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 #636 ecto, Number 636 Wednesday, 7 July 1993 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Just because it looks like water... The battle hymn of the Republicans :-) and other stories Today's its birthday friend HR5, San Francisco radio, Suddenly Tammy DID's, HR^5, usw. Re: Champagne Jam, 6/29/93 various Re: HR5 Why Rhodes I Is A Divine Album Champagne Jam, 7/6/93 stuff, more stuff, and other stuff not previously mentioned Re: HR5 Re: Stupid kid in Jurassic Park Sweet Relief, at your service DID... DID not! ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 6 Jul 93 14:35:48 EDT From: ksilver@engr.startek.com (Keith Silver) Subject: Just because it looks like water... John's mushroomed water story reminds me of yet another one... My dad was staying with me in my apartment for a few days. One night I made an oriental dinner complete with sake. To serve the sake warm, I had heated it in a sauce pan. My father woke up early the next morning and went to make himself his customary cup of instant coffee, saw the pan with the leftover sake, assumed that it was water and....well, let's just say that after one gulp, he was awake that morning. ks ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1993 14:09:52 CDT From: Subject: The battle hymn of the Republicans :-) and other stories WRT Brni's query: As I recall, the first verse of the Battle Hymn of the Re- public, a staple of Republican conventions ever since I can remember, goes: Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord He is trampling through the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored He has loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword His truth is marching on (I prefer the spoofs composed by Allan Sherman and John Greenway respectively, but that's neither here nor there.) I may have misremembered a word here and there from elementary school music classes 34-odd years ago. For a more definitive opinion, you may want to put the question to rec.music.folk. Over the weekend, Stuart Rosenberg on WBEZ asked listeners to email him about the idea of posting his playlists to the net, and gave out his email address. I plan to send him a Happy FAQ, in addition to answering the question at hand. Bob Lovejoy's idea of an original musical contribution to the Happy Birthday Project sounds wonderful indeed. Those with such proclivities are to be cheered on. But whether you opt for live music or canned, the important thing is to send it to Doug R E A L S O O N. As someone once said, it it later than you think. On the basis of something I skimmed in the paper over the weekend, it seems that _Return of the Secaucus Seven_ may be out on home video. Get it; I think it's actually better than its derivative, _The Big Chill_, good as the latter is. Mitch ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1993 16:36:51 CDT From: Subject: Today's its birthday friend By a strict construction of the midnight-to-midnight definition of a day, today is the eleventh anniversary of the arrival on earth of the late, great, _NBC News Overnight_ (1982-83), arguably the best, wittiest, most literate newscast in the history of American TV, and founder of the tradition to which the one and only _World News Now_ is heir. Happy birthday, _Overnight_, wherever you are :-). Mitch ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 6 Jul 93 13:57 PDT From: scottz@gentoo.com (Scott Zimmerman) Subject: HR5, San Francisco radio, Suddenly Tammy Hey Gang! I haven't posted to Ecto for nearly two months now... Two months during which I've been chronically behind on my ecto readings. [the shame!] Now, at last, I am caught up [relatively]. I received HR5 last week. Wow! Those acoustic numbers are wholly remarkable. I think that goes without saying! I'm not bothered by Happy's profile shot on the cover. After all, it's nice having yet another angle on Happy's face. The problem with the cover, in my eyes, is that her picture takes up too little space.. I like BIG, INTENSE album covers. That's one of the reasons I'm so big on LPs..LP jackets are sizable pieces of art that you can hang on a wall. With CDs, the booklets/inserts are so skimpy to start with. I would've liked to have seen this picture blown up to Warpaint dimensions. just my 2 cents. Hey all other Bay Area Folks! Try pestering KFOG to play "Ashes