From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V4 #46 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, February 11 1998 Volume 04 : Number 046 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Oh well. [Bill ] First CD's (Was: Embarrassing cd's) [roo@brown.edu (Kay Cleaves)] Re: ecto-digest V4 #43 [Joseph Zitt ] Re: embarrassing cd's [Joseph Zitt ] Re: embarrassing cd's [Joseph Zitt ] Re: embarrassing cd's [kerrywhite@webtv.net (kerry white)] Re: embarrassing cd's [Brian Bloom ] Fwd: Katell Keineg (was Re: ecto-digest V4 #43) [JavaHo@aol.com] embarrassing CDs/Women & Songs/Emm Gryner [Steve I ] Re: embarrassing cd's [Bill ] Re: I >>had<< to relay this! [David Dixon ] Re: First Album (was: embarrassing cd's) ["Jeffrey C. Burka" ] Re: First Album (was: embarrassing cd's) [Andrew Fries ] Re: First Album (was: embarrassing cd's) ["Jeffrey Hanson" ] Re: First Album (was: embarrassing cd's) ["Joseph S. Zitt" ] Re: embarrassing cd's [Riphug@aol.com] Re: Embarrassing CDs [Gentle Moose ] Re: embarrassing cd's [Stuart Myerburg ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 21:41:48 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Subject: Oh well. I just went CD shopping. Again. You people are a *bad* influence! C'est la vie. :)) Thanks for all the reviews and recommendations. - - Bill. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 23:35:39 -0500 From: roo@brown.edu (Kay Cleaves) Subject: First CD's (Was: Embarrassing cd's) Well, the first LP given to me was Fleetwood Mac, Tango in the Night. Which I still play. And is a good deal better than any vinyl I proceded to buy with my own money for the next five years or so. First one I bought was The Jets, I think, and my first CD wasn't much better--the soundtrack to "The bodyguard." OK, so maybe that's my biggest embarrassment...that I'll admit to... - --K - --------------------------------------------------- Kay S. Cleaves Brown University Stage Manager, Sweeney Todd 401-863-6650 Pager: 1-800-759-8888 x182-1000 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 00:05:16 -0500 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: ecto-digest V4 #43 lanblind@teleport.com wrote: > him and asked "what are the name of all those other bands that are too > numerous to add to the world's burdons?" Well, two bands that *did* add to the world's Burdons are The Animals and War. *ducking* - -- - ---------1---------1---------1---------1---------1---------1---------- |||/ Joseph Zitt ===== jzitt@humansystems.com ===== Human Systems \||| ||/ Maryland? = <*> SILENCE: The John Cage Mailing List <*> = ecto \|| |/ http://www.realtime.net/~jzitt ====== Comma: Voices of New Music \| ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 00:11:03 -0500 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: embarrassing cd's Riphug@aol.com wrote: > My husband always makes fun of the fact that I used to absolutely > *love* Donovan....Does anyone else think he looked a little like that jumpy > little weight-loss guy, Richard Simmons? I actually built a piece once around samples from "Barabajagal". (I'm also convinced that Richard Simmons is Leo Sayers's evil twin... or vice versa...) - -- - ---------1---------1---------1---------1---------1---------1---------- |||/ Joseph Zitt ===== jzitt@humansystems.com ===== Human Systems \||| ||/ Maryland? = <*> SILENCE: The John Cage Mailing List <*> = ecto \|| |/ http://www.realtime.net/~jzitt ====== Comma: Voices of New Music \| ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 00:08:46 -0500 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: embarrassing cd's meredith wrote: > Please keep in mind that I was, like, 11. If it redeems me at all, the > very first album I ever bought with my own money was Blondie's _Parallel > Lines_. Talk about embarrassing: the first album I bought was Art Garfunkel's "Angel Clare". (Oh, great: now I have his "Do Spacement Pass Dead Souls on their Way to the Moon" looping in my head.) - -- - ---------1---------1---------1---------1---------1---------1---------- |||/ Joseph Zitt ===== jzitt@humansystems.com ===== Human Systems \||| ||/ Maryland? = <*> SILENCE: The John Cage Mailing List <*> = ecto \|| |/ http://www.realtime.net/~jzitt ====== Comma: Voices of New Music \| ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 00:50:58 -0600 From: kerrywhite@webtv.net (kerry white) Subject: Re: embarrassing cd's Monkees the first with the classic "I'm Going To Buy Me A Dog" and Donovan Live and 'clap to stop the rain' and the rain stopped? Never heard of them. 8-) First lp was 1 of the following: Love- Little Red Book(?), Music Machine-Talk Talk (still have and "Hey Joe" still holds together) or Third Rail- Id Music ("Run Run Run") I remember when wall-o-sound Spector was the best thing on the radio. I was in 7th grade when The Beatles came out. EEEEKK!!!!!!!! I'm **old**!!!!!! To the group: I 'grew up with' the Beatles, Happy grew up with Yes...who'd >you< grow up with, ie: when did you first notice music, first really hear it, and who was in vogue then? If you were raised in a house with little radio but a lot of music, like a friend who listened to The Crusaders and other jazz at 12, tell us that! KrW TV or not TV? That is the question. To suffer the lies of outrageous pitchmen, or to slit your throat with an electro-coated stainless steel blade? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 21:18:46 -0800 From: Brian Bloom Subject: Re: embarrassing cd's Well, I think the most awkward/embarrassing moment that I ever had in a store was the scrutinizing I got many years ago buying Stryper's 'To Hell with the Devil' and Simon and Garfunkel's 'Greatest Hits' at the same time... ;) Um, other gems in my collection: Jackson 5 Christmas Album (on cd *and* vinyl, and yes I listen it every year) Olivia Newton John - 'Totally Hot' (gets pulled out once a year or so) ABBA - the boxed set (embarrassed? heck, I'm pretty *proud* of this one) ;) and I used to have several Neil Diamond cd's (who I still actually like, but they are on permanent loan to my parents now) Since I just got laid off, I've been working at home, thus my "work stack" is actually my entire collection, so I'll do everyone a favor and not list them (upwards of 800 now) And I won't even *begin* to talk about some of the embarrassing vinyl I've got...( well, just to drop a few names: Devo, Milli Vanilli, Pac-man Fever, Village People, Tony Orlando and Dawn, Hooked On Classics.. Okay, that's quite enough!) Hmmm... I suddenly feel much older than 28 right about now.. ;) brian the mooman ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 23:09:44 EST From: JavaHo@aol.com Subject: Fwd: Katell Keineg (was Re: ecto-digest V4 #43) This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - --part0_887170184_boundary Content-ID: <0_887170184@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII In a message dated 98-02-10 21:48:00 EST, beckwith@ime.net writes: << Dennis Wilson, 1946-1998 >> I think you mean Carl Wilson? Dennis drowned several years ago. Just FYI... - --part0_887170184_boundary Content-ID: <0_887170184@inet_out.mail.aol.com.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Return-Path: Received: from relay30.mail.aol.com (relay30.mail.aol.com [172.31.109.30]) by air04.mail.aol.com (v38.1) with SMTP; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 21:47:59 -0500 Received: from siren.shore.net (siren.shore.net [207.244.124.5]) by relay30.mail.aol.com (8.8.5/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with SMTP id TAA21648; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:40:18 -0500 (EST) Received: from smoe.org (jane.smoe.org) [204.167.97.154] (majordom) by siren.shore.net with smtp (Exim) id 0y2QDL-0005oV-00; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:39:47 -0500 Received: from localhost by jane.smoe.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4-listq-jane) id TAA17341; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:35:21 -0500 Received: by jane.smoe.org (bulk_mailer v1.5); Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:35:03 -0500 Received: by jane.smoe.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4-listq-jane) id TAA17280; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:29:48 -0500 Received: from ime.net (ime.net [209.90.192.3]) by jane.smoe.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4-daemon-mode-relay2) with ESMTP id TAA17275 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:29:39 -0500 Received: from 56k-port3016.ime.net (56k-port3029.ime.net [209.90.194.39]) by ime.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA10906 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:27:25 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199802110027.TAA10906@ime.net> From: "Chris Beckwith" To: ecto@smoe.org Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 19:23:33 -0500 Subject: Katell Keineg (was Re: ecto-digest V4 #43) Reply-to: beckwith@ime.net In-reply-to: <199802102333.PAA22625@mail1.teleport.com> Sender: owner-ecto@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Cy wrote: > does anyone know where she comes from, I get such a Euro hit from > her music, yet there's that name and the slight NY accent???Any > idea anyone? Katell grew up in Wales and Brittany and now lives in Dublin, Ireland. She *does* spend lots of time in New York, though. For more info, check out Sam Lambert's great KK website ( which includes a wacky self-penned bio) at http://users.interport.net/~slambert/katell Take care, Chris Dennis Wilson, 1946-1998 Falco, 1957-1998 Dusty Springfield, 1939-??? - --part0_887170184_boundary-- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 00:16:50 -0500 From: Steve I Subject: embarrassing CDs/Women & Songs/Emm Gryner This embarrassing CDs thread is kind of fun! Kerry typed... >Also: buying a cd for old lost memories and finding the memory flawed: I >*thought* I loved Simon The Bullet Freak by Uriah Heep, from some 20 >(20!!!!OW!!) years ago. Finally paided $6 for a copy to find I loved >the last :08 of the fadeout. My memory had expanded it