From: owner-ecto-digest To: ecto-digest@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto-digest V2 #315 Reply-To: ecto@nsmx.rutgers.edu Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Friday, 22 December 1995 Volume 02 : Number 315 The Ecto digest is now being generated automatically. Please send problems and questions to: ecto-owner@nsmx.rutgers.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "jeffrey hanson" Date: Fri, 22 Dec 95 12:08:26 cdt Subject: Top 10 Albums of 1995 Happy Holidays everyone. Here's my top 10--assuming no big upsets in this final week of '95. Hope everyone has a great holiday-- I'll be off e-mail for the rest of the year so see you all next year. Here's my list of top 10 albums for 1995 1. Jewel - Pieces of You -- while not an absolutely phenomenal album, this still was probably my most played album this year. It was great to see someone so deserving have her career take off. Like a dream come true--for me as well as for Jewel. 2. Lisa Gerrard - The Mirror Pool This is all I hoped it would be and more. For years I've wanted a Dead Can Dance album without Brendan's vocals and finally got something close. Sanvean is one of my favorite musical pieces ever. 3. Dar Williams - The Honesty Room Great album--every track is great. More folky than what I'd usually listen to, but still love it. She can make the simplest sentiments sweet, and is able to capture the nostalgia of childhood better than any other artist. 4. Kendra Smith - Five Ways of Disappearing This is a very subtle album that manages to sound completely fresh and unique, without really being strange. Great "alternative" album, but with good vocals. 5. Alison Moyet - Singles Yeah, its a greatest hit collection, and those usually don't make it on any album list, but this one is a real winner. Can listen to this one for days on end. Much stronger than any of her individual solo albums. Highly recommended to those of you who loved Yaz(oo) but have been skeptical of her solo work. 6. Melissa Ferrick - Willing to Wait Great second album by this highly overlooked artist--shows more depth and maturity in her songwriting. And unlike Etheridge, (with whom she's often compared), this Melissa knows how to sing passionately without repeating herself and yelling real loud. (A sentiment I stole from somewhere but is so appropriate I thought I'd repeat it). 7. Jane Siberry - Maria Not at all the artistic masterpiece as When I Was a Boy, but still essentially Jane in a whole new way. Her evolution as an artist is amazing to watch, and despite a whole new direction, she still manages to retain the wonderful quirkiness she's always had in lines such as "I'm meandering as fast as I can." 8. Happy Rhodes - The Keep I didn't really expect to like this as much--being yet another compilation album (so shortly after RhodeSongs), but the old songs are done in such delightful new ways, and the new songs are so great, that its got to make the top 10. Can't wait for the next "real" album though. 9. Joan Osborne - Relish This album kind of snuck up on me. Didn't think much of it on first listen, but it really grew on me. Look forward to hearing more. 10. ANUNA - Invocation This Celtic choir's second album is pretty masterful. A wonderful mix of styles, voices, and instrumentation. Highly recommended to those who like Loreena McKennitt, Clannad, Enya and other Celtic influenced bands. Best bets for next year: Tori Amos - Boys for Pele Maria McKee - The Sweet Life Jewel's second album ------------------------------ From: 32 flavors and then some Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 13:33:04 -0500 Subject: Re: more tribes Michael Colford sez: >Being a Boston area resident and around when Tribe first made a splash, >I think I have all their available items. well, then you're a bastard too! ;) >Boy, Tribe was a great band, it's sad >to see them gone. Lead singer Janet LaValley had a cool song on the >radio early this year called "Dirigible." It was actually a Tribe song, >I believe, that she got after the broke up. I'm waiting for her to do >something else. ah, so that was the name of it. i had heard that she had formed a new band (never knew the name) and had recorded an old tribe song for radio airplay, but i didn't know which one. was there a single release? or was this radio only? i've also heard that janet has moved to new york city and is trying to do the band thing there