From: owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com (bomp-digest) To: bomp-digest@xnet2.com Subject: bomp-digest V2002 #45 Reply-To: bomp Sender: owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com Errors-To: owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send e-mail to majordomo@xnet2.com with "unsubscribe bomp-digest" in the body X-Bomp-web-site: http://www.bomp.com X-BompList-Administrator: efd@xnet2.com bomp-digest Monday, January 21 2002 Volume 2002 : Number 045 This is the digest version of the Bomp list. ***HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE:*** Send an e-mail with the words "unsubscribe bomp-digest" to majordomo@xnet2.com or go to . Here's what people are yacking about in this digest: the worst song in the world Euphorik6@aol.com Re: Big Brother ... Moreen5000@aol.com Re: The Strokes/Jack Black on SNL Jeff Kopp Jesse Hector Boldface The Parkinsons Boldface Re: The Lost Vegas Jeff Kopp Re: Cheap shot, I can't help it Anikka Lauritssen new stuff... Shake6677@aol.com RE: new stuff..."Beatles Gear" "Lindholm, Jeffrey" Archie Bell and the Drells "Lindholm, Jeffrey" Radio Rumpus Room's "Big Beat Badger Blowout" Ron Thums Info Request on the band CHIN CHIN TweeKid@aol.com Re: the worst song in the world Iam Fuzzco Enigma colorcoat@home.com Re: Enigma Records HOODOO3005@aol.com Re: the worst song in the world Jangellamf@aol.com Enigma Records "Barry Stevenson" Tenacious D Michelle Skoorka Huh? Betty Serveert? Who Dat? "Barry Stevenson" Re: the worst song in the world "Astroboy" Re: bomp-digest V2002 #44 "Alan Wright" I finally own a Farfisa Mini Compact Organ Redlabour@cs.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 07:26:00 EST From: Euphorik6@aol.com Subject: the worst song in the world ok this is kind of a long shot, but maybe somebody out there can help. i was sitting around thinking not too long ago about what was bar none the worst fucking piece of music i have ever in my life. we are talking cross-genre, classical, rock, soundtrack, lounge jazz, whatever. the only criterion was sheer awfulness... and then i remembered this song. when i was in college, one drunken night me and a bunch of people were sitting around at like 3 in the morning smokin cigarettes and blah blah blah telling the stories of our lives (real edge-of-your-seat stuff) and somehow or other we got onto this thing where you had to play some piece of music that you felt best expressed the most elemental part of yourself...i don't remember what most of the people in the room played, but i remember my friend damon playing "stalin malone" from elvis costello's then-new "spike" LP, and i played coltrane's "wise one." there was this guy that lived next door to me - lee. lee was sort of, i don't know....for a zealous, fascistic chauvinistic right-wing born-again christian piece of hypocritical shit, he wasn't that bad of a guy. so he was sitting around with us that night, hanging out, and there was this air of post-adolescent seriousness about what we were doing....this sorta clearasil solemnity as we all played our stuff and lee was like. "hold on, i'll be right back." he went back to his room and got this tape, came back and popped it into the stereo. "this is my favorite song in the whole world," he said. & here's where i need help. what he played was this hysterically, unbelievably horrible piece of christian rock. it was this sort of spoken-word-over-music track & was in this jaw-droppingly unbelievably monumental bad taste. it wasn't even fucking MUSIC anymore, it was like bad-taste sculpture, totally mesmerizing. what it was was some guy narrating the blow-by-blow of a boxing match between jesus and satan, and it went something like this: "in this corner in the flaming red shorts,....we have the prince of darkness - LUCIFER, SATAN, BEELZEBUB....and in this corner, weighing in at 135 pounds, the greatest hope of the human race, the man from galilee...it's JESUS CHRIST <>...." and it went on and on "....and satan's got jesus on the ropes...his duplicitous ass just landed a sucker punch straight on the jaw of the son of god....jesus is taking a horrible beating....but NO! jesus is coming back! he's pounding satan into nothing, he's showing satan just HOW STRONG HE REALLY IS!!!" etc etc etc now this guy lee was a total psycho-christian, so this may not have been mainstream christian