to Ashes." I just called Rosalie on the station. Wow, she loves it! She even started quoting lyrics... She liked the "I'm happy, I hope you're happy, too" line. :) I never even caught the humor in that before. d'oh! Now if only she can get the song on for me right now. :) She said they're thinking about putting it on the acoustic show, whatever/whenever that is. I'm not a big KFOG listener... Has anybody got Live 105 to play Happy? Well, over the past month or so, Suddenly, Tammy! has been mentioned here a few times. I caught them last month when they opened for Suede. I was probably one of maybe 6 people there who went primarily to see Suddenly, Tammy! Anyway, they're a charming group of people. Can't be too far removed from high school. If you like the album, you'll dig 'em live, too. And if you don't have the album, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?! It's devestatingly cool. This band sort of reminds me of a non-pretentious Emerson Lake and Palmer but with a female vocalist. I imagine there aren't a whole lotta ELP fans here, so really don't let that description turn you off. It's just the best I could come up with. And as for Suede, they were grand, too. I don't care for their recorded material, but live, the band is something else entirely. Brett has such an incredible stage presence. He's got the contrived rock star act down pat. Is anybody else catching the Sun 60/Cranberries tour? I'll be seeing the bands on the 14th. Can't wait! Oh, I imagine this is as good a place as any to ask the following--Who has details on the Sundays' break-up? Is it just a dirty rumor? and Vickie, Vickie, Vickie.... pick up a Smiths' album! -Scott ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 6 Jul 93 15:58:10 PDT From: dixon@physics.berkeley.edu (David Dixon) Subject: DID's, HR^5, usw. Well, out of the eight DID lists I've gotten so far, the top five albums are: 1. Warpaint (HR) 2. Hounds of Love (KB) 3. The Dreaming (KB) 4. Ecto (HR) 5. (several tied) Keep those DID lists coming! Send them to: dixon@physics.berkeley.edu. So far the lists have been tres eclectic; the only artist who's been on everyone's list is some obscure singer/songwriter from upstate New York. Oh... what's her name.. um..... :) Got my copy of HR^5 today. I love track 6! I also got a letter from Happy mentioning that she liked my album but "my musical tastes are so limited I'm probably not the best person to send music to for an opinion." Still, she didn't hate it, and that's encouraging. Other business: The theremin at Walt Disney World is actually at the Universal Studios theme park. I must've spent a good twenty minutes diddling with that thing. I want one! Wait, I'm a physics grad student, I can build one, right? Hmm.... I recently purchased a CD which is slowly growing on me: "Down Colorful Hill" by Red House Painters. Slow, deliberate music, but strangely compelling. On the 4AD label. This morning I stepped out of the shower and discovered that my girlfriend, out of all the CD's I have, picked _Warpaint_ to play while she worked on the computer. Rack up another convert. :) D^2 ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1993 22:34:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Suspended In Duct Tape Subject: Re: Champagne Jam, 6/29/93 Hi! Bela is great, isn't he? I'm going to see him a week from tonight at Toad's this will be the third time in six months. :> I love them all, but too bad Howard Levy isn't with them any more- although they still put on a great show, it's missing something without Howard playing keyboard, harmonica and tin whistle simultaneously. :) Meredith meth@delphi.com ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 6 Jul 93 22:46:49 EDT From: woj@remus.rutgers.edu (l.l. cool bean) Subject: various count me amongst the _breakfast in america_ fans as well. heck, it was the first album that i ever bought (that and fleetwood mac's _rumors_, if you must know). sigh...the first step on a long path to financial oblivion (well, not quite yet...but soon!). a while back, palidrome man sent me a few tapes which he asked for reactions of. i finally got around to giving them a real listen last weekend while on a train 'tween new haven and new brunswick (with _the pride of chanur_ tucked in my lap). the first tape was a sampler of tracks from aimee mann's latest release, some miscellany from sparrow