THE MAGICAL ARMCHAIR
The Ben Folds Five Digest
Issue #959 - April 25, 1998
Magical Armchair Digest Saturday, April 25 1998 Volume 01 : Number 959
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TOPICS IN THIS DIGEST:
Dave Matt? / some of my fav bands
BFF and the Police
More VKTRS / UDMO
alright, here we go
Video, for the 15,000th time.
BFF on the Real World
hello everyone
Re: To Richard Challen
Y-100 Festival
im mystie 7319.
explanation
Kickass bands
For better or for worse
the funny ringing in stevens
My god!! Another Crowdie!
Complete BAND LIST for Y100 fez-tival
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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 20:45:48 -0400
From: Mike Wilkinson <mwzoso@neo.lrun.com>
Subject: Dave Matt? / some of my fav bands
Can anyone confirm a rumour I heard that Dave Matthews is going to be a
guest at the Beck/BFF show in Cleveland on June 1st?
Also, here are some of my favorite bands beside BFF. (Picking only 5 would
be way too hard for me to do.)
(in no particular order):
Lou Reed/Velvet Underground
Built to Spill
Led Zeppelin
Pearl Jam
Stereolab
Braid (a recent addition)
Bob Dylan
etc.....
as if anyone cares.
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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 17:47:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Katie <kstofer@ugcs.caltech.edu>
Subject: BFF and the Police
Noone's in trouble. I can't imagine any of the guys getting arrested for
"public indecency" in a park restroom or beating anyone up, etc. I just
heard on the radio today the source of the
Sting/Andy/Gordon confusion - Andy Summers is in fact another member of
The Police. Well, according to the DJ's anyway.
Speaking of the radio, it looks like LA is trying to make the boys into
one-hit wonders. I haven't heard Brick in ages and never SFTD. Yet, KROQ
is still sponsoring their May show.... Any comments on the brilliance of
L.A. radio? we do have the all showtunes station which has one show
hosted
by the same lady who does Lucky supermarket commercials, and another
hosted by Florence Henderson of Brady Bunch and Wesson oil fame.
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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 20:49:05 -0400
From: Adam Tyner <ctyner@CLEMSON.EDU>
Subject: More VKTRS / UDMO
Regarding Video Killed The Radio Star:
>actually, the buggles wrote "video killed the radio star" it was the first
>ever video on mtv....august 1985(?)
IIRC, it was August 1, 1981 - "I Live With It" by Barenaked Ladies helps me
remember the date... ;)
>The Presidents of the US were not the people who wrote the song. It was the
>"Buggles" an eighties band. The Presidents simply did a cover on it like Ben
>Folds 5 but Ben Folds 5 did it first.
I dunno...it's been a part of the Presidents' live set since at least
'95...possibly even '94.
Off-topic: why do so many people on the Armchair bear such hatred for the
Prezzies? They're a lot of fun, IMO...
As for UDMO:
>can the guy who posted the UDMO email please post it again or email it to
>me. thanks.
dogbone@voicenet.com - it's been a couple of weeks since I sent them my
order for Live From The Underground, and I still haven't heard a word back
from them. :S
- -Adam
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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 20:51:02 EDT
From: Lifeis ski <Lifeisski@aol.com>
Subject: alright, here we go
I've been a loyal armchair reader for a good while now, maybe a little more
than a year, and I've finally decided to post.
Hi, I'm Matty and I'm a virgin to the world of finding good imports, so
could someone please let me know how to get a hold of them b/c I keep finding
the same ones in my local record stores. much appreciated.
now for my second motivation to post...my five non bff bands:
REM
Miles Davis(good ole jazz era)
They Might Be Giants(recent addition)
Indigo Girls
Crosby, Stills and Nash(not Young, he always ruins everything)
matty j
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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 21:37:23 EDT
From: KNULPREK <KNULPREK@aol.com>
Subject: Video, for the 15,000th time.
In a message dated 98-04-23 20:19:05 EDT, Mike Baltuswrite:
<< The Presidents simply did a cover on it like Ben
Folds 5 but Ben Folds 5 did it first. >>
"The Presidents simply did a cover on it like Ben
Folds 5 but Ben Folds 5 did it first."
