From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V7 #285 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Saturday, October 6 2001 Volume 07 : Number 285 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] best of 2001? (and then a bit of new stuff) [adamk@zoom.co.uk] guilty pleasures [anna maria "stjärnell" ] RE: stupid people like me/blonde offers apology for belief in petitions,bad taste in friends,being trusting,and generally too busy to check everything out in advance,not being computer-sauvy for and being a liberal hippie chick [] Re: Best albums of 2001? [James mitchell ] Tom McRae -- US tour [adamk@zoom.co.uk] lightbulbs, 2001 list ["Donald G. Keller" ] Shannon Wright at Black Cat in DC this Sunday (10/7/2001) [Craig Gidney <] RE: All pleasure, no guilt :) [Phil Hudson ] RE: Best albums of 2001? ["Matthew B. Downer" ] RE: best of 2001? [Phil Hudson ] RE: best of 2001?/Vienna Teng ["Bill Adler" ] Guilty pleasures [Sue Trowbridge ] Guilty Pleasures: Led Zeppelin [Valerie Richardson ] Onion review of Suzanne Vega's newest [nadyne@mindspring.com] RE: late night tv [Phil Hudson ] RE: Onion review of Suzanne Vega's newest ["Emily Perkins" ] Kristin concert (was: Onion review of Suzanne Vega's newest) [] the big f [strange little woj ] Jill Cohn ["Bill Adler" ] Re: lightbulbs, 2001 list [strange little woj ] Re: Guilty pleasures, kristin hersh etc. [meredith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 03:00:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ********************* William Gill (bill@wagill.com) ********************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- William Gill Wed October 05 1960 A wide-eyed wanderer Dan Riley Sun October 08 1961 Libra Neile Graham Wed October 08 1958 pen Quenby M. Chunco Tue October 08 1968 Crunchy Frog Mike Garland Wed October 08 1952 Creature_of_the_Night Irvin Lin Tue October 09 1973 Libra Michael C. Berch Wed October 10 1956 No parking Chris Gagnon Sat October 10 1970 Libra Wolfgang Drotschmann Thu October 13 1966 Waage Gracescape Fri October 13 1967 unbalanced Brian Bloom Tue October 14 1969 spam Erik N. Johnson Tue October 16 1962 Handle with Care Kim Klouda Tue October 17 1967 Libra Anthony Amato Sat October 20 1973 Libra Suzanne DeCory Tue October 22 1968 Balancing Libra Dave Steiner Sat October 24 1959 Scorpio Tara MacLean Thu October 25 1973 Scorpio Jessica Koeppel Wed October 29 1969 Scorpio Kathy Clark Sat November 01 1969 Bunnies Katie Dougiamas Sat November 02 1974 Scorpio Anthony Horan Fri November 04 1966 Positive Michael Sullivan Mon November 05 1962 Scorpio Anna Pryde Wed November 05 1975 Scorpio Sun; Sagittarius Moon; Pisces Rising - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 08:42:42 +0100 (BST) From: adamk@zoom.co.uk Subject: best of 2001? (and then a bit of new stuff) I'm still mulling this over, as the year isn't out yet, and there's still stuff I need to hear. However, waaaaayy out in front, for my money, is Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds "No More Shall We Part" and Matthew Jay's "Draw", easily two of the best (Matthew Jay is currently on tour in the UK with Kathryn Williams, by the way). There's a bit of a drop off after that, and I'm still catching up on some of the discs I got for me b-day a couple of weeks ago, and this includes "Vespertine". Myself, I'm not stone cold sold on this -- it seems lovely for the first half, and then kind of meanders prettily but aimlessly for the second. I'm still listening, though. Far more immediate gratification was found with the BRILLIANT new Witness album, "Under a Sun", which rolls along on a tide of breathtaking harmonies and guitars redolent of the West Coast and the Byrds, with a hint of REM. You'd never guess that they're from Wigan. Which is just as well, because over on turntable no. 2 is REM's "Reveal", a dismal and dreary experience, with the band sounding bored, disaffected and distracted. A rather muffled production doesn't help, and even a promising song like "I'll Take the Rain", which strains for "classic" status a la "Everybody Hurts", comes of sounding as if Stipe was wandering out the door as he sings it. Further down the b-day playlist is Radiohead's "Amnesiac". For those of you who missed "Kid A" -- here it is again! "Kid B", if you will, which finds our heroes exploring the further reaches of their own sphincters. Far better, to echo others who have mentioned this already, to listen to Sparklehorse's "It's a Wonderful Life", with its fractured melancholy and heart-breaking beauty. It doesn't have the edge or sonic weirdness of "Good Morning Spider", but it's edging up into my "best of 2001" list fast. Guess I'll have to get Melissa Ferrick's live album, though, eh? Her "Everything I Need" is one of my albums of this year (excluded from the official list for not actually coming out this year, of