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 #946 ecto, Number 946 Tuesday, 4 January 1994 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Thanks... RE: Kirsty on Conan -tonight! RE: pick me up, put me down Campfires Re: Sarah's Hooks This MOrtal COil RE: This MOrtal COil Victoria Williams'_Swing the Statue_ Local geography demystified and other stories shedding this mortal coil gong/jorn/*HUG* Waah! When the rain came down... ======================================================================== From: r.lovejoy1@genie.geis.com Date: Wed, 29 Dec 93 13:33:00 BST Subject: Thanks... I was surprised by the number of kind responses to my Vogon Poetry, and I just wanted to thank you all for being so kind. Oddly enough, I didn't intend to sit down and write a poem; it just poured out, so to speak. But thank you all for the kind words; I've done that a few times on ecto and never got this much response. Perhaps a new career awaits me at Hallmark? I'm still hoping to see some of you on New Year's day, if you're in the area and not hung over please drop in. Directions are available for the asking! Take care, all, and enjoy what's left of '93! +*************************************************************************+ + Robert Lovejoy + I've got a letter here postmarked Deep Space + + Deepspace + -The Firesign Theatre + + Cherry Hill, NJ + But baby I'm here and I've been quite an + + r.lovejoy1@genie.geis.co + Alien too... + + kdvn07a on Prodigy + -Happy Rhodes + +*************************************************************************+ ======================================================================== Subject: Date: Wed, 29 Dec 93 08:51:10 -0500 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu WHFS just played "Cornflake Girl" by Tori Amos, off the upcoming _Under the Pink_. Apparently they have a release copy of the CD (ie all tracks and cover art, etc.) This song is just astounding. Mindboggling. Amazing. Incredible. Yes, I liked it. And best of all, I got most of it on tape! (missed part of the intro and the last 20 seconds or so) I'm just *dying* to hear the album. It pains me to say this, but if this song was any indicator, _Under the Pink_ is going to blow TRS out of the water (and I'm apparently one of the few people who absolutely adores TRS and *all* of its tracks, including "Why Should I Love You?"). Anyway, just needed to share. ;-) Folks in ther DC area should take note that 'HFS will be playing random tracks from the album whenever they feel like it... Jeff |Jeffrey C. Burka | "Everything is still with a fear of never coming out | |Suffering Bad Grammar| Never following through / Never ever finishing | |jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu | What we wanted to do." -- Melissa Ferrick | ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1993 02:57:29 +1200 From: sainty_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz Subject: RE: Kirsty on Conan -tonight! That title evoked images of Kirsty in chain-mail wielding a broadsword... :) Philip ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1993 04:18:24 +1200 From: sainty_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz Subject: RE: pick me up, put me down Neal Neals: >>>thing that annoys me even more than hompho. is many men's reaction when >>>you tell them. It goes something like: >>>"PHWOOAARGH! Gor, if you ever 'ave a woman round tell me wont you? eh? eh?" >>>Does anyone know a good response to this one? > >I thought the thing men were supposed to say to women when they found out >they were gay was something like, "You obviously haven't slept with a real >man like me" or something equally ridiculous. > >You could try something like "And you let me know when the sheep finally >says yes" :-) My suggestion is positively tame by comparison, but you could reply "But I already have a doormat..." or variations thereupon. Alternatively, something involving castration might cool them down... :) Philip ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1993 04:34:47 +1200 From: sainty_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz Subject: Campfires Michael Bravos: >Those are really very nice, romantic, and remembrance-worthy (huh?) moments >in my life - sitting with my friends around the fire in the deep night, the >eerie non-silence of forest around you, drinking tea, talking, maybe singing >something with guitar... feeling the tired muscles after a 20-km walk >through the marshy wood with 20-25 kg backpack... relaxing in the tent... Reading this gave me the most delightfully happy and peaceful feelings as I remembered (or perhaps it was an assembly of all the nice bits :) what it is like to sit about a campfire, and sleep beneath the trees... Philip ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1993 