From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V7 #27 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Friday, January 26 2001 Volume 07 : Number 027 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Smooth Jazz [tenthvictim@mindspring.com] New Ruby? ["Adam K." ] Splashdown Headline Middle East Downstairs on Saturday, Feb 2nd [Neile Gr] The Middle East Downstairs [Marla Tiara ] Re: The Middle East Downstairs [Laura Clifford ] Re: Splashdown Headline Middle East Downstairs on Saturday, Feb 2nd ["gle] not a stupid question [dmw ] Re: The Middle East Downstairs [Ted ] Re: Splashdown Headline Middle East Downstairs on Saturday, Feb 2nd [Neil] re: Sherlyn's question about live concert tours [dave ] Re: not a stupid question [meredith ] Car music [Valerie Richardson ] Re: Car music [meredith ] RE: Car music [Phil Hudson ] RE: Car music [meredith ] Re: ecto-digest V7 #26 [RedWoodenBeads@aol.com] Re: Dylan [RedWoodenBeads@aol.com] Re: Juno Nominees [Paul Blair ] Re: Juno Nominees [meredith ] Re: Juno Nominees [Paul Blair ] Re: Juno Nominees [Joseph Zitt ] Re: lovin' the 80's is a dirty job (was:Emm Gryner) [vylette Subject: New Ruby? Did someone post something about a new Ruby release, along with a website? Could they forward it to me again? I meant to leap on it and, as always, am too late -- now I can't find the reference. A nudge in the right direction would be much appreciated. Thanks! AdamK. np -- Meddle/Pink Floyd (oh, maaaaaaaan) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 07:34:21 -0800 From: Neile Graham Subject: Splashdown Headline Middle East Downstairs on Saturday, Feb 2nd Hi, all-- I'm not 100% clear on where the Middle East is, but since Happy's played there, I feel I can assume that some people here know where that is. I highly recommend Splashdown, and would love to be there myself. There are sound samples at the site mentioned below, and there will be an Ectophiles' Guide entry for them after Sunday night. - --Neile >X-eGroups-Return: >sentto-104529-1424-980414005-neile=sff.net@returns.onelist.com >X-Sender: countess@drawbridge.com >X-Apparently-To: Splashdown@onelist.com >X-Sender: countess@drawbridge.com@mail.drawbridge.com >To: countess@drawbridge.com >From: Cynthia von Buhler >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Mailing-List: list Splashdown@egroups.com; contact >Splashdown-owner@egroups.com >Delivered-To: mailing list Splashdown@egroups.com >Precedence: bulk >List-Unsubscribe: >Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 03:30:02 -0500 >Reply-To: Splashdown@egroups.com >Subject: [Splashdown] Splashdown Headline Middle East Downstairs on >Saturday, Feb 2nd > > ; margin-bottom: 0 } -->y Press Notice: To download 300 dpi press >photos in color or black and white, MAC or PC at 300 dpi go here: >http://drawbridge.com/splashdown/pressphotos >______________________________________________________________________________ >> > Splashdown > will be headlining the Middle East downstairs 472-480 Mass Ave in >Central Sq (617) 864-EAST Saturday, February 2, 2001 > Also performing: Freezepop (CD Release Party) 1 Plus 1 Butterfield 8 >(featuring Leah Callahan) > $8, 18+ > Splashdown Radio Interview! WFNX 101.7 FM, Sunday, January 28th, approx 9pm > Coming Soon! Splashdown will be included in a Lilith Fair Documentary >entitled "Lilith on Top" due out soon! Includes a Splashdown interview >done when they performed in Philadelphia and the song Ironspy. > Thanks to WBER, Rochester, NY listeners for once again voting Splashdown >in the top 5 songs of the year!!! > > eGroups Sponsor >N/A=567138/R=1/*http://domains.yahoo.com>900315.1248727/D=egroupmail/S=1700031534:N/A=567138/R=2/*http://domains.yahoo.co >m> >www. Content-Id: >Content-Type: image/jpeg; name="emailsplash_copy.jpg" > ; x-mac-type="4A504547" > ; x-mac-creator="3842494D" >Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="emailsplash_copy.jpg" > >Attachment converted: Maxi:emailsplash_copy.jpg (JPEG/8BIM) (000487F8) >-- > >THE SPLASHDOWN OFFICIAL WEBSITE: >http://www.splashdown.net > - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 07:52:02 -0800 (PST) From: Marla Tiara Subject: The Middle East Downstairs - --- Neile Graham wrote: > Hi, all-- > > I'm not 100% clear on where the Middle East is, but > since Happy's played > there, I feel I can assume that some people here > know where that is. It's in Central Square, Cambridge. Fun venue, I go there all the time (but will miss this show unfortunately). marla tiara ===== ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Famous people wearing my tiara: http://www.marlatiara.com (*updated 01/23/01 - Emm Gryner!) "Give me action and drama, give me 80s Madonna" - Bis Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:06:26 -0500 From: Laura Clifford Subject: Re: The Middle East Downstairs I think Happy's played at a different Middle East - not the one in Cambridge.... At 07:52 AM 01/25/2001 -0800, you wrote: >--- Neile Graham wrote: >> Hi, all-- >> >> I'm not 100% clear on where the Middle East is, but >> since Happy's played >> there, I feel I can assume that some people here >> know where that