and i think the entire debut album by go van gogh. my initial reaction to the aimee mann was something akin to lukewarm - it was nice, but didn't really overwhelm me. repeated listens seduced the ears with time though and _whatever_ is on the too-buy list now (assuming senor footah does not buy it first). sparrow is this weird kinda free jazz sorta thang which i liked for the sheer strangeness of it. other than that though, it did not hold too much attraction unfortunately - seemed more like strangeness for the sake of it rather than purely by accident. go van gogh was slightly folky, pleasant and enjoyable but didin't really catch my attention either. the second tape was mylene farmer on one side and harmonium on the other. i had already heard mylene farmer before, though i had not found any of her cds that i was willing to spend $$$ on (too expensive). i'll refrain from joining in the farmer-bush debate that raged in love-hounds for a bit but i do like mylene's voice quite a bit for some reason. the harmonium on the other hand floored me. i think mjm said they were from montreal or quebec (correct me since i'm probably wrong). if you want to classify them, put them in the progressive rock vein leaning more towards the softer end of that spectrum rather than the more harsher end occupied by folks like gong and henry cow. i really enjoyed this side - very smooth and very pretty. yummy. got my hr5 cd over the weekend. repeated listens even got chris (fellow housemate and way rad musician and pizza delivery guy - buy his tapes! contact greg or i for more info!) to like happy's "ashes to ashes". interesting but useless point: chris uses the same sequential circuits synth featured on many an early happy tape. "i say" continues to amaze me - definately the best (by *far*) track on =p. well, enough for now. more as it happens. +woj ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1993 22:58:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Suspended In Duct Tape Subject: Re: HR5 Hi! Regarding AG becoming a credit card service provider: Not only is there a surcharge, but businesses must pay for the verification equipment, the phone line to contact the credit card companies, and the little slips for receipts. Before they can even get set up they have to have a "merchant account" of their own, which as I understand it aren't the easiest bank accounts in the world to get. All in all it's a more expensive proposition than I'm sure Aural Gratification is prepared to deal with at this point. Sometime in the future maybe, but for now we just have to keep supplying them with infusions of cash. :) Meredith meth@delphi.com ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1993 23:14:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Suspended In Duct Tape Subject: Why Rhodes I Is A Divine Album Hi! I stuck Rhodes I in my pile of CDs to bring to the radio station today, and realized it's been a while since I've listened to it. Since I got home I've listened to it twice through, and I'm working on #3. Gad, what a brilliant collection of music... made more poignant by the fact that none of it was ever intended for other ears to hear. Crikey. Anthony brought up the "Bass Note Of Doom" from "Cohabitants"- well, I've discovered a sequence of them in "I'm Not Awake, I'm Not Asleep". With my new stereo I can pick up on things like this, and my chair was vibrating through the whole thing. :> I'm sure the guy who lives downstairs was enjoying it. There's also a semi-note of doom earlier on in "A Case of Glass", but you really have to be cranking it for it to be effective. This is by far my favorite Happy album, as I've said before. It's just too cool for words. Meredith meth@delphi.com "It's such a strain, to find the strength within And such a drain to fight and always win" -HTR ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1993 23:17:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Suspended In Duct Tape Subject: Champagne Jam, 7/6/93 Hi! In which we give Middletown an in-depth introduction to His Name Is Alive, and convert someone to Happy with "Ashes to Ashes" (he has in Internet address, so I told him about ecto... we'll see what happens!). CHAMPAGNE JAM 88.1FM, WESU-Middletown Wesleyan University Middletown, CT Tuesday, July 6, 1993 7-9PM 10,000 MANIACS: "The Big Parade" (Blind Man's Zoo) HUGO LARGO: "Second