20:16:00 +0100 From: uli@zoodle.robin.de (Ulrich Grepel) Subject: Re: Sarah's Hooks > Both Vickie and Uli have expressed bewilderment at Sarah McLachlan's new > album, and neither have been able to get into it yet. My first reaction to > this is, "But HOW can you miss it?" But then I remember that all people are > different, and noboy's perfect. ;) [........] Thanks, Meth, I now think I know what to do! Read the lyrics, listen to the lyrics! Guess so it comes out that I normally listen more to the music, not (or not immediately) at the lyrics. To me, music is a bit more important. Not that lyrics are unimportant, but most times the music is so much more important. Maybe this is due to the fact that I am NOT a native speaker in English, so I have to concentrate a bit more on English lyrics. Thinking about this I realize that I usually don't have these 'problems' with songs sung in German. Though unfortunately >99% of all German lyrics aren't worth listening to. Happy New Year, Uli -- Das ist wie mit der Gleichung von Fermat - ein Raetsel, das wir wohl nie loesen werden - Captain Picard, StarTrek TNG, Folge 'Hotel Royal' ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1993 13:47:39 -0500 (EST) From: Michael Colford Subject: Re: On Wed, 29 Dec 1993 jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu wrote: > WHFS just played "Cornflake Girl" by Tori Amos, off the upcoming _Under the > Pink_. Apparently they have a release copy of the CD (ie all tracks and > cover art, etc.) > > This song is just astounding. Mindboggling. Amazing. Incredible. > > Yes, I liked it. > > And best of all, I got most of it on tape! (missed part of the intro and > the last 20 seconds or so) I'm incredibly jealous! > I'm just *dying* to hear the album. It pains me to say this, but if this > song was any indicator, _Under the Pink_ is going to blow TRS out of the > water (and I'm apparently one of the few people who absolutely adores TRS > and *all* of its tracks, including "Why Should I Love You?"). Just to reassure you, I also think (almost) all of TRS is wonderful, and I also like "Why should I love you!" Michael ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 29 Dec 93 11:09:38 PST From: Neal Copperman Subject: This MOrtal COil I just picked up B-Sides magazine the other day, and it's chock full of great articles (Curve, Cranberries, Dead Can Dance, and many many more). I noticed as I was thumbing through it that their was an add from 4ad that said all the This Mortal Coil discs were available as of NOvember 9. Of course, I've never seen them except for the imports. Neal ======================================================================== Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1993 09:09:31 +1200 From: sainty_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz Subject: RE: This MOrtal COil Nothing to do with Neal's post, but it reminded me that I had meant to ask about "IT'll End In Tears"... (I did so recently on IRC, but noone who was there had it) I notice from the inlay sheet that DCD and the Cocteau twins pop up a lot, and I was wondering whether the music is similar to that of either band's 'normal' thing, or not... I have no TMC (or CT for that matter, although I do have three tracks of theirs on tape). I do have DCD's Into The Labyrinth and A Passage In Time though... Comments? Philip ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1993 16:59:40 -0500 (EST) From: King o' Pain Subject: Victoria Williams'_Swing the Statue_ While browsing through a local used record store today, I noticed that they not only had Victoria Williams' _Happy Come Home_ on CD but also _Swing the Statue_. They were selling it for $8.99 new. So, it seems both of Victoria's albums are now on CD and both are selling for bargain price (I got _HCH_ for $9.99 new). While I was tempted to get _StS_, I ended up finally getting _Sweet Relief_. After listening to _HCH_ more and hearing all of _Sweet Relief_, I must admit that I like most of Victoria's versions better and her voice doesn't bother nearly as much any more. However, Maria McKee's version of "Opelousas" still can't be beat, IMHO. Stuart ______________________________________________________________________________ Stuart Myerburg "I need more things. I need more money. Emory Univ. Law School Don't want to work. Want things for free." labspm@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu -Jane Siberry _o_ |< ______________________________________________________________________________ ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1993 15:33:35 CST From: Subject: Local geography demystified and other stories Missy waxes effusive: >i am going to spend the day with my X going to lincoln park zoo, Is an X the same as an SO? It somehow