From: owner-basia-digest To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V1 #92 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Thursday, 18 April 1996 Volume 01 : Number 092 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Matt Bianco Virgin Re: Passing the Time Re: Matt Bianco Virgin Music Fave Raves Re: Matt Bianco Virgin Re: Matt Bianco Virgin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jacki@magicnet.net (Jacki) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 04:37:05 -0400 Subject: Re: Matt Bianco Virgin >> I am a long time, major Basia fan - yet had never heard MB, except what I >> heard about through this list. > >Ok, that's it - I want everyone who has never heard "Whose Side Are You >On?" to step forward and reveal yourself so we can set you up with a >copy. NO BASIA FAN SHOULD BE WITHOUT THIS ALBUM - its a crime, it really is. Uh.... that would be me, for one. But ever since getting on this list (a month ago??) I've been looking for his CDs. So far no luck. Am I going to have to call up CD Bonzai, or what? >> It's like getting "lost" Basia albums. I know the feeling... today was the first time I've seen Basia's video tape - - what a treat! (I never watch MTV or VH-1, in fact on the rare occasions that I feel the need to watch them, I have to ask my daughter what number the stations are) A girl at work casually mentioned that she had the Basia video and my response was "Gimme!", and today I sat and watched thru it twice. Is it my imagination, or does it look like Basia obtained some confidence as she got a little older and more experienced? It was like, the longer her hair was, the better she danced. ;-) The last song, Until You Come Back to Me, was just like I remember her when I saw her in concert a few years ago. I got my "Basia Fix" today... ah, life can't get any better than this. ------------------------------ From: akb02@rs1.rrz.uni-koeln.de (Dirk Pilat) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 18:24:56 +0200 Subject: Re: Passing the Time At 7:20 Uhr 16.04.1996, RICHARD DECASTRO wrote: >I'd rather say Baltic! ;) Oh no, now not you.... Dirk Dirk Pilat, Medical Student 6 months before graduation | University of Cologne, FRG Fax: ++ 49221 4201000 | http://www.rrz.uni-koeln.de/~akb02 Member of the Internet Dermatology Society | Maintainer of the Matt Bianco Mailinglist ------------------------------ From: akb02@rs1.rrz.uni-koeln.de (Dirk Pilat) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 18:25:00 +0200 Subject: Re: Matt Bianco Virgin Ah ha! >I am a long time, major Basia fan - yet had never heard MB, except what I >heard about through this list. >All I can say now, is - I'm hooked! It's like getting "lost" Basia >albums. The only one I've listened to so far is "Whose Side Are You >On?". Any suggestions as to which one I should go for next? Well, that of course was bound to happen, as "WSAYO" was the first major "New Jazz" album that hit Europe, and it really was a little milestone. In my opinion you should continue with "Matt Bianco", skip "indigo" and continue with "Samba in your casa", then proceed to "Another time another place" and then "Gran via" - then join the Matt Bianco mailinglist :-) Dirk Dirk Pilat, Medical Student 6 months before graduation | University of Cologne, FRG Fax: ++ 49221 4201000 | http://www.rrz.uni-koeln.de/~akb02 Member of the Internet Dermatology Society | Maintainer of the Matt Bianco Mailinglist ------------------------------ From: David Cervantes Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 09:51:15 -0700 (MST) Subject: Music Fave Raves I guess you could count me another old-timer as far as popular music goes (since April 13, 1970 [yes, I know the exact day]). In some ways, however, I still consider myself a newcomer and am continually sur- prised and pleased by what's new out there. My favorite ten albums, or more properly the ten I've played most, in order by performer, or by title if a compilation, with personal glosses: Basia, London Warsaw New York Basia, Time and Tide Beatles, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It still amazes me after all these years. Beauty and the Beast soundtrack--Menken & Ashman's best! Essential Opera. Great collection of the best solos and choruses, from Voi Che Sapete to the Triumphal March from Aida. Note on Cecilia Bartoli: I have her album, Italian Love Songs. Just