is. > >It's in Central Square, Cambridge. Fun venue, I go >there all the time (but will miss this show >unfortunately). > >marla tiara > >===== >~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* >Famous people wearing my tiara: >http://www.marlatiara.com (*updated 01/23/01 - Emm Gryner!) >"Give me action and drama, give me 80s Madonna" - Bis >Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. >http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:10:40 -0500 From: "glenn mcdonald" Subject: Re: Splashdown Headline Middle East Downstairs on Saturday, Feb 2nd > I highly recommend Splashdown, and would love to be there myself. I really like the first Splashdown album, and have mixed feelings, at worst, about the subsequent EPs, but I admit that their last (second to last?) performance here was the only concert I've ever been to that I walked out of in the middle because I was simply too embarrassed for the band. They were trying so hard to be posturing LA-style pop stars, ala Orgy, that I couldn't bear it. The bass player and keyboardist were preening Hollywood-issue 22-year-olds with dumb hair and stupid mylar pants, Melissa kept doing faux-gang hand gestures like she thought she was on MTV Spring Break, Adam seemed like Woody Allen trying to be Billy Idol, and the songs got lost in the mess. It was an LA spectacle, and it rang painfully false in a basement Boston club. But I'd hope that after their liberation from major-label torment, they've ditched some of the LA-isms. glenn ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:16:55 -0500 (EST) From: dmw Subject: not a stupid question On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Sherlyn Koo wrote: > Anyway, my question is - do artists go on tour to support > live albums? I think the only possible answer is "sometimes." One example: Warren Zevon released a live solo record called _Learning to Flinch_, and when I next saw him live, he was playing almost exactly the same set that was on the record. Of course, many artists tour without regard to whether they're supporting a specific album or not. - -- d. - - 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: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:14:14 -0500 From: Ted Subject: Re: The Middle East Downstairs Happy played at the Middle East in Philadelphia. I don't think it's there any more... - -ted PS. The HR tour shirt I bought there still looks brand new, what the hell is it made out of? Laura Clifford wrote: > I think Happy's played at a different Middle East - not the one in > Cambridge.... > > At 07:52 AM 01/25/2001 -0800, you wrote: > >--- Neile Graham wrote: > >> Hi, all-- > >> > >> I'm not 100% clear on where the Middle East is, but > >> since Happy's played > >> there, I feel I can assume that some people here > >> know where that is. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:35:07 -0800 From: Neile Graham Subject: Re: Splashdown Headline Middle East Downstairs on Saturday, Feb 2nd At 11:10 AM -0500 1/25/01, glenn mcdonald wrote: >I really like the first Splashdown album, and have mixed feelings, at worst, >about the subsequent EPs, I have the opposite reaction. Their first album to me seems the most indierock sounding one and the ones following feel more experimental pop (a la Rainbirds). My favourite of them is _redshift_, the most recent ep, and I've also liked the more current samples I've downloaded so I feel sure that I would like what they're doing now. Not that I don't like the first album but what they're doing now feels far more individual and hook-laden and unforgettable to me. [glenn's comments about the concert snipped as never having seen them live I have nothing to add to this, other than the folk on the Splashdown list, which I've just joined, have nothing negative to say about their live shows--but anyone whose a fan enough to join a list may be less likely to say negative stuff anyway.] - --Neile - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 18:34:01 -0500 From: dave Subject: re: Sherlyn's question about live concert tours Sherlyn asked: > ...or is it? I was talking about this with a couple of guys > from work yesterday and we didn't really come up with an > answer. > > Anyway, my question is - do artists go on tour to support > live albums? The first big concert that I went to had Peter Frampton and Lynyrd Skynyrd, their current albums at the time were both live, Frampton Comes Alive and One More From the Road, so I guess the answer would be yes. Oh.. here's something to tie in the recent political discussion to music... I think there are some cases when abortion should not only be legal, but retroactive. Take Eminem for instance... ..calm down people.. it's a joke... Now cut it out.. if I wanted to hear people whining because the guy they wanted didn't get elected president I'd watch Nightline... dave ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 18:52:03 -0500 From: recount chocula Subject: Re: Splashdown Headline Middle East Downstairs on Saturday, Feb 2nd when we last left our heroes, Neile Graham (neile@sff.net) exclaimed: >[glenn's comments about the concert snipped as never