From: owner-ecto-digest To: ecto-digest@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto-digest V2 #200 Reply-To: ecto@nsmx.rutgers.edu Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Thursday, 24 August 1995 Volume 02 : Number 200 The Ecto digest is now being generated automatically. Please send problems and questions to: ecto-owner@nsmx.rutgers.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Stephen Golden -27100 Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 06:07:52 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Tanita Tikaram For those of you who have been asking about Tanita Tikaram, yes Lovers In The City is her 5th album to date. It contains a lot of wonderful gems like "I Might Be Crying", sung with haunting backing vocals arranged by Jennifer Warnes. Additionally, the Yodeling Song ( recently released in the UK as a single ) is quite, well, interesting...and there is a song called "Feeding the Witches" as opposed to Waking them, I suppose, which is quite good. Most of the other songs sadly don't stand out. Most people have heard "Twisting My Sobriety" from her first album - which is how I first discovered Tanita. Actually, I think her tape was the first tape I purchased without really knowing the music. Liza Minelli also does a great cover version of this song on her "Results" album. Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys heard a demo of it from a tape Tanita has sent into EMI, and the rest is hisory. In the US, I've never seen any future videos or singles from Tanita after "Twisting". All of her albums have been released there though. She was going to tour the US in August, but the tour was cancelled at the last minute, and I don't think it has been rescheduled as of yet. Much overlooked, Tanita's 4th album Eleven Kinds Of Loneliness is incredible IMHO. A lot of the songs have more of a pop or rock slant to them, making them more accessible. I don't know why she never hit it big. If anyone out there knows where I could find a Tanita mailing list or discography of all her work ( including singles, etc. ) I would love to find it. - -- Stephen Golden ( who can't wait to get back to New York so I can search for Ambient Volume I ) ------------------------------ From: Damon Harper Date: Thu, 24 Aug 95 05:45 PDT Subject: account hopping wow, just a quick note of no consequence whatsoever... i just finally switched ecto over to this account, from the one i'm losing at the beginning of september, and now it's definitely confirmed that i'm ecto-dependent. even being unsubbed from ecto for not more than a few seconds felt just terribly *wrong* somehow. :) well, i'm back! damon the not-to-be-ecto-deprived :) _/\_ Damon_Harper@mindlink.bc.ca __\ /__ "Doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo, Vancouver, BC, CANADA \ / doo doo doo doo, doo doo doo doo." |/||\| - The Cranberries, http://www.dfw.net/~soulmate/damon/paukarut.html "Ode To My Family" ------------------------------ From: "JOHN SHEPARD (CALAMARI)" Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 09:10:11 -0500 Subject: Re: Bizarre Sarah sighting For the FTE folks who're reading this, confused beyond all get- out, Meredith was once a regular on FTE, before the Dark Times, before the Empire... From: THE OLIVE-LOAF VIGILANTE > >Hi! > >This one will be a quickie, but I have to share with you all. :) First, >thanks to Squid for mentioning that the Lifebeat thing was on VH-1 last >night! I read his note at 8:05, and thus missed nothing of importance >(though when Sarah came on and I pressed record to add this year's Lifebat >to the tape of last year's, nothing happened -- in which we learn that some- >times we pop the tabs of important things so they can't be accidentally >recorded over :P -- good thing it will be on a bajillion more times in the I prefer having stacks and stacks of videotapes to the chance of recording over something important. You know that feeling, you' re watching the tape, the show ends, you don't get it stopped in time (can't find that remote), and after the static, you see Sarah... AUUUGH!! >next few weeks). Haven't been able to find the Brothers McMullen soundtrack >yet (though I do know it is now out), but the song sounded interesting. Will >definitely have to explore further. And what was the deal with Ash's lame >(pronounced lam-AY, though the other way works too) jeans?!? The cameraperson >sure thought a lot of him, that much was obvious. It's been mentioned those are Sarah's pants. Apparently she and Ash are the same size (although after seeing that performance of Ice Cream, I wonder how _any_ male can fit in their pants... is this why Ash has the drum where it is?) Oh I'm gonna get it for that... >ANYway. Was looking at something on Plodigy today at work (yes, I actually >get paid for using P*, which is the only way I would do so ;) and stumbled >across this little item in the cover story of the Television listings, of >all places: > >"BENEFIT BEAT > >"While many artists take pains to let their audiences know how involved they >are in political causes, Sarah cLachlan is quick to put her role in perspect- >ive. As one of the performers in VH1 Presents...And The Beat Goes On (Tues.), >a benefit for the AIDS organization LIFEbeat, McLachlan humbly insists: "It's >such a simple thing for me to do -- show up at a gig, let my voice do something. >It's just one night, a small gesture on my part. Nobody trusts politicians >anymore -- not that musicians are good people to trust," she says, laughing, >"but at least you're doing something positive." But McLachlan has also felt >the backlash of "letting her voice" express itself; when she glibly referred >to the Internet as the "geekernet" while in Detroit, she found herself to be >the victim of some cyberspace venom. "I was just in a bad mood," she says, >"said something cheeky, and it turned out that 500 people had bought their >tickets to the concert through the Internet. It was like, Wow, people are >really listening." It wasn't Detroit. It was Ann Arbor. And I did not know about the 500 people buying their tickets through the Internet. I thought it was only the 20 or so listfolk who were there, bringing it before the 300 or so others on the list, to be mangled, flamed, manhandled, and generally ensquidified for all eternity (and for Lane). Meth, you left before/after (circle one) the Ann Arbor thing? >Geekernet. Betcha the good folks in the Nettwerk home office were >pleased to hear that one themselves. Yes, Sarah, people actually listen to >what you have to say. And some of us even put it up on the Web for everyone >else to hear too. ;> You left before. :-) And actually, I don't think the folks at Nettwerk were anywhere near as bothered by the remark as those of us on FTE; Lane Dunlop was ready to shoot me in the face by the time it was all over with, and by 3/23/95, I would probably have helped him hold the gun. Not only did Sarah not quite realize people really are listening, she (hopefully) doesn't know and should never know how much some of her fans overreact to these little things she says... and as I said then, I hope she never reads a single word of what I said during those fateful days between Ann Arbor and St. Louis. >Anyone else find it interesting that Sarah was the only performer at this >year's Lifebeat who was also there last year? I wondered about that myself. Then I saw this year's show. ( This'd be easier if you were still on FTE, I just discussed this last night...) It seems as though the concert this year was more of a VH-1 thing. It also seems as though last years' acts could almost be opening acts for this years' acts. It's a reflection of Sarah's status that the concert organizers accept her as a headliner; now, in retrospect, Sarah's the only act who really fits in well with both lineups: the new music smorgasbord of the first, the pop stardom lineup of the second. Hopefully she'll become a mainstay, and we'll see her again there next year. Re: Sarah's comments on politicians. She's right: a lot of people trust musicians before they trust politicians, even though they don't trust musicians that much at all. We just don' t trust politicians anymore at all. And the more I read the news, the more I see why. They pass stupid laws, and don't tell anyone, then when it comes up later, it's time to "reinvent government" and get rid of those laws, it's like "Where did this come from?" And now I see government trying to tell us how to live our lives, as if they're more qualified to make our decisions than we are. Government is with the consent of the people; our representatives should be doing what we tell them to, not the other way around. Meanwhile, I see polifuckingticians from _both_ sides of the aisle trying to make everything into an issue; Lifebeat itself exists because the government thinks AIDS is a political disease. The conservative slimeballs think AIDS is God's punishment for homosexuals; the liberal slimeballs think AIDS is some sort of poster disease and an opportunity. Meanwhile people are dying from it, and while the folks in Wishy-Washington argue about how best to spend my tax dollars (free abortions for women on welfare? WHAAT?) it's the rock musicians, who aren't traditionally model citizens, who're standing up and doing the hard work. I, for one, would not vote for Sarah McLachlan if she were to run for office in my district. However, if she were running against Dan Coats, and I lived in that district... see ya, Dan. Sarah has a better grasp of Internet than you do. :-) Meanwhile, the blame does not lie entirely with the politicians; _someone_ has to keep voting the dickheads back into office. These people keep complaining about politicians, and then keep pushing the lever for people like Dan "Business Trip" Rostenkowski and Ted "Let me drive you home" Kennedy. And people like me, who have other reasons for not voting (like turning 