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 #830 ecto, Number 830 Thursday, 28 October 1993 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Chicago Hits Jackpot Champagne Jam, 10/10/93 Champagne Jam, 10/17/93 Champagne Jam, 10/24/93 Politic Re: Mercedes Lackey Books & Music, etc. Music-n-Books, what else is there? Re: Sarah M. Mercedes L. Edmund B. Leni R. Re: Books 'R' Us (Was: Re: Stephen R. Donaldson) The goal posts of life, and Rocky Horror Intelligence Re: Concrete Blonde album ======================================================================== Date: 27 Oct 93 12:07:05 EDT From: Mike Mendelson Subject: Chicago Hits Jackpot I just called the Park West in Chicago. Here are the dates of three artists that get lots of airtime on ecto... I haven't gotten the new Bjork album yet, but I suspect I will go see the show (and get the album by then) anyways. NOVEMBER 16 -- Bjork NOVEMBER 20 -- Kirsty MacColl <<<<<<======== YES! NOVEMBER 22 -- Aimee Mann <<<<<<======== YES! NOVEMBER 31 -- Kate Bush <<<<<<======== Mmmmm, YES! I am SO HAPPY that the latter three are not only playing in Chicago, but playing a PREMIER venue in Chicago!!!!!! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!!!! Does anyone have tour schedules for any/all of these artists? Happy days are here again! -mjm ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 21:24:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Suspended In Duct Tape Subject: Champagne Jam, 10/10/93 Hi! I'm about to bombard you all with THREE (count 'em) playlists. I'm finally getting caught up after my life took at 2 1/2-week holiday at the beginning of the month, lucky you... CHAMPAGNE JAM 88.1FM, WESU-Middletown Wesleyan University Middletown, CT Sunday, October 10, 1993 4:00 - 5:30 PM 10,000 MANIACS: "Planned Obsolescence" (Hope Chest) HEIDI BERRY: "Mercury" (Heidi Berry) MALICORNE: "Vive La Lune" (Legende) JANE SIBERRY: "All The Candles In The World" (When I Was A Boy) GIGANTIC: "Orange" (Thurtene) BJORK: "I Remember You" (Venus As A Boy CD5) VARTTINA: "Kyla Uuotti Uutta Kuta" (Seleniko) JOAN OSBOURNE: "His Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles (Blue Million Miles CD5) THE GOLDEN PALOMINOS: "Twist The Knife" (This Is How It Feels) MEG HENTGES: "This Kind Of Love Is" (Tattoo Urge EP) P.J. HARVEY: "Dry" (Rid Of Me) ROSE CHRONICLES: "Hollow Sea" (Dead And Gone To Heaven EP) MAZZY STAR: "Into Dust" (So Tonight That I Might See) SARA CRAIG: "Bike" (EP) MERYN CADELL: "Steam Clean Express" (Bombazine) KIRSTY MACCOLL: "Last Day of Summer" (Titanic Days) CASEY SCOTT: "7th of November" (Creep City) KATE BUSH: "Rubberband Girl" (Rubberband Girl CD5) Special thanks to woj, for his company and CD donations during this show (not to mention the ride from the airport the previous day... :). Meredith meth@delphi.com ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 21:28:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Suspended In Duct Tape Subject: Champagne Jam, 10/17/93 Hi! This is what happens when you drive back from Binghamton, NY on almost zero sleep to do radio: CHAMPAGNE JAM 88.1FM, WESU-Middletown Wesleyan University Middletown, CT Sunday, October 17, 1993 4:00 - 5:30 PM 10,000 MANIACS: "My Sister Rose" (In My Tribe) JANE SIBERRY: "Sail Across The Water" (When I Was A Boy) KIRSTY MACCOLL: "You Know It's You" (Titanic Days) KRISTEN HALL: "Empty Promises" (Fact and Fiction) JOHN AND MARY: "Two Worlds Parted" (The Weedkiller's Daughter) SUZANNE VEGA: "In Liverpool" (99.9F) HEIDI BERRY: "Distant Thunder" (Heidi Berry) [r] BJORK: "One Day" (Debut) [r] JULEE CRUISE: "This Is Our Night" (The Voice of Love) BELA FLECK AND THE FLECKTONES: "Vix 9" (Three Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest) TORI AMOS: "The Pool" (Winter CD5) TORI AMOS: "Winter" (Winter CD5) KATE BUSH: "Big Stripey Lie" (Eat The Music CD5) DEAD CAN DANCE: "Yulunga (Spirit Dance)" (Into The Labyrinth) HAPPY RHODES: "Ashes To Ashes" (RhodeSongs) LINDA J. ALBERTANO: "Shame" (Skin) THE MAGNETIC FIELDS: "100,000 Fireflies" (The Wayward Bus) [r] KATE BUSH: "The Wedding List" (Never For Ever) (For the geographically impaired, that's a 4-hour drive, by the way. %) Thanks to our own Mike of the 7-bit characters for calling and requesting The Magnetic Fields without having any clue that he was calling a fellow