course), but I then followed it up with "Willing to Wait", which dampened my enthusiasm a bit. Bad thing to say, I know, but IMHO, while it's a step upward and onward from "Massive Blur", it trails behind "EIN", which serves me right for listening out of sequence. I seem to have digressed. I'll stop now. Thanks for listening. adam k. Get your own zoom email - click here - http://www.zoom.co.uk/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 00:47:47 -0700 (PDT) From: anna maria "stjärnell" Subject: guilty pleasures Hi.. Mine are.. Kylie's eponymous album from 1997 and her new single. Duran Duran's Bond theme. Serge and Jane's Je t'aime. Melanie C's Northern star album. T'Pau's China in your hand. Robbie Williams No regrets. Howard Jones old hits. Nik Kershaw's The riddle. Kim Wilde's hits. Anna Maria np-Bjork-Vespertine(not so guilty pleasure this one) NEW from Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 22:07:39 -0700 From: "Harmony Ridge Music" Subject: RE: stupid people like me/blonde offers apology for belief in petitions,bad taste in friends,being trusting,and generally too busy to check everything out in advance,not being computer-sauvy for and being a liberal hippie chick To Cyoakha and the list: You don't ever have to apologize to anyone for following your heart. Some of our list members are very net savvy and sometimes forget that there are people with less internet experience and internet sophistication who are not up on every devious deed common to the internet. I understand their knee jerk reaction, but caution them to understand everybody on this list is not at their level. It hurts me a lot that you are hurt by this reaction, and I understand your pain. I truly believe in my heart that nobody on this list directed their comments at you, but blindly reacted to past experience and flailed out in general frustration, not at anyone in particular, but just venting. Also, sending any information out on the atrocities of the taliban whether a net scam or not can only do good. Consider how many people read this with little prior knowledge of the taliban. It's an atrocity that must be communicated throughout humanity, so that it can be eradicated forever. The net is a great place for doing this, regardless if an e-mail goes to a dead end, some people are educated along the way. I also understand and admit I have not researched the taliban as I should, and on such hand-me-down second hand information, perhaps I have lazily believed without doing a intense investigation. I get a sense, that perhaps the tragedy of 9-11 was a path to bring attention to the behavior of the taliban and also make the world aware of the plight of the Afghan people. I normally abhor violent acts, but I don't think the world would be negatively impacted by the elimination of the taliban. Any way Cy, follow your heart ( I don't have to tell you that), make the music, that is the healing power. jack sutton harmony ridge music www.hrmusic.com - -----Original Message----- From: owner-ecto@smoe.org [mailto:owner-ecto@smoe.org]On Behalf Of CyO Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 7:52 PM To: ecto@smoe.org Subject: Re:stupid people like me/blonde offers apology for belief in petitions,bad taste in friends,being trusting,and generally too busy to check everything out in advance,not being computer-sauvy for and being a liberal hippie chick To All Steve, not only have I been had, I guess I been bad. Not only did I have my web person send the petition out to my email list, but she also encluded ecto-digest, which I did not know (until seeing this post, ugh!!). After answering my own angry people all day, taking really mad ones off my list, thanking those that did sign, apologising, directing folks to the UrbanMyth site, apologising again, let me add one more general apology to this list. And especially; Adam, I am not into senseless games, I ASSUMED it was real and going somewhere....(you know what they say about the word assume, it certainly made an ass of me) and to JoAnne, who knows me, who knows I am silly but not stupid, crazy but not cruel, I thank you for providing real urls where people can go and find out info. Neile, who knows I do work on political issues in many ways and forgives my ignorance quite sweetly. and to Vickie, who doesn't know me at all, first of all, yes, some of us are "that stupid" to believe something that comes in from a friend, some of us even signed it a year ago and re-signed it, (jeez, I must be really really stupid), some of us did think that someone somewhere would get those names of white bleeding heart liberals(I prefer the label hippie to yuppie as I am too poor to be a yuppie) to someone who might give a shit, yes, I was that dumb. Although, I was not sending it to "strangers", but rather a list I have been on for 3/4 years with lots of friends on it. Plus, in