From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V4 #226 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 Saturday, November 13 1999 Volume 04 : Number 226 Today's Subjects: ----------------- You have the right to remain silent... ["Ray Navarra" ] Re: Roll call [Leslie Brown ] Re: Booty ["Jim Clary" ] Re: Roll call ["Jim Clary" ] Re: basia-digest V4 #225 ["Ashoke S. Talukdar" ] Re: basia-digest V4 #225 ["Ashoke S. Talukdar" ] Re: Roll call [ZZsaZZsa@aol.com] Re: Rollcall Response [Somegirl99@aol.com] Re: basia-digest V4 #225 [JPovlock@aol.com] Freddie Ravel / Peter White ["Jim Clary" ] Re: basia-digest V4 #225 ["Joe Palcher" ] White/Ravel ["Jim Clary" ] Re: basia-digest V4 #225 [RodSweigart@aol.com] Re: basia-digest V4 #225 ["Paul Fish" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 09:21:56 +0100 From: "Ray Navarra" Subject: You have the right to remain silent... Okay, you wanted this. NAME: Raymond Michael Navarra AGE: [of decadence] 22 PLACE: Warsaw, Poland WHAT I AM: is what I am, you're what you are, oh ah WHO I AM: I work as a designer in a very small company; trying to be an internet website designer, but seems that Poles still aren't very much interested in these things (if you wish to see what I can come up with when I have free 3 minutes, see my own website: http://come.to/raynavarra) The site also has photos, in case anybody's interested. I used to write stories for a gay magazine here - kind of a sitcom really, but lately they said they don't want them anymore because they don't have enough homosexual content, they have too much dialogue and they're too funny. *sheesh* I sometimes think they must have forgotten what "gay" meant originally. Anyway, I'm also a wannabe singer who has lately discovered his lack of vocal possibilities and is understandably unhappy because of it. FAVOURITE BASIA SONGS: Cruising For Bruising, New Day For You, [wanted to play Clear Horizon and discovered it's been borrowed by my boyfriend] WORST BASIA SONGS: There sure are some songs I don't like. Just don't remember any. FAVOURITE BASIA ALBUMS: In order: London Warsaw New York, The Sweetest Illusion, Basia on Broadway, Time And Tide. I don't count collections. ;) FAVOURITE MEMBER: eerm FAVOURITE BAND MEMBER: aahhh. Kevin Robinson played on Pet Shop Boys track "Metamorphosis" and I love this song so the choice is obvious. NOW PLAYING: Basia On Broadway, "Drunk On Love". OTHER MUSICAL INTERESTS: Pet Shop Boys (which is a huge surprise for everyone because I never talk about them), Suzanne Vega, Texas, St Etienne, Dubstar, New Order, Bjork, Madonna, Human League, Mike Oldfield and of course Air (the gods), and all the dance stuff with no live drummers in it :) Recently: Les Rythmes Digitales have a GREAT album if you're into Eighties synthpop bands. TV: Friends, Keeping Up Appearances, Allo Allo, French and Saunders, Absolutely Fabulous (Darling! You're a fabulous wonderful individual!) and X-Files. QUOTE: "Straight up and tell me do you really wanna love me forever, uh uh uh" or "I should be so lucky, lucky lucky lucky" or even "Hey you what's that sound, everybody look what's going round, ah yes, ain't that fresh, everybody wants to get down like that". BONUS FOR EVERYONE WHO READ THIS FAR: My two songs are on www.mp3.com/raynavarra - a good idea on how I sounded like a year ago. Now it's all changed. For example, I discovered reverb. :) (-) Ray - -=[::: come.to\raynavarra ::: www.mp3.com\raynavarra :::::::::::]=- Number one this week: Everything But The Girl "Five Fathoms" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 09:21:32 +0100 From: "Ray Navarra" Subject: Awesome news on the Spice Girls! :) Here's the tracklisting of a forthcoming EP the Spice Girls recorded, each one singing one song: Emma: New Day For You (produced by Metro) Mel C: Copernicus (produced by David Austin) Mel B: Drunk On Love (featuring Jay-Z, Missy Elliott and Jungle Brothers) Victoria: Brave New Hope (produced and arranged by Richard Niles) The girls had the following to say: "We always loved Basia's work. We listened to "Basia On Broadway" before going onstage, to "Time And