From: owner-ecto-digest To: ecto-digest@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto-digest V2 #353 Reply-To: ecto@nsmx.rutgers.edu Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, 21 January 1996 Volume 02 : Number 353 The Ecto digest is now being generated automatically. Please send problems and questions to: ecto-owner@nsmx.rutgers.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Mike Matthews Date: Sun, 21 Jan 96 09:26:16 -0500 Subject: Re: Tori on SNL :) :) :) Michael Curry bemoans: > Aaaagh! How I am supposed to wait til Tuesday for the new album?! Tuesday? That's how long you have to wait? I just put myself in a pretty serious "dump-it-all-into-savings" budget for an upcoming townhouse (e.g. six months or less). I won't be buying CDs until after I move in to the townhouse and get things settled there. Come to think of it, I won't be buying ANYTHING other than essentials until after I move in. I hope I don't owe big on taxes this year. I don't think I want to hear anything from the new CD just yet. It could cause me undue grief. > Mike Mike ------------------------------ From: 32 flavors and then some Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 09:42:43 -0500 Subject: Re: Tori on SNL :) :) :) Mike Curry sez: >I thought she was great, but I >do question the decision to use those silly fake backing musicians >during "Caught A Lite Sneeze". I'll bet thay was SNL's idea rather >than hers. At least I hope it was. the bassist was real. i'm still uncertain about that over-expressive percussionist (though meredith thinks that she was really making noises for the song). > Aaaagh! How I am supposed to wait til Tuesday for the new album?! frustratedly, like the rest of us! :) of course, you could just sleep until tuesday.... woj (who fell asleep during "hey, jupiter!") ------------------------------ From: jeffy@wam.umd.edu Date: Sun, 21 Jan 96 10:50:24 EST Subject: Re: Tori on SNL :) :) :) woj wrote: >the bassist was real. i'm still uncertain about that over-expressive >percussionist (though meredith thinks that she was really making >noises for the song). If she wasn't actually producing noise, she sure was being careful to have the mallets in the right places at the right times. She was definitely striking surfaces (for instance, you could see the cymbals move)... I figured she was playing, but wasn't convinced she was playing all of the sounds, particularly the bell (she had some bells to her left, and you could see her silence them, but they never showed her striking one). How can anybody who's seen Dead Can Dance/Lisa Gerrard live think that that woman was "over-expressive"? She had *nothin'* on that guy who tours with DCD! He was pretty frightning. (Thank goodness he had that bohdran solo on the Mirror Pool tour to redeem his outrageous behavior! ;-) >frustratedly, like the rest of us! :) Sue Trowbridge hasn't been frustrated for weeks. GRRRRRRR. >woj (who fell asleep during "hey, jupiter!") That's a sin, woj. Jeff ------------------------------ From: Michael Curry Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 12:24:04 +0001 (EST) Subject: Re: Tori on SNL :) :) :) On Sun, 21 Jan 1996, 32 flavors and then some wrote: > the bassist was real. i'm still uncertain about that over-expressive > percussionist (though meredith thinks that she was really making > noises for the song). Just because he played perfectly with the backing track does not mean he was "real". :) The choir of small children was obviously not real (unless they somehow found a group of children who sound exactly like Tori). As for the percussionist she obviously wasn't making all of the percussion sounds (like the bells/chimes). I suppose it really doesn't matter one way of the other... Tori was still fabulous. > woj (who fell asleep during "hey, jupiter!") ***DURING?!?!*** Wow... just when you think you know a guy. ;) Mike *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+* | Michael Curry / mcurry@world.std.com / CIS: 70372,3563 | |++++++++++++++++++++++++++++smoe+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++| | Reaching-From-Nowhere -- The Milla Mailing List | | reaching-from-nowhere-request@world.std.com | *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+* ------------------------------ From: 32 flavors and then some Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 12:58:29 -0500 Subject: Re: Tori on SNL :) :) :) jeffy@wam.umd.edu sez: >If she wasn't actually producing noise, she sure was being careful to have >the mallets in the right places at the right times. She was definitely >striking surfaces (for instance, you could see the cymbals move)... i was admittedly hazy last night while watching and i should probably go watch the tape again before commenting further, but i do not remember any connection between the impact of her mallets and the percussion noises. plus, i don't think the kind of drums she was (mostly) playing would sound like the percussion of the track. >I figured she was playing, but wasn't convinced she was playing all of