From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V6 #93 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, April 3 2000 Volume 06 : Number 093 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Elysian Fields: if you liked this, track down....... [John Drummond <] melissa ferrick cd [meredith ] heather nova [meredith ] Re: heather nova [Greg Dunn ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 2 Apr 2000 01:08:54 -0800 From: John Drummond Subject: Re: Elysian Fields: if you liked this, track down....... On Sat, 01 April 2000, "Adam Kimmel" wrote: > Personally, I find Elysian Fields a bit too laid- > back, detached and disengaged to excite or interest > me, and at one point I found her vocals so lethargic > I wasn't sure if she'd fallen asleep or I had... > but, as I say, it's only my 3rd listen. I think once you've gotten your brain wrapped around the lyrics, you'll see that she's actually extremely engaging and interesting... the whole thing is full of these weird sexual metaphors: "and you're some crazy fisherman, your lines on fire, you're caught in my tide, now you're inside me".. Jennifer Charles uses water imagery like the oceans are about to dry up, it's wild. But yeah, after having the album for awhile, you'll realize you either want Jennifer Charles, or you want to be Jennifer Charles... she's got that extreme sexual power mixed with that conflicted vulnerability and those fucked-up near-hallucinations... but they're waking dreams or visions, though, rather than anything drug-induced. Anyhow... enough gushing. ;D John [scandalous and fabulous both end in -ous] Quote of the YEAR 2-THOU' : "i want to brush my teeth with your katana, potluck." - - Baby ____________________________________________________________________ For the largest MP3 index on the Web, go to http://mp3.altavista.com ____________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2000 16:55:02 -0400 From: meredith Subject: melissa ferrick cd Hi! I finally got around to listening to Melissa Ferrick's new one, _Freedom_ (it came out the same day as the new one by The Nields, and I got them both at the same time, but I didn't get a chance to unwrap it before now :}). It's a very nice, laid-back album. I had to open the window and cool off a bit after listening to "Drive" ... yow. :) Ferrick's guitar playing jumps out at me on this one more than her previous releases, for some reason. She's really, really good, and I knew that from having seen her play live, but on this disc that fact is showcased more than the others, or at least that's my initial impression. GO UCONN!!! +==========================================================================+ | Meredith Tarr meth@smoe.org | | New Haven, CT USA http://www.smoe.org/~meth | +==========================================================================+ | "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille | | *** TRAJECTORY, the Veda Hille mailing list: *** | | *** http://www.smoe.org/meth/trajectory.html *** | +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2000 17:43:27 -0400 From: meredith Subject: heather nova Hi! I recently found a Heather Nova import single, "Gloomy Sunday", which includes two versions of her cover of the standard for a German film entitled _Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod_ (A Song of Love And Death), and two live tracks from a supposed forthcoming live album. The cover of "Gloomy Sunday" is wrong, Wrong, WRONG. It's an upbeat, almost cheery tune here, and Heather's voice isn't right for it at all. I would never in a thousand years believe that Heather Nova could ever be about to end it all, not with that airy soprano of hers (Sarah McLachlan's version, on the other hand ... yowch). The live tracks, however, give me much hope for the live album. I've always vastly preferred her live stuff to her studio work (my favorite album of hers by far is _Blow_), and these songs, "Widescreen" and "Make You Mine", which never really grabbed me on _Siren_ (hell, *nothing* from that album grabbed me) are very reminiscent in mood and intensity to the stuff on _Blow_. This is a good thing, in my book. Now the question is -- does this live album exist? None of the Heather Nova sites I could find have been updated since last summer. Anybody know? +==========================================================================+ | Meredith Tarr meth@smoe.org | | New Haven, CT USA http://www.smoe.org/~meth | +==========================================================================+ | "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille | | *** TRAJECTORY, the Veda Hille mailing list: *** | | *** http://www.smoe.org/meth/trajectory.html *** | +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 17:19:31 -0500 From: Greg Dunn Subject: Re: heather nova >Now the question is -- does this live album exist? None of the Heather >Nova sites I could find have been updated since last summer. Anybody know? Felix Tod (her husband and producer) says it was turned over to the record company a few months ago, and they're fiddling around trying to set a release date for it -- best guess is May or June. It consists of live tracks recorded during her last tour, partly in S. Africa. Songs are from Oyster and Siren. That's all we know right now... - -- | Greg Dunn | this is slowly taking me apart. | | gregdunn@indy.net | grey would be the color if i | | The Sultan of Slack(tm) | had a heart. | | http://www.indy.net/~gregdunn/ | Trent Reznor | ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V6 #93 *************************