From: owner-ecto-digest To: ecto-digest@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto-digest V2 #67 Reply-To: ecto@nsmx.rutgers.edu Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, 29 March 1995 Volume 02 : Number 067 The Ecto digest is now being generated automatically. Please send problems and questions to: ecto-owner@nsmx.rutgers.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: elionwyr@onix.com (Lewars Dusti L.) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 95 22:35:12 EST Subject: Could it be? I was listening to a tape a friend gave me this weekend, and it occurred to me that Blues Travellers might be worth considering Ecto music. Is it? I'd recommend them as something to check out if you've not heard them..heaven knows *I* plan to. :) --<--<--@ Elionwyr @-->-->-- "I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly, for you tread upon my dreams..." ------------------------------ From: Philip Sainty Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 18:43:56 +1200 Subject: Loreena concert mini-review "God came to earth and performed for 2 1/4 hours." --Urs' .sig a few days ago :) Last friday in Wellington, New Zealand, Loreena McKennitt played the final concert in the mask and mirror tour that she began in january to an audience of about 1000. (I know this because apparently that's how many people can be seated in the lower part of the centre where she performed (the upper seats weren't on sale), and it was virtually full.) Urs and I got fourth-row seats (having bought our tickets several weeks in advance) and sat mesmerised for two and a quarter hours. (Well actually there was a 15-20 minute interval in the middle, but apart from that :) I had hoped it might go for a bit longer than that, but perhaps Loreena was still suffering the effects of the bronchitis Anthony H reported. If she was though, it was unnoticeable for the songs that she did sing - her voice was simply beautiful! (There was no opening act. I don't know if this is common for Loreena's performances... (anyone?)) I kept a note of the set-list: - ------------------------------------------------- The Mystic's Dream Santiago (Ga!) All Soul's Night Between the Shadows Bonny Portmore "Nasquerline" (*) Full Circle - --interval-- Amazing Grace (Hugh Marsh - electric violin solo) The Dark Night of the Soul Stolen Child The Bonny Swans The Lady of Shalott The Old Ways (1st encore) Annachie Gordon (2nd encore) - ------------------------------------------------- * I couldn't hear properly what she called this, and I don't know how to spell it. I don't think it's on any of her albums. Can anyone enlighten me? I'd like to point out at this stage in the review that Hugh Marsh is a God. :) The rest of the band were also brilliant, but with the violin being so prominent, his skill really stood out... The blending of Brian Hughes' guitar and Marsh's violin (musically, not literally :) was a wonder to behold! Loreena told several stories during the concert, some of them being about the songs, and some of them (generally hilarious! :) about her experiences when travelling. I'm not sure what else to say about it, other than that it was a completely wonderful evening with a true ecto Goddess! Philip _ _ ___ _ _ _ (_ / | / \ |_) |_| | | (_ Philip Sainty (_ \_ | \_/ | | | | |_ (_ ectophil@comp.vuw.ac.nz - -------------------------------------------------------------- "This is where I want to be, this is what I need." --Kate Bush ------------------------------ From: stevev@greylady.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 95 23:58:01 PST Subject: Re: ecto-digest V2 #65 Greg Bossert writes: > [wordy short answer] The Web is the set of electronic documents and > services that you can access over the InterNet using "Web Browser" > software, such as NCSA Mosaic or Netscape Mosaic. It's just "Netscape", not "Netscape Mosaic". In fact, Netscape Communications Corporation (formerly Mosaic Communications Corporation) has since made a significant effort to distinguish themselves and their product from NCSA Mosaic. > Mosaic: the name for several brands of Web Browser software, > available for PCs, Macintoshes, and various Unix workstations. The > popular media and many people who should know better often confuse > Mosaic (just one brand of Web client) with the Web itself. NCSA Mosaic is a particular Web browser published by the U.S. National Center for Supercomputing Applications. It is available for Unix/X platforms, the Macintosh, and Microsoft Windows. It has been largely supplanted by Netscape, which offers more features. Many other browsers exist (my personal favorite is Emacs-W3, which runs under GNU Emacs on UNIX). I got turned on to the Web last summer. It's becoming the most entertaining and useful thing on the Internet (well, apart from Ecto :-) ). I have a very rudimentary home page, to which I recently added a digital photograph of myself: http://jcomm.uoregon.edu/~stevev/ My main foray into Web publishing was writing a Linux DOOM FAQ, which my home page is