Untrue. The Presidents were playing that song live when they were touring for
their debut album, which was around 1995.. so, they did it first. BFF did it
BETTER!! :)
-jason.
<A HREF="http://members.aol.com/knulprek/home.html">The Happy Scrappy Page
</A>
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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 21:50:31 EDT
From: CFielder98 <CFielder98@aol.com>
Subject: BFF on the Real World
Just wanted to let everyone know that there was BBF playing in the background
of "The Real World" on MTV....
Mark
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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 22:25:04 EDT
From: LILLYHAMMR <LILLYHAMMR@aol.com>
Subject: hello everyone
Well, I'm new to this mailing list, but from everyone else's posts I figured
we were all suppose to give a list of our five favorite bands besides BFF. I
know I'm going to write these and later go doh, that's wrong. But, here are
mine:
1. Sublime
2. Smashing Pumpkins
3. Squirrel Nut Zippers
4. Jimmy Buffett
5. The Doors
I like almost any big band
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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 22:32:29 EDT
From: Dimsdale0 <Dimsdale0@aol.com>
Subject: Re: To Richard Challen
Holy damn, someone else out there knows of Tom Waits! I've been following him
ever since his first album, Closing Time. Grapefruit Moon is one of the best
songs ever written, in me humble opinion, and would,. by the way, be a great
cover song for Ben Folds Five. But I gotta ask, has anyone heard of LOUDON
WAINWRIGHT III? I'd written earler that I was talking to Ben Folds after
their concert in Syracuse NY (HORDE Festival), and he was saying that he'd
just bought Loudon's album a week before. The album he was referring to is
called simply Album III, and has the song "Red Guitar" on it, which Ben
happened to point out as a stand-out on the album. It was so odd to think
that we connected about a song that was written in 1972, when I was a wee lad
of 13. Ah, I'm rambling now. Sorry. Anyway, write back if you have any
specific Tom Waits favorites. (Great actor too, by the way.) Dimsdale0
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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 23:17:32 -0400
From: "M. Pratt" <mpratt@voicenet.com>
Subject: Y-100 Festival
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Hey Chair People...
Tickets for the Y-100 Feztival go on sale Saturday (April 25th). =
Complete info is at www.electricfactory.com. Other bands scheduled are =
Green Day, Marcy Playground, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, usual summer =
festival one-hit-wonder bands.=20
One thing I'm concerned about...tickets go on sale at the same time for =
the Spice Girls show in June. I'm still trying to figure out what sort =
of omen this is. So if you do call Ticketmaster, make sure you =
enunciate very clearly to the order-taker!
Got my vacation day approved for May 29th. woohoo!
Maria=20
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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 23:28:17 -0500
From: rcc35060@cmsu2.cmsu.edu (rebehka-christine-chrissy-meg-cramer)
Subject: im mystie 7319.
hello dear list people.
i wanted to know since the poster subject has been brought up if anyone in
the mid missouri area knew about the poster shortage that is here too. am i
just not looking in the right places? im in warrensburg and the local super
cool somewhat independent record store 'phoenix' is gone now.
*lets all take a moment of silence for the departure of my beloved little shop*
okay i feel better now.
oh and i would also like to ask my fellow missouri/kansas people if anyone
is going to the sunflower music festival at clinton lake state park on the
16th.
i cant get tickets. (oh just to tell everyone...it has bff,
superdrag,medeski martin and wood, ween, spacehog, tonic and more...good
show huh) i heard a rumor that outhouse and teh rainmakers might show..any
truth to that?
oh and be happy that this list is as good as it is. there are worse lists
out there. this one...well it DOES have a sort of community. really. more
so then ohters ive seen.
oh and NON bff topic,..sorry. im looking for elliot smiths other stuff
besides good will hunting. ive been given a taste and i want to hear more.
any leads? does anyone have anything theyd be willing to dub for me? i dont
have much to trade it for..... :-(
five fave bands other than BFF
THE BEATLES (my god NO QUESTION!)
oasis (i know i know i dont wanna hear it...it IS POSSIBLE to defend them)
rem (insert your own georgia comment here)
beach boys (brian wilson is a handful of a man)
fleetwood mac (two words. silver spring. nuff said.)
oh and i like more than that though. tony bennett, the monkees, marcy
playground, HAYDEN (great canadian independent), elliot smith (natch),
blur, nirvana, otis redding, simon and garfunkel, smashing pumpkins,
radiohead, luscious jackson, matthew sweet, polly jean harvey, violent
femmes, tmbg, john lennons solo work...so much more it makes my eyes bleed.
love to all
p.s. skip.....missin ya kid...still alive?
