Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site mit-eddie.MIT.EDU Path: utzoo!decvax!bellcore!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!gds From: gds@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Greg Skinner) Newsgroups: mod.music Subject: Love-Hounds Digest Message-ID: <1228@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> Date: Sun, 9-Mar-86 02:22:20 EST Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.1228 Posted: Sun Mar 9 02:22:20 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Mar-86 22:40:30 EST Organization: MIT Lusers and Hosers Inc., Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 245 Approved: gds@eddie.mit.edu Love-Hounds Digest Sunday, March 9, 1986, 02:24 Today's Topics: Princess Tinymeat? My encounter with "The Most Feared Man In Rock"! I think I'm going to die... The Handsome Cabin Boy [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Wed, 5 Mar 86 13:37:25 est From: David Oskard Subject: Princess Tinymeat? Somebody tell me about Princess Tinymeat! Sounds like a real winner. dno ~r [][][][][][][][][][] Return-Path: Date: Wed, 5 Mar 86 15:53:20 EST From: Susanne E Trowbridge Subject: My encounter with "The Most Feared Man In Rock"! The Fall are my favorite band currently in existence (that neatly sidesteps Roxy Music and Joy Division). Maybe that's why I was so nervous yesterday as I sat in Washington's 9:30 Club, waiting for them to emerge...I've interviewed so many musicians, both famous and obscure, and I thought that jittery feeling had gone away forever! But then again, lead singer Mark E. Smith is "The Most Feared Man In Rock," according to the British music weeklies (forgot who it was exactly who gave him this tag). He sing-speaks his acerbic lyrics, often unintelligible, and has been known to show hostility to many an interviewer. I was hoping and praying that I would get to speak to his wife, Brix, one of The Fall's three guitarists and a Californian. Of course, things never go as planned...the tour manager handed Brix over to everyone's fave rockcrit guy, J.D. Considine, as I silently fumed and tore up the two pages of questions I had been wanting to ask Brix... Then I saw MARK E. He looks exactly like he does on the record covers. He wasn't snarling or anything, but I was still worried. Karen, the aforementioned tour manager, broke the news that I'd be speaking with Mark and guitarist/bassist Craig Scanlon. We were told to go to a bar and grill about two blocks from the club. We weren't told exactly where it was. Fortunately, my fellow interviewer/boyfriend had spotted it on the way and we managed to get there without too much difficulty. Well, believe it or not, Mark E. Smith is a nice guy!!!!!!!!!!!!! He' He has a great sense of humor, and although he said he'd done ten interviews the day before and wanted to leave most of the talking to Craig, he ended up joining in the conversation and even staying around to talk to us after Craig had gone back to the soundcheck. We talked about politics, Japan, all kinds of weird things. Craig told me that he had spent his free day in DC touring the NRA... Best line from Mark: an obnoxious DJ from a Rochester, NY station came to the bar to fetch him back to the soundcheck, and on the way walking back, asked what guarantee the Fall had gotten (i.e. $$$). Mark said, "We don't talk about things like that in England. It's like asking me what kind of sex I have with my wife!" The Feared Side of Mark E. emerged at the show itself, when the monitors weren't working. Mark kicked over the synthesizer (it still worked!), the mike stand, and threw beer on the audience. The audience soon joined in the violence, and a few started slam- dancing madly. I had a great place near the front and found myself so jostled around that I attempted to move to the left...however, the slamming grew wilder and I spent the entire show in much closer contact with my fellow audience members than I cared to be. As for the show, it was OK, not great...the band wasn't in a good mood, perhaps because of the equipment...Mark E. was commenting earlier about how badly the 9:30 Club was run. The versions of "Cruisers Creek" and "L.A." were rather lame. They did lots of new material and obscure single b-sides... All in all, the interview was by far the best part of the show. Sorry to have prattled on for so long, but if you aren't interested in the Fall, you probably haven't read this far anyway. sue [][][][][][][][][][] Return-Path: Date: Wed, 5 Mar 86 18:07:14 est From: bdmrrr!potomac!jsl@seismo.CSS.GOV (John Labovitz) Subject: I think I'm going to die... There are SOOO many good concerts and shows this month that I think my brain might explode. For you people in the DC area, here's what I think are interesting. Some of these are on tour, so check for them in your town. 13th Jonathan Richman [Saba Club]. Yeah yeah yeah! This is his yearly (or so) appearance (last year he came twice). I think the modern lovers are going to be with him, at least some form of them. 15th Tru Fax and the Insaniacs [9:30 Club]. Ok, so they aren't a hot new band, but they're silly and fun. 16th Pussy Galore, Madhouse, (others) [1819 H St NW (some bar -- if anyone's interested, mail me and I'll find out)]. Pussy Galore is supposedly really bad, so it should be interesting. Madhouse is good. 28th Robyn Hitchcock [9:30 Club]. YEA YEA YEA again. He just played here a couple of months ago, did he come back again from England, or is this still the same tour? Anyway, should be good. This time I'm going to tape it... (altho the 9:30 club just started frisking people for things like that). 