From: owner-apple-tree-digest@smoe.org (apple-tree-digest) To: apple-tree-digest@smoe.org Subject: apple-tree-digest V2 #36 Reply-To: apple-tree@smoe.org Sender: owner-apple-tree-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-apple-tree-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk apple-tree-digest Thursday, November 18 1999 Volume 02 : Number 036 Today's Subjects: ----------------- there is no excuse for no list-activity! :D ["Robert A. Peate" Subject: there is no excuse for no list-activity! :D dear fellow fruitheads, i just want to share some impressions of the new album, which i got yesterday at last in the mail from cdnow. :) i really love fiona's debut album--all i asked and prayed was that her new one was good. i didn't think she'd pull a jewel. no; she's the type to pull a frank zappa. even her album-title made me fear she'd gone "weird". (my girlfriend was sure the title was "just a 'fit'". :) assuming she hadn't pulled a jewel, fiona was beautiful. and true. a rock star who almost shouldn't even have *been* a rock star. i felt that fiona was *real* hot shit. :) as recently as last week, i was desperate for fiona's new album. :) on thursday, the eleventh, i heard thirty seconds, from the official web site, of "fast as you can"--great shit! :D and then, yesterday, less then three minutes into the first song on the album, "on the bound", i had to call my girlfriend, who had ordered it for me as a gift, to tell her it was magnificent! i was amazed and awed by fiona's tempi, her instrumentation, and her singing! (not to mention her lyricism! i had already read some of the words in the booklet before playing the album, and was mightily impressed!) *when the pawn* is great! (secret: i prefer *tidal* as of now.) it's great, just less intimate. (like tori amos' *to venus and back* in *that respect*.) it's just more uptempo, and i liked the slow, sad ballads on *tidal*. my girlfriend, who prefers uptempo songs, predicts that she will fall madly in love with *when the pawn*, and that i will always prefer *tidal*. :) i predict that the ballads on *pawn* will grab me and excuse the rest. :D of course there are upbeat songs on *tidal* too--the overall feeling is just different, that's all. *tidal*: sensitive young artist. *pawn*: assured young woman. the midtempo song "paper bag" is great, too. :) every song on *pawn* is really great, actually, and in some respects it [the album] does remind me of *to venus and back*, truly. i hear similarities. there are a couple of very beautiful ballads on the album. i've played the whole album twice today already, and it's only four twenty-one in the afternoon! i'm sure i'll play it again before this day is over. :) just initial impressions, robert p. s. i want every one of you reading this to post a message--there is absolutely no excuse for you to sit back and read this, after three years of no new fiona-album, and not comment on her new record! disagree with, shatter my every word in this message, but post something, darn it! :D ***** full is not heavy as empty, not nearly, my love-- not nearly, my love, not nearly. ~fiona ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 18:20:20 EST From: Mishmusic@aol.com Subject: Re: there is no excuse for no list-activity! :D I got my CD in the mail too yesterday from Buy.Com. I listened to it all night. I like it. I'm sure I'll LOOOOVE it by the end of the week. I think my favorite so far is track 4 "love ridden" How come I get like 100 Sarah Mclachlan list mail a day, and like 2 fiona list mails a week. How many people are on this list?? Michelle ------------------------------ End of apple-tree-digest V2 #36 *******************************