"ill send my best, cause god knows youve seen my worst"
this is my story both humble and true, take it to pieces and mend it with glue.
everyones favorite chrissy (the silly old bananafish)
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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 21:58:59 PDT
From: "Chandra Hicks" <chanfifteen@hotmail.com>
Subject: explanation
i don't know if it was a huge deal or if anyone cares, but i put up a
post about "bff kicks, i wanna jump robert" kinda thing, the fave bands
were hanson madonna, etc. anyway i just want to clarify, if it wasn't
clear already, that this post was put up to make fun of the people who
actually post things like that, at the bottom i put that i was kidding,
but a lot of people don't read the fine print. anyway, i wasn't trying
to offend. or mislead.
chandra
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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 22:14:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jordan Wightman <tuo2@rocketmail.com>
Subject: Kickass bands
ok everyone, my 5 fav bands:
The Whitlams
Regurgitator
Foo Fighters
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Everclear
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Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 01:58:55 -0400
From: "idaho" <idaho@appstate.campus.mci.net>
Subject: For better or for worse
Now I don't want to contribute to this whole controversy about the success
of Brick and all, but I thought that this little surreal experience needed
to be related.
I'm in the Food Lion supermarket buying the usual and I'm grimacing a little
since Peter Cetera is playing loudly on the canned music machine. I turn
down the next isle just as Peter hits the last mournful note, and, Oh My
God, what should come next--Brick. I was a little shocked and felt that
salmonella rush in my stomach. What's more is the song was paused twice
during it's play over the supermarket loudspeakers to announce the great
daily values on oral hygene products and Captain Crunch. It was all a
little surreal. So for better or worse, there's the story.
Bryan
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Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 00:08:40 -0700 (MST)
From: short1@aztec.asu.edu (LINDSAY DIANE WARREN)
Subject: the funny ringing in stevens
"sjoson" <sjoson@reginadominican.pvt.k12.il.us> Wrote:
Maybe I'm a complete moron, but does anyone else ever reach to pick up the
phone upon hearing a faint ringing towards the end of stevens last night in
town? I know it's there, but I reach for the phone every time.
I do the same thing! and I make a mad dash for the stero to turn it
down so I can answer the phone! :)
Lindsay
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Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 08:52:08 +0000
From: "Luke Wilson"<Luke_Wilson@fwuk.fwc.com>
Subject: My god!! Another Crowdie!
Greetings from here,
To whoever it was praising the mighty Crowded House - yes, oh yes. They
were completely kick-arse/ass (depending on your preference), and just in
case anyone didn't know, Neil Finn releases his solo album on June 15th or
16th depending on where you live on this planet. Buy it.
And, as much as I hate being pedantic : ) but about the 4 Brick singles.
One of the British ones has SFTD (Jap) and Smoke live, the other has MTW
and ....Jelly, whilst the Aussie one has 3 tracks (not two) from the Jap
one, Smoke (live), Mitchell Lane, and Ska Kate. Just thought I'd let
everyone know to stop any disappointment.
Thank you for your time, patience and effort
Luke
"Pilot does a barrel-roll, flip and a stall
And a chorus-girl mosh pit breaks her fall"
Chris Ballew (who, incidentally, is NOT lame)
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Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 10:23:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: Eric Gugick <gugick2@TCNJ.EDU>
Subject: Complete BAND LIST for Y100 fez-tival
Ok, here is the band list for the Y100 show. I'm pissed because I can't
go. I have to go to my sister's graduation from college. But here's the
info:
Main Stage
Greenday
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
BEN FOLDS FIVE
Everclear
Wyclef Jean
Marcy Playground
Cherry Poppin Daddies
Fastball
Jeffrey Gaines
Second Stage
Fuel
Cornershop
God Lives Underwater
Black Lab
Samiam
The Specials
Whoever is going have fun.
I'm not bitter or anything,
Eric
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