18 after the '92 election)... They wonder why America has such a low voter turnout, when people in other countries cannot vote at all. Well, in other countries, your two candidates would be 1) some communist general and 2) a reformer who wants democracy and prosperity. In America, both your candidates are communist generals. I think the two-party system should be eliminated, or at least let us vote mixed ballot in the primaries. I hate it when my candidates lose in the primaries, while I can't even decide which of the two weevils is lesser, so I could even vote in the fucking things. Conversely, you don't have to declare anything when going to a rock concert, except maybe moshing/nonmoshing. And when it comes to benefit albums, you get sort of a line-item veto, in that I can vote for AIDS research by buying, for instance, an AIDS benefit, and at the same time vote against abortion by boycotting Spirit of '73, even if it's the same musicians appearing on both albums. In ancient Greece, the gods and goddesses were just like us, except with immortality. Now, do you think the Greeks looked to their gods and goddesses for wisdom? Bwaha! Even Athena helped Ulysses play practical jokes on his family! No. These were not models for ideal living. The reason the Greeks turned to their gods and goddesses in times of stress was simply because they knew, whatever it was they couldn't do, the gods and goddesses were more likely to have the power to do. Same thing with musicians. Do we look to Sarah McLachlan for moral guidance? Well, some of us, maybe. But more than that, we look to her, not for answers, but for help. She's got clout, both the popularity kind and the financial kind; the most that some of us can do is send off $30 to a charity, while Sarah's up there belting out tunes and giving us an excuse to send in that $30. She's capable of getting the job done, when she feels like it, unlike most politicians. Where was I going with this? I've forgotten now. :-) >Must go... woj and I are taking off for Montreal tomorrow. Y'all behave >yourselves while we're gone. > >+===========================================================================+ >|Meredith Tarr meth@delphi.com| >|Boonton, NJ USA http://remus.rutgers.edu/~woj/methpg.html| >+===========================================================================+ >|"A mistake made by a transcription service mangled a quotation from William| >|Bennett in Michael Kelly's July 17th Letter From Washington. In criticizing| >|the political views of Patrick Buchanan, Mr. Bennett said, `It's a real us-| >|and-them kind of thing,' not, as we reported, `it's a real S & M sort of | >|thing.'" - The New Yorker, August 14, 1995 | >+===========================================================================+ BTW, Meredith, FTE is now running on Majordomo. Our digest mode works now, so... come on back anytime you feel like it! (That way I don't have to hold the same discussion in two places simultaneously...) | http://www.columbus.iupui.edu/~jrshepar | IUPU Columbus, Indiana | | John Shepard jrshepar@indyvax.iupui.edu | A1200 with 850M Seagate | | Internet is too important to be taken seriously. | Artist, writer, net.loon | | Amiga owner & Sarah McLachlan fan: God help me! | in the making. | |"Sympathy's wasted on my hollow shell." -Sarah M. | Fuck James Exon hard. | ------------------------------ From: Kate_Tabasko@transarc.com Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 10:52:21 -0400 (EDT) Subject: New Steeleye Span compilation For Steeleye Span fans (and those of you interested in hearing them and brave enough to shell out for a 2-CD set), there's a new compilation available. As the owner of a lot of Steeleye vinyl, I was glad to see this show up. Here's the skinny: Steeleye Span, _Spanning the Years_ (1995) Chrysalis/EMI, F2-32236 Track Listing: CD1 The Blacksmith My Johnny was a Shoemaker The King Lovely on the Water Marrowbones Rave On Gaudete John Barleycorn Alison Gross Robbery with Violins Rogues in a Nation Cam Ye o'er Frae France Thomas the Rhymer To Know Him is to Love Him New York Girls Long Lankin Black Jack Davy Hard Times for Old England All Around My Hat London CD2 Fighting for Strangers The Black Freighter The Victory The False Knight on the Road Rag Doll Let Her Go Down Sails of Silver Gone to America My Love Lady Diamond Blackleg Miner One Misty Moisty Morning The Fox Following Me Tam Lin - ---------------------------------- "Life will be happier for the on-line individual because the people with whom one interacts most strongly will be selected more by commonality of interests and goals than by accidents of proximity." -- J.C.R. Licklider, 1968 "I'm a scary girl, with a scary mind." -- Happy Rhodes - ------------- http://www.transarc.com/~tabasko/Home.html --------------------- ------------------------------ From: "Matt Bittner" Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 10:07:38 -0500 Subject: The Nields... Now that