Errors-To: ecto-owner@ns1.rutgers.edu Reply-To: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu Sender: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu From: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu To: ecto-request@ns1.rutgers.edu Bcc: ecto-digest-outbound@ns1.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto #1063 ecto, Number 1063 Friday, 1 April 1994 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Music for Spring Re: I went shopping too!!!! Hey Bday & Tori Re: ecto #1060 Re: I went shopping too!!!! RE: I went shopping too!!!! Tori and Philip Glass Re: Tori and Philip Glass arson garden Pre-Fool's Day Go figure Lou Reed Gogh van Go New here... Re: ecto #1060 (fwd) Re: Lou Reed Re: Tori and Philip Glass kristin hersh tour dates Re: I went shopping too!!!! Re: Sarah and Bryant Margot signs to Maverick! CD shopping Phildelpha Inquirer Review of Tori cd shopping FUMBLING TOWARDS CONCERT Re: Huge Collections ======================================================================== From: sam@swanson.com (Sam Murgie) Subject: Music for Spring Date: Thu, 31 Mar 94 8:47:44 EST according to HOLLY: > > Do you tend to listen to certain music during different seasons > of the year? I do. There's music I listen to and associate with > winter, and some with spring, and some with summer, and some with > autumn. Thouugh I listen to some things all year 'round, they > seem to sound better when I listen to them in their "season." > i definitely associate some music with spring/summer. in particular i will listen to more "fun" music during this time of year. for example, i practically only listen to donnie iris in my car with my sunroof open on hot summer days. what i listen to lightens up as the weather warms. -- *-----------------------------------------------------------------------* | Sam Murgie | "Confusion will be my epitaph..." | | smurgie@swanson.com | (Pete Sinfield) | *-----------------------------------------------------------------------* ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 14:10:32 -0500 From: gmcdonald@zdi.ziff.com (glenn mcdonald) Subject: Re: I went shopping too!!!! For variety, here's what *I* bought in the past week or two. It ain't all very ecto, but hey, the world is wide... - Tori; PGY 1&2: Presumably these need no explanation. I've yet to be disappointed with the results of any of the hundreds of dollars I've spent on Tori's music. - Marillion; The Great Escape, Hollow Man 1&2: Marillion has not mastered the art of high-value CD singles. These three feature two unnecessary album-tracks, a repeated non-album b-side, for a total of three new tracks, one of which is a remix and another of which is a short instrumental. Nonetheless, Marillion is wonderful, and I'll buy anything they release. - UFO; Mechanix, Making Contact, Misdemeanor: A vastly underrated rock band, in my opinion. Phil Mogg has a warm, *human* voice, and they're one of the few hard rock bands to understand keyboards. _Mechanix_ is one of the coolest *sounding* records I know of. - Icicle Works; BBC Live in Concert: Wow. I'd have ample justification for resenting having to pay import prices for this short (seven-song, 36-minute) live album, but I don't. "Evangeline" and "Understand Jane" live! - Tony Banks; Soundtracks, Still: Pleasant. Fish sings on a track on one, and two tracks on the second. Marillion completist items. - Proclaimers; This is the Story, Hit the Highway: Ever wonder how many other songs as good as "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" the Proclaimers have? Well, none, but not many other bands have *any* that good, so you shouldn't hold that against them. The first one is folky, the new one blues- and gospel-y. - Loreena McKennitt; The Mask and the Mirror: Clannad for the foreground. - Sarah McLachlan; Possession CD5: Two good remixes and a killer live track. One of Sarah's best CD-singles. - The Grays; Ro Sham Bo: My most exciting new-band discovery in a good long while. Brilliant American guitar-pop in the Posies/Game Theory/Tommy Keene/Cavedogs mode. Jon Brion produced Aimee Mann's _Whatever_, Buddy Guy played on it, Jason Falkner was in Jellyfish and the Three O'Clock. - Nine Inch Nails; The Downward Spiral: I've never been a big NIN fan, but the Tori connection earned Trent a chance with me, and I'm quite taken with this album. Past NIN stuff has struck me as monotonous, but this one holds my interest throughout. - New Model Army and Tom Jones; Gimme Shelter: Self-explanatory. - Phillip Glass; Einstein on the Beach: I tried to listen to this once so far, but Georgia, my girlfriend, made me turn it off. I'll have