Errors-To: ecto-owner@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 #1084 ecto, Number 1084 Friday, 15 April 1994 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Re: new and exciting Milla's Divine Comedy Re: Re: new and exciting KonvenTion I forgot who had RhodeSongs for trade! Sky Cries Mary Lincoln, er, Mercury in Retrograde Sarah sans knickers Plansa Made Weekly Acquisitions The Red Shoes, tonite, 11:30, Bravo Re: too weird for me Lakme...Delibes...McLaren? That package deal (Re: KonvenTion) Re: Lakme...Delibes...McLaren? ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 12:44:30 -0400 (EDT) From: "she listens like her head's on fire.." Subject: Re: new and exciting >Back to the Garden -- Joni MItchell Tribute -- definitely >some fine tracks on here. Gotta love Kurt Swinghammer (his name, >that is -- though he seems to design covers too!). could you perhaps give a track listing? I really like Joni Mitchell (her earlier stuff mostly like Blue) and I've been trying to find that cd single of Tori Amos with a Case of You on it. I'd be interested in finding this one also if there were some good covers on it. thanks :-) -Quenby ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 11:34:49 -0700 (PDT) From: John Zimmer Subject: Milla's Divine Comedy Just wanted to say thanks to Anthony-with-a-K for recommending Milla Jovovich's debut album, The Divine Comedy. To be honest I wasn't expecting much. I certainly wasn't expecting to be as impressed as I am, but she has a richness and power in her voice that are surprising for someone so young. Hopefully this'll sell well enough that she'll give up the modelling gig and go full time into recording. The last song on the album, a Russian folk song titled 'In a Glade' and sung in Russian, is worth the price of the disk all by itself (IMnsHO). Not to put too fine a point on it, I recommend it too! John Zimmer tiefe@agora.rdrop.com ======================================================================== Date: 15 Apr 94 15:01:01 EDT From: Mike Mendelson Subject: Re: Re: new and exciting by popular request, here's the track listing from Back to the Garden: Various - Joni Mitchell Tribute Back to the Garden 17 72:33 Big Faith - Free Man in Paris 04:03 Sara Craig - This Flight Tonight 04:00 Universal Honey - Carey 03:45 Lorraine Scott - Big Yellow Taxi 04:31 Molly Johnson - Black Crow 03:44 Andy Stochansky - Beat of Black Wings 04:21 Martha & Muffins - Shades of Scarlett 05:09 Funky Bummer (Anne Beadle) - Hissing 04:08 Marsh/Goldsmith/Piltch/Tielli - River 06:01 K.Swinghammer - You Turn Me On Radio 03:00 Spirit of the West - Coyote 04:57 W.O.W. - Woodstock 03:54 Jenny Whitely - Night in the City 04:09 Sloan - A Case of You 03:53 Squiddly/M.DelMar-Blonde in Bleachers 03:13 J.Cody/M.Jones-Songs toAging Children 03:22 Rocket Science - Refuge of the Roads 06:15 Recommended. -mjm ======================================================================== From: iago@merle.acns.nwu.edu Subject: KonvenTion Date: Fri, 15 Apr 94 14:48:37 CDT Yow! I've just gotten a day off, and it's official. I'm going to the KonvenTion! So Meredith, you no longer have to drop hints to me. I'm going to buy my ticket tomorrow probably. Where are people staying, and when are you flying, Vickie? ==> a very elated Valerie ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 17:24:51 -0500 (EST) From: HOLLY@umbc2.umbc.edu Subject: I forgot who had RhodeSongs for trade! Dear person who wanted to trade RhodeSongs, I got your mail but accidentally deleted it because I am a yahoo. Could you please send the mail message again? Thankiss, Holly ======================================================================== From: mklprc@aol.com Date: Fri, 15 Apr 94 19:26:03 EDT Subject: Sky Cries Mary Quoting Paul Cohen (p.cohen@genie.geis.com): > Sky Cries Mary "A Return to the Inner Experience". > Hearing the first part of this album in the store > intrigued me, but it doesn't seem consistent. Some > nice psychedelia, but some weak material. Anybody > else know this band? Yes, I am a fan of their sound, and their performance. I thought them very imaginative, and consider them to be the only '90s band who perform in the style/genre of the great psychedelic bands of the late '60s, without in the least compromising the fact that this is indeed _not_ the '60s. In short, they are very original and talented. I would love