Skin" (Drum) OPIUM DEN: "Found A Way Out" (Diary of a Drunken Sun) ARSON GARDEN: "Truer Words Were Never Spoken" (Under Towers) THROWING MUSES: "Reel" (Chains Changed) LUSH: "Fallin' In Love" (Superblast CD5) CURVE: "Ten Little Girls" (Pubic Fruit) LULABOX: "Ride On" (Full Bleed EP) HIS NAME IS ALIVE: "Where Knock Is Open Wide" (Mouth By Mouth) "If July" (Livonia) "Married" (Home Is In Your Head) "How Ghosts Affect Relationships" (Livonia) "Can't Go Wrong Without You" (Mouth By Mouth) HAPPY RHODES: "Ashes To Ashes" (HR5) HAPPY RHODES: "The Flaming Threshold" (Rhodes I) KRISTEN HALL: "I Have My Reasons" (Fact and Fiction) TWO NICE GIRLS: "I Spent My Last $10 (On Birth Control And Beer)" (2 Nice Girls) AIMEE MANN: "Could've Been Anyone" (Whatever) THE CRANBERRIES: "I Still Do" (Everybody Else Is Doing It, Why Can't We?) THE SUNDAYS: "I Feel" (Blind) TORI AMOS: "Tear In Your Hand" (Little Earthquakes) COCTEAU TWINS: "Frou-Frou Foxes In Midsummer Fires" (Heaven or Las Vegas) INGRID KARKLINS: "Visas manas sikas dziesmas" (A Darker Passion) INGRID KARKLINS: "Ar vilcinu Riga braucu" (A Darker Passion) SINEAD O'CONNOR: "The Last Day Of Our Acquaintance" (I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got) RED HOUSE PAINTERS: "New Jersey" (Red House Painters) KATE BUSH: "Watching You Without Me" (Hounds Of Love) Off next week to go to a concert... Meredith meth@delphi.com ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 6 Jul 93 23:47:21 EDT From: mojzes@monet.rutgers.edu (brni) Subject: stuff, more stuff, and other stuff not previously mentioned well, its been an interesting weekend in the city of brotherly love... i am proud to say that we had bill clinton, nelson mandela, and f.w. deklerk all on the same stage at the same time, and nobody got shot or nothing (this in the only mainland us city to undergo aerial bombing, and from its own police, no less). it was hot as hell and the fireworks sucked in a big way and suzette's grandmother got lost trying to get to the party (actually, suzette's idiot assinine mother *lost* nanny), and so an 83 year old woman with alzheimers wandered around center city for 5 hours in the 92 degree heat, carrying $800 in cash and some diamonds, and when the police found her, she had no idea what her name was, where she lived, or who she was related to, and had no id on her. then suzette drank all the cuervo. still eagerly awaiting the cd5... the loreena mckennitt album is really amazing. just thought y'all should know. i saw cocteau twins' _victorialand" out on domestic us disc. i think that all their stuff is being produced in the us, now. its a good sign for the direction music is going in. the bad sign is that, now that the alternative has become the mainstream, a lot of insipid bands have popped up and are drowning out the important ones (one is far more likely to hear the soupdragons than pere ubu). the only "revolutionary" space left is rap, and if, like me, you don't like the way rap sounds, you're just SOL. well, time to start klausing: >From: WretchAwry > >> -- >> Craig Rodrigues | "It's a Unix system....hey I know this!!!", >> Chemical Engineering, 1996 | stupid kid in _Jurassic Park_ > ^^^^^^ > >A 12(?)-year old who's a Unix wizard? She's stupid? Why? I thought she was >great! > >Vickie > my friend charlie said: "that's no unix *i've* ever seen." i thought it was kinda strange, myself. i mean, why have top-end superpowerful high-speed machines when you have interface applications that slow it down to 8088 speed just so you can watch the curser swoop in a really nifty way...? craig, welcome to ecto. its a great place. the easiest person to compare happy to is kate bush. many ectophiles correctly like kate better, but some find that happy's lyrics resonate better for them, since they come, i think, from somewhere deeper and more, uh, more, um, dare i say "human"? than kate's. vickie mentioned the sampler tapes already. the other option is to buy _ecto_. they tell me it is transitional, having elements of both her earlier, more accoustic work and her later more electronic work. _ecto_ is my favorite so far, but i haven't heard all her albums (yet). gotta have something to live for, doncha know...:> ----------------------------------------------------------- >From: >Subject: The battle hymn of the Republicans :-) and other stories > >WRT Brni's query: As I recall, the first