seems less logical, when interpreted that she's going there with her ex :-). She continues: >i wanted to go to Vickie's bash...part to meet all the people and part cuz >i have never been in the Sear's tower and from her address i am assuming >that is where she lives... Not quite, actually. The Sears Tower is in the Loop, whereas Gaffa Central, wherein Vickie lives, is on the north side, much closer to the ground :-). The view from the Sears Tower, to be sure, is much more scenic, not to mention panoramic :-). Neal says about Death Valley: >Forecasts show it being a brisk mid 30's at night, which should >put it around the high in Chicago. We should be so superheated :-). The high tomorrow is supposed to go up to 23, after several days of highs in the teens. WRT our extended thread on vegetarianism: today _The Midnight Special_ played a track from Tom Paxton's _One Million Lawyers_ album which went, in part, something like so: Don't draw the blood Of an innocent spud It's the worst kind of thing you could do Oh! No! Don't slay that potato What never done nothing to you Nice to see someone give the other side of the story for once :-). Vickie contributes the following stimulus/response package: >Bob sends Love and Joy: > >> Greetings fellow ectoids, and all the ships at sea: > >I *love* it!!! Me too. Having recently bought the new book _Soap Opera_, it has become clear to me that I'd rather be an ectoid than a proctoid :-). Philip comments on Kirsty on Conan: >That title evoked images of Kirsty in chain-mail wielding a broadsword... :) I *love* it!!! And I'm not even the most dyed-in-the-wool of Boris Vallejo fans :-). Later, Philip proceeds to comment on an old thread WRT the perfect squelch for annoying come-ons: >Alternatively, something involving castration might cool them down... :) Only recently, a year after the procedure, has my eldest cat cooled down. One can only hope it works differently for people :-). Should I consider laying any hard money on Tori's "Cornflake Girl" being played often as a segue with "Eat the Music?" :-) I found an IRC client program for VM machines on ftp, as per Christian's FAQ. Now all I need to do is to get it to work :-). Remember: only 361 shopping days until Christmas :-). Mitch ------------------------ "MUD, MUD, glorious MUD/Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood/ So follow me, follow/Down to the hollow/And then let us wallow/ In glorious MUD." --Almost, but not quite, Flanders and Swann ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 29 Dec 93 19:44:31 EST From: woj@remus.rutgers.edu (mineswept) Subject: shedding this mortal coil sainty_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz sez: >I notice from the inlay sheet that DCD and the Cocteau twins pop up a >lot, and I was wondering whether the music is similar to that of either >band's 'normal' thing, or not... yeah, to the extent that this mortal coil is as atmospheric as dead can dance and cocteau twins. however, tmc does sometimes venture into realms that aren't exactly where dcd and ct lie - i would say that this mortal coil is more visceral (no pun intended) while being in the same general vein. Neal Copperman sez: >I noticed as I was thumbing through it that their was an add from 4ad >that said all the This Mortal Coil discs were available as of NOvember 9. huh. maybe that december date was the long-awaited domestic release of the dead can dance albums. shrug. i haven't seen either so i'm clueless. +woj ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 29 Dec 93 21:20:34 EST From: mojzes@monet.vill.edu (brni) Subject: gong/jorn/*HUG* hi there, still working on catching up... by cheom's purple flying hippos, you people write a lot!!! i think that i'm actually up to last friday's posts now. *whew* >brni brnczs: >> >> there is/was a band called gong that produced very acidy music, and >> i heard an album on xmas that sounded like an updated gong called >> ozric tentacles. very psychedelic. > >Gong is still around. A local poet (known as Thom the World Poet -- as >far as anyone can tell, he *has* no last name) often tours as their >opening act. There's an active Gong Appreciation Society who put out >tapes every so often. > >joe zitt i've been meaning to send a note to GAS for a while now...i wonder where i put their address...its in one of these piles here somewhere... i've seen daevid allen 3 times now, oops, no, twice, once by himself (dressed as an alien, as a wizzard, etc) and once on his "magic brothers" tour. i haven't heard of gong as a coherant unit touring at all, although gilli smyth was in town last spring (i was unable to go...:( ). one thing that is interesting to note is that while gong (and daevid allen) sounds very much like an acid trip incarnate, they haven't played