From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V6 #223 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, August 2 2000 Volume 06 : Number 223 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Love songs ["Mitchell A. Pravatiner" ] No birthdays, just a monthly listing [Mike Matthews ] Re: Songs in the Key of Love [RavFlight@aol.com] Re: Songs in the Key of Love [Andrew Fries ] Songs for Lucy [Valerie Richardson ] Re: Songs in the key of love ["Marcel Rijs" ] Re: Songs for Lucy [dmw ] Re: Songs for Lucy [Joseph Zitt ] Songs in the key of Love ["Anne Deming" ] painting daisies? [Damon ] Re: Songs for Lucy [RavFlight@aol.com] RE: Songs for Lucy ["Mattoon, Melanie" ] fresh picked daisies, also; pressed [Chikaskia@aol.com] Jane Siberry - Hush... [jjhanson@att.net] Re: Jane Siberry - Hush... [Philip David Morgan ] Dido in Billboard [RocketsTail@aol.com] Re: Songs for Lucy [Ken Blake ] Re: Songs for Lucy [neal copperman ] Rhodes I spotted on eBay ["Mickey Ferguson" ] ectofest - request [meredith ] Re: Songs for Lucy [meredith ] Re: Songs in the key of Love [meredith ] Re: Songs for Lucy [Ken Blake ] love song stuff ["ReNeEz DaBoMb" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 01:41:38 -0500 (CDT) From: "Mitchell A. Pravatiner" Subject: Love songs Some favorites off the top of my head are: "Power of Two" by Indigo Girls "My One and Only Love," a standard whose best rendition, in my experience, is by Sting on the _Leaving Las Vegas_ soundtrack "Images" by Margie Adam "Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover" by Sophie B. Hawkins "When I Loved Her" by Kris Kristofferson Needless to say, this list is not exhaustive. Mitch ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 03:00:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Matthews Subject: No birthdays, just a monthly listing - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Marvin Camras Sat January 01 1916 Tapehead Jeanne Schreiter Tue January 03 1967 Capricorn John Sandoval Wed January 04 1967 Capricorn Paul Cohen Tue January 05 1954 Capricorn Tony Garrity Mon January 08 1962 Pool of Life Greg Bossert Tue January 09 1962 OfTheTimes Troy J. Shadbolt Thu January 14 1971 Capricorn Chris Sampson Wed January 15 1964 Void where prohibited Dennis G Parslow Fri January 17 1964 ...of the Saint Ross Alford Thu January 17 1957 Positive Nancy Whitney Mon January 19 1959 slippery when wet Sarah Noelle Pratt Ferguson Tue January 20 1970 Seanympf-Aquarius David Beery Tue January 20 1976 drum Terry Partis Sun January 22 1933 Rocker Sarah McLachlan Sun January 28 1968 Aquarius Ilka Heber Mon February 01 1965 Mermaid Bob Lovejoy Sun February 02 1947 Aquarius Diane Burke Sat February 02 1963 slow children Timothy S. Devine Tue February 03 1970 Aquarius Stephen Thomas Fri February 04 1966 Aquarius Doug Burks Tue February 14 1956 Blank Jim Sturnfield Thu February 18 1954 Aquarius Juha Kannisto Wed February 18 1970 Aquarius Joel Siegfried February 19 Penguin Crossing Linda Saboe Tue February 20 1951 aimless Teresa Ross Wed February 23 1977 pisces Michael Curry Fri February 24 1967 Pisces Paula Shanks Mon February 25 1952 Pisces Brni Mojzes Fri February 26 1965 the vanishing boy Pamela Pociluk Fri February 28 1964 Pisces Peter Clark Thu March 04 1948 Pedestrian Tim Steele Fri March 08 1963 Pisces Matt Bittner Thu March 12 1964 Pisces kIrI Hargie Fri March 13 1970 Pisces Bob Dreano Thu March 13 1958 Pisces Randall K. Smith Sat March 15 1969 Pisces Jessica Skolnik March 16 Pisces Alan Sodoma Thu March 18 1965 LuckyLurker Richard Konrad Sat March 18 1944 Pisces Barry Wong Thu March 19 1970 Merlin Graham Dombkins Fri March 19 1965 Pisces Ian Young Wed March 19 1969 Squiggol Jeff Wasilko Wed March 19 1969 Pisces Geoff Carre Sat March 20 1954 Pisces John Stewart Sat March 21 1970 Aries Bob Brown Thu March 22 1951 Ham Valerie Nozick Thu March 25 1971 Aries Tom Proven Sat