Forever Again ISPC
A, well, sort of friend of mine (we only know eachother through email) bought a CD with Eric's Trip in a what we in Sweden would call a Buy, Trade Sell recordstore (but we use the Swedish words :). He'd never heard them before and thought it was a single but it turned out to be a copy of Forever Again with the words In-Store Play Copy written all over it. The cover is not the same as the real one, it's got a blackwhite photo of the band sitting on the top of a stair, taken from the bottom of the stairs. It was unopened, still in plastic, and he paid 20 SEK for it... that's like 4 CAD I think... Um, well, that's all... maybe it's interesting to someone... BTW, Johnny Panic wrote reg. Sonic Youth : 4. they suck cos washing machine has got one stinking lousy cover. Cool, have they really covered one of OUR songs???!!! :) Magnus |_|_|_ |_ _| _|_| _| _| |_ |_ |_ |_ _| _| _| _| _| |_ |_ |_ |_ _| _| _| _| |_ |_ |_ |_ _|_|_|_| |_ |_ |_ |_ _| _| _|_| |_|_|_|_|_| _|_| _| |_ _| |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_|_| _| [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lysator.liu.se/~chief/lousy.html http://www.mc.hik.se/benno/Home/Bands/Bands/Lousy/lousy.html
related in some way, i hope
AHH! My computer is back and working, lost a lot of mail (look, no S :) but my signature was still there, THANK GOD! Look for the fantastic thingy at the end of this stuff that probably won't interest any of you. Sorry. BUT someone mentioned Posies and slamdancing and when we (Lousy, the band I'm in (I don't like the sound of my band)) played this weekend at the same festival as the wonderful Posies I talked to their bassplayer and he said he knew the guys from Sloan and, well, no, for the thirteenth time, it's not *MAYBE*! They ARE breaking up!. He liked my Sloan t-shirt and the next day when I had my ET-shirt on he said oh, so you like canadian bands, don't you?. Really bright fella, eh? :) Well, I really LOVE the Posies, but I'm not really fond of that guy. He's a fucking LIAR! (to quote one of the new fantastic Posies- songs.) He promised he'd were a Lousy t-shirt when they played, but he didn't. They should get rid of him... He doesn't fit in. Looks like he's playing in the chili peppers and acts like he's playing with the rolling stones. What? No, I'm not dissapointed... What makes you think that? :) But, HEY, they where great (except for mr LIAR, hrmphh. He liked our demo though. At least he said so...) and YES there was an awful lot of swedes slamdancing and surfing. I'm thinking of ordering some stuff (i.e. Eric's Trip and Moon Socket) from Derivative, and I wonder if someone would like to tell me if they've got anything else worth purchasing. BTW, today I'm one of the happiest boys on the planet! I got some lovely stuff from Sappy Records including a letter signed both Jon and Julie, they REALLY seem to like our demo (even Ben the baby! According to Julie he'd moved his leg!) and... well, I'm not telling you any more right now. Cake tare, Magnus - REALLY happy! :D ps - does anyone know anything about Sunday Records, Illinois? Please let me know! ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * ** ** * ** - letting people down since 1994 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Aarghh!!!/HPlyric?/Les Amis comp?
First my dishwasher... then the TV... then the fridge... and when I got back from my two week vacation in Greece a week ago I turned on my computer, received about 200 emails and had just begun to read them when the screen suddenly just went blank and nothing worked and still doesn't. Then after some hard work I got the 2400 modem in the computer at my job to work. For a while... then it crashed... and took a bunch of mails with it... I feel like using some really bad language, you know... Now I'm using my friend Tomas computer and I really hope it won't break down in some way... He'd probably strangle me then... SO if someone posted me something like the first three weeks of July, PLEASE post it again since I lost a lot of mails before I was able to read them. And if someone with a soft heart is feeling sorry for me, PLEASE let me know! I NEED YOUR PITY!!! :) If I missed some valuable sloannet stuff, I'd be forever thankful if someone would be a friend and update me, sort of. Would someone like to help me (am I in need of help OR WHAT???) with the words to the Hardship Post song on the Cinnamon Toast Comp.? Can't remember the name, not rock is my life, the other one. You know the one that goes come home won't you come home like a million times. It's the things they don't repeat that I've got some problems with. Lousy (the band I'm in) is about to play at the biggest swedish festival (am I freakin nervous OR WHAT???) soon and we might include both that song and about you (ET) in our set. Not that we don't have own songs to fill it with, but we really love the opportunity we have to sort of market the Halifaxian music scene. But I guess, since we suck, the effect will be the opposite... Oh, one last question (get off our backs WILL YA???) What's this talk about the Les Amis de Sloan comp.? Am I supposed to send something somewhere? Have I missed something? We'd love to be on that sort of compilation! Someone let me know! PLEASE? Thanks a lot and sorry for wasting space, Magnus the annoying swede, hated by all machines [EMAIL PROTECTED] ps - shant, they're on their way
