9622.net

Christ, the deadline hasn't even arrived yet! (um, yes. that means mine's not done yet) I did receive kafs' today though. Haven't had a chance to listen yet.

I figured there'd still be those who haven't sent theirs out yet, anathema, but I also knew there are plenty who have, so it might make for a nice steady stream of reviews.

Mine went out in the mail yesterday. I expect most of the recepients to have scrawled "Return To Sender" in sheeps blood on the envelopes and I should find them in my mailbox any day. That's okay. No one can have enough copies of "Open Arms."

Speaking of monkeys-that pic should have been posted on Halloween-you know,

Trick or Treat
Smell my feet
Give me something good to eat

I listened to kafkaesque's mix all afternoon while I was working. Beautiful, but now I'm reeeeally reeeeally melancholy. Thanks, kaf!

I've been having some mailbox issues (jammed lock) so haven't received any mail for the last three days. However, I fixed the damn thing, so hopefully when I get home today I'll find a goodie or two.

Ufez -- got your CD last week. Played it through a couple of times & was just about to put it back on now. Woke up this morning with "Just Dropped In" stuck in my head. Heh.

My CDs went out Friday. Fellow Unruly Monkeyboners, watch your mailboxes.

I got eyeballkid's this morning, slotted it immediately. Dark and eclectic. A little obscure for my taste (caveat: Keep in mind that I'm old)... but some real gems in there, especially the covers. Also: Pixies! To sum: generally enjoyable, with a thick atmospheric feel. Vielen dank', ebk.

Marquis, if you're around, I've been listening to your old Noises and Nutmeg mix for about a week in my car. I liked it at first but it grew on me more and more. If it didn't have Van Morrison lurking like an evil gnome in the darkness, it'd be perfect.

I'm listening to readymade's "life is good" (the first of 2 cds) and am loving it!!!!! yay nina simone 2x and peggy lee and ray and betty and sugarcubes and rufus xavier.....! I'm going to save "life is bad" for tomorrow...oh, and that firefly song is excellent too!
(and cool waterbug address label)

As I'm working 12 hour shifts for the rest of the week and I didn't get my CDs to the post office on the deadline, mine will be going out this Saturday.

you may point and ridicule now.

*points and ridicules*

*goes back to work*

Kafkaesque - I'm so glad! As for Van Morrison (who *is* quite the gnome), I'd be boo'ing from the sidelines beside you if it weren't for the sheer genius of Astral Weeks. It's an album set apart!

UfeZ's mix is a seething mass of punk and post-punk, laced with dashes of r&b, folk, reggae and, uh, other messy-genre stuff. It's great to hear some considered samples of bands like From Monument to Masses, Pretty Girls Make Graves, International Noise Conspiracy and Don Caballero - they're acts I was interested in hearing, but for which I never had an in. I particularly love the Desparacidos, Jon Spencer and Idlewind tracks.

Thanks Amberglow! I've given yours a good listen once, but have to give it another go. Big fan of the Elvis hybrid (but I like that song without the loops, so it makes sense). Reminiscing with the English Beat and the Sundays...those two bands take me back to a very specific point in my life, as vivid as certain smells do. And the Cocteau Twins sound so funny to me now. Who knew one could actually grow out of that wacky teenage angst where anything with tons of reverb sounds like the aural version of your tortured psyche? Very cool.

Mr Crash Davis--Big fan of theme cd's: your concept was good and abstract, which is great. Mine was rather literal. One thing I realized listening to yours which surprised the hell out of me was that I like country far better than I imagined, but stranger still was that if forced to choose between that and the 80's, I would choose country hands down. Love the Man in Black anyway, and have an embarrassing fondness for the Dixie Chicks, so your disc has found a very good home.

Woo-hoo! This is so fun!

Posted by: readymade on November 4, 2002 06:02 PM

*waits patiently by mailbox*

*sniffs armpit*

*waits patiently by mailbox*

*jumps up and down impatiently*

*stares at mailman*

*gets mace'd*

*takes off clothes*

*propositions strangers*

*bails ebk out of jail*

...that wacky teenage angst where anything with tons of reverb sounds like the aural version of your tortured psyche?
that's why i left The Cure's Pictures of You out....and i almost put Birthday in...but it flows better in your cd. I always forget how Nina Simone's voice goes right thru me....

anyone have an extra to send to eyeballkid--i think he's sad... : >

An extra ... little blue happy pill?

I pop pills exclusively from Gleemonex!

Did you know Welbutrin tablets have little smiley faces on them?
And if you call them Xyban instead you can stop smoking?

Alas, mine are boring...then again I manage to stay clothed and in my right mind ;-) (on the other hand I claim no responsibility for my left mind.)

Now I'm starting to crave M & Ms...gee thanks.

actually, i've never been one for the happy pills.

i'm more the happy juice kinda person.

that wacky teenage angst where anything with tons of reverb sounds like the aural version of your tortured psyche?

