From: owner-bklist-digest@smoe.org (bklist-digest) To: bklist-digest@smoe.org Subject: bklist-digest V1 #46 Reply-To: bklist@smoe.org Sender: owner-bklist-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-bklist-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "bklist-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. bklist-digest Thursday, May 15 1997 Volume 01 : Number 046 Today's Subjects: ----------------- BK FAN COMMENT: Not Liking The New Stuff [Gordon Wong ] BK INFO: Searchable Archives at REFERENCE.COM [Gordon Wong Subject: BK FAN COMMENT: Not Liking The New Stuff These are excerpts from my e-mail conversation with "Anonymous": Me: Where did you hear about her? Anonymous: I don't know, from friends - the same way you hear about any music I guess. Not on the radio or MTV. The album was "Epiphany In Brooklyn" which a lot of my friends liked. Lately though, I hear her stuff has changed, no one I know who liked the 1st album likes the new stuff. ============================================ However, I beg to differ. I find that OTBS is better than EIB, even though EIB was the first BK album for me, too. [1] What does everybody else think? [2] If you compared EIB to OTBS, which do you like better? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 06:50:06 -0700 From: Gordon Wong Subject: BK INFO: Searchable Archives at REFERENCE.COM Most of you have probably heard of DEJANEWS.COM ... there you can search through USENET articles. At REFERENCE.COM you can do that, PLUS you can also search the Brenda Kahn mailing list archives using keywords. Here's how: ===================================== - - Reference.COM has begun archiving this list as of: May 6, 1997 - - Searchable archives for the lists are available at: http://www.reference.com/cgi-bin/pn/listarch?list=bklist@smoe.org - - If you do *NOT* want your post archived at Reference.COM, include the following line as an email header or as the first line of your message: X-No-Archive: yes ===================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 13:41:24 -0400 (EDT) From: "Mark Anthony Miazga" Subject: BK FAN COMMENT: Not Liking The New Stuff (fwd) > However, I beg to differ. I find that OTBS is better than EIB, even though > EIB was the first BK album for me, too. > > [1] What does everybody else think? Unfortunately, I'd have to agree with 'Anonymous', though not as severely. I think EiB is a classic kind of album, and was disappointed to see the direction of DA and OTBS go toward a harder, more electric feel. It makes Brenda all the more less unique. EiB has such a unique, anti-folk sound (like GDTB, but EiB was the sound perfected), and I also like the lyrics better. Not that I don't enjoy OTBS (I love songs like "Wedding Ring", "Heather", and "I Believe in You"), but I think the melodies and lyrics and sound were better with EiB. I also don't like OTBS as much as DA, which I didn't like as much as EiB. From DA, I really enjoyed "Too Far Gone", "Night", "Yellow Sun", and I miss the backup vocals from the Vinnie guy (is he the lead singer of Sponge?), especially like done in "Too Far Gone". However, for me, EiB is easily the strongest album lyrically I've ever heard, and I loved the guitar playing. It did take me a couple months to have it grow in me, though, so maybe OTBS will also. But first impressions are it's not as great an album as EiB. - -- Mark A. Miazga Michigan State University miazgama@pilot.msu.edu East Lansing, MI USA "Yeah I don't sleep, I only dream A caffeine hole burning through my spleen" -- Brenda Kahn ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 14:34:20 -0400 From: Chuck Mongiovi Subject: Re: BK FAN COMMENT: Not Liking The New Stuff (fwd) i don't typically pipe up on questions like this, because i don't know the newer albums as much as i like to .. case and point, i can do the EiB crossword while sleeping, but not the OTBS/DA one .. but i don't think that the new album is lyrically inferior .. it's not exactly as folk-ish as my tastes typically like, but i really like the song Alice .. the line "watercolor insults..." just gets to me .. and i really like the double meaning of "door locks" (the title) .. when i first heard the name i thought of a door knob & lock and the context is different .. not totally, but not totally the same .. and after listening to GDTB for the first time, i realized that brenda's definitely got a bluesy feel to her music .. i don't think that a *whole* lot has changed musically, except that she't got a band backing her .. if you listen to _spoon_ at first it seems totally different than the rest of her music (and it is very different) but then you get to the chorus and there's familiar territory .. i'm happy with change in general, and this is good change .. not bad .. - -chuck Mark Anthony Miazga wrote: > > > However, I beg to differ. I find that OTBS is better than EIB, even though > > EIB was the first BK album for me, too. > > > > [1] What does everybody else think? > > Unfortunately, I'd have to agree with 'Anonymous', though not as severely. I > think EiB is a classic kind of album, and was disappointed to see the direction > of DA and OTBS go toward a harder, more electric feel. It makes Brenda all the > more less unique. EiB has such a unique, anti-folk sound (like GDTB, but EiB > was the sound perfected), and I also like the lyrics better. Not that I don't > enjoy OTBS (I love songs like "Wedding Ring", "Heather", and "I Believe in > You"), but I think the melodies and lyrics and sound were better with EiB. > > I also don't like OTBS as much as DA, which I didn't like as much as EiB. From > DA, I really enjoyed "Too Far Gone", "Night", "Yellow Sun", and I miss the > backup vocals from the Vinnie guy (is he the lead singer of Sponge?), > especially like done in "Too Far Gone". > > However, for me, EiB is easily the strongest album lyrically I've ever heard, > and I loved the guitar playing. It did take me a couple months to have it grow > in me, though, so maybe OTBS will also. But first impressions are it's not as > great an album as EiB. ------------------------------ Date: 14 May 1997 13:29:55 GMT From: Mark_Schaefer@csgi.com (Mark Schaefer) Subject: Re: BK FAN COMMENT: Not Liking The New Stuff Gordon Wong,gwong@istar.ca,Internet writes: Lately though, I hear her stuff has changed, no one I know who liked the 1st album likes the new stuff. ============================================ However, I beg to differ. I find that OTBS is better than EIB, even though EIB was the first BK album for me, too. Don't forget tho, that Goldfish Don't Talk Back was her first album - and it was a classic. - -MaS - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Sent via digitalNATION Online Services http://www.dn.net Provider of Internet Access & Highspeed Web Server Services Specializing in WWW Solutions for Commerce & Enterprise ph:(703) 642-2800 fax: (703) 642-0516 email:info@dn.net - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ End of bklist-digest V1 #46 ***************************