to try again when she's not home... - Tasmin Archer; Shipbuilding: Four Costello covers (don't worry, nothing like Wendy James; these are songs Elvis Costello actually *did*), three live versions of _Great Expectations_ tracks, and the acoustic version of "Sleeping Satellite". A US release that's *better* than the UK version, for once. - The Chameleons; Free Trade Hall Rehearsal: Why do I keep buying these Chameleons pseudo-bootlegs? They were an awesome band, and they didn't make nearly enough albums, but rehearsal tapes aren't going to bring them back. - Domestic Science Club; Domestic Science Club: A charming little side-project EP from Sara Hickman and two other Texan singer-songwriter friends. A girl-group anachronism. - Yes; Talk: 90125-Big Generator-Talk. If that sounds good, you'll like this. If you hated the other two, don't bother. glenn ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 31 Mar 94 15:19:13 EST From: WretchAwry Subject: Hey Bday & Tori HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Jennifer Albert!! Mitch asked, wrt Tori on Letterman: > When Dave introduced her, he said her first appearance was on his > show. When was that? Was it with YKTR, or as a soloist? As a soloist, after _Little Earthquakes_ came out. Something was wrong with me at the time and I actually wrote down the date of the appearance. (wish I had that disease every times I've recorded somthing!) Anyway, she appeared on Letterman the first time on April 23, 1992. > In other news: did anyone see Tori on _Good Morning America_ this morning? > How was it, both WRT the music (which can probably be trusted to luck anyhow) > and the quality (or lack thereof) of the interviewing? It was nice. The questions weren't too silly and a beautiful Tori performed a beautiful version of the song "Pretty Good Year" (though it was an abbreviated version) and the intro to "Space Dog." Vickie ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 31 Mar 94 15:24:26 EST From: WretchAwry Subject: Re: ecto #1060 Gray writes: > I've always played Beethoven's 4th Symphony, very loud, every year to > officially declare it to be Spring. (You always wondered who was in charge > of that; now, you know - it's me.) > > Unfortunately, all but one of my loudspeakers has fallen apart, probably > thanks to the time they spent in a hot moving van, coming down to Texas > from New Hampshire, so this year, I guess, there will be no Spring... Sorry. Awwww, please? Hum it, at least... It's good to see you back! Vickie ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 15:33:05 -0500 (EST) From: "she listens like her head's on fire.." Subject: Re: I went shopping too!!!! Glen writes: >- Tori; PGY 1&2: Presumably these need no explanation. I've yet to be >disappointed with the results of any of the hundreds of dollars I've spent >on Tori's music. I've seen Pretty Good Year part 1, but I haven't seen the second cd yet. What songs are on the second part? -Quenby ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 15:49:25 -0500 From: gmcdonald@zdi.ziff.com (glenn mcdonald) Subject: RE: I went shopping too!!!! >I've seen Pretty Good Year part 1, but I haven't seen the second cd yet. What >songs are on the second part? Pretty Good Year 1 Pretty Good Year (album version) Home on the Range (same as on US "God" CD5) Daisy Dead Petals (only available here, so far) Pretty Good Year 2 Pretty Good Year (album version) Honey (only available here, so far) Black Swan (only available here, so far) glenn ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 16:37:22 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Sampson Subject: Tori and Philip Glass Not to imply that those two are an item or anything.... Question: Does anybody out there know if Tori Amos has done any Bob Dylan covers? I can't get into why I'm even ASKING such a strange question, but particularly, I'm curious about the possibility of her doing "Tangled Up in Blue"......Premonitions/Daydreams can be weird things, folks. Glenn went shopping and bought, among other things, Einstein On the Beach, by Philip Glass. Though, Georgia, his girlfriend made him turn it off :( My $.02. I bought the EOtB CD set in the mid 80s when it first came out on CD (I'd heard a tape by Ken (my friend who intro'd me to Happy's music)) I was particularly caught by the "lyric" ..."I was in a prematurely air-conditioned supermarket, and there were all these aisles, and there were these bathing caps with a sort of a 4th of July design and they were red and yellow and blue, and I wasn't tempted to buy one, but I was reminded that I'd been avoiding the beach" (+ or -). So I plunked down $80 