Errors-To: owner-ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu Reply-To: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu Sender: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu From: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu To: ecto-request@ns1.rutgers.edu Bcc: ecto-digest-outbound@ns1.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto #219 ecto, Number 219 Monday, 20 April 1992 Today's Topics: *-----------------* WFNX Best music poll results Soap and T0ast These Tears Scarlet Tori Amos in Minneapolis Tori at Nightstage Got the tapes, YAYA! ======================================================================== From: kyrlidis@athena.mit.edu Subject: WFNX Best music poll results Date: Sat, 18 Apr 92 23:13:33 EDT Hi, Here they are: Best local female vocalist: Laurie Sargent Best local male vocalist: Dave Herlihy (O positive) Best national female vocalist: Bonnie Raitt (note: KaTe was second, Sinead third) Best national male vocalist: Bono Best local rock band: Tribe Best national rock band: U2 Best local new artist: Cliffs of Dooneen Best national new artist: Nirvana Best local cutting edge act: Think Tree Best national cutting edge act: Red Hot Chilli Peppers Best local album: Tribe-Abort Best national album: U2- Achtung Baby Best local song: Where'd you go?- Mighty mighty Bosstones Best national song: Smells like teen spirit-Nirvana Best local producer: Sean Slade (Dino Jr., buffalo Tom, 360's) Best national producer: Brian Eno Just for your information... Angelos ------- 'Every poet is a thief'-U2 ======================================================================== From: Jeanne B Schreiter Subject: Soap and T0ast Date: Sun, 19 Apr 92 9:23:56 CDT The title has no significance, don't bother I didn't accidently eat soap and t0ast..although I wouldn't put it past anyone as a April Fool's sort of joke. YES YES YES YES YES YES YES (and many more) Footah, Mr. Wonderful Boston(like) Greg... The parcel came in the mail. Saf and Sound, it didn't bite, scratch or fold, but I was wondering if Tape 2 was supposed to have something on the back of it...yes?? no??? Anyway, NOW I know why you were all bowled over at Happy's concert... :) She paved me into the ground, brough me back from the cement and now, I've risen to new heights. (if you want to forget the fact that I fell out of bed this morn.) I'm duly impressed!!!! And the pics! Know I know what you ppl look like...and all I can is, is that I find you all very attractive, warm and generous, caring and certainly unique, and Greg, I never needed pictures to know that. Jeanne PS, ...well yu'll find out. ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 19 Apr 92 12:49:44 PDT From: barry@gnu.ai.mit.edu Hiya everybody, I'm back! :) Just when you thought you were all done with articles about Tori Amos, lo and behold, another article about her appears in my paper today :) [This is from a different apaper than the other one] So, here it comes! * * * * Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos (Atlantic Records). "Every finger in the room is pointing at me," sings Amos, formerly of the ill-fated rock group Y Kant Tori Read, at the start of this album. "I wanna spit in their faces, then I get afraid of what that could bring." Throughout the rest of the album, Amos summons up her energy and does the spitting, though not in an obnoxious or annoying way. She performs with the air of someone determined to tell her own version of truth, no matter how painful it may be. Most startling is "Me and a Gun," an a cappella number about a rape, sung from the point of view of the victim. Amos conveys the victim's terror by articulating her eerie detachment from the actual event: "I haven't seen Barbados so I have t o get out of this," she keeps thinking to herself, while the lack of instrumentation hammers home the point that time has stopped. On a less dramatic but equally meaningful note are songs such as "Girl," about the difficulty of finding and expressing one's own identity, and "Tear In Your Hand," about a doomed relationship. One line from the latter song -- "I don't believe you're leaving 'cause me and Charles Manson like the same ice cream/I think it's that girl ... Maybe she's just pieces of me you've never seen" -- exemplifies Amos' songwriting. At her best, she fills her songs with arresting images and thoughts. Although the instrumentation for all the tracks except "Me And A Gun" is quite lush (and frequently sweetened by strings) the main instrumental element is always Amos' own piano playing. Her voice has a similar range and tone as Kate Bush's, so she has been compared to Bush frequently; Her vision is so personal, though, that it would be foolish to take this comparison too seriously. Incidently, Amos has released a four-song CD single featuring the crystalline album track, "Winter" and otherwise unreleased covers of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit," the Rolling Stones' "Angie" and Led Zeppelin's "Thank You," all featuring piano backing only. The covers are real revelations -- Amos manages to wrench more raw emotion out of them than one would have thought possible. Amos will perform tomorrow at 8 and 11 at the Bottom Line, 15 W. 4th St., New York. Well, that's it, I hope you enjoyed it :) Barry ======================================================================== From: Jeanne B Schreiter Subject: These Tears Date: Sun, 19 Apr 92 17:53:41 CDT These Tears (Easter) 1992 These tears that fall down my cheek as I write this poem The memories I have within my heart These tears that remember my friends and all their wisdoms So bold are they so weak do I feel So silent I have been all through these years Hold my hand wish me well As my lips taste saltwater I blink my eyes to hasten the trickle brush my nose with a tissue Gather I will from your strength Words so few that I think Missing you says not a lot Loving you is not enough My fingers cold to the touch I will be back this way again It won't be long, please understand My ocean has come it's taking me home Yet these teardrops fall down my face again and again So many words I'd wish I said so silent raindrops ^as I'll be back this way again. - JB Schreiter (Again. Verse 1) ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 20 Apr 92 12:15:54 MET DST From: Albert Philipsen Subject: Scarlet hi ! After a