verse of the Battle Hymn of the Re- >public, a staple of Republican conventions ever since I can remember, goes: > >Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord >He is trampling through the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored >He has loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword >His truth is marching on > ah thanks. that seems to strike true. >(I prefer the spoofs composed by Allan Sherman and John Greenway respectively, >but that's neither here nor there.) > i'd be interested in hearing them sometime. my second verse is/will be "If you find my slinky will you tell me where it is For I lost it long ago back when I was still a kid I loved to watch it walk and I loved to make it bend The slinky was my friend." i don't think that a third verse will be necessary or desirable; this one should start the tomatoes flying. >is to send it to Doug R E A L S O O N. As someone once said, it it later >than you think. > even worse: it is later than it is. :) > > Mitch ------------------------------------------------------------ >From: scottz@gentoo.com (Scott Zimmerman) > >Well, over the past month or so, Suddenly, Tammy! has been mentioned here a >few times. I caught them last month when they opened for Suede. I was probably >one of maybe 6 people there who went primarily to see Suddenly, Tammy! >Anyway, they're a charming group of people. Can't be too far removed from >high school. If you like the album, you'll dig 'em live, too. And if you don't >have the album, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?! It's devestatingly cool. >This band sort of reminds me of a non-pretentious Emerson Lake and Palmer >but with a female vocalist. I imagine there aren't a whole lotta ELP fans here, >so really don't let that description turn you off. It's just the best I could >come up with. And as for Suede, they were grand, too. I don't care for their an unpretentious ELP? whatever could that mean? pretention was the defining characteristic of that band. or perhaps ELP was the band that defined pretention... it doesn't matter, they were great, up until, say _Works_. a plummet of icarusian proportions, it seems. suddenly tammy!'s (gee that looks weird) music is very different from throwing muses, but the singer uses a *lot* of kristen hirsh's phrasing style. its definitely piano oriented music, tho. i have finally decided to get that album (on my next shopping/splurging spree); i'd held off because i wasn't sure that her voice wouldn't drive me batty. >and Vickie, Vickie, Vickie.... pick up a Smiths' album! > i recommend _meat is murder_ or _hatful of hollow_ (import only). at that point they had been around long enough to work out the rough edges, but not long enough to get into the rut that morresey is still in. >-Scott brni mojzes@monet.vill.edu ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1993 22:58:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Suspended In Duct Tape Subject: Re: HR5 Hi! Regarding AG becoming a credit card service provider: Not only is there a surcharge, but businesses must pay for the verification equipment, the phone line to contact the credit card companies, and the little slips for receipts. Before they can even get set up they have to have a "merchant account" of their own, which as I understand it aren't the easiest bank accounts in the world to get. All in all it's a more expensive proposition than I'm sure Aural Gratification is prepared to deal with at this point. Sometime in the future maybe, but for now we just have to keep supplying them with infusions of cash. :) Meredith meth@delphi.com ======================================================================== Subject: Re: Stupid kid in Jurassic Park From: RODRIGUES CRAIG J Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1993 00:01:52 -0400 > > Craig Rodrigues | "It's a Unix system....hey I know this!!!", > > Chemical Engineering, 1996 | stupid kid in _Jurassic Park_ > ^^^^^^ > > A 12(?)