March 27 1971 Eat at Joe's Jennifer Albert Wed March 30 1966 Aries (w/Cancer rising!:) Warpaint Mon April 01 1991 Brilliant! Michael Pearce Wed April 03 1946 Pegasus Michael E. Bravo Mon April 05 1971 Dandelion Wine Brion McIntosh Sun April 06 1958 Aries Marcel Kshensky Thu April 06 1950 Aries Bill Mazur Mon April 06 1953 Aries Sun/Cancer Rising David Dixon Tue April 07 1970 Aries Heidi Heller Mon April 08 1974 Aries Jill Hughes Sat April 09 1955 Aries Klaus Kluge Sun April 10 1960 Unicorn Steve VanDevender Sun April 10 1966 Racer Art Liestman Fri April 10 1953 Repeat Stephen Golden Sat April 10 1971 Jokey Michael Bowman Wed April 11 1962 Aries Wolfgang Ullwer Fri April 11 1969 Widder Janet Kirsch Thu April 11 1974 Aries Jerry Tue April 13 1971 Aries Stuart Myerburg Mon April 14 1969 Aries T-Bone Wed April 15 1992 happy cat Jeff Hanson Sat April 16 1966 Aries Michael Klouda Mon April 17 1967 Aries Harry Foster Sat April 21 1956 NiceGuy Kjetil Torgrim Homme Thu April 23 1970 Taurus Jeff Burka Thu April 24 1969 GoFlyAKite Christine Waite Tue April 25 1972 Taurus Matt Adams Thu April 26 1962 Taurus Brad Hutchinson Tue April 28 1964 What sign? Geoff Parks Sun April 30 1961 Taurus Marty Lash Sat May 01 1948 Taurus Barney Parker Fri May 02 1986 happy cat Gray Abbott Tue May 03 1955 Suprised Tamar Boursalian Tue May 03 1966 Taurus Richard A. Holmes May 07 Taurus Steve Ito Fri May 08 1970 DA Bull... Brian Gregory Thu May 09 1963 Eclectic Heidi Maier Wed May 10 1978 Taurus Patrick Varker Wed May 12 1954 Torius Philip David Morgan Sat May 12 1962 Chinese Tiger in Bull Clothing Steve Fagg Tue May 13 1958 Nightwol Karel Zuiderveld Fri May 13 1960 Stier Michael Colford Wed May 16 1962 Taurus Christopher Boek Tue May 19 1970 Taurus Yngve Hauge Fri May 21 1971 Gemini Lisa Laane Tue May 22 1973 Gemini Jewel Kilcher Thu May 23 1974 The Gem Chandra Sriram Thu May 27 1971 Gemini Urs Stafford Thu May 31 1973 Give Way Perttu Yli-Krekola Thu June 02 1966 Kaksoset Alex Gibbs Thu June 08 1967 Betelgeuse Gleb Zverev Tue June 09 1964 Gemini Sonja Juchniewich Mon June 10 1963 Pegasus Joerg Plate Mon June 12 1967 Gemini Chris Montville Tue June 13 1978 Gemini Ectoplasm (original name) Mailing List Thu June 13 1991 Fuzzier blue Paul Huesman Wed June 14 1967 coffee drinker Mark R. Susskind Wed June 15 1966 Gemini Mike Matthews Mon June 16 1969 Dr. Firewall Albert Philipsen Mon June 17 1968 Gemini Neal R. Copperman Thu June 17 1965 Gemini Susan Kay Anderson Tue June 17 1969 Gemini Ecto-The Mailing List Tue June 18 1991 Fuzzy blue Tracy Barber Mon June 18 1956 Gemini Greg Dunn Thu June 18 1953 + Paul Blair Thu June 18 1964 Objectivist David Lubkin Fri June 20 1958 OurLady Marisa Wood Fri June 20 1969 Gemini Cheri Villines Sun June 20 1965 Gemini-Leo rising Ray Misra Sat June 20 1970 Gemini Nik Popa Sun June 22 1969 Cancer Teresa VanDyne Thu June 23 1960 Cancer Dave Torok Mon June 24 1968 Cancer Ethan Straffin Thu June 24 1971 Cancer Kevin Dekan Mon June 27 1960 Cancer Samantha Tanner Tue June 30 1970 Wild Goose BunkyTom Tue July 02 1968 Cancer Anders Hallberg Tue July 03 1962 Cancer Kevin Harkins Thu July 05 1973 Cancer Laurel Krahn Mon July 05 1971 Cancer John J Henshon Mon July 05 1954 The Year Of The Horse / Ruled By The Moon Jim Gurley Mon July 06 1959 Cancer Lisa Wilson Fri July 08 1960 Moonchild with Java Rising Courtney Dallas Fri July 09 1971 Catte Michael Peskura Sat July 09 1949 HallOfFamer Finney T. Tsai Sat July 09 1966 Cancer Larry Greenfield Tue July 11 1950 Virgo Rising; Gemini Moon Marion Kippers Tue July 13 1965 Kreeft Ellen Rawson Thu July 13 1961 Double Cancer Mitch Pravatiner Mon July 14 1952 Cancer Rich R. Wed July 14 1954 Cancer John Zimmer Sun July 16 1961 Cancer Dan Stark Sun July 16 1961 Cancer Cathy Guetzlaff Mon July 18 1955 Cancer Vlad Sat July 18 1970 Warning: severe tire damage Jani Pinola Thu July 20 1972 Jonquil Alvin Brattli Sun July 27 1969 