From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V6 #289 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Thursday, September 28 2000 Volume 06 : Number 289 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: How are your CDs organized [Carolyn Andre ] Re: the day the solid format died [Bill Mazur ] Re: songs and associations (warning - long!) [Bill Mazur ] Re: Rita Ribeiro [Bill ] Re: songs and associations [Neile Graham ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 23:42:14 -0500 From: Carolyn Andre Subject: Re: How are your CDs organized hey - I'm *so* glad to feel that my 'interior decorating' and housekeeping, er, um, whatever, techniques are perfectly normal!! My CDs are also strewn about several rooms of the house, on both shelved and flat filing surfaces. The bulk of them are in a slightly restructured closet. My house is a 1930s bungalow, and this particular variation of the design has a closet from the front bedroom which has a small stained glass window on the rear wall, over the front porch. Since I had converted that room to be my 'book/tv/music' room, it seemed extra foolish to close a closet door on a lovely window so I removed the door, and put in shelves along both side walls of the closet. The latch side (deeper recess) has some of those wall standard type bookshelves. On the hinge side (shallower recess), I've been mounting 5" x 4 foot boards on the wall with "L" brackets. If I recall, each board holds 150-200 CDs. The top shelf is classical & jazz, the bottom board is compilations & things like 'best movie songs of ...'. The 5 shelves in between contain everything else, alphabetized by band/musician. And then there are the 2 cardboard file boxes containing various CDs I started to alphabetize but which have not yet made it onto new boards. And several small stacks on top of one record cabinet - recent listening on the 'real' CD player. Then there are a few misplaced CDs on the dining room table -- ones that wandered off to the day job listening for awhile. Then we get into the bedroom that is now a computer & miscellaneous files room. 6 stacks of at least 25 CDs each on a wall shelf, an additional 7 stacks encroaching on the computer desk, poised to spill over the printer paper tray ... a few interspersed with Zip disks on top of the computer, and finally another 36" or so of recordings from the websites I do. Oh! and not to forget the paper shopping bag which contains the CDs that need one final review before I drag them off to the used store -- or post a few on an ecto sale page. Math says there are, um, more than reasonable to listen to. Actually, my brain shies away like mercury whenever I attempt to calculate the number. It might be too scary if I then multiplied that number by $15! (When the house was broken into back in 94, the frustrated thieves eventually made off with some CDs they grabbed out of the middle of 3-4 of the closet boards. I told the cops "about 150 cds". The police report said '50". Obviously even though they saw the quantity remaining, "150" as a small part of a larger collection did not compute as rational -- I MUST have meant 50, which would be a lot of CDs for their kids to own ...) Now if only we could figure out a way to lend these collections around to each other through e-mail or something Regards, Carolyn Andre - ------------------------- candre@house-of-music.com Support Independent Music! Use the Internet ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 21:55:00 -0700 From: Bill Mazur Subject: Re: the day the solid format died smolla wrote: > I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Supertramps "Breakfast > In America" yet. Great album artwork, but most important, an > album that's a pure pleasure to listen to - start to finish! > > Steve > http://www.siscom.net/~smolla/jewelry2.htm Steve, Phil, and the rest of my fellow Ectophiles, I agree wholeheartedly Steve! "Crime of the Century" is still my favorite Supertramp album (#84 of my Top 100 favorite CDs). Some of my favorite album covers (not in any particular order) are: 1) The Beatles _ Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band_ 2) King Crimson _Lizard_ 3) King Crimson _In the Wake of Poseidon_ 4) The Moody Blues _Every Good Boy Deserves Favor_ 5) Genesis _Foxtrot_ 6) Genesis _Selling England by the Pound_ 7) Electric Light Orchestra _El Dorado_ 8) It's a Beautiful Day _It's a Beautiful Day_ 9) Peter Gabriel _PG3 (aka "Melt")_ Bill M. http://members.nbci.com/wpm03/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 22:05:52 -0700 From: Bill Mazur Subject: Re: songs and associations (warning - long!) Amanda Williams wrote: > Hi guys :) > I know that this thread happened a while back but I have been unbelievably > busy with a new full-time job, new part-time course AND a social life so I > haven't been able to do much but lurk. > > The posts about what people rememeber when they hear certain songs again > really struck a core deep inside of me. I am very right-brain dominant and > so i make connections with songs and places all the time and I thought I > would share a couple with you because