I've let the CD settle for a couple of days, I brought it back in so I can listen to it while the users go through system testing. Which means I've had more of a chance to really read the lyrics to the songs. This group is quickly moving up my list of the "best purchases of '95". I'm actually glad I paid full price just so I could own this. It is - in a word - stupendous. The voices are quite wonderful, and David (?) singing on "boys will be boys" reminds me of Kevin Roy of the Jehova Waitresses. Will it edge out Jewel and suddenly, tammy! as my top buys of '95? Hmm... It is edging really close to suddenly, tammy!'s spinART debut, but it hasn't (yet?) edged out _(we get there when we do)_, nor _pieces of you_. Time will tell. Regardless of that, though, go out and buy this one. You will definitely be pleased. This brings to mind: I will have to bring in one of my Jehova Waitresses as well as the waynes' discs. Probably my all time favorite "indie" stuff, which The Nields definitley will be added to. Matt - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Matthew Bittner WW1 Modeler, ecto subscriber, new dad meba@cso.com Omaha, Nebraska Hickory Dickory Dock Two Mice ran up the clock The clock struck one And the other escaped with minor injuries - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ------------------------------ From: Richard Holmes Date: Thu, 24 Aug 95 09:07:19 -0700 Subject: Smitten Hi, all: So, I saw the note on smitten, and looked them up on cdconnection, and got this: KAQ10 SMITTEN SMITTEN $12.69 KARATE BRAND 7/94 JAWBREAKER/SLUG/GODHEADSILO GRIFTERS/UNWOUND/EN Could this be something else by them, or another band? Sorry, this is all the info the silly thing would give me.. It seems like it might be a compilation, or another band of a same name. Thanks, Richard. ------------------------------ From: kcd@bull.cray.com (Kevin Dekan {x66440 CF/DEV}) Date: Thu, 24 Aug 95 11:26:42 CDT Subject: Re: Heather Nova... & other tidbits Hi folks! On Mon, 21 Aug 95 13:16:03 CDT I spoke these words: - --On Fri, 18 Aug 1995 15:43:17 Ariel also comments on Heather: > I'm listening to "Oyster" right now, and I must say, I'm taken by this new > artist, but hard. I've heard a lot of discussion about whether Heather sounds > like Tori Amos or Touch era Sarah McLachlan. Well, I say she sounds like both > and neither. >>I haven't picked up this CD yet, but I'm getting a strong inclination >>to do so. EWS is getting pretty strong! Anyway, you might be interested >>in checking out the above mentioned web site for Heather. Has some good >>reviews and interviews. I accessed it thru http://www.yahoo.com. Just >>go to the music link and pick her out alphabetically. As for comparisons >>to who she sounds like, the review I read for "Oyster" made a reference >>to the exotic feel of Enya and the power of Sinead O'Connor. Hmmmm. >>Quite a few different impressions seem to be gleaned from her style. >>I guess that's what has me intriqued. I'll post my thoughts when I get >>the CD this week and give it a listen. True to EWS form I did pick up this CD a couple days ago and I'm sure glad I did. Sometimes on a first listen I can just tell if there is something special about what I'm hearing. This one definately falls into that category. Ariel's comment about Heather sounding/not sounding like Tori and Sarah are right on. It's strange but the ambivalence about that impression makes sense. I can hear a bit of both of them throughout the album. As to the review I read on her web page referencing Enya, I just can't for the life of me see how the reviewer makes that connection. And I have listened to Enya for a long time. I just don't hear it. Sinead O'Connor? Yes, that comparison I can hear a bit better. But I think I'm gonna like Heather quite a bit more. But then again, I haven't listened to Sinead for awhile and haven't ever been a big fan. Anyway, "Oyster" is indeed a powerful effort and I like every single track on the CD. From the tour dates posted on her web page it looks like she starts her US tour in Minneapolis on Sept.13. Yes! Come hell or high water I'm not gonna miss this one. On Wed, 23 Aug 1995 the esteemed David Dalton spoke of Tanita Tikaram: > I like her music a lot, of her recordings I have Ancient Heart > and The Sweet Keeper, and like Ancient Heart a little better > (but also like The Sweet Keeper). My favourite song on > Ancient Heart is the "World Outside Your Window" one, > but the cathedral and twist and other songs are great too. Yepper! My sentiments exactly. I really like Ancient Heart. I don't listen to it all that often these days, but whenever I slip it into the CD player I'm struck by how profound a debut album that was. It was a debut effort wasn't it?? Memory fails me at times... The titles escape me but my favorite songs on the album are probably the Cathedral song and Twist In My Sobriety. Good stuff! While perusing the digests from the last few days I have seen