From: owner-ecto-digest To: ecto-digest@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto-digest V2 #116 Reply-To: ecto@nsmx.rutgers.edu Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, 24 May 1995 Volume 02 : Number 116 The Ecto digest is now being generated automatically. Please send problems and questions to: ecto-owner@nsmx.rutgers.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "Matt Bittner" Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 08:35:54 +0000 Subject: A favor to ask... Jewel fans, I'm asking for a favor from you - or anybody else that wants to help. I'm trying to get a local "alternative" station to play Jewel, and keep on getting sloughed off. Luckily, they have an email address. I was wondering if you could email them, asking them to play Jewel, "Who Will Save Your Soul". I encourage you to use my name, as I have been if phone contact with them every-other-day, so they know I'm pushing for this. If you wouldn't mind, their address is: krrk@expanse.com Thanks so much, and maybe now we can get Jewel played in Omaha. Matt Bittner meba@cso.com Omaha, Nebraska ------------------------------ From: Sam Warren Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 10:29:59 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Mimi 'n' Moby To whomever first inquired about Mimi Goese's appearance on the new Moby CD, _Everything is Wrong_, I looked it up over the weekend. She sings two songs, both of which she co-wrote with Moby. They are called "Into The Blue" and "When It's Cold I'd Like To Die." I still maintain that she sounds quite similar to Annie Lennox. - -Sam ------------------------------ From: bridgesm@logica.co.uk (Martin G Bridges) Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 16:34:18 +0100 Subject: Re: Mimi 'n' Moby >To whomever first inquired about Mimi Goese's appearance on the new Moby CD, >_Everything is Wrong_, I looked it up over the weekend. She sings two songs, >both of which she co-wrote with Moby. They are called "Into The Blue" and "When >It's Cold I'd Like To Die." I still maintain that she sounds quite similar to >Annie Lennox. > Moby appeared along with Mimi on Jools Holland's "Later" show in the UK last Saturday. She sang 'Into The Blue'. Sounded fairly interesting. Also on the show was PJ Harvey. It was the first time I'd seen the new look, and it was a bit of a surprise. Black velvety clingy dress, very glam, OD'ed on eyeshadow and lipstick. Quite a change from the look around the 'Rid Of Me' album. Quite a different sound too - very dark blues. Made me seriously consider buying the album. Bye for now, Martin *------------------------------------------------------------------------* * Martin G Bridges | All opinions expressed are | * * Logica UK Ltd. | mine, but may be shared! | Disqualified from * * Stephenson House |------------------------------| the human race * * 67-87 Hampstead Rd. | Email: bridgesm@logica.co.uk | for shoving * * LONDON NW1 2PL | Tel. : +44 171 637 9111 | * * U.K. | Fax. : +44 171 344 3633 | * *------------------------------------------------------------------------* ------------------------------ From: Neal Copperman Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 12:07:04 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Mimi 'n' Moby On Tue, 23 May 1995, Sam Warren wrote: > To whomever first inquired about Mimi Goese's appearance on the new Moby CD, > _Everything is Wrong_, I looked it up over the weekend. She sings two songs, > both of which she co-wrote with Moby. They are called "Into The Blue" and "When > It's Cold I'd Like To Die." I still maintain that she sounds quite similar to > Annie Lennox. > > -Sam > Wow, I'll have to give that disc a try sometime. If nothing else to see what makes Mimi sound like Annie Lennox. Hugo Largo never sounded a bit like them. (People who haven't ever heard them might want to check out their first album, Drum. The band is two basses, an electric violin, and female vocals. The music is kind of weirdly dreamy, but heavier than what I would call ethereal. Live there was a real sense of danger and urgency, which never translated to the discs, except perhaps for the song "Second Skin". I believe at least part of the album was produced by Michael Stipe. In fact, at one very large REM show (for whatever album Orange Crush was on), they actually covered a Hugo Largo song. I think I was the only person in the Cap Center who was really excited about that :) Neal ------------------------------ From: art@cs.sfu.ca Date: Tue, 23 May 95 09:16:24 PDT Subject: Suddenly, origins! I believe that the origin of the name is as follows: Beth was putting on makeup and overdid it - Suddenly, Tammy! (as in Tammy Faye Bakker (sp?)) I'm sure I've seen this tale related at least twice in print. Check out some interviews/stories from around the time of the first album. As it happens, yesterday I ran across a letter that Beth sent me about 2 years ago in response to a letter that I sent the band asking whether there was anything released other than the (first) album. Among the things she listed was a flower pot that she described as "cute". I probably should have bought one, but didn't. Does anyone out there own a S,T! flower pot? Art Liestman ------------------------------ From: "Chandra L. Sriram" Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 12:14:39 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Sounds from the Cold Seas hector zazou is the "director" of this cd, so you'll find it, if at all, under his name. i can't remember all the contributors, but they included siouxsie, varttina, jane siberry, bjork, suzanne vega. this was released i think only a couple of weeks ago. several years ago he did an album that had lisa gerrard and brendan perry, and anneli drecker from bel canto. i thikn they're both pretty good, if you're into dark, semi-ambient stuff. chandra On Sun, 21 May 1995 winkte@wwa.com wrote: > Could someone give me some additional info about this obviously ecto-desirable > cd? Both Borders and Tower here in Chicago have absolutely no idea of what > I'm talking about! > Any info such as label, contributing artists, release date, etc. would be > greatly appreciated! > > Hugs, > > Lynne > > winkte= two souled > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > maryb@sco.com > X4550 > Your bad habit might be the good habit of someone else > > ------------------------------ From: jmn@rocket.com (JOHN NAVROTH) Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 10:26:26 -0800 Subject: pj in seattle For about an hour-and-a-half last night (Monday, May 22), PJ Harvey peeled the paint off the wall of Seattle's 1400 seat Moore Theatre. With a five man back-up band, PJ sang her way through a blistering set of hard-edged, sometimes blues-flavored rock tunes. Eschewing her red satin dress for a black lace slip and sporting more eye makeup than the sale rack at Bartell Drugs, the svelte country girl from England looked more like a London club waif. Visual persona aside, her vocals, delivered with uncompromising, gut-wretching emotion were unrelenting start to finish. The band pushed their instruments to their overdriven, auditory limits, but nothing could come close to matching PJ's vocals which were definitely the highlight of the show. Don't miss this one, folks. ------------------------------ From: vnozick@tribune.com (Nozick, Valerie) Date: Tue, 23 May 95 11:30:52 cst Subject: Great pun If you haven't seen it, check out today's Mixed Media comic strip in your local newspaper. It's the best Internet/WWW pun I've seen yet. ==> Valerie vnozick@tribune.com ------------------------------ From: veronica sawyer Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 11:53:47 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Sounds from the Cold Seas and oragenithings rehi and greetings, > Subject: Sounds from the Cold Seas > ... > Could someone give me some additional info about this obviously > ecto-desirable cd? Both Borders and Tower here in Chicago have absolutely > no idea of what I'm talking about! it's on Columbia, CK 67068, and on the back it says "...connect with Sony Online at www.sony.com" and i don't know if this is enough info to get to a web page, but that's all it says. sorry. :( the Tower in burlington had many copies, filed under Z in pop/rock. but they also had other Hector Zazou cds filed in the world music and compilation sections... so some hunting may be in order. sound wise i think "Songs from the Cold Seas" is an apt title. the songs are mostly icythereal and sad, filled with shipwrecks and loss and mourning, alien distance and dangerous exploration. in many senses of those words. :) temperaturementally it's too cool for my season (spring is *here* give me theBreeders!) but i like it a lot and come-again Winter my Drear... this album will be back. and when you read the credits you'll think "Who *isn't* on this album?" and it's true, so i won't even try and say who they all are. i had an almost-clever but oh-so-clearly "hmph you can tell where *her* mind is today." sub(ject)title for this section, one that could do sooo many perveriations but i'm being good today. so... re: Suddenly, Origins II On Tue, 23 May 1995 art@cs.sfu.ca wrote: > I believe that the origin of the name is as follows: > Beth was putting on makeup and overdid it - Suddenly, Tammy! once i stopped laughing and started breathing properly again i was reminded of a long-standing (well, closer to long-sitting, or perhaps long-lurking-skulking about in mynd+shadows and sometimes making my head itch) question i've played hostess to: How *did* they come up with the name Miranda Sex Garden????! the best guess i've heard ('best' to mean 'funniest', although in truth it's also the only guess i've heard) is that each singer picked one word privately, and then (after arranging the words nicely) the group took those 3 words as their name. unlikely, true... but i find it funny so it scores points over liklier, boringer explanations. (if the truth isn't funny, what good is it? does reality have a duty to amuse us? did *anyone* else ever play Paranoia?) but if anyone or anyEno knows the "real" answer, no matter how prosaic, i'd really like to hear it. fallen afoul of faer-spring's fevered fertility, veronica ------------------------------ From: Neal Copperman Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 16:44:07 -0400 (EDT) Subject: weird Holly Cole sighting I saw the movie Funny Bones the other night. It's a truly bizarre film that I thought was really cool, but would be kind of hesitant to recommend to people. It's sort of a celebration of vaudeville and physical comedy, wrapped up into the story of a strange and unhappy family and a search for humour by someone who doesn't seem to have it. At a moments notice the movie could shift from hilarious to unsettling. Anyway, some of it takes place in Vegas, and one of the Casino marquees advertised Jay Leno in big letters, and the Holly Cole Trio in slightly less big letters. I wouldn't think of them as a Vegas band, but there it was. Curious. Neal ------------------------------ From: Philip Sainty Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 10:22:10 +1200 Subject: Miranda Sex Garden (was Re: Sounds from the Cold Seas and oragenithings) Veronica stands, sits, and wonders: > How *did* they come up with the name Miranda Sex Garden????! > > the best guess i've heard ('best' to mean 'funniest', although in truth > it's also the only guess i've heard) is that each singer picked one word > privately, and then (after arranging the words nicely) the group took > those 3 words as their name. unlikely, true... but i find it funny so it > scores points over liklier, boringer explanations. (if the truth isn't > funny, what good is it? does reality have a duty to amuse us? did > *anyone* else ever play Paranoia?) > > but if anyone or anyEno knows the "real" answer, no matter how prosaic, i'd > really like to hear it. (Courtesy of an interview on the MSG web pages that I remembered reading once :) - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Miranda Sex Garden. If you're familiar with that name, it's one that conjures up images of music that is sensual, aggressive, and mystic, played by beautiful women and long haired men. Miranda Sex Garden. It's a name that actually doesn't mean anything. It comprises words meaning what's read to you when you're arrested, what people in nightclubs think about, and a place where you can grow tomatoes. Fortunately, I was able to talk to these beautiful women and men and get the real story. "We didn't come up with the name," confesses head Gardener Katherine Blake, "We were doing a gig and we didn't have a name. Our agent at the time had a list of names and said, here's a name, there you go. We just needed to be announced, so we just went for that, really. It's three completely irrelevant words strung together so you could make of it what you want." - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The web page is at: http://sksol1.physics.sunysb.edu/~jng/msg/ and the interview in question is: http://sksol1.physics.sunysb.edu/~jng/msg/interview/duhn.html Philip (who's never played "Paranoia", but who recalls laughing hysterically at the back cover of the box several years ago :) _ _ ___ _ _ _ (_ / | / \ |_) |_| | | (_ Philip Sainty (_ \_ | \_/ | | | | |_ (_ ectophil@comp.vuw.ac.nz - -------------------------------------------------------------- "This is where I want to be, this is what I