Ectophile! (I had no clue I was talking to one until later...) The Connecticut contingent is growing. Be very afraid. Meredith meth@delphi.com ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 21:35:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Suspended In Duct Tape Subject: Champagne Jam, 10/24/93 Hi! Live from Middletown, it's LESS UNREST, MORE FRANK! The 35 least-played songs of the week on WESU: CHAMPAGNE JAM 88.1FM, WESU-Middletown Wesleyan University Middletown, CT Sunday, October 24, 1993 4:00 - 5:30 PM 10,000 MANIACS: "Blind Faith" (Cool White Stare) SARAH MCLACHLAN: "Possession" (Possession CD5) LAURA LOVE: "All Our Lives" (Pangaea) COCTEAU TWINS: "Evangeline" (Evangeline CD5) FRANK SINATRA & ANITA BAKER: "Witchcraft" (Duets) [r] BOW WOW WOW: "I Want Candy" (I Want Candy) P.J. HARVEY: "Hook" (4-Track Demos) HETCH HETCHY: "Catscan" (Make Djibouti EP) THE GOLDEN PALOMINOS: "This Is How It Feels" (This Is How It Feels) KATE BUSH: "Rubberband Girl" (Rubberband Girl CD5) LIZ PHAIR: "Never Said" (Exile In Guyville) [r] AIMEE MANN: "Say Anything" (Whatever) JANE SIBERRY: "Sail Across The Water" (When I Was A Boy) DEAD CAN DANCE: "Tell Me About The Forest" (Into The Labyrinth) HAPPY RHODES: "Summer" (RhodeSongs) SARAH MCLACHLAN: "Fear (Jane's Mix)" (Possession CD5) HEIDI BERRY: "Little Fox" (Heidi Berry) SALLY FINGERETT: "Ho Chin" (Ghost Town Girl) KATE BUSH: "The Sensual World" (The Sensual World) And now, an explanation: The show now preceding mine is called The Top 35 Countdown, and it really is a countdown of the top 35 albums on WESU from the past week. Pretty horrific, especially when you consider this is a station with a printed brochure outlining its "Policy Of Free-Form Radio" in the air studio. The guy who DJs it thinks the whole thing is one big joke, and treats it as such. I call my show the Bottom 35, since nothing I play exists on anyone else's playlists at the station ever. This week Chris (the DJ) decided he was sick and tired of Unrest, who have had the #1 album all semester. So he decreed Frank Sinatra's new album of duets with such luminaries as Tony Bennett, Anita Baker, and Bono (yes, Bono) to be the #1 album of the week, and played half of it at the end of his show. The duet with Anita Baker, "Witchcraft" bled extensively into my time slot, and since we had been hearing the album for the past 20 minutes anyway, I faded it out and started my show. Ten minutes later I got an irate phone call. "Why the hell did you fade that out? Fuck you, I wanna hear it! That was the most unprofessional thing I've ever heard on the radio! Play it now!!!" So I did, prefacing it with a short soliloquy on how "professional" and "college radio" mix about as well as oil and water, and that's what it's doing stuck in the middle of that first set. Have a nice day! Meredith meth@delphi.com ======================================================================== From: snpf@ugcs.caltech.edu (The Duchess Of York) Subject: Politic Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 19:04:55 -0800 (PDT) I agree with what neal @ ca and brni wrote about pc. It is a political tool...and it's pc to be feminist. I hate pc, the term being thrown around in much the same way I dislike pms being used as the reason for womyn's emotions and to further push the 'irrational' concept to and about womyn. I comment that menstration is not a disease....off topic. I like what laurie anderson said: "They say womyn shouldn't be president because they go crazy sometimes." Anyway, language is a virus, and all of us should read 'snowcrash' the book, because of the idea held within, with help from william s. burroughs and laurie anderson. -seanympfocrypt ======================================================================== From: snpf@ugcs.caltech.edu (The Duchess Of York) Subject: Re: Mercedes Lackey Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 19:49:26 -0800 (PDT) I love Mercedes Lackey! She is a very interesting writer. Her beginnings generally are stilted and somewhat lame, but she pulls out and becomes real very soon into the books. She has interesting stories...fantasy-type. They are written for 'juveniles', but I enjoy them immensely. -seanympf ======================================================================== Subject: Re: Politic Date: Wed, 27 Oct 93 