to be the theme. >Other old "classics" that no longer move me have been bought, too. I can relate. About a year ago I eagerly snapped up a copy of a John Farnham CD when I found it used, a little embarrassed but excited by the nostalgia value of this little pearl of a CD find. I rushed home to play it but excitement turned quickly into dismay as I found myself truly appalled at the puerile crap emanating from the CD player. That episode remains the closest I've ever come to vomiting in response to a CD. I never realized just how dramatically my musical tastes had changed over the years. Aside from that I don't have *too* many CDs I'm embarrassed to own, (OK, so maybe I'm a bit embarrassed that I have 4 Bryan Adams CDs), although some people might raise an eyebrow at my ABBA, Bangles, Air Supply, Barenaked Ladies, and Moxy Fruvous CDs (in Toronto, it's somewhat uncool to like the last two groups). However I'm unapologetic, I like 'em, and I'm not afraid to say so! :-) Oh, it *is* a bit embarrassing owning the Melrose Place soundtrack despite the great music on it, just because of the association to the asinine show. I do own a lot of embarrassing tapes though. Tiffany, Janet Jackson, MC Hammer, Samantha Fox, Wilson Phillips, "Country Gold", and a couple of gospel tapes spring imwmediately to mind. <> I *know* I've repressed a lot more than that too. Curiously though I'm not ashamed of the first album I ever bought, which was a cassette of Queen's _The Game_. Anyone else remember their virgin album purchases (vinyl, tape, 8-track, or CD)? Anyone still *listen* to it? Although my original copy of the cassette has long since bit the dust, I do still listen to a song or two from _The Game_ from time to time, and in fact I still consider it a classic. (I still love "Save Me" and even "Another One Bites the Dust" and "Dragon Attack") - ------------------------------------------------ Bill typed: >> >>Tomorrow Beth is off to Canada to host and narrate a TV show called >> "Women and Songs". > >Any idea where/when this show will air? >I receive Canadian TV and would like to look out for this show. I imagine the airing of this show will be preceded by a crushing barrage of advertising, if the ad campaign for the CD is any indication. - ------------------------------------------------ Many apologies if I've already posted this info here, but I recently found out that Caroline Lavelle is among the musicians to play on Emm Gryner's upcoming CD, along with a couple of guitarists whose credits include playing with Paul McCartney, Dire Straits, Art Bergmann, and the Matthew Good Band (how's that for a variegated list?). Sounds fun! Steve ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Steve I. | Check out cool Toronto artists Sarah Slean & Emm Gryner Toronto, Can | at NORTHERN SOUNDS: http://webhome.idirect.com/~nsounds/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 03:41:53 -0500 From: roo@brown.edu (Kay Cleaves) Subject: Re: embarrassing cd's kerry white said: > To the group: I 'grew up with' the Beatles, Happy grew up with >Yes...who'd >you< grow up with, ie: when did you first notice music, >first really hear it, and who was in vogue then? If you were raised in >a house with little radio but a lot of music, like a friend who listened >to The Crusaders and other jazz at 12, tell us that! > Music didn't really enter the picture until early high school for me, but I guess I'd say grew up with/alongside of the Indigo Girls. I remember their first video, and their CD's have kind of followed the various stages of my life. (So I'm young, OK?) I mean, I guess if you're looking for a "classic" group along the lines of Yes or the Beatles, I'd have to say it was Genesis that influenced my ability to _appreciate_ music, but the IG really trace my life. - --K - --------------------------------------------------- Kay S. Cleaves Brown University Stage Manager, Sweeney Todd 401-863-6650 Pager: 1-800-759-8888 x182-1000 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 01:20:10 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Subject: Re: embarrassing cd's > To the group: I 'grew up with' the Beatles, Happy grew up with > Yes...who'd >you< grow up with, ie: when did you first notice music, > first really hear it, and who was in vogue then? Absolutely, positively Rick Wakeman's Six Wives of Henry VIII. That's when I first noticed music... and polyphony... and keyboards (acoustic, electric, and electronic)... and clever arrangements... and... Rick lead to Yes. The "old" Yes, anyway. - - Bill. n.p. Tanita Tikaram's track on Mark Isham's (self-titled) album. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 01:26:44 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Subject: Re: embarrassing cd's I think that the most embarrassing CD that I own may very well be one which I *just* pruchased... Belinda Carlisle's Greatest Hits. Somehow I remember really enjoying her music coming through rental car radios as I drove all over the country going to my on-site jobs, and so tonight I brought her home (along with a few others)... But boy, oh boy, oh boy, I played most of her CD tonight, followed by a few tracks of Kate Bush's work and Jonatha Brooke's, and, well, there's no comparison. Oh well, I'll give it its fair obligatory retention period... maybe it will do for background music as I write my life away. - - Bill. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 13:20:50 +0100 From: David Dixon Subject: Re: I >>had<< to relay this! At 09:42 PM 2/10/98 -0600, kerry white wrote: > > Is it true that cannibals won't eat clowns because they taste funny? > And if vegetarians only eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat? ====================================================================== David Dixon (D^2) dixon@qt.tn.tudelft.nl Department of Applied Physics, Delft University of Technology This week's bon mot: "Was Karl Marx buried in a communist plot?" ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 07:40:11 -0500 From: "Jeffrey C. Burka" Subject: Re: First Album (was: embarrassing cd's) Bill sez: meth sez: > > the very first album I ever bought with my own money was Blondie's > > _Parallel Lines_. > > The first album (LP) that I ever bought with my own money was Cat Steven's > Buddha And The Chocolate Box (released in 1974). I was just mesmerized by > the sounds of Oh Very Young. > > The first CD... I forget... I think it was Dire Straits' Brothers In > Arms... which was a real digital recording masterpiece at the time. I know I had some singles and maybe an lp or two as a kid, but I'm not sure I didn't actually _buy_ my own personal first lp vinyl *after* I bought my first CD. That first CD was Billy Joel's _Glass Houses_, which I bought at the Harmony Hut at Montgomery Mall, Bethesda, MD, mid-October of '83. I was the first person in my family to own a CD, my dad having just bought a Mitsubishi CD player a day or two earlier. I was 14. Still love most of the album, especially "All for Leyna," though it's been a while since I pulled it out. I slowly accumulated CDs after that, having just 12 of 'em almost exactly 3 years later when I started working at the Sam Goody which had taken over the previously mentioned Harmony Hut. Some of those first 11 included _Genesis_ and _Invisible Touch_, _Face Value_, and _No Jacket Required_ (can't recall if I already had _Hello, I Must Be Going_ on disc yet), and a-ha's _Hunting High and Low_. I still listen to all of these albums fairly frequently... Yes, I still absolutely love the first a-ha album (another one I actually remember purchasing... wednesday before thanksgiving, 1985, just before leaving on a family trip to Chicago). In '85, I remember buying a few bits of vinyl, most notably Howard Jones' _Dream into Action_. It was working at Sam Goody that I was *really* exposed to a lot of great music, and my CD collection shot up to 50 in the time I worked there. That was when I started really listening to old Genesis, Big Country (my first KaTe purchase, unbeknownst to me at the time, was their _The Seer_, which I bought in November of '86, having listened to the in-store copy of the LP a million times at work). My boss at the time, a born-again who had been into prog-rock in his pre-Christ days, was a big musical influence...I remember him showing me a copy of _The Dreaming_ and telling me I'd love it. I didn't hear _The Dreaming for another 2 years. It was at the shop that I got into Suzanne Vega. I'd heard the first album in-store and didn't care for it, and then I saw her SNL performance in the spring of '87. Blew me away. I went into work the next morning and *insisted* that we open _Solitude Standing_ for store play. I can't tell you how many copies of her stuff we sold as a result of in-store play, but it was substantial. And of course, my love for _Solitude Standing_ led me back to the eponymous album (which I like more). A note about the store when i was working there: it was my job to stock *all* of the CDs when our stock truck arrived on Thursdays. 3 or 4 people would be sent out to do tapes and vinyl, but the CD collection was still small enough that I handled the whole thing myself. Yikes. jeff (who's about to leave for 6 days in florida and wonders if he's going to be drowned in e-mail when he returns...) - -- |Jeffrey C. Burka | moving to jburka@cqi.com -- come say hi | |http://www.cqi.com/~jburka | at the new digs...now up and running! | ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 08:10:16 EST From: Riphug@aol.com Subject: Re: embarrassing cd's In a message dated 2/11/98 3:25:57 AM Eastern Standard Time, jzitt@humansystems.com writes: << I actually built a piece once around samples from "Barabajagal". (I'm also convinced that Richard Simmons is Leo Sayers's evil twin... or vice versa...) >> Hee-hee! I agree with you about the Simmons/Sayers connection, Joe. ;-) Has anyone ever done a cover of "Barabajagal"? I can see that as a definite possibility......the beat is kind of like Tori Amos's "God", don't you think? Jill :D http://www.binky.demon.co.uk/riphug.htm correct me if