need." --Kate Bush ------------------------------ From: f.mcguire1@genie.geis.com Date: Tue, 23 May 95 22:51:00 UTC Subject: suddenly Tammy! Hi, Someone had asked about the origin of the name of the band Suddenly Tammy! On a special they did for the Phila. cable channel Prism in 1993, Beth explained how they came up with the name. Beth said she ordinarily does not wear any makeup, and happened to wear some one day. Since she looked so different, she was teased that she looked like Tammy Faye Baker. Hence, the name Suddenly Tammy! I don't remember if she or a band member came up with the name. It may have come from a customer in the bakery that she was working in at the time. Hope that helps. Sherry McGuire Also, the current issue of Performing Songwriter has an article/interview with Jill Sobule. For anyone is the Phila. area, she is TENTATIVELY scheduled to play the Tin Angel on Sunday, the 28th. Innocence Mission is booked there for Sunday June 4th. The phone number for the Tin Angel is 215- 928-0978 ------------------------------ From: "Mitchell A. Pravatiner" Date: Tue, 23 May 95 19:29:31 EDT Subject: Was ya ever stung by a dead socket? and other stories Lest anyone be experiencing greater confusion than is normal for them when reading one of my posts, the title is taken from something I said in a conversation in our MUSH room, and which seemed like a good idea at the time :-). Such mindsets are quite likely when one's been trying to get through over 300 stored messages on the toasternet, due to its having crashed for most of yesterday. I feel a certain relief that there won't be an ecto party this weekend; for a number of reasons I won't get into right now, it probably would be a bad time for me, schedulingwise (or as I called it before catching the typo, shedulingwise--ah, British English :-) ). My only hope is that whoever actually shows up on Chip's doorstep this weekend won't use it as an excuse to ditch the actual ecto party, whenever it's actually held :-). WRT Amy's musing on feeling dated from having seen and played vinyl 45's in her lifetime: She thinks she's got problems? In my lifetime, I have seen and played genuine 78's made from genuine carnauba wax. The irony of RPM having declined over the years as the 78 gave way to the LP, only to rise again with the CD, has never quite been lost on me. Off to brave what's left of the rain. Mitch ------------------------------ From: Dan Stark Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 22:16:59 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Today's your birthday, friend... On Tue, 23 May 1995, Michael Matthews wrote: > *************** > *****HAPPY********* > **************BIRTHDAY********* > *************************************************** > *************************************************************************** > ******************** Jewel Kilcher (no Email address) ********************* ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ According to the CD sleeve, it's JewelJK@aol.com. - ------------------------------- DAN STARK dstark@freenet.niagara.com St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada ------------------------------ From: pmcohen@netaxs.com (Paul Cohen) Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 23:28:17 -0400 Subject: Re: Real MacColl >> I don't yet have Galore, but I'm wondering if this CD is completely >> subsumed by Galore? And, "They Don't Know ('bout us)" >> sounds very familiar -- >> has anyone else covered this, or have I actually heard the Kirsty >> version in a previous lifetime? > >I think Kirsty wrote it for Tracey Ullman... Kirsty wrote and recorded it in the late '70s. Tracey Ullman covered it later. ________Paul Cohen________________pmcohen@netaxs.com________________________ King of Prussia, PA http://www.netaxs.com/~pmcohen/ ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo talk: pmcohen@slip-91.netaxs.com ------------------------------ From: FoghornJ@aol.com Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 23:34:17 -0400 Subject: Happy on WPKN... ...happened last Friday night. Only 4 songs, Happy solo on guitar, but a nice interview. No real revelations here, except perhaps that AG wants to set up an internet site for Happy, but I think I read that here earlier anyway. The interview was conducted by Ray Terlaga, who held the PKN time slot, assisted by Binnie Klein, who normally is on Saturday evening. On Saturday Binnie announced she did a pre-interview with Happy before the on-air one Friday. Next