US (through the Columbia Record House) and when the CD arrived, I listened....and, well, I was worried that I'd just wasted $80. Kathy, my SO, was over one weekend, and I played it for her....I was a bit apprehensive as I'd had girlfriends in the past who asked (politely, usually) me to turn this or that "weird" music off...please....I'm getting a headache? Anyway, at Kathy's encouragement, I gave it a few more tries (it was elevated to "good, but I'm self-conscious about playing for others" prior to her encouragement) and lo and behold, I discovered that I actually LIKE it....ALOT. In fact (and ex-girlfriends would (or maybe wouldn't) be amazed to learn this....I used to study/work with it playing on the stereo....Not that it's boring, but something about it "facilitates" concentration....it's almost mantric. Anyway, Glenn.....My advice is to let Georgia listen to it a coupla more times, and if she doesn't like it....well, get a new girlfriend {{{{{JUST KIDDING}}}}}. Seriously, though, if you figure that you want to get rid of the CD, name a price, and maybe I'll take it off your hands (You might want to find out what the CD store will give you in STORE CREDIT for selling it to THEM, I'd certainly match that)....As I said, I have the CD, but not the new issue with the new liner notes. Finally, I heard a rumor (THIS IS A RUMOR, FOLKS, DON'T GO CITING ME AS ITS SOURCE) that the newest couple in NY is Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson.....anybody verify/debunk that one?????? That's all for this boy, right now.... .----------------------------------------------------------------------. ./| | | |/| Discover your inner evil twin. | Chris Sampson | |/| | chris@neuron.uchc.edu | |/`-----------------------------------------------------------------------' |///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// `------------------------------------------------------------------------' ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 31 Mar 94 17:13:16 EST From: ksilver@zeus.st.3com.com (Keith Silver) Subject: Re: Tori and Philip Glass Chris Sampson writes: > Finally, I heard a rumor (THIS IS A RUMOR, FOLKS, DON'T GO CITING >ME AS ITS SOURCE) that the newest couple in NY is Lou Reed and Laurie >Anderson.....anybody verify/debunk that one?????? I heard Laurie Anderson interviewed on WFNX in Boston recently and she was asked this question. I was on my way back from a somewhat painful experience at the doctor's, so I wasn't concentrating on what was being said as much as I normally would have, but I think that she neither denied or confirmed it. I could tell that the interviewer was reluctant to ask the question in the first place since it's kind of a "none of your business" question, so when he received a vague answer, he didn't press her. Doesn't she have something coming out this summer? It's been too long since "Strange Angels". k s Hmm, what is the proper neticut for responding to a part of a message where the subject of the original message no longer applies? Leave the subject alone or update it to something more appropriate? How about: "Laurie Anderson + Lou Reed was Tori and Philip Glass" ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 31 Mar 94 17:40:52 EST From: woj@remus.rutgers.edu (something shakespeare never said) Subject: arson garden fyi, arson garden held their album release party last night. i don't have all the pertinent details just yet, but i'll pass them along as i find them out. +woj ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 31 Mar 94 14:46:04 -0800 From: Michael G Peskura Subject: Pre-Fool's Day glenn buys: > - Sarah McLachlan; Possession CD5: Two good remixes and a killer live > track. One of Sarah's best CD-singles. Plus, the cover photo is worth the price of the disc ... in my most humble opinion. re: weird music -- i have discovered that NO one complains about your musical taste when you listen in the privacy of your automobile, so that is exactly what i do. Speaking of musical taste, today's purchase is the Mudhoney/Jimmie Dale Gilmore ep, on which they cover each other's music. Can't wait to hear this one. :) --- Michael Peskura - University of Washington - Seattle USA ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 16:47:52 CST From: Subject: Go figure Yesterday's _Chicago Tribune_ carried a review of a Crowded House concert, for which Sheryl Crow opened. The comments on the latter were generally favorable. It was particularly interesting to read that she did a song called "What I Can Do for You," about rape from the viewpoint of the rapist. It might make an interesting segue with "Me and a Gun." I was