to take them in a time machine and plop them down between the Airplane and Quicksilver at a Fillmore concert in 1967 and see if anybody notices the timewarp. (Don't try that with Nine Inch Nails!) I was sure that they would become more popular than they have, but lack of airplay, the bane of all talented artists, is keeping them limited to cult status. Interestingly enough, the people who go to their concerts are not the expected Deadheads and aging hippies who still play their Country Joe albums every day, but alt.rock Xers who may not have paid much attention to the old stuff. If they ever play your town, go. It is a worthwhile experience. And if you like that style of music at all, get their cd. mp ======================================================================== From: mklprc@aol.com Date: Fri, 15 Apr 94 19:26:15 EDT Subject: Lincoln, er, Mercury in Retrograde Quoting Suspended In Duct Tape (METH@delphi.com): > Is Mercury retrograde again? Bad vibes permeate the entire > planet when that happens, no joke. While last week for me > wasn't particularly bad, it wasn't all that wonderful either, > and it was certainly awful for some people I know. And this > week so far has been no picnic. Mercury usually stays > retrograde for a period of about 2 weeks or so, so we're not > out of the woods yet, folks! :P > (Please note that I normally have no truck with astrology > whatsoever, but I have observed this Mercury phenomenon > consistently for long enough that I'm starting to believe > it...) I wondered why my system was crashing more than usual. My consulting business is up as well. Maybe there is something to this astro stuff after all... =8+) ======================================================================== From: mklprc@aol.com Date: Fri, 15 Apr 94 19:26:24 EDT Subject: Sarah sans knickers Quoting Suspended In Duct Tape (METH@delphi.com) > They did, however, give a sound ixnay to her follow-up video, > for "The Path of Thorns", in which our heroine wears > absolutely nothing. Granted, it's quite tastefully and > artfully done, but it was just too much for them. Is there any way I can get a copy of this video?? mp ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 15 Apr 94 21:23:10 EDT From: WretchAwry Subject: Plansa Made Not that I'm LAZY or anything :) but this post will answer a few different people's e-mail inquiries. We made our plans today, wrt our trip to England. They're made for and paid for and therefore set in stone. We leave Chicago Thursday afternoon, May 5th, and will be leaving London to return to Chicago Thursday afternoon, May 12th. Details: We're flying British Airways Flight 298, leaving O'Hare at 4:30pm (CST) Thursday May 5th....arriving Heathrow at 6:30am (KST) Friday May 6th. (no, we don't expect anyone to meet our plane :-), thanks though!) We'll be staying at the St. Giles hotel. I don't have an address yet, but it's number (8) on the map we have...:-)...well, it looks to be on Tottenham Court Road, at Oxford/New Oxford Street, at the north edge of the Soho district, very close to the Tottenham Court Underground. I guess we'll find out *how* close when we get there. From what I understand, it's not too awfully far from the Hippodrome either. Again, this is all paid for, so it's certain (barring acts of goddesses) that we'll be staying there. We had quite a few choices of where to stay, and St. Giles seemed to have the best combination of low price and central location. Since we got one of those "package tours (airfare & hotel) I can't say exactly how much the hotel is by itself. (For anyone interested, we took the British Airways "Taste Of London" package). We'll have all day Friday to rest, get settled in, and take care of jet lag, if any. Saturday, we'd very much like to go to Geoff's party in Cambridge, so Geoff, yes, please send us any information you can get to tell us how to get out there from our hotel. 