the >sounds, particularly the bell (she had some bells to her left, and you >could see her silence them, but they never showed her striking one). i'm pretty sure that most of the percussion (if not all of it) was supplied by a backing track. >How can anybody who's seen Dead Can Dance/Lisa Gerrard live think that that >woman was "over-expressive"? She had *nothin'* on that guy who tours with >DCD! He was pretty frightning. huh. the dcd drummer was pretty exuberant, but he seemed completely oblivious to his actions. he simply did them. the tori drummer seemed very much in control, very calculated, like she knew exactly how she wanted to appear. not that any of this is particularly important.... ;) >>woj (who fell asleep during "hey, jupiter!") >That's a sin, woj. mea culpa. i did listen to it subconsciously though. woj ------------------------------ From: MATH TRIED ERR Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 13:30:54 -0500 (EST) Subject: Tori's drummer Hi! A quick note before I run out to do laundry (I have a ton of replies to catch up on too, you lucky devils...): Tori's drummer last night was definitely playing *something*. Listen to it again, and you'll hear a tympany sound at slightly lower volume that has a different sound than the rest of the percussion, which was from the backing track. The backing vocals were most definitely from the backing track. The bassist was really playing, and again, the drummer wasn't there all for show. Is it just me, or did the vocal bridge in "Hey Jupiter" sound exactly like the end of "Purple Rain", which Tori did a great job of covering on the last tour? Meredith, still aghast that she let woj fall asleep in the middle of the song (she was, however, not surprised in the least that he did) meth@delphi.com ------------------------------ From: wkadel@napanet.net (Xenophanes!) Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 13:17:23 -0800 Subject: New Artists? 'Lo there! I was at The Where-There's No Music-House, yesterday and picked up a bunch of 1.99 cd's that I had no idea about. so far two have been decent and ectoish. Ayone ever heard of The Telling? It is a duo of a female vocalist named Sheri Swanson and the other is her husband Don. It is a slightly commercial sounding band, but very well done without overproduction. The album is called Blue Solitaire. The music is kinda like Clannad's, but without that style of singing. The other band is a collaboration between a severely artsy jazz vocalist named Eve Libertine, and a guitarist named Nemo Jones. I don't really know how to explain other than it has very little melodic music, but isn't necessarily hard ta listen to. Maks you feel like a beatnik. Talk ta thou later... Xenophanes! "Sing while you may!" >:-) -- Edward Qa-Spel "Set me free, Remotivate me!" >:-( -- Martin L. Gore Edward (Ward) Ernest Kadel III wkadel@napanet.net http://www.napanet.net/~wkadel/ ------------------------------ From: Kerry White Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 16:39:49 -0600 (CST) Subject: Annabouboula request Hello, Does anyone here[] have the Greek Fire cd? I went to the Blockbreaker and listened to it and find that I only like 3 tracks. The others have too much ameri-rock-pop gutars and drums. I *really* like track 7: Baby Wants Kisses 8: Opium Bride and 10: Sad Tale Of The Farmer's Wife. I would like to trade tapes of whatever of mine for these 3 songs, and maybe the more ethnic songs on (Whatever it is) Constantinople. Any world beat-type folk have these 2 *and* the time and/or inclination to help? KrW "Are you all sitty comftubole to squirm your botty? Then I'll begin.........." ------------------------------ From: marks59@ix.netcom.com (MARK SHEPARD ) Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 14:22:31 -0800 Subject: Much Music Hello, I would like to know if anyone here has access to Much Music(Canada or USA).Thanks! Mark ------------------------------ From: mp@moonmac.com (Michael Pearce) Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 15:35:15 -0800 Subject: McKinley I just returned from hearing McKinley perform with her band at Hear Music* this afternoon. Wow, are they great! Many new songs; her first full-length CD, and some songs not on it. They played for over an hour. Marty Jennings, who plays the violin, has a wonderful sound; Brian Davis, drummer--I have not seen anyone play with an expression of continuous ecstasy like that before. Steve Hale, who produced the album, does beautiful guitar work, and McKinley, who accompanies herself on accoustic bass, has this angelic, sweet voice like no other except maybe Jane S. on some of her Maria tracks. The band will be playing at a cd release party on Tuesday 1/23 at LaLuna (Portland). Michael Bowman, John Z. and I will be there. I also talked to her and Steve Hale about doing their web page and they are enthused. Look for something to be up in the next week or so; I will announce it here. I will also post tour information when I get it. Her record is on Burnside Records, BCD-0022-2. If you find it in your local record store, please mail me and tell me where; they want to post a list of places that are carrying it. Michael |^^^^^^^^(fnord) Pay no attention to the man behind the keyboard.