now. i wish her luck and am glad to hear that i don't have to drive to boston to see her perform anymore! woj ------------------------------ From: 32 flavors and then some Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 13:58:07 -0500 Subject: Re: nick drake Neile Graham sez: >woj writes: >> the closest thing you're going to find to a >> tribute album now is a record by scott appel called _nine of swords_ >What is this like? i don't have a copy, but i did heard it once. not surprisingly, i don't remember it very well. i do remember that it was released in 1989 on, i think, schoolkids' records. sorry. woj ------------------------------ From: Tom Pinkl Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 14:19:54 -0500 (EST) Subject: Top 10 of 1995 Here is my top 10 for 1995: Joan Osborne - Relish Melissa Ferrick - Willing to Wait Jonatha Brooke - Plumb October Project - Falling Farther In Heather Nova - Oyster Alanis Morrissette - Jagged Little Pill May Moore - Dragonfly Patty Larkin - Stranger's World Kate Price - Deep Heart's Core Natalie Merchant - Tigerlilly - -- Thomas J. Pinkl (tom@hbsrx.com) ------------------------------ From: Charley.Darbo@harpercollins.com (Charley Darbo) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 14:41:55 -0500 Subject: yet another top ten This is a Mime message, which your current mail reader may not understand. Parts of the message will appear as text. To process the rest, you will have to use a Mime compatible mail reader. 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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA== - --IMA.Boundary.819666370-- ------------------------------ From: Michael Colford Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 16:46:17 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: more tribes On Fri, 22 Dec 1995, 32 flavors and then some wrote: > Michael Colford sez: > >Boy, Tribe was a great band, it's sad > >to see them gone. Lead singer Janet LaValley had a cool song on the > >radio early this year called "Dirigible." It was actually a Tribe song, > >I believe, that she got after the broke up. I'm waiting for her to do > >something else. > > ah, so that was the name of it. i had heard that she had formed a new > band (never knew the name) and had recorded an old tribe song for radio > airplay, but i didn't know which one. was there a single release? or was > this radio only? Radio only, unfortunately. I never even saw a promo anywhere, although I'm sure they exist. It was a cool song, played heavily up here. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Colford | Reading Public Library | Reading, Massachusetts colford@noble.mass.edu | *North of Boston Library Exchange* -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: 32 flavors and then some Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 17:25:08 -0500 Subject: old ectopics (ani/4ad/cocteaus/golden pals/darling buds/stuff) hey all, here's a klaus with all sorts of dead threads in it. hmmm. maybe they are better left dead.... "S. Lunsford & T. O'Reilly" sez: >I bought Out of Range next, which I *adore* you know, the first few times i listened to _out of range_, it seemed to lack some spark that ani difranco's earlier records had. then, before writing this reply, i went back to listen to it and it seemed fresh and new and wonderful all over again. huh. >So next I bought Puddle Dive, and all I have to say about that _puddle dive_ was my intro to ani and it's still a favorite. however, i think that_not a pretty girl_ is her best - it's so gritty, lovely, engrossing and musically interesting. it's interesting that you didn't like this as much because it is less "folksy" - i find that to be one of its strengths. ani is also one of few artists whose lyrics reach me as quickly as the music. her words are so much a part of her art that they are difficult to ignore - even for people like me. ;) anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) sez: >it appeared on the 4AD sampler "All Virgos Are Mad", which >apparently was sold retail in the US, though it wasn't supposed to be. huh? why wasn't this supposed to be sold retail? _avam_ was a limited edition released to commemorate the series of live shows in los angeles, and though it was first made available at those shows, it was not *only* available at the shows. i bought my copy from a record store in baltimore and, in fact, saw a copy for sale at a