nonplused, however, to read the following closing comments: >The song--and her performance--demonstrated that Crow is a talent who des- >erves at least as much acclaim as has been awarded lately to space case >Tori Amos. I may have just witnessed the epitome of subtle musical humor: _All Things Considered_ led out of a report on a security lockdown in a Chicago high school with just the first few instrumental bars of Howard Jones' "Things Can Only Get Better." Happy April Fools Eve. Mitch ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 31 Mar 94 14:29:13 PST From: hanson@ast.saic.com (Jeffrey Hanson) Subject: Lou Reed Don't know about Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson, but a friend of mine at work, who lives in a neighborhood that is fortunate enough to have expanded cable and get the Mexican MtV, said that they played a Lou Reed/Victoria Williams video of "Crazy Mary" last night, followed by Kate Bush's "And So Is Love". Why can't American MtV play decent music once in a while (or at least play music once in a while?) Jeff Hanson ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 16:37:55 -0800 (PST) From: Neile Graham Subject: Gogh van Go About a week ago Meth asked: > Neile mentioned: > > >_Go van Gogh_: I really enjoyed their first pop-y disc. > > I know I've asked this before, but I don't think I ever got an answer. Is > this the folk/rock duo from New Haven, CT or another group with the exact > same name from somewhere else? This has been bugging me for a while... As far as I know they're from Montreal (that's where their contact address is). I keep getting their name backwards. The one I'm talking about is Gogh van Go. Maybe there's another group? This also is a duo and their Sandra Luciantonio and Dan Tierney. Their producer was Pierre Marchand, which is a familiar name to Sarah buffs. --Neile neile@u.washington.edu ======================================================================== From: Alain.Lachapelle@167-290-33.hexacom.com (Alain Lachapelle) Date: 31 Mar 94 18:41:35 -0500 Subject: New here... Bonjour all, I'm new around here. I was introduced to Happy Rhodes's music by friend Tracy Barber who lives in Albany, NY. Since then I got all her CDs, seen Mitch Elrod live last year in Troy (Happy Rhodes made the cover design of his recently-released CD), and also got some tapes, radio interview, demoes, by Happy Rhodes, Kevin Bartlett and Mitch Elrod. Ah, and a Happy Rhodes t-shirt. Of course. For the recent posts I've read here, it's not clear what topics are promoted (if any?) The Internet Directory (Eric Braun) says concerning ecto: "Happy Rhodes (and other music, books, films, art)" Hmmm... that's quite vague. Anyone would care to shed me some light upon this list? >From Montreal, Quebec, Alain al@hexacom.com Now Playing: "Mondes paralleles" - Lydia Domancich ================================================== ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 31 Mar 94 16:43:21 PST From: "John Relph" Subject: Re: New here... > For the recent posts I've read here, it's not clear what topics are promoted >(if any?) The Internet Directory (Eric Braun) says concerning ecto: "Happy >Rhodes (and other music, books, films, art)" Hmmm... that's quite vague. >Anyone would care to shed me some light upon this list? Yes, it's quite vague. Isn't it wonderful?! -- John ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 21:15:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Karen Rauch Subject: Re: ecto #1060 (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 00:27:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Karen Rauch To: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu Subject: Re: ecto #1060 > > Holly asks: > > > > Do you tend to listen to certain music during different seasons > > of the year? I do. There's music I listen to and associate with > > winter, and some with spring, and some with summer, and some with > > autumn. Thouugh I listen to some things all year 'round, they > > seem to sound better when I listen to them in their "season." I tend to associate some songs with seasons, especially summer. For example I will first hear a song in a situation and remember it vividly, then when I hear the song again, the same feelings or atmosphere will come back. This most often happens with summer for some reason. I guess because I spend more time outside during the summer and a controlled environment doesn't do much for unique situations. ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 21:33:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Karen Rauch Subject: Re: Lou Reed Over Christmas on 120 minutes, American MTV had a special acoustic version. They played Lou Reed and Victoria Williams singing "Crazy Mary." It was really wonderful. If anyone knows where I can get a copy of them singinig it, please let me know. On Thu, 31 Mar 1994, Jeffrey Hanson wrote: > Don't know about Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson, but a friend of mine > at work, who lives in a neighborhood that is fortunate enough to have > expanded cable and get the Mexican MtV, said that they played > a Lou Reed/Victoria Williams video of "Crazy Mary" last night, > followed by Kate Bush's "And So Is Love". > > Why can't American MtV play decent music once in a while (or at least > play music once in a while?) > > Jeff Hanson ======================================================================== From: jzitt@ssnet.com (Joseph Zitt) Subject: Re: Tori and Philip Glass Date: Thu, 31 Mar 1994 21:26:13 -0500 (EST) > I bought the EOtB CD set in the mid 80s when it first came out on > CD (I'd heard a tape by Ken (my friend who intro'd me to Happy's music)) I > was particularly caught by the "lyric" ..."I was in a prematurely > air-conditioned supermarket, and there were all these aisles, and there > were these bathing caps with a sort of a 4th of July design and they were > red and yellow and blue, and I wasn't tempted to buy one, but I was > reminded that I'd been avoiding the beach" (+ or -). So I plunked down $80 > US (through the Columbia Record House) and when the CD arrived, I > listened....and, well, I was worried that I'd just wasted $80. Kathy, my > SO, was over one weekend, and I played it for her....I was a bit > apprehensive as I'd had girlfriends in the past who asked (politely, > usually) me to turn this or that "weird" music off...please....I'm getting > a headache? I got EoTB when it first came out (yes, on vinyl). It was very popular at my school (Livingston College, back when it was proud to be weird) and several of us on my dorm floor had copies. I remember one time we got revenge on a very uptight person who had been complaining about the strange music by putting side one on LOUD on three of our stereos on repeat-play, locking our doors and going out. He was properly cowed. I got to interview Glass back then (a very nice person). I'm chomping to hear the new version, though I hear varying reports about it. I've kept up on what he's been doing, trying to catch as much as I can; I've found that even though much of his stuff is predictable, odds are very good that the other partners in his projects will be doing interesting stuff. ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 1 Apr 94 00:33:40 EST From: woj@remus.rutgers.edu (something shakespeare never said) Subject: kristin hersh tour dates [apparently, there will be more dates to come for this tour as well.] >From: joejanecek@aol.com (JoeJanecek) >Date: 29 Mar 1994 01:53:07 -0500 > >Hersh, Kristin U.S. Tour (3/24) >4/13/94 Northampton MA The Iron Horse >4/14/94 Somerville MA Somerville Theatre >4/15/94 Providence RI Lupo's >4/16/94 Portland ME Roaul's >4/19/94 Hoboken NJ Maxwell's >4/21/94 New York NY Irving Plaza >4/23/94 Philadelphia PA Theatre Of Living Arts >4/24/94 Alexandria VA The Birchmere >4/27/94 Atlanta GA Variety Playhouse +woj ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 1 Apr 94 18:56:02 +1000 From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Subject: Re: I went shopping too!!!! Tim writes about his CD purchases: > Oh, and for those quiet moments a CD of Gregorian chant music!! That's not that "Canto Gregoriano" thing that's gone to No. 1 and sold millions in Spain, is it? They're TV advertising it here now, and the ads are hilarious. Cue menacing film trailer voice. Cue shots of traffic, and other stressful things of life, fast cut. "When the stresses of life become too much, when you feel you just can't go on any more.... Thank gaaaaaaaaaad for Canto Gregoriano!" I guess you had to be there... :-) - Anthony -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au "All told, Under The Pink is small but likeably formed; ideal for those herbal-tea moments." - Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian reviewing the new "Victoria Amos" album. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 1 Apr 94 16:14:32 +1000 From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Subject: Re: Sarah and Bryant Michael writes: > I managed to see Sarah's appearance on the Today Show last week. Unless > i missed something, her performance was cut to just one song. She did two songs - "Posession", and then after a commercial, most of "Good Enough"... > Bryant Gumbel did a fine job of playing the part of a smarmy git. He's made a career out of it thus far... :) > I've seen the "Possession" video a few times ... i'm afraid it misses > the VERY erotic point of that song. She needs a new video director! I'd actually thought the song was about obsessive fans... and no, I haven't seen the video, but heck, let's hook her up with Russell Mulcahy anyway. :) - Anthony -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au "All told, Under The Pink is small but likeably formed; ideal for those herbal-tea moments." - Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian reviewing the new "Victoria Amos" album. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 1 Apr 94 19:11:44 +1000 From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Subject: Margot signs to Maverick! In what is a real coup for an Australian artist, Margot Smith yesterday inked a five album deal for the world outside of Australia with Madonna's Maverick Recording Company. This deal virtually guarantees her music will be heard extensively throughout the world. The first audible result of the new deal will be a single to be recorded in Ibiza, Spain, a song called "Give Me That Funky Man-Beast, Baby". This song, co-written by Madonna, Margot, and UK television presenter Jonathan Ross, will be produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange, famous for his work on records by Def Leppard, AC/DC, and Bryan Adams. Mixing duties will be handled by the Pet Shop Boys with additional dance mixes by the Aphex Twin. This single will appear on the forthcoming album, "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", which will also include a new cover of the song that makes up the album title, with Michael Stipe, Natalie Merchant, and Ozzy Osbourne on guest vocals in what is being described as "a humourous step forward for female vocal music". Production for the album apart from the aforementioned single is being handled by Greg Martin, famous for his production work with The Sneddleys, John Smith (no relation) and death-metal punk superstars Hammer Of The Mods. John's brother, George, has also produced a couple of things before, and he will be assigned tape op status for this album. A spokesperson for EMI Australia, when contacted about the new deal, album and single, said "That sensitive female vocal stuff is just so hard to promote. So when Margot put out her first album, we decided not to bother. This new record promises to have all the ingredients for a worlwide number one, especially if we can get her to wear leather in the video clip. Margot's going to be bigger than Mariah Carey before too long!" A spokesperson for Mariah Carey declined to comment, saying that the squeaky diva was busy in the studio working on her next album with George Clinton and his engineer, Sally Martin. Happy April Fool's Day, Ecto! :-) (And apologies to Margot, by the way!) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au "All told, Under The Pink is small but likeably formed; ideal for those herbal-tea moments." - Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian reviewing the new "Victoria Amos" album. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 1 Apr 94 08:27:39 -0500 From: Mike Matthews Subject: CD shopping I am happy to say that I was, for the first time, able to refrain from buying a CD for a whole *month*. This isn't an April Fools posting either. (I did write a check to Columbia House for one CD, but that doesn't count as I ordered it in February) And, man, I'VE GOT THE URGE!!!! Too bad I don't have the extra money. Mike ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 1 Apr 1994 09:38:26 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. Keefer" Subject: Phildelpha Inquirer Review of Tori Here's the review of Tori Amos from the Inquirer (the Keswick Theater is just outside of Philly, in Glenside; nice, intimate place). PS: If someone wants to repost this to the Tori list (I don't have the address), please feel free. bob k. /Philadelphia Inquirer, Wednesday, March 30, 1994, page E2/ Review: Music Emotional songs at the Keswick By Dan DeLuca, Inquirer Staff Writer Tori Amos doesn't have any trouble getting attention. Bright red hair matching the shoes on her feet, she straddled her piano bench Monday night at the sold-out Keswick Theater and slithered as her breathy soprano took off in delirious flights. With her mother and father present, she naughtily remembered discovering masturbation as a 10-year-old listening to Robert Plant's orgasmic screams in her bedroom. And she grabbed a piece of that boy-rock ecstasy for herself with a sumptuous, clearly enunciated version