From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V4 #320 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Saturday, September 12 1998 Volume 04 : Number 320 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: juliana hatfield [neal copperman ] Re: hole and bland [neal copperman ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 22:59:31 -0600 From: neal copperman Subject: Re: juliana hatfield joyce said: (I'm just switching from Pine to Eudora, and really miss how Pine put this sort of thing for me. Is it possible to do this somewhere withing Eudora Lite? And how about responding to multiple messages? ) >Irvin said: > > if anything, stick around please feel free to bring up bands to > > discuss. whether it is the latest HOLE album, that new BIKINI KILL > > compilation, or the recently released JULIANA HATFIELD new album. > >The Juliana Hatfield album is already out? Since when?? And how is it? >Does it include a lot of the songs on that EP she released earlier this >year? I didn't like the EP at all and in fact I returned it - a first >for a Juliana recording. Would you compare it to Become What You Are/Only >Everything, or is it more like the EP? I'm not a really big fan myself, though I've seen her live and enjoyed her shows. The new album, Bed, out on Zoe/Rounder, was reviewed in the Alabi (Albuquerque's free weekly) last week. It got 4, uh, cups of coffee? out of 5. They spend 2 paragraphs recapping her career, before saying " The songs are equally compelling [as 1992's Hey Babe's, which they liked], recalling the ingenuous simplicity of the Blake Babies' best work, but with stronger sense of melody and humor and a newfound vocal approach focusing on Hatfield's purring middle register instead of the helium-filled shrieks that some fel tmarred her earlier records. Away from the media limelight of a half decade ago, Juliana Hatfield is making the best music of her career." FOr what it's worth, they said the EP was "excellent". Neal np: Talula (single) - Tori Amos ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 22:51:04 -0600 From: neal copperman Subject: Re: hole and bland irvin said (among many other things): > you might want to watch out about referring to HOLE as a RIOT GRRL band >though. COURTNEY LOVE always hated that term and if she heard you >mention it, in conjunction to her band, she might be liable to jump off >her stage and chase after you (ala MARY LOU LORD). Um, did Courtney chase Mary Lou, or did Mary Lou chase someone? What's the story here? > np. VEDA HILLE: PATH OF A BODY. dunno about this. all this raving >about her, i picked up the CD in the cheap bin and i still think it may >be verging on that ectobland side of the spectrum for me. is SPINE a >vast improvement over this one? I find Spine to be a bit punchier that Path of a Body, but I love PoaB. I think it's got a beauty and power to it, and a lot of the songs seem really amazing to me. I don't have the disc with me, so all lyrics are quoted from memory. (and this from someone who doesn't really listen to lyrics that carefully. Veda really compels me to listen to her lyrics though.) But it took me multiple listens to Driven before I unraveled what was going on. Stuff like "She scribbles notes while driving, oh good, another red light." and the whole deal about being in a bar by yourself to see a band (the Rheostatics, cool name dropping) and some of how that feels. And the quiet searching of someone compelled to find something "there's so much to see, and so far to go, and just enough gas in the tank" And Precious Heart is so beautiful. And poignant. "Oh precious heart. You think your lost, look down look down and find your feet, the next step is, the path your on, just don't confuse the light the heat." You might like Spine better, as it is a rougher sounding disc, but if you are left cold by this one, I probably wouldn't highly recommend it to you. (Though I think it's pretty damn wonderful.) Neal np: Talula (single) - Tori Amos ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V4 #320 **************************