23:04:56 -0400 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu sarah sed: >I like what laurie anderson said: "They say womyn shouldn't be >president because they go crazy sometimes." Urgh. Revisionism. I can't imagine Laurie Anderson using the term "womyn." "Well they say women shouldn't be the president / 'cause we go crazy from time to time..." (for those in confusion, this is from Laurie Anderson's "Beautiful Red Dress," a wonderful commentary on sexism, from her 1989 album _Strange Angels_. If you don't have this album, you should. Along with KaTe's _The Sensual World_ and the Pixies' _Doolittle_, it's one of the three best albums of the year. Happy did not release an album in '89. ;-) >Anyway, language is a virus, and all of us should read 'snowcrash' >the book, because of the idea held within, with help from william >s. burroughs and laurie anderson. I got _Snowcrash_ from Mike who got it from Sarah. We're all agreed that everyone should read this (doing so whilst listening to _Strange Angels_ is optional). Again, for those Laurie-deprived, "Language is a Virus" is from her _Home of the Brave_ piece. And she's got lots of ties to William S. Burroughs. Because this is Ecto, I will now take this opportunity to tie this into two, count 'em, TWO other recent threads: a) _Strange Angels_ is one of the albums listed in the "covers by famous artists" threads due to its *gorgeous* portrait by Robert Mapplethorpe on the cover. b) Just today, brni mentioned Thomas Pynchon's _Gravity's Rainbow_, which was the inspiration for Laurie's "Gravity's Angel" on _Mister Heartbreak. If I wanted to grasp for more threads, I would point out that _Mister Heartbreak_ features studio work by Peter Gabriel (who's always a topic around here, but who was scrutinized in the recent "Us" thread, and Anton Fier, leader of the constantly evolving NYC band Golden Palominos, which has received attention both here and in Gaffa of late). And yes, William S. Burroughs performs Sharkey's Night on the album. I think that's quite enough for now. Jeff ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 22:07:51 -0500 From: lakrahn@inst.augie.edu (Laurel Krahn) Subject: Books & Music, etc. I've been enjoying this threat on SF/Fantasy books. . . (in addition to the usual cool music stuff...) (threat? that was supposed to say "thread"...jeez... hmmmm. hee.) I, also, have never gotten into Mercedes Lackey or Donaldson, for that matter. And I haven't had much time for recreational reading lately. Sadly. But I'm horribly excited because this weekend the World Fantasy Convention is being held in Minneapolis. . . and I'm working at the con (on the parties committee... :)) Guests of Honor (GoH's) include: John Crowley, Roger Zelazny.. Artist GoH is Thomas Canty (yay!) andd Neil Gaiman is Toastmaster. Lots of other big name authors, artists, editors, publishers, an fans will be there. I'm psyched! And, there will be, as always at Minneapolis cons, lots of wonderful music. :) I'd like to second the recommendations of Steven Brust's novels. The Vlad Taltos series is great, but I'd also recommend his other works (Agyar; The Sun, the Moon, an the Stars; To Reign in Hell, Cowboy Feng's Space Bar&Grille, the Phoenix Guards, etc.). Yup, Steve is from Minneapolis, as are other great* fantasy authors (Emma Bull, Will Shetterly, Patricia C. Wrede, Kara Dalkey, John M. Ford, etc. oops, Kara just married John Barnes and moved, but it's the thought that counts...). And there is* a musical connection. Steve plays drums for a band called Cats Laughing (Emma Bull, another author, sings with them.... Adam Stemple also sings and plays guitar with the group... he's now with Boiled in Lead, also.) . The band plays kindof psychedelic folk-rock-blues kindof songs. Most written by Bull, Brust, Stemple, or the bass player, Lojo Russo. Steve also plays with the band Morrigan (they do more traditional celtic rock kindof stuff. similar to Cats but with different members, sortof.)