Tide" before recording, to "London Warsaw New York" before thinking up the list of concerts around the world. Her harmonies were always what we wanted to copy. We hope that our EP brings her music to the world and if you didn't yet realise it's not true news, you're going to go shopping for new brain at Rodeo Drive". OK, I know it was weak. (-) Ray - -=[::: come.to\raynavarra ::: www.mp3.com\raynavarra :::::::::::]=- Number one this week: Everything But The Girl "Five Fathoms" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 09:43:21 EST From: Richard216@aol.com Subject: Re: basia-digest V4 #225 NAME: Richard Barnett, aka Richard from Ohio AGE: 49 WHERE I'M AT: Elyria Ohio, 25 miles west of Cleveland WHAT I DO: Air Traffic Controller TIME ON LIST: At least 5 years! DISCOVERED BASIA: Refinishing my basement and listening to the WAVE on the radio and heard this fantastic song that prompted me to call the station to find out who it was. Song was "Promises" FAVORITE SONGS: Waters of March, Third Time Lucky, Olive Tree, Promises, From Now On. WORST SONGS: none PERSONAL: Had the unique pleasure of receiving a personal written response to a fan letter I sent her right after I heard Promises. I will treasure if forever. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 10:31:46 -0500 From: "Jeff Abrams" Subject: Re: Awesome news on the Spice Girls! :) What are you smoking and where can I get some? - -- Jeff Abrams doctorpc@erols.com 1993 Brilliant Black 2.5 MX-3 GSR If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason. - ----- Original Message ----- From: Ray Navarra To: Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 3:21 AM Subject: Awesome news on the Spice Girls! :) > > Here's the tracklisting of a forthcoming EP the Spice Girls recorded, each > one singing one song: > > Emma: New Day For You (produced by Metro) > Mel C: Copernicus (produced by David Austin) > Mel B: Drunk On Love (featuring Jay-Z, Missy Elliott and Jungle Brothers) > Victoria: Brave New Hope (produced and arranged by Richard Niles) > > The girls had the following to say: > > "We always loved Basia's work. We listened to "Basia On Broadway" before > going onstage, to "Time And Tide" before recording, to "London Warsaw > New York" before thinking up the list of concerts around the world. Her > harmonies were always what we wanted to copy. We hope that our EP brings > her music to the world and if you didn't yet realise it's not true news, > you're going to go shopping for new brain at Rodeo Drive". > > OK, I know it was weak. > (-) Ray > -=[::: come.to\raynavarra ::: www.mp3.com\raynavarra :::::::::::]=- > Number one this week: Everything But The Girl "Five Fathoms" > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 07:35:34 -0800 (PST) From: Leslie Brown Subject: Re:Spice Girls (on-topic, too!) This indeed has relevance to the topic at hand (like that matters anymore!) > Emma: New Day For You (produced by Metro) > Mel C: Copernicus (produced by David Austin) > Mel B: Drunk On Love (featuring Jay-Z, Missy Elliott > and Jungle Brothers) (This one oughta be good!) > Victoria: Brave New Hope (produced and arranged by > Richard Niles) Here's a little '6 Degrees of Separation' type thing for ya'll: Remember Basia talking about the early days in England when she was a member of a group called Bronze? Mr. Niles wife, Tessa, was the singer. Basia replaced her. Oooo! (and, I need to read the TSI program again to be sure, but didn't Richard Niles bring Danny into the group, or something? Can't remember.) Fast forward some 18 years, and guess who is on the new PSB disc? Tessa Niles. - --Leslie, an endless supply of useless information __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 07:38:18 -0800 (PST) From: Leslie Brown Subject: Re: Roll call > I had a fantasy, before I knew > better (and read > Ray's translation), that "Dzien Sie Budzi" meant > "Shake your Booty" in > Polish! (I know, LOL!) ROTF friggin' L! I don't think I'll ever think of that song the same way again! > It's been SO great to know about our fellow fans! > You go, Leslie! Word! ;) - --Rump-shakin' Leslie (what is that in Polish, anyway?) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 10:04:58 -0600 From: "Jim Clary" Subject: Re: Booty Jim Clary jclary@fastlane.net - ----- Original Message ----- From: Leslie Brown To: Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 9:38 AM Subject: Re: Roll call > > > I had a fantasy, before I knew > > better (and read > > Ray's translation), that "Dzien Sie Budzi" meant > > "Shake your Booty" in > > Polish! (I know, LOL!) > > ROTF friggin' L! > I don't think I'll ever think of that song the same > way again! > > > It's been SO great to know about our fellow fans! > > You go, Leslie! > > Word! ;) > > --Rump-shakin' Leslie (what is that in Polish, > anyway?) > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 10:11:40 -0600 From: "Jim Clary" Subject: Re: Roll call Sorry about the last no-info Email; I hit "Send" accidentally. > > I had a fantasy, before I knew > > better (and read > > Ray's translation), that "Dzien Sie Budzi" meant > > "Shake your Booty" in > > Polish! (I know, LOL!) > > ROTF friggin' L! > I don't think I'll ever think of that song the same > way again! Could this be a Polish remake of the old KC & The Sunshine Band song?? I had thought that "Dzien Sie Budzi" must mean "World Harmony" or some such -g-. Jim Clary - ----- Original Message ----- From: Leslie Brown To: Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 9:38 AM ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 13:13:33 -0500 From: "Ashoke S. Talukdar" Subject: Re: basia-digest V4 #225 NAME: Ashoke Talukdar AGE: 31 WHERE I'M AT: Cleveland Heights, Ohio (AKA The People's Republic of Cleveland Heights), an eastern suburb of Cleveland. WHAT I DO: Senior Systems Programmer, MetroHealth Medical Center. TIME ON LIST: About 3 years DISCOVERED BASIA: Was in a little neighborhood bar and heard the most incredibly captivating tune that made me stop my pool game (a rarety) and go see what was playing. It turned out to be "Time and Tide". Bought the CD the next day and played it exclusively for over a month! FAVORITE SONGS: Yearning, Masquerade, The Sweetest Illusion, Forgive and Forget, Time and Tide, Copernicus, From Now On. WORST SONGS: Barbie Girl! PERSONAL: I have never had the pleasure of seeing Basia live, since I started listening to Basia AFTER she disappeared from the face of the planet into the joys of domestic bliss. However, I have met Meg, Richard, Jackie, Joe and Joanna from this list, and boy, am I glad. :-) Back from a somewhat ridiculous but nevertheless enjoyable trip home and swamped. I have had the most memorable year for a variety of reasons, both good and bad, but things are back to about as close to normal as I think my life can ever get. However, I AM working on another chronicle... Hi Meg!!!!! Send me your most current e-mail address! Please, please, please! Love, 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: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 12:30:06 -0600 From: "Jim Clary" Subject: Re: basia-digest V4 #225 > WORST SONGS: Barbie Girl! Barbie Girl???? Seriously? Which CD is this on? TIA, Jim Clary - ----- Original Message ----- From: Ashoke S. Talukdar To: Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 12:13 PM Subject: Re: basia-digest V4 #225 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 14:19:56 -0500 From: "Ashoke S. Talukdar" Subject: Re: basia-digest V4 #225 > > WORST SONGS: Barbie Girl! > Barbie Girl???? Seriously? Which CD is this on? > TIA, Jim Clary > LOL!!! It's not. It's an Aqua song! A glorious example of "style over substance". ____________________________________________________________________________ ___________ 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: "Jim Clary" To: Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 01:30 PM Subject: Re: basia-digest V4 #225 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Ashoke S. Talukdar > To: > Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 12:13 PM > Subject: Re: basia-digest V4 #225 > > > > > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 14:21:32 -0500 From: "Ashoke S. Talukdar" Subject: Re: basia-digest V4 #225 For the record I don't have any worst Basia songs! That would be the same thing as too much Basia, or too much cilantro, or too much fun, etc. Trust me, such things simply DON'T exist... 