Yes, indeedy, my psyche sounds like The Ventures, dontcha know?

Okay, you might have had "Hawaii 5-0" as your teenage verby soundtrack, but mine was definitely not that cool. Oh, I wish it was.

Posted by: readymade on November 4, 2002 11:44 PM

I got me Crash's Tyranny of Numbers today, and that's some fine disc making, son.
Cool concept, a Tom Petty song I actually like, and a kick-ass Johnny cash number to pull it all together. Sweet.

I'm with el ojito (well, except for the nude propositioning of strangers thing). My mailman's not going to get a tip this christmas, dammit. Is it just me or should a raise in postage = better service?

I know, I know. Dream on, fuckwit.

Kafka. Got your mix CD last night. Perfect. Thanks. Usually I hate the Cowboy Junkies but you put them in the perfect context here.

My CDs went out yesterday. Sorry but I got this swap confused with *another* swap on some other web site *cough*MeFi*cough*. Didn't realize until last Sunday that I was now in two swaps (yes, I was on the short bus as a kid).

Question for you vets: My CD include two songs from each band. Is this generally frowned upon?

Just askin'

There are no guidelines, Kevin. Follow your bliss, dude.

<abashed>

Mine are burned and will be going out in a couple days when I can get a new printer cartridge and mail them out.

</abashed>

<overcompensation by braggadocio>

They're worth it. Trust Me.

</overcompensation>

<hunger>

Time for lunch. Back soon.

I was pleasantly surprised to find twothree CDs on my desk this morning (thanks readymade and amberglow) and should be listening to them tonight when all the office-mates go home.

Also, I am amazed by the production value inherent in the double-CD set from readymade. Wow! That's going the extra mile, there.

Everybody must hate mine. I feel so ... rejected. Actually, that's not true. I did my best, and I'm proud of my effort (oh god, that sounded like Mr. Freakin' Rogers.)

jonmc: should i be sending your mix to your CT address? Please advise ASAP.

Marquis: YES. zip code: 06606.

ok! it's on its way!

what a rockin' zip code.

you east coast people get all the good citizen relocation codes.

No, tizzie. I liked it a lot on first listen (esp. the Ass Ponys). Full review coming soon (after I listen to it again).

But while we're on the topic of self-doubt, I'm worried mine is just so-so. After seeing yhbc's impressive track list (I just got it yesterday -- haven't listened), I'm afraid mine might seem too ... I don't know ... unfocused? Pedestrian? Having not done this before (heck, the paint is still drying on my burner), I wasn't quite sure what to go for, so I just went with what I thought were some cool-sounding tunes. (Of course, having a song by Spongebob Squarepants must be worth something).

*yay!*

"But while we're on the topic of self-doubt, I'm worried mine is just so-so. After seeing yhbc's impressive track list (I just got it yesterday -- haven't listened), I'm afraid mine might seem too ... I don't know ... unfocused? Pedestrian? Having not done this before (heck, the paint is still drying on my burner), I wasn't quite sure what to go for, so I just went with what I thought were some cool-sounding tunes."

Bravo. That's exactly what you should do, IMHO.

I didn't try to burn a disc that I thought everyone else might like, I burned one that I liked. I'm pretty sure the purpose of a swap isn't to see who can come up with the weirdest shit.

Then again, I may be wrong.

You're wrong. I really have no purpose. That's why I drink so much.

I've gotten nothing but a wide variety of cool music from people, and yet I keep seeing the fear of being dull or predictable.

Quit worrying, already. Music is all about context, not surprise.
I already have a lot of the songs people are sneding me, I imagine it works both ways, but the mixes put them into diffrent contexts.

Also, what Crash said.

I'll have what the thread is having.
Jesus, gud spelln', me.

Crash: Is it the "extra mile" when you've got too much "extra time" on your hands? 'Cause that's what I got. And I miss doing bizarro projects when I worked in video-post (although I miss nothing else) so this cd must have filled some of the void. Thanks for the compliment, though! I enjoyed making it very much.

Posted by: readymade on November 6, 2002 02:41 PM

*kicks the dusty ground*

*kicks Brittney*

I'm with Crashie. I burnt the disk I liked. Playing it now, as a matter of fact. You all can listen and enjoy or chuck it and use the case for separating seeds and stems, it's all ok by me.

Most of mine went out yesterday, I found some ones that had blippityblippityblippity shit instead of actual songs, though, so some might have to wait a day or two. Anyone interested in posting playlists here for the edification and review of non-receivers?

And, as an unspoken but very real option, requesting disks from outside of one's group?

Yeah, yeah, everyone rub it right in. That is a swell idea!

Do you think it is rad to be bitter, Brittney?

It may not be rad, but it's certainly totally gnarly.

I think it's rad to hate. I hate fruit.