Saturday 5/26 at 8 pm she hopes to play her interview and re-air the 4 tunes Happy played live (assuming the editing is done by then). I have it taped, and was going to send it pronto to The Tape Dubbing Project guy (Doug), but I will balk now until I hear what Saturday's interview has to offer. Since Friday's was only about 35 minutes long in toto, there's plenty room on a cassette for more. Later, fog ------------------------------ From: Richard Holmes Date: Tue, 23 May 95 21:38:59 -0700 Subject: New Mush Room- where Hi all! I got approval from the "wizard" at the new mush site, but haven't been able to dig up the address to telnet to... I looked on the ecto mush page as well. In case I'm blind, please repost the telnet address for the new ecto mush. Sorry to bother y'all, Richard (bluefire) ------------------------------ From: nightwol@dircon.co.uk (Steve Fagg) Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 10:36:29 +0100 Subject: New Annie Lennox Singles in UK Annie Lennox will be releasing a new single in the UK next week. It features her version of Procol Harum's 1967 hit "A Whiter Shade of Pale". In keeping with what is now common practice it seems there will be two CD singles with different contents. CD1 contains: A Whiter Shade of Pale Heaven (the Psychedelic Furs song) I'm Always Touched by Your Presence Dear (the Blondie classic) Love Song for a Vampire (from the film "Bram Stoker's Dracula") "Heaven" and "I'm Always Touched..." are not otherwise available. CD2 contains: A Whiter Shade of Pale Don't Let it Bring You Down (live) You Have Placed a Chill in My Heart (live) Here Comes the Rain Again (live) These live versions were recorded live in the USA this year. Official release date is Monday 29th May, but as that is a holiday in the UK (as indeed I believe it also is in the USA and Canada) I'll not be picking up a copy before Tuesday. TTFN Steve - -- Steve Fagg a.k.a. Nightwol ( 'phone: +44-1279-402437 ) ( s.l.fagg@bnr.co.uk (work) nightwol@dircon.co.uk (home) ) *** We tried to add it all up and got merely sunrise. *** *** Try putting that in a letter to someone in exile. *** ------------------------------ From: SUZANNE WEISS Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 02:39:58 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: my best furend onica!!!!!! grrrrrrrlllllllll!!!! where have ya been?!?!?!?! ::smiles and pounces on you for a mondo tight huggles:: hope ya are healing up well!! if ya needs some dry climate to heal in... ::grins:: the door is always open! can't give ya PJ BUT we might be able to find ya some concert ya'd enjoy. ; ) take care of yourself!! dreaming AKA Suzanne ------------------------------ From: Vickie the Ectophile Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 10:25:48 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: New Mush Room- where On Tue, 23 May 1995, Richard Holmes wrote: > Hi all! > > I got approval from the "wizard" at the new mush site, but haven't > been able to dig up the address to telnet to... I looked on the ecto > mush page as well. In case I'm blind, please repost the telnet address > for the new ecto mush. Sorry to bother y'all, > Richard (bluefire) I got approval too and I don't even know the address. You're not blind :-) Jason has never posted or given out the address and the "wizard" just assumed we already knew it. Actually...none of us have moved because TinyCWRU seems to be settling down now. The crackers have either gone away or are lying low and the other technical problems seem to have been taken care of. Anyway...it's a lot more stable now. Try TinyCWRU again (telnet caisr2.caisr.cwru.edu 4201). I've built a shopping mall and a monorail and now I'm working on an apartment building (Equipoise Towers...ha!) and yet the place is like a ghost town much of the time. Vickie - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Vickie Mapes irc ---> #ecto "My ears are lucky to hear vickie@wwa.com alt.music.ecto these glorious songs" HR _________ "Imagination sets in, then |_ _ | _ The Happy Rhodes mailing list all the voices begin" KB |__|_ ||_| ecto-request@nsmx.rutgers.edu - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Searching for Happy Rhodes reviews, articles, interviews, mentions - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V2 #116 ************************** ======================================================================== Please send any questions or comments about the list to ecto-owner@nsmx.rutgers.edu