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 #892 ecto, Number 892 Monday, 6 December 1993 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Victoria Williams rerelease!! FTE's release date in the USA Kate & other reviews Big Hat in Northampton Catching up... smileys.. COLOR ME RED AND PUT ME IN THE FRONT LAWN AS A XMAS ORNAMENT! Make me fumble ecstatically Catching up... Progress report Thank you Kate KT's US RbG on US MTV, not 120 Min ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 4 Dec 93 11:54:03 +0100 From: yngveh@stud.cs.uit.no (Yngve Hauge) Subject: Victoria Williams rerelease!! YAY!!!! 7 Dec *r Victoria Williams Happy Come Home !!!!!!!!! I just love it......... T ---- Only In Your Eyes Lies Your Soul.............. H | --- ----- ---- --- - -- - - - - - --- E |-- | | | | | | |__| | | |_ | | | | | |--- | | | | | --- --- - - ---- - - - -- - - - --- --- Yngve Hauge (yngveh@stud.cs.uit.no).....University of Tromsoe...Norway ======================================================================== From: ezust@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (Alan Ezust) Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1993 11:10:53 -0500 Subject: FTE's release date in the USA I just got word from nettwerk that the "world" release date for Sarah M's Fumbling Towards Ecstacy is February 1st. No word on whether it contains a bonus song. -- | Alan Ezust ezust@{binkley.}cs.mcgill.ca Montreal, Quebec, Canada | |------------- McGill University School of Computer Science ----------------| This line is intentionally left blank. ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1993 11:04:10 -0500 (EST) From: Michael Colford Subject: Kate & other reviews Well, the Dec/Jan 1994 issue of Out magazine (with Ru Paul on the cover) in addition to a terrific article on Melissa Etheridge since she came out, features a plethora of short record reviews. I will post them below. (Don't worry, they're short) THE RED SHOES, Kate Bush - "Split me open with devotion!" Bush implores on this CD's first single, "Eat the music," a tasty pop platter rich with melody and blaring carnival horns. The rest of RED SHOES is equally juicy, bouncing from the catchy offbeat "Rubberband girl" to spiritual ballads that hearken back to Bush's "Cloudbusting" period, backed by the celestial sounds of the Bulgarian women's choir. "Moments of pleasure" is an intimate piano- and string-laden number, and Bush comes off as a sage even when she's mouthing homey lines like, "Every old sock meets an old shoe, ain't that a great saying?" Her best work in years. TOGETHER ALONE, Crowded house - The Australia-based foursome are best when playing unpredictable pop tracks like their current crop-a mesh of eerie keyboards, blissful harmonies, and tribal beats with universal appeal. On the title cut Neil Finn's sweet, reedy voice joins with a Maori band and worldbeat percussionists to drum home the message : No matter where you are, you're not alone in feeling alone. ESSEX, Alison Moyet - Seeping strings usher in the classy pop dramas on Moyet's fourth CD since splitting with Yaz collaborator Vince Neil. Equipped with one of today's most beguiling voices- and the slick production skills of Lightning Seeds' Ian Broudie- Moyet whoops it up on danceable tracks like "And I know" and "So am I," then brings it down to a soul-baring earthy glow, giving her all on the album's closer, "Take of me." PALE SUN, CRESCENT MOON, Cowboy Junkies - On their fifth and best record these superb Toronot songwriters offer a collection of blues and rock songs that resonate with an uncommon depth of feeling. Dark lines like, "His eyes fell to me, as cold as a stonemason's chisel" from lyricist Michael Timmins are embellished by chilly musical arrangements, stark guitar riffs, and sister Margo Timmins' vocal delivery, so shivery you can imagine watching her breath freeze in the crisp December air. Great music for whiling away the winter. Printed without permission, of course. Thought you folks might be interested, especially since its not the type of magazine that you would be looking through for Cd reviews. Have a nice weekend! Michael ======================================================================== From: ezust@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (Alan Ezust) Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1993 11:20:26 -0500 Subject: Big Hat in Northampton [In message "ATTENTION PIONEER VALLEY-PHILES" on Dec 3, Suspended In Duct Tape writes:] | Hi! | | Tomorrow night (Saturday, 12/4/93) Big Hat will be performing at the Bay | State in Northampton, MA. The next night, The Nields and Knots and Crosses | will be at Amherst College. I am attending both events- anybody else going | to one or the other? I'll be heading up there all by my little lonesome, | and would love to meet up with somebody if I had the chance! Very tempting! Justin and I (and friends) just saw them in Boston last night, and Big Hat was excellent as usual, but they play played for 40 measily minutes, due to the fact that there were 4 (that's right, FOUR) opening acts before them and the bar had to close at the arbitrary time of 2AM. I was pissed, especially since two of the opening bands were absolutely awful. PS: I forgot the names of the opening bands that were bad, but the one which was *really* bad is opening for Big Hat tonight at the Bay State too! Consider yourself warned, BRING EARPLUGS!!! Oh Justin and I spoke to Preston Klik and he announced proudly, "We're on the internet now!!" and I asked him, "really? have you read my posts to 4ad-l?" and he said "well, not actually, we're not *personally* on the internet, but we have liasons, people like Vickie and Missy..." and I said really? In that case I know them already!! PPS: Big Hat is taking January off, so no concerts until after that. -- | Alan Ezust ezust@{binkley.