with that stuff for a long long time now... ___________________________________> >> ;-)) Don't let Jorn get you down! > >:-) Thanks. Never, ever, will I let Jorn depress me again. I've told >his "secret" and a weight has lifted from my shoulders. It doesn't >matter if anyone reads it, and it doesn't matter how Jorn chooses to >respond to it. I've said my say, and I feel better. > gee, last time i checked gaffa, jorn was melted and posting big pictures of kate and strange stream o' conciousness things, while refusing to read gaffa because it was conspiring with ecto... um, i'd be curious to hear what jorn's up to, without having to subject myself to gaffa. vickie, do you think you could fill me in briefly (without cluttering up ecto, that is)? thanks. >> and to anyone else who wants them. > >I do I do! > *HUGS* :> >Vickie brni ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1993 21:33:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Suspended In Duct Tape Subject: Waah! Hi! I wanna hear DC radio. For all I know there's a promo copy of _Under The Pink_ sitting in the mailbox at WESU, and nobody will unearth it until the album is scheduled for release anyway. And if someone does get to it before February 1, they'll either steal it for themselves or toss it. :P (WESU is off the air until January 24 or so...) Anyway. I'm listening to _Warpaint_ again. I pulled it out and dusted it off last night- I can't remember the last time I listened to it. (Yea forgive me, for I hath committed the most vilest of sins!) Gads. What possessed me to pass it over for so long??? (_Equipoise_ is next in the player- that's something else I haven't heard in a while, but certainly more recently than the other one...) brni, that bit with Ben Franklin and the kite was a scream. Jeffy, I trust you enjoyed it, as well? :) Well, I'm off to the right focus of the universe (if we consider the ecto plane to be an ellipse) for the weekend... y'all have yourself a nice new year now, and behave yourselves on Friday night. ;> Meredith meth@delphi.com ======================================================================== Subject: When the rain came down... Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1993 04:59:00 From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Oh you have no idea how much it has rained here these last few days. Temperatures in lovely sunny Melbourne have plummeted, ski resorts that are closed for the summer have had heaps of snow, and here in Melbourne we've had three times our entire average December rainfall in ONE DAY! My house was leaking. Nothing got wet apart from me, thankfully. Christmas was busy; I worked right through, and haven't stopped. I have to work on New Year's Eve as well. But then I'm going on holiday in mid-January! Wheeee! :-) Thanks to Neile and Jim for the christmas card and poetry; happy birthday (belated) to Uli! Now, some of the highlights of 270 EctoMessages that have been building up here... Melissa Nordsiek asks: > got a pretty interesting tape for my birthday...a group called Yothu > Yindi...basically a aboriginal sounds with traditional rock type > sounds...it's very different! has anyone else heard of this group? > i was kinda curious how they got started and all that jazz... Yothu Yindi are a (mostly) Aboriginal band from Northern Territory, Australia; they record for Mushroom Records. They had just given up hope of their second album selling at all (apart from the fact that it was fairly bland straight rock, albeit with aboriginal lyrics in places, the public just never heard about it) when a team of DJs from a nightclub in Melbourne called Temple (now closed, I used to work Thursdays there) decided to remix one of the album's tracks, a song called "Treaty". Wham. One instant chart hit. Their new album is called "Tribal Voice" and reflects their new more dance/rhythm oriented direction. Singer Mandaway Yunipingu (I *know* I spelt that wrong!) was named Australian Of The Year last year. They're signed to Hollywood Records in the US. I can track down more (and more accurate) info if anyone needs it. Stuart Myerburg lists the year: > Albums I Want Very Badly and I Know Would Probably Be on My List: > 1. Sleeping with the Lion-Margot Smith > Anthony has convinced me, now I just need to get it... :-) You know the email address....! Kevin shamanises: > Anthony, > > Chalk up another 'Weatherbox' owner... What a fantastic collection! I > was fortunate enough to catch him live during his "In Praise of Shamans" tour > at UCSD in '88, second best concert I've ever seen (the first being Ultravox's I saw that tour! I saw him at UC Berkley, What a wonderful performance. Highlight for me was buying the programme before going in and discovering that two other members of Japan were playing