From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V4 #233 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Friday, July 17 1998 Volume 04 : Number 233 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Our Pantheon ["Joanna M. Phillips" ] liz phair's single and recent ectopics [Paul2k@aol.com] my pantheon [queen of carrot flowers ] Re: my pantheon [Neile Graham ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 00:41:16 -0400 From: "Joanna M. Phillips" Subject: Re: Our Pantheon My personal pantheon shows my age, maybe. And so because of long-standing loyalty, the first will be the one I have worshipped the longest: 1. Joan Baez (always and ever the maiden, mother, and now wise woman) 2. Joni Mitchell (the woman with the guitar like none other and the courage to forge her own path) 3. Judy Collins (although she has slipped, she still deserves to be here, in the Big Three) 4. Sting (who has done so much, musically, theatrically, charitably, and more...) 5. k.d. lang (courage, humour, vitality, and a big big voice) 6. Happy Rhodes (the hidden goddess, whose beauty has yet to burst upon the world at large) 7. Loreena McKennitt (weaver of mystery and magick) 8. Sarah McLachlan (the foundress of Lilith, among many other things) 9. The Cocteau Twins (the ethereal, mostly-incomprehensible-but-adored ones) 10. October Project (I worship at their feet, in spirit only now...) Valerie said: >That's it. A person doesn't get into my pantheon until they've proven >themselves over a period of time. At least 3 albums plus something else >that's special. The only one(s) in my list that doesn't/don't fit Valerie's test-of-time is October Project...but they could do no wrong in my book. If they were ever to get back together, I would buy any album they come out with, see them when I could. Mary Fahl is a dark and smoky goddess! fleur - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joanna M. Phillips | "The magic we imagined as children fleur@one.net | does exist and the power to PostPet address: | access it is within each of us." rainflower@cincinnati.crosswinds.net | --Amanda Pike - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://w3.one.net/~fleur/ <*> The Mouse House ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 01:24:59 EDT From: Paul2k@aol.com Subject: liz phair's single and recent ectopics I played Liz Phair's new single "Polyester Bride" on my radio show on tuesday and have since heard it on WXPN once each yesterday and today. I love this song. It's got that indie pop feel to it, but isn't stuck to it...a fun, tasty guitar line and a nice melody work together. I don't know how to place it in her line of work...Exile in Guyville is still my fav album by her; Whipsmart is a little too samey and lackluster for me; and i haven't gotten Juvenalia or her contributions to various compilations and soundtracks yet. I'm definitely looking forward to seeing her at Lilith this weekend...I hope that she's tamed that wicked stagefright of hers... If anyone in the Baltimore area is interested in seeing Emm Gryner but doesn't want to go to Lilith, Emm is playing at the Starbuck's at Old Washington Mill at Noon on saturday...it's right off of I-83...check out www.starbuck for more info. Ob Heather Nova: I remember seeing 3 copies of the First Recordings when they were reissued at Record and Tape Traders in Towson. Also, on the German import of Maybe an Angel, there are 5 or 6 live tracks that are taken from the same show as Live at the Milky Way and the version of Truth and Bone on there is amazing. My personal Pantheon: Sarah McLachlan (if anything, for _Solace_ and the FTE tour) Jewel (15 concerts in 1.5 years) the Housemartins and the Beautiful South (but not just because of Paul Heaton) Susan Werner Tanya Donelly (for her band and solo stuff) Kirsty MacColl Holly Cole (i bet that she could do an amazing interpretation of the Telephone book) my pantheon is still growing...i just need more time to listen to music :( yesterday i got a big dose of Swing...Big Bad Voodoo Daddy live at the Inner Harbor for a free concert (i was selling cds for Bibelot there) as sponsored by HFS and then Brian Setzer Orchestra on Conan...hey mr. pinstripe suit! Paul "i only know what they tell me" Kim ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 01:34:34 -0400 (EDT) From: queen of carrot flowers Subject: my pantheon Okay, I was just doing out my desert-island discs for my much-threatened website, and I realised that I can't really do a top ten best records of all time. All I can do is a top ten records for right now, that have made me who I am today. Since I've gone through several growth spurts and some artists have stayed with me while others have not, I really can't do an out-and-out pantheon, so here's who would be in my pantheon if I was doing it today. (Which, erm, I am.) Bob Mould - God. This man's music changed my life, made me feel less lonely and claustrophobic when I was going through adolescent angst. Unlike some of the others I listened to religiously (heh) at that time, I can still flip on _Copper Blue_ and feel an intense personal connection to it. Yikes, this stuff won't let up, won't let me go -- it's so incredibly moving and wonderful, but in a loud, power-chorded, non-ecto kind of way. Syd Straw - Jesus. In many ways, I see myself in Syd's music and hear my own stories played out in her wide-angled voice, but I can also hear who I was and who I want to be. Syd is Marlys from Ernie Pook's Comeek grown up and facing grown-up life with a bit of pain and a lot of playfulness. My favourite girl singer, and one that never fails to give me goosebumps. Mary Margaret O'Hara - The Virgin Mary. She stutters the way a ballerina pirouettes. Neutral Milk Hotel - Mary Magdalene. Okay, so it's a boy. :) Hotel concierge Jeff Mangum provides the yang to M2OH's yin, taking her religious fervor and suction-cup intensity and putting it into a darker perspective, showing the undersides of scary situations but never losing track of the humanity. Oh, and the brass is pretty, too. Galaxie 500 - Gabriel. Okay, can't think of a good analogy to put here, but their music is so special to me that I need to put them in a class by themselves. This is the sound of a few people who lost their way travelling through the universe, and now must create a beautiful drone to try and find their way back home, or find someone who can help them in the dark. I defy you to listen to "Summertime" or "Tugboat" and not cry. The apostles: Marvin Gaye Tori Amos PJ Harvey Tsunami Raincoats Nina Simone Television The Feelies Patti Smith Stereolab Lynda Barry Yo La Tengo Kristin Hersh Ida Alison Faith Levy Dusty Springfield Waitresses/Tin Huey/Chris Butler That's all I can think of off the top of my head, and this probably tells you more about me than about the music. It was interesting, anyway. - --Chelsea - ---- Chelsea, the mod pixie home: away: tugboat@channel1.com odyshape@hotmail.com "the only thing I want to do is make a great, big, fat story in my own language and really have people throwing up and driving cars fast." -- Hal Hartley, on _Henry Fool_ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 22:54:48 -0700 From: Neile Graham Subject: Re: my pantheon chelsea wrote: >Mary Margaret O'Hara - The Virgin Mary. She stutters the way a ballerina >pirouettes. Very apt. A great description! - --Neile - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Neile Graham ..... http://www.sff.net/people/neile ..... neile@sff.net The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music .... http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V4 #233 **************************