record store in upstate new york a few weeks ago. veronica sawyer sez: >once upon a time i saw an ep called black spring(s?), which i wish i'd >gotten... it looked very much like the nothing natural ep though so i >don't feel too badly about it. the "black spring" ep *is* the "nothing natural" single. or rather, the "nothing natural" single is the american version of the "black spring" ep. the two are identical except that the "nothing natural" single substitutes the beach boys' "fallin' in love" for the other version of "nothing natural". i wish i had bought it as well. whine. >were there any other spooky era singles? for "superblast" or "for love" >perhaps? there was a promo single for "superblast", but it didn't have any extra tracks on it (well, aside from some remixes). >gala covers the first 3 eps, mad love, scar and, ummm, uhhh, whatever it >was that the other ep was called that i can't remember. "sweetness and light" clsriram@phoenix.Princeton.EDU sez: >i'm still trying to decide what to make of the tarnation album ,gentle >creatures. if you are iffy on this, but like the concept, get thee to a record store and buy the geraldine fibbers' _lost somewhere between the earth and my home_. same idea, excellent execution. elionwyr@onix.com sez: >And this one is a repeated question, but..when I saw Joan >Osborne in concert, she did a song about..something like "If >you were a fish.." some sort of darned seductive love song >that was VERY hot and I VERY much liked..does anyone know the >words, or does anyone have a COPY of this song? might that be robyn hitchcock's "if you were a priest"? if you were a priest i would wait at least up until confession time and crawl inside your box breathing like a fox hunting for obsession time the other two verses start "if you were a nun" and "if you were a ghost". i, personally, would think it ery cool if joan covered this song. (so if this song is actually something else, please excuse my wishes). Richard Holmes sez: > I've been listening to a few tracks by a group from Japan called >"Angel In Heavy Syrup". [...] Does anyone know where I can >purchase a CD by them... or are they only on vinyl? angel'in heavy syrup have three albums, intelligently titled _I_, _II_ and _III_. _III_ is the only album available in the states. you can order it from charnel music (http://www.meer.net/~charnel/) for $12. (which reminds me: i need to place an order with them...so much music, so little money!) pink sez: >can anyone tell me info on the group BREATHLESS and GOLDEN PALIMINOS. breathless is the brainchild of dominic appleton, who maybe more familiar to ectofolk as the guy who sings "the jeweller", "tarantula" and "strength of strings" on this mortal coil's _filligree and shadow". breathless have a multitude of albums on tenor vossa records. neal mentioned that the golden palominos are essentially a project of anton fier and whomever he feels like playing with. however, the band's membership is not as "flux-y" as that implies. aside from the shifts in vocal talent, there is a fairly stable core of people providing the music including bass-god bill laswell, keyboard funkmeister bernie worrell, and guitarists nicky skopelitis and arto lindsay. neal said about their albums: >Golden Palominos - (I don't have this, but I gather it's the John Zorn >one) yup. i rarely listen to it, though i have it on both vinyl and compact disc. it's a difficult album, but quite excellent. at this time, the palominos were more of a downtown nyc rock-jazz-funk fusion thang. i love that stuff though, so hey. it was released in '83. >visions of excess - 1985. the presence of stipe and straw made this a breakthrough album for the band. i guess having all those big names will do that for you, but it is a really great album nonetheless. >Blast of Silence - ?? (Also don't have. I think Syd Straw moves to the >forefront here.) 1986. syd sings on nearly every single song, either lead or backing. also features vocal performances by don dixon, peter blegvad and some guy named matthew sweet. blegvad also plays a fair amount of guitar. generally not ranked as highly as the previous record. >A Dead Horse - ?? (Don't have. Doug said Amanda Kramer on many vocals.) 