*is rad*

It may not be rad to be bitter, but it's hip to be square. Or was. Once. And it may or may not still be cruel to be kind.

My track list is here, Fes, and anyone else who may be interested. I'm willing to swap with those non-unruly-monkey-boners.

I got Aine42's disc yesterday. Full review tomorrow. I'm on the first listen right now, and am quite pleased.

And if not gnarly, then at least stylin'.

As a non-swapper, I'd love to see people's tracklists.

(Also, I'm not above leeching, if anyone burned extra copies of their disc and want to send me one.)

My Track List
by: Tizzie

1. Ass Ponys - Astronaut
2. Over the Rhine - If Nothing Else
3. Robbie Fulks & Lucinda Williams - Pretty Little Poison
4. Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks - I Scare Myself
5. The Bears - Fear Is Never Boring
6. Billy Bragg & Wilco - Airline to Heaven
7. Bob Dylan - Things Have Changed
8. Steve Earle - I Don't Want to Lose You Yet
9. Steve Earle - Transcendental Blues
10. Ass Ponys - Not Happy
11. Southern Culture on the Skids - Walk Like a Camel
12. Robbie Fulks - Let's Kill Saturday Night

*ducks*

Ooh, Over the Rhine. Excellent.

Nice. Kudos on the S.C.O.T.S. and Dan Hicks.

See tizzie, what were you worried about?

Here's mine:

1. Somethin’ Hot – Afghan Whigs
2. Lotta Love to Give – Daniel Lanois
3. Bad Reputation – Freedy Johnston
4. Unbound – Robby Robertson
5. Sonnet – The Verve
6. Hallelujah – Jeff Buckley
7. Electrolite – R.E.M.
8. Honest With Me – Bob Dylan
9. Hoodoo Voodoo – Billy Bragg & Wilco
10. Raspberry Swirl – Tori Amos
11. Long Snake Moan – P.J. Harvey
12. Clocks – Coldplay
13. Going Back to Harlan – Emmylou Harris
14. The Weather – Built to Spill
15. F.U.N. Song – Spongebob Squarepants (f/Plankton)
16. I’m a Believer – Smashmouth
17. Big Girls Are Best – U2
18/19. Kim & Cookie/Call Before I Come – Outkast

(and that is, of course, robbie robertson)

here's mine--just songs i like (tried to make em flow):
oblivious - Aztec Camera
voila la ete - Negresses Verte
just what i always wanted - mari wilson
build me up buttercup - foundations
anniething - richcolour
a little less conversation -elvis v. jx
lost a friend - james
save it for later - english beat
chorus - erasure
beg your pardon - kon kan
diggin your scene - blow monkeys
here's where the story ends - the sundays
dance away - roxy music
see a little light - bob mould
heaven or las vegas - cocteau twins
what a wonderful world - alison moyet
(and secret bonus track-it doesn't have to be - blow monkeys)

be kind-i was garnished yesterday and am fragile...

fishfucker's swap cd #2

1. FISHFUCKER SINGS - No Mountain High
2. FISHFUCKER SINGS - What's Going On?
3. FISHFUCEKR SINGS - When I think About you (I touch myself)
4. FISHFUCKER SINGS - Holiday In Cambodia
5. FISHFUCKER SINGS - Styx Medley
6. BLUMCHEN - Bicycle Race (On the Air Mix)
7. FISHFUCKER SINGS - Get Down Tonight
8. FISHFUCKER SINGS - Just the Two Of Us
9. FISHFUCKER SINGS - Bon Jovi Medley
10. ELI FISHFUCKER AND THE COCKBLOCKIN' TORNADOES - E.M.I.
11. FISHFUCKER SINGS - Funkytown (FUCKFISHER REMIX)
12. SQUAREPUSHER - Untitled 12"
13. FISHFUCKER SINGS - Ring Of Fire
14. FISHFUCKER SINGS - Camp Granada
15. FISHFUCKER SINGS - Goodnight Ladies

sorry to spoil it for all of you in my group.

yeah: this disc is going to rock. i bet you can't wait.

*takes pouting elsewhere*

by the way, amberglow, that "anniething" track is the most atrocious fucking thing i have ever heard. ever.

really.

ever.

i love it.

fish, why'd you let that squarepusher into your mix? i want all fishfucker all the time! (i didn't get yrs yet)

it tickles me everytime i listen to it....

it's online, for anyone who wants it:

http://www.richcolour.com

This all makes me a happy howler monkey. Pardon me, I was dying to put 'going back to Harlan' on mine somewhere, but couldn't find the right spot. Yay!

Hearing fishfucker sing 'Camp Granada' would be a religious experience. Which religion, I'm not sure.

I don't have the disc with me right now, so this is from memory; if it's wrong someone please correct me.