Lefthanded Christy Eger Smith Thu July 27 1944 Horse Crossing Shirley Ye July 27 Lioness woj Sun July 28 1968 children at play John Relph Sat July 28 1962 Leo Bob Kollmeyer Wed July 28 1971 Leo Steve Lusky Tue July 29 1952 Bike! Kate Bush Wed July 30 1958 God Chuck Smith Wed July 30 1958 Reboot Yves Denneulin Fri July 30 1971 Lion-Heart Joel Kenyon Wed July 31 1963 Leo Eli Brandt August 05 Leo Martin Bridges Sat August 08 1970 BigGuy Happy Rhodes Mon August 09 1965 HolyGhost Michael Stevens Sat August 12 1967 For Sale or Lease Martin Dougiamas Wed August 20 1969 Positive Tori Amos Thu August 22 1963 Leo Sam Warren Tue August 22 1961 Leo Henk Van Wulpen Sat August 22 1970 Leo Kerry White Wed August 22 1951 Exact Leo/Virgo Don Gibson Wed August 26 1959 Virgo Marcel Rijs Mon August 31 1970 A rose growing old Meredith Tarr Wed September 01 1971 Virgo Scott Zimmerman Mon September 04 1972 Virgo Mike Mendelson Fri September 04 1964 Virgo Richard Dean Wed September 06 1967 Virgo David Blank-Edelman Sat September 09 1967 Neon Holly Tominack Thu September 10 1970 Virgo Sharon Nichols - Terra Incognita Wed September 11 1963 Victim of Christianity Heather Russell September 11 Total Virgosity Karron Lynn Lane Tue September 14 1751 Ophelia Virgo Troy Wollenslegel Mon September 18 1972 Virgo Mark Frabotta Sun September 19 1965 Don't even THINK about parking here Joe Zitt Sat September 20 1958 Will Hack for CDs Ani DiFranco Wed September 23 1970 Virgo Paul Kim Sat October 01 1977 fetal position JoAnn Whetsell Fri October 01 1976 Pendulum William Gill Wed October 05 1960 A wide-eyed wanderer Dan Riley Sun October 08 1961 Libra Neile Graham Wed October 08 1958 pen Quenby M. Chunco Tue October 08 1968 Crunchy Frog Mike Garland Wed October 08 1952 Creature_of_the_Night Irvin Lin Tue October 09 1973 Libra Michael C. Berch Wed October 10 1956 No parking Chris Gagnon Sat October 10 1970 Libra Wolfgang Drotschmann Thu October 13 1966 Waage Gracescape Fri October 13 1967 unbalanced Brian Bloom Tue October 14 1969 spam Erik N. Johnson Tue October 16 1962 Handle with Care Kim Klouda Tue October 17 1967 Libra Anthony Amato Sat October 20 1973 Libra Dave Steiner Sat October 24 1959 Scorpio 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 Anna Pryde Wed November 05 1975 Scorpio Sun; Sagittarius Moon; Pisces Rising 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 Pat Tessitore November 26 Sagittarius Valerie Kraemer November 26 Sagittarius Justin Bur Fri November 27 1964 Sagittarius Sue Trowbridge Sun November 27 1966 Skytten Ward Kadel Tue November 29 1977 Sagittarius Jesse Hernandez Liwag Wed November 29 1972 Water Rat Mirko Bulaja Sat November 30 1974 Block Juha Sorva Thu December 02 1976 Sagittarius Chip Lueck Thu December 05 1968 Sagittarius Michele Wellck December 08 Sagittarius Jeremy J. Corry Fri December 11 1970 Sagittarius Renee Canada Tue December 13 1977 Sagittarius Julie C. Kammerzell Sun December 15 1968 Sagittarius/Scorpio combo Gloria Jackson-Nefertiti Sat December 15 1956 queen_nefertiti@prodigy.net Damon Harper Tue December 16 1975 COOL BANANAS Laura Clifford Tue December 17 1957 Sagittarius Dirk Kastens Tue December 17 1963 Sagittarius Milla Wed December 17 1975 Sagittarius Chris Schernwetter Tue December 17 1974 Sagittarius Sherry Haddock Sat December 17 1960 Sagittarius Tracy Benbrook Tue December 18 1973 Sagittarius Mark Lowry Mon December 22 1969 Capricarius Kay Cleaves Wed December 22 1976 Prancing Pony Uli Grepel Wed December 25 1968 Steinbock Joseph Wasicek Sat December 25 1976 Brown Eagle Stuart Castergine Mon December 30 1963 You Are Here ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 05:17:19 EDT From: RavFlight@aol.com Subject: Re: Songs in the Key of Love Here are some that I thought of recently, certainly are a million where these came from... Song For Eric - Tori Amos How Can I Tell You - Cat Stevens Fumbling Towards Ecstacy & Ice Cream - Sarah McLaughlan You Do Something To Me - Paul Weller I Want You - Tom Waits You and Me - Patty Larkin Time Has Told Me - Nick Drake If I Could Forget To Breathe - John Gorka Heart of Mine - Peter Salett Into The Mystic - Van Morrison Hold On To Me - The Cowboy Junkees I'll Be Your Mirror - The Velvet Underground Mad About You - Sting Thank You - Led Zeppelin Grace - Meshell Ndegeocello For You - Tracy Chapman Angeles - Elliot Smith Kathy's Song - Simon & Garfunkel And if none of that works, you can just stand outside her window, hold a boom box above your head, and blast Peter Gabriel's - In Your Eyes. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 21:34:38 +1000 From: Andrew Fries Subject: Re: Songs in the Key of Love - - I've always been fond of Cyndi Lauper's unfinished trillogy: "True Colors", "Time after time", and... well, the despite my expectations, the third one just never came - hence "unfinished". - - I don't *know* what Lisa Gerrard's "Sanvean" is about, but I always thought something this touching *must* be about love :) Also, let's not forget Lamb's "Gorecki"... mmm, I think I'll play some Lamb now... - ------------------------------------------------------ "Today I want to talk about piracy and music. What is piracy? Piracy is the act of stealing an artist's work without any intention of paying for it. I'm not talking about Napster-type software. I'm talking about major label recording contracts." -- Courtney Love - ------ http://www.zip.com.au/~afries/hall.html ------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 08:40:12 -0400 From: Valerie Richardson Subject: Songs for Lucy Hi, I'm coming out of lurker mode to ask a favor. A friend of mine recently had a baby girl, and they named her Lucy. I told her that I'd like to make a CD of Lucy songs for the baby, but I'm having a hard time coming up with any songs other than "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and Desi Arnez singing the words to the Lucy theme song. Can anyone give me some other ideas? My friend is an alternative music fan, so Ecto choices would be particularly good choices. Many thanks, Valerie Richardson ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 15:52:53 +0200 From: "Marcel Rijs" Subject: Re: Songs in the key of love Hi all, . LoveSongs, Ecto or otherwise? My God... where to start.... . Here's a random pick... . "Running up that hill" - Kate Bush "Hand on my shoulder" - Betsy Cook "Why aren't you in love with me" / "Never too late" - Banderas "In your eyes" - Peter Gabriel "I love you" - Sarah McLachlan (Deemed too corny by most, but anyway....) "Alive" - Colin Vearncombe (Due out on CD this autumn!) "In mijn bloed" ("In my blood") - Frank Boeijen (In Dutch, but hey....) "Long coat in winter" - Noa ...and there's absolutely many many many more.... But I'm trying to work here! :-) Kind regards, Marcel Rijs afd. Communicatie marcel.rijs@kb.nl ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 10:26:34 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: Re: Songs for Lucy On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Valerie Richardson wrote: > Can anyone give me some other ideas? My friend is an alternative music > fan, so Ecto choices would be particularly good choices. how about a track or two from The Lucy Show? - - oh no, you've just read mail from doug = dmw@radix.net - get yr pathos - - www.pathetic-caverns.com -- books, flicks, tunes, etc. = reviews - - www.fecklessbeast.com -- angst, guilt, fear, betrayal! = guitar pop ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 09:48:27 -0400 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: Songs for Lucy On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 10:26:34AM -0400, dmw wrote: > On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Valerie Richardson wrote: > > > Can anyone give me some other ideas? My friend is an alternative