they are actually qute interesting. > > The first song is "wonderful life" by Black. It came out in about 1997 or > so..and I taped it..picture me driving around the (former) Yugoslavian > countrysides, going up, down and through mountains (it is 85% > mountainous), looking out the window at this amazing country.12 years on I > still get drawn back to that drive. Freaky. > > The next is the album "Dummy" by Portishead. I got into Portishead in a > big way during my very messy breakup of my 11 year relationship. I moved > out of my partner's house into this shared house in the inner city. When > the proverbial sh*t had been hitting the fan, I had been unable to sleep > for about 8 weeks. Now that I was by myself, I was beginning to sleep > again, but was still having great trouble. What I would do is put on Dummy > and it suited my despair..I would leave it on softly while getting to > sleep and the honeyed tones of Beth Gibbons would wash over me and send me > into a doze, which was the best I could hope for at the tiem. > > I got better, and met a guy that I fell for in a big way. We would chill > at this really cool bar that I found called "spleen" and would sit > upstairs on this battered and uncomfortable couch and get to know each > other and build our relationship..and this bar, every night that we went, > played "Dummy" and also played "Protection" by Massive Attack. > > So my associations with Dummy have changed from an album which I identify > with while I was at a dead end in my life, to a bittersweet mixture of > warmth and pain..but mainly the warmth. > > Last year my husband (cos I married him :) and I went to this restaurant > in the burbs and what should be played but "Dummy"! We collapsed laughing > and the waiting staff prolly thought we were headcases. > > Then there is "Marta's Song" by Deep Forest. I first heard this song on > the radio in the early 90's when my family and I were going on a holiday > to Adelaide and I at first associated it with driving through the verdant > wine region known as the Clare Valley, along with Enigma's Cross of > Changes, which came out about the same time. When my partner and I split > up, of course we had to divvy up the cd collection, and so I had to trawl > the secondhand stores cos I could not afford to get them new, what with > establishing a new home etc. Anyway, I found a copy of Boheme, and I > didn't know the album that well and llistened to it in the tstore, and > when I heard track 3 myu eyes filled with tears..that song was just so > beautiful and mournful and soulful..I bought it and took it home and > began to alternate it with "Dummy" to get me to sleep...When I listen > to it now, it does me back to that time, but there is also the bittersweet > joyh that comes with finding your soulmate and starting your life > _completely_ afresh. > > I could go on, but I think that I have said enough for now. > > I shall retreat back into the shadows. I hope that I have not bored the > pants off you all :) > > *wave* > > amanda Amanda, Thanks for sharing your feelings and experiences. I always find this thread to be really quite fascinating. Music plays such an integral part to experiencing of life to some people (such as myself). Certain music stamps an indelible mark on one's fond remembrance of the key moments of their life. Other people just walk through life without really paying much attention to the music around them at all. Very interesting... Bill M. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 22:06:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Subject: Re: Rita Ribeiro On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Bill Mazur wrote: > One of my favorite jazz/pop/Brazilian singers is Astrud Gilberto. Which, > if any, of the singers that you have been discussing is similiar in > style to Astrud? I love her smooth, silky, and sensuous singing voice. Interesting thing is, any time that I mention Astrud Gilberto to a carioca (Brazilian person), they say "Astrud who???". Apparently Astrud, although famous in the US for her smooth, silky, sensous, and most often than not *English* singing, is little-known in her motherland of Brasil (no, that wasn't a typo). Am I right? - - Bill G. np: Chuch Prophet - Feast of Hearts (thanks, Anna Maria!) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 22:48:45 -0700 From: Neile Graham Subject: Re: songs and associations For me (and I think woj, too, if I remember correctly) the summer of 1990 was Mazzy Star's _She Hangs Brightly_. It was my first summer back in Seattle, and I loved the place we were living--it was small but sunny and airy, and we were just a couple of blocks from the zoo. And wonder of wonders, I had a project grant--my first--to work on my second book of poetry for two months, so I didn't have to work. Whenever I hear that album I can feel that time again, rich and bluesy and bright, and a whole new world. - --Neile n.p. Purr Machine, _Ging Ging_ (Betsy Martin of Caterwaul's noisy electronic new band. I love love love her voice!) - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V6 #289 **************************