Tyranny of Numbers

1. Steely Dan - Hey Nineteen
2. Dave Brubeck Quartet - Take Five
3. Mazzy Star - Five String Serenade
4. Stan Ridgway - Two Minutes Till Lunch
5. Paul Hardcastle - 19
6. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Two Gunslingers
7. Dwight Yoakam - A Thousand Miles From Nowhere
8. Kathy Mattea - Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses
9. Dixie Chicks - Who Will Be the Next One
10. Dolly Parton - Seven Bridges Road
11. Dr. Hook - Only Sixteen
12. Janis Ian - At Seventeen
13. John Prine - Six O'Clock News
14. Johnny Cash - Thirteen

Here's my list, and it explains why I didn't bother sending you a copy, Lupo:

Leonard Cohen - Tower of Song
Tom Waits - Who Are You?
The Church - Under The Milky Way
Beta Band - I Know
John Cale - Ship of Fools
Bob Dylan - Visions of Johanna
Jack Logan - Would I Be Happy Then?
Nick Cave - (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For?
Einstuerzende Neubauten - Letztes Biest (am Himmel)
Sparklehorse - Wish You Were Here
Cowboy Junkies - Powderfinger
Dirty Three - Everything's Fucked
Love Spit Love - Am I Wrong?
XTC - This World Over
Dead Can Dance - Don't Fade Away

Billy Bragg & Wilco seems a theme - tizzie, amberglow and aine42, so far. I'm glad the Mermaid Ave records are so good!

The slightly annotated liner-notes for my mix are online here. Please be kind.

Dude, that richcolour track is amazing!

crash, i'm listening to yours now again...really like it, esp. the mazzy star, and i remember 19 so vividly (i must've been 19 then..), and dolly and johnny and janis really put it over the top! Thanks!

thanks marquis--there's something about it, even though it's not expertly done...(the louis armstrong wonderful world remix they did is not as good)

oh, can you email me the nina simone song on your list?

Emailing you now... "Little Girl Blue", incidentally, is one of the saddest songs in the history of music. ever. It has also absolutely ruined (or rendered far more powerful) the experience of hearing "Good King Wenceslas".

totally beautiful song-thanks again marquis! (i'm all choked up from it)

Mine...

1. Jonny Lang, “Hit The Ground Running”
2. Scritti Politti, “Perfect Way”
3. The Veldt, “Revolutionary Sister”
4. Grateful Dead, “Mexicali Blues”
5. Lyle Lovett, “Church”
6. Kenny Wayne Shepherd, “Deja Voodoo”
7. Gin Blossoms, “Keli Richards”
8. George Thorogood, “It Wasn’t Me”
9. Ugly Americans, “Candyman”
10. Uncle Tupelo, “We’ve Been Had”
11. ZZ Top, “Hi Fi Mama”
12. Stevie Ray Vaughn, “Little Wing”
13. Walter Becker, “Book of Liars”
14. Graham Parker, “Get Started, Start A Fire”
15. Mary Chapin Carpenter, “I Feel Lucky”
16. Shannon Curfman, “Hard To Make A Stand”
17. Arc Angels, “Shape I’z In”
18. Steely Dan, “Bodhisattva”

Thoughts?

*everyone in Lumberjacks of Doom begins scrabbling polite emails to Fes saying that, if he wants to save the postage, they would not be averse to being left off the list of CD recipients...*

I've posted my first cd's playlist on my sad little livejournal for you guys. It's a theme cd, and it just didn't seem right to post it without all the little extra words I threw in the liner notes, but it seemed too damn long to post here. So here it is.

Life is Bad will follow soon.

Posted by: readymade on November 6, 2002 06:37 PM

My track list:

1. OK Go - "Get Over It"
2. Husker Du - "Don't Wanna Know if You are Lonely"
3. Railway Children - "Every Beat of the Heart"
4. Grandpaboy - "Psychopharmacology"
5. Boomtown Rats - "The Great Song of Indifference"
6. Happy Mondays - "Loose Fit"
7. Grant Lee Buffalo - "Lone Star Song"
8. Iris DeMent - "Sweet is the Melody"
9. Billy Bragg and Wilco - "Hot Rod Hotel"
10. Rev. Horton Heat - "Loco Gringo's Like to Party" (grumble - errant apostrophe)
11. Gomez - "Detroit Swing 66"
12. Stiff Little Fingers - "Alternative Ulster"
13. Poster Children - "Accident Waiting to Happen"
14. Shellac - "Squirrel Song"
15. Gang of Four - "What We All Want (Live)"
16. Sloan - "Underwhelmed"
17. Throwing Muses - "Counting Backwards"
18. Alison Krauss and Union Station - "Crazy Faith"
19. Joy Division - "Dead Souls"

aine, can you email me mp3s of everything? or some?

thanks! (i'm moochy today)

Wow, these all look great. You people sher kno howta swap.

amberglow -- do you want mp3s or a CD? I'm fine with either.

mp3s are easier i think- email em to me whenever you have time--don't bother paying to mail them...thanks again!