the text of my rude, stupid, senseless game, I did offer a free song for those who cared. Once again, my apologies to the entire list and I promise I will make sure this list is no longer on my "gig" or "fan" list. thanks, peace, cyoakha Here is what I wrote my fan list, it goes double for my co-horts on this list. dear folks, since I already blew it I guess by being a dumb bleeding heart liberal without checking urbanmyths first, let me apoligize and I will make it brief since spam is a bad tasting and looking meat product. Someone I knew very well sent the Afghani women's petition to me. I too had sent and signed one a while ago and so instead of letting my fans know I was playing this week end at a benefit, I choose to send this out instead first, as I thought it way more important than my little gig. I am also sorry to all those that re-signed it, and my apologies to many many people that said they had signed it long ago and returned it to me. My apologies also to those whose work does not allow them chain letters. It won't happen again. And last but not least, to those who were actually MAD at me for not knowing about where to check to see if emails are dead ends and petitions are bullshit or not, my deepest apologies for my innocence and and natural naivite', you can bet I will not do this again, nor do anything without checking the truth or lie website first. for those that want to check out things first before you dump or sign them here are the websites sent to me Please see: http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/petition/afghani.htm http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/petition/petition.htm http://www.snopes2.com/ hand slapped and wiser cyoakha PS, in a positive light, I will copy the entire signed list, print a hard copy myself and send it to G. Bush in the White House, as well as Amnesty International, so your signing will not be completely in vain, I hope. Yes, I still hope. PSS I still offer a FREE cdr of the song I wrote about the subject, send your address and I will mail you one, and promise to not put any junk mail in with it..tee hee O'Manion Music PO Box 198 Mill Valley, CA 94941 cyo@landoftheblind.com http://www.landoftheblind.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 07:34:04 -0700 (PDT) From: James mitchell Subject: Re: Best albums of 2001? - --- Moseley_Patrick wrote: > If I were to say to any of you, "With the exception of Bjork's > Vespertine, I haven't heard any good new music this year," which album > would you tell me I needed to go listen to immediately? I've been rather enjoying Ivy's new album Long Distance, which I should write a review of, since nobody else here is talking about it. I liked some of the new Sam Philips album, but it fades into the background after a few songs. I gave Dabid Byrne's Into The Eyeball a lot of play when it was new, but would have to revisit it before making a recomendation. I would, sadly, have to question your making an exception of Vespertine, an album which more annoys than interest me. NEW from Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 15:50:28 +0100 (BST) From: adamk@zoom.co.uk Subject: Tom McRae -- US tour Hi, just checked Tom McRae's homepage (www.tommcrae.com)and found he's currently touring the States, so below are the dates. I cut and paste them from his site, so I have no idea how they'll turn out. Apologies in advance if they don't. 06-OCT-01 Irving Plaza, New York City - 17 Irving Place, NY. 08-OCT-01 Avalon, Boston - 15 Landsdowne Street, Boston, Mass. Plus live radio interview/session on WXRV 10-OCT-01 Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto - 410 Sherborne Sreet, Toronto 11-OCT-01 St Andrews Hall, Detroit - 431 East Congress, Detroit, Michigan 12-OCT-01 Metro, Chicago - 3730 North Clark, Chicago, Illinois 13-OCT-01 First Avenue, Minneapolis - 701 First Ave North, Minneapolis, Minnesota 15-OCT-01 Los Angeles - in-store appearance at Fingerprints, L.A. 16-OCT-01 Los Angeles - recording performance for Craig Kilborn 17-OCT-01 Los Angeles at El Ray Theatre - 5515 Wilshire Blvd, L.A. 18-OCT-01 The Fillmore, San Francisco - 1805 Geary Blvd, SF 19-OCT-01 The Fillmore, San Francisco - 1805 Geary Blvd, SF . Plus in- store appearance at Virgin Megastore, Market Street, SF Go see him. He turned out one of the best albums of last year, and was shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize this year (suffering an honourable defeat at the hands of PJ Harvey. I've seen him live, and he does a good show. I cannot recommend this man highly enough. adam k. Get your own zoom email - click here - http://www.zoom.co.uk/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 10:55:39 -0400 (EDT) From: "Donald G. Keller" Subject: lightbulbs, 2001 list My solution to the problem of the metal end only of a lightbulb remaining in the socket is