28th Troubled Garden [dc space]. WHY ARE THEY PLAYING THE SAME DATE AS ROBYN??? ARGG! This is a *great* band. And they had supposedly broken up. Since 9:30 club is always late for everything, you could probably walk down to dc space and stand outside and listen, then go see Robyn. Support your local scene. Support your remote scene. Just support something. John Labovitz ..!{rlgvax,seismo}!bdmrrr!potomac!jsl -- Don't act so embarrassed It's a family trait -- Robyn Hitchcock [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Thu, 6 Mar 86 02:00:31 EST From: nessus (Doug Alan) Subject: The Handsome Cabin Boy Kate's new import twelve-inch single has been available in the U.S. for more than a week now, so I trust you have all run out and bought it, so that you have every note KB has ever put down on vinyl. But for those errant few who do not have it yet or who have not researched it's entire history, I will tell you about it. The A side contains a totally new version of the song "Hounds Of Love". It is *not* a remix, but a totally new version called "Alternate Hounds Of Love". It is so different from the original, you could even say it's a new song. The drum beat is similar and it has the cellos chugging away, but the melody and lyrics are different. It is better than the original, musically, though the lyrics are more in the extended remix vein. The background vocals border on the silly (even more so than on the original), but someohow the sillyness fits perfectly and it sounds great. The B-side contains the album version of "Jig Of Life" and a new song "The Handsome Cabin Boy". "The Handsome Cabin Boy" is a traditional dirty sea chantey, and Kate sings it a cappela in her best Scottish accent. Throughout there is a haunting chorus of Kates in the background droning a continuous two notes that are a fifth apart. This is really neat not only because it sounds *really* intense, but also because this is what bag pipes do. Bag pipes have three pipes. The pitch of one of the pipes can be controlled, but the other two pipes always play the same two notes which are a fifth apart. I have known for a while that Kate Bush was introduced to music as a kid by singing dirty sea chanteys with her brothers, and I find it strange that a dirty sea chantey now appears on her record. When I interviewed Kate, one of the questions I was going to ask if I had the time was if she would be willing to sing one of the dirty sea chanteys she sang as a kid. And now one is on her record! In any case, I have heard the song "The Handsome Cabin Boy" before. In fact, I heard it on a tape of a radio show done about five years ago where KB was guest DJ. HCB was one of the songs she played, and she said it's an "absolutely classic story". It was peformed by A. L. Loyd and Euwan McCall. I'm told that has also been performed by Gordon Bok. These are the lyrics as Kate sings them: It's of a pretty female as you may understand Her mind been bent for rambling into some foreign land She dressed herself in sailor's clothes, or so it does appear And she hired with a captain to serve him for a year Her cheeks they were like roses and her hair all in a curl The sailors often smiled and said he looked just like a girl But eating all the captain's biscuit her colour did destroy And the waist did swell of pretty Nell, the handsome cabin boy It was in the Bay of Biscay her gallant ship did plow One night among the sailors was a fearful floorin' row They tumbled from their hammocks, for their sleep it did destroy And they swarmed about the groanin' of the handsome cabin boy "Oh doctor, dear. Oh doctor," the cabin boy did cry "The time has come -- I am undone, and I will surely die" The doctor come a'runnin' and a'smilin' at their fun -- To think a sailor lad should have a daughter or a son The sailors when they saw the joke, they all did stand and stare The child belonged to none of them, they solemnly did swear And the captain's wife she says to him, "My dear I wish you joy For 'tis either you or me's betrayed the handsome cabin boy" [the end] There are two verses to the song which Kate has left out. One is the second verse: The captain's wife she being on board, she seem-ed in great joy To see her husband had engaged such a handsome cabin boy And now and then she'd slip in a kiss, and she would have liked to toy But it was the captain found out the secret of the handsome cabin boy [end of second verse] The other is the last verse: Then each man took his tot of rum, and drunk success to trade And likewise to the cabin boy, who was neither man nor maid Here's hopin' the wars don't rise again, our sailors to destroy And here's hoping for a jolly lot more like the handsome cabin boy [end of last verse] Coming soon: Kate directs her first video ("Hounds of Love") and they are showing it on Night Flight and V66.... "Run, run, run, run, run, run, Honey Run from the hounds of love" Doug P.S. KB trivia for today: I know two different people who heard Tod Rungren guest DJ two different radio shows back in '78 or '79, and he played nothing but Kate Bush.... (So you see, Jim, Tod is good for something!) [][][][][][][][][][] -- It's like a jungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under. Greg Skinner (gregbo) {decvax!genrad, allegra, gatech, ihnp4}!mit-eddie!gds gds@eddie.mit.edu