalkland! -Ben
------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 17:28:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Todd Bernhardt <beat_town@yahoo.com> Subject: "Seagulls Screaming" is the MySpace song of the week Message-ID: <763765.66165.qm@web32008.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Hi: Over at the XTCfans MySpace site (http://www.myspace.com/xtcfans), the song of the week is "Seagulls Screaming Kiss Her, Kiss Her." If you want to know what Andy's plans for the video were, and what the "blog-reader challenge of the week" is, check out the XTCfans blog site at http://blog.myspace.com/xtcfans. He who hesitates is lost... -Todd
------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:26:59 +0100 From: "Belinda" <b.blanchard@btinternet.com> Subject: Stupidly Brian Blessed Message-ID: <004501c7c4b2$3cf5e840$c001a8c0@belinda402a39e> The One Show on BBC1, Brian Blessed getting all orgasmic about newts. Stupidly Happy playing in the background. Me eating me tea in the foreground. Back to lurking......
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