mostly just a front end that people can use if they forgot part of the URL. ------------------------------ From: jeffy@wam.umd.edu Date: Wed, 29 Mar 95 09:38:49 EST Subject: Re: ecto-digest V2 #65 Greg (>>) and Steve (>) write: >> Mosaic: the name for several brands of Web Browser software, >> available for PCs, Macintoshes, and various Unix workstations. The >> popular media and many people who should know better often confuse >> Mosaic (just one brand of Web client) with the Web itself. > >NCSA Mosaic is a particular Web browser published by the U.S. >National Center for Supercomputing Applications. Okay, let's take this one step further toward accuracy. NCSA's Mosaic is a web browser *and* collaboration tool. NCSA has been licensing the Mosaic "technology" to other companies which can use it as a base for their own browsing tools (at least some of which are intended more for internal enterprise use than wide use on the Web). So yes, while NCSA Mosaic is just one particular browser, there are or will be commercial products which can justly use the name "Mosaic." >It has been largely supplanted by Netscape, which offers more >features. Yeah, now if only NCC would stop throwing in tags which weren't part of the HTML standard, or at least wait and push them into 3.0. I'm sick of "this page was optimized for use with Netscape" comments... >Many other browsers exist (my personal favorite is >Emacs-W3, which runs under GNU Emacs on UNIX). I'll put in my vote for Omniweb, running under NEXTSTEP. So, like, what's the ecto significance of all this? Well, mostly that I first heard of the Web back in the summer of '93, a few months before I went back to grad school (and started pursuing a couple of masters degrees dealing with geographic information systems, hypertext/hypermedia, and information browsing) and got access to the Web. And it was here in ecto that I first read about the web. I believe it was woj who first posted about it, letting folks know about the 4AD page... Jeff (who got the _Freedom Sessions_ disc yesterday and wants to know how the hell you access the "Ice Cream" movie...short of just using QT to cheat...) ------------------------------ From: torok@nynexst.com (Dave Torok) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 10:25:56 -0500 Subject: Freedom Sessions Easter Eggs? Hi all, I just got my Freedom Sessions EP+MM disc ($12.99) and have been enjoying it immensely. I was wondering if anyone has found some of the so-called "easter eggs"? I only played with it for about an hour yesterday and wasn't really looking for them. Of course you can look at the "Sources" directory and compare the files there with the various screens you've found and which ones you've missed. - -=$>Dave<$=- ------------------------------ From: itos@pavlov.psyc.queensu.ca (Steve Ito) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 95 12:20:34 EST Subject: Jewel on MuchMusic Yesterday, I said >Yesterday she got even more publicity, appearing on Canada's music television >station, MuchMusic, and playing some songs live at CFNY, Toronto's "alternative >rock" radio station. Unfortunately, I didn't catch either of these >appearances, I was told about them by a friend who I'd turned on to Jewel. I Joy of joys! After I got home on Monday, I turned the VCR on and taped 6 hours of MuchMusic in the wee morning hours, in the faint hopes that I would catch a re-airing of Jewel's MuchMusic appearance. It worked! After work last night I checked my tape, and there she was, smiling and laughing away! She handled herself very well in the interview and her live in-studio performance of... um... um... if you really want to know, e-mail me. I was struck by how natural she seemed to act on camera, I couldn't really notice any nervousness or self-consciousness at all. Did any of you know that she DRIVES from city to city? I had assumed she flew, but no, she spends most of her time on highways... unreal. I wonder if she's still driving that VW van, or if she's upgraded since then? Maybe now she has a Winnebago (sp?). :-) Anyway, after the interview, they showed her video. I didn't know she had a video! Anyway, it was for "Who Will Save [your? our? my? my dog Rufus'?] Soul", and was set in a public washroom, of all places. Then after that, one of the other VJ's (Sook-Yin Lee) asked her to stay to do a bit of yodelling, so she did (VERY brief), and then left. Fittingly, the last you hear from Jewel is an off-camera giggle. :-) Steve - ----------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Ito, R.A. | "Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says Psychology Dept. | differently is selling something." Queen's University | -- The Dread Pirate Roberts Kingston, ON, Can. | ------------------------------ From: Mike Mendelson Date: 29 Mar 95 12:36:45 EST Subject: Happy Rhodes ECHOES Segment Someone was interested in this, and since it's been a while since I posted it (2 years!) I thought I would re-post it... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - re-post - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - All right, fellow ectogenarians, here's the full segment from the public radio show entitled _ECHOES_, including all mentions of Happy Rhodes that I could detect. Transcribed with everyone's permission except the people who broadcast it, created it, produced it and appear in it. Hope I don't get deported. - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - --- My comments are in []. ##### indicates break in talking with music in foreground. ========== X ========== indicates musical selection of/by X begins playing. Happy Rhodes' comments are all indented. - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - --- 91.5 FM WBEZ Chicago 5 AM CDT ========== Phobos, HTR ========== ##### I'm John D. Liberto [?] and you're hearing Echoes. Happy Rhodes has been compared to Kate Bush, and her music has that magical resonance that permeates Bush's best work. Despite her name, though, her early music depicted an unhappy life, populated by tormenters, aliens and hidden traumas. With her first CD, Warpaint, however, Happy Rhodes switches gears with a richly textured, outward looking music of affirmation. ##### Later on, we'll be talking to Happy Rhodes who's just released four CDs-worth of her earlier music. ========== Kitaro ========== ##### You're listening to Echoes, and I'm JDL. Later on, we'll be talking with techno-singer/songwriter Happy Rhodes. ========== Light String: Evolution ========== ##### ========== Liz Story: Toy Soldiers ========== ##### ========== Tony Vacca, Tim Moran: Far From Home ========== ##### Happy Rhodes has a voice that can reach angelic heights and worldly lows and her music mixes technology with science fiction imagery. She got the name Happy from her brother who couldn't pronounce Kimberly when she was a baby. But Happy doesn't describe the life or the early music of this artist. Her newest album is Warpaint, but she's just released four CDs worth of earlier material: Rhodes I, Rhodes II, Rearmament, and Ecto. Kimberly Haas travels down Happy Rhodes. ========== Mystery Song, HTR ========== ##### [KH] Happy Rhodes began writing songs when she was 14 years old in upstate New York. That was 12 years ago and although she put her music out on cassettes few people ever heard it. And that really wasn't the point, because Happy Rhodes was driven. [HR] Did five songs per night, including vocals and mixing 'em and just whip 'em off in that manner and I'd make a lot of mistakes and I wouldn't care because getting it down on tape was the most important thing. At the time that I was recording most of that material, I had no idea that it was going to be released -- that people were going to be hearing it. But I knew it was important to get it down on tape because I was writing it so quickly. Y'know I was very prolific. ##### If Happy Rhodes' artistic life were divided into periods, this would be called her black era. Listening to these four early CDs you hear a woman seeking catharsis and escape. And the signposts of a broken home are obvious. Broken is putting it lightly. Broken, strange --- well yeah, my mother 'n' father divorced -- that was like not a big deal. A lot of kids can handle that. After that my father remarried to a woman who turned out to be my nemesis and I did not have a good childhood because of it. And then my father became an alcoholic and a lot of different things happened. ========== Asylum Master, HTR ========== I moved away from them at a certain time to go live with my mother who was up in the Albany area and certain people that she was remarried to I had a hard time with. It was an extremely troubled and unsafe, chaotic childhood. ##### Happy Rhodes' youth is spilled out across these four CDs. Even the covers reveal her disaffection. She's painted alien vampires and malevolent wrathes that wouldn't be out of place on a heavy metal album. I painted a lot and that's the kind of stuff I painted and still do occasionally and I don't see that as dark either and a lot of people are afraid to look at pictures like that and I think it's creative I love to --- well I'm also a sci-fi freak, so I guess... The imagery is dark, but... ========== Wuthering Heights, KT ========== ...listeners can find solace in her music. Rhodes found comfort in the music of Kate Bush, the British singer with whom she's often compared. ##### Happy Rhodes readily admits the influence. There's a certain feminine piercing angelic quality that I like. Granted in the last four albums, the earlier four albums, I sounded very much like Kate Bush... ========== Would That I Could, HTR ========== ...because when i was in my very formative songwriting years from 15 to 17 years old I was listening to Kate Bush and singing along with her records. That's how I learned to sing basically. Before that it was Queen. And you know they all have those really high, high ranges. That'll do it. ##### Rhodes also shares Bush's love of synthesizers. Although she's often mentioned along with singer/songwriters like Tori