to take another lightbulb and =carefully= screw it partway into the metal remnant, and then unscrew it. The metal remnant should come out screwed onto the end of the other lightbulb (and can then be unscrewed and discarded). I'd been thinking about posting my year-so-far list anyway, so here goes: Natacha Atlas: =Ayeshteni= Veda Hille: =Field Study= Marianne Nowottny: =Manmade Girl= Shipping News: =Very Soon, and in pleasant company= U.S. Maple: =Acre Thrills= VPN: =For Nearby Stars= Shannon Wright: =Dyed in the Wool= Details upon request. I'm curious to hear from Neile about her reservations concerning Shannon Wright's =Maps of Tacit=, which was the best album I heard in 2000. The new one, =Dyed in the Wool=, has a greater variety of style and mood, but I slightly prefer =Maps of Tacit='s grim relentlessness. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 09:10:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Craig Gidney Subject: Shannon Wright at Black Cat in DC this Sunday (10/7/2001) Any other ectophiles going to this? We could meet at the show. Email offlist. - --Craig ===== "Tired moons ask higher tides."--Zelda Fitzgerald NEW from Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 09:22:01 -0700 From: Phil Hudson Subject: RE: All pleasure, no guilt :) Wow! someone ( or smoe-one) familiar with them! Yes they did have an H. Bosch snippet on their cover; boy, that artist was a seething mass of unexamined neuroses, wasn't he? The cover is rather rude, in a medieval, ergot-ingesting sort of way Big F were one of those bands for me whose songs I heard and Had To Have The Album. I saw them once in San Jose, playing with a couple of techno bands and the audience didn't get what they were about at all. It was one of those audiences that didn't want to dance for fear of messing up their outfits, and here was a power trio with a singer and a big thunderous double-bass drum setup, so they went over like Dolly Parton at a Progfest. I went backstage after their set and they were all moping about the gig. I told them that I had seen the show listing at the last minute in the paper and had raced down specifically to see them. This cheered them up significantly and there followed what is known in the music industry as a 'jolly good time'. They had another album, but it got jammed up in record company politics/tax write-offs, and they were being used as a write off; no money put into promoting them. The album released about a year later, but it did not have the power of the first one. I still have their songbook, and some other trinkets they sent me. Anyone heard of them since then? I really haven't checked on them in a while, although I do use their album to rattle windows in my studio once in a while, and it's great commute/freeway music. P - -----Original Message----- From: strange little woj [mailto:woj@smoe.org] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 6:00 PM To: bloated lapses into trope Subject: Re: All pleasure, no guilt :) when we last left our heroes, Phil Hudson exclaimed: >The Big F: ( Think Zep meets Aerosmith) "Kill the Cowboy" " Here's to the >Good Times" hmmmm. didn't they have a heironymous bosch snippet on the cover of one of their albums? woj ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 11:49:00 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew B. Downer" Subject: RE: Best albums of 2001? > From: "Moseley_Patrick" > > If I were to say to any of you, "With the exception of Bjork's > Vespertine, I haven't heard any good new music this year," which album > would you tell me I needed to go listen to immediately? I'd concur with the following that others have already mentioned: Willow -- Sweet Dark Demon Vienna Teng -- Waking Hour Splashdown -- Blueshift (download: http://blueshift.ath.cx/blueshift/) Two Loons for Tea (self-titled) matt - -- Matt Downer NP: Silence, Tara MacLean hachiman@io.com NR: Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 10:28:26 -0700 From: Phil Hudson Subject: RE: best of 2001? Ecto's own Vienna Teng; " Waking Hour " This album blows me away on a daily basis and has become part of my daily commute repertoire. Anyone who has not yet downloaded and played 'Gravity' from Vienna's website ( www.viennateng.com ) is doing her or his self a grave disservice. Phil ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 13:43:22 -0400 From: "Bill Adler" Subject: RE: best of 2001?