swedish reviews
Hey... Someone asked me for this, but I can't remember who it was... so I hope it'll interest all of you. If it won't I'm terribly sorry for wasting space... The reviews are from the three largest musical magazines in Sweden: Sound Affects, Pop and Slitz. If you'd ask me I'd say that Sound Affects is the best (most possible to write about bands I like, that is). It's also the smallest of them. Pop is kind of OK too. Looks really good, long articles but rarely about bands I like. Slitz sucks. I don't buy it anymore. It's a music/fashion magazine, always a naked tit on the cover, sort of. And never any articles about interesting bands. I haven't found any articles, sorry. I know that one of the most wellknown fanzines had one about Sloan, but I haven't got that issue. Please, excuse my spelling and my grammar. And if I've invented any new words or phrases - sorry... English's not my main language, you know... You'll hopefully get the point of the reviews anyway. Well, I'm off to Greece for two weeks. Take care, Magnus ps - has anyone got a sloandiscography they would like to share with me? Please? ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * ** ** * ** - letting people down since 1994 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] * SWEDISH REVIEWS OF SLOANNET-RELATED BANDS * SLOAN Smeared 3/5 It's Halifax, Canada, that's going to be the next musical-capital of the universe after Seattle, and in the front of the bands we'll find Sloan. All according to the english mags NME and Melody Maker. But you really could object against their choice and it's total lack of originality. Sloan's yet another guitarbased band like Superchunk/Pavement. It's happy grunge with sympathic harmonies, and it's all recycled. Sonic Youth, Lou Reed and Pavement amongst others. But where are the promised Beach Boys- and Birdsinfluences? One thing's clear: you can keep your flannelshirt on. Eva Kvanta, Slitz #2 apr-93 7/10 er... this one's a bit tough... the reviewer starts with telling us how happy candy and candybags (is that what it's called?) makes her, sort of... ...To listen to Smeared makes me as happy as I get with just thinking of Jellyfish's Andy Sturmer and hearing him sing New Mistake YESYESYES!!! I love Jellyfish!!! This girl is cool!!! Sorry, WAS... I don't think she's cool nowadays. What do you think, Per? :) Sloan from Nova Scotia, Canada, has mixed the best of all the indiecandy and then turned it into a record. It started in June 1992 with the Peppermint EP and now it continues with Smeared on Geffen. In the candybag that's called Raspberry lies My Bloody Valentine and Radiohead. In I am the Cancer lies Delaware by Drop Nineteens. And Two Seater probably thinks that Bubblegum Ride is very tasty. I think is the sort of candy that crackles on your tongue. Jay Ferguson acts Lou Reed in Left of Centre which could've been named Temptations Inside Your Heart. The best of all the Sloan-candy is Take it in. Because it's a sweet that's sold by Willy Wonka. It's a sweet that tastes like Jesus And Mary Chain and changes color when you suck at it. Linda Norrman, Pop #2 apr-93 ERIC'S TRIP Songs About Chris 4/5 This one is just too much for me... I don't even understand it in Swedish, sort of... Well, the reviewer mentions: Steve Albini (something about Rick being the first ever to understand SA's genius), eastern Canada, Michelle Shocked's Campfire Tapes, the Sonic Youth-song, Feelies (for the green sixty- feeling), Ultra Vivid Scene (for the warpness ?) and a drugfree Butthole Surfers (for the fantasy). The six songs are miniature masterpieces painted with a woodenstick on a piece of driftwood. Eric's Trip really is something unique! And he ends the review with: Sub Pop says they've found a *scene up there*. One trembles. Lars Aldman, Sound Affects #20 aug/sep-93 ERIC'S TRIP Love Tara 4/5 oh no... not him AGAIN!!! :) I'm skipping this one too, ok? He goes on about the painting-stuff painted with colors without names, made out of ashes, blood and candle-grease. One of the members seems to be transparent. He mentions Fastbacks, Pixies, Neil Young and Big Star in some kind of way. music that combines beauty, lust, restlessness, desire and energy, without sounding like anything else. Well, maybe. Like the pop version of Sonic Youth. Lars Aldman, Sound Affects #22 jan/feb-94 JALE Dreamcake 7/10 Jale is four women from Canada that knocks me down with their simple americanised pop. And it should do well with those who likes the Breeders, even though Jale don't have a Cannonball. The best thing about them is the beautifully synchronized vocal harmonies. Not totally unlike Lush, at the time when they still sounded fresh and concentrated on the music instead of releaseparties. How fresh Jale is going to sound two years from now I don't care about, because
