From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V5 #108 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, March 24 1999 Volume 05 : Number 108 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: rachael sage and beth orton [Jeffrey Burka ] Cryptonomicon (was Re: rachael sage and beth orton) [Michael Curry ] Oh, and Blur, too... [John Drummond ] Re: this week's new releases [Neile Graham ] Re: Sleater-Kinney [jason and jill ] Re: Tori Videos [neal copperman ] Re: Oh, and Blur, too... ["Tim Finney" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 23:44:01 -0500 From: Jeffrey Burka Subject: Re: rachael sage and beth orton meth sez: > Well, since you asked (woj sent this to me last week, he got it from > another list he's on): > > >>Coming out in May: CRYPTONOMICON by Neal Stephenson Yikes. How *totally* over the top. But if anyone can manage it, it's Stephenson. He's one of the few writers who frightens me. Well, okay, _Zodiac_ was nothing overly special, but the man is just to bloody good. Sort of a straight, cyberpunk version of Geoff Ryman. Anyway, the website looks goofy. jeff np: _The Speckless Sky_, Jane (yup, found 'em. there'll be some gooood listenin' at work tomorrow!) - -- |Jeffrey C. Burka|||http://www.cqi.com/~jburka ||||"I've got time to rest / | ||||||||||||| And I've got a clear, able mind that sees my life going fine. | | 'Cause everything I need is right here in my hands..." --Melissa Ferrick | ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 23:51:40 -0500 From: Michael Curry Subject: Cryptonomicon (was Re: rachael sage and beth orton) At 11:44 PM 3/23/99 -0500, Jeffrey Burka wrote: >> >>Coming out in May: CRYPTONOMICON by Neal Stephenson > >Yikes. How *totally* over the top. But if anyone can manage it, >it's Stephenson. He's one of the few writers who frightens me. Well, >okay, _Zodiac_ was nothing overly special, but the man is just to >bloody good. > >Sort of a straight, cyberpunk version of Geoff Ryman. > >Anyway, the website looks goofy. If you want to save yourself the hassle of actually doing the little decoder puzzle, go to www.cryptonomicon/main.html rather than just www.cryptonomicon.com Yes, I did the puzzle. :P Mike ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 23:55:57 -0500 From: Michael Curry Subject: Re: Cryptonomicon (was Re: rachael sage and beth orton) At 11:51 PM 3/23/99 -0500, Michael Curry wrote: > If you want to save yourself the hassle of actually doing the >little decoder puzzle, go to www.cryptonomicon/main.html rather >than just www.cryptonomicon.com > > Yes, I did the puzzle. :P *sigh* Make that www.cryptonomicon.com/main.html Mike ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 21:32:05 -0800 (PST) From: John Drummond Subject: Sleater-Kinney Y'all, Okay, I keep noticing bits and pieces about Sleater-Kinney on here, what with Carrie having hurt her back and all that, but we haven't really gotten around to talking about the new album yet... and dammit, if that album hasn't been taking up all my time lately! I *love* it, it's everything amazing that I love about Sleater-Kinney really coming together and working equally... and those voice lessons are saving Corin all over the place... did any of y'all get the pre-release single for "Get Up"? It has two b-sides on it, "By The Time You're Twenty-five" and "Tapping", and the latter is my absolute favorite Sleater-Kinney song anywhere, ever. It even beats the pants off "Turn It On" and "I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone", which in my approximation were going to own my heart until the day I died... but no, if you haven't gotten the single yet and you're totally obsessed with S-K like I am, run out and find it, since "Tapping" has the most AMAZING like four seconds in it... in the first verse, Corin sings, "sit down, you make me nervous", and follows it with what may be an "oh, yeah" or may just be some vowel sound she thought fit, but the absolute furious purity of it just knocks me on my ass... I put that song at the beginning of the dub of _The Hot Rock_ I made for my car, and I usually almost run off the road rewinding that part of the song over and over and over... wow... she just has such a powerful, hurtling voice. Mmm... and they've learned the beauty of getting different non-punk pedals for their guitars too... *tasty* Anyhow, to make a long story short (too late), I