having seen them live >I have nothing to add to this, other than the folk on the Splashdown list, >which I've just joined, have nothing negative to say about their live >shows--but anyone whose a fan enough to join a list may be less likely to >say negative stuff anyway.] happy rhodes sucks!!! +w ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 18:08:04 -0600 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: Splashdown Headline Middle East Downstairs on Saturday, Feb 2nd On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 06:52:03PM -0500, recount chocula wrote: > happy rhodes sucks!!! To a Primus fan, that's a recommendation! - -- |> ~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: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 16:22:01 -0800 From: Neile Graham Subject: Re: Splashdown Headline Middle East Downstairs on Saturday, Feb 2nd At 6:52 PM -0500 1/25/01, recount chocula wrote: >when we last left our heroes, Neile Graham (neile@sff.net) exclaimed: > >>[glenn's comments about the concert snipped as never having seen them live >>I have nothing to add to this, other than the folk on the Splashdown list, >>which I've just joined, have nothing negative to say about their live >>shows--but anyone whose a fan enough to join a list may be less likely to >>say negative stuff anyway.] > >happy rhodes sucks!!! does not does not does not. does to does to does to. and Neile can't type: "who's" not "whose" there. Dammit. - --Neile n.p. Splashdown "Mayan Pilot" a brrrrrrrrrrilliant song on _redshift ep_ "Be brave, be brave, the Mayan pilot needs no aeroplane, be brave.... - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:23:39 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: Juno Nominees Hi! Carolyn forwarded: >>Nominations for the JUNO Awards were just announced. I checked the full listing, and was pleased to see Sarah Harmer nominated in two categories: Best New Solo Artist, and Best Pop Album. While perusing, I saw a rather odd category: Best Selling Album. What is the point of even listing nominees for this?! Doesn't simple math dictate which the winner is going to be? Whatever. :) +==========================================================================+ | 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: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:40:22 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: not a stupid question Hi! Doug responded: >One example: Warren Zevon released a live solo record called _Learning to >Flinch_, and when I next saw him live, he was playing almost exactly the >same set that was on the record. This happened when I saw Patty Larkin after her latest live album _A Go Go_ was released. (Since she's on a perpetual tour, I'm not sure if you could say she was on tour to support the album, but then again I'm not sure you couldn't say that, either.) She did the exact same set as on the record, in the same order. At first I thought she was doing this because the show was at The Bottom Line, which is where the recording was made, but then I realized it was just the same set I've been seeing her do for the past 4 years. >Of course, many artists tour without regard to whether they're supporting >a specific album or not. Count pretty much every contemporary folk singer/songwriter in that category. The most obvious example is Ani DiFranco, who is on one continuous tour, with only occasional breaks to record a new album. Susan Werner, too -- she hasn't put out an album in a few years, but that still doesn't keep her from doing over 100 gigs a year. The list goes on and on. While I'm here, I wanted to mention that I reminded myself just what an incredible album Katell Keineg's _O Seasons, O Castles_ is today. (I can now listen to music at work, which is definitely a good thing.) I also pulled out Wendy Wall's debut, since I got an email from her yesterday (!) thanks to the ectoguide. I didn't even recall ever saying anything about her in these pages, but I guess I did! I can't wait to hear her new CD, which is way, way overdue. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that I still like her older album quite a lot. It doesn't sound dated at all. It also occurred to me that she sounds uncannily like Julia Fordham. I'm not sure why I never thought that before. Anyhoo... +==========================================================================+ | 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: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 20:42:03 -0500 From: Valerie Richardson Subject: Car music meredith wrote: >....