of Nirvana's mumbled anti-anthem "Smells Like Teen Spirit." "If you guys can just bear with me on this one," Amos asked of her rapt audience before addressing the creator on "God," from her new album, _Under the Pink_ (Atlantic). "It's a little weird, but it really gets me off." She might have issued that warning before every song. Amos' tunes are nothing if not indulgent, the nakedly open, prone-to-hysteria diary jotting of a born showoff and child piano prodigy. And if the meaning of he raging confessionals is all but impenetrable to anyone outside her dream world, they seem to make powerful sense to her, and the crowd hung on her every outburst. Amos' high-pitched vocals and tinkling piano get to be grating. but if all the frayed emotionalism was too much for one evening, she could be genuinely stirring as well, as on her a cappella remembrance of being raped, "Me and a Gun," or the playful "Happy Phantom." And in the midst of overstatement, her intelligence and humor peek out. Before "Pretty Good Year," she offered men made nervous by the gender-quake sympathy, "but no pity," and in "Crucify" she announced, "Got enough guilt to start my own religion." Guilt was also on the mind of Bill Miller, the Native American singer-songwriter who opened the show. While Amos gives voice to painful memories in her personal past, Miller aims to hasten the healing process of history by singing of the pain of his people. ---- 30 ---- ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 1 Apr 94 10:04:40 EST From: woj@remus.rutgers.edu (something shakespeare never said) Subject: cd shopping Mike Matthews sez: >I am happy to say that I was, for the first time, able to refrain from buying >a CD for a whole *month*. are you *proud* of this fact? ;) +woj ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 1 Apr 94 10:20:37 EST From: torok@nynexst.com (David Torok) Subject: FUMBLING TOWARDS CONCERT Hi Everyone, Are you going to the 20 April Sarah show at SUNY Purchase, NY? Of course you are! At least if you live in the NY-CT area you are. I am going to have a FUMBLING TOWARDS CONCERT wine-and-cheese event at my apartment prior to the show, from about 6PM - 7:30PM. My apartment is in White Plains, about 15 minutes' drive from SUNY Purchase. My place is only a 10-15 minute walk from the White Plains (NY) train station, in case you are car-less and coming from NYC. I'm sure you'll be able to get a ride to/from the concert. I'm opening this up to all ectophiles/rdt-ers/fte people, but >>>>>PLEASE R.S.V.P. to me by email<<<< if you think you'll attend. I can then send driving or walking directions to you, and I'll know how much food to buy. Also let me know if you are a non-drinker as to what you'd prefer to consume instead. In case you didn't know about the show, they still had decent tickets available as of 2 days ago. The PAC Box office number is 914-251-6200. The tix are $15. -=$>DaveTorok<$=- torok@nynexst.com ======================================================================== From: mklprc@aol.com Date: Fri, 01 Apr 94 11:52:23 EST Subject: Re: Huge Collections Quoting Philip Sainty > how do you people with HugeMusicCollections(tm) > manage to listen to even a fraction of them on a > regular basis? (apart from those favourites which > are never more than a few days from the CD player anyway :) > My CD collection has yet to reach a half-century, and > while I love most of them (most were ecto-recomendations > some go for ages and ages without getting played... In a phrase, I don't. I have over a thousand lps and 150 cds, and many of the lps will never be played again, even the good ones 8-). But it is nice to have them, should a friend be flipping through the set and say "Far out! I have not heard this since..." and I can play it. Plus, it makes good fodder for radio, should I ever get another show. Or my retirement; some are quite rare and valuable. Plus, I may make a sampler tape of Ecto-type music from the '60s and '70s for trade to ectoids interested in protohistory. Names like Marianne Faithfull (first iteration), Mary McCaslin, Mary Hopkin (are we seeing a trend here??) Shelby Flint (I have an unreleased album by her I produced in 1970 and have no idea what to do with it--no rights), Maddy Prior, Jacquie McShee, many more. I used to be the only one I knew who collected female singer-songwriters. Michael Pearce ======================================================================== The ecto archives are on hardees.rutgers.edu in ~ftp/pub/hr. There is an INDEX file explaining what is where. Feel free to send me things you'd like to have added. -- jessica (jessica@ns1.rutgers.edu)