'Preciate it :-) Sunday is KATE DAY (all hail!) That's about it as far as definite plans go. Depending on when it's convienient for Peter and Krys, we'll take a day trip to Rochester to visit Homeground Towers. Most likely Monday, though maybe Tuesday. Wednesday night Steve Fagg, Martin Bridges, Chris and I will be having dinner somewhere (TBA), so perhaps other Ectophiles still around and willing can join us. Those details can be worked out. Beyond that, we'll want to do a bit of sightseeing, record shopping (I *have* to see for myself...take a photo even...of Happy's CDs at the Oxford HMV) and museum terrorizing. Gee, maybe some of them will actually be open this time! The last time we went to England we were so broke we had to do all our sightseeing at night, so we saw the outside of a lot of really cool museums :-). Our flight home leaves Heathrow Thursday, May 12th at 3:15pm, getting back into Chicago at 5:50pm Friday. And we shall flop. And we shall rest. And we shall say "you know, we really should have spent that money on something practical." And we shall look at each other and go "naaaahhhhh" :-) And we shall be happy! Vickie ======================================================================== From: p.cohen@genie.geis.com Date: Sat, 16 Apr 94 01:30:00 UTC Subject: Weekly Acquisitions Well after all the brouhaha going on lately over Rose Chronicles, when I saw it at my Friendly Neighborhood Alternative CD Store (tm), I asked him to play it for me and was decidedly pleased with what I heard. So I decided to give it a home and, as a matter of fact, I'm listening to it right now. It's quite exquisite, but I can't for the life of me figure out how anybody could think they sound like Tribe. Other new acquisitions currently queued up on my CD turntable waiting to be heard: Alison Moyet "Essex" Material Issue "Freak City Soundtrack" Biff Bang Pow "Bertula Pop" The Biff Bang Pow is a real surprise. It's a compilation of previously issued stuff, but it's out on domestic Creation. To those who don't know the band, they were a wonderful British pop band who released records from '87 to '91. And to mp, who wrote the very nice review of Sky Cries Mary, thank you. It indeed was the very retro-psychedelicness in their sound that compelled me to buy the disk. (I am quite a fan of psychedelic music). +########################################################################+ +###+ Paul Cohen, Philadelphia, PA +###+ +########################################################################+ +###+ P.COHEN@genie.geis.com +###+ PMCOHEN@aol.com +###+ +###+ 70703.3126@compuserve.com +###+ PMCOHEN@delphi.com +###+ +########################################################################+ ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 22:01:22 -0500 From: jeffw@triple-i.com (Jeff Wasilko) Subject: The Red Shoes, tonite, 11:30, Bravo Well, it's kind of ecto-related. The Red Shoes is playin on Bravo tonite (Friday) at 11:30. Sorry for the late notice, I just noticed it was on.... Jeff -- Jeff Wasilko, Systems Rep., Information International Inc. +1 617 937 9400 (jeffw@triple-i.com, jeffw@camex.com) "Two days to get there by boat. It takes forever if you go by inertia, no time if you don't believe in time."--Jane Siberry ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 22:12:02 -0500 From: jeffw@triple-i.com (Jeff Wasilko) Subject: Re: too weird for me At 11:43 PM 4/12/94 -0500, iago@merle.acns.nwu.edu wrote: >meredith writes: >>Kurt Cobain is already on the cover of Newsweek. I was in the bookstore early >>yesterday afternoon as they put it on the shelves. That was Monday. His body >>was discovered on Friday. Factor in writing and shipping time, and it just >>Does Not Compute. >as possible. Also, my guess is that they print not at one location, but at >regional presses, so as to minimize shipping distances. They can send the >magazine by modem to the presses, so the farthest a 'zine has to travel is >probably (this is all speculation) less than 1000 miles. Definitely >possible even if the magazine is not printed until early Sunday. Yep. All of the major magazines have regional print sites. The pages are usually sent via a high-res fax system (one of our products) via satellite or high-speed leased lines. USA Today (aka the McPaper) is another popular example of this. >FYI, subsriptions always arrive later than the magazine appears ont he >newstand, something which annoys me every Wednesday when I get my US News >and World Report. USN&WR was one of the (or the) first magazine to go to electronic transmission of pages to print sites (RR Donnelly at the time). They were our first customer in that market.... Jeff (printing geek at large (-:) -- Jeff Wasilko, Systems Rep., Information International Inc. +1 617 937 9400 (jeffw@triple-i.com, jeffw@camex.com) "Two days to get there by boat. It takes forever if you go by inertia, no time if you don't believe in time."