Do you (or anyone) want anything?

"Do you (or anyone) want anything?"

I'd kill for a Taco Supreme® right about now. I missed lunch, and I don't get to leave for another two hours. Plus, the Cheezy Poofs in my snack drawer are unsatisfying.

well, i have 1/2 price orange and black halloween m&ms.....how about them?

Plain or peanut?

This is my, unfortunately still unsent, disc.
I'll get it out to the red-assed baboons just as soon as I can get my stupid @$#@# printer to play along.

01 What Not To Do
02 Showcase Showdown - Merry Christmas, I Fucked Your snowman
03 Fishbone - Ma & Pa
04 Daisy Chainsaw - Love Your Money
05 The Best Present Ever
06 Nina Simone - Feeling Good
07 Hello, My Name Is Bill W.
08 Carl Cox, Josh Wink - Sixth Sense
09 dong_resin - It's Hard To Be A Monkey
10 Black Flag - Nervous Breakdown
11 Mission Of Burma - That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate
12 Cooties
13 Iggy Pop - Highway Song
14 Amon Tobin - Fat Ass Joint
15 Ray Charles - Hey Now
16 Sound Advice
17 XTC - Earn Enough For Us
18 Brak- Coffee
19 Living Colour - Solace Of You
20 Suzanne Vega - Fat Man & Dancing Girl
21 Angelique Kidjo - Oremi
22 Give Him What He Likes
23 Leftfield - Phat Planet
24 Weezer (and soul coughing) - American Girls
25 Massive Attack - Teardrop
26 Adrain Belew - I am what I am
27 It Never Ends
28 Ramones - The KKK Took My Baby Away
29 Black Flag - Rise Above
30 Iggy Pop - Mask

post, you ass.

The illustrious dong_resin has an Adrian Belew song on his cd to go with The Bears song on mine! Am I feeling like one of the cool kids, or what?

I've gotten tired of track #9 on donger's disc, what with it being in heavy rotation on MTV and having to hear it on every radio station every ten minutes.

:)

But it's easy to dance to... I give it a 73.

autumn: a mix cd

1 house of leaves - poe
2 they're not witches - guided by voices
3 is a woman - lambchop
4 stupid mouth shut - hem
5 subbacultcha(demo) - pixies
6 martha's mantra (for the pain) - neil halstead
7 perfecting loneliness - jets to brazil
8 yin and yang the flower pot man - love and rockets
9 ghetto - supreme beings of leisure
10 black hole sun - steve and eydie
11 her head's revolving - the three o'clock
12 birthday boy - mary lou lord
13 werewolves of london - black velvet band
14 pitiful faye (lip cream) - yoko kanno and the seatbelts
15 television - baxter
16 so long, marianne - john cale and suzanne vega
17 dark end of the street - the afghan whigs
18 la muerte chiquita - cafe tacuba
19 'til i gain control again - this mortal coil
20 dear johnny - poe
21 homage - ...and you will know us by the trail of dead
22 hatfield 1980 - everything but the girl

can eyeballkid be a red-ass baboon too? huh? huh? (did steve and edie really remake black hole sun?!?)

and plain crash, but 1/2 the bag's gone already-rough day...

Here's mine for those who didn't get it off the 'blog:

Joe South - "Games People Play"
Court Jesters - "Roaches"
John Fahey - "Layla"
Carson Robinson - "Rockin' and Rollin' with Grandma"
Don & Dewey - "Jungle Hop"
Muffs - "Funny Face"
Equals - "Police on my Back"
Polkaholics - "Who Stole the Kishka?"
Spirit - "Fresh Garbage"
John Prine & Iris Dement - "In Spite of Ourselves"
James McMurtry - "Where's Johnny?"
Collins Kids - "Hop Skip & a Jump"
Bellrays - "Stupid Fuckin' People"
Downliners Sect - "One Ugly Child"
Prince Buster - "Judge Dread"
Canned Heat - "On The Road Again"
Anti-Nowhere league - "Gypsies, Tramps and Theives"
Puffy Ami Yumi - "Ai no Shirushi"
Dirty Dozen Brass Band(w/Norah Jones and Robert Randolph) – "Ruler Of My Heart"
Bobby Fuller Four - "Let Her Dance"
Dropkick Murphys - "For Boston"
Harry 'The Hipster' Gibson - "Stop That Dancing Up There"

Busy day. Sorry I'm late, but here's my list. There's a couple repeats from my earlier discs, but I also cut down on the a cappella (by popular demand, it seems) and also tried to get more of a "theme" going (although I think there always have to be a few continuity breaks, just to keep things honest).