rock of the period, but it somehow managed to combine the very worst of trailer-court spirituality with god-awful bargain-basement scritti polliti super-synth 80s production. i mean this thing was BAD. bad bad bad. i would love to get a hold of an MP3 of this, but i don't have any idea where to look - this would have been released sometime before the fall of 1989, and i doubt it could have been much more than 4 or 5 years old at the time....does anybody have any idea what this might have been? i'd love to put it on a tape and mail it to my friend damon, he would shit himself. any help would be really appreciated. god bless you! rob ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 08:33:33 EST From: Moreen5000@aol.com Subject: Re: Big Brother ... Yup Rob the " Come Up the Years " black n' white footage on the new Big Brother DVD is indeed the same footage from the Rhino Big Brother video ( it's also on DVD too now I believe ) of several years ago. Definately great stuff... Gurley's always been a fave guitar player of mine, and tho' he doesn't have a fuzz box on this early stuff he still plays some amazing things ... can you imagine if Gurley had been in Blue Cheer with Leigh Stephens, instead of Big Brother ??? As for Big Brother's musical abilities, I think they were a lot better than people give 'em credit for ... sure they weren't Quicksilver or the original Steve Miller Band, or the Grape or the Airplane, but they were easily the equal of bands like Country Joe & the Fish or the Great Society, who like Big Brother, were great bands and could be pretty amazing on a good night, or any number of the other San Francisco bands at the time, hell when ya come down to it Big Brother were better than most ... anyone remember Mount Rushmore or Mint Tattoo ??? As fer the Dead, they too could be equally great or equally shambolic just by the nature of their improvisational "jammimg ", which as any musician will tell ya sometimes works and can be pretty exciting when it does, and sometimes doesn't, in which case everyone sounds like they're bumbling around in a sack o' dead fish. In some ways, Big Brother's supposed " musical inabilities ", were what made 'em sound so exciting, that unpredictabilty, and willingness to just get out there and do it, made for some sizzling stuff ... and as some folks will tell ya superior command of one's instrument, doesn't always necessarily make fer excitin' rock and / or rock n' roll ... I'll take a bunch of supposedly " musically inept clowns " like The Stooges, Blue Cheer and Big Brother any day of the week, over scores of their contemporaries. Heck, Janis' " Kozmic Blues Band " which was made up of " proper " musicians was no great shakes at first either ... they were so un -together that Albert Grossman had to call in Mike Bloomfield and Nick Gravenites to help whip them into some kind of respectable shape before their debut gigs, lest they make Janis and themselves look like the local wedding band running thru the Joplin and Stax songbooks ... and the album, well Mike pointed out the faults there a few months ago, tho the new re-mastered version, with it's improved sound, goes a long way to making it more listenable and enjoyable, at least fer me, as I tend to overlook mistakes in favor of ( dare I say it ??? ) groove. I will cop to it that once the " Kozmic Blues Band " did eventually get it together, they were a pretty hot band ... just not as exciting as Big Brother ... they may have been " better musicians ", but that spice of danger was gone, no real " soul ". It's like the difference between eatin' ribs at Fridays and Applebees, or some place where there's a little old guy cookin' 'em up in a burned out storefront over an oil drum fulla old railroad ties, in a section of town that you can't get yer friends to go to with ya. The old guy drinkin' Thunderbird and flippin' the ribs over with a tire iron is gonna win, hands down, every time. whew ... down off that soapbox kiddo ... Anyway, Big Brother did 2 LP's after Janis left. The first one " Be a Brother " has some great stuff on it. With the addition of Nick Gravenites to the band on vocals, the whole gang turn in a neat version of Nick's ' "Joseph's Coat " that's almost the equal of the Quicksilver version. Other standout's include " Heartache People ", and a fine instrumental " Home On the Strange ", and the country tune " " I'll Change Your Flat Tire Merle " is darn neat too. Really a nice album that of course no one bought ... the next one " how Hard it Is " was pretty good too, tho' I don't dig it as much as the earlier one, maybe because Gurley is playin' bass and Albin is handling guitar duties with Andrew ... I know I haven't spun it in a few years, yet I easily grab out that " Be a Brother " LP a couple times a year. And yeah I love Janis Joplin, I just prefer for my own listening the stuff she did with Big Brother. no more diet pills before bed ... maureen In a message dated 1/20/02 7:38:07 PM, Euphorik6@aol.com writes: << In a message dated 1/20/02 8:52:51 AM, Moreen5000@aol.com writes: << Other bonus stuff includes 4 full performance clips ( no interviews or picture montages etc ) 2 from the " Come Up the Years " tv performance, " >> is this the same thing that came out on the rhino video years ago? the 30 minute black and white TV show filmed at KSAN? damn, that is a really cool video. that band just - pardon the expression - SMOKED. total kick-ass outta control hypercharged psychedelic garage rock. too bad the band don't get the credit they deserve; in their own backyard, i think they could play - uh, their own special way - circles around the grateful dead. gurley (wasn't he called "weird jim gurley" by a lot of people? i seem to recall reading that somewhere....if not, they should've called him that) is one my fave SF geetar-slingers, sloppy as fuck and brilliant as hell. that version of "koo koo" they do on the rhino video is fantastic...wacko outta tune vocals and a shitload of garage energy. and "hall of the mountain king" is really great, too...sort of a sloppier, cruder homegrown "interstellar overdrive." i know a lot of people on this list don't dig janis too much, but i like her. i don't care too much for the post-big bro stuff - but she was with big brother, they were really, really good. big brutha kicked ass. what's the deal on the post-janis 1970 big brother LP? anybody got any opinions on that? i always thought it sounded pretty cool. rob >> ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 07:51:20 -0600 From: Jeff Kopp Subject: Re: The Strokes/Jack Black on SNL on 1/21/02, David Coyle wrote: > And what about Tenacious D? What do people think of them? I had the unfortunate experience of seeing them live a few months ago when a friend of mine offered up a free ticket. I took him up on it because the show was on a Sunday night and I had nothing better to do. I'd really only heard one of their songs before going to see them, and that was a QuickTime or MPEG clip of "Fuck Her Gently" that I saw on the Web (probably the same one Astroboy provided the link for recently). It seemed funny or interesting enough to go see the show. That, and as you said, I also enjoyed Jack Black's performance in "High Fidelity." I remember thinking maybe he'd do a song or two in the same style as his band in the film. HA! Boy, did I make a mistake... While my buddy seemed to like it, and even pushed his way through the crowd for a better vantage point, I hated it. First off, there was some wretched local Korn/Limp Bizkit-wannabe band on stage to open things up, pounding out their predictable funk meets metal meets hip-hop crap (Beatle Bob was right up there with 'em, by the way). Then Tenacious D came on: Two guys with little or no musical talent (not that there's anything wrong with that!) playing boring accoustic music and trying to be funny/shocking. Lots of use of the word "fuck" (just about every one of their songs, it seemed) which doesn't normally rub me the wrong way, but it just seemed really forced... like they were really trying hard to be tough or cool or offensive, just like a lot of this MTV/"eXtreme" pop culture, and I recall seeing some kind of home-made movie they'd shot while driving around in a car, too, which was also pretty ridiculous. It was pretty embarrassing, really. Sorta like watching a couple of your drunk college friends sitting around in a bedroom at some long-since wound-down party making up goofy songs with an accoustic guitar while they pass the joint around. In that sort of environment something like this can be fun, but in a large venue with 5,000 strangers it just seemed really weird or unnatural. I was at this beautiful old opera house (the American Theatre) in downtown St. Louis, and