--Jane Siberry ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 15 Apr 94 22:37:30 EDT From: WretchAwry Subject: Lakme...Delibes...McLaren? Any Malcolm McLaren fans out there? I am *so* happy that we'll be flying British Airways, because they have such great commercials! (I'm easy...cool music w/ female vocals, interesting look....I'm *really* easy!) Anyway, I'd been seeing all these great commercials (aerial shots of lots of people dressed in same colored outfits, grouped together to look like various facial parts...eyes, ears...Picasso-ish nose) and I badly wanted to know what the music was, but never got around to asking anybody. Today when we were on the phone with British Airways we were put on hold and that music was playing, so after we got all the details ironed out, I said "one more question, what *IS* that music??" He started out by giving me details I already knew. The base piece of music is the "Flower Duet" from Lakme, by Delibes, a piece of music I've been familiar with for years (definitely since it was featured in the film "The Hunger") but this was a more "modern" arrangement and I asked him if he could provide any more info. He said "well, there's a similar piece...not the same one though, but just as nice, on Yanni's album..." and I interrupted him, trying to get him back on track. Nice that he's trying to Yannivangelize, but still...:-) Anyway, he said, "well, I believe that particular piece used in our commercials is by Malcolm McLaren" and I WHOOPED!! Of course! Who else? I thinked him profusely (he said that they get asked that all the time) and we hung up. I was *sure* that the piece was probably on McLaren's album "Waltz Darling" but I've dug it out, listened to the whole thing, and it isn't on there. Does anyone out there know what album it's on?? I feel kinda foolish calling them back, and they might not know the album name anyway. They're not in the business of selling McLaren albums, after all. Malcolm McLaren...at least that's something to go on. Now I need to find out the piece of music behind the Michael Jorden "What if there were no sports?" commercials. It sounds very Bulgarian-ish. Well, it got me to listen to and enjoy "Waltz Darling" again. Not all of it is great, but I bought the CD mainly for the opening track, "House Of The Blue Danube," "Call A Wave," and "Algernon's Simply Awfully Good At Algebra." Malcolm McLaren and Phil Ramone meets the waltz...amazing! Vickie ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 15 Apr 94 22:55:41 EDT From: WretchAwry Subject: That package deal (Re: KonvenTion) I sent this to Valerie, but then thought I might send it along to Ecto too, in case anyone's interested. - Btw, the British Airways deal we took (Taste of London) was for 6 nights, 7 - days but the same package has a 3 nights, 4 days option. The shorter stay - price is $629.00 (staying at the St. Giles)...though there's tax and other - prices added on to that. I don't know how long you wanted to stay or how - much you wanted to spend, but I thought I'd tell you. (One extra cost - was $19.95 for "U.S. agriculture, customs and immigration fees" and "up - to $12.00 in passenger facilities charges depending on itinerary." One thing I forgot, is that there's a $20.00 (per direction) extra charge for weekend (Friday to Sunday) travel, which is one reason we chose the Thursday-Thursday plan. Leaving Chicago on Thursday saved us $80.00. (we *arrive* on Friday, but it's when you leave that counts) Vickie ======================================================================== From: jzitt@ssnet.com (Joseph Zitt) Subject: Re: Lakme...Delibes...McLaren? Date: Fri, 15 Apr 1994 23:05:42 -0400 (EDT) > Does anyone out there know what album it's on?? I feel kinda foolish > calling them back, and they might not know the album name anyway. They're > not in the business of selling McLaren albums, after all. It's probably on his album "Fans" which was made up of nifty proto-hiphop opera thingydoodles. He had a mild hit with "Madame Butterfy" from that album. ======================================================================== The ecto archives are on hardees.rutgers.edu in ~ftp/pub/hr. There is an INDEX file explaining what is where. Feel free to send me things you'd like to have added. -- jessica (jessica@ns1.rutgers.edu)