am so entirely in love with the new Sleater-Kinney album, and I'm hoping most of y'all are too. :D John, feeling giggly for once == lyrics flow like spirits from the waters Moses parted _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 21:33:45 -0800 (PST) From: John Drummond Subject: Oh, and Blur, too... One more thing... I've been reading that the new Blur album that came out today is supposed to be in a rather Radiohead vein... is that the case? If so, whoa... because I love me some Radiohead, and I'd like to hear Damon Albarn attempting the same kind of power-shriek of Thom Yorke over razor guitars... anybody? Anbody? John, still giggling after only about two seconds == lyrics flow like spirits from the waters Moses parted _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 21:45:54 -0800 From: Neile Graham Subject: Re: this week's new releases >> - PENELOPE HOUSTON - Tongue (ICE #143) (Reprise) So that's why Jim was just playing this album. Damn, it's good. More straightahead rock than her earlier solo albums, and much more cohesive than the compilation _Cut You_. Wonderful! >> - DAVID USHER - Little Songs (Nettwerk) And I will continue to go on and on about how much I love this album. I also love the new Sleator-Kinney. - --Neile, terse with whatever disease she's got - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Neile Graham ...... http://www.sff.net/people/neile ....... neile@sff.net Les Semaines: A Weekly Journal . http://www.sff.net/people/neile/semaines The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music ....... http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 00:47:50 -0500 (EST) From: jason and jill Subject: Re: Sleater-Kinney On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, John Drummond wrote: > Anyhow, to make a long story short (too late), I am so entirely in > love with the new Sleater-Kinney album, and I'm hoping most of y'all > are too. :D Can someone please explain to me the Sleater-Kinney fascination? It's not that I don't like them--I have their CDs and enjoy them. I just don't see how, aside from sexual orientation, they're much different than any other pop-punk band. Although I like their CDs, they mainly strike me as Velocity Girl coverning old Throwing Muses songs. Heck, I think that if VG had covered the Clash's Loose This Skin on Simpatico! they'd have the ultimate S-K song. Again, they're not a band I dislike at all, I like them, bought the new CD the day it was released...it just seems like they rate about 10% of the hype they get. Jason ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 23:03:23 -0700 From: neal copperman Subject: Re: Tori Videos At 3:38 PM -0500 3/19/99, Michael Colford wrote: >On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Patrick Moseley wrote: > > >> >And I'd much rather watch all of those than the early KaTe videos... >> >> Heh. No contest there. > >Oh puh-lease! You boys are way off here. Jeff, I'm shocked! >I'd much rather watch those old Kate videos than just about >anything on video today! They're classic! And absolutely >hysterical! :-) Have you tried Jane Siberry's video collection? Even more hilarious :) neal now shuffling over: This Woman's Work 2 - Kate Bush Kaksi! - Hedningarna Sangre del Rio - Stefan Dill ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 17:51:22 +1100 From: "Tim Finney" Subject: Re: Oh, and Blur, too... - ---------- >From: John Drummond >To: ecto@smoe.org >Subject: Oh, and Blur, too... >Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 4:33 PM > >I've been reading that the new Blur album that came out today is >supposed to be in a rather Radiohead vein... is that the case? If so, >whoa... because I love me some Radiohead, and I'd like to hear Damon >Albarn attempting the same kind of power-shriek of Thom Yorke over >razor guitars... anybody? Anbody? Haven't heard it, but apparantly it goes absolutely everywhere, which means that one or two tracks are in the radiohead/mansun vein ("caramel" is one I can remember), but there's also apparantly a silly techno-punk song, lots of loud distorted songs, a few mellow country-type numbers, a massive attack tribute etc. etc. The first single ("tender") is an eight minute country-gospel number. So, if you like all of those, you'll probably like the album. Tim ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V5 #108 **************************