music > > fan, so Ecto choices would be particularly good choices. > > how about a track or two from The Lucy Show? There's always Jeff Simmons's "Lucille Has Messed My Mind Up", as performed by Frank Zappa on "Joe's Garage". :-) And, of course, Vince Guaraldi's (sp?) "Linus and Lucy". And Shel Silverstein's "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan", recorded by gerjillions of people, including Marianne Faithfull. None of which may be what's wanted... - -- |> ~The only thing that is not art is inattention~ --- Marcel Duchamp <| | jzitt@metatronpress.com http://www.metatronpress.com/jzitt | | Latest CD: Jerusaklyn http://www.mp3.com/josephzitt | | Comma: Voices of New Music Silence: the John Cage Discussion List | ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 11:28:27 EST From: "Anne Deming" Subject: Songs in the key of Love Peter Murphy - "I'll Fall With Your Knife" Portishead - "Glory Box" Patti Smith Group - "Because the Night" Sarah McLachlan - "Silence" Cowboy Junkies - "Crescent Moon" Cowboy Junkies - "Misguided Angel" Joni Mitchell - "A Case of You" Jonatha Brooke - "Inconsolable" Sinead O'Connor - "I Am Stretched On Your Grave" Ani Difranco - "Overlap" Afghan Whigs - "Crazy" Billy Pilgrim - "Need Your Love" Tori Amos - "Putting The Damage On" ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 10:00:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Damon Subject: painting daisies? hi there! my SO recently heard a couple of songs by a band called `painting daisies'. apparently an all-women albertan band with a folky bent, that she felt might be at least somewhat ectophilic. i did a search in the ecto archives but didn't find anything... has anyone heard of them? - -damon Damon Harper _/\_ "Let the programmers be many and damon@jumeaux.bc.ca __\ /__ the managers few -- then all \ / will be productive." http://jumeaux.bc.ca/damon/ |/||\| - The Master Programmer ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 13:09:47 EDT From: RavFlight@aol.com Subject: Re: Songs for Lucy You could always pick a track from the Marry Me Jane sountrack to the film "If Lucy Fell". Also works if she has a second child namned Jane. :) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 12:15:24 -0500 From: "Mattoon, Melanie" Subject: RE: Songs for Lucy I found some more (using cddb.com and cdnow.com): The Dream Academy - Lucy September Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Lucy Victoria Williams - Gladys and Lucy Aslan - Lucy Jones Pt. 2 Syd Barett/Pink Floyd - Lucy Leave The Commodores/Lionel Richie - Lucy Hanson - Lucy Eric Clapton - Watch Out for Lucy Vince Gill - Lucy Dee Kentucky Headhunters - Just Ask Fo' Lucy Al Stewart - Almost Lucy Conway Twitty - Hey Little Lucy I'm not sure how useful these will be since most of them are by non-ecto artists, but I thought I'd post what I found anyway ... (I'm obviously bored at work!!) np A-ha - Minor Earth, Major Sky nr Nick Hornby - About a Boy - -----Original Message----- From: Valerie Richardson [mailto:valkraemer@igc.org] Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 7:40 AM To: Ecto Subject: Songs for Lucy Hi, I'm coming out of lurker mode to ask a favor. A friend of mine recently had a baby girl, and they named her Lucy. I told her that I'd like to make a CD of Lucy songs for the baby, but I'm having a hard time coming up with any songs other than "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and Desi Arnez singing the words to the Lucy theme song. Can anyone give me some other ideas? My friend is an alternative music fan, so Ecto choices would be particularly good choices. Many thanks, Valerie Richardson ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 15:52:31 EDT From: Chikaskia@aol.com Subject: fresh picked daisies, also; pressed hot off the crawler, in somewhat of a chronological order: SEE Magazine:Thursday,December 5,1996 SEE