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 #685 ecto, Number 685 Wednesday, 4 August 1993 Today's Topics: *-----------------* JS Reviews Re: Jane Siberry received prominant billing in Globe & Mail newspaper Equipoise Re: Lookie what I found! Re: Rhodes Songs Les Champs Magnetiques? 4 Non Blondes just a word before i leave... Re: Lookie what I found! compassion... by any other name Hap Hap Hap Hap Hap Hap Happy Talk! (no content) ======================================================================== From: Tim Cook Date: Wed, 4 Aug 93 08:28:09 BST Subject: JS Reviews I posted this to Vickie and then thought that maybe other non-UK ectophiles might want to read them. Reprinted *without* permission :) Jane Siberry When I Was a Boy VOX August 1993 In which Jane Siberry goes Dance. Don't worry, this is no attempt to slap on the swingbeat in search of a hit; when Siberry does dance, it's powerful, moody and dreamlike, assimilating what's fashionable but making it entirely her own. 'All The Candles', for instance, sounds like a mangled kind of 'Justify My Love', with the pared-down bass-filled dance beat and her whispered rap charting the funky depths of female fantasy. Gone is the irritating 'quirkiness' of earlier days. This, Siberry's sixth album, shows a maturing talent, a deeper voice and a long, slow look at the world. She's widened her folk/pop base by coaxing in different rhythms, thus moving on from the comfortable ghetto of the eccentric singer/songwriter. Spiritually is the theme in an album awash with gentle gospel choruses, church bells, sampled evangelist preachers and even moments of meditative silence. All this is grounded, though, in recurring raps and rich funk bass. (8/10) Lucy O'Brien Q Magazine, August 1993 An unusual title for an album by a woman, but then Siberry comes from the same stable as k.d. lang, promoted heavily by their mutual record company on the frock-coat tails of her great fellow country-woman. But it is a third Canadian, Mary Margaret O'Hara, who springs to mind here. The sudden whips into falsetto, the whispered passages, the impenetrable lyrics, the hints of Catholic guilt and disappointment influences aside (and Siberry has borrowed heavily from Madonna, too, in her rapping style), this is an album crammed with neat, if hardly light-hearted, moments, which improve with every listen. Calling All Angels (which was strangely on her last album too, as a duet with lang), Sail Across The Water and An Angel Stepped Down are all delightful, and even some of the more eccentric moments such as Beginnings Of Time (complete with one minute's silence) bear investigation. **** Jim White ======================================================================== From: S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk Subject: Re: Jane Siberry received prominant billing in Globe & Mail newspaper Date: Wed, 4 Aug 93 10:01:48 BST On Tue, 3 Aug 1993 at 16:36:44 -0400 myhui@bigbunny.isis.org (Michael M.Y. Hui) wrote: > Shirely not. Vickie boils over most of the time over most artists anyway. Ooooh! You bitch!! :-) ...and stop calling me Shirley! :-) -- Regards Steve Fagg ( S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk +44-279-402437 ) BNR Europe Ltd., London Road, Harlow, Essex, CM17 9NA, UK *** "Better drowned than duffers. If not duffers, won't drown". *** ======================================================================== From: jk101920@ee.tut.fi (Kannisto Juha) Subject: Equipoise Date: Wed, 4 Aug 93 14:20:51 EET DST Hiiohei! Yes, my autographed *Equipoise* arrived today in perfect condition. Yes !!! :) I'm already very fond of it. Took just 13 days since the day I sent the order and it usually takes about seven for a letter to go from here to the states or vice versa. Really happy now :) One more thing: I read that somebody suggested that maybe her cover art should be hidden somewhere within the inner pages to promote the sales. No, please no! I would hate to see her compromise to increase the sales, I think it's always best to do exactly what feels right to you and not to the faceless mass of the 'normal' people out there. Just my 2 mk worth :) Happy day to all, Juha -- Juha Kannisto O jk101920@cc.tut.fi O I have a friend in Phobos O Savikukonkatu 21 O jk101920@ee.tut.fi O At times I think I'm almost there O 33530 Tampere O jk101920@cs.tut.fi O * Happy Rhodes * O Finland O +358-31-560941 O ~~~~~~~~~~~~ O ======================================================================== From: S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk Subject: Re: Lookie what I found! Date: Wed, 4 Aug 93 12:22:20 BST On Wed, 4 Aug 93 at 0:22:09 EDT WretchAwry wrote: > > P.S. Does anyone else besides me think that H&K should come up with > > a better title for