Amos, Suzanne Vega, and the Indigo Girls, the music on her latest album, Warpaint, is almost totally electronic. It's a contrast to her earlier music on which you can picture the young Rhodes alone in her room, her long, perfectly straight brown hair covering her face as she hunches over an acoustic guitar. That image may be accurate, but in her mind she was hunched over a bank of synthesizers. When I was composing everything on acoustic guitar it was because that's what I had to use... it wasn't by choice necessarily. And it wasn't a lot of strumming there weren't a lot of folk chords, it was all millions of minor keys you know what I mean it was just very dark and it didn't come out sounding folk even though it was mainly on acoustic guitar. And that's because in my head I was hearing that sound, I was striving for that Warpaint sound. So there isn't really a huge change in my mind. But I can understand that other people -- an objective person -- listening to it --- it's like oh, first she's folk, now she's electronic. ========== Phobos, HTR ========== The sound design of Warpaint may not be new but Rhodes' outlook is. She still writes about demons, only now she's not confronting them, or seeking redemption. On pieces like Waking Up, she sees the silver lining. We all watch the news every night -- when you watch the news it bums you out. And there's a lot of nasty stuff going and the corporate world is really kind of constantly stepping on -- trotting on the environment and the little man and this and that and it's just -- it's very depressing, very frustrating. But every once in a while I see a story about some old woman... ========== Waking Up, HTR ========== ...flying into a burning home to save a goldfish. And I go, "Yeah, that's the spirit, that's the way everyone should be." That is life encompassed right there as far as I'm concerned. So every once in a while -- you have to really look for them -- but there are stories about people doing incredible things to help other people and to, y'know, better the earth. And that's what waking up is about. ##### Despite the title Warpaint, HR's latest album is a playground of positive energy. The world kind of like dumped on me and revolved around me when I was writing that other material. When I wrote Warpaint, the world was like this big bubble that I could explore -- it was like - --- I'm getting really foofy now [giggles]. ========== Feed the Fire, HTR ========== But it was more --- it was more --- life is an adventure now, as compared to a dismal -- y'know being trotted upon. ##### For Echoes, I'm Kimberly Haas. ========== All Things, HTR ========== [JDL] We're going to hear something from the HR album called Warpaint. This is All Things. ##### Some music by Happy Rhodes from her album Warpaint. ##### etc. - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - Hope you enjoyed it. I will lend my tape to Vickie and she will combine with other stuff and head it over to Mr. Burks for dissemination. Till then, - -mjm (mike mendelson) (mjm@zylab.mhs.compuserve.com) ------------------------------ From: Cheri Villines Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 13:04:51 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: cats and lasers (non-ecto) my cats favorite toy is the very simple and cheap cat-dancer. it is great for me because i can set it up, got to work, and the kittens can amuse themselves. :) cheri ------------------------------ From: Greg Bossert Date: Wed, 29 Mar 95 15:51:41 EST Subject: Re: ecto-digest V2 #65 Stevev corrects me (correctly): > It's just "Netscape", not "Netscape Mosaic". In fact, Netscape > Communications Corporation (formerly Mosaic Communications > Corporation) has since made a significant effort to distinguish > themselves and their product from NCSA Mosaic. 'tis true. in fact, what was Netscape Mosaic and then Netscape seems now to be Netscape Navigator, which avoids the NCSA association, but is perhaps overly similar to O'Reilly & Associates Global Network Navigator... my original point was largely to clarify the common confusion between "WWW" and "Mosaic". > NCSA Mosaic is a particular Web browser published by the U.S. National > Center for Supercomputing Applications. [...] It has been largely > supplanted by Netscape, which offers more features. Many other > browsers exist (my personal favorite is Emacs-W3, which runs under GNU > Emacs on UNIX). The reason being that just about everyone involved in developing Mosaic at NCSA has left, and most of them have gone to Netscape. Unfortunately, [looks around for soapbox, finds none, stands on chair] they have continued their practice of ignoring standards efforts (though recently their PR types have been scrambling to explain this...) Many of the 'enhancements' to HTTP and HTML from Netscape are quick fixes with inherent problems, and will not be incorporated into future standards. I'm happy to converse further on this subject outside of Ecto with anyone who's interested. Note that Neil's Ecto Homepage includes a