Ted Leo IS the American Billy Bragg. Also completely adorkable.

anyone interested in some fast food Simpsons toys? both this current batch and a previous one. I think I have 3 or 4.

I love how this has become the de-facto Simpsons toy thread!

Yes, I'd be interested. Could you email me with details?

Hmm, I swear I read that they were just on a break.

There was a post on the forum from Brian saying they wouldn't be working together anymore, followed by a really long forum post by Amanda about how their breaking up was like getting a divorce, painful but necessary. So yeah. Definitely no more.

Anyway. I ripped the two compilation CDs as samplers ("Asylum Years" and "The Island Years".) I don't think I want to rip all of the other seven, but of the rest, which would you consider his essential albums?

I wouldn't call it essential, per se, but my .02 is that my favorite is Closing Time. And it's probably just my favorite because it was my first Waits CD. So there's that.

For essential-ness, though, I'd go with Hec's and Corwood's recs.

Jon - insent

Did you get a Team Love library card yet?

There was a post on the forum from Brian saying they wouldn't be working together anymore, followed by a really long forum post by Amanda about how their breaking up was like getting a divorce, painful but necessary. So yeah. Definitely no more.

Ah, I'd read a couple of things on Amanda that made it sound less definitive than that, though I also had read that the two of them came to a major creative conflict during the Onion Cellar project. Oh well.

Thanks for that tip, Shir.

Actually, what most intrigued me about that site is that in the background image, there's a three volume Raymond Scott Manhattan Research set. Raymond Scott is best known for his 1930's six member jazz ensemble the Raymond Scott Quintette. Their music, especially the song "Powerhouse", was pilfered extensively by Carl Stalling in the Warner Brothers cartoons. Later in his career, Scott was a pioneer of electronic music, inventing his own instruments using telephone switches and other unlikely machinery. The Manhattan research CD set collects these latter recordings.

Getting back to the background image, I was briefly excited to see that there appeared to be a THREE volume set of these works. The set I have is only two CDs. But then I realized that the set in the image is a vinyl version which, due to space issues, needed to be spread out amongst three LPs: [link]

Raymond Scott is invading my life today. Earlier this morning, I discovered this: [link]

Earlier this morning, I discovered this: [link]

I was gonna link that for you! Apparently they did a Moog figure too. How can they skip on Theremin? A little Clara Rockmore figure at the very least. (That's one of the coolest space age ensembles ever!)

Oooh, here's Clara performing on the "terpistone." Which looks to be something like a cross between a theremin and Dance Dance Revolution.

Huh. Theremin World is a pretty cool site.