}cs.mcgill.ca Montreal, Quebec, Canada | |------------- McGill University School of Computer Science ----------------| This line is intentionally left blank. ======================================================================== From: Albert Philipsen Subject: Catching up... Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1993 18:48:18 +0100 (MET) I'm catching up on old digests, so this is a bit old. Sorry! :) >From: imy@wcl-rs.bham.ac.uk (Ian Young) >Subject: Formal DESIRE specification > >What does it all mean? It's a SECRET, of course! >What is it written in? It was written in the wonderful DESIRE language, developed by the artificial intelligence group of the Free University of Amsterdam. :) >Can I post pieces of MUMPS for people to debug? :) x 1e6 Please do, I would love it! (:))* >I. >From: HOLLY@umbc2.umbc.edu >Subject: Oh, dear! Poor Albert! > >I just got a very sad email message from Albert. Well, things are looking a lot better for me again, so please don't worry. >He won't be getting Ecto for a while as he's sort >of lost the use of his account until January. As you can see, I'm already back, but using a different account that's fortunately still working. >Anyway, I thought that it might be nice if folk >could send Albert a postcard or a little note >of well-wishing via snail mail. I just got one single postcard! You people dissappoint me. :) You all need to be smopped by Holly. ObMusic: I recently picked up a CD single of "Fear of Life" by Sam Brown. It sounds very promising. It's from her latest release _43 Minutes_, which I haven't heard yet. Are there any Sam Brown fans on Ecto who have heard it and can tell me what it sounds like? I like her first album _Stop!_ a little better than her second, _April Moon_. I don't know if this has been mentioned on Ecto yet, but Peter Gabriel has a new video compilation out called _All about US_, featuring videos for DitD, Steam, BoE, SH, Zaar, CTTM and KTF. I've just seen it once yet, but I think it's fantastic. I don't like the way the "behind the scenes footage" is placed between the videos, because it might get annoying to watch after a while. I also don't like the way the titles are placed *over* the beginning of each video, but for the rest it's great! ObHappy: My top five (in no particular order) of favourite Happy songs would currently look like this: To The FunnyFarm Warpaint When The Rain Came Down Summer To Be E. Mortal ObC: main() { fork(); main(); } *HUGS* Albert "And then our arrows of DESIRE rewrite the speech" ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 04 Dec 93 12:19:57 CST From: Courtney Subject: smileys.. I was just perusing the Sept/Oct 1993 issue of InternetWorld (I am at work, have finished my projects for the day, and am bored)..and lo and behold, there was a contribution to the SMILEY'S contest from an Elizabeth Perry! beth??? I thought you were in the Orkneys?!?!? Anyway, the smiley was awfully cute..it was Mick Jagger.. :-() *giggle* anyway..thats my attempt at levity for the day..*sigh* Courtney ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1993 16:19:26 -0600 From: Melissa Nordsiek Subject: COLOR ME RED AND PUT ME IN THE FRONT LAWN AS A XMAS ORNAMENT! i have been in a really bad mood...but how can i know that preston remebered little ole' me!!! i LOVE BIG HAT!!! and i bet none of you could tell... sit through the opening act, worth the pain your ears will go through for BIG HAT will heal!!! AMEN!!! (pardon my geekiness...finals, papers, and essays have taken over my body) missy aka bighat ======================================================================== Subject: Make me fumble ecstatically Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1993 21:53:59 +1100 From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Hi everyone. I am, as they say, knackered. :-) Just a quick "help" message; I'm after a copy of Sarah MacLachlan's "Fumbling Towards Ecstacy" on CD. It's hard to find. No record store here will import from Canada, and Nettwerk want to hit me for massive postal charges and a 10 week delivery time, by which time it'll probably be out in the US and freely available anyway. :) So - if anyone knows of a store that sells this CD either in Canada or the US, and would like to trade a copy for something from here (haven't you always wanted to hear Margot Smith? :-) then please mail me, I'll be eternally grateful. Now, to the 140-message EctoFeast that awaits me... Anthony ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au "I kind of feel like I'm Metallica..." - Tori Amos on the perils of long tours, November 1992 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== Subject: Catching up... Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1993 22:57:27 +1100 From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) If news and mail articles were cats, I'd be in a new Alfred Hitchcock production in which a humble person's 120Mb hard disk is overrun by an invasion of felines all begging to have attention paid to them and to be fed, but.. hang on, this is the silliest analogy ever. Okay. If news and mail articles were those strange little things that they put on top of power poles... aw, never mind! :-) I liked Vickie's style of formatting a few days back, so I'm going to appropriate it for this posting. BIRTHDAY LATENESS ----------------- Happy Birthday, Sue, and sorry I haven't said so yet! *HUG* FAX OF LIFE ----------- Anyone got AG's fax number handy? It was on the last newsletter I got, but I've lost the newsletter and now I need the number... RUBBER MAIL ----------- There was a minor problem with the spool directory