9622 Autumn 2002 Swap CD
(aka "This is Not Really a Halloween CD")
posted by yhbc
1 Nightmare Before Xmax - This is Halloween
2 Public Image Ltd. - Rise
3 US3 - Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)
4 Tom Lehrer - Masochism Tango
5 Mission of Burma - Revolver
6 John Otway - Head Butts
7 Chameleons UK - Swamp Thing
8 The Neats - 6
9 Mike Nesmith - Joanne
10 Iggy Pop - Blah Blah Blah
11 Sonic Youth - Superstar
12 The Bobs - Spontaneous Human Combustion
13 The Stranglers - Golden Brown
14 Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
15 Think Tree - Hire a Bird
16 Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi’s Dead
17 Spike Jones - Cocktails For Two

That last one is, quote, "Included here as a tribute to Miguel, and to counteract any lingering Bauhaus gloom at the end of the CD (like an after-dinner mint)."

Also, I'm trying out a new handle, just in case MetaFilter does get its plug pulled and there's no place to explain my weird acronym. Whaddaya think?

Oh, and tizzie: I really liked Fear is Never Boring, too - so much so that I had it on my first one! ;)

The rest of the disc is very enjoyable as well - seconds here on both the Southern Culture and the Dan Hicks, as well as on the Ass Ponys, which is new to me and very good. Thanks!

dong_resin - It's Hard to be a Monkey

Please tell me you get your sing on.

well... sounds come out one end.
Let's just leave it at that.

I enjoy that tizze calls me one of the cool kids, I also am loving both readymade's and amberglow's CD extravaganzas.
More fitting reviews as soon as I finnish tinkering with this stupid machine.

Ass Ponys are a Cincinnati band, as are Over the Rhine. Cinci also likes to claim the Afghan Whigs, although I think they went to UC but left shortly thereafter. (no AW on my disc, but I noticed they are on several others.)

Adrian Belew is from my neck of the woods as well - northern Kentucky. (cinci is actually the capital of northern Kentucky) Anyway, I tried to give my disc a "local music" flavor!

And dong_resin, now that I know you are Finnish, I think you are even cooler than before.

I'm gonna give the Commish's disc a first listen today! and Commish, I think 'nickname evolution' is a good thing. Go for it!

*deafened by silence from monkeymusicmavens on my playlist*

*Hindbrain screams out "love me, monkeys! LOOOOOOVVVEEE MEEEEEEEEEE"*

*realizes his tune-taste is somewhat parochial, rethinks infantile demand for attention, plays CD, grooves*

I've been in a flu induced semi-coma since sunday and am sending out Red Assed Baboon disks tommorrow. I've gotten amberglow's, readymade's and crash's disks and will post reviews as soon as I listen to them. Tracklists and liner notes to Amare e non essere amato è tempo perso Pts. I & II can be found here and later I'll pop some jpgs of the cover art up there, too. If anyone wants mp3s of the tracks, email me tomorrow and I'll see what I can set up.

I wanna go back to bed. Ick. Ugh. Blech.

Cover 1 and Cover 2

Oh, yeah, cover art. I forgot all about that.

You can see the fractal image entitled "Tyranny of Numbers", which inspired my playlist and thus occupies the front cover, right here. It's 150K.

I don't know who created it, but it's cool.

Honest, Fes, I was thinking of asking you to swap with me! Whaddya say? *winks*

Donger, I love the fact that you put "merry xmas, I fucked your snowman" on your swapcd. i mentioned that song (and the Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh 7") in my liner notes. (I stuck "I love the FBI" by showcase on my swapcd). Just thought you ought to know.

roma, i can't wait for these...and your notes are great (but now i'm picturing a shivering, wheezy, feverish girl standing in an endless line at a post office in Rome, while old sensible ladies dressed in black come up and ask in italian if she's feeling well...)

yep, I'm still stuck at work...
umm I'll post something art, list, whatever on Friday

Well. Just got back to work after a travel induced cold (quick note: do not have an outdoor wedding at 4 in the afternoon in St. Louis in early November. You will kill your out-of-town, California weather-wimpy guests), so I dropped off my discs to my fellow Howler Monkeys about ten minutes ago. I hang my head in shame.

But wow! I got CDs from Tizzie and the Commish, and they rock. Now I've got new stuff I've never heard before. And a new favorite name for a band. Ass Ponys! Ass Ponys! Ass Ponys!

Huh. I've always been partial to the word assmonkey. Start a band anyone?

Hey, maybe we can get the band back together!

9622: bunch of no-talent-ass-monkeys

Assmonkey, the drink.

Assmonkey, the LiveJournal user.

Assmonkey, the poem.

Assmonkey, the...uh...assmonkey.

I did not find a band, so you may be on to something.

"Assmonkey -- that funky monkey."

[/Beastie Boys]

What Obscure Animal are you?

So, since Assmonkey the LiveJournal user is also a zorilla, that makes me an assmonkey. Or a LiveJournal user. Or maybe both.