in the band, *and* Mark Isham! You've seen Ultravox live? I envy you! Although I did see Midge Ure solo. And I interviewed him. Nyah. :-) Michael Colford appeals: > To Australian Ectophiles (or anyone in the know), > > I was a huge Do-re-mi fan, and I've noticed a couple people > mentioning Deborah Conaway's solo album. How does it > compare to Do-re-mi material? If it's good, I'll have to > use my Australian sources to pick it up for me. There are two solo albums, actually - "String Of Pearls" (1991) and "Bitch Epic" (1993). Both are wonderful: IMHO they both surpass anything Do Re Mi did. The former album is less DRM-ish than the new one, which is more percussive and sharp. Jim "pan that hard right ta very much" Rondinelli co-produced the new one. Her lyrics are as sharp as ever, her voice better than ever. Get both. You won't regret it. :-) Vickie decorates her cats and says: > While Chris was asleep this morning, I spent a very enjoyable morning > in IRC (#ecto) with various and sundry wonderful people. Paul from > > Paul was sitting at his terminal in Moscow listening to "Equipoise" on > headphones, while I was sitting at my terminal in Chicago, listening to > "Equipoise" on headphones...it was *great*! (Jeffy and I did that once > too, with Rhodes I. Lots o' fun!) I did that the other night with Holly, with Margot Smith's album. Myself, Holly and Tim Cook all had it on at the same time, and I got Holly to say "blat" when the next song was coming up. Our blats were perfectly synchronised - without deliberate effort to do so! MargotSynchronicity. :) Christian Walters, who's just been on IRC on my other screen, said: > Well, the IRC hugfest was quite a hoot :) I was posing as mild-mannered > Olias, with no one realizing that I was secretly REVERSE VIDEO MAN :) > Don't tell anyone, either... my arch-nemesis, Underline Man, might > find out... Reverse Video Man - prepare to be banished to the nether regions of the server by TIMES BOLD ITALIC 75 MAN!!!!!!!! Meth ho-ho-ho's.... > As for the weather in sunny (not) Florida, it's currently 47 degrees and raining, > so if anyone was feeling jealous of the people who are stuck in the subtropics > for Yule, know that you don't have to be envious. Our weather sucks just as > much as yours. I took great comfort in the fact that every single news service here in Melbourne, Australia took great delight in announcing that Melbourne, Florida was suffering below-freezing temperatures. We're cold, but not THAT cold. :) > Heard "Rubberband Girl" on an Orlando Top-40 station this afternoon. I almost > went off the road, I was so shocked... Michael Colfordises about Nine Inch Nails: > I do know that he had tons of trouble with his label, TVT. I > had thought _The Downward Spiral_ was going to be on a new label. He's signed to Interscope, a Warner-owned label. Both "Broken" and "Fixed" came out on Interscope in association with his own label, Nothing. Apparently Interscope bought TVT to get him out of his contract...! "Pretty Hate Machine" is now on Interscope as well... Ethan proves that people *do* read posts called "Panda Pinball": > Anthony blesses us with a great top ten list... Thank you! :^) > >1. Sleeping With The Lion - Margot Smith > > > >Beauty captured forever, a shining light in the darkness, a truly wonderful > >record that has changed my life for the better. That doesn't happen every > >day! A voice so perfect, songs so beautiful, all painted in lush colours by > >Eddie Rayner and Steve Kilbey. Number 1 by a long way. Once I heard it there > >was never any question. > > So I suppose this is your subtle way of suggesting that this should be on my > Christmas wish list? it's getting pretty long already, but it sounds > like this is a must. It is. Really. An absoloute must. I haven't heard back from Anthem in regard to them stocking the CD, by the way, but their mail may be one of the dozen or so lurking on my feed site where I can't get at them while UUCP is out of action due to an operating system change. In fact, I don't know when this will go out. Hopefully tomorrow! As always, anyone wanting more info on Margot, reviews, discography, subscription to the mailing list or a copy of the CD picked up - mail me! > >2. The Moon Seven Times - The Moon Seven Times > > > >glittering, shimmering guitars paired with Lynn Canfield's voice seal it. > > I like this disc too, esp. "Her House." The one big trouble I have with it > is that Canfield has this tendency to go HORRIBLY off-key at times, and > that'll probably be enough to relegate it to my honorable mentions list. I had the impression that that was deliberate vocal styling... it doesn't bother me. > >6. Sleeper - Tribe > > > >melodic pop. Best heard loud. Terri should sing more. And I want them to > >tour here. Waaah. > > Agreed on ALL counts! I'd love it if Tribe were big enough some day to tour > Australia...as it is I'm still waiting for them to come back to California! I say they should holiday here and play some gigs while they're at it. Warner will pay for it. :-) > (Yeah, I know, they finally got here last month. I caught all of three > songs. Horrible story. Don't want to talk about it.) Three more than I'm likely to see any time soon. :-) > >7. Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? - The Cranberries > > > >Won me over at the start of the year and I'm still playing it regularly now. > >Delores is wonderful. So are her songs. > > Yes yes yes. I'm a recent convert, since I mistrusted the first single > ("Dreams" was a bit too poppy for my taste), but the rest of the album is The first single in the UK and Australia was "Linger" which is far more representative of the album. > glorious. Hmm, wonder if Delores would be willing to farm herself out to the > Moon Seven Times? :) I *like* Lynne's voice! :) Vickie hits the nail on the head; > No, you didn't miss it. I'm a slug (like Holly! at least I'm in good > company :-)) and I haven't finished it. Like so many other things, I'll > It's not so bad if I don't *promise* something, but I tend to say > "I will, I will, I really will" but then don't. I never start something > with the *intention* of not finishing it, or else I'd say "We had a > *great* time, but you're not going to ever hear about it because I'm > a lazy slug." I do that all the time; I don't know whether it's a character trait or just too much work. I tend to need reminding about things. I hate myself for it, but I can't help it. And that's my way of saying a heartfelt "sorry" to both Stacey Wacknov and Kelly Baker, both of whom I've been promising myself I'd write for months now, but haven't yet. I will real soon, really...! Brian Blooms: > Since Anthony Horan is preaching the gospel of Margot Smith (great, > now we have to figure where *she* fits in the pantheon!) I thought > I should include this, found on rec.music.reviews: It turned up! Good. I was going to send this out on the Margot mailing list, but seeing as how everyone on that is from here, now I don't need to. Thanks Brian! The review was written by Morten Skjefte, who runs the Church/Kilbey mailing list. Guess where he got the CD from... :-) Meri (y'know, I like that better than "Meth"! :-) writes... > Reading everybody's top 10 lists has reminded me both of what an awesome > year it has been for music, and also just how much is out there I want but > don't have yet. It's been a superb year. I could have easily done a top 20 and still had some over. It's also been the year I landed in Ecto, and all of you have introduced me to some of my favorite albums of the year. Were it not for Vickie, I'd never have heard of Happy (and I wouldn't be here!), were it not for Ilka, who made me a sampler that prompted me to order all six CDs the very next day, I may have taken a lot longer to talk myself into ordering them. There's more, but I'll save it for my New Year's Eve Post (TM). :-) > I do, however, have one thing I didn't know I had. woj, you forgot your > Margot Smith CD in the morass of piles that is my desk this weekend. Would > you like me to mail it back to you, or can I keep it as ransom for my CD box? > ;> Meri! Meth! Meredith! I *just* made you a tape of the album, all lovingly indexed and typeset and with b-sides and an interview and... should I still send it? > (Anthony, looks like the long-awaited review from woj will have to wait a bit > longer- but I'll be ready to post one soon!) :-) woj, pull your finger out and get writing ASAP, inquiring minds want to know! Meri, I look forward to reading yours! > Nutella, hm? Interesting, says she... :^) > I was suddenly reminded of a CD I've been meaning to mention around here for > a little while- a compilation of music by New Zealand women came into the > station a couple weeks ago, called _Shrew'd: A Compilation of NZ Women's Is Annie Crummer on there? I don't think much of her album, but there are a couple of good songs on it. It's a CD Warner threw at me saying "Ah, so you liked Margot Smith, hmm? Well, you'll *love* this" meaning any generic female vocal record that isn't soul or techno is going to capture my imagination just because I fell in love with Margot's album. Wrong! Anyway, she's from NZ. > but there is one amazine song called "Seas Of The Moon" by a woman named > Sandra Bell. Anybody out there have any more information on her? (Phillip?) More information? Label? Sounds intriguing... Joe Zitt asks: > Unrelatedly^2: Does anyone know what else Lori Carson and Lydia > Kavanagh (featured on the new Golden Palominos album) have done. I interviewed Anton Fier a couple of