^^^^^^^^| | | | "Give them a light and | http://www.moonmac.com/~mklprc/ | | they'll follow it anywhere!" | mp@moonmac.com | | --Firesign Theatre | michael_pearce@pmug.org | | | \___No Microsoft products were used in the production of this message.___/ ------------------------------ From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Date: Sun, 21 Jan 96 19:21:11 EST Subject: Re: tori on snl Meredith said of Tori on SNL... >She sounded great. "Hey Jupiter" is a nice little song -- can't wait to delve >into it on the album. Has anyone noticed the remarkable musical similarity between the end of "Hey Jupiter" and the end of Prince's "Purple Rain"? :-) - - Anthony - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au http://daemon.apana.org.au/~anthony/ Physical mail: P.O. Box 40, Malvern 3144, Victoria, Australia "The red sky was bleeding glimpses of heaven, in sections of seven..." - Rose Chronicles reaching lyrical perfection on "Awaiting Eternity" - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: MATH TRIED ERR Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 21:09:37 -0500 (EST) Subject: As promised... Hi! As threatened, I'm back to deal with a whole week's worth of replies! Be Very Afraid. But first, a couple of notes: - -- I don't think this has been mentioned here, but _The Keep_ made John DiLiberto's list of the Top 25 releases of 1995, as chronicled on an edition of Echoes a couple weeks ago (he played "Temporary and Eternal"). I wasn't too surprised to find it on the list, seeing as a good portion of it was recorded in his living room, but still, it's pretty cool. :) - -- Anybody out there have the new Rolling Stone coffee table book, the one with all the photos? (I can't remember what it's called -- _The Images of Rock And Roll_, or something... Tamar??? It's your book I was looking at, feel free to help me here. :) There's actually a photo of Kate Bush in there, amazingly enough, but of course it's spread out across two pages so half of her face disappears in the fold of the book. They did this to several of the photos -- I'll bet the various photographers are *real* happy with that one. Still, it's cool that Kate was even included. It's a pretty neat book in general. - -- Susan McKeown and the Chanting House will be performing at Fez in NYC on Friday, February 9 and Saturday, February 10. (woj and I will be at the Saturday show.) There's a Chanting House Web page, which has tons of cool info, including the tidbit that when Susan McKeown was still living in Dublin, two members of the Chanting House were Eileen Ivers (neo-traditional Celtic folk-type artist who gets quite a bit of airplay on WFUV), and Seamus Egan (of Brothers McMullen soundtrack fame, including co-writing credits for Sarah's "I Will Remember You")! Weird. And now her guitarist is Chris Cunningham, late of Katell Keineg's live band, and his wife Michelle Kinney is the cellist. Somewhere back in the cobwebs of my mind is a memory of Nick Hill at one of the Katell shows we went to last year telling me about this really great band Chris Cunningham and his wife were in -- Nick, were you talking about the Chanting House, and I'm only just making the connection now??? Anyway, I'll be putting a link to this Web page from my Deities page sometime soon -- I don't have the URL with me right now, and the rest of the house is too damn cold so I'm not going to leave my toasty nest to get it. :) And now, off to the races: Kerry inquired: >Is there any *new* stuff by male vocalists thats any good? My >list of mv was of folks I've had for some time. I realized that I forgot to include Dougie MacLean in my list of male singers that I admire. I really like Dougie a lot -- even saw him live last year, and it was a great show. He's a Scottish neo-folksinger, basically, with a nice lower-end tenor voice. Not sure if that's your cup o'tea, but I definitely think he's worth checking out. Probably the easiest stuff of his to find would be Putomayo's _The Dougie MacLean Collection_, which brings together a nice representative sample of his large body of work. Hmmm. There's Bruce Springsteen's new album, which I've been hearing quite a bit on the radio, and it doesn't make me cringe like the rest of his stuff does. He's doing the acoustic-guitar-and-harmonica, mumble into the microphone Dylan-on-the-road thing. Not exactly something I'd seek out and buy, but again, if you're into that sort of thing, then you could check it out as well. Freedy Johnston is pretty cool, too... Yngve recounted: >When I was in Germany 6 years ago (gosh, it is beginning to >be some years now) two friends of mine died. :( :( That's always rough. A couple years ago one of my best friends from high school, the person responsible for my learning German and going to Germany, lost her father, brother and sister in an avalanche in the Alps (she just barely survived the incident herself). Her family had pretty much adopted me while I was over there -- I spent the holidays with them, that sort of thing-- and I had become pretty good friends with her siblings. It was a loss for me too, though *nothing* compared to the hell she and her mother continue to go through every day. I think about them a lot even now -- her brother was only 17, her sister had just turned 20, and they were both really bright kids with a great future in front of them. And her dad was one of the sweetest men the planet had ever seen. Your post got me thinking about these things, especially since right after I read it I had a note from my mother telling me that a really close family friend had died quite suddenly and unexpectedly that morning. Sometimes the universe really plays dirty. :P Deniz advised: >If you check out Miranda Sex Garden I recommend you don't start with >Madras--a collection of madrigals that is atypical of the rest of their >work. Funny, that's the only MSG album I can stand... mjm urged: >I would seriously urge all ectophiles who have as yet not realized the >sheer genius in the new Innocence Mission CD (Glow) to listen, and >re-listen, and re-listen until they get it. You can thank me later. Sorry, but then I'd have to listen until the end of time, and what with Tori's new one on the horizon and all, well... I'm sure you understand. ;> I continue to maintain that IM's debut was the pinnacle to which they will only be able to aspire in the future. It's hell to peak early. ariane revealed: >But I >am a cheap person. I generally buy cassettes. I only buy cds if they >are Tori Amos or Happy Rhodes, or used, or bargain price. With >cassettes if it's not Happy Rhodes and it's more then $7.99 I just >won't buy it. Whoa -- they still make cassettes??? ;> I don't think Happy has released anything on cassette since _Warpaint_, or am I just being ingnorant again? >Too many times in >the past I spent alot of money on music and I hated most of what I >bought. Ah, but you didn't have the infallible recommendations of ecto guiding you back then, did you? ;> Aaron emitted: >Deniz Bucak, seeing the neon light at the end of the tunnel and >realizing it was singing Gershin, wrote: Erm, were you awake when you wrote that? (sorry, private joke) Matt Bittner wondered: >Am I the only one who things that _Everybody Else Is Doing It So Why >Can't We_ was a promising debut, only to be extremely upset (and >bored) by The Cranberries' latest? Nope. >Kerry, don't feel too bad. I don't, nor will I ever, watch >_Friends_. I did catch it once, but thought, what's all the hoopla >about? Being bored, I proceeded to do something else. Funny, that. I *love* _Friends_, though I do feel the show is getting mired in its own popularity and is rapidly losing its freshness as a result. Still, it's still guaranteed to produce at least four or five belly laughs per episode for me. Phoebe is brilliant. (Also on the thread, I'm a devoted fan of _Seinfeld_, but I don't see how anyone who isn't either from New York or currently living in the area could ever get into it. Last season sucked, but this season each episode has been more hysterical than the last. It's an office tradition where I work that we all start our Friday mornings discussing the previous night's show, so I couldn't escape even if I wanted to. :) >However, I am >caught up in the nation frenzy and watch _ER_. Just can't get enough >of that. I made a conscious effort to get into _ER_, and failed miserably. I just couldn't make myself give a damn about any of the characters. (It's not the genre -- I was a devoted fan of _St. Elsewhere_ for years.) _Chicago Hope_ didn't catch my fancy, either. >Just recently one of the local NPR stations went semi-ecto. They >switched to an "adult contemport" format, and now we get artists like >(okay, maybe artists is stretching a bit) Alannis, Joan Osborne and - >get this - Jann Arden (sp?). However, we still have to put up with >some unusual stuff, like Whitney and Madonna. Overall, not bad, >especially since there aren't any commercials yet. > >This is actually a shame, as where once there were three stations >either completely, or partially NPR, only one exists. One went >jazz/new age, and the other "ac". Interesting moves, none the less. That's what the demise of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is doing for you. :P :P :P Small-market NPR stations like yours are going to have to change to more "popular" formats or die. Hell, even WSHU, the NPR station in Fairfield County, Connecticut (one of the highest-income counties in the nation, even though it also contains Bridgeport, one of the nation's poorest cities) is in dire straits. It's on the outer edge of WNYC's listening area, so a lot of the people who would otherwise tune in to WSHU for their NPR news and classical music programming listen to that instead of their hometown station, and thus the money goes to WNYC and not to WSHU. WSHU has lost a disproportionately large percentage of its