From: Automatic digest processor To: Recipients of SOMMS digests Subject: SOMMS Digest - 20 May 1999 to 21 May 1999 Date: Friday, May 21, 1999 2:01 AM There are 7 messages totalling 213 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Loser 2. THE LYRICS ... (2) 3. Song Credits 4. projects on grunge/ kerrang news 5. SOMMS Digest - 19 May 1999 to 20 May 1999 6. MSNBC tribute to buckley. To UNSUBSCRIBE from SOMMS, send email to LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU with the following in the body of your message: SIGNOFF SOMMS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 23:31:28 PDT From: Sassy * Subject: Loser I found my copy of Loser at Amazon.com and I believe that it is still available. I haven't checked in eons but see for yourself Sassy - who thinks that the word grunge is only a fashion statement, I'll call the music anything but grunge. >In a message dated 5/19/99 3:04:47 PM, Gallagwar@AOL.COM writes: > ><< There's this great book called Loser: The Story of the Seattle Music >Scene. >It's packed with awesome stuff. I think they have it at most Barnes and >Nobles (I've been to two and they both had it) or you can order it over the >net. It's got tons of Soundgarden and Nirvana and what not. >> > >umm.. last time i checked it was out of print! can anyone back this up? > >-cv > >------------------------------ > >End of SOMMS Digest - 19 May 1999 to 20 May 1999 >************************************************ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 17:13:54 -0700 From: Carmen Lagunilla Subject: Re: THE LYRICS ... Mike Gallagwar wrote: >next time you hear it, tape it and send it to everyone on the list. >what are you waiting for... start listening!! Huh ... well, we were just waiting for you to order that ... Seriously, why don=B4t you leave aside that Charles Bronson style, man? ... We are doing our best! Later Carmen + Marta Date una vuelta por Soundgarden: http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Amphitheatre/3712/ C de ChrisCornell: http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Theater/5994/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 10:03:23 -0700 From: Mark Miller Subject: Song Credits I was watching the motorvision video last night and I noticed on the back cover that the songwriting credits were all screwed up. On the album it says CC wrote SWMGEC, RC, and Outshined. On the video it says Kim wrote those songs. I think I even remember reading an interview with Kim where he said that Chris wrote RC and the entire riff came out of Chris liking the sound of his guitar through a wah pedal rocked all the way forward (treble). Now I am cofused because I always thought the best SG songs were the ones w/ music and lyrics by CC. Maybe I wasnt giving Kim the credit he deserves? This may quench some of my excitement over the new album if Chris can't write as well as I thought he could. Hopefully they just screwed up the video credits. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 14:05:06 PDT From: The Koggle Subject: Re: THE LYRICS ... >Mike Gallagwar wrote: > > >next time you hear it, tape it and send it to everyone on the list. > >what are you waiting for... start listening!! If you're that desperate to hear it, i'm sure the girls won't mind if you give them a call and get them to hum it for you.. heheh.. i am thinking some of you might be having serious thoughts about doing this.... Koggle ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 14:28:10 PDT From: SheLikesSurprises * Subject: Re: projects on grunge/ kerrang news >From: Deborah Baker >"Cornell: We might reform!" DEB!!! that makes me so damn happy!! =)) --------------------------------------------------------------------- >From: The Koggle >What's to tell that wasn't in Hype and wasn't lived through by everyone >else.. > >It's been done and overdone.. it's not new or even interesting anymore. I >mean sure, you want to choose a topic that's mildly cool to impress your >friends or something.. but "grunge"? Too bad you jumped to conclusions, Koggle. Research, usually, when done correctly is not a rehash of past research. Research is taking these sources and through analysis creating your own hypothesis with it. I'm making sure that my project doesn't turn into just another hype!. I'm doing a *musical analysis* of how grunge has musically influenced other modern rock bands, i.e. the imitation of chords and lyrics by bands like godsmack, creed, bush, days of the new. etc. In this effect I won't just be watching documentaries and taking notes but I'll be listenting to the music and creating my personal distinctions. Yeah and so there have been quite a few articles, books written about the grunge movement BUT *any sort of research* adds more information to that sphere of academia anyways and is therefore beneficial. And just like Mike I chose "grunge" because it was something i was interested in and wanted to spend my senior year working on having been so involved with music for a long time. This isn't going to just be some 1000 word thesis paper. This is gonna be, by next May, a year and half of research. I don't know anyone who's ever ventured into such intense research to impress anyone BUT themselves for being so committed. I wanted something to be proud of, something I had worked on academically with one of the things I love most. I feel lucky that I am able to do this project. >the word "grunge" gives me the creeps. heheh Yeah, and the word grunge does make everybody sick but that's the popculture term for it and that's what it will always be. sls*(determind to defend her SRP) _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 22:17:48 EDT From: Eric Odegaard Subject: Re: SOMMS Digest - 19 May 1999 to 20 May 1999 >Speaking exclusively to Kerrang!, Cornell pondered the possibility of the >band reforming: " Everybody still likes everybody," he said, "so it's >totally >plausible that we'll make another record whenever we want. It's not like one >guy punched another guy and you haven't talked to them in eight years. I >think >as soon as everybody feels equally enthusiastic about it, we'll probably do >something." > >Cornell's debut solo album, which features ex-Soundgarden drummer Matt >Cameron >on one track, is currently untitled and will hit the shops in September, UK >dates are presently scheduled for October. Hmm.. I'll have to check the magazine out tomorrow (I think one or two record stores around me sell it). If this is true, this is great news! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 00:37:11 EDT From: Niki Freer Subject: MSNBC tribute to buckley. hey sommsters. does anyone have this on video? i didn't watch it/missed it first time around because i didn't think i had msnbc [which i did] and i wasn't that into jeff buckley then [sure am now!]. so, double smack on the side of my head for that one. i'd ask for anyone, but since i'm in the US, i don't know what it would take to convert the other formats.... hmm. so if you have it, are willing to trade for, say, audio or a blank video tape, and its in VHS, please do email me. thanks! mindriot ps- UKdeb's news from kerrang!... awesome! but i'll believe it when i see/hear it. ------------------------------ End of SOMMS Digest - 20 May 1999 to 21 May 1999 ************************************************