list of Ectophile homepages: Neil, if you're adding Steve's, add mine too! (it's in my sig) fffn! - --+ greg bossert rutgers university network services +-- - --+ bossert@noc.rutgers.edu +-- - --+ http://www-ns.rutgers.edu/~bossert +-- - --+ i have never been afraid to change -- Happy +-- - --+ the circumstances of the world -- Rhodes +-- ------------------------------ From: klaus@inphobos.wupper.de Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 18:44:17 CET-1 Subject: Heather concert & more Now that Uli and Wolfgang have written about their Heather Nova concerts, it's about time that I jump in as well although we've been to the same concert as Wolfgang. The Cologne show was at the same venue where we've previously seen the Sugarcubes and later Bjoerk. The show was nearly sold out; quite a difference to the previous ones we've seen, and if her popularity continues at this speed we'll soon see her at the same venues that Peter Gabriel plays. They wouldn't even have to turn up the sound! :) The first surprise of the evening was that the show started 15 minutes *before* the scheduled time, probably because there were two opening acts. Thanks to Uli for mentioning that Felix Todd is Heather's producer, as I wasn't aware of that fact. We've already seen him perform in december and liked him slightly more this time. Surprise number two was the 2nd act. In fact we even knew them. They have been around for a couple of years and they've probably released more albums than Heather. Their name is "Oil on Canvas" and those of you who have Rough Trade Record's "Music for the 90's, Volume 4" sampler (hi woj! :) can check out their "Alalala" song. Yes, the singer is pretty strange and having a real opera singer doing BVs opera style does add to that image. Nevertheless Claudia and I quite enjoyed them. Heather and band played a great set. Those songs have become very familiar to us and we enjoyed hearing them live again. The band has improved a lot since the last year. It can't be just the new bass player. Everybody seemed to be playing better than before. They've now also put some effort in a light show. The shadows of the guitarist and bassists were thrown on two white bedsheets hanging in the corners of the stage, making Heather in the center look even smaller as she actually is. In the last weeks Heather has received enormous media coverage over here. Unfortunately much of it focused way too much on her good looks rather than her songwriting and singing. But her songs are soooo good that I can only recommend to check out her new album "Oyster" when it will be released in your country. If you should be interested in her discography, mail to discog@inphobos.wupper.de with the subject line REQUEST Heather Nova Just remember that I wanted to mention that Sarah Craig's album has been released in Europe now. After failing to get it from those online CD stores in the US I was very surprised to see it in a CD store here. It's an excellent album and it took me several listens until I noticed that there are some german lyrics and background noises. Some notes about Sainkho will have to wait a bit longer. I'm still trying to adjust my ears (and part of my brain) to what I'm hearing. Just yesterday I received Rhodeways #4. Jeff's concert pictures really look good! I especially liked Happy's article about her childhood. Gee, I like this girl! Later... ...Klaus _____ Klaus "Cosmic Vagabond" Kluge --*-- klaus@inphobos.wupper.de If you catch me in the mood, I'm your sister, mother, beast or lover possibly you'll find me inmidst this multitude. -Dob Russkin- ------------------------------ From: "Mitchell A. Pravatiner" Date: Wed, 29 Mar 95 19:17:17 EST Subject: My email not held hostage: Day 2 I finally got through the backlog. I hate to remind myself what happened the last time I got through the backlog. It's enough to make me want to tape a segue of Happy's "Down, Down" and Dan Hicks' "Up, Up, Up" and listen to it at length :-). If the gnodes down in Chapel Hill hold up another day, I'll back tomorrow. In the meantime... Jewel's handlers would be crazy not to bring her to the attention of the music director for _Northern Exposure_. (The same goes for Happy's handlers.) It somehow (I nearly typoed "smoehow") seems appropriate for that show to use the songs of an authentic Alaskan for incidental music. (That, alas, is inapplicable to Happy :-). ) The only latent dysfunction I can think of for Valerie going to work for Tribune Media Services, which distributes items from the Trib to other papers, is that when asked what line of work she's in, she'll be constrained to reply that she works for a syndicate. Being in a city that still connotes Big Al and colleagues to many strangers, for some unknown reason, the potential for double-entendres is mind boggling. For all that, I wish her well. Having lately gotten some hopeful signs on the job market myself, maybe her recent good fortune will be the beginning of a trend in our electronic social system. Then again, I could have exhausted