CPB funding already, and has had to cut staff and programming to compensate. It's too bad, too -- especially from an ectophilic perspective, since on Sunday evenings they run Echoes from 6-10, and I know quite a few people who have been exposed to Happy and Loreena and Dead Can Dance and Heidi Berry and Bel Canto etc. thanks to that. Echoes is probably going to feel the budget axe soon, and either be reduced or dropped from the schedule completely. Politics sucks. :P >Laura Love's dad is putting on a performance. Can't remember the >details, but it sounds like it will be fun. (For those who can't >remember, Laura Love's dad is Preston.) Too bad she won't be with >him - or maybe a suprise performance? Hmm...It has possibilities. Probably not. I don't think she's ever met the man, and the impression I get is that neither he nor she are particularly interested in getting to know each other. (I think she was basically the product of a one-night stand.) >I went and re-subscribed to fte and rdt, and then realized why I >unsubed in the first place. Banter, banter, banter. Jeez, when will >people learn... Oops, practice and preaching, I think I'll go now. Yeah! Take it to ecto. ;> chandra commented: >so i finally got my hands on ingrid karklins' -anima mundi. i am sort of >torn. about half the stuff, the more ethereal slightly celtic, slightly >folky stuff, i really like, but some of the stuff seems too hard edged or >loud for her voice, and kinda bugs me. so, i was wondering, which side >does a darker passion tend towards? Hmmm. _A Darker Passion_ tends toward the former, I would think (though I really don't agree with your characterization of _Anima Mundi_). Ingrid herself could tell you, if she's still reading ecto -- not sure if she is or not... Robert wondered: >Last night I heard a song I hadn't heard in ages. It's a song called >"Candy", a duet. One half of the duet is Iggy Pop. The other half is a >woman with a very ecto-ish kind of voice. Everyone has said that this was a duet with Kate Pierson of the B-52's, but I can't shake the feeling that this is really a duet with Debbie Harry. I know they both did a song together -- if it wasn't that, then what was it called? Quenby de-lurked: >I don't often post but I saw some new music that I thought people here might be >interested in. When I was in the record store last they had these two cds at >the listening station that were quite good. One was a new live cd from Joan >Baez called "Ring Them Bells". She had many other female singers singing with >her on the cd including the Indigo Girls and Janis Ian. She even covered an >Indigo Girl's song. And Dar Williams! I got this disc as a premium for giving money to WFUV, and while I probably won't listen to it all that often, it's quite good. I love "Diamonds and Rust" (which has been a fave since I was a teeny kid), even if Mary Chapin Carpenter does sound a bit out of place. And her duet with Dar on "You're Aging Well" is brilliant. Hey -- Dar Williams' new album, _Mortal City_ is out on Tuesday! CD Review gave it a mixed review -- the reviewer basically said Dar needs an editor for her lyrics, and needs to learn to just shut up and play. I can see where she's coming from (the one song I've heard from the album so far, "As Cool As I Am" does seem a bit verbose in spots), but I don't really consider that a liability if you have something interesting to say, as Dar usually does. Oh, and Sage -- I don't think you're going to like the new one very much. "As Cool As I Am" is more upbeat than anything on _The Honesty Room_, and apparently most of the album is in that vein. :) Gleb asked: >Now I have a question. Where is Laurie Freelove? Working on a new album (yay!!!), which is supposed to be out this year. Someone from her entourage sent me a note about it out of the blue a little while back, but unfortunately I can't find it any more... Joe Zitt opined: >I hope Anhai doesn't mean that these are the "new talents" they've >found -- I'm a big fan of Ornette's (I have records of his reaching >back into the 50's I think) and I studied with Jayne Cortez 20 years >ago. Odetta has been around since time immemorial. > >But if Anhai sounds like any of these, I'm interested! Um, Anhai sounds like.... like....... erm ....... Let's just say that she's got a beat up old acoustic guitar with a metal plate across the hole under the strings (gotta love these technical terms :), which she abuses incessantly, all the while emitting noises no human should be able to intentionally make. She's supposedly singing in English, but you'd never know it. She's most definitely unique. Somehow I think you'd like her a lot. :) Hakan replied wrt the Sundays: >Harriet and Davids latest release is a baby, Nice to see they've decided to make some more music, though! Troy reportedL >Just read the review for Tori's "Boys for Pele".... >Doesn't sound real good for us Tori freaks. >Rolling Stone give it just two stars saying that even >though she is clearly talented, her lyrics are mystifying >and bad. Well, that's