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 - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ashoke S. Talukdar" To: Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 01:13 PM Subject: Re: basia-digest V4 #225 > > NAME: Ashoke Talukdar > > AGE: 31 > > WHERE I'M AT: Cleveland Heights, Ohio (AKA The People's Republic of > Cleveland Heights), an eastern suburb of Cleveland. > > WHAT I DO: Senior Systems Programmer, MetroHealth Medical Center. > > TIME ON LIST: About 3 years > > DISCOVERED BASIA: Was in a little neighborhood bar and heard the most > incredibly captivating tune that made me stop my pool game (a rarety) and go > see what was playing. It turned out to be "Time and Tide". Bought the CD > the next day and played it exclusively for over a month! > > FAVORITE SONGS: Yearning, Masquerade, The Sweetest Illusion, Forgive and > Forget, Time and Tide, Copernicus, From > Now On. > > WORST SONGS: Barbie Girl! > > > PERSONAL: I have never had the pleasure of seeing Basia live, since I > started listening to Basia AFTER she disappeared from the face of the planet > into the joys of domestic bliss. However, I have met Meg, Richard, Jackie, > Joe and Joanna from this list, and boy, am I glad. > > :-) > > Back from a somewhat ridiculous but nevertheless enjoyable trip home and > swamped. I have had the most memorable year for a variety of reasons, both > good and bad, but things are back to about as close to normal as I think my > life can ever get. However, I AM working on another chronicle... > > Hi Meg!!!!! Send me your most current e-mail address! Please, please, > please! > > Love, > 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: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 14:44:01 -0600 From: "Jim Clary" Subject: Re: basia-digest V4 #225 > > Barbie Girl???? Seriously? Which CD is this on? >> It's not. It's an Aqua song! A glorious example of "style over substance". Ya got me! I thought it might have been David Cassidy -g- Jim Clary - ----- Original Message ----- From: Ashoke S. Talukdar To: Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 1:19 PM Subject: Re: basia-digest V4 #225 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 19:19:42 EST From: ZZsaZZsa@aol.com Subject: Re: Roll call NAME Sheryl Grunewald (Female) AGE 31 WHERE? Downers Grove, Illinois (suburb of Chicago) WHAT DO I DO? I am a Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (huh?.....basically I help people with disabilities become employed...my specialty is Deafness but I do work with every other kind of disability, too. Yes, I know American Sign Language. (Yes, sign language is different in every country.....there are even regional differences within the U.S.). I am also a Certified Sign Language Interpreter and am taking some classes at Illinois Institute of Technology. HOW DID I FIRST HEAR BASIA? My Junior year of college a friend of mine brought over T&T and played it for me. I have been a fan ever since. Saw her in concert at Poplar Creek on Friday, September 2, 1994. THE LIST? Not sure....I think I have been around her for 3 years. FAV SONG? Time and Tide is #1, also love...Brave New Hope, Drunk on Love, Yearning...... LEAST FAV SONG? Maybe Cruising for Bruising because that is the only song of hers I have heard on the radio and always think....."Why don't they play any of her other songs???" PERSONAL Single....I like to go to the health club, Cubs games, "Friends, " "X-Files," playing with my nieces and nephews and listening to BASIA! OTHER MUSICAL INTERESTS Billy Joel, Harry Connick, Jr., Garth Brooks, Dixie Chicks, Bob Marley, Melissa Etheridge, Shania Twain, Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Alanis Morissette, Trisha Yearwood, The Doors, the Carpenters (quite a mix, huh?) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 21:49:19 EST From: Somegirl99@aol.com Subject: Re: Rollcall Response All right, my turn... NAME: Jacki Lowry AGE: 36 WHERE I LIVE: Orlando, FL WHAT I DO: I match letters to numbers (aka semi-disgruntled postal worker) TIME ON LIST: Didn't y'all just say Roach had his accident in '96? I was on at least a year before that, so... since 1995-ish? DISCOVERING BASIA: Heard "Time and Tide" on the radio and that was all it took. FAVORITE SONGS: Oh, um, just about all of them. WORST SONGS: "Brave New Hope"... in any of it's versions. BEST ALBUM: Time and Tide, The Sweetest Illusion and Huggy-John sent me his own complitation of Basia songs that I find myself listening to pretty regularily. The one I Iike the least is the Broadway CD... hard to get my panties up in a wad on that one. OTHER MUSICAL INTERESTS: Anything from Def Leopard to Sade, just depends on my mood (and how fast I need to drive). OTHER INTERESTS: My boyfriend moved in with me last month (bout time, eh Juan?) and so I'm busy "playing house"... and having a blast with it. I've never been married, pretty much the first time to live with a man... and I'm having SO much fun. Err... that is until my dad comes next Thurs and sees me shacking up with someone I'm not married to... oy. Jacki ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 22:41:28 EST From: JPovlock@aol.com Subject: Re: basia-digest V4 #225 Welcome back Ashoke, from the land of the lurking! We look forward to your next Chronicle...................... Jim P. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 22:30:39 -0600 From: "Jim Clary" Subject: Freddie Ravel / Peter White Folks, I just came across a couple of Freddie Ravel downloads on mp3.com. The first download, "Dame tu Calor" is terrific. Freddie is from Los Angeles. Check out his background; it is remarkable. What amazed me though, is that the site claims Freddie's group members include the likes of Peter White, and Strunz and Farah. Does this ring true?? Does Peter White work with Freddie Ravel? The complete write-up including group members, and file dowloads, can be found at http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/26/freddie_ravel.html Jim Clary ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 23:52:37 -0500 From: "Joe Palcher" Subject: Re: basia-digest V4 #225 The long-missed Ashoke wrote: "For the record I don't have any worst Basia songs! That would be the same thing as too much Basia, or too much cilantro, or too much fun, etc. Trust me, such things simply DON'T exist..." What about "Big Rosie?" I think you can technically call it a Basia song . . . . :) raburabu joe ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 23:17:41 -0600 From: "Jim Clary" Subject: White/Ravel I just checked peterwhite.com and saw that Freddie Ravel played keyboards on Peter White's "Songs of the Season" Christmas album in 1997, so it is obvious that these guys work together, at least on occasion. The Peter White website is very nice by the way. Jim Clary jclary@fastlane.net ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 00:48:10 EST From: RodSweigart@aol.com Subject: Re: basia-digest V4 #225 Hey, folks!!! So, I'm somewhat new to this forum ( although I have listened to Basia for a decade), I have to ask what is "Big Rosie" !?! Rod Sweigart ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 00:52:12 -0500 From: "Paul Fish" Subject: Re: basia-digest V4 #225 Am I missing something? What is "Big Rosie"? And who related to Basia recorded it? - --- "This is an elecrtified fairytale. If you've never heard of an electrified fairytale - just picture little fairies with wee, tiny electric guitars." - UTOPIA click on me. http://basia.techwood.org/ - ---------- >From: "Joe Palcher" >To: >Subject: Re: basia-digest V4 #225 >Date: Fri, Nov 12, 1999, 11:52 PM > > >The long-missed Ashoke wrote: > >"For the record I don't have any worst Basia songs! That would be the >same >thing as too much Basia, or too much cilantro, or too much fun, etc. > >Trust me, such things simply DON'T exist..." > >What about "Big Rosie?" I think you can technically call it a Basia >song . . . . :) > >raburabu >joe > > > > ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V4 #226 ***************************