my good luck quota when I won the raffle at Stars Our Destination for the copy of the _Encyclopedia of Science Fiction_ (suggested retail $75). We shall see. :-) Bob, in his search for Toriana, should appeal to Neile for a copy of the review of _Y Kan't Tori Read_ that I wrote for the Ectophiles Guide. Somehow, I've always been rather proud of that one (the review, not the album, though I did trash it less seve rely than most). WRT the pigtail brouhaha, probably just as well that someone with clear midlist credentials, like Sarah, prevent the exclusive franchise on that hairstyle from going to someone like Sheryl Crow, who's as much a creature of the mass market as of the midlist. Somehow, it all reminds me of the episode of _Chicago Hope_ a few weeks ago, in which the only way to get a patient to undergo necessary surgery was for Camille to talk himm into it while done up as Dorothy from _The Wizard of Oz_, pigtails and all. Camille hated the experience, but it did convince the patient. I forget if the operation was a success. :-) The closest I can come to the tale of the close encounter with Lou Reed was when the other day, enroute to a lecture by Mayor Norquist of Milwaukee, I happened to pass by former Mayor Byrne of Chicago, on the way into her apartment building. Before the lecture was over, I had already concluded that Chicago could really use a mayor like Norquist. It only just occurred to me that it could especially have used a mayor like him while Byrne was in office :-). (Old Chicago hands on this list may have some notion what I'm driving at, the rest are on their own.) I'm of two minds whether the trumping of Meredith's installation of her car CD player by the unintended theft-proofness of the existing car radio is an object lesson in the latent dysfunctions of secure installation, or the latent functions of stripped screws. Hopefully, I won't have a lot of opportunity to ponder the answer during an upcoming system crash; responding to what I read in these pages is more enjoyable :-). Mitch ------------------------------ From: f.mcguire1@genie.geis.com Date: Thu, 30 Mar 95 02:04:00 UTC Subject: [none] For anyone in Central New Jersey, Pete and Maura Kennedy are doing an in- store appearance at Vintage Vinyl on Rte. One in Woodbridge on Saturday, April 22nd, at 2pm. The record store is in the A&P shopping center, near Menlo Park Mall. Happy Birthday to Jennifer Albert! Sherry McGuire ------------------------------ From: "Joseph C. Yu" Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 22:05:31 -0500 Subject: Subscribe I'd like to subscribe to recieve the individual articles. ------------------------------ From: larry@hal.com (Larry Hernandez) Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 19:22:46 -0800 (PST) Subject: Kirsty! Victoria! :-) WretchAwry just got me SO excited when she mentioned: * Vickie (thankful for Kirsty MacColl, because if we hadn't gone to * see her *wonderful* concert, I wouldn't have set the timer * to record the Academy Awards.) I know I promised a Kirsty post a while back, but I've just been soooooo busy, but just to jump on and expand this thread a little while it's still news, and knowing me, I'll digress: Kirsty plays the Great American Music Hall in SF next Tuesday, April 4. Of course, I have my tix, and it being general admission, I plan to get there early to get a front seat to see the artist whose music I have played more often than any other in the last few years. Ooh, fellow Katefans, please don't tread on me too hard for admitting that, ok? :-{ But it's true! I currently listen to Kirsty more often than any other artist in my collection. I deeply love her music, and it must be because I feel a kind of kinship to Kirsty's sentiments, a lot of them dealing with love-gone-wrong, my favorite theme. :-) Her lyrics are emotional, intelligent, and lots of times based in "anger", another of my favorite themes. ;-) When you couple this with her beautiful, plaintive voice, which was so appropriately described by a reviewer once as being "...able to melt butter." Her latest release is called "Galore", on IRS. It's a collection of some of her "hits" and include some b-sides, the classic "Fairytale of New York" with the Pogues, and two new songs, "Caroline" and "Perfect Day (w/Evan Dando)" are included in this generous 18-cut release. (I think Perfect Day is new.) This album, together with the album "The Essential Collection" will give new listeners a great overview of Kirsty's incredible talent. My personal favorite Kirsty album is _Electric Landlady_. So what ABOUT Victoria?? Victoria Williams also is on tour, and plays the Great American Music Hall the Friday after Kirsty, on April 7th. I am like, in heaven... And Vickie, it's all your fault! :-) ! Larry (larry@hal.com) ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V2 #67 ************************* ======================================================================== Please send any questions or comments about the list to ecto-owner@nsmx.rutgers.edu