when I was getting good at telling quality singers, both live and on TV, my wife got pregnant and we had to forgo our opera seats. We'll probably forgo next season's too (sob--anyone want to contribute to the Cervantes Opera Fund?). I was pleased to see that Miss Bartoli would be on PBS's Metropolitan Opera Presents, but not pleased to see she would be featured on La Cenerentola, one of my least-favorite operas. Never has so little taken so long to sing over and over and over again. I tuned it in, just in time for one of LC's interminable, static choruses--snore--non-opera fans, bored yet? I hope CB is on again sometime soon, even if she does Wagner. Gipsy Kings, Este Mundo. Starts off with the stirring "Bailame" and doesn't slack off. Michael Jackson, Thriller. Madonna, I'm Breathless, songs from & inspired by the movie, Dick Tracy. My very favorite Madonna album by far, the one where she showed she could sing for grown-ups. I like everything on it, even (almost) the throwaway remix of "Let's Dance." Does anyone know what happened to Madonna after this album, why she got so yucky? Linda Ronstadt, Cry like the Rainstorm, Howl like the Wind. Probably the one CD I've played more than any other since 1990. I like this incarna- tion of Linda Ronstadt best! What's more, Aaron Neville came back from the dead with this album! Steely Dan, A Decade of Steely Dan. I'm another lover of the sound of Donald Fagan. Hmmm. Can't wait until my honey and I are stranded and running around nekkit on that desert island. Talk to you all later! ------------------------------ From: "J.S. Lohr" Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 13:51:02 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Matt Bianco Virgin On Wed, 17 Apr 1996, Jacki wrote: > Uh.... that would be me, for one. But ever since getting on this list (a > month ago??) I've been looking for his CDs. So far no luck. Am I going to > have to call up CD Bonzai, or what? Hey, I've just recently put two CD copies of "Whose Side Are You On?" up for sale on the list (for $20) but no one ever responded... btw, they're imports, so you won't find them for much less if that's what you've been holding out for (typically have a $17.99-$18.99 list price). They're certainly better than trying CD Banzai. The only drawback is that BOTH are the French versions (aka the versions without Basia's vocals on the "More Than I Can Bear" track). Until Atlantic reissues the American release on CD (if ever), this is apparently the best one can get. Toodles! ********************************* R O A C H ********************************* * The Roach Motel @ http://zeus.towson.edu/~jlohr1 -- Bugs are people, too * * He loves Yugoslavians, Boba Fett, Chunky Chicken, and Yummy British Cows * ***************************************************************************** ************* "Live every day as if it were your last `cause ************* ************* sooner or later, you'll be right." - Hal Roach ************* ********************************* R U L E S ********************************* ------------------------------ From: William Daystrom Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 20:39:08 -0700 Subject: Re: Matt Bianco Virgin On Tue, 16 Apr 1996, J.S. Lohr wrote: > > Ok, that's it - I want everyone who has never heard "Whose Side Are You > On?" to step forward and reveal yourself so we can set you up with a > copy. NO BASIA FAN SHOULD BE WITHOUT THIS ALBUM - its a crime, it really is. > OK, I confess. Until last weekend, I had never heard ANY Matt Bianco albums. However, on Sunday I remembered to look in the Imports section of a local CD store (Blockbuster, of all places) and found "The Best of Matt Bianco" from Germany. I'll say this -- I was very surprised that Basia appeared on so many of the tracks. Basia isn't even mentioned anywhere in the limited liner notes, except in the "special thanks to..." area, where she appears as number 25 in a list of 33. By the way, what's the story on the Basia vocals on Whose Side Are You On? I thought I read someone here mention that the French version didn't have Basia's vocals, but that an original US version did. Is that right? I ask because it certainly sounds like Basia on the version on this CD. Or is there another version out there with Basia? Wm.D. ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V1 #92 **************************