on the gateway site that feeds my bit of the network with mail the other day; if you've mailed me something and it's bounced, sorry! Please, if you still have it, mail it again... SIBERRY JAM ON TOAST -------------------- I found a CD in at work the other day by a band called Jam Nation, on Peter Gabriel's RealWorld label, that features a track co-written and vocalised by Jane Siberry. It's yummy. MJM FUMBLES INTO RECORDING QUALITY ---------------------------------- > I noticed a similar phenomenon. Basically, FTE is recorded super LOUD. > Don't know why. I had to set my level below 3: maybe even to 2.5 on a > 0-10 > scale. And even then it came out with some saturation. The only other > artist I've noticed this about is Patty Larkin who also peaks out real > easily. > But this is the first time Sarah's done this. It's not you at all. I've run up against difficult CDs to record occasionally. Try taping it on a deck with Dolby HX Pro in it - you'll be amazed at the difference. (You do have to use either Dolby B or C to use HX Pro, and it's record-only, btw. Dolby S decks, for those lucky enough to have one, have the HX circuitry built in to the Dolby S system). JEFF GOES SHOPPING ------------------ > I hit a used disc shop yesterday and came away pretty well pleased for my > $14: > 1) Cranberries, "Linger" promo CD-single. $2 > > Great stuff...this has two non-album tracks, "Reason" and "Them", both of > which are wonderful. I don't know if this CD had a "public" release, but It was released in the UK and Australia as a standard CD single. > 2) Ingrid Chavez, _May 19 1992_. $4 A bargain! :-) > I've only listened to this once and I'm not sure how I feel about it. Very > dancey, with lots of spoken vocals. I thought I'd heard the name on Ecto. > Is this true? I mentioned her a while ago. I *really* like this album, despite its dancey leanings. Ingrid's speaking voice gets me every time. It's also very nice musically in places, thanks to co-writer and producer Michael Koppelman, who has since been here in Melbourne producing local band Frente and NZ band Headless Chickens. BOB INVENTS A DRINK ------------------- > Hi there ectonics New EcTonic! Perfect for jogging fans! Replenishes instantly! :-) > Anthony at xymox, did you ever get my reply from Susanne? She faxed me > a statement for you after I sent her your recent comments on the slowness of > it all. Noting that the record company has a CD now, I guess we finally got > through! Yay!! Please keep me posted on Happy developments down under. I have it sitting here but haven't had time to reply yet! I didn't want to rush a reply off, rather I want to think a bit first :-) I'll try to get a reply off to you that you can pass on to Susanne in the next couple of days. Now that Mushroom have a CD, by the way, this is the time to start hassling them about how much they like it and how much they want to license the albums!!! :-) SCOTT AND THE BOOKLET --------------------- > Hmm... I was just looking through the Sleeper booklet and I noticed an email > address for a fan club... > > tribe@world.std.com > > how '93. It's actually not the fan club, but Greg LoPiccolo's email account. Those attending to the fan mail discussion/argumant over on rdt will doubtless be impressed by the fact that a band prints a direct email address of one of its members in the CD booklet! HARD DRIVE VACUUMING TIME ------------------------- That's all for now - time to send this batch'o'stuff off.... Anthony ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au "I kind of feel like I'm Metallica..." - Tori Amos on the perils of long tours, November 1992 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== From: r.lovejoy1@genie.geis.com Date: Sun, 5 Dec 93 20:21:00 BST Subject: Progress report It is Sunday afternoon. The rain is abating in Philly, but our back yard is a lake. I have been able to get most of my work done on the HGP! Doug, expect my tapes to arrive by the end of the week! On one side of the main tape is my HGP offering. The other is Happy's recent stop at WXPN, featuring an all new acoustic version of "Closer" (with the Bar Chord of Doom!). I'll enclose some blanks so I can get the HBP as well as the HGP. Looks like I'm closer to the allotted time this time. Anthony, thanks for the reply. AG's fax is 1 (718)330-0379, plus appropriate country codes and long distance falderol. A short post this time. Off to the store, then on to finish the HGP. See you all soon! Bob Lovejoy ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1993 14:24:43 +1200 From: sainty_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz Subject: Thank you Kate For writing a song as beautiful as "Moments of Pleasure" and for the fact that it started playing when I needed it most... ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1993 04:29:32 -0700 From: "Alex Gibbs" Subject: KT's US RbG on US MTV, not 120 Min Or after some expansion: Kate's US version of Rubberband Girl was on US MTV just recently, 30 minutes after "120 Minutes" ended. In other words she was on normal US MTV! (admittedly at 2:30 am eastern/pacific though) BTW, anyone know in what city MTV's new Jon Stewart show tapes? He has music guests. (I almost added "of course" to the end of that sentence but, considering the shows that MTV has now, music isn't implied anymore.) --- AlexGibbs arg@kilimanjaro.opt-sci.arizona.edu |\| | (~, |-| ~|~ |-| /-\ \/\/ |< "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." "Have you ever seen a picture of Jesus laughing? Mmm, do \ Why Should I you think He had a beautiful smile? A smile that healed." \ Love You? ======================================================================== 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)