I'm wrong, please ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 07:53:41 EST From: Riphug@aol.com Subject: Re: Emm Gryner/Canadian songstresses In a message dated 2/11/98 3:26:34 AM Eastern Standard Time, steve.ito@utoronto.ca writes: << Many apologies if I've already posted this info here, but I recently found out that Caroline Lavelle is among the musicians to play on Emm Gryner's upcoming CD, along with a couple of guitarists whose credits include playing with Paul McCartney, Dire Straits, Art Bergmann, and the Matthew Good Band (how's that for a variegated list?). Sounds fun! >> Ohmigod! I *love* Caroline Lavelle! But I want her to *sing*! Her version of "A Case of You" is soooooo filled with emotion. And I love "Turning Ground" and "Moorlough Shore" as well. Steve, do you have any idea about when she might release another solo album? I love Emm Gryner, too......and finally got a copy of Sarah Slean's "Universe." She's always compared to Tori Amos, but I prefer Sarah's music -- she doesn't seem quite as repetitive and she seems to have slightly more depth to her voice. I've been collecting several Canadian *femvox* artists lately -- Barbara Lynch, Lenni Jabour (another *Tori sound-alike*), Mia Sheard, Lin Elder, Wendy Lands, Jann Arden (of course), and Andrea Florian. Any other suggestions are most definitely welcome! Jill :D http://www.binky.demon.co.uk/riphug.htm Currently Pushing: Deanna Kirk's "Where Are You Now?" (BUY IT!) Over the Rhine - any of their albums ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 08:06:30 EST From: Riphug@aol.com Subject: Re: embarrassing cd's In a message dated 2/11/98 3:26:11 AM Eastern Standard Time, kerrywhite@webtv.net writes: << To the group: I 'grew up with' the Beatles, Happy grew up with Yes...who'd >you< grow up with, ie: when did you first notice music, first really hear it, and who was in vogue then? If you were raised in a house with little radio but a lot of music, like a friend who listened to The Crusaders and other jazz at 12, tell us that! >> Hmmm....well, I suppose some of my first exposures to music that I can recall include (1) listening to WJR (Detroit) every morning at breakfast time, (2) my mother playing the organ we had at home, (3) being in church choir, and (4) taking piano lessons at an early age. Pre-Beatles, I recall listening to Gene Pitney, Bobby Vinton (~she wore bluuuuuuee velvet....whoa-oh, bluer than velvet was the night (?)~), Nancy Sinatra (~these boots were made for walkin' and that's just what they'll do. One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you!~); Wayne Newton,.....geeze, that's all I can remember! And some of those might not really be *Pre-Beatles* era. I don't think I listened to a whole lot of Elvis........I really liked that song "The Leader of the Pack" about a guy who dies in a motorcycle accident. And stuff like "It's My Party and I'll Cry if I Want To." When the Beatles first arrived in the States, I watched them on Ed Sullivan and drooled over Paul McCartney (still do!). My friends and I used to imitate The Beatles at school on the playground and liked shaking our hair on the *wooooo*'s of the song "She Loves You." Ok, I'm rambling.... Jill :D http://www.binky.demon.co.uk/riphug.htm thanks for the memories! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 08:14:00 EST From: Riphug@aol.com Subject: Re: Oh well. In a message dated 2/11/98 3:25:48 AM Eastern Standard Time, bill@wagill.com writes: << You people are a *bad* influence! C'est la vie. :)) Thanks for all the reviews and recommendations. >> Ditto! As a result of paying attention to ectophiles, I've purchased CD's by Ingrid Karklins, Eliza Gilkyson, Emer Kenny, Sarah Slean, Susan Aglukark, and several others. I haven't been disappointed yet! Jill :D http://www.binky.demon.co.uk/riphug.htm ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 08:36:43 -0500 From: "Chris Beckwith" Subject: Re: Fwd: Katell Keineg (was Re: ecto-digest V4 #43) boundary="pa JavaHo@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 98-02-10 21:48:00 EST, beckwith@ime.net writes: > > << Dennis Wilson, 1946-1998 >> > > I think you mean Carl Wilson? Dennis drowned several years ago. > Just FYI... D'oh! Shows you what several nights of three hours of sleep will do to your brain. ;) Take care, Chris, better rested now ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 08:40:14 -0500 (EST) From: athol-brose Subject: Re: embarrassing CDs/Women & Songs/Emm Gryner On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Steve I wrote: > Curiously though I'm not ashamed of the first album I ever bought, which > was a cassette of Queen's _The Game_. Anyone else remember their virgin > album purchases (vinyl, tape, 8-track, or CD)? Anyone still *listen* to > it? Although my original copy of the cassette has long since bit the dust, > I do still listen to a song or two from _The Game_ from time to time, and > in fact I still consider it a classic. (I still love "Save Me" and even > "Another One Bites the Dust" and "Dragon Attack") The first album I ever bought with my own earned money (as opposed to having them bought for me or buying them with allowance) was Tracy Chapman's debut, on cassette. I still have it, though all the letters have rubbed off the case and you can't tell one side from another, and it still plays well and I play it as often as I think of it. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 08:56:41 EST From: Riphug@aol.com Subject: Re: First Album (was: embarrassing cd's) In a message dated 2/11/98 8:16:26 AM Eastern Standard Time, jburka@cqi.com writes: << I know I had some singles and maybe an lp or two as a kid, but I'm not sure I didn't actually _buy_ my own personal first lp vinyl *after* I bought my first CD. >> Didn't anyone play 45's? You know, the little vinyl things that you had to use a special plastic insert in the center hole to make them fit on your turntable? And you had that tacky little black and white swirly-covered record storage box with a handle? And prior to that, you listened to your parents' *really* old thick discs like "Slow Boat to China" and "Mood Indigo". And even though they were the big 12" kind, you had to play them on 78 rpm? And they were kept in a big cumbersome photo-album- type thing with brown paper sleeves to protect them? I *still* can't believe that my mother threw away her collection of those old LPs. Jill :D http://www.binky.demon.co.uk/riphug.htm those were the days, my friend..... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:17:28 -0500 (EST) From: Jet Girl Subject: stuff..cd's concerts etc. Most embarrassing cd: Michael Jackson Thriller (yes i was a child of the 80's) Currently at work: Orb Dee-Lite Cocteau Twins Jane Siberry 5th Element Sndtrk Crystal Method Tina Turner October Project Funeral Music - (classic) Sisters of Mercy Orbital Tura Satana Anyone going to see Lisa on Thursday at Phantasmagoria? Jon and I went to see Lisa at Iota a week or so back, she keeps getting better and better. She also has a new bassist, plays a five-string fretless, really nice addition to the band. We're also hitting Paula Cole this weekend, and I'm reluctantly going to see Michelle Shocked on the 1st of March, is she good in concert? One surprise concert I went to in Jan was Joan Jett. It was a great show. In fact it was so good we are driving up to Hershey Pa next weekend to see her perform again. Let's just say she isn't anything like what you migh expect. back into lurkdom, kIrI jetgrrl@magenta.com Teacher: Let's all work together to make Daria's dream a reality. Daria: You mean the one where people walking down the street burst into flames? -la la la la la ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 01:12:01 +1100 From: Andrew Fries Subject: Re: First Album (was: embarrassing cd's) I don't remember my first record; it was a while ago. But over the years I managed to build up quite a large vinyl collection that would contain a few items I'd now consider slightly "embarassing"... among them, most of Yes and Emerson Lake and Palmer records... I got really bored with my collection though and sometime in 89' I trashed the whole lot, before heading overseas for a while. When I returned I started building a CD collection from a scratch, making an effort not to go back. I can now say I don't really own anything truly embarassing, thanks to that heroic cleaning act of 1989'... :) I remember very well the first CD I bought: it was a just-released effort from a new artist by the name of Tori Amos - "Little Earthquakes". This was followed by Throwing Muses "Red Heaven"... both of which I still love. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- No more imagination, there's role to be played go to work and be milked like cattle everyday Human stables hold the herd office stalls filled with stock the system keeps you docile by promising the weekend off... "Masses like asses", Def FX Visit my site devoted to little-known Australian bands... http://www.zip.com.au/~afries/hall.html - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- s ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:47:31 -0500 From: Valerie Nozick Subject: Re: embarrassing cd's kerry white wrote: > To the group: I 'grew up with' the Beatles, Happy grew up with > Yes...who'd >you< grow up with, ie: when did you first notice music, > first really hear it, and who was in vogue then? If you were raised in > a house with little radio but a lot of music, like a friend who listened > to The Crusaders and other jazz at 12, tell us that! I *love* these threads! My first album was "Da Doo Run Run" by Shawn Cassidy, but the group I grew up with is Duran Duran. I adored Simon LeBon, had posters of him plastering my walls. An underlying thread was Spandau Ballet -- I remember taking off of school to be first in line at a record signing of theirs. I still pull out my Duran Duran albums once a year or so, and faithfully buy the more recent albums, even though I don't like their new sound. As for Spandau Ballet, well there's a CD sitting on my desk, and I struggle with whether to spend the $40 to get a copy of Tony Hadley's solo album imported from Europe. I find I'm extremely devoted to artists from my early teenage years -- DD, Spandau Ballet, a-ha, Tears for Fears, Howard Jones, Nik Kershaw, Kate Bush, etc. It's a devotion totally different from my interest in Happy, Tori and more recent artists. My first CD? Something by Level 42 or Spandau Ballet -- Whatever it was, I remember not being able to find it in LP format, so I bought it and waited six months until I got a CD player to listen to it. Does anyone else remember that feeling of excitement in getting their first CD player? ==> Valerie ps. For some reason, Spitting Image just came to mind. Anyone know what happened to this show? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 98 07:49:48 PST From: "Jeffrey Hanson" Subject: Re: First Album (was: embarrassing cd's) My first album purchase was Michael Murphy (later Michael Martin Murphy) Blue Sky Night Thunder (remember the song "Wild Fire"?) I actually bought this on CD not to long ago, and still love it (and still can sing along with almost all of it--that's what is really scary!) After that I became a huge Paul McCartney and Wings Fan--buying pretty much all of his albums--starting with Wings at the Speed of Sound. The first two 45s I bought were Supertramp's Logical Song and Blondie's Heart of Glass. I then proceeded dto become a huge Blondie fan. After Blondie, obsessions included Eurythmics, Missing Persons, Yaz/Alison Moyet, etc. Definitely more ecto-influenced. Many people might have been embarassed to be such a huge Missing Persons fan, but they would probably have never seen them live. They were one of the best live acts I've seen. As for embarassing purchases--I'm sure I have a few--including the complete ABC catalog and Dead or Alive catalog. And I do have the Carpenters box set. I suppose the worst CD I own, but which I refuse to part with, is Dale's Riot in English. She was the lead singer for MIssing Persons, but on her own, she's really bad. Jeff ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 08:10:32 -0700 From: alex.teitz@state.co.us Subject: Embassments abound It was a string too horrible not to add to. First albums listened to: Tom Leher - That Was The Year That Was Arlo Guthrie - Alice's Restaurant First album bought: REO Speedwagon - forget the title - early 80's First cassettes listened to: Don Henley - Boys of Summer Madonna - Like a Virgin First bought - Tiffany First CD listened to: Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms First Bought: The Beatles - White Album Brings back memories, bad memories. Things you never wanted to know in the morning. . . .But I'm much better now. Alex ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:19:24 -0600 (CST) From: "Joseph S. Zitt" Subject: Re: embarrassing cd's Hmmm... I was almost a total classical snob until I hit college, so the music that I most remember growing up with was Berlioz's "Symphony Fantastique", a lot of Bartok, and Leonard Bernstein's "Mass" (which blew my mind as a fledgling composer). Popular music that I noticed when I was a kid? Hmm... The Monkees, Gary Puckett and the Union Gap, the Hair cast album, Four Jacks and a Jill, the Limeliters... My first 45 was "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" by the Fifth Dimension. My first cassette was a compilation from Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. My first CD was Eno's "Thursday Afternoon" -- that it wasn't going to be released on vinyl is whatdrove me to get a CD player. - - ---------1---------1---------1---------1---------1---------1---------- |||/ Joseph Zitt ===== jzitt@humansystems.com ===== Human Systems \||| ||/ Maryland? = <*> SILENCE: The John Cage Mailing List <*> = ecto \|| |/ http://www.realtime.net/~jzitt ====== Comma: Voices of New Music \| ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 09:22:58 -0600 (CST) From: "Joseph S. Zitt" Subject: Re: First Album (was: embarrassing cd's) On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Jeffrey Hanson wrote: > My first album purchase was Michael Murphy (later Michael Martin Murphy) > Blue Sky Night Thunder (remember the song "Wild Fire"?) I actually > bought this on CD not to long ago, and still love it (and still can sing > along with almost all of it--that's what is really scary!) I hadn't realised that they were the same person! I still have my 45 of "Wildfire". > After Blondie, obsessions included Eurythmics, Missing Persons, > Yaz/Alison Moyet, etc. Definitely more ecto-influenced. Many people > might have been embarassed to be such a huge Missing Persons fan, > but they would probably have never seen them live. They were one > of the best live acts I've seen. I wish I'd seen them live. THey were some incredible musicians, who always seemed to be trying to get out from under their singer. - - ---------1---------1---------1---------1---------1---------1---------- |||/ Joseph Zitt ===== jzitt@humansystems.com ===== Human Systems \||| ||/ Maryland? = <*> SILENCE: The John Cage