Magazine:Thursday, October 23rd.,1997 Mike McDonald News< /A> Review: Painting Daisies, "Flambescence" Captain Tractor Spirit River Distribution - Painting Daisies, Flambescence Painting Daisies R adio Free Khyber - Painting Daisies Connections- Painting Daisies The Ness Creek Music Festival Homepage Dawson City Music Festival - Lineup 2000 chikaskia quickly leaps back into lurking pool! now playing: brasil '65 with wanda de sah and rosinha de valenca ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 21:20:19 +0000 From: jjhanson@att.net Subject: Jane Siberry - Hush... Hello folks, Well the pre-ordered copies of Jane's new one are being delivered--Neal received his yesterday and I got mine today. I'll be interested to hear what other people's reactions are. I love the cover art--Neal hates it-- too much of a glamour shot for him, but I think it's a great picture, and great overall packaging-- similar to Mary Lydia Ryan's Diaphanous. As for the music--well, very pretty and very mellow. It will take a few more listens to form a definite opinion, but while Jane's vocals arrangements are quite beautiful, this hardly demonstrates the creative genius of When I Was a Boy. I wondered who the pianist was, because while it's quite pretty, it's not up to Tim Ray's standards. Turns out it's Jane herself--she plays piano, accordian, harmonica, harp, and keyboards, as well as doing all vocals. The only other musicians are Sandy Baron on violin and Jennifer Weeks on oboe. So this album is definitely Jane at her purest, but I have to wonder if it's because she wanted to do everything herself, or she was just being cost conscious. Personally, I think Jane Siberry and Sheeba are a good example of what happens when artists try to run the whole business themselves--they spend so much time trying to keep the business afloat, that they don't have time to dedicate to creating music. Jane's Sheeba releases so far have comprised of a odd collection of random sounds (A Day in the Life), songs written when she was a teenager (Teenager), three live CDs (The New York Trilogy), and now Hush, a collection of folk standards. Don't see a new Jane composition in the bunch (ok, perhaps a couple of the live songs were new, but most were not)--and the New York Trilogy could definitely have used more production (or at least rehearsal time). Jane may have felt overly pressured and constricted when she was on a major label, but they gave her the time, money, and production assistance required to create a true masterpiece--When I Was a Boy. Something I doubt she's capable of on her own. But at least she is continuing to put out records. While I wish Sheeba the best, and I'm rooting for Jane all the way, and will continue to probably buy everything she releases, I really wonder if an artist can be at their creative best while answering telephones, filling orders, scrambling for funds for studio time, etc. The fact that Jane, an established artist with lots of experience is having difficulty, makes me wonder what the real chances of success for any unknown artist doing this are. Jane has enough of a fan base that she can actually sell stuff for ridiculous prices, and charge phenomenal prices for house concerts. Something unknowns don't stand a chance of accomplishing. I guess the Ani DiFranco's of the world really are a rare breed. But then Ani has a persistence and dedication that very few people possess. Well, enough ranting--on to listening. n.p. Jane Siberry - Hush n.r. The Magician's Tale - David Hunt ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 08:57:44 -0400 From: Philip David Morgan Subject: Re: Jane Siberry - Hush... Good Evening, everyone, and especially the one who wrote regarding Jane Siberry and the _Hush_ album (which arrived at my doorstep yesterday, signed): > Personally, I think Jane Siberry and Sheeba are a good example of what > happens when artists try to run