some mention of Annie Haslam also. That brings back some memories for me. I was a *big* fan of Rennaissance oh so many years ago when I was in high school. For quite some time I thought their album "Live At Carnegie Hall" was the finest music ever laid down on vinyl. Unfortunately, that particular 2 album set is not available on CD to the best of my knowledge. I do believe they have a CD called "Tales of 1001 Nights" or something like that that would be a close representation of the tracks they do on the "Live" album. Still need to pick that one up. Annie was one of the first female vocalists that really caught my ear all those years ago and perhaps sent me down this listening path that tends to lean towards the female singer/songwriter side of the spectrum. TTFN, Kevin D. ------------------------------ From: John SUTTON Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 10:43:00 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Tanita Tikaram Tanita has a newsletter that is published about 2 to 3 times per year. It has a lot of good information but its publishing schedule is quite erratic. I'm kind of relieved that her August tour schedule to the US was cancelled, because the newsletter that I was depending on for tour information and schedules never showed up. After all, the newsletter has been talking about this tour for 2 years, and when its finally firm, not a peep. I tried to find out about the tour through other sources, but had no luck at all. Well happy taxi, looks like I'll get another crack at it. To subscribe to the newsletter you need to send 4 self addressed envelopes (large) and 8 international postal coupons to: Asgard Management 125 Parkway, Regent's Park, London NWI 7PS I sent in a mini review on "Lovers In The City" a while back and think its a really fine album. The last cut, "Leaving the Party" is the only cut that drags to me. Everytime I listen to "Lovers In The City" I'm impressed with the overall quality of this CD. Typical delicious Tanita darkness nicely arranged throughout and delivered with the stunning tonal quality of Tanita's voice. I also feel "11 Kinds of Lonliness" is an exceptional album that demonstrates the creative risk artists sometimes need to take to grow. For me, it took several listens to fully appreciate the new ground being broken, and to realize how my mental filters hindered my attention to the music. "Heal me" was a cut that integrated into a tragedy in my life, and became part of my healing process. It will always occupy a special place in my heart. I know Tanita is well known in the UK, but why she is not more appreciated in the US is a mystery to me. Jack Sutton ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Tanita Tikaram Author: owner-ecto@ns2.rutgers.edu@PMDF at CCGATE Date: 8/24/95 2:07 AM For those of you who have been asking about Tanita Tikaram, yes Lovers In The City is her 5th album to date. It contains a lot of wonderful gems like "I Might Be Crying", sung with haunting backing vocals arranged by Jennifer Warnes. Additionally, the Yodeling Song ( recently released in the UK as a single ) is quite, well, interesting...and there is a song called "Feeding the Witches" as opposed to Waking them, I suppose, which is quite good. Most of the other songs sadly don't stand out. Most people have heard "Twisting My Sobriety" from her first album - which is how I first discovered Tanita. Actually, I think her tape was the first tape I purchased without really knowing the music. Liza Minelli also does a great cover version of this song on her "Results" album. Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys heard a demo of it from a tape Tanita has sent into EMI, and the rest is hisory. In the US, I've never seen any future videos or singles from Tanita after "Twisting". All of her albums have been released there though. She was going to tour the US in August, but the tour was cancelled at the last minute, and I don't think it has been rescheduled as of yet. Much overlooked, Tanita's 4th album Eleven Kinds Of Loneliness is incredible IMHO. A lot of the songs have more of a pop or rock slant to them, making them more accessible. I don't know why she never hit it big. If anyone out there knows where I could find a Tanita mailing list or discography of all her work ( including singles, etc. ) I would love to find it. - -- Stephen Golden ( who can't wait to get back to New York so I can search for Ambient Volume I ) ------------------------------ From: Cheung Gregory Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 15:32:26 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Unsubscribe Thank you for the wonderful newsgroup, but unfortunately, I am getting too much mail in my box. Can you please unsubscribe me? Thanks. ------------------------------ From: David Dixon Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 13:42:58 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Tanita Tikaram Tanita also lends her