From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V5 #6 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, January 4 1999 Volume 05 : Number 006 Today's Subjects: ----------------- !998, Best Of [Richard ] Re: Suspended In Gaffa again - on Shoutcast [Richard ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 23:10:24 -0500 From: Richard Subject: !998, Best Of My personal favorite CDS, in approximate descending order: 1- Lucinda Williams - CAR WHEELS ON A GRAVEL ROAD This is *not* approximate... Far and away THE towering masterpiece of the year 2- Cry Cry Cry - CRY CRY CRY I'm already a new Greg Brown fan 3- Happy Rhodes - MWABT Took a while to sink in but now it's embedded 4- Badi Assad - CHAMELEON Phenomenal singer/composer/guitarist- Brazilian Ectojazz? 5- Kristin Hirsh - STRANGE ANGELS No idea why I love it, but I can't shake it or stop playing it 6- Gillian Welch - HELL AMONG THE YEARLINGS Gloriously spare1930s Appalachian folk music from suburban L.A. 7- Victoria Williams - MUSINGS OF A CREEK DIPPER A miniature objet d'art- See #5 above 8- Patty Griffin - FLAMING RED Patty launches herself into orbit 9- Imogen Heap - I MEGAPHONE The antithesis of homogenized corporate pop 10- Susan McKeown - BUSHES AND BRIARS Haunting Celtic music from one who knows Honorable mention: Susan Werner - TIME BETWEEN TRAINS Merely a hint of just what a dynamic performer she is Veda Hill - SPINE Tori Amos - FROM THE CHOIRGIRL HOTEL Lisa Germano - SLIDE More mainstream than before, but still wonderfully bizarre Mary Lou Lord - GOT NO SHADOW Deanna Kirk - WHERE ARE YOU NOW Jennifer Kimball - VEERING FROM THE WAVE Disappointments, and all for the same reason: Boring lowest-common-denominator production. Cowboy Junkies - FAR FROM OUR HOME I swear, some of the songs remind me of Fleetwood Mac Heather Nova - SIREN Heather, Heather, you used to be SO cool Sinead Lohan - NO MERMAID Emm Gryner - PUBLIC Most peculiar CD: Hank Plank & The 2x4s - RIDIN' SHOTGUN ON THE BANDWAGON Live performances to give your left thingie for: Dar Williams, Richard Thompson, Bruce Cockburn - "An Evening of Real World Songs", Merrill Auditorium, Portland ME, 6/98 Cry Cry Cry - Sanders Theater, Cambridge MA -- WOW!! plus special guest Catie Curtis!!! (actually 1/2/99, but I'm so far behind in everything, you know?) Susan Werner - Stone Coast Brewery, Portland ME, 12/98-- Small crowd, HUGE performance! Fat Mamma - Boulder Theater, Boulder CO, 8/98-- Infectious Tribal Space Jazz Joan Baez w/Richard Shindell - Merrill Auditorium, Portland ME, 2/98 Dar Williams - Universal Coffehouse, Salem MA, 2/98 Imogen Heap - Asylum, Portland ME, 12/98-- I was one of TWO paying customers- She deserves way more Jonatha Brooke - Asylum, Portland ME, 3/98-- So she was bitchy, she's still a first-rate artist Live performance to forget: Ashley MacIsaac - Fox Theater, Boulder CO, 8/98-- What an obnoxious prick!! Live performace I missed and am kicking myself for it: Gillian Welch, Stone Coast Brewery, Portland ME, 9/98 1998 Dining experience-of-the-year: White Barn Inn, Kennebunkport ME-- 6/98 Favorite TV experience: Turning off the TODAY SHOW after my wife leaves for work Hypocrite of the year: Rep. Henry Hyde-- "Youthful indiscretion" my ass: He was in his forties and it went on for five years Asshole of the year: TIE- Bill Clinton & Bill Gates Funnest movie: THE SPANISH PRISONER Worst movie: WHAT DREAMS MAY COME-- We actually walked out on this abomination, a first for us Biggest general disappointment: The N.E. Patriots, as usual Best road trip: The Blue Ridge Parkway + Cape Hatteras NC, 4/98 Best/Worst Ecto post: hmmmmmmm, not gonna go there :) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 00:15:40 -0500 From: Richard Subject: Re: Suspended In Gaffa again - on Shoutcast Very sorry I missed this, but the MacAmp site kept refusing access to me... Should I change deodorants? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1999 22:33:06 -0800 (PST) From: Bill Subject: Re: Suspended In Gaffa again - on Shoutcast Well, I just checked up on e-mail, got the news, and jumped in! This is extremely cool (I have never done a netcast, not even RealAudio; just one of those things). I am now listening to Happy, and eagerly awaiting Vicki's first interlude... Using WinAmp v 2.04 (x86)... Hey, there's Vicki!!! :) - - B. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V5 #6 ************************