From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V4 #133 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Wednesday, June 23 1999 Volume 04 : Number 133 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Opinion [mondony@club-internet.fr] RE: Promises Video on CD? ["Kent Bennett [kbennett@thomaslargesinger.com]] Re: Promises Video on CD? ["Jeff Abrams" ] THE COPERNICAN CHRONICLES: Ordinary homemade treasures... ["Ashoke S. Tal] (no subject) [JPovlock@aol.com] Best Basia CD; Note to DFF [Larry Lipman ] Re: THE COPERNICAN CHRONICLES: Ordinary homemade treasures... [jp ] Re: Best Basia CD; Note to DFF [Robin ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 12:03:29 -0700 From: mondony@club-internet.fr Subject: Opinion Paul Fish wrote: > > but I would have to say that "The Sweetest > Illusion" is her best. Personal opinion, of course. I agree too. TSI is, in my opinion, the more complete. Instruments are improved and research in harmonies, scrupulous. Every album of Basia is inscribed in its epoch (keyboards on TAT are, I think, updated). TSI is refined. Tempo on "An olive tree" is, for me, an innovation. Faf ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 09:34:11 -0400 From: "Kent Bennett [kbennett@thomaslargesinger.com]" Subject: RE: Promises Video on CD? Personally, T&T was one of those albums that didn't come out of my cassette player for 5 months. It's one of my top 10 favs of all time. Then B.O.B. Then T.S.I. Then L.W.N.Y. - in that order. T&T had me spreading the Basia word when I first heard it. Still it puts me in a trance. I love her haircut on the original album cover too. Kent - Toronto > -----Original Message----- > From: Don Leuty [SMTP:dleuty@onramp.net] > Sent: Monday, June 21, 1999 8:58 PM > To: basia@smoe.org > Subject: Re: Promises Video on CD? > > > Although each album has shown some growth and maturity, > Time and Tide, still is number one in my book. I think a > lot of my favoritism is generated by the one-two punch of Promises > and T&T. > > don > > > -----Original Message----- > From: jp > To: basia@smoe.org > Date: Monday, June 21, 1999 5:25 PM > Subject: Re: Promises Video on CD? > > > > > >At 02:36 PM 6/21/99 -0700, you wrote: > >> > > > >>Is Time and Tide her best album? CDNOW rates her later albums as being > >>better but those sound clips don't sound so hot. Then again, I guess, > real > >>audio clips on a 33.6 modem never do songs justice. > >> > >> > >>lianzen@netzero.com > >>_ > >I liked T&T immediately. LWNY took a couple of listenings. TSI took > several > >listenings, but now I think it's my favorite. Except for BOB, of course, > >which is all of them - plus that great live band. > >un abrazo, > >juan > > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 10:58:55 -0400 From: "Jeff Abrams" Subject: Re: Promises Video on CD? : I don't think I ever remembered Basia in the eighties (although her : Asturd tune sounds familiar) ^^^^^^ Ahhhh ha ha ha ha ha ha! Astrud Gilberto, look out! - -- Jeff Abrams doctorpc@erols.com Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 14:03:47 -0400 From: "Ashoke S. Talukdar" Subject: THE COPERNICAN CHRONICLES: Ordinary homemade treasures... Last Thursday, after several years, I had the occasion to make a pot-roast. All slow cooked to motherly tenderness, albeit drowned in a can of beer, among other things. Add some roasted new potatoes and green beans and homemade bread and I was almost in North Carolina again. A simple pleasure indeed. _______________________________________________________________________ "You've been stealing all my air You've been using all my sound But I made a deal with the ocean And I made a deal with the ground And I say What you gonna do What you gonna do about me?" - Joan Osborne I have to thank Jeff Hamilton for this post, and I will leave it at that. I have been drowned in a myriad of happenings in my life - from pleasant to downright foul. All very memorable, some very unwantedly so. But, as usual, I have listened, tried to embalm myself in the works of those I know and love. And I have been listening to "Simple Pleasures" a lot. There is this small subgroup of Basia songs ("Miles Away" is the other one that comes to mind), where her voice takes on a special child-like appeal. I think I have been needing that. Last night, as I drove home, that child-like appeal was slowly washing away all the hundreds of muddled thoughts that seem to crowd the mind at the end of a full day. Even in the face of hope such battery of reflections stifles joy. Those simple joys that Basia talks about. This is not the recollection that Wordsworth referred to, because there is no tranquility in it. But recollection is necessary. It is the garnish in the great feast of life which turns a shapeless roast into a work of visual art. Stop. Take a breath. Think. Recollect. Process. Gather. Resolve. Rest. And then begin again. But how do we achieve the tranquility? That is where Basia came to my rescue. And as the CD player stayed on repeat for about 30 minutes, I could feel the rush of endorphins subsiding, the imperceptible knots in the inner forehead get soothed over, until, all that remained was peace. And I recollected. I remember the first time that I sang in high school. I had to stuff corks into my partners ears because harmony confused him! It was amusing, exhilarating and joyous to form the first tritone. A year later, we were doing barber shop quartets for fun and thinking nothing of it. But the simple joy of that memory, I know, will remain with me. I am grateful for that remembrance. Later in college, I remember one day, staring dubiously at the sheet music of "Let the people praise thee" - Charles & Diana's wedding song. The tenor part was rather atonal, and the baritone parts made little or no sense. Singing this for graduation at a somewhat conservative school seemed a bit odd. Two days later, in rehearsal, we sang with the sopranos. One simple line and it all made sense and came together. Another simple joy that came to last. Seven years and 45 days ago, my hospice buddy, Greg, died of AIDS at the Carolinas Medical Center. It was a week before my graduation. I had seen him earlier that night, to tell him that I had a received a fellowship to go to graduate school at CWRU, here in Cleveland. His face had broken out into a long forgotten smile, and the visible bones had failed to disrupt those cleans lines of joy and tenderness. I had gone out into the hallway and wept uncontrollably. Since then I have attended an AIDS walk every year, occasionally going to some length to attend one, if I was not in Cleveland on that date. This was my long term measure to preserve the sanctity of that smile, tuck it away safely into memory, so it can last - like that fine lace in the attic that you are afraid to use, but hold up to your face everynow and then. But I take comfort in that it exists. The simple joy of those precious moments will last after all! Last night, I made a mental note of gratitude, that Basia exists and her work is a part of my life. Through the laughs and the frowns, those words and that voice, have come through, clear and soaring, time and again in the past three years. And as I have said many times before, this is testimony to her perfect balance of talent, senstivity and longing for expression. And ultimately that remains THE essence of an artist. Regards, Ashoke. _______________________________________________________________________ Ashoke S. Talukdar Senior Systems Programmer The MetroHealth System Information Services - Q5 2500 MetroHealth Drive Cleveland, Ohio 44109-1998 Phone: (216) 778-4750 Fax: (216) 778-3232 E-mail: atalukdar@metrohealth.org Home Page: www.metrohealth.org ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 15:15:15 EDT From: JPovlock@aol.com Subject: (no subject) As for me, nothing quite beats a sunny Sunday morning quite like the newspaper, a bagel or two, and the sounds of Miles Away. Peaceful, soothing, wonderful. Jim P. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 15:20:27 -0500 From: Larry Lipman Subject: Best Basia CD; Note to DFF My vote for goes to TSI... Incredible piece of work... also...note to DFF... I was out of town and, upon my return, discovered that Gtr/Sax/More were in Mphs WITH PETER WHITE and I missed it! (sob...sob...moan...flood of tears... loud cries of anguish...wringing of hands...) I would have been happy to show him through the "inner Mphs music scene". Please extend my apologies.... LL ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Larry Lipman - --------------------------------------------------------------- Division Coordinator; Recording Studio Manager Commercial Music degree programs in Recording Technology & Music Business - --------------------------------------------------------------- The University of Memphis Commercial Music Program Campus Box 526546 - 232 CFA Building Memphis, TN 38152-6546 (901) 678-2559 [w/voice mail] FAX: (901) 678-5118 E-Mail: Llipman@memphis.edu ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 18:28:55 -0400 From: jp Subject: Re: THE COPERNICAN CHRONICLES: Ordinary homemade treasures... At 02:03 PM 6/22/99 -0400, Ashoke S. Talukdar wrote: Add some roasted new potatoes and green beans and >homemade bread and I was almost in North Carolina again. > >A simple pleasure indeed. >_______________________________________________________________________ > Wait, wait - where in North Carolina? And where the hell IS Joan Osborne? un abrazo, juan ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 19:47:14 -0400 From: "Ashoke S. Talukdar" Subject: Re: THE COPERNICAN CHRONICLES: Ordinary homemade treasures... _______________________________________________________________________ Ashoke S. Talukdar Senior Systems Programmer The MetroHealth System Information Services - Q5 2500 MetroHealth Drive Cleveland, Ohio 44109-1998 Phone: (216) 778-4750 Fax: (216) 778-3232 E-mail: atalukdar@metrohealth.org Home Page: www.metrohealth.org - -----Original Message----- From: jp To: Ashoke S. Talukdar ; basia@smoe.org Cc: Ashoke S. Talukdar (CWRU) Date: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 06:39 PM Subject: Re: THE COPERNICAN CHRONICLES: Ordinary homemade treasures... > > JP wonders: > >Wait, wait - where in North Carolina? > Davidson. I went to school there. > >And where the hell IS Joan Osborne? > Boy do I wish I knew! Sophomore blues, I guess. Ashoke. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 20:24:26 -0500 From: "tom, kelly & jordan" Subject: Ritmo snowbo Les sez, "But- my favorite- if you can find it- is 'Ritmo Snowbo' which was done shortly after the tours wih Basia in 1989-90" Ya know, I'd buy that cd just to own something named "Ritmo Snowbo". Have a nice Summer all. Tom ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 22:38:46 -0500 From: Robin Subject: Re: Best Basia CD; Note to DFF Hey Larry, I am going to San Diego tomorrow and may go to Peter's concert at Humphrey's on Friday night - shall I say "HI"? Seriously - have to talk my 20+ year olds into really wanting to do that!! I did get to see them in Fort Worth in May!! :-) Robin in Mphs WITH PETER WHITE and > I missed it! > > (sob...sob...moan...flood of tears... > loud cries of anguish...wringing of hands...) > > ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V4 #133 ***************************