the best-of than "Rhodes Songs"? > > "Rhodes Soft" ? Dunno. I think it's a great title myself. "Soft Rhodes"??? Only joking! Actually, now it comes to it, I can't remember who "Hard Roads" was by! Any offers of help to the (X-)terminally brain-faded? -- Regards Steve Fagg ( S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk +44-279-402437 ) BNR Europe Ltd., London Road, Harlow, Essex, CM17 9NA, UK *** "Better drowned than duffers. If not duffers, won't drown". *** ======================================================================== From: S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk Subject: Re: Lookie what I found! Date: Wed, 4 Aug 93 12:32:18 BST On Wed, 4 Aug 93 at 0:20:04 EDT WretchAwry wrote: > I don't think I passed this along...I had an exchange with a fellow at > Mammoth records: > > > I heard a rumour that > > Mammoth was going to be re-releasing Victoria Williams' 2 albums on CD. > > Is it true? If so, when will they be available? > > Mammoth does have the rights to re-release them, but as of now they > are still keeping it in the rumor stage. sorry... ... Vickie explaining to Mammoth exactly what total blockheads they are being for not exercising their CD re-release rights in the light of the "Sweet Relief" publicity deleted ... > What can I say, it amazed me! He did write back and say that he'd > pass my note along to possible powers-that-be. > > Well, at least someone at Mammoth knows how I feel. Well done Vickie! These guys need a boot up the rear. Anybody with half a brain would have realised for themselves what you said about the potential demand for Victoria's albums generated by the current publicity, and would have rushed out the CDs pronto to cash in. If this is typical of the business acumen at Mammoth, I'm glad I don't hold any stock! -- Regards Steve Fagg ( S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk +44-279-402437 ) BNR Europe Ltd., London Road, Harlow, Essex, CM17 9NA, UK *** "Better drowned than duffers. If not duffers, won't drown". *** ======================================================================== From: r.lovejoy1@genie.geis.com Date: Wed, 4 Aug 93 12:45:00 BST Subject: Re: Rhodes Songs alt.titles.newalbum "Soft Rhodes" "The Long and Winding Rhodes" (sorry...) "Rhodes Scholar" "Back Rhodes" (hey, not bad!) "Rhodes Straight to my Heart" (travelled by those with fire!) I better stop before I get into trouble! Bob the inevitable ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1993 8:26:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Sampson Subject: Les Champs Magnetiques? D^2 wrote, wondering about the GROUP Magnetic Fields. Is this a thing? I thought it was ONLY the title of JMJs album......(confused) Can anyone recommend the Cocteau Twins' _Victorialand_? I have the strange feeling that this has been written about recently, so no yelling, ok, but I wanna know if it's any good. Chris Sampson chris@neuron.uchc.edu ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 04 Aug 93 08:30:00 -0500 From: "Dennis G Parslow" Subject: 4 Non Blondes They are opening for Aerosmith at an upcoming show here in Albany. Tickets go on sale saturday. One has to ask, though, "How good can anyone be if they open for Aerosmith?" Dennis Parslow "I'm glad I not here over satellite, because Troy, NY 12180 that seems to really weird you out!" p00421@psilink.com Kate Bush (referring to Gary Numan) ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 4 Aug 93 09:19:14 EDT From: mojzes@monet.rutgers.edu (brni) Subject: just a word before i leave... hi all, just a quick babbling of fingers before i take off to north carolina for that whole familial obligation thing (there has to be a better way to spend vacation time...) > > alt.titles.newalbum > "Soft Rhodes" > "The Long and Winding Rhodes" (sorry...) > "Rhodes Scholar" > "Back Rhodes" (hey, not bad!) > "Rhodes Straight to my Heart" (travelled by those with fire!) > > I better stop before I get into trouble! > Bob the inevitable > "Rhodes Lite" (don't hit me!!!!) "The Rhodes goes ever on and on" (probably badly misparaphrased tolkein) if happy does a more angry sort of album, would it be called "Rhodes Kill"? --------------------------- > >Can anyone recommend the Cocteau Twins' _Victorialand_? I have the strange >feeling that this has been written about recently, so no yelling, ok, but I >wanna know if it's any good. > HEY!!!! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN!!??!!! :> :> :> any and all cocteau twins albums are great. i seem to finding that i like their earlier work best (garlands, head over heels) because i like that melancholic acid groove that they produce. victorialand is more, well, not ambient, but more of a contented hanging out in a field eating fresh apples sort of feel, and the more recent stuff (blue bell knoll, heaven or las vegas) is more of a tripping people dancing in a lake sort of feel. oh, just get them all. :) c ya, and try not to write too much so that my account doesn't explode or something. i'll be back sunday. brni > >Chris Sampson >chris@neuron.uchc.edu > ======================================================================== From: heath@iceblink.cs.jhu.edu (Dave Heath) Subject: Re: Lookie what I found! Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1993 13:25:25 GMT WretchAwry writes: >> 2) Mammoth does have the rights to re-release them, but as of now they >> are still keeping it in the rumor stage. sorry... >I belong to a mailing list that >is full, *FULL* of Victoria Williams fans, or are curious about her, and >would snatch up anything out there, *ESPECIALLY* her first album, because >it's been out of print for a long time, and is extremely hard to find. plus, >it was never released on CD. Excuse me, but as a DJ, as a net.goddess :-) (Sorry, Vickie, I just had to leave the part about the net.goddess in!) Anyway, I was wondering, is there someone at Mammoth that we can write to in order to convince them that there are people out there waiting for her first album to be re-released? Maybe if they received a bunch of letters, it would carry more weight. -dave ======================================================================== Date: 04 Aug 93 10:53:56 EDT From: Mike Mendelson Subject: compassion... someone whose name I will not mention said: > Victoria Williams, _Swing the Statue!_ > >popped out at me. Needless to say, I plunked down the $15 to buy it. >The guy at the register said, "Ah yes.. I was wondering when someone >was going to notice that." Now if this had been Happy Come Home, then I'd be infinitely envious. I hate to say it, but if anybody needs a copy of this there are *tons* of them, around Chicago at least, for $4 and under. This is a cut-out, I believe, and every time I go to any of the major record chains and look in the cut-out bins, I unfailingly see StS for a song. So definitely check those cut-out bins, folks. And, I'm sure when the big tent music sale comes to Chicago this fall (it's a benefit for some charity I don't recall... MS?), there'll be piles of StS for $2 each. However, I did read in a local PC rag yesterday that Rounder(??) (well, some record company) is considering re-issuing both HCH and StS; and that VW will be coming out with a brand new album on Rounder later this year or beginning of 94. So there ain't no question that Sweet Relief, which I have yet to hear but which has drawn rave reviews everywhere I look, is doing more than just paying the medical bills: it is (even VW admits this, in a Newsweek article), ironically, giving her career a big boost. The world works in strange ways, ay? -mjm- ======================================================================== Date: 04 Aug 93 11:03:25 EDT From: Mike Mendelson Subject: by any other name A better title: |> P.S. Does anyone else besides me think that H&K should come up with |> a better title for the best-of than "Rhodes Songs"? | |"Rhodes Soft" ? Dunno. I think it's a great title myself. How about Happy Sings? Or Happy Songs? I think the latter would be great: rich in irony, double-entendre, and haute-cliche... ...just like I like it. -mjm ======================================================================== From: brianb@lobby.ti.com (Brian Bloom) Subject: Re: Les Champs Magnetiques? Date: Wed, 4 Aug 93 12:11:23 CDT Chris ventured: > > Can anyone recommend the Cocteau Twins' _Victorialand_? I have the strange > feeling that this has been written about recently, so no yelling, ok, but I > wanna know if it's any good. > Well, I'm sure you'll get a nearly unanimous yes. I'd be hard pressed to choose between Treasure & Victorialand, but both are wonderful, IMNSHO... br!an -- __ ____ __ ____ __ __ (__==__) /\ \ / \_\ / /\ / \ \ / |\ / /\ (oo) ( moo.) / \_\ / /\ |_| / / /| /\ \ \ / ||/ / / /-------\/ -' / /\ | |\ \/ /_/_ / / / \ \/ \ \ / |/ / / / | U.T.|| / \/ |_| \ __ \_\ /_/ / \ /\ \_\ / /| / / * ||----|| / /\ ./_/ \ \ \/_/_\_\/ \ \ \/_// / | / / ^^ ^^ \ \/ |_| \ \_\ /_/\ \ \_\ /_/ /|_/ / Br!an Bloom \__/_/ \/_/ \_\/ \/_/ \_\/ \_\/ brianb@lobby.ti.com .. but music hides me so well, ..and reveals me.. oh well - HR ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 4 Aug 93 13:32:52 EDT From: mpower@jpmorgan.com (Marc Power) Subject: Hap Hap Hap Hap Hap Hap Happy Talk! (no content) Told you! (This was only a test...you should have ignored it) We return you to discussion of our fave femme singer/songwriter. Marc. -- ======================================================================== 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)