spent most of my time walking around, exploring all of the different levels of balconies and other nooks & crannies, and trying to ignore the lameness of the "band" and the 5,000+(!!) college-age crowd that were there going absolutely BONKERS over these dimwits. Seemed like I was at a huge frat party, if ya wanna know the truth. These guys obviously get a lot of exposure on commercial alternative radio, because that's the sort of crowd that was there. It was amazing to me, too, that this was a sold out show on a Sunday night. God, if we could just get 1/50th of that crowd to show up at some Sunday night/weeknight garage shows we'd have a helluva scene! kopper ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ HEAD IN A MILK BOTTLE Fanzine http://www.garagepunk.com/HIAMB ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ THE WAYBACK MACHINE Radio Show http://www.garagepunk.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 11:35:22 +0000 From: Boldface Subject: Jesse Hector If anyone wants to know more about Jesse Hector there was an article in Shindig! magazine which can be downloaded as a PDF file from their website: http://www.geocities.com/shindig-magazine/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 14:00:50 +0000 From: Boldface Subject: The Parkinsons C'mon all you guys in New Haven and Boston - I want to know how my pals The Parkinsons got on over there. Tell us all! Thanks. -- PJ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 08:03:11 -0600 From: Jeff Kopp Subject: Re: The Lost Vegas on 1/21/02, "Alex Piandes" wrote: > The Lost Vegas' "Surf Psychedelica". I got a copy of this CD, too. I listened to it a couple of times and couldn't really find anything of any value to me or the show, so I stuck one of the two copies of the disc in the new music section at the station and gave the other to my friend Doc to review for "Head in a Milk Bottle" and he even hated it more than I did! Did they also send you a VHS tape with their "Quagmire in Holland" movie (and I'm using the term "movie" really loosely here)? I reviewed this shot-on-video "film" for HIAMB, also. I'll see if I can dig it up and post it later... I'd rather not bog the Bomp list down with two really negative reviews back-to-back so early in the morning. It's only Monday, after all. kopper The Wayback Machine http://www.garagepunk.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 06:45:22 -0800 (PST) From: Anikka Lauritssen Subject: Re: Cheap shot, I can't help it >>>So what's wrong with caring about how you look? Any Bomp ladies with me here? Lynn<<< Well, yeah, duh. . . MJ has certainly made note of my collection of go-go boots hasn't he? - --Andrea - --------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:02:03 EST From: Shake6677@aol.com Subject: new stuff... 'twas my birthday this past weekend, and as such, here's my eclectic musical haul from my pals: roy acuf - the essential... cd alice cooper - love it to death cd skip james - the complete early recordings cd the art of the fillmore book beat punks book i also got a hangover, but i bought that one myself! lee/dead flowers - --- http://fade.to/DeadFlowers http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/rosesonyergrave ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:16:13 -0500 From: "Lindholm, Jeffrey" Subject: RE: new stuff..."Beatles Gear" Anyone else seen this HUGE coffee table book? It's what it sounds like, a truly exhaustive review of ALL the instruments, amps and other "gear" used by the Beatles throughout their careers, starting with John's first cheap-o guitar, including photos of either the original items or ones similar, all done with accompanying text. But it's not just a picture book. The text tells a history--it's not just captions to the photos but a historical narrative. Got it for Christmas from a pal in Rochester, NY. The book's by Andy Babiuk (hope I got the name right, don't have the book here with me) of Rochester's the Chesterfield Kings. I'm not too much of a gearhead, but the history's fascinating. Good book. Thanks for the Christmas gift, Rudy! Jeffery Lindholm jrl6b@hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu University of Virginia Health System Marketing and Communications > -----Original Message----- > From: Shake6677@aol.com [SMTP:Shake6677@aol.com] > Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 