From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V3 #53 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, October 26 1997 Volume 03 : Number 053 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friend... [matthewm (Mike Matthews)] Re: How about songs that make you cry? ["Robert Lovejoy" ] Sarah M. in Denver... ["Lawrence J. Kim" ] Merril Banbridge Info [Quickling@aol.com] Re: How about songs that make you cry? [mmatthews@loudoun.com (Mike Matth] Re: Transcendant Musical Moments [Richard ] Re: How about songs that make you cry? -Reply ["Kenn" ] Shivers and tears ["Michael J. Doyle" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 03:00:12 -0400 From: matthewm (Mike Matthews) Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ********************* Tara MacLean (no Email address) ********************* *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Tara MacLean Thu October 25 1973 Scorpio Jessica Koeppel Wed October 29 1969 Scorpio Kathy Clark Sat November 01 1969 Bunnies Katie Dougiamas Sat November 02 1974 Scorpio Anthony Horan Fri November 04 1966 Positive Michael Sullivan Mon November 05 1962 Scorpio Jens Brage Sun November 08 1964 Scorpio Rising Lynn Garrett Sat November 08 1958 Scorpio Sam Murgie Fri November 08 1957 Scorpio Rachel Kramer Bussel Mon November 10 1975 Scorpio Ken Latta Sun November 11 1951 Scorpio Michael Doyle Wed November 12 1969 Scorpio Neil K. Thu November 14 1968 Grocible Dave Cook Mon November 15 1971 Scorpio Jeff Pearce November 16 Orpheus Naama Avramzon Mon November 18 1974 Scorpio Jeff Smith Mon November 19 1962 Crash Kevin Bartlett Fri November 21 1952 Scorpio Claudia Spix Wed November 23 1960 Schuetze Anja Baldo Tue November 23 1965 Garbanzo Tommy Persson Wed November 25 1964 Sagittarius - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 07:53:03 -0400 From: "Robert Lovejoy" Subject: Re: How about songs that make you cry? For me, top honors in this category go to Enya's profound "Exile" from Watermark. It also contains a fabulous Moment, in the pipes solo in the middle of the song. But when she sings "Out of these dreams, a boat / I will sail back to you", well, there I go... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 09:58:44 -0700 (PDT) From: "J. Wermont" Subject: Re: How about songs that make you cry? > For me, top honors in this category go to Enya's profound "Exile" from > Watermark. It also contains a fabulous Moment, in the pipes solo in the > middle of the song. But when she sings "Out of these dreams, a boat / I > will sail back to you", well, there I go... Oh, yes - thank you for reminding me. That whole song is a goosebump experience! And, sometimes a cryer too - especially if I'm watching the scene where the plane doesn't take off in "LA Story." Joyce ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 13:16:29 -0500 From: kerrywhite@webtv.net (kerry white) Subject: reminder:sessions PBS Hi, Tonight is Yoyo Ma and a repeat of Shawn Colvin. KrW "Help me, Mr Wizard!!!" "Drizzel drozzel druzzel drome, time for this one to come home." also:zzkwhite@ktwu.wuacc.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 13:35:11 -0500 From: kerrywhite@webtv.net (kerry white) Subject: Zap Mama Hi, since I recorded ZM on sessions a while back I have fallen in love with the music, etc. I finally broke down and went to Best Buy. They only had "7", the newest cd. A wonderful mixture of english, belgium-french jazz and Congolese (or Zairese) words and music. Her approach to vocals leans heavily on scat, whether she is singing jazzy or otherwise. A very ecto album, but...... the song Poetry Man was always a John Tesh kinda thing for me, pop 40. Surprise!.. I fell in love with the song from the live sessions gig. The song is on "7" and I started to listen to it, when..:EEEEKKKK!!!! the song has a deep-voiced Barry White-esque "Oh baby, oh baby,yeah" type of lines running along the 'bottom' of the song. inre: >moments< in music: this was a frisson of the very negative kind. I need to get more ZM. How secure is the credit card form at CDnow or any of the other on-line cd stores? Otherwise I'd have to go to B+N. KrW "Help me, Mr Wizard!!!" "Drizzel drozzel druzzel drome, time for this one to come home." also:zzkwhite@ktwu.wuacc.edu ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 15:09:07 -0500 From: Sharon Nichols Subject: songs for boo-hooin' The only song that makes me cry *every* time is Mary Chapin Carpenter's "Only a Dream." When I used to work at Musicland, I would have to leave the store. Sharon Terra Incognita (formerly Rhodeways--The Happy Rhodes Medium) also at http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/3450/terra.html ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 13:54:04 -0500 (CDT) From: "Lawrence J. Kim" Subject: Sarah M. in Denver... Can someone please give me details on the concerts November 24 & 25? - - Venue Capacity - - Price of tickets - - Location of Venue Would be greatly appreciated! Lawrence ************************************************************************ Lawrence Kim ChemE2B Washington University in St. Louis ljk1@cec.wustl.edu St. Louis, MO lawrence@poe.org Maintainer of POE : The Mistress of Groove http://www.cec.wustl.edu/~ljk1/poe.html ************************************************************************ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 15:18:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Quickling@aol.com Subject: Merril Banbridge Info Hello Ectophiles!!!!!! Does Anyone Know If Merril Bainbridge Plans On Touring ??? If So.. Let Me Know Please... To All..... Jerry ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 16:44:07 -0400 From: mmatthews@loudoun.com (Mike Matthews) Subject: Re: How about songs that make you cry? From: Ariana@nycmetro.com >I can't think of songs that have a favorite moment right now. I am sure >that I have some but I haven't been feeling so great so I am not >thinking clearer. But I do have some songs that can make me cry. >Especially at a concert. The songs that come to mind are: >Winter-Tori Amos and End of Summer-Dar Williams. The song The >babysitter here from Dar use to make me cry towards the end. Whenever I hear This Woman's Work from KB, I want to cry. The first time I heard this was when we were watching She's Having a Baby, and the entire room was in tears. [God I hope I got the name of the song right...] Mike ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 17:56:26 -0700 From: Richard Subject: Re: Transcendant Musical Moments My most overpowering one is in "Get Out Of This House" from _The Dreaming_ during the chorus when KaTe's voice rises above the cacophony, singing "I clean the stains..." The bell-like quality of her voice when she holds the word "stains" has always sent a jolt up my spinal column. Can a live experience qualify? During Happy's second set at the Tin Angel in March, when she did "I Sleep Alone" with only her guitar as accompaniment, my spinal column became a superhighway of neural impulses for the full two or three minutes it took her to sing it... I was essentially frozen in my seat. And I was drinking only ginger ale that night... Others also in classical music, too many to mention. r ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 20:30:59 -0400 From: "Kenn" Subject: Re: How about songs that make you cry? -Reply OK... corny as I'm sure this is going to sound to probably ever last Ecto subscriber, a song that has always made me cry is "Seasons In The Sun" by that inimitable, one-hit wonder, Terry Jacks. It schmaltzy as hell, I know, but hearing it has always made me sad. I'm sure it has probably made a lot of the rest of you cry, too, but for altogether different reasons than me. ;^) Peace. Kenn ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 20:19:34 -0400 From: "Joanna M. Phillips" Subject: Re: How about songs that make you cry? -Reply > From: Kenn > To: ecto@smoe.org > Subject: Re: How about songs that make you cry? -Reply > Date: Saturday, October 25, 1997 8:30 PM > > OK... corny as I'm sure this is going to sound to probably ever last Ecto > subscriber, a song that has always made me cry is "Seasons In The > Sun" by that inimitable, one-hit wonder, Terry Jacks. It schmaltzy as hell, > I know, but hearing it has always made me sad. (snip) It didn't make me cry, but I do remember feelings of melancholy when I first heard it. The version I heard first (and the one I remember) is by The Kingston Trio, whose music I liked a *lot* and still like to listen to every now and then. :-) fleur - --------------------------------------------------------------------- Joanna M. Phillips | "[This was music that] made you want to kick fleur@one.net | down the walls and ascend the sky on steps | of fire." --Terry Pratchett - --------------------------------------------------------------------- http://w3.one.net/~fleur/ <*> The Mouse House ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 20:32:28 -0400 From: meredith Subject: more standout moments Hi! As I was driving home way too late last night, I was listening to _Warpaint_ for the first time in way too long, and I was reminded of a few more standout moments: - -- In "All Things (mia ia io)", the way Happy sings the phrase "I cry like a little girl": "girl" is the deepest note in the entire song, which is just too cool - -- The line "every