From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V6 #321 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, October 29 2000 Volume 06 : Number 321 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Kid A ?s WAS: Re: Kristy MacColl [Billi Mazur ] Annie Haslam on Philly PBS station [dave ] RE: Susan James? (was Re: More Ectowest performer suggestions) ["Jack Sut] Re: Kid A ?s WAS: Re: Kristy MacColl [Stuart Myerburg ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:50:11 -0700 From: Billi Mazur Subject: Kid A ?s WAS: Re: Kristy MacColl Stuart, I have been waiting to see when or if someone on Ecto would mention the new Radiohead, either directly or subtly (via the n.p. as you did). I don't have it yet and have only heard a little about it. What is your opinion of it? and why? How does it compare to their previous work? Thanks, Bill M. Stuart Myerburg wrote: > RedWoodenBeads@aol.com wrote: > > > "Angel" has been my favorite song for the past three days. Really, really > > cool. I definitely intend to get some more by Kristy, thanks for the > > recommendation, I'll check it out. Is Electric Landlady very good? > > _Electric Landlady_ is the Kristy MacColl album I listen to least. But > it does have "Walking Down Madison," another one of her best songs. > Also, "My Affair" is sort of a precursor to her most recent CD, > _Tropical Brainstorm_. It has the same sort of Latin feel that > dominates a lot of the songs on that album. > > Stuart > > np: Kid A - Radiohead > -- > ______________________________________________ > Stuart Myerburg > http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~stuart > ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 08:48:20 -0400 From: dave Subject: Annie Haslam on Philly PBS station I was surprised last night while flipping through the channels to come across Annie Haslam singing on a local PBS station (WYBE). She performed I think 4 songs from her new CD 'The Dawn of Ananda' and did a little interview too, talking about the new CD, which is all about angels, and her battle with breast cancer several years back. In the over 20 years I've been a fan (Ocean Gypsy has been my all time favorite song since I first heard it way back around '76) I think this is the first time that I've seen her on TV. One other note.. I noticed at the end of Fox's new show Freaky Links they do a little thing where they tell you what music they use on the show each week. Nice to not have to strain your eyes to try and catch it in the credits, wish more shows would do it this way. - -- dave ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 07:19:30 -0700 From: "Jack Sutton" Subject: RE: Susan James? (was Re: More Ectowest performer suggestions) Good question. I received an e-mail from her about 1 year ago saying she had moved to London and would send me more CDs as I've run out of stock. Since then, I've not received any CDs and she has not responded to any e-mail. She also has a web site at www.susanjames.com that just says, "coming soon" and it's been like that for over a year now. Jack Sutton Harmony Ridge Music www.hrmusic.com - -----Original Message----- From: owner-ecto@smoe.org [mailto:owner-ecto@smoe.org]On Behalf Of Michael Curry Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 8:08 PM To: ecto@smoe.org Subject: Susan James? (was Re: More Ectowest performer suggestions) Hi all, While I was thinking of west coast based ectoish artists, one name that hasn't been mentioned popped into my head, and that's Susan James. I have no idea what she's been up to since her tour in support of Fantastic Voyage, and now I see that her web page at http://www.pacificnet.net/~susanj/ simply says, "Gone but not forgotten." Anyone know what's up? Michael np: Christine Fellow -- Two Little Birds nr: Colony Fleet by Susan R. Matthews ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:43:00 -0400 From: Stuart Myerburg Subject: Re: Kid A ?s WAS: Re: Kristy MacColl Billi Mazur wrote: > Stuart, > > I have been waiting to see when or if someone on Ecto would mention the new > Radiohead, either directly or subtly (via the n.p. as you did). I don't have > it yet and have only heard a little about it. What is your opinion of it? > and why? How does it compare to their previous work? Even though I'm a huge Radiohead fan, I didn't like the album at first. Since the band said they were creating something along the lines of "Exit Music" and "Airbag" from _OK Computer_, I was expecting songs like those that abandon traditional song structures but still have strong, if somewhat obscure, melodies. _Kid A_ has some moments like that, especially on "Everything in Its Right Place," which is meandering but bizarrely catchy at the same time, and "Idioteque," where the band flirt with electronica even more directly than they did on "Airbag." Those are, in my opinion, the two strongest songs on _Kid A_ and come closest to the power of _OK Computer_ and _The Bends_. The rest of the album took repeated listenings before I really began to appreciate it. The styles range from ambient instrumental to free form jazz to electronic music with distorted, barely discernible vocals. I know Thom Yorke was very disillusioned with all of the baggage that came with the success of _OK Computer_, and it's as if the band this time around is trying to alienate the casual listener. Even "Motion Picture Soundtrack," a song that was very direct and powerful performed acoustically over the last couple of years, is buried in messy orchestration in the recorded version. The album definitely succeeds in being a work that rewards the patient listener. But as much as I appreciate the album in its own right, I think it's really just a transitional work. The band will hopefully take the more willfully artsy elements on it and incorporate them into the more "commercial" songs that are ready for the next album, rumored to be due early next year. That would produce another masterpiece like _OK Computer_, versus _Kid A_ which is just an album filled with a bunch of interesting ideas and occasional sparks of brilliance. Stuart - -- ______________________________________________ Stuart Myerburg http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~stuart ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 10:01:29 -0700 From: Neile Graham Subject: Re: Susan James? (was Re: More Ectowest performer suggestions) I emailed her a month or so ago and it didn't bounce but I never heard back. - --Neile At 11:07 PM -0400 10/27/00, Michael Curry wrote: >Hi all, > > While I was thinking of west coast based ectoish artists, >one name that hasn't been mentioned popped into my head, and >that's Susan James. I have no idea what she's been up to >since her tour in support of Fantastic Voyage, and now I >see that her web page at http://www.pacificnet.net/~susanj/ >simply says, "Gone but not forgotten." Anyone know what's >up? > > >Michael > >np: Christine Fellow -- Two Little Birds >nr: Colony Fleet by Susan R. Matthews - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Neile Graham ...... http://www.sff.net/people/neile ....... neile@sff.net Les Semaines: A Weekly Journal . http://www.sff.net/people/neile/semaines The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music ....... http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 15:48:02 -0500 (CDT) From: kerrywhite@webtv.net (kerry white) Subject: CD Laser Lens cleaner..? Hi, I have always ignored the laser lens cleaners I see in stores. Should I get one? My cd player is 4 or 5 years old. What do you folks do about this? Thanks, KrW I'm Peter Pan! I'm perpetually young!! OW!! What's wrong with my back? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 23:22:38 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: Annie Haslam on Philly PBS station Hi! Dave commented: >One other note.. I noticed at the end of Fox's new show Freaky Links >they do a little thing where they tell you what music they use on the >show each week. Nice to not have to strain your eyes to try and catch it >in the credits, wish more shows would do it this way. The WB network started this, I believe. They don't tell you everything that was played, just the songs by the bands on record labels owned by the megacorporation that also owns the WB (thus I'm probably one of about, oh, 13 _Roswell_ fans who noticed and found it hilarious that they used a bit of Jimmie Dale Gilmore, the "space cowboy" himself, in last week's episode), but it's better than nothing. +==========================================================================+ | 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 *** | +==========================================================================+ _______________________________________________ Why pay for something you could get for free? 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