10:02 AM > To: bomp@xnet2.com > Subject: new stuff... > > > 'twas my birthday this past weekend, and as such, here's > my eclectic musical haul from my pals: > > roy acuf - the essential... cd > alice cooper - love it to death cd > skip james - the complete early recordings cd > the art of the fillmore book > beat punks book > > i also got a hangover, but i bought that one myself! > > lee/dead flowers > --- > http://fade.to/DeadFlowers > http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/rosesonyergrave > > ===> To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe bomp" to majordomo@xnet2.com > <=== ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:18:51 -0500 From: "Lindholm, Jeffrey" Subject: Archie Bell and the Drells Hey, first line of their hit--"Hi, we're Archie Bell and the Drells from Houston, Texas, and we not only sing but we can dance just as good as we....WHAT?" My pal says it's "...good as we walk," but I always heard it "...good as we want." I like "walk" better, it's funnier, but I really think they were boasting, saying "....good as we want!" And what's a "Drell," anyway?? Jeffery Lindholm jrl6b@hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu University of Virginia Health System Marketing and Communications ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 09:29:12 -0600 From: Ron Thums Subject: Radio Rumpus Room's "Big Beat Badger Blowout" Folks, Yep, this week Radio Rumpus Room went Wiscons-INSANE! It marked our first - -- but not last -- Big Beat Badger Blowout -- our salute to the primal rockin' sounds of Wisconsin in the Sixties! As always we say thanks to the artists and labels responsible for producing tonight's music, and to the loyal listeners who encourage us to air it every week! (For seven years now, Radio Rumpus Room has been broadcast Fridays at 9-10:30 p.m. on KFAI Fresh Air Radio, FM 90.3 Minneapolis and 106.7 St. Paul. The show also streams live on the Internet, and as always, our most recent show is archived in its entirety in RealAudio. YOU CAN LISTEN TO THIS ENTIRE 90 MINUTES OF AUDIO MAYHEM RIGHT NOW! Just link up through the RRR web page ANY old time to listen to this noise and catch Jean and Ron spouting the usual fabrications and preposterous "statements of fact!") So enough already -- in Wisconsin tradition, grab a brandy or peppermint schnapps and check this out. Here's what we cranked in the Radio Rumpus Room garage on Friday, January 18, 2002: (Note: In keeping with the historical/geographical nature of this week's show, we are listing the original Wisconsin label the single was issued on, the date released, and the artist's hometown as well.) INTRO: "Pops Playhouse" excerpt (Pops hosted an afternoon show on Milwaukee television in the mid-Sixties, introducing Three Stooges shorts and stuff like that. Roll'em, Lester!) SAVVY SHOW STARTER (always locally recorded!) Shandells -- Gorilla (Bangar '65, Eau Claire) This may not be the first version of this song, but it's gotta be the best. The Shandells were from Eau Claire, Wis. and recorded this on Minneapolis' Bangar label in December 1964. White Caps -- Rock'n'Roll Saddles (Northland 1/57, Appleton) Roullettes Orchestra -- Why Oh Why (Cinch '58, Waukesha) Willie Tremain's Thunderbirds -- Midnight Express (Swastika 8/59 and Cuca '59, Mauston) Denny Noie & The Catalinas -- It Ain't A Big Thing (Knight '65, Oshkosh) Bob Mattice & The Phaetons -- What's All This (Cuca '60, Red Granite) Noblemen -- Dirty Robber (USA 3/60, Milwaukee) Orbits -- Orbit Rock (Cuca '60, Baraboo) Supremes Four -- I Lost My Job (And I've Got To Find Another) (Sara '61, Milwaukee) Muleskinners (with Jim Sundquist) -- Rocky Road Blues (Sara '63, Madison) Renegades -- Istanbul (Citation '63, Milwaukee) Larry Phillipson -- Bitter Feelings (Cinch '64 and Cuca '65) Dick Marshall & The Nighthawks -- Jitterbug Joe (Cuca '63) Phil Humphrey's Fendermen -- Greensleeves (unreleased Cuca '63, Stoughton) Gord's Horde -- I Don't Care (Hodag '66, Rhinelander) Lord Beverly Moss -- Please Please What's The Matter (Target '66, Appleton) The Shag -- Stop And Listen (Capitol '66, Milwaukee) Golden Catalinas -- Varsity Club Song (Target '66, Oshkosh) Raylene & The Blue Angels -- Shakin' All Over (Cuca '66, Oshkosh) Illusions -- The Outcast (Audio Unlimited '66, Rhinelander) Exchequers -- Is There Some Girl (Boom! '65, La Crosse) Converts -- Don't