months ago, and he said Lydia has a CD out on her own label (at which point I plugged Happy :-) and he'd get in touch with her and ask her to send it to me. It never turned up, despite him taking down my address on the phone. I have the exchange on tape and I'm sure he quoted an album name, so if anyone's interested, I'll dig it out and listen for it. And if anyone sees Lydia - I told Anton I'd pay for the disc, but he insisted that I didn't have to. So where's my disc? :-) woj of the missing Margot Cd writes: > anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) sez: > >Canberra band Falling Joys' finest moment [Aeriel] > > is this the album with "black bandages" on it? a brilliant tune, if No - that's "Psychohum", their second album - available, as is the first, "Wish List", through Nettwerk. An interview with Pete Velzen from the Joys I saw this week asked him about overseas release for the new album, to which he responded, "Shit! I knew we forgot something!" :-) > you ask me - knocked my socks off (though meth wouldn't let me play it > on the champagne jam). somewhere in the past year, i picked up the cd It's a bit raucous for Champagne Jam! :-) Plenty of CJ=friendly material on the new one. > single of this, though i can't recall if it was promotional or a real > release (And if it was, which label or country). hmmm. want to work > another trade anthony? Sure! Mail me! I'm after D'Cuckoo if you can find them. Their albums, that is, not them personally. :-) Sue Trowbridge has a (signed!) copy of the Joys' newie, ask her how brilliant it is! :-) > speaking of which, i'll just point at that i've listened to margot > smith's album a couple times so far, but i have not solidified an > opinion yet. i know i enjoyed it, but i don't recall what i thought of > it. Careful woj - it creeps up on you! One time you'll be listening and suddenly nothing exists except the music and that voice.... :) > >5. Cuckoo - Curve > > listening to this even as i type. gotta agree that it's a massive step > up (or at least orthogonal) from _doppelganger_ which i consider a good Agreed. "Doppelganger" was too intent on mirroring the style of the EPs, but the songs largely weren't there. On "Cuckoo" there are good tunes aplenty, and Dean's discovered the Wall Of Sound approach from a different angle. Now he makes CinemaScope movies instead of TV films, if you like. :-) > thing. again, i've not really listened to it as much as i should have > before pronouncing judgement...but i'm glad to hear that they're moving > on instead of repeating the blindfold ep yet again (the tremelo on > "sweetest pie" is great!). I thought "Frozen" was their best EP - the first Curve I heard was "Zoo" from that EP, on my clock radio in the morning! That began a frantic search for the EP... > >10. Bitch Epic - Deborah Conway > > sounds like i need to keep an eye open for this...nutella, indeed! Indeed! Poor Deborah - she's already getting sick of people asking about that cover..! :) Bet it doesn't make it to the US in its current form. Unless the oh-no-not-nudity attitude that got Roger Waters' album cover's hitch-hiker's bottom censored has been amended recently... :^) > (hmmm, i think i have some of that around the house somewhere > actually...hmmm ;) I asked Deborah about the correct quantities - two jars are required. :-) > [regarding reviews] > >Eager anticipation sensed in Melbourne... :-) > > heh. well, only one so far. in the used/cutout bin at a local chain I kind of meant a Margot review, but you knew that. :-))) > >I had only "Secrets Of The Beehive" on CD and the rest on vinyl, so it was a > >bargain for $100. > > oof! i think i was able to buy _weatherbox_ for us$40 or so. That's $100 Australian for a UK import; AUS$100 was at the time about US$70. CDs are pretty expensive here, though. They're about to put them up again, to $32.99, if Sony and the others get their way. That'll make US import CDs $1 to $3 cheaper than locally made product! > are going to be hard to come by). it's also worth noting that donette > thayer (another kilbey kollaborater!) was a game theorist for at least She did the "Kilbey thing"? When? On what? Finally, Christian hints: > Have a great Christmas everyone! And if someone finds an extra > copy of that Margot Smith album... :) :-) It'll be a happy day indeed when Margot's album can be found in the shops in the rest of the world. Until then... mail me! :-) Phew, over 400 lines. A record? No, a record is a round black thing with a hole in it. Oh. :-) - Anthony -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au "I kind of feel like I'm Metallica..." - Tori Amos on the perils of long tours, November 1992 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== 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)