From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V6 #363 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, December 3 2000 Volume 06 : Number 363 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Elysian Fields/Marvin Pontiac [Neile Graham ] Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] Chords ["Julio Ortega" ] Neile's October music [Neile Graham ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 13:31:56 -0800 From: Neile Graham Subject: Re: Elysian Fields/Marvin Pontiac At 9:58 PM +1100 12/1/00, Andrew Fries wrote: >On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Neile Graham wrote: > >>Nobody told me the new Elysian Fields, _Queen of the Meadow_ was out. >Sure we did! Anna-Maria for one, and there have been several other >mentions of new Elysian Fields in the last couple of months. How else >would I find out about it if not thanks to Ecto... People said it was _coming_ out but not that it was actually out! At least not within my sight, whch is, admittedly, imperfect. >>np Elysian Fields, _Queen of the Meadow_ a male-vocals track that I'm >>really liking. >.. on the other hand, I'm sure none of these posts mentioned anything >about male vocals! Or else I just blotted that information out, because I >refused to believe they could give vocal duties to anyone else when >Jennifer Charles was around! It's like... it's like... no, words simply >fail me. I just can't think of anything equally preposterous! > >Please tell me this is only this one track... in fact, please reassure me >Jennifer Charles is still with them! No, everyone's right: except this track it's definitely Jennifer Charles at her most lovely Jennifer Charlesishness. But I was surprised I liked the male vocal track as much as I do. - --Neile n.p. NPR's comments on the Supreme Court's taped transcript n.p.i.m.h. Marvin Pontiac singing "She didn't bring me pancakes--pancakes" Thanks, Valerie, for sending on the info about the disc. It's going to be way high on my end-of-the-year list. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 03:00:05 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ******************* Juha Sorva (jsorva@niksula.hut.fi) ******************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Juha Sorva Thu December 02 1976 Sagittarius Chip Lueck Thu December 05 1968 Sagittarius Michele Wellck December 08 Sagittarius Jeremy J. Corry Fri December 11 1970 Sagittarius Renee Canada Tue December 13 1977 Sagittarius Julie C. Kammerzell Sun December 15 1968 Sagittarius/Scorpio combo Gloria Jackson-Nefertiti Sat December 15 1956 queen_nefertiti@prodigy.net Damon Harper Tue December 16 1975 COOL BANANAS Laura Clifford Tue December 17 1957 Sagittarius Dirk Kastens Tue December 17 1963 Sagittarius Milla Wed December 17 1975 Sagittarius Chris Schernwetter Tue December 17 1974 Sagittarius Sherry Haddock Sat December 17 1960 Sagittarius Tracy Benbrook Tue December 18 1973 Sagittarius Mark Lowry Mon December 22 1969 Capricarius Kay Cleaves Wed December 22 1976 Prancing Pony Uli Grepel Wed December 25 1968 Steinbock Joseph Wasicek Sat December 25 1976 Brown Eagle Stuart Castergine Mon December 30 1963 You Are Here Marvin Camras Sat January 01 1916 Tapehead - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 15:14:07 -0300 From: "Julio Ortega" Subject: Chords Hi! I am fairly new at piano playing, and i could like to know how can i find the chords to HR songs. I would love to have the chords to songs like collective heart and IN hiding, for example thanks! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 16:38:32 -0800 From: Neile Graham Subject: Neile's October music Mandalay, instinct I loved Mandalay's _empathy_, which seemed to me a lovely gentle pop twist on ethereal music and trip hop. But this has gone just a little too gentle and a little too pop for me. It's amazing how when you go in that direction there isn't much to distinguish this from the pop-ized rhythm and blues that dominates MTV and all. No Guy Stigsworth on this album--maybe that's what made the difference with the first. Only a couple of songs seem to me to get beyond the surface prettiness and approach the depths of the first album: "simple things" and "what if i". http://www.mandalay.co.uk Mia Sheard, reptilian The overall sounds is like a slightly muddied Katharina Franck singing more mournful songs that the usual Rainbirds fare. I have Mia Sheard's first album, with love and squalor, too, and I think this one is a little stronger overall. The songs are dramatic and strong and with a lot of range but take a while to come into focus--they're just not exactly hook-laden (though "Cover Girl" and "Call Me," a song that appears on both of her albums, certainly are). Despite the fact that it takes a while for the songs to come into