Leave Me (Rampro '67, Beloit) Benders -- Can't Tame Me (Big Sound '66, Marinette) Wanderers Rest -- Temptation (Wright '68, Milwaukee) Journeymen -- Realities In Life (Tee Pee '68, Green Bay) Invasion -- I Want To Thank You (Dynamic Sound '66, Milwaukee) Kiriae Crucible -- Salem Witch Trials (Night Owl '66, Madison) Glass Candle -- Keep Right On Living (Target '69) Trodden Path -- Don't Follow Me (Night Owl '67, Mequon) Some of the Wisconsin labels active during this period include: Northland, Big Sound (Wausau); Target, Tee Pee, Gold Star (Appleton); Rampro, Feature (Janesville); Cuca, Sara, Night Owl, Dee Jay (Sauk City); Madtown, Earth, County Fair, MMC, Rebel, Riff (Madison); Hodag (Rhinelander); Tangent (Eau Claire); Raynard, Birdie, Par-A-Gon, Cinch, Citation, Dynamic Sound, Revolution, USA (Milwaukee); Teen Town, Boom!, Lindy, Coulee, Transaction (La Crosse); Fox River (Burlington); Claremont (Lake Geneva); Le Ron (Menominee Falls); Badger, Draeger, Star Light (Racine). While activities in adjoining states during this period have been well documented, rock in the Badger state has always been criminally overlooked. Fans of primal Midwestern bashers are directed to the following compilations: The three-volumes of "The Cuca Records Story" on the White label (LP only) for the twangy early rock and rockabilly, and the Wisconsin volumes (numbers 10 and 15) of the Pebbles "Highs In The Mid-Sixties" series (LP only) for later garage and garage punk. The White label folks have also released a full CD of material -- the Cuca Records Rock'n'roll Story -- on their Classic imprint. All the Cuca stuff has been available through Norton and the Pebbles material through Bomp. A fair number of stray cuts also appear on comps like the Teenage Shutdown or Back From the Grave series. Huge thanks again to Little Genius in Milwaukee for providing us with some great material for this show! See ya next week! ________________ RADIO RUMPUS ROOM: An unholy mix of surf, hot rod, rockabilly, '60s garage, psychedelia, primal pop and traditional and alt.country KFAI 90.3 FM (Minneapolis) and 106.7 FM (St. Paul) Noisily streaming live in RealAudio every Friday 9-10:30 p.m. CST Recent archived shows in RealAudio, playlists and much more at: http://www2.bitstream.net/~rumpus2/ Also visit the same address for the Bird Dance Beat guide to comps devoted to the bashin' Upper Midwest rock'n'roll of the Sixties! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:30:40 EST From: TweeKid@aol.com Subject: Info Request on the band CHIN CHIN I'm trying to find out some information on a Swiss band from the mid-eighties called Chin Chin, can anybody out there help? They were poppy punk indie group with three or four female members. They were somewhat part of the C86 movement with their eight song twelve inch "Stop Your Crying" on 53rd & 3rd Records (AGAS001 12"EP 1986). I've also got two Swiss releases on Farmer Records, We Don't Wanna Be Prisoners + 2 (CHINCHIN1 7" 1984) and Stop Your Crying + 2 (CHINCHIN3 12"PS1986). What was CHINCHIN2? Now I know that they released an album entitled "Sound of The West Way" on Farmer Records but I've never seen a copy of it, does anybody out there have it or even a track listing? Any info on the band will be appreciated. Come on now, somebody out there has the info!!! Matthew Kaplan ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 07:49:55 -0800 (PST) From: Iam Fuzzco Subject: Re: the worst song in the world - --- Euphorik6@aol.com wrote: > > ok this is kind of a long shot, but maybe > somebody out there can help. what it was was some > guy narrating the blow-by-blow of a boxing match > between jesus and satan, and it went > something like this: > "in this corner in the flaming red shorts,....we > have the prince of darkness - LUCIFER, SATAN, > BEELZEBUB....and in this> corner, weighing in at > 135 pounds, the greatest hope of the human race, the > man from galilee...it's JESUS CHRIST > etc etc etc > > i would love to get a hold of an MP3 of this, > but i don't have any idea where to look - this would > have been released sometime before the fall of > 1989, and i doubt it could have been much more than > 4 or 5 years old at the time....does anybody have > any idea what this might have been? i'd love to put > it on a tape and mail it to my friend damon, he > would shit himself. > any help would be really