Review of tizzie's "Howler Monkey Cabal":

I really enjoyed this 12 song collection. Genre-wise it's kind of alt-country-ish (to use a fairly lame label). I own quite a bit of music in that area, but I hadn't even heard of several bands on this disc, including the Ass Ponys and Southern Culture on the Skids. The cool thing is that those songs ended up being my favorites. I particularly liked the Ass Ponys' "Astronaut" which kicks things off in high gear (in fact, I liked it enough that the next time I'm at the store I will be picking up the Ass Ponys' "Some Stupid With a Flare Gun" CD). Other highlights for me include Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks' "I Scare Myself," and SCOTS' "Walk Like a Camel," the latter of which reminded me a lot of early early B-52s (a good thing, btw).

Thanks, tizzie.

Hey, by the way tj, are you enjoying sitting in that saurkraut-lined box and listening to that German yodeling?

I have trouble with the alt-country label, too. I prefer "y'allternative". equally lame, but at least it brings a smirk to my face.

Commish, most of yours was brand new to me. I especially loved Public Image and US 3. The Mike Nesmith cut is an old favorite, as is the Spike Jones. The guys in the cubicles near me kept saying "What IS that?" Nyah-ha-ha!

Tom Lehrer - my French teacher used to play that in language lab when I was in high school. It had nothing to do with French, but at least I remember it, whereas I couldn't parlez-vous if my life depended on it.

I recieved UnclesFes' cd in the mail today. The US Postal Service saw the need to rearrange the cd case so that it was made up of six seperate, no longer interlocking, pieces. Gotta love 'em.

Luckily the cd is intact and very cool. Don't tell anyone, but that Scritti Politti song is one of my guilty pleasures.

EBK: Regarding the Lambchop song--you mean this Lambchop?

'Cause if so I have hung out with some of those dudes on many an occasion. They are all the time at this dive called the Springwater where pitchers of Shiner are five bucks. William (I call him Willie) Tyler is my friend Mandy's boyfriend.

Now I see the playlists, I'm really pissed that I couldn't do the swap. Those are hip mixes. And Brittney, I'm another Lambchop fan, who may well have put a song of their's on my mix.

I had no idea they were so widely known. I like their stuff, but came to know some of the members through Mandy and never figured they did much outside of Nashville.

I knew they were on tour, but that was in Europe, and any two-bit band can tour in Europe.

What a modest bunch those guys are.

They're playing the Bowery Ballroom, which is NYC's best bigger-than-a-bar venue, in two days. I'll try to take Mr Tyler aside and explain that I let the cat out of the bag, and he's going to have to start paying his share for those $5 pitchers of Shiner.

Neat! If in fact you do speak to him, make sure you refer to me as "Mandy's friend, the girl who worked at the film festival." Otherwise, he just might not remember. With him being famous and all.

I think pretty much everyone is past it now, but here's the second cd in my set, for those innately curious. Or bored.

Posted by: readymade on November 8, 2002 02:12 AM

(Also, I'm not above leeching, if anyone burned extra copies of their disc and want to send me one.)

I'm gonna make some extras this weekend - anybody who wants one, just send me your address. and a nekkid picture of yourself. or not.

Hey, tizzie, since I already got your CD, can I just send you a nekkid picture of myself?

Hell yes.

that sounded awfully thunderslutty. *blush*

I love SCOTS "Camel Walk," It's fantastic.

Say, you don't think there's any way I could get that quarter from underneath your pointy boot, do ya?

I like to think of them as trailer rock.

tizzie, thunderslutty is a good way to be. Just be on the lookout for a picture of a naked 400 pound Henry Kissinger look-alike in your mailbox!

Little Debbie, Little Debbie, I'm 'a comin' on home.

Okay, I've been away, but I wanted to review the two excellent cds I received from Aberglow and Readymade.
Amberglow has tastes that are oddly parallel to mine, in that almost every one of the songs on her disc are tunes that I heard at some point and thought "yeah, I'll go find that one time".
It all happens to be stuff I like, and yet is just a bit to the left of my usual taste, so this disc was a real joy.

Readymade's 2 disc extravaganza is laid out like an opera, as a journey through life itself, complete with interlude and extensive, well, programs, rather than mere liner notes.
If she'd told me that's what was on my way, I'd have passed out from boredom, but she wisely DJ'd like a pro, striking a fine balance with great tunes and tastes that are very similar to mine ( there's Nina Simone and Ray Charles on mine as well, but both of mine are from different eras than your selections).
These discs (along with Crash's) are flat out genius. I hope mine entertain you half as much.

This isn't a competitive thing, but clearly our group is kicking the other, inferior group's asses right to hell. In your face, losers.

Having said that, Ufez, Tizze, I'd love to swap disc with you guys if you burned any extra, as your play lists look great to me. That Showcase Showdown lil' 7 inch they put out is sort of a rare find, outside of Boston, and I'd love any of that I can get.

If anyone else wants one of mine, I've got plenty.
J.Po, your's is the mail.