the whole business themselves--they spend > so much time trying to keep the business afloat, that they don't have time to > dedicate to creating music.... Jane may have felt overly pressured and > constricted when she was on [Warner-Reprise], but they gave her the time, > money, and production assistance required to create a true masterpiece--When > I Was a Boy. Something I doubt she's capable of on her own. But at least > she is continuing to put out records.... Actually, Jane's not exactly doing it alone this time....feed this URL into your browser (or your K or Gnome file manager if you go Linux like me): http://www.soundstruemusic.com/ And, yes, it's the same Sounds True that's home to Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes and Thich Nhat Hahn... I'm just not in a soapbox mood tonight, folks... Philip David (when independence fails, try interdependence) 8/1/2000 - -- http://dianewolkstein.com/ http://members.dencity.com/SakuraNation/ - -- "What is patriotism but the love of the good things we ate in childhood?" - -- Lin Yutang. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 19:23:43 -0600 From: neal copperman Subject: Re: Songs for Lucy At 8:40 AM -0400 8/1/00, Valerie Richardson wrote: >I'm coming out of lurker mode to ask a favor. A friend of mine recently >had a baby girl, and they named her Lucy. I told her that I'd like to >make a CD of Lucy songs for the baby, but I'm having a hard time coming >up with any songs other than "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and Desi >Arnez singing the words to the Lucy theme song. > >Can anyone give me some other ideas? My friend is an alternative music >fan, so Ecto choices would be particularly good choices. Oddly enough, a search of my CD's finds little overlap with what has been posted already. Not clear that it is any more useful, but what they hey.... Temporarily Lucy - Kendra Smith (five ways of disappearing) Lucy Cassidy - The Tannahill Weavers (on many Green Linnet samplers) Lucy - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (The Good Son) [An obvious winner for a baby] Linus and Lucy - Game Theory (Alias with a bullet sampler) Lucy Sleeps with Master Mulford - Wall Matthews and Aleta Green (The Color of Dusk) [doesn't look like a promising name either] lucy september - dream academy (a different kind of weather) Lucy's Dream - MARY COUGHLAN (After the fall) POSSIBLY MAYBE (LUCY MIX) - Bjork (Telegram) And, of course, you could record songs by Lucy's too (Though Lucy Kaplansky is about the only one I can think of) neal ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 21:23:35 EDT From: RocketsTail@aol.com Subject: Dido in Billboard This was on BILLBOARD ONLINE: Rising vocalist Dido launched a U.S. tour last night at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., just as her Arista debut album "No Angel" has risen to the No. 1 spot on Billboard's Heatseekers chart and to a new high of No. 120 on The Billboard 200, all in its 45th week. "No Angel" has sold more than 254,000 copies in the U.S., according to SoundScan. But thanks to an unlikely ally, Dido's stock seemes primed to rise even further. Eminem's "Stan," on which he samples Dido's "Thank You," is soon due for release as a single. The cut is No. 13 this week on Billboard's Bubbling Under Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks tally. "So if you ask me I'll keep saying that I am fine So just don't ask And if you see me I'll keep Flashing that winning smile Cause that's my mask" ~Tara Maclean ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 18:42:10 -0700 From: Ken Blake Subject: Re: Songs for Lucy While others were searching for Lucy, I tried Lucille. http://www.cddb.com/xm/search?q=lucille finds 977 hits. In the second set of 10 you will find, what for me is the penultimate Lucy song, "Lucille" by Little Richard. Ken ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 