... Emma also plays with the Flash Girls (who perform songs written by Neil Gaiman.....) Adam Stemple is Jane Yolen's son..... Um, suffice to say there are some rocking music parties in Minneapolis. at Science Fiction/Fantasy cons. :) Lots* of authors are also musicians, it seems. Or big music fans. If you like music and good fantasy, I'd recommend tehe novel WAR FOR THE OAKS by Emma Bull, some of Charles de Lint's novels (particularly THE LITTLE COUNTRY), THE GYPSY by Megan Lindholm and Steven Brust, the Borderlands anthologies as edited by Terri Windling... Some of the music that these musicians admire or play..... Dead Can Dance; Not Drowning, Waving; Richard Thompson, Boiled in Lead (um, they often jam with Cats Laughing and Morrigan, Dave Van Ronk, Greg Brown, the Waterboys, the Horseflies, Rare Air, Alan Stivell, Three Mustaphas Three, Peter Gabriel, etc etc. etc.... Lots of good folk, celtic, traditional, worldbeat, celtic rock stuff. Geez, I think I forgot to list Pamela dean in the list of great Mpls fantasy authors. She's close to being my fave (and a wonderful person)... I could go on and on about music in fantasy and fantasy in music, but I'll stop for now.... Maybe if I turn people on to Happy's music she could be music Guest of Honor at a future Minicon (the large Minnesota Science Fiction convention.... we had dave van ronk as musical GoH not long ago..... :)). babble babble babble..... I'm psyched for world fantasy con! - Laurel Krahn - lakrahn@inst.augie.edu - Augustana College, Sioux Falls-SD- "if you need me, me and neil'll be hangin' out with the DREAM KING Neil says hi by the way. . ." - Tori Amos ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 22:47:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Suspended In Duct Tape Subject: Music-n-Books, what else is there? Hi! It just hit me that next Tuesday, just SIX DAYS from now, I'll be walking into a record store on my lunch hour, much like I did yesterday to pick up the 10,000 Maniacs Unplugged CD, and buying the new album from Kate Bush. *A new album from Kate Bush.* The significance of this event hadn't dawned on me until this moment, what with the initial disappointments of what songs I've heard from it and the equally disappointing videos (though there are elements of them I really really like, all having to do with Kate herself and all horribly superficial :) I've seen so far. But wow. A new album! This only happens every four years, folks. Kind of like American Presidential elections, and we all know what fanfare *those* engender! Get ready to dance in the streets people, there's gonna be a new Kate CD in the rack! Ahem. Sorry. Books- this thread pops up now and again, and I love it every time. Those of you who are interested in seeking out SF/Fantasy books with gay characters should check out anything by Melissa Scott- all her main characters are either gay, bisexual, or just plain ambiguous. I recently finished _Dreamships_, which is an interesting and well-thought-out vision of a universe dominated by virtual reality and the search for true AI. The heroine just happens to be a lesbian, and that really has nothing to do with her actions, it's just a part of her characterization. I like that- all of Scott's characters are subtly painted like that when it comes to sexual orientation, which is how it should be, imho. Another one would be Maureen McHugh's _China Mountain Zhang_, which won this year's Lambda Award for its portrayal of a gay main character. I haven't read it yet, but have heard nothing but raves all around. Gael Baudino is also heavily into gay characters, _Gossamer Axe_ being the example that most readily pops to mind. There are more, but I can't remember them at the moment. The SF/Fantasy field is seeing more and more books with gay characters in, mostly (I think) because the genre is the most amenable to alternative visions and "lifestyles", if you simply must use the word, that are also constructive. I think that's a very good thing, myself. While we're on the subject of books, I hereby command all of you to go out and find Dan Simmons' _Hyperion_ and _The Fall of Hyperion_, take a week off from work or school or whatever, and read them. This two-book science fiction epic is simply one of the best-written works of any genre I have ever read, and the plot is intricate and brilliantly mapped out. Everything has a Purpose To Be Named Later, similar to what was said about Steven Brust's work and SANDMAN, the characterization is excellent, I could go on and on but will spare you all. There is a definite philosophy behind it all, and it takes place 900 years from now, but the history of between now and then makes