deliberate silence of more than a week, I've discovered that I'm not an ecto junky yet, so I'm back with more news about new music I encountered and the usual nonsense about Loreena McKennitt and Tori Amos. Since a few days, I'm the proud owner of a CD called _Scarlet And Other Stories_, by All About Eve. Thanks to Stephen Thomas, who selected the song _Scarlet_ for the HGP. The singer of All About Eve, Julianne Regan, has a lovely but delicate yet powerful voice. Unlike in the song _Scarlet_, where Julianne is only accompanied by acoustic guitars and keyboards, in most of the other songs electric guitars, bass, drums and percussion provide a solid foundation. Keyboards, zeta violins, cello and banjo on some tracks give some necessary variation. There are a number of reasons why I like this album very much. Julianne sings like she wants to bare her soul to us on every track, which is enough to bring tears to my eyes. I love the lyrics, which somehow breathe the same atmosphere as Loreena McKennitt's, giving me this sad feeling of old lost memories. The music is also great, of course, with some lovely melodies. >From the liner notes, I guess that All About Eve is an English band and that _Scarlet And Other Stories_ is from 1989. Perhaps Stephen could tell us more about them. Now for some other stories... There's been some discussion about Loreena McKennitt's voice. The strange thing with her voice is that it doesn't remind me of anyone. She has these two modes of singing: a soft breathy mode, which already feels very good and a power mode, which is completely devastating. She can do her high and low range in both modes, although the only song I can think of where she significantly uses her low voice in power mode, a deadly combination, is _Greensleeves_. Next, I'd like to compliment Diamanda Galas. She's the only singer so far who can give me a soar throat. Thanks to Barry for typing in those Tori Amos articles. I really enjoyed reading them, especially because he was so kind to show us all his typing mistakes, like: > [...] Amos, who was also pictured on the sleeve with uplifted > beasts^H^H^H^H^Hreasts, frizzy Valley Girl hair and a voluptuous > pout. I want to see that picture!!! :-) :-) Thanks to Chip for filling in most of the gaps in the party reports, and corroborating my story on some of the less credible points. Finally, I'd like to say that the center of the earthquake that hit Europe in the night of Monday, April 13, lies in The Netherlands, in Roermond, Limburg to be precise and not in Germany. It was the worst one over measured, 5.5 on the Richter scale. It even woke me up!!! Here we go again... Albert ++ `I know I'm sounding insane' :: Happy Rhodes ======================================================================== A note to people who get the digest: I edit the ^H's out of all of barry's posts - There are usually a lot of them, and it makes the formatting kinda difficult to read - If people would rather i left them in, let me know :) --jessica ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 20 Apr 92 10:11:38 CDT From: stern@chem.nwu.edu (Charlotte Stern) Subject: Tori Amos in Minneapolis Just wanted to let folks know that I will me attending the Tori Amos show at the Fine Line Cafe in Mpls on May 3 (that is, I have tix, and am planning to drive there from CHicago for the weekend) and would be simply pleased to bits if any other ectopians showed up and identified themselves in some way (myself, I plan to be wearing my awesome ectoshirt and possibley a kate bush lovehounds black cap). Please find me or send me email before the show. Are there any ectopeople in MN? I guess I'll find out. I know thet do play HR on some progressive station there, anyways. One other note... I was in Montreal (my hometown) this weekend and picked on Loreena McKennit's most recent and least recent albums (I skipped the middle one since I'd never heard he before). I'll have to listen some more before I can pass a judgment. Also, I came across a Sarah McLachlan CD-5 of Path of Thorns (radio mix, album mix) and a violin mix of Shelter. SO I bought it for better or worse. Wish I'd found a copy of that Donovan cover that didn't make it on my Can'n CD. Still searching for the other Amos CD-singles (no one in Montreal knew about'em). Also found Elton John's Jump Up on CD (!!!!!) which doesn't exist in this continent (it was a W.German printing) for $6!! It has at least one great song on it, Empty Garden. I was amazed to find this. That's it for now. -mjm (mike mendelson, chicago: stern@stella.chem.nwu.edu) ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 20 Apr 92 11:22:22 EDT From: tempest!john@sunne.east.sun.com (John M. Wheeler) Subject: Tori at Nightstage Ok all you Boston Ectophile Tori fans, show your faces! Who will be going to next Tuesday's show at Nightstage? How shall we meet each other? etc. etc. I hope Vickie is finding time in her job hunting schedule to send me my copies of the HGP.... -john tempest!john@sunne.east.sun.com p.s. Has anyone in the Boston area seen the single with Tori's cover of _...Teen Spirit_? ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 20 Apr 92 10:24:00 CDT From: stern@chem.nwu.edu (Charlotte Stern) Subject: Got the tapes, YAYA! This must be a record for me: two ectoposts in less than an hour. I wanted to add a great thanks to the doug-meister for fast-forwarding those vickietapes so promptly and with such alacrity. Thanks Doug-o! I haven't listed through yet, but I did hear the happy interview/ world cafe. She has the most totally amazing speaking voice, and her music thrills me even more having heard it. How *does* she hit those high notes? Man, now I really want to see her live. The world cafe thing, unfortunately, sounds kind of forced and uncomfortable. The DJ does not seem to knwo what to say to get the thing flowing, and happy sure don't help him out. Ahh well... I guess the Kate Bush sound-bytes I've heard have been alot more fluid. Anyways, thanks again for the (big bass sound) tapes, Doug. -mjm ======================================================================== The ecto archives are on hardees.rutgers.edu in ~ftp/pub/hr. There is a README file explaining what is where. Feel free to send me (or leave in the incoming directory, just let me know) things you'd like to have added. -- jessica (jessica@ns1.rutgers.edu)