appreciated. > This sounds an awful lot like a piece from the WFMU's "Happy Listeners Guide to Mind Control", a marathon pledge premium made by Station Manager Ken, of various recorded odditites. The tape has a excerpt from "The Game of Life" by Jarrel McCracken, a Christian allegory using a football game instead of a boxing match. You hear it online at: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/electronic-publications/subgenius/soundz/WFMU/happy_listener's_guide.html Even if this isn't the guy, I'm sure you will get a kick out of it. __________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 09:22:15 -0700 From: colorcoat@home.com Subject: Enigma Agent Orange's "This is The Voice" LP was on Enigma. You could also order the Agent Orange skateboard with "bright Day-Glo colors and exciting graphics designed by Agent Orange themselves" for $120 back in '86. "The Big Shot Chronicles" by Game Theory also appeared on this label of variations. Ted L. James questioned: > Who did they have on their roster? The Smithereens, > Ben Vaughn, and the duo > of Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper are the ones that come to > mind, mainly because > those were the ones I bought!! I know there were > other significant artists > besides that, but the names escape me now. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 11:34:10 EST From: HOODOO3005@aol.com Subject: Re: Enigma Records Rob was talking about Enigma's reissue subsidiary: << enigma retro had stuff like beefheart's "lick my decals off baby" and the wildman fischer album out on cassette & CD in the late eighties. i still have the beefheart tape in my car. wasn't it also enigma retro that put out all of the tim buckley albums about 89 or 90?? >> As far as I can remember, Enigma Retro reissued a gang of stuff from Frank Zappa's Bizarre and Straight labels. This would have included Beefheart, Fischer, the Buckley albums he recorded for Straight (don't know if they reissued any Buckley before or after this period), the GTO's, Alice Cooper, and the vastly underrated Persuasions. James ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 11:37:06 EST From: Jangellamf@aol.com Subject: Re: the worst song in the world Damn--I'd pay a year's salary to forget the whole incident. But I gotta hand it to you, that tune does sound worse than "Margaritaville". That takes some doing. "Christian Rock" is like "Canadian Cuisine". It doesn't exist. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 09:05:16 -0800 From: "Barry Stevenson" Subject: Enigma Records Wow.. I almost forgot about them... My good friends Psychobud, from Orange County, CA, put out an EP on Enigma.. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 09:06:31 -0800 (PST) From: Michelle Skoorka Subject: Tenacious D I LOVE Tenacious D! Their TV show is a riot .... and to tell ya the truth, I love their voices. Their CD was one of the few things I really wanted for Chanuka/Xmas and I think it's GREAT. You gotta take some of the stuff with a grain o' salt and it's definitely not for the faint hearted or those without a twisted sense o' humor - but it's mostly hysterical. Hell, the cover alone is worth it (both of the guys wearing nothing but guitars and devil horns chained to a big satan type monster??? can't beat it!) caught that SNL the other day, in hopes the "D" would make an appearance and boy was I happy when they did. Well worth staying up past my bedtime. Michelle - --------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 09:12:07 -0800 From: "Barry Stevenson" Subject: Huh? Betty Serveert? Who Dat? Saw Betty Serveert in the early 90's when their debut "Palomine" came out... They were great live and were very dynamic, they would play real quiet verses and explode on the chorus'. They suffered a real sophomore slump, and after that I never checked back in, but I would definitely check out "Palomine".. It rocks!!.. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 12:51:18 -0500 From: "Astroboy" Subject: Re: the worst song in the world I have the 'Game of Life' record and it's pretty wacko to be sure. Likewise another crazy find called 'Flight F-I-N-A-L' where the narrator is the captain of an airline flight to the afterlife. Nutzy christian records are sometimes amazing. I have a number of records by 'ventriloquists for the lord' like Marcy, which are just too psychotic. I have yet to find an album by 'Geraldine and Ricky', which is about the most warped of the lot. I know she has at least 2, and I have a cd-r of one. I'd love to find a copy of either, because she came to my Junior High in the 70s. All morning the black kids were buzzing that 'Geraldine' was coming to school. They were honestly expecting to see Flip Wilson in drag and what we got was some white christian lady with big hair doing a stand-up with her little pal Ricky, all in the name of the lord. She was obsessed with nickels, saying thinks like "...if you had 2 nickels and one was for your ice cream and the other was for the lord, and you lose one nickel, would you still buy some ice cream?" That's about all you could understand, really, because our auditorium doubled as the gymnasium and had so much echo that her routine sounded like a periods of low steady mumbling (her voice) followed by high pitched squealing (her dummy's) Talk about freakish displays!! - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Iam Fuzzco" To: Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 10:49 AM Subject: Re: the worst song in the world > > > --- Euphorik6@aol.com wrote: > > > > ok this is kind of a long shot, but maybe > > somebody out there can help. what it was was some > > guy narrating the blow-by-blow of a boxing match > > between jesus and satan, and it went > > something like this: > > "in this corner in the flaming red shorts,....we > > have the prince of darkness - LUCIFER, SATAN, > > BEELZEBUB....and in this> corner, weighing in at > > 135 pounds, the greatest hope of the human race, the > > man from galilee...it's JESUS CHRIST > > etc etc etc > > > > i would love to get a hold of an MP3 of this, > > but i don't have any idea where to look - this would > > > have been released sometime before the fall of > > 1989, and i doubt it could have been much more than > > 4 or 5 years old at the time....does anybody have > > any idea what this might have been? i'd love to put > > it on a tape and mail it to my friend damon, he > > would shit himself. > > any help would be really appreciated. > > > > This sounds an awful lot like a piece from the WFMU's > "Happy Listeners Guide to Mind Control", a marathon > pledge premium made by Station Manager Ken, of various > recorded odditites. > > The tape has a excerpt from "The Game of Life" by > Jarrel McCracken, a Christian allegory using a > football game instead of a boxing match. > > You hear it online at: > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/electronic-publications/subgenius/soundz/WFMU/hap py_listener's_guide.html > > Even if this isn't the guy, I'm sure you will get a > kick out of it. > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > ===> To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe bomp" to majordomo@xnet2.com <=== > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 09:26:19 -0800 From: "Alan Wright" Subject: Re: bomp-digest V2002 #44 Oh yeah, The Dicks' "Kill from the Heart" was jointly released by both Enigma and SST.>> As was the Subhumans' "No Wishes, No Prayers" LP. Alan ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 13:13:22 EST From: Redlabour@cs.com Subject: I finally own a Farfisa Mini Compact Organ Greetings, I am happy to announce that I own a Farfisa Mini Compact Organ. I knew when I saw the UPS truck this morning, that it had arrived. Although I will continue to use my Casio Keyboard, in case my I get any complications from an instrument that is atleast 35 years old. My band is probably the only psychedelic garage band in Raleigh. We are the Scerry Merrys currently lacking a drummer. The line up includes Jim Schafer on Bass Guitar and Vocals. Jason Quidley plays Guitar. Melvin Little (that's me) now plays the Farfisa Organ & Tambourine. I am still interested in getting a Vox Continental Organ. If anyone wants to sell me one, or know where I could get one, please let me know. I'm talking either Vox Continental or even a Vox Jaguar. Cheers, Melvin Little listening to Radio Rumpus On-Line Launch Pad ------------------------------ End of bomp-digest V2002 #45 **************************** ===================================================================== You've been reading bomp-digest, the digest version of the Bomp list. To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe bomp-digest" to majordomo@xnet2.com