1989. i am listening to the record now as i don't recall the album much. vocal duties are split between amanda and a male singer. since credits are skimpy, it's unclear which man he is. the album's kinda boring, pretty straight-ahead gbdv (guitar bass drums vocals). >???? - 1995 I'm pretty sure there was a recent Palominos offering with >Lori Carson again doing most (all?) of the lead singing. _pure_. lori carson handles all of the vocals except for two songs which are sung by lydia kavanaugh. it was released in '94. i really like _pure_, but again, rarely find myself pulling it out. in fact, i think the last time i listened to it (before skimming it while writing this) was almost a year and a half ago. ack! jeffw@triple-i.com (Jeff Wasilko) sez: >(CD Warehouse seems to have invented the concept of a one-price $9 used-CD >store. Methinks it's destined to fail). hear, hear! most of the stores around here average about $5 for a used disc, with the price inching up one or two dollars for popular bands. one store's prices are $7 minimum. as you can imagine, i rarely buy stuff there (though they are the only gig in town for 7" singles, so i do make the occasional stop). maeldun@i-2000.com (Michael Doyle) sez: >I am curious if there are any other Darling Buds discs warranting my purchase. _exotica_ is nothing like either of the other two darling buds records. they jump from the hippy-dippy guitar pop thing to the fuzzy-wuzzy shoegazer thing. that said, _exotica_ is a pretty good effort, though not as essential as, say, my bloody valentine's _isn't anything_, if you are looking to fill the shoegazer niche in your collection. the other darling buds record is, um, _pure_? i forget which one came first of _pure_ and _crawdaddy_, but i know i don't care for the second one as much as the first. gzverev@RPC.glas.apc.org (Russian Privatization Center) sez: >I don't think it is much - the cost of equipment should be comparable to >cost of collection you have and might be estimated as 1/4th to 1/2 of it. i disagree completely. the cost of the equipment should be comparable to how much of an audiophile the listener is. for most people, a cd boombox is the proper stereo equipment no matter how many compact discs they have because most people are not interested in hi-fidelity sound reproduction - they are merely interested in adequate sound reproduction. while shopping last night, the person in front of me in line at the cashier at a record store was asking about what kind of cassette tape to buy. the clerk told them to get high bias tapes because "it's better for music." while that may be technically correct, it certainly is not practically correct. the majority of people are not going to notice the difference between playback on normal and high bias tapes. i know i certainly can not. the same goes with equipment. >Otherwise what the reason to have 150 CDs and listen them on a $150 >ear-bleedy-tastic discman! so you can listen to music without spending a lot of money on unnecessary stereo equipment! larnep@pathfinder.com (Larne Pekowsky) sez: >Then there was "The Magic Garden" which was two folksy-hippy women with >guitars. ooh! one of my favorite shows when i was growing up (i think i watched it on wpix out fo new york city). >This was the show with the magic tree and the giggle patch. chuckle patch. >I don't remember the opening theme, but early in each i remember the closing theme. it went something like see ya! see ya! hope you had a good good time la la hope you had a good good morning to you hope we get to see you again veronica sawyer sez: >but more seriously, _Otherness_ is not a normal Cocteau Twins release, >it's a remix ep, and the remixes were done by Seefeel at that, which >makes them a little, um, weird. yeah? cool. i'm still waiting for my copy of "otherness" to be delivered. i ordered the import from ear/rational music since i didn't feel like waiting for the domestic release. as it turned out, the domestic release is here, but my order still isn't. i am consoled by paying $3 less for the import. :) >as for CT in general... i sometimes felt that older CT sounded in some >way like Siouxsie from the same time... early 80's. but it seems a >subtle similarity and i've rarely found anyone to agree with me on this. i'd agree. the earliest material (_garlands_ and the two 12" eps that i forget the titles of) has early 80s, siouxsieish, pseudo-gothic overtones. the bands were distinctively different, but i think they share the same point of departure. dbucak@netaxs.com (Deniz Bucak) sez: >I don't have _Otherness_ but I was very disapointed in my last purchase, the >ep _Twinlights_. The music was boring piano tinkling and you could actually >understand the words! i *really* like "twinlights". it's dreamy like _victorialand_, but with acoustic piano instead of guitar. as for the lack of liz's mysterious vocal languages, well, that never was the clinching point for the band for me. i've never been a lyrics person, whether they are english, swahili or frazierian. far as i'm concerned, she is still singing nonsense to me. :) woj ------------------------------ From: Charley.Darbo@harpercollins.com (Charley Darbo) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 16:09:16 -0500 Subject: ecto faux pas I'm informed that I shouldn't have sent my last post as an MS Word file. Sorry; I'm sure I'll pick up on these things as I go. Anyone care to send me a list of other avoidables? ("Lord, here comes the flood . . .") I'm a fast learner. --charleydarbo ------------------------------ From: Charley.Darbo@harpercollins.com (Charley Darbo) Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 16:57:14 -0500 Subject: reposting "yet another top ten list" (Again: sorry, everyone. This whole computer thing is very new to me--I still can't figure out how it works without winding. And again:) Paul and Jeffrey have inspired me to tos in my two cents' worth. Here's _my_ top ten for 1995. (I was initially reluctant, being so little-known by most of you, to presume to post my top ten as my third communique' [Quel audace!], but then I thought: "How better to introduce myself?" So here goes: (Wait a minute. How about a little background? Here's my TopTen for 1994: 1. Jeff Buckley: _Grace_ Sublime. Edith Piaf meets Robert Plant, with shades of Kate, Mary Margaret, Nusrat, and Diamanda. 2. Nine Inch Nails: _The Downward Spiral_ Yes, it's loud. But it's very musical. Trent reaches deeper depths and darker shadows than almost anyone else, making his heights and lights metallically, near-painfully bright. 3. Diamanda Galas and John Paul Jones: _The Sporting Life_ Contains the lyric of the year: "Now I have to get off my knees/ Because I have some shopping to do". 4. Laika: _Silver Apple of the Moon_ Cross Portishead with Bushtucker, and have Tricky produce. On amphetamines. 5. Ryuichi Sakamoto: _Sweet Revenge_ Deeply, warmly textured; soft, jazzy, EuroHipHoppy; the brilliantly-colored - -fake-fur motif on the booklet is a perfect image. 6. Victoria Williams: _Loose_ She's not a singer-songwriter; she's a religion. There's more accessible human truth in one line of a Victoria Williams song than in most of this year's other releases combined. 7. Beastie Boys: _Ill Communication_ Adolescent, crude, brilliantly funny, and brilliantly (surprise!) musical. The instrumentals are actually the highlights of this album. 8. Sidsel Endresen: _Exile_ Smoky, spare, jazz-informed, siberrian; with spacious hollows and crystalline percussion. Beautiful, soft and sad. [Anticipates Jane's _Maria_.] 9. DJKrush: _Strictly Turntableized_ Hip hop from a 1950s, Greenwich-Village-basement coffeeshop. And it's instrumental. Samples and scratches that make you want to wear a beret and call people "Daddyo". 10. Ingrid Karklins: _Anima Mundi_ Karklins takes a bizarre array of influences--Latvian folk music, African percussion, Laurie Anderson, progressive jazz, Kate Bush--and weaves them together in a dense, seamless tapestry. Not as dark as, but still somehow heavier than, her _A Darker Passion_. Honorable Mention: Zap Mama: _Sabsylma_ Over the Rhine: _Eve_ Portishead: _Dummy_ And now to the business at hand:) charleydarbo's TopTen list for 1995: 1. Jane Siberry: _Maria_ 2. Tricky: _Maxinquaye_ 3. Holly Cole: _Temptation_ 4. Ruby: _Salt Peter_ 5. The 6ths: _Wasp's Nests_ 6. PJHarvey: _To Bring You My Love_ 7. Nine Inch Nails: _Further Down the Spiral_ 8. Bjork: _Post_ 9. Foetus: _Gash_ 10. Melinda Miel: _The Law of the Dream_ Honorable Mention: Carmel: _World's Gone Crazy_ Susan Voelz: _Summer Crashing_ The Henrys: _Puerto Angel_ (I'm working on commentary for the individual albums. [Albi?]) Thanks for your indulgence. Commentary welcome. Have a safe, insane Holiday weekend, whatever the subject of your celebration. --charleydarbo ___________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V2 #315 ************************** ======================================================================== Please send any questions or comments about the list to ecto-owner@nsmx.rutgers.edu