vocal chords to the song "I Never Will Know" on Mark Isham's eponymous album (which won a Grammy for Best New Age Recording ca. 1990). Wonderful tune. D^2 ------------------------------ From: Date: 24 Aug 95 16:44:22 EDT Subject: I'm so confused There appear to have been 2 different groups called Mouth Music -- One Toby Twinings group, to which I referred in an earlier post, and one a Scottish group the has some albums, including one S/T and one Mo Di. It is confusing because both have weird song names and somewhat similar sounding music (international flavor). Sorry for the mix-up. BTW, how's Go van Go doing? - -mjm ------------------------------ From: "Mitchell A. Pravatiner" Date: Thu, 24 Aug 95 18:15:34 EDT Subject: No red hair, but red face It seems to be the silly season for late night reruns. Last night, at the end of Conan, it was announced that Tori Amos would be on Greg Kinnear. I excitedly called up Chris and Vickie to inform them of this. When I got off the phone, I was mortified to discover that his guest for the night would instead be Alexandra Wentworth--worth watching in her own right, but not quite the same. Seems everyone's in reruns, but no two shows from the same night originally :-('. BTW: the same night that the Sun-Times gave Holly Cole a good review, the Tribune panned her, saying herset was full of contrivances. Ah, diversity of opinion :-). Mitch ------------------------------ From: veronica sawyer Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 15:09:33 -0700 (PDT) Subject: assorted distorted sordid reported hello my dear Ectophiles, is there a 12-step program for EWS? i might need it... ;) On Wed, 16 Aug 1995, THE OLIVE-LOAF VIGILANTE wrote: > I checked the local Strawberries today, but nothing (and I couldn't > ask the drone behind the counter because over the sound system they were > playing Counting Crows > 'excruciating butchery of "The Ghost In You" and I couldn't take it any more). who did the original "The Ghost In You"? this isn't the Siouxsie & the Banshees song of the same name, is it? (although i think i'd cry if i heard a Counting Crows cover of that song... maybe it is the same?) what's the story with Shane MacGowan? (sp?) i saw one single with Maire Brennan on b-vox, and another with Sinead. in my book that's probable cause for him to be ecto... someone want to fill me in with the details for a search warrant? ;) i strolled into Newbury yesterday to pick up Heather Nova's "Oyster" (soley on the basis oc ecto-mentions i might add :) and grabbed a copy from the "new cds" rack right up front. (did it really just come out this week?) and as i wander around picking up some other things they're playing a really good-sounding cd... after a minute i make a mental note to find out what it is and buy a copy on my way out. it's very ecto, she has a nice voice, the songs are in that not too hard & not too soft groove that i like, the production is nice, (ok so i often *like* heavy production as long as there's something underneath; can you imagine Cocteau Twins unplugged? i can't.) what's not to like? so as i'm leaving i look, and (you've all guessed) d'oh! they're playing "Oyster"! (no i didn't get 2 copies ;) so i haven't listned to it that much yet, but i sure do like it. like Tori? ummm, naah. too uniform, too concentric. like Sarah? getting warmer, her voice, the way she uses her voice, the chorused/multitracked vocals... yeah. (some few times she sounds *spot on* like Sarah!) like Enya? i don't really hear that one either, Oyster is more rock/pop/charged up than Enya... to me Enya is almost High Mass music, cathedric. (?) and Sinead, again naah, older Sinead at least is much rawer and angrier than this. she's just Heather, dammit! ;) and i'm looking forward to seeing her live soon. :) hhmmm what else? Lisa Gerrard's "the Mirror Pool". another big happy, think medium-recent (Serpent's Egg to present) Dead Can Dance except with Brendan excerpted. all Lisa-songs, yay! i thought i wouldn't miss Brendan, but i think i do. i don't miss his singing, but i do miss the faster percussion-heavy tribal trancey sort of songs that DCD sometimes does... they mostly aren't here. think DCD leaning in the direction of Loreena McKennitt, very beautful, *definitely* cathedric. playing this album at work got most everyone to ask "What's that?". and Lisa's on tour... sign me up! the last almost-ecto selection is Swans, "The Great Annihilator", which i'd heard bits of and for some reason thought was a little like Love Spirals Downwards on an unhappy day. eep... it was too dark sounding for me to listen to yesterday, so i'll have to talk about it later... ok i'm tired now so that's it for me... *smile*bounce*hug*, veronica ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V2 #200 ************************** ======================================================================== Please send any questions or comments about the list to ecto-owner@nsmx.rutgers.edu