Mailing List <*> = ecto \|| |/ http://www.realtime.net/~jzitt ====== Comma: Voices of New Music \| ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:15:59 -0500 From: Chris Sampson Subject: Re: embarrassing cd's I grew up with The Partridge Family, Disco, and Kiss (probably in that order). I've since overcome these influences. My first subversive purchase being 'Steal Your Face' by the Grateful Dead... Emerson Lake and Palmer (and Yes) were tremendous influences in Jr. High and High School (even then I was told that I listen to 'weird' music... Funny, even at a college/alternative station I'm still told that I listen to 'weird' music). Keith Emerson could do no wrong. The first really obscure (remember I'm in the USA, here) purchase would have been 'Spartacus' and (simultaneously) 'Illusions On A Double Dimple' by Triumvirat. Mike Oldfield LPs were next... Uhhh.... eventually, I arrived at some of the jazz to which I listen now ('noisy', 'squeaky'... what a friend has called 'toddler music') and some other stuff... actually, lots of other stuff. I don't remember when I began believing that Tom Waits is a genius. To the extent that I grew up with my parents' music... OY!... Big Band, 'Easy Listening', and Country... I remember buying the sheet music to "'Round Midnight", and after playing it a few times, having my father ask me, 'That's kind of cultish, isn't it?'... I mean we get along great, but we are from completely different musical/artistic worlds. My cousins (and a friend mutual to my cousins and me) have been my greatest initial influences WRT things musical. Philip Glass' 'Einstein On The Beach' is certainly some kind of a turning point for me. Leonard Cohen taught me that older pop artists can be hip. Emily Bezar has shown me that there can be a meaningful and new melding of classicism and singer-songwriter sensibilities and that self-producing / distributing is possible if not lucrative (at least not immediately). However strange my musical tastes may have been termed, I still know people with stranger, more obscure tastes than mine and this has, perhaps, been the greatest lesson of all... That there is SO MUCH out there that to willfully narrow one's scope is very short-sighted... I've become musically promiscuous, I think... Not trampy, but 'I'm jest a guy who cayn't say no...' Rant off. Chris ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:48:35 EST From: Riphug@aol.com Subject: Re: embarrassing cd's In a message dated 2/11/98 10:15:54 AM Eastern Standard Time, valerie@smoe.org writes: << My first album was "Da Doo Run Run" by Shawn Cassidy >> Oh, Valerie......not *that* is truly embarrassing! Jill :D ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:50:40 -0500 (EST) From: Gentle Moose Subject: Re: Embarrassing CDs > On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, jeffrey c. burka wrote: > > > On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Valerie Nozick wrote: > > > > > Embarrassing CDs? Just *try* embarrassing me. :) > > > > > > Ecto music is just a small portion of the stuff I listen to -- on any given day, > > > I can be listening to Janet or Alan Jackson. A quick look at the CDs piled on my > > > desk at work right now yields a weird mix. In a stack on my desk, with and without cases: godhead - nothingness Peter Gabriel - Passion Aria - A Tess Records Anthology An April March - Adiago Johanna's House of Glamour - Style Monsters Siddal - The Crossing Bob Mould - Poison Years No Loreena today :( ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 10:30:44 -0500 (EST) From: Stuart Myerburg Subject: Re: embarrassing cd's On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Valerie Nozick wrote: > I *love* these threads! Me too! My first album was also my most embarrassing. I believe it was something by Captain & Tenille (sp?). But I was like 10 or 11! There is no accounting for taste at that age. > I find I'm extremely devoted to artists from my early teenage years -- > DD, Spandau Ballet, a-ha, Tears for Fears, Howard Jones, Nik Kershaw, > Kate Bush, etc. It's a devotion totally different from my interest in > Happy, Tori and more recent artists. I'm this way too. I still have a soft spot for all the bands I loved in the 80s. Which brings me to my first CD, Howard Jones' _One to One_. I was so excited about having a CD player that I then ran out and bought Peter Gabriel's _So_. The purchasing hasn't stopped since then. Oh, and just to redeem my Captain & Tenille purchase, here's what's at work right now: Homogenic - Bjork Hips & Makers - Kristin Hersh Total Madness: The Very Best of Madness Whatever and Ever Amen - Ben Folds Five Victorialand - Cocteau Twins OK Computer - Radiohead Stuart __________________________________________________________________________ Stuart Myerburg stuart@sph.emory.edu Information Services stuart@emory.edu Rollins School of Public Health http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~stuart __________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V4 #46 *************************