sense, and sounds chillingly plausible to me. There are many scenes that are so well described, the imagery so rich, that even though they are also pretty scary they will infiltrate my dreams for a long time to come. There's a reason this guy has won lots of awards. Check it out, and I'm sure you'll see what I mean. woj noted: }count me as another mercedes lackey non-fan. Me three. I couldn't get past page five of anything of hers I've tried. :P }it's great to read a series where the protagonist is so annoying }but also so intriguing since he defies the usual trend in fan- }tasy for the hero to be admirable, likeable, powerful and, well, }heroic. It's great to read *any* book where the protagonist is a royal pain in the ass, and you find yourself not caring because it really doesn't matter. I plowed through _Lempriere's Dictionary_ earlier this year, and while I was cringing the entire time about the sheer weenity of the "hero", I still enjoyed the book very much, and in the long run not caring about what happened to him was kind of the point. }folks on the not-yet-read-but-highly-recommend list include dan }simmons, kate elliot, tom de haven. We already know about Dan Simmons. :) As for Kate Elliott, she only has one book out so far, _Jaran_, but the sequel should be coming out pretty soon, and I can't wait. (Kate Elliott is a pseudonym, by the way, and only a few people know who for- me included, and no, it's NOT me, even though there are a bunch of GEnie-ites who are convinced it is! Flattering, to say the least, but untrue... the Elliott is after George Elliott, and the Kate is after- wait for it- Kate Bush, which is why some people think she's me. ;) }If you enjoy these, try _The Deed of Paksenarrion_ by Elizabeth }Moon. It's more fantasy that doesn't forget the details of life }go on even when you are doing heroic deeds. Another great series from a woman who knows her stuff. Highly recommended from this quarter, as well. mjm sighed: }Ah, it's amazing how quickly bonding occurs in the backseat }of a small car on the Garden State Parkway... Shhh, or they'll *all* be doing it! One final note- I listened to Patty Larkin's new album, _Angels Running_, and it's nice. The Story sing backup on four songs, Mary-Chapin Carpenter on another, and a special treat at the end is 25 seconds of Patty channeling Marlene Dietrich. :) I'm glad I paid a sale price for it, but I'm not sorry I bought it. It'll probably grow on me a bit more over time, too. And Natalie's version of "Because The Night" is getting better and better with each listen... Meredith meth@delphi.com ======================================================================== Subject: Re: Chicago Hits Jackpot Date: Wed, 27 Oct 93 23:10:01 -0400 From: jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu palindromeman spoofs about Chi-town tourdates: >NOVEMBER 16 -- Bjork > >NOVEMBER 20 -- Kirsty MacColl <<<<<<======== YES! > >NOVEMBER 22 -- Aimee Mann <<<<<<======== YES! > >NOVEMBER 31 -- Kate Bush <<<<<<======== Mmmmm, YES! That was pretty good, Mike. You had me wondering for a moment or two. Then I remembered that November only has 30 days. ;-) >Does anyone have tour schedules for any/all of these >artists? Aimee Mann will be swinging back to DC on...um...I believe the 19th of November, at either the Bayou or the 9:30 Club. A friend of mine is supposed to be checking on details. Since I saw her with Beth a couple of months ago, I could live with myself if I missed her this time around. I'd *like* to go, though, so I'm hoping tickets will be a reasonable (read: <$10) price. Jeff ======================================================================== From: snpf@ugcs.caltech.edu (The Duchess Of York) Subject: Re: Sarah M. Mercedes L. Edmund B. Leni R. Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 20:33:43 -0800 (PDT) About Mercedes Lackey: She also has a snail mail newsletter, which she has much to do with (interaction-wise). For more info, y'all can write me, if interested. -seanympf ======================================================================== From: snpf@ugcs.caltech.edu (The Duchess Of York) Subject: Re: Books 'R' Us (Was: Re: Stephen R. Donaldson) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 20:45:42 -0800 (PDT) > > I read the original Chronicles when they first came out, and just could not > stand the main character, which rather ruined it for me. If he'd changed in > some way to be more tolerable, I could have enjoyed it more as a growing > experience, but I came out of it disliking him as much as at the beginning. > Maybe I should read it again now that I'm almost twice the age that I first > did, but it's low on my priority list. I rather agree, especially since the main character doesn't seem to learn from anything, and he raped someone in the first story. blah. > > I just *have* to add some personal favorites here. Dorothy Dunnett has some > of the best historical novels I have ever read. If you're ready for a long > read, go buy, beg, borrow, or steal the six books of the Lymond chronicles. > The second book is slow, but the rest left me in awe. Or find her novel > _King Hereafter_ for a look at a "real" Macbeth. Not at all like Shakespeare. I completely agree!! ah! the ecstasy! :) I read all of these when I was sick with the famous virus like mono, it is Epstein-barr, but a different mutation, leading to chronic fatigue syndrome.....anyway, they were fantastic, and I couldn't put them down! If you've had mono or anything like it, you know this is quite an a feat. woah. This list. -seanympf ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 27 Oct 93 20:53:18 PDT From: erik@falcon.kla.com (Erik Johnson) Subject: Re: Politic snpf@ugcs.caltech.edu (The Duchess Of York) comments: |> I like what laurie anderson said: "They say womyn shouldn't be |> president because they go crazy sometimes." I wish I could remember who it was that said, "Once a month, women get bad tempered, irrational, and emotional - in other words, they act just like a man." I won't argue the truth or falsity, but I will defend it as being a great line. ;-) Erik ___________________________________________________________________________ Erik N. Johnson Don't believe any return address KLA Instruments Corp. rumors. The one and only True San Jose, CA Address is e_johnso@kla.com. Got the anti-Christ in the kitchen yelling at me again... TA ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1993 21:58:48 +1000 (AEST) From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Subject: The goal posts of life, and Rocky Horror Sam Warrenerizerises: > or maybe: > > "Drop Kick Me, Jesus, Through The Goal Posts Of Life" That sound slike a song that might have been done by either This Is Serious Mum, or The Couldabeen Champions, both *very* Australian (Hogan-ishly Australian) bands from Melbourne. The reason I think so is that not only does the title ring a bell, but also the term "drop kick" is normally used in connection with Australian Rules Football... just a guess, though. Neil timewarps: > Well, I've got to wonder about this. American stations carrying the > world television premiere of the Rocky Horror Picture Show on election > night in Canada, as the Canadian stations carry the latest up-to-the- > minute news of the federal election. World television premiere? I think not! Network 7 here in Australia has shown the film regularly for years, at least six years actually. They even found a copy that had the songs digitally remastered in stereo... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== From: snpf@ugcs.caltech.edu (The Duchess Of York) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 93 21:13:08 -0700 Subject: Intelligence And I was just talking to someone about intelligence. Some define it as the ability to make connections. funky, eh? a most open question, but a recognizable trait. -seanympf ======================================================================== From: p.cohen@genie.geis.com Date: Wed, 27 Oct 93 01:12:00 BST Subject: Re: Concrete Blonde album To Sandoval (and all else interested): Didn't know the Ectophiles were into Concrete Blonde, but the album is quite nice. Good mixture of ballads and rockers. The title track is a real haunting number that I could listen to over and over again. Which is nice, because the album ends with a spanish version of it. I recommend this album to anyone who's enjoyed their music in the past and recommend that those who haven't heard this band before, give them a serious listen. ======================================================================== 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)