focus, this isn't by any means difficult listening hour and they certainly have grown on me. Her vocals are good, and her voice unusual. There's another similarity that I can't quite pick out, besides the Katharina Franck resemblances. Perhaps some Jane-like resemblances in her songwriting. "Call Me" should be a big hit. http://www.miasheard.com The Violet Hour, Galdr [mp3.com DAM] This is acoustic, The lead singer's voice has some real Natalie Merchant moments, but the band's sound is quite different: Heavy bass, shimmery/drivey guitar rock. A little electronic but not electronica. This would be a really good buy for anyone jonesing for some Natalie Merchant but would like to hear her try different material. Check out the samples at mp3.com! I got this because I downloaded the samples and they really grew on me. Waiting For Her, neon... Plus [mp3.com DAM] This is another indierock band with a sort of pouty-voiced (well not always) singer in front of some lively instrumentation and some creative, catchy songwriting that does more than just the usual verse chorus verse. I found it catchy. This is another band I listened to on mp3.com and got stuck on the samples enough that when they released their collection on mp3 DAM, I bought it. Check them out, too. Anne O'Meara Heaton, Spoke From The Heart [mp3.com DAM] After I heard the track "Spoke From the Heart" at mp3.com/anneomearaheaton I had to get this mp3 DAM cd. Well, that's clearly the best song on this but there are still some other wonderful moments. I can't tell you how many times I hit repeat to hear "Spoke From the Heart" again, though. The songs on this collection hit a certain Tori-like sound (I later got her live disc which is more varied and individual). She's a pretty good pianist, and this is clear here. She's a pretty good songwriter, too, and this shows, too, though there are a couple of real clunkers of lines in here for me; "Who You Are" is particularly sophomoric and annoying lyrically to my tastes. The biggest detraction from the strengths of this disc for me is that she sings everything in the same way: a really breathy, pushing kind of singing that is like a certain mood of Tori's but she doesn't vary it as much as Tori does. Still, these are quibbles--this is a strong first collection, and the live disc that follows shows that she's growing as a songwriter and performer. It's easy to quibble about a disc when there's already a better one available by the artists. A lot of ectophiles are really going to like this one. Martha and the Muffins, Danseparc/Mystery Walk This is a reissue of the third and fourth Martha and the Muffins album and if you are at all tolerant of dance-flavoured music (I would say that both of these are far more than _just_ dance music, especially at the time they came out) I highly recommend these. Extremely lively and creative and great vocals. These are actually my two favourite Martha and the Muffins albums, even over _This is the Ice Age_ with their biggest hit "Echo Beach (Far Away in Time). How can you not want songs titled "Several Styles of Blonde Girls Dancing" and "Boys in the Bushes"? Really, both of these albums are great and now they're on one disc. Just after we'd gone through the hassle of recording these from our turntable onto CDR, too. kaitlyn ni donovan, cannibal spirit (cassette only) Kaitlyn Ni Donovan calls this her Goth album, and it does have a quiet, shadowy Goth spirit (songs are called "solitude", "until hereafter", "uncle fester", "the place", "free", and "overgrown graveyard") and some occasional deliberately eerie moments, but still bears a strong resemblance to her later work. The songwriting doesn't yet show the assurance, poise, and individuality ofthe _dinner with bosch_ cassette ep and _songs for 'three days'_, but the way she puts levels of sound together is already impressive. A must-have for Ni Donovan fans. There's a possibility that this and dinner with bosch will be later re-released. Marianne Faithfull, Dangerous Acquaintances This never came out on cd in the U.S. but is available in the U.K. This is album after the incredible _Broken English_ and is a wonderful 80s pop classic. This is certainly one of the most radio-friendly of Marianne Faithfull's albums and is full of delightful, catchy songs that I'm sure would have wide appeal if this album were better-known. Classic Marianne Faithfull of this era, and highly recommended if you can find it. I think it's every bit as good as (and perhaps better overall than) _A Child's Adventure_. Also got some other reissues; Jethro Tull's _Aqualung_, and Cat Stevens' _Mona Bone Jakon_ and _Teaser and the Firecat_. Nostalgia is a wonderful thing. - --Neile - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 #363 **************************