-year old who's a Unix wizard? She's stupid? Why? I thought she was > great! > > Vickie A Unix hacker who moves around a few boxes on a screen and cracks the computer system and saves the day?! Yeah, right! Those two kids in Jurassic Park were snivelling little twits and deserved to be dino-snacks. Too bad the lawyer got chomped...I liked the lawyer..:) One other inconsistency about the movie: the swimsuit GIF that the chubby hacker had covering his work was unrealistic. Now if the dude, was a *REALLY EVIL* ?nix hacker, that GIF would definitely not be able to be in a PG movie.. >:> Oh well, Stevie Spielberg has to take liberties with the truth in order to pull in the mass $$ from a PG rating...:) -- Craig Rodrigues | "It's a Unix system....hey I know this!!!", Chemical Engineering, 1996 | stupid kid in _Jurassic Park_ University of Toronto | rodrigc@ecf.toronto.edu | ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 7 Jul 93 0:27:53 EDT From: WretchAwry Subject: Sweet Relief, at your service SWEET RELIEF is *OUT*! Everybody should pick up a copy just on general principals :-). Remember, it's for a most wonderful cause, to help with Victoria Williams' medical expenses, and to set up a fund to help other musicians who get ill or have an accident and don't have medical insurance or any other means of support. Here's a track listing: 1) Soul Asylum - "Summer of Drugs" 2) Lucinda Williams - "Main Road" 3) Pearl Jam - "Crazy Mary" (previously unrecorded) 4) Buffalo Tom - "Merry Go Round" 5) Michael Penn - "Weeds" 6) Shudder To Think - "Animal Wild" 7) Lou Reed - "Tarbelly and Featherfoot" 8) Maria McKee - "Opelousas (Sweet Relief)" 9) Matthew Sweet - "This Moment" (previously unrecorded) 10) Evan Dando (Lemonheads) - "Frying Pan" 11) The Jayhawks - "Lights" 12) The Waterboys - "Why Look At That Moon" 13) Giant Sand - "Big Fish" 14) Michelle Shocked - "Holy Spirit" All songs were written by Victoria. (How's this for a kick in the pants? The booklet says "Original recordings of these songs can be found on Victoria Williams' albums 'HAPPY COME HOME' and 'SWING THE STATUE'" Isn't it *such* a *shame* that those albums are out of print??!! :-( And that Sony/Chaos has, so far, passed up on buying the rights and re-releasing them...) Be it understood that nobody can sing a Victoria Williams song like Victoria Williams. With that in mind... I've listened to it once through so far (Michelle Shocked just now finished) and there wasn't anything I *really* disliked, though I wasn't too crazy about Evan Dando's version of "Frying Pan" mainly because he slowed it *way* down and it sounds like a ba-llad. Victoria's original is perky, upbeat and lots of fun. It's pro...um...probably (maybe) my favorite VW song, and I guess I'd say it's my least favorite cover on the album. My favorite cover is, on first listen, Giant Sand's *weird* and twisted version of "Big Fish." Since it was a pretty weird and twisted song to begin with, they *really* went to town! Who're Giant Sand? Never heard of 'em before tonight. I love the new songs, especially "This Moment" (covered by Matthew Sweet, like it really makes a difference, since we've never heard *Victoria* sing it!) I think the biggest disappointment (what could they have been thinking???) is that Victoria herself doesn't sing one song! I would like to have heard her sing one of the new ones. She sings backup on a couple of songs, but if you didn't know who she was, you'd never know it was her. I guess I have to say that I wish there were more females singing on the album too. However, I'm saying that mainly because of my radio show. I never, ever feel as if I'm "stuck in a rut" by choosing to only feature female vocals, but I have to admit that sometimes it stings when I "can't" play something I'd really like to play, sung by a guy. That said, in a way it's kinda good that most of the songs are sung by guys on this album. When a woman is singing it's *too* easy to compare vocals and think "gee, that sounds so different" which is my problem with Lucinda Williams' (no relation) version of "Main Road" which is prob...um...probably my favorite Victoria Williams song :-). Don't get me wrong, I *love* Lucinda Williams, it's just that...I don't know, it's too different. That's not really a problem with Maria McKee's pretty wonderful version of "Opelousas" which is probab...um...probably my favorite Victoria Williams song :-). (Oh yeah, in case you're wondering, the song "TC"-not covered on this album :-(-is probably...um...