In the mail. But you knew that.

I'm posting here just for sport.
I've got nothing to say!
Bleah!

much obliged, dong.

thanks dong! (i'm a boy tho) how come i didn't get yours yet? Now I know i'm going to like it! : >

dong_resin, send me your address and I'll put one in the mail!

Ha! Sorry `bout that, Amber.
I've been having trouble getting my printer to work, and I don't really have any place to conveniently print out graphics, so I've been holding off sending out the discs.

If I can't get it to fire by the weekend, I'll send the discs out anyway, email a track list, and mail you the graphics separately when I can.

Yes, that would be the correct lambcop brittney. Is a Woman is the only song I've heard from the band. I forget where it came from, but I've been meaning to buy the new cd.

And, if you want a mix, you'll need to send me your address ;)

Tizzie: Dong's got naked pics, just ask him.

(Check your mail, sweets, I'm begging for one too.)

Good grief! Such praise from the Dong_resin makes me feel all funny and hot around the ears. I think I just went overboard because I had no idea what other people were doing, and panicked. That's typical "readymade" performance anxiety, working against me but for you.

I've loved the discs I've gotten so far, and I just received the fucker-of-fishes cd in the mail this morning (with swag!) so while I type the great (or not) American (some might not agree) novel this fine day, I'll be listening to the boxed set of "children's music", compiled by ichthyophile. I don't know if I should be scared by that or not. (Fish: I've filled in my 0 in Tic-Tac-Toe and am sending it back. I feel confident that I will come out victorious this time.)

Posted by: readymade on November 8, 2002 02:20 PM

I am gonna have SO many naked pix! I'm gonna be the Queen of Naked!

As I am sending everything out late, I will be adding another disc, to make it an unheard of 3 disc compliation.

You poor bastards.

Tizzie--you may feel like a queen now, but you may want to reserve that comment for when the pix start showing up. Internet-pasty-skin does not necessarily photograph well.

Posted by: readymade on November 8, 2002 02:54 PM

Fish--here's a progress report. I'm listening to "Bicycle Race" right now, and think you are some sort of evil genius. Evil. Genius.

Posted by: readymade on November 8, 2002 02:57 PM

I listened to pardon me's disc at lunch today - lots of goodness! That Spongebob guy, he's got a career ahead of him, there.

I like Emmylou's version of "Going Back to Harlan" even better than the McGarrigle sisters, which surprised me.

Heh. Yeah, Spongebob's the man ... er, the sponge (were you aware he has his own church?) As an aside, we bought the disc on which "F.U.N. Song" appears for my daughter, who gets a kick out of Spongebob.

I put that song in to provide a rather unsubtle message that the rest of the disc was simply going to be for fun. Hence the Smashmouth song, which would not have been included but for its monkee connection, and a rather odd U2 song which was put there solely because you wouldn't think U2 would sing such a song. And the Outkast stuff goes without saying.

(note to self: liner notes next time)

I can think of a time when I would have put a Bert & Ernie song on a cd. Those dudes sing a great duet.

But I can't picture Ernie or Bert singing:

F is for Fire that burns down the whole town,
U is for Uranium ... bombs,
N is for No surviiivors...

Lovely people, feedback reports buzz me up
Quality forum right here, good reading for all. And the tracks are still quick to suck at www.richcolour.com
Regards you top humans
Rich
Richcolour

amber-g: i think you should reserve the title of "evil genius" for the person who composed "Ice Cream Man" ... that song is seriously fucked up.

that's why i love it so. vanilla and chocolate and strarrrrrberry.

fish: i didn't get yrs yet-it was readymade...but i can't wait to hear it.

richcolour: Yay you! make some more (maybe a monkey song?)...and yr richcolour show rocks too!

fish: i didn't get yrs yet-it was readymade...but i can't wait to hear it.

richcolour: Yay you! make some more (maybe a monkey song?)...and yr richcolour show rocks too!

i really really can't wait to hear it, apparently!

well. you will, and when you hear it. you'll think the same thing.

damn you, fridays!

hooray, fridays! I *heart* beer.

I'm listening to the pardonme mix right now (on headphones, no less, so as to not disturb the neighbors) and it rocks. Also, production values like cutting the title out of a 9622.net screenshot more than make up for liner notes, so don't worry.

What I love about these swaps almost, if not more, than hearing entirely new music is suddenly hearing a song I'd heard before and liked, and going "Oh! That's who that is!!!", and that happy experience has happened twice already, with Freddy Johnston and the Billy Bragg songs. Good stuff all around!

And now I've hit the obligatory Monkee song! I'm so glad I'm not the only one who did that ...

Thanks, commish. I have many, many good things to say about your mix, not the least of which is that there's a surprise around every corner. As soon as I get enough time (which, ironically, probably won't be until I get to work on Monday), I'll post my full thoughts.

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