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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 20:04:46 +0100 (CET)
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <m.sandberg@telia.com>
Subject: (exotica) Hey mister Brad!
I'll have to interrupt your lurking!
You gotta add a Don Ralke LP to your Space Age Pop website, "Bongo
Madness" Crown CLP 5019. Or does that not qualifie? I think much of it
sound exotica, it's a great album!
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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 14:20:44 -0500
From: alan zweig <azed@pathcom.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) The disappearing record dealers
At 08:55 AM 3/5/01 -0600, Mimi Mayer wrote:
.>
>. At one
>record show I saw Free Design's Kites are Fun for $12 at one booth and for
>$25 at another. Condition didn't seem to effect pricing.
Next time that happens, buy them both.
Alan
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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 20:21:23 +0100 (CET)
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <m.sandberg@telia.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Different Neighborhoods On Finland
citerar Ben Waugh <sophisticatedsavage@yahoo.com>:
>
> hope you're not responding to my reponse. I meant that
> to be humorous
Tell that to the FBI!
Mooo
Magnus
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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 14:18:28 -0500
From: "Nathan Miner" <nminer@jhmi.edu>
Subject: (exotica) Lest we forget!.......
Had a laugh the other night.
I put on Lenny Dee "Dee-Licious" (with that ridiculously funny cover of =
the D man lounging in a hammock while two dangerously young and innocent =
lasses feed him chocolate bon-bons by his side). My bro was there and =
said "Holy Shit! They should put a warning label on that LP that it can =
cause irrepairable insanity!!" (He's got the twisted sense of humor too).
Then he went on laughing that it sounded like the power-supply was having =
extreme fluctuations - that's D's style to mmmmMMMM , daaaaDDAAAAAA and I =
had to laugh because he was right - sounds exactly like the organ was =
being run by a hand-cranked generator and the guy was getting tired!!!
Man, to imagine Mom's and Pop's everywhere groovin' to these sounds on the =
console stereo sometimes boggles the mind!
And there I sat writing bills acting like this was "normal" music - ah, =
I'm lost I tell ya.......!! :-)
- - Nate
=20
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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 14:35:08 -0500
From: alan zweig <azed@pathcom.com>
Subject: (exotica) caper films
At 09:45 AM 3/5/01 -0600, Darrell Brogdon wrote:
.>
>From the mid-50s through the mid-60s, there's a wonderful sort of
>sub-genre of moves like this that might be called "caper films". A
>small group of experts come together to pull off an impossible
>heist. "Seven Golden Men" is a good example of the genre.
>Others include "Five Against the House", "The Asphalt Jungle",
>"They Came to Rob Las Vegas" (rare soundtrack by George
>Georges Garvarentz) , "Caper of the Golden Bulls" (music by Vic
>Mizzy!), "Topkapi", etc. There are lots more.
I think you're throwing too many dissimilar films into one bag there.
"Asphalt Jungle" is more film noir than "caper film". I'd be willing to
invent a term lke "heist film" in order to differentiate serious, sad, dark
films like "Asphalt" from funny, happy films like "Oceans Eleven" (the
novelization of which is one of my prized possessions).
Or maybe it's the difference between the fifties and sixties sensibilities.
I'd also differentiate between films where you know they're going to fail
and films where you figure they'll probably succeed.
I like them both but obviously I prefer the failures.
Actually "Asphalt Jungle" is one of my favorite films of all time.
AZ
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Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 20:38:09 +0100 (CET)
From: "Magnus Sandberg" <m.sandberg@telia.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Lest we forget!.......
I come into an argument with my six year old nephew, his younger
brother wanted me to play a record on my turntable, but before I had
time to choos a record the 6 year old went: 'NOOO!!! Not that bad ooold
music!' I exploded and I turned to him and said: 'YES! BECAUSE OLD
MUSIC IS MUCH BETTER THAN NEW MUSIC!' I took it very personal, it wasnt
a question of "he is just a kid".
The young one isn't lost yet, he begs me to show him Flip the Frog
cartoons on my dvd player.
Magnus
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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 11:45:59 -0800
From: "F. Cobalt" <fcobalt@lycos.com>
Subject: (exotica) Re: CD vs. Vinyl, Vol. 7 (aprox.)
This results in music that is proccessed and packaged like
luncheon meat... stupid, kitch covers that focus on trendiness
and demean the talent of the musicians who made the music...
liner notes with cocktail recipes, but NO MENTION of the
musicians and their careers... music with grossly unrealistic
EQ settings, making acoustic instruments sound like buzzy
synthesizers... older recordings muted and dulled by draconian
digital filters just to remove all traces of a slight amount
of unobtrusive surface noise... random collections of completely
unrelated tracks selected for no other reason but novelty value,
not musical value... deceptive packaging, repeating the same
tracks previously released in another "best of" with just a
sprinkling of new material...
I agree with this matter. The first time I think I became irritated with CDs and reissues was with a Julie London CD. I'd been looking for another copy of Around Midnight. I found this compilation called Time for Love, which essentially stole the cover from Around Midnight, but make a selection of "best of" tracks. And then there were only two tracks from Around Midnight. Given how great Around Midnight is, there are so many songs to choose from, and two relatively uninteresting ones were put on the compilation. I thought, what kind of ridiculous audacity to reuse the Around Midnight cover for a compilation that largely ignores songs from the album it took its cover from? And THEN, when I finally found the Around Midnight album on CD, it was a two-for-one deal (a plus of course) but an IMPORT, making the matter even more ridiculous. It's almost like here in America, we can't appreciate our own musical heritage unless we do it with a sort of wink-wink nudge-nudge air, or package it and organize it to pander to an imagined audience who might get too bothered if the music is too edgy, or too "challenging" or too, I don't know what. I mean we already know Julie did a lot of soft, creamy songs, which is part of what makes her appealing, but she did a lot of sexy songs too, but maybe that was too much for the crowd Rhino imagined this "best of" for. Sure Rhino has done a lot of great things -- the Handmade series especially -- but they just love to cheese things out, like people won't get it unless it's kitschy enough, and that's really sad.
Unlucky
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