From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V4 #374 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, October 20 1998 Volume 04 : Number 374 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: I NEED ADVICE.................... [HORTER!!!! ] Re: Weekend music - Sarah M. with... Phish (honest!) ["Jeffrey C. Burka" ] Re: One more word about Ana Christensen [rjk1@cs.wustl.edu (Bob Kollmeyer] Re: One more word about Ana Christensen ["Xenu's Sister" ] Sad songs, Happy songs ["Xenu's Sister" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 21:49:19 -0400 From: HORTER!!!! Subject: Re: I NEED ADVICE.................... At 05:41 PM 10/19/98 EDT, FAMarcus@aol.com wrote: >I don't know if I am asking the wrong people or not but I want to try an album >by Massive Attack. I heard a cut or two on the radio and on a soudtrack >somewhere. Anyone know which cd i should try first?? Personally, I adore their second album (Protection?). When it hits the player it can spin for days. I also am quite fond of the remix album done by The Mad Professor. Very deep dub. I haven't heard Blue Lines at all, nor the most recent album. So I would definitely recommend the second one. :-) Horter np: Bob Dylan-Time Out Of Mind--wow! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 23:05:55 -0400 From: "Jeffrey C. Burka" Subject: Re: Weekend music - Sarah M. with... Phish (honest!) Michele Wellck sez: > Yes, I was one of the lucky thousands lucky indeed, from the sound of it! sounds like a fabulous day... >I was really glad I finally > had the chance to hear her acoustic, with no accompaniment apart from her > own piano or guitar playing. I'd seen her at the last two Lilith Fair > shows, but her voice just doesn't shine through with a whole band backing > her up. Actually, her voice is brilliantly amazingly incredible with a whole band backing -- as long as she's in a theater like she's supposed to be, not some ridiculous arena or huge outdoor amphitheater. Trust me, hearing her sing the hard-rocking version of "Hold On" with the whole band wailing away behind her is an experience not to be missed. Of course, it'll have to be, as those days are long gone. [ash singing on "Ice Cream"] > I don't remember him singing during Lilith Fair, but maybe > the band drowned *him* out too... must have; I've never seen her perform it without Ash singing alongside her. > Neil Young joined them onstage for "Country Feedback", which Michael > claimed was his favorite R.E.M. song (but I've read that he changes his > mind every so often about that, I think). Pretty cool. neat factoid, even if only temporarily true, as "Country Feedback" is probably my favorite REM song too. [note to self: take _Out of Time_ to the office tomorrow] jeff np: HR5 - -- |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: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 23:25:37 -0500 From: rjk1@cs.wustl.edu (Bob Kollmeyer) Subject: Re: One more word about Ana Christensen Andrew Fries writes: > > I think that song deserves better than total obscurity and Vickie, I'm really > curious if this is the same person we're talking about... so I made an mp3 file > of "memories replacing friends", just for ecto consumption - have a listen if > you like, > - I'll leave it there for a week or > so. Well, I'm not Vickie (nor do I play her on TV), but from what I can hear of that file, it's indeed the same person. WinAMP 1.73 which heretofore has not choked on a single file I've thrown at it, inserts all kinds of noise during playback to the point that I can't listen for long, though. (and yes, the download workaround does have to do with MIME types - the web server at zip.com.au has to know to send it properly so that browsers on the receiving end can do whatever they've been told to do with that MIME type). As long as we're exchanging tracklists... Brave New World (1990): 1. And So the Story Goes 2. Brave New World 3. Shotgun 4. Isolate Your Heart 5. Turn Things Around 6. Ready or Not 7. Girl Woman Child 8. Border Town 9. Like a Rolling Stone 10. Rosie 11. Windswept and Swirling 12. And So the Story Goes (Reprise) so, no, it looks like an entire batch of new songs on her later release. "Windswept and Swirling" is one of my favorites as well - on many of the acoustic guitar based tracks her lower register often brings to mind a less-scratchy Laurie Freelove, though the songs themselves run the gamut from folky to poppy to country-tinged to vonda shepardish. ;) Picked it up a few months ago along with a "1990 RooArt Big Music From Down Under" (featuring Martha's Vineyard) making for quite an AUSpicious trip through the used bins. bob np - Bed of Roses - "The Kissing Tree" - kind of hot and cold after a couple of listens. Fans of Preston Klik's various projects and the less thumping tracks on Aural Gratification I and II should certainly find plenty to like. Hearing that Yvonne was back involved I was hoping for a few more vocals, though. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 23:38:27 -0500 From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: Re: One more word about Ana Christensen At 11:58 AM 10/20/98 +1000, Andrew Fries wrote: >I think that song deserves better than total obscurity and Vickie, I'm really >curious if this is the same person we're talking about... so I made an mp3 file >of "memories replacing friends", just for ecto consumption - have a listen if >you like, - I'll leave it there for >a week or so. Hi Andrew, I downloaded the song (didn't have any trouble) and yes, it definitely is the same person. None of the songs on your album ("Not all monkeys are right-handed" cute!) are the same as on the 1990 CD "Brave New World" which I just submitted to the CDDB. They are: And So The Story Goes Brave New World Shotgun Isolate Your Heart Turn Things Around Ready Or Not Girl Woman Child Border Town Like A Rolling Stone (cover of the Dylan song) Rosie Windswept And Swirling And So The Story Goes (Reprise) If I had room, I'd upload an mp3 from this album (boy, I have tons of weird/obscure/unknown things I'd love to mp3 for others to hear) but be assured, it is the same person. Based on this one album, I'd never put her in my top level or apostle pantheon, but her voice is good enough, and the songs are good enough to have made me keep her in mind and want to hear what directions she might take in the future. Now it seems as if she's pretty much given it up and entered the Whatever Happened To...? club. Such as shame. Vickie ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 00:26:18 -0500 From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: Sad songs, Happy songs Ooh, so many people have already listed songs I had in mind, from Jane's "The Taxi Ride" to Kate's "Moments of Pleasure" to October Project's "Bury My Lovely" to Happy's "The First To Cry" but I don't think I've seen on anyone list one that's especially close to my heart. Jane Siberry's "The Vigil" (a woman waiting for her mother to die reflects on her life) Very close to me because my own mother died in 1982 in a motorcycle accident. She was in Intensive Care for 8 weeks and I lived at the hospital for the entire time, only leaving to go to work. My dad and brother would bring me clothes, and the nurses would let me shower in an unused ward. I'd sit for hours beside her bed, reading to her, talking to her, holding her hand, watching TV with her. She couldn't talk because she had a respirator in and couldn't write with her dominant right hand because her arm was shattered, so she'd scrawl notes with her left hand. It was the worst worst worst time in my life and I've always wished I could have done more for her, but no one thought she was going to die. Until the night she took a turn for the worse and died, we all expected her to get better. If I'd known, if I'd had any sense at all, I'd have talked to her about her past, about her life, her dreams, her disappointments, gotten to know her better. As it was, we all tried to keep the conversation light and happy during those weeks. Kate's The Dreaming came out a couple of months after mom passed and "All The Love" hit me like a slow-moving locomotive. To this day I can't listen to it without crying, or tearing up. If "The Vigil" had been released within a few years of mom's death, I wouldn't be able to listen to it at all. Also very sad, Mary Coughlan's "Lady In Green" (about a man who finds a suicide floating in the water) Sad (as opposed to creepy crawly) Happy songs: Possessed (even though it's not really a HTR song) The First To Cry The Revelation Under And Over The Brink Let Me Know, Love Where Do I Go? No One Here I Have A Heart Project 499 If So Lay Me Down Out Like A Lamb Happy Happy Songs: Come Here If Love Is A Game, I Win Ecto I Won't Break Down Ode Collective Heart Funny Happy songs: I Am A Legend (for good reason, actually) Poetic Justice (my ears have parasites...ha!) Runners (serious subject, but still funny) Building The Colossus (gonna need stronger underwear!) Vickie ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V4 #374 **************************