moment in time" in "Warpaint" (hell, the entire song gives me the chills, but that phrase especially) Also, today as woj and I were packing we had _The Dreaming_ and then _Hounds of Love_ blasting on the stereo. Something about KaTe just gets me motivated to put books into boxes -- I don't know why that is. :) Joyce inquired: >(PS - So, does anyone know what that bagpipe-like instrument in >Garden of Eden is called?) I don't have the liner notes available to check right now (packed that shelf already), but if memory serves I believe those are uillean pipes. On a side note -- has anyone else listened to _Harbinger_ and then _This Fire_ back-to-back? I remember reading when _Harbinger_ came out that Paula Cole had very limited studio time and thus was stuck having to record the vocals for that album even though she had a slight case of laryngitis. It's *really* evident if you listen to both albums -- it's incredible how much better her voice is on _This Fire_. That goes a long way toward explaining why I like that album so much better than her first one. Mike corrected: >Ack! Even if that were true (and I doubt it is), the term "#1 >fan" certainly carries a few negative connotations that I don't believe >apply. ;p I can personally vouch for the fact that Mike is *not* stalking Susan McKeown in any way (though sometimes she probably wonders about the whole lot of us ;). He is every inch the perfect-gentleman fan. (Fully anticipating the huge I'm going to get upside the head from Mike the next time I see him for stating that in public... ;) bob pointed out: >Haven't seen it mentioned here, so I thought I'd just poke my head in and >mention that Dar Williams is scheduled to be on World Cafe tomorrow. Argh! We missed this -- did *anyone* tape it? (I know The Nields recently recorded a bit for the World Cafe too -- has this been broadcast yet? I must admit haven't been paying attention lately...) +==========================================================================+ | Meredith Tarr meth@smoe.org | | Boonton, NJ USA http://www.smoe.org/~meth | +==========================================================================+ | "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille | |***TRAJECTORY, the Veda Hille mailing list: trajectory-request@smoe.org***| +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 01:34:21 -0400 From: "Michael J. Doyle" Subject: Shivers and tears OK, my turn, Bubbah put her finger right on the spot in "Running Up That Hill" that makes my hair stand and my skin flush. The version of "Wuthering Heights" on _The Whole Story_ produces similar moments for me. Sometimes a song will make me both shiver and cry. And, not surprisingly, many of those songs are by Kate Bush -- "This Woman's Work," "Jig of Life," "Houdini." As for shivers outside of Kate's ouvre... "Trap" by Ars Poetica (I still get chills the instant I hear Stephanie Wicker sing the first words on the album: "Here, all alone, I wait, come to me..."). "Vow" by Garbage (Ah, those razor-like slashes of guitar at the open. Ah, Shirley Manson's growling vocals) "Hergest Ridge (Part 1)" by Mike Oldfield (At the end of this 18-minute piece comes a finale that sounds like a soul ascending). "Barabas" by Hooverphonic (I tingle with anticipation at its start, then go full-blown goosebumps when Liesje begins singing "bas - bara - bas - bara..."). As for tears... I've shed a tear to Peter Gabriel's "Family Snapshot," Poe's "Fly Away" and Courage of Lassie's "The Night Closes In." But the only song that turns on the waterworks as consistently as "This Woman's Work" is "Kilkelly." It's a song based on letters from a family in 19th-century Ireland to their emigrant sons in America. The recording I have is by a folk duo called Atwater-Donnelly; it's credited to Peter and Steve Jones. It is just deadly. I can steel myself all I want when listening to it, I still end up bawling by the end. They should package that song with a box of tissues. How about music that makes you sweat? Granted, most of the songs I have in this category are non-ectophilic (e.g. Rage Against the Machine's "People of the Sun," Hole's "Violet," Nirvana's "Scentless Apprentice"). But I have to admit that Va:rttina's track on the highly ectophilic _Songs From the Cold Seas_ compilation sped up my heart rate as much as any metal/industrial clanging could. Later, - - Mike Michael Doyle Mike's Midnight Movie Reviews maeldun@i-2000.com http://vidkraft.com/m3review =========================================================================== "Nothing is too wonderful to be true." - - Michael Faraday ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V3 #53 *************************