From: "Daniele Rossi" Subject: (hats) On Tuesday Date: 02 Jul 2001 10:33:13 -0400 Hi, I finally got the "Pop Goes The World" album on CD after years of cassette. Just wondering if anyone knows what the song 'On Tuesday' is about. # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info hats" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email hats@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # Men Without Hats discography: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?hats ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: JRT456@aol.com Subject: Re: (hats) On Tuesday Date: 02 Jul 2001 11:44:27 EDT <> For that matter, does anyone else get the feeling that whole album is written as a soundtrack to the "Date With An Angel" movie? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info hats" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email hats@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # Men Without Hats discography: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?hats ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: goreal Subject: Re: (hats) On Tuesday Date: 02 Jul 2001 09:44:03 -0700 (PDT) From Ivan's intro to the song for the Atlanta show (4/88 - anyone else there??), Tuesday is the (Roman) god of war, and On Tuesday is an attempt to "appease those gods.." From http://www.indepthinfo.com/weekdays/tuesday.shtml The word "Tuesday", however, was derived from a wholly different religious tradition. Tyr or Tiw was the Norse God of War. When the Germanic Angles and Saxon's invaded England in the 500's they suplanted a culture that had been heavily influenced by Rome for several hundred years. The day, Tuesday, had already been named for the Roman God of War, Martius (notice in French, Italian, and Spanish - the word for Tuesday is still derivative of the Roman God - Mardi, Martedi and Martes - respectively). When the Germanic tribes conquered England, they layed their own lexicon over that of the Roman's so that the Norse God of War now supplanted the Roman God of War (after all the Norse God was obviously more potent). Thus they called the day of the God of War tiwesdaeg. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info hats" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email hats@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # Men Without Hats discography: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?hats ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Daniele Rossi" Subject: Re: (hats) On Tuesday Date: 03 Jul 2001 14:58:04 -0400 > From Ivan's intro to the song for the Atlanta show (4/88 - anyone else > there??), Tuesday is the (Roman) god of war, and On Tuesday is an > attempt to "appease those gods.." and >>When the Germanic tribes conquered England, > they layed their own lexicon over that of the Roman's so that the Norse > God of War now supplanted the Roman God of War (after all the Norse God > was obviously more potent). Thus they called the day of the God of War > tiwesdaeg. Thanks for answering my questions and giving me a little history lesson! :) So could this be applied to all the other references to Tuesday I keep hearing? Such as Amanda Marshall's album "Tuesday's Child" and David Bowie's song with a similar name (I forget which day of the week he used)? # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info hats" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email hats@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # Men Without Hats discography: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?hats ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Angela Tooley" Subject: (hats) On Tuesday Date: 03 Jul 2001 22:10:01 -0400 > From Ivan's intro to the song for the Atlanta show (4/88 - anyone else > there??), Tuesday is the (Roman) god of war, and On Tuesday is an > attempt to "appease those gods.." Is this a quote from Ivan or are we all just reading way too much into that song? Sent by Law Mail # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info hats" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email hats@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # Men Without Hats discography: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?hats ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: goreal Subject: Re: (hats) On Tuesday Date: 03 Jul 2001 20:19:29 -0700 (PDT) > > From Ivan's intro to the song for the Atlanta show (4/88 - anyone > else > > there??), Tuesday is the (Roman) god of war, and On Tuesday is an > > attempt to "appease those gods.." > that's a quote..! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info hats" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email hats@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # Men Without Hats discography: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?hats ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Matt McCarthy" Subject: (hats) Update Date: 04 Jul 2001 01:34:03 -0500 The MWH site has an update... I wonder if they would let us come up to Canada and watch the creation of this new album/CD? We could do it 'On Tuesday'. MMM # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info hats" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email hats@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # Men Without Hats discography: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?hats ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: M.J.Innes@open.ac.uk Subject: (hats) Re: Good-but-obscure synth-pop Date: 04 Jul 2001 10:25:44 +0100 Hi folks, I wanted to say thanks to all those who took the trouble to post recommendations following my request. What I wanted to know when asking was, what is the current state of play in the world of synth-pop - not chart stuff (uh, does synth-pop get in the charts anywhere now anyway?), but via indie labels and the internet? It has been very interesting both to see what people listen to, and to follow up on some suggestions. Soooo, I just thought it might be interesting to provide a reaction - although I must emphasise this is intended in the spirit of generating a discussion, not to piss anybody off... First, I was surprised at how doomy things are. Synth-pop nowadays seems to have taken the kind of gothy, Ultravox part of the 80s aesthetic, and concentrated on the one hand on that aspect of the sound. (On the other hand, there is the verging-on-techno-but-not-quite, long-ish instrumental strand of stuff.) I suppose what I am saying here is - God, this is a "movement" that takes itself seriously. There is so little sense of fun to any of it. This set me thinking (partly to keep this on topic :-): are MWH doomy, gloomy and generally miserable? What about humour in MWH songs? Second, it was interesting to see how very, very differently people defined the phrase, "good-but-obscure synth-pop". Of course everyone has their own take on it - I was thinking of funny little blippy electropop records, myself - but we had everything from Gary Numan to Freur. So, this set me thinking, too - did anybody else follow up a recommendation and (more to the point) find anything new that they liked? Is that a deafening silence I hear? Mike # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info hats" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email hats@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # Men Without Hats discography: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?hats ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Johan Hindstrom INF Subject: (hats) What movie? Date: 04 Jul 2001 17:39:41 +0300 (EEST) There's a movie I once saw... During the intro text and a little bit into the movie the soundtrack was the INTRO from PGTW. You know, the "Can you hear me out there?" -bit. What's the name of the movie.. anyone? - Johan # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info hats" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email hats@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # Men Without Hats discography: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?hats ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Divisio@aol.com Subject: (hats) Ivan's new CD? Date: 05 Jul 2001 15:33:17 EDT I was in Montreal this past weekend and I stopped in MARS music shop (I'm sure Montrealians will be familiar with this shop) It is the small CD/record/tape/poster store that just moved on St. Catherines underneath Pharaprix.... anyway, the guy in there told me he was reading the mirror, a local music magazine, and that Ivan had a new CD coming out....not MWH but Ivan....and I'm not talking about the Spell.. Is there any truth to this rumor? Collin # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info hats" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email hats@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # Men Without Hats discography: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?hats ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: goreal Subject: Re: (hats) What movie? Date: 08 Jul 2001 10:34:57 -0700 (PDT) ..that'd be "Date with an Angel".. JD > There's a movie I once saw... > During the intro text and a little bit into the movie > the soundtrack was the INTRO from PGTW. > You know, the "Can you hear me out there?" -bit. > > What's the name of the movie.. anyone? > > - Johan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info hats" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email hats@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # Men Without Hats discography: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?hats ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Divisio@aol.com Subject: (hats) quiet, it's music Date: 12 Jul 2001 23:58:00 EDT Well, this list is awfully quiet with the Hats coming out with a new album and everything.. _______________ I want to comment on two covers songs I heard off Holdman's site.... Bob Henderson's I got the Message and Daffus X's I'm In Love I really wasn't into Bob's I got the Message too much just because the background was so quiet and the computer voice thing got old and was too much for an almost 7 minute song....Cool background though.....First 25 to 30 seconds are rockin' Daffus X's song made me laugh. I don't know why. I thought it was well done. It reminded me of the spirit of this song as done by the Hats....very light and airy and just kind of ramble/singing....not getting too crazy.....I love the background in this too....I want to recreate a song too but have no musical ability....i hope mine can sound as accurate as this one..... But i think it's inspiring that these songs have been done at all.... -collin # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info hats" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email hats@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # Men Without Hats discography: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?hats ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: SR Livengood Subject: Re: (hats) On Tuesday Date: 13 Jul 2001 04:38:45 -0700 (PDT) hey- On Tuesday- depends on what level you are listening to the album on. here is a few ideas: (and these work for the album as a whole, not just the one song) the "Pop" interpretation: all music albums (in the states anyhow) are released on Tuesday- on Tuesday POP (music) goes the world- this is us listening to the album. think of the song being about the album, the next song "somewhere in the distance....on the bright side of the sun"- how about eventually, after we listen enough to this album, it will all make sense! i could go on about each song, but..... it all finishes with "will we all meet again at the end of the world?"- will we listen to it again? now try this: make it "TWO's Day" the "lovers" interpretation the lovers (jenny and johnny) meet- this is the day and the song is about- well, tis pretty straightforward with that in mind..... she comes into his heart, his world.... the psychedelic interpretation: mixing a particular fruit of a plant and a most particular very potent psychoactive liquid (here is our "two") produces a most unique experience... this ties in with the "self" interpretation, where when he says "you" in this song, he is refering to his self, and jenny and johnny here (for the album) represent the two selves- the true nature of being and the self strapped to the karmic wheel. psychedelics have the effect of putting many in contact with the "higher" self.... the "life journey" interpretation- on tuesday is about birth, entrance into this realm of duality, hence the two- yin/yang to be real basic, and the whole album being about a journey through life. so there are a few of my ideas. of course, i have listened to that album numbering in the thousands of times! :) drop me a line if you like! Rain __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info hats" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email hats@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # Men Without Hats discography: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?hats ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: goreal Subject: Re: (hats) Ivan's new CD? Date: 14 Jul 2001 12:02:16 -0700 (PDT) couldn't find anything in last week's or this week's issues.. http://www.montrealmirror.com/meat/upfront.html Anyone else heard of this?? --- Divisio@aol.com wrote: > > anyway, the guy in there told me he was reading the mirror, a local > music magazine, and that Ivan had a new CD coming out....not MWH but > Ivan....and I'm not talking about the Spell.. > > Is there any truth to this rumor? > > Collin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info hats" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email hats@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # Men Without Hats discography: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?hats ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Myke Carter Subject: (hats) Hey! Date: 27 Jul 2001 01:49:34 -0500 Check out this kewl new website I just found online tonight! :) http://www.americancardexchange.com Myke # Need help using (or leaving) this mailing list? # Send the command "info hats" to majordomo@lists.xmission.com. # To post, email hats@lists.xmission.com; replies go to original sender. # Men Without Hats discography: http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?hats