what they said about _Under The Pink_, too. Basically, Rolling Stone music reviews are like New Yorker movie reviews: if they hate it, I know it's good and I'll love it. So I think two stars is actually a very good sign. :) >It just doesn't help Tori when she gets a terrible >review such as this was. I think enough of her fans realize that Rolling Stone is staffed by a bunch of idiots that this won't have much of an impact. It will be interesting to see how the sales figures go, though -- I'll bet all of her current fans will run out and buy _Boys For Pele_ within a few days of its release, debuting way up on the charts. I hope she gains enough new fans to keep sales up for a while, but not so many that I can't get tickets to see every show she performs within reasonable driving distance of New Jersey. :> Kevin wondered: >i keep hearing that Under The Pink originally had a different cover >picture, but that tori vetoed it, but i've never heard exactly what the >original picture -was-... it's beginning to get to me. ;) Hmmm. I know that _Little Earthquakes_ was supposed to have a Dave McKean painting for a back cover instead of the infamous mushrooms, but I hadn't heard anything about an alternate cover for _UtP_... Sue Trowbridge leaked: >I got to see the CD booklet for BOYS FOR PELE yesterday, and one of the >photos inside shows Tori breast-feeding a piglet. As Dave Barry would >say, "I am not making this up." Oy. Mike groaned: > Aaaagh! How I am supposed to wait til Tuesday for the new album?! That's a good question. I wouldn't recommend listening to both _LE_ and _UtP_ in succession four days before its release, though -- that just makes things MUCH worse. :P Is Tower going to be selling it at midnight Monday? Valerie lamented: >ARGH! I completely missed the SNL appearance, dope that I am. Worse yet, I was >home in time to watch it, and caught the last 10 minutes of Mad TV instead. Too >much wine on the brain. Since I can't do it in person: <> >Any other Tori appearances scheduled? Yes. >Meredith also mentioned 120 minutes in another post. Call me dense, but will >there be a Tori interview? The video for CaLS? You're dense. ;) There will be an interview, performance of two songs (one of which will NOT be CaLS), and yes, the video for CaLS. It's tonight, Val, so get your patookus home from work and set that VCR! >BTW, for anyone who doesn't want to wait until 120 minutes, the Atlantic web >site has two video clips of CaLS available for download. Tori gets strange >again... Are there any rats involved this time? >(although I don't recall seeing her suckling a pig or whatever. And >doesn't Madonna already have the market cornered on things like that?!) Don't make such hasty conclusions. I'm sure Tori has a LOT of bizarreness stored within her, just waiting to be set loose on an unsuspecting public. (I wonder what she'll wear on Leno on the 8th... ;) Time for Babylon 5 -- until we meet again... +===========================================================================+ |Meredith Tarr meth@delphi.com| |Boonton, NJ USA http://remus.rutgers.edu/~woj/meth/| +===========================================================================+ | "Life is a sleazy stranger and this is his favorite bar" - Ani DiFranco | +===========================================================================+ ------------------------------ From: Neile Graham Date: Sun, 21 Jan 1996 18:38:01 -0800 (PST) Subject: A GVD (Good Vinyl Day) Spurred by a visiting friend who may soon join ecto and a local used record store having a half-off vinyl sale, we came home this afternoon with a great haul: Virginia Astley's _Promise Nothing_: You guys all were right, I really like her music. I hope to find more soon! Linda Thompson's _One Clear Moment_: We've had a tape of this for years, but had never found the vinyl before and who knows how long the long-promised compilation will be held up. This is rather on the pop side, but has some excellent, excellent moments. Altered Images _Bite_: Jim couldn't even make it trhoug the first track, but I love the poppy 80s rock with Claire Grogan's baby voice. _Happy Birthday_ is a better album, but this is still good fun. Wow, she looks like Boy George on the cover. _Lonely is an Eyesore_: We haven't been willing to pay the cd price for this, even used, but it's great to have a "real" copy of Throwing Muses' "Fish". Steeleye Span _Live At Last_ (US version): I've resisted buying this hoping it would turn up on cd but finally picked it up. This has "The Atholl Highlander's/Walter Bulwer's Polka", "Saucy Sailor / Black Freighter", "The Maid and the Palmer", "Hunting the Wren", "Montrose", "The False Knight on the Road", "Rag Doll". Can any European ectophile confirm that this tracks are different from the European/UK releases? - --Neile ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V2 #353 ************************** ======================================================================== Please send any questions or comments about the list to ecto-owner@nsmx.rutgers.edu