20:01:53 -0600 From: neal copperman Subject: Re: Songs for Lucy At 6:42 PM -0700 8/1/00, Ken Blake wrote: >While others were searching for Lucy, I tried Lucille. >http://www.cddb.com/xm/search?q=lucille finds 977 hits. >In the second set of 10 you will find, what for me is the >penultimate Lucy song, "Lucille" by Little Richard. In that case, what's your favorite Lucy song? neal ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 22:15:15 -0500 From: "Mickey Ferguson" Subject: Rhodes I spotted on eBay Howdy Ecto-land, I am so shocked and amazed that I found myself compelled to share with the group. I've been watching this auction on eBay -- #392123470 -- for several days, for a still-sealed CD of Rhodes I. It closed this afternoon, at the cool price of $86.00. I find it a shame that Happy doesn't see a penny of that money. How could she have guessed this, back in the 80s when she put those songs on tape? My best, - ---Mickey (who still hasn't heard *any* of Rhodes I but adores RII ... sniff, sniff) n.p. Tannas, "Ru-Ra" n.r. _Revision of Justice_, John Morgan Wilson ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 23:14:24 -0400 From: meredith Subject: ectofest - request Hi! If anyone is lurking out there in the Woodstock, NY area and would like to help the ectofest cause, please e-me off-list. Thanks! +==========================================================================+ | 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: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 23:19:35 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: Songs for Lucy Hi! Neal noted: >And, of course, you could record songs by Lucy's too (Though Lucy Kaplansky >is about the only one I can think of) I don't know if this counts, but there are a couple interesting ones by Lucy Lawless on the most recent _Xena_ soundtrack. ;> +==========================================================================+ | 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: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 23:25:13 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: Songs in the key of Love Hi! Anne listed: >Joni Mitchell - "A Case of You" Mmmmh yes, the ultimate love song in my opinion. >Tori Amos - "Putting The Damage On" ??? I think of this more of a breakup song than anything else ... I wouldn't consider it a love song! Here are a couple I haven't seen mentioned yet: Kate Bush, "L'Amour Looks Something Like You" Veda Hille, "26 Years" Sarah McLachlan, "I Will Not Forget You" The mind blanks, it must be time for sleep... +==========================================================================+ | 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: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 20:39:38 -0700 From: Ken Blake Subject: Re: Songs for Lucy Grammar police officer neal copperman wrote: > > At 6:42 PM -0700 8/1/00, Ken Blake wrote: > >While others were searching for Lucy, I tried Lucille. > >http://www.cddb.com/xm/search?q=lucille finds 977 hits. > >In the second set of 10 you will find, what for me is the > >penultimate Lucy song, "Lucille" by Little Richard. > > In that case, what's your favorite Lucy song? I should have simple said the ultimate. Lets see, I could try to lay blame on all the other people that incorrectly use this word... Ken j.p. (just played) Aimee Mann - Bachelor No. 2 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 00:39:27 -0500 From: "ReNeEz DaBoMb" Subject: love song stuff I think I missed a couple songs on my love song list... so here they are!!! Love you to Death- Type O Neg Running up that hill-Kate love theme from 'Elizabeth' There.. I think I got them all now!! ~Renee - -- ThIs Is WhY pEoPle Od On PiLlS, aNd JuMp FrOm ThE gOlDeN gAtE bRiDgE... aNy ThInG tO fEeL wEiGhTlEsS aGaIn! - -- ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V6 #223 **************************