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!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!gds From: gds@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Greg Skinner) Newsgroups: mod.music Subject: Love-Hounds Digest Message-ID: <1246@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> Date: Tue, 11-Mar-86 05:00:35 EST Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.1246 Posted: Tue Mar 11 05:00:35 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 12-Mar-86 06:39:46 EST Organization: MIT Lusers and Hosers Inc., Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 123 Approved: gds@eddie.mit.edu Love-Hounds Digest Tuesday, March 11, 1986, 05:00 Today's Topics: Jack O'Roe and traditional themes Laurie Anderson tour? (2 msgs) [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 7 Mar 86 9:51:44 EST From: Hofmann@AMSAA.ARPA Subject: Jack O'Roe and traditional themes Jack O'Roe? You might have better luck querying net.dead but from what I've heard of the song - it is the same theme about a woman posing as a cabin boy but the story is quite different. Apparently, this Jack O'Roe is dressed as such to follow her love into war. I'm not sure if her sailor boyfriend finds out who she is until the very end when she lies dying after saving him I think. She states that she would rather see, "10,000 fall" than see her boyfriend die. Again, my grasp of lyrics and facts is very tenuous. But then what are facts, anyway? Usually things that get disproved later anyway. Are we speaking relativistspeak or redundantspeak? So the Dead song is a lot less baudy and more sad. So be it. Alot of traditional songs (especially from England) make their way in varying degrees to rock. Stagger Lee comes to mind - I've heard the Dead do this song and the Clash do this song and some old bluesmen do this song and each time it's different. Anyone know of other Stagger Lee "covers"? Summary: Group Proposed Interpretation ----- Dead Stagger Lee is a big bully who shoots some dude named Billy(?). Billy's girlfriend shoots Stagger Lee's balls off ("he shot my baby dead, now he's got to die") when the police prove ineffectual ("you bust the girl who are turning tricks but you're scared of Stagger Lee"). Clash The Clash specifically warn Boyo to stay away from STagger Lee. He's dangerous and will only hurt you. old bluesman Typical male revenge song. Billy blows away Stagger or Stagger wins.... Jim Croce Same type of story, different name - Leroy Brown. [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 7 Mar 86 12:17:53 EST From: hsut@ec.purdue.edu (Tsun-Yuk Hsu) If you're thinking of replacing your worn-out Talking Heads tapes with the $3.50 copies of Fear of Music and Remain in Light listed in the recent Wayside catalog, be warned that no lyric sheets are included. Also, my cassette of Cabaret Voltaire's Crackdown came in a half-disintegrated cassette case (the tape was undamaged). And of course they sold out of Sonic Youth's Kill Yr. Idols. AAAAAAARGGHHHHHHHHHH!! Other than that, of course, Wayside is still a great place to order your obscure music from. (How can you be out of Sonic Youth? Sigh...) "Suicide statements are the measure of the man" Bill Hsu [][][][][][][][][][] Return-Path: Date: Fri, 7 Mar 86 01:59:41 est From: bdmrrr!potomac!jsl@seismo.CSS.GOV (John Labovitz) Subject: Laurie Anderson tour? While reading net.music.synth, I noticed references to various Laurie Anderson shows. Is she on tour? Does anyone know the tour schedule; in particular, is she coming to DC? PLEASE let me know. I really want to see her again (so does my mother, and about 10 of my friends). John Labovitz ..!{rlgvax,seismo}!bdmrrr!potomac!jsl -- Don't act so embarrassed It's a family trait -- Robyn Hitchcock [][][][][][][][][][] Date: Sat, 8 Mar 86 02:40:23 EST From: nessus (Doug Alan) Subject: Re: Laurie Anderson tour Laurie Anderson just played the Centrum in Boston. I don't know, however, whether or not this was part of a tour, or where she is playing if it is. Be on the lookout! "Last night I dreamed I had to take a test in a Dairy Queen on another planet" Doug [][][][][][][][][][] -- 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