*probably* my favorite Victoria Williams song....) Michelle Shocked does a good job with "Holy Spirit" though it doesn't seem long enough. I think my bias is clear...I'm deeply, adoringly, besottedly in love with Victoria's first album, so I'm a bit more critical of songs covered from that album. Yes, I love the second album too, just not anywhere near as much as HAPPY COME HOME, so I don't listen to the covers from SWING THE STATUE with the same ear. I have to say that I'm going to be indebted to Buffalo Tom for covering "Merry Go Round" because for years now there are lyrics in that song that have been impossible to understand. After one listen to BT's version, I'm pretty sure I'll be able to sit down and transcribe all the lyrics. I don't even remember if I liked the cover, I was just listening closely to the lyrics and thinking "wow, they're *enunciating*! Alright!" Last thought: I'm not a fan of most of these people, not that I dislike any of them, it's just that, of all of these folks, I only own albums by Lucinda Williams, Maria McKee and Michells Shocked. Still, I liked most of the covers. I mean, I've never even *heard* any Soul Asylum, Pearl Jam, Matthew Sweet and others before, and I liked their covers. Above it all, anyway, no matter what, I think all these artists are *great* people for doing this album! The only lyrics included in "Sweet Relief" are to the "title" track. This is another one that I couldn't make out everything and I sang along with it (really and phonetically) for years and never knew what it was about. Seeing the lyrics written out opened my eyes *WIDE*!! Pimps & Prostitutes & Drugs (oh my!) Victoria's a story-teller, and she writes about the most *interesting* things! Things you just wouldn't expect from a sweet little Christian girl from Louisiana! (In the documentary I have, she talks about how she and her sister would go to Opelousas, a real town in Louisiana, and go to the truck stop and sing for the truckers.) "Opelousas (Sweet Relief)" She's cruisin' the streets Making damn sure she don't run into that old man Around him she hardly even speaks She slips into an old retreat I saw her struttin' in a dress That was lucky last week Keeping an eye out for Shady He's holding something sweet Some sweet relief Some find it in a bathtub or a back rub The clothes they wear or just in the air In the food they eat, it's something sweet Some sweet relief Now Opelousas is a dim-lit town by night But the people down there They sure know how to live Why, they dance by the moon They give a party for a fight They got that look in their eyes, says They're holding something sweet Some sweet relief It's in a handshake or a lucky break In a bottle of wine or just losing some time It's in the road you meet, oh It's something sweet Some sweet relief Now you tell me you got some I hope that's true But you want some assurance You'll never be blue Well... It's in a boat ride On the holy side It's at the 5 & 10 It's everywhere you ever been It's in the very words you speak It's something sweet Sweet relief Sweet =========================================== Vickie (not a Williams, not even a Victoria, and not from Louisiana) ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 7 Jul 93 0:29:34 EDT From: Greg Bossert Subject: DID... DID not! okay okay, here is a spur-of-the-footah DID list: Arson Garden Under Towers Blue Aeroplanes Swagger Kate Bush Hounds of Love Mary Casey The Well-Strung Harp Debussy/Boulez La Mer/L'Apres Midi D'un Faune/Jeux Eno Before and After Science Happy Rhodes Warpaint The Smiths Strangeways Here We Come Tribe Abort Vaughan Willams/ Variations on a Theme by Thomas Marriner/ASMitF Tallis/Fantasia on Greensleeves/etc. and here are 10 runner-ups: Bel Canto Birds of Passage David Bowie Low Kate Bush The Dreaming Eno Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) Monsoon Third Eye Happy Rhodes Ecto Sinead O'Connor The Lion and the Cobra Single Gun Theory Stars in my Hands The Smiths Louder than Bombs Vaughan Williams Pastoral Symphony (Symphony #3)/Symphony #5 what, no Cocteau Twins? no Sarah or Tori?! no Bach?!?! Clannad, Enya, Chieftans, Fairport, Dmode, Caterwaul, New Order, Gabriel??? no sir, i don't like it! one should note that the likelyhood of me being stranded without 500- odd Cds, my strat, my harp, and a large sound system is extremely low... just in case, since this dreadful thread has started i have taken to carrying all of the above with me everywhere i go... avoiding desert islands, i remain your footah! -greg ======================================================================== 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)