/Vienna Teng Phil, Thanks for mentioning Vienna Teng. I visited her site after your recommendation: Vienna Teng's music is wonderful, to say the least. I'm off to order a CD. - --Bill n.p. Jill Cohn, The Laughing Universe - -----Original Message----- From: owner-ecto@smoe.org [mailto:owner-ecto@smoe.org]On Behalf Of Phil Hudson Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 1:28 PM To: ecto@smoe.org Subject: RE: best of 2001? Ecto's own Vienna Teng; " Waking Hour " This album blows me away on a daily basis and has become part of my daily commute repertoire. Anyone who has not yet downloaded and played 'Gravity' from Vienna's website ( www.viennateng.com ) is doing her or his self a grave disservice. Phil ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 15:28:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Sue Trowbridge Subject: Guilty pleasures The guilty pleasures thread yesterday made me think of ABBA. As a child growing up in the 70s, they were my #1 favorite group. I never stopped enjoying their music, but believe me, there was nothing more unfashionable than being a teenage ABBA fan in the '80s. In fact, I met one of my best friends because I saw him carrying a copy of their album THE VISITORS, and was amazed to see anyone else would risk being caught in public with that LP! Anyway, it was pretty astonishing to me when ABBA had their big renaissance in the 90s, thanks to films like MURIEL'S WEDDING. I guess the point is that today's guilty pleasure might be tomorrow's big retro trend. Even late 80s "hair metal" has become somewhat rehabilitated, thanks to airplay on VH1 and classic rock stations like The Bone here in the San Francisco area. I'll also mention that my tiny record label has released its first album by a female artist, Brooklyn's Paula Carino. If you enjoy melodic guitar pop, you are invited to take a listen at http://www.125records.com - --Sue np: Jamiroquai, FUNK ODYSSEY (no, I don't feel guilty about that either :) nr: John Kennedy Toole, A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 15:43:04 -0400 From: Valerie Richardson Subject: Guilty Pleasures: Led Zeppelin Okay, I confess. I've always adored Led Zeppelin, although I would never, ever tell anyone that I listen to them (and I blame them for a lot of wretched, excessive music that came in their wake). I was dating my first "real" boyfriend when Houses of the Holy was released, and I still have a little bit of a swoon when I hear songs from that album. Another confession: my first concert was the Osmond Brothers when I was in fourth or fifth grade. I lost any interest in the Osmonds decades ago. - --Valerie Richardson ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 20:02:24 +0000 From: jjhanson@att.net Subject: Re: Guilty pleasures Hmm, Reading Sue's comments about Abba (whom I also like), remind me of when I was in 6th and 7th grade, 1979-80, everyone was into Kiss and Styx. I liked McCartney and Wings and even the flashy glitter belt buckle to prove it. It certainly was not the cool thing to do. Funny as I was never a huge Beatles fan either. I even bought the new two CD set Wingspan this year and thoroughly enjoy it. Definitely a guilty pleasure. Kim Wilde is also a guilty pleasure of mine-- someone I loved in the 80's and have kept up with ever since--even though its meant tracking down imports, etc. I recognize most of it as dance-pop dreck, but there's something about her voice I've always loved. Olivia Newton John would probably be another one, always enjoyed her stuff (saw Xanadu like 7 times in the theater!), though am by no means a completist (just how any greatest hits albums is she going to release?--I saw yet another one the other day). Jeff Hanson n.p. Richard Einhorn - Voices of Light n.r. Declare - Tim Powers > The guilty pleasures thread yesterday made me think of ABBA. As a child > growing up in the 70s, they were my #1 favorite group. I never stopped > enjoying their music, but believe me, there was nothing more unfashionable > than being a teenage ABBA fan in the '80s. In fact, I met one of my best > friends because I saw him carrying a copy of their album THE VISITORS, and > was amazed to see anyone else would risk being caught in public with that > LP! Anyway, it was pretty astonishing to me when ABBA had their big > renaissance in the 90s, thanks to films like MURIEL'S WEDDING. I guess the > point is that today's guilty pleasure might be tomorrow's big retro trend. > Even late 80s "hair metal" has become somewhat rehabilitated, thanks to > airplay on VH1 and classic rock stations like The Bone here in the San > Francisco area. > > I'll also mention that my tiny record label has released its first album > by a female artist, Brooklyn's Paula Carino. If you enjoy melodic guitar > pop, you are invited to take a listen at http://www.125records.com > > --Sue > > np: Jamiroquai, FUNK ODYSSEY (no, I don't feel guilty about that either :) > nr: John Kennedy Toole, A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 13:48:27 -0700 From: Neile Graham Subject: Re: lightbulbs, 2001 list >I'm curious to hear from Neile about her reservations concerning Shannon >Wright's =Maps of Tacit=, which was the best album I heard in 2000. The >new one, =Dyed in the Wool=, has a greater variety of style and mood, but >I slightly prefer =Maps of Tacit='s grim relentlessness. I found the songwriting extremely uneven. If I just play the disc every once in a while I love it, but if I playe it too often I kept finding that I want to skip a lot of the songs--they are repetitious enough to actually get on my nerves. The dirge is just a little too relentless for me. I suspect that I'll like _Dyed in the Wool_ better if it has a great variety of mood. What about her previous one? - --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.ectoguide.org ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 17:20:27 -0400 From: nadyne@mindspring.com Subject: Onion review of Suzanne Vega's newest Just in case y'all haven't seen this yet, The Onion AV Club has a quite positive review of Suzanne Vega's current album available. I'd been putting off buying this album (or making any other album purchase), but after what y'all have said, I think I'm going to have to get it. And I think I'll see the show on Sunday, too. It strikes me as something that I just have to do. :) Anyone else in the SF Bay going to the Warfield on Sunday to see her? /nm ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 14:20:06 -0700 From: Phil Hudson Subject: RE: late night tv That has to be a little tough, a big network TV slot to play and then you get blindsided by Letterman into performing with his stage manager. Kudos to Sarah for retaining her composure. - -----Original Message----- From: meredith [mailto:meth@smoe.org] Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 8:45 PM To: ecto@smoe.org Subject: late night tv Hi, For those who catch this in time, Suzanne Vega will be on the Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn on CBS TONIGHT (Thursday). That's in an hour or so for those on the East Coast... Sarah Harmer was on Letterman the other night - I think it was Tuesday. She did "Don't Get Your Back Up", and it was quite lovely. It was also hilarious, because it was Stage Manager Biff's birthday, and right before Letterman introduced Sarah he called Biff onto the stage to wish him a happy birthday, then said "stay and sing with the band!" So he did. It was hilarious. Sarah took it all in stride. In fact, I was impressed by how poised she was throughout -- if I'm not mistaken that was her first big-time TV appearance in the States, and she didn't look or sound nervous at all. One question, though -- who was in her band? I didn't recognize anyone... ======================================= Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth "an eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind" -- mahatma gandhi ======================================= Live At The House O'Muzak House Concert Series http://www.smoe.org/meth/muzak.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 16:11:32 -0700 From: "Emily Perkins" Subject: RE: Onion review of Suzanne Vega's newest I'm going, but note that it's Saturday, not Sunday (Kristin Hersh, on the other hand, is on Sunday, making for my idea of a perfect weekend). There's also a good article about Suzanne Vega at: http://www.contracostatimes.com/timeout/stories_feattop/x5vega_20011005.htm - -Emily >--- Original Message --- >From: nadyne@mindspring.com >To: ecto@smoe.org >Date: 10/5/01 2:20:27 PM > >Just in case y'all haven't seen this yet, The Onion AV Club has a >quite positive review of Suzanne Vega's current album available. > >I'd been putting off buying this album (or making any other album >purchase), but after what y'all have said, I think I'm going to have >to get it. And I think I'll see the show on Sunday, too. It strikes >me as something that I just have to do. :) > >Anyone else in the SF Bay going to the Warfield on Sunday to see >her? > >/nm ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 19:11:39 EDT From: RocketsTail@aol.com Subject: Re: [EDA] #99!!! Yes especially since yesterday it was almost #400! ~eric MP3.COM- The Bubblegum Complex "The music with that fresh squeezed lemon taste" Support Indie Rock!!!!!! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 17:27:42 -0600 From: "Earl J. Woods" Subject: RE: Guilty pleasures I've always had a soft spot for (cough) The Partridge Family, particularly "I Think I Love You." I think I love you...but what am I so afraid of..? etc, etc. Gotta love the manufactured bands of the 70s. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 16:29:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Subject: Kristin concert (was: Onion review of Suzanne Vega's newest) On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Emily Perkins wrote: > I'm going, but note that it's Saturday, not Sunday (Kristin Hersh, > on the other hand, is on Sunday, making for my idea of a perfect > weekend). You might want to call ahead about that Kristin Hersh concert. Her date yesterday at the Palms Playhouse in Davis, CA was cancelled due to a medical emergency. Kristin and Billy announced her pregnancy on the forums on throwingmusic.com on September 27 (I think) but they lost the baby on the 3rd. Her upcoming tour is now, understandably, in question. Owen ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 19:02:35 -0700 From: "Russ Van Rooy" Subject: Re: Guilty pleasures Best of Bread, Bread . Hey it's got "Guitar Man" - what a cool song and...well it's no small coincidence that Thom Yorke and David Gates are never seen in the same place at the same time. - -Russ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 22:22:25 -0400 From: strange little woj Subject: the big f when we last left our heroes, Phil Hudson exclaimed: >Wow! someone ( or smoe-one) familiar with them! well, i've heard of them and may even have their first album (probably on cassette) somewhere around the house. at the very least, i remember when it came out since i was helping to direct music at ye olde college radio station then and we received several copies in several formats. hmmm. just looked around and found a three song promocassette of theirs that i certainly haven't listened to in gods know how long. i do remember liking them when i gave it a listen 10+ years ago though. >Anyone heard of them since then? I really haven't checked on them in a >while, although I do use their album to rattle windows in my studio once in >a while, and it's great commute/freeway music. didn't even know they made a second record! and it appears they made a couple more before the band fell apart around 1995. check out . interesting reading: turns out the two founding members were originally in berlin with terri nunn (assuming that the website's author isn't fibbing). never would have thought was the case... woj n.p. the weather channel ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 22:32:02 -0400 From: "Bill Adler" Subject: Jill Cohn I just received several Jill Cohn CDs from CD Baby (such a wonderful place to browse.) I know that people on Ecto have already heard her music, but if you haven't, Jill Cohn's music is terrific. Evocative lyrics, a lush, enthralling voice, very pleasant instrumentation: The stuff of Ecto. CDs you don't want to turn off. More later... - --Bill n.p. Jill Cohn, Stories from the Bluebus ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 22:30:30 -0400 From: strange little woj Subject: Re: lightbulbs, 2001 list when we last left our heroes, Neile Graham exclaimed: >What about her previous one? her first solo record, _flightsafety_, is a mostly acoustic affair and i quite like it. at times on that record, she reminds me of kristen hersh for some reason. i listened to it quite a bit when it was released, but not much since. i rather liked _maps of tacit_ too, but not as much as don. also, like neile, i found that it never really "bit" though. i like it when i listen to it but i don't find myself going back to it very often. woj ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 01:09:34 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: Guilty pleasures, kristin hersh etc. Hi, Sue revealed: >The guilty pleasures thread yesterday made me think of ABBA. As a child >growing up in the 70s, they were my #1 favorite group. Looking back, I think one of the main reasons for the slightly twisted turn my life ended up taking is because the music that filled the house I grew up in alternated between my sister's 4-foot-tall stack of LPs of Medieval music upstairs, and my dad's ABBA collection downstairs. Dad *still* loves ABBA. I got him the _Gold_ collection for Christmas a few years ago, and he was giddy for the rest of the day. I hear an ABBA song and get instantly transported back to my childhood. It's rather fun. Phil responded: >That has to be a little tough, a big network TV slot to play and then you >get blindsided by Letterman into performing with his stage manager. Kudos to >Sarah for retaining her composure. To his credit, Letterman apologized to her afterwards. He had clearly only been kidding, and didn't expect Biff to take him up on it! Owen reported: >You might want to call ahead about that Kristin Hersh concert. Her date >yesterday at the Palms Playhouse in Davis, CA was cancelled due to a >medical emergency. Kristin and Billy announced her pregnancy on the >forums on throwingmusic.com on September 27 (I think) but they lost the >baby on the 3rd. Her upcoming tour is now, understandably, in question. Aw man, that's horrible news. :/ I hope she's ok. ======================================= Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth "an eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind" -- mahatma gandhi ======================================= Live At The House O'Muzak House Concert Series http://www.smoe.org/meth/muzak.html ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V7 #285 **************************