(I can now listen to music at work, which is definitely a good thing.) Well I have a new car, and all I want to do now is drive around the back roads of Connecticut and listen to music. I should explain that the only music I had in my old car came from a cheap boombox that I bought at Radio Shack. I had three stereos ripped out of my previous car, and I gave up trying to keep anything nice in it several years ago. The new car has a very good stereo, and the effect is only slightly less spectacular than listening to headphones. I'm listening to a number of my CDs with a whole new level of excitement. Happy Rhodes MWABT is one of them. Yesterday I went 10 miles out of my way to be able to hear the end of Jane Siberry's _When I was a Boy_. (I should say that I tried listening to Siberry's _Hush_and it almost put me to sleep while I was driving.) I just hope this stereo doesn't get ripped off. I'll have to keep the car out of New Haven ;) I think I'll go and take a ride now... - --Valerie ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 21:14:40 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: Car music Hi! Valerie posted: >Well I have a new car, and all I want to do now is drive around the back >roads of Connecticut and listen to music. I should explain that the only >music I had in my old car came from a cheap boombox that I bought at >Radio Shack. I had three stereos ripped out of my previous car, and I >gave up trying to keep anything nice in it several years ago. The car is where I do my best listening. Back when I was commuting 3 hours a day, I was listening to and paying attention to more music than ever. Now I look forward to long trips, so I can go through all 6 CDs in the changer at once. :) >Yesterday I went 10 miles out of my way to be able to hear the >end of Jane Siberry's _When I was a Boy_. Heh. There's been a few times when I've sat in the parking lot at work (never mind that I was already late) to hear the end of a good song. >I just hope this stereo doesn't get ripped off. I'll have to keep the >car out of New Haven ;) I got my stereo ripped off in a supposedly secure lot in Milford. If it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen. Just make sure your car insurance covers it - it's not automatically considered part of the vehicle. (I found this out the hard way.) +==========================================================================+ | 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: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 18:38:12 -0800 From: Phil Hudson Subject: RE: Car music Sorry to hear about all these car stereo ripoffs; they took my stereo out too, and came back for my laundry the following week. You can still find "camouflage" panels for your in-dash stereos; they are made to look like inexpensive Clarion FM radios, and they pop over your regular stereo faceplate and disguise it as a cheapie. They cost about $10.00 (Better still is a full-grown Rottweiler living in the back seat; this is not always convenient, but can be terrifically entertaining, especially if you have those fold down seats that give access to the trunk. You can hide Fluffy in there and he'll announce his presence when the bad guys break in. Hours of family fun, and apparently, if you park in New Haven, you'll never need to feed him :) p - -----Original Message----- From: meredith [mailto:meth@smoe.org] Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 6:15 PM To: ecto@smoe.org Subject: Re: Car music Hi! Valerie posted: >Well I have a new car, and all I want to do now is drive around the back >roads of Connecticut and listen to music. I should explain that the only >music I had in my old car came from a cheap boombox that I bought at >Radio Shack. I had three stereos ripped out of my previous car, and I >gave up trying to keep anything nice in it several years ago. The car is where I do my best listening. Back when I was commuting 3 hours a day, I was listening to and paying attention to more music than ever. Now I look forward to long trips, so I can go through all 6 CDs in the changer at once. :) >Yesterday I went 10 miles out of my way to be able to hear the >end of Jane Siberry's _When I was a Boy_. Heh. There's been a few times when I've sat in the parking lot at work (never mind that I was already late) to hear the end of a good song. >I just hope this stereo doesn't get ripped off. I'll have to keep the >car out of New Haven ;) I got my stereo ripped off in a supposedly secure lot in Milford. If it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen. Just make sure your car insurance covers it - it's not automatically considered part of the vehicle. (I found this out the hard way.) +==========================================================================+ | 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: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 21:40:41 -0500 From: meredith Subject: RE: Car music Hi! Phil responded: >Sorry to hear about all these car stereo ripoffs; they took my stereo out >too, and came back for my laundry the following week. I've lost laundry too. How sick is that?! (One of the things in the load, which pissed me off the most was my Moon Seven Times t-shirt. Argh. :P) >You can still find "camouflage" panels for your in-dash stereos; they are >made to look like inexpensive Clarion FM radios, and they pop over your >regular stereo faceplate and disguise it as a cheapie. They cost about >$10.00 ... or better yet, get a stereo with a removable faceplate. Only if you do that, don't ever forget to remove the faceplate. The one time I did that, I got nailed. :/ >(Better still is a full-grown Rottweiler living in the back seat; this is >not always convenient, but can be terrifically entertaining, especially if >you have those fold down seats that give access to the trunk. You can hide >Fluffy in there and he'll announce his presence when the bad guys break in. >Hours of family fun, and apparently, if you park in New Haven, you'll never >need to feed him :) Now *that* would make walking around downtown more entertaining! +==========================================================================+ | 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: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 22:43:41 EST From: RedWoodenBeads@aol.com Subject: Re: ecto-digest V7 #26 It helps people who haven't heard the artist to have an idea as to what the artist sound like, and that's a good thing i would say. In a message dated 1/24/01 11:13:03 PM Pacific Standard Time, owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org writes: > Is it a "good" thing or a "bad" thing that we constantly speak of new artists > > in terms of old ones? > > ( "he or she sounds like him or her with a little bit of him, her, it, and/ > or > a porcupine thrown in for pizazz," etc. ) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 22:48:01 EST From: RedWoodenBeads@aol.com Subject: Re: Dylan In a message dated 1/24/01 11:13:03 PM Pacific Standard Time, owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org writes: > > ObMusic: Favorite Dylan tune - Jokerman. Anyone else know it or like it? I heard it once. I have a friend who is a Dylan junkie, and I remember that song coming up once. My faorite Dylan track would have to be "It Ain't Me Babe", just a real pretty one. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 22:50:55 -0500 From: Paul Blair Subject: Re: Juno Nominees meth wrote: >While perusing, I saw a rather odd category: Best Selling Album. What is >the point of even listing nominees for this?! Doesn't simple math dictate >which the winner is going to be? Not *most* selling; *best* selling. A Britney Spears album may sell a gazillion more copies than one by Happy Rhodes, but it just doesn't sell them as *well*... ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:00:24 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: Juno Nominees Hi! Paul responded: >Not *most* selling; *best* selling. A Britney Spears album may sell >a gazillion more copies than one by Happy Rhodes, but it just doesn't >sell them as *well*... I don't understand. Wouldn't Britney still win, because she sold more? If you sell more than someone else, how can you not be selling as well as the other person? Maybe I just need some 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: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:33:58 -0500 From: Paul Blair Subject: Re: Juno Nominees meth wrote: > >Not *most* selling; *best* selling. A Britney Spears album may sell >>a gazillion more copies than one by Happy Rhodes, but it just doesn't >>sell them as *well*... > >I don't understand. Wouldn't Britney still win, because she sold more? If >you sell more than someone else, how can you not be selling as well as the >other person? > >Maybe I just need some sleep. :) I knew I should've let Joe Zitt handle this one... ;-) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 22:52:04 -0600 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: Juno Nominees On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:33:58PM -0500, Paul Blair wrote: > meth wrote: > > > >Not *most* selling; *best* selling. A Britney Spears album may sell > >>a gazillion more copies than one by Happy Rhodes, but it just doesn't > >>sell them as *well*... > > > >I don't understand. Wouldn't Britney still win, because she sold more? If > >you sell more than someone else, how can you not be selling as well as the > >other person? > > > >Maybe I just need some sleep. :) > > I knew I should've let Joe Zitt handle this one... ;-) I knew I shouldn't have taken an hour off from email to watch videos... n.p. The Ricky Martin Video Collection (now *he* knows how to sell a song *well*) - -- |> ~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: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 00:22:32 -0500 From: vylette Subject: Re: lovin' the 80's is a dirty job (was:Emm Gryner) At 06:07 AM 1/24/01 -0800, Marla Tiara wrote: >songs) and Emm blew me away. I'd never seen Emm before >but now I am very much looking forward to the next >Boston area show. Highlights for me: Julia, Pour Some >Sugar on Me (I made Emm crack up by throwing the >'horns' at her - but Emm impressed me with her ability >to take a coarse 80s rocker and turn it into something >beautiful) i haven't heard her do that song yet, but enough people have mentioned it here that it musta kinda sunk in to my subconscious somehow, and ok i probably shouldn't be telling this to anyone 'cept my shrink, but the other day i heard another 80's hair/spray band song, "loving you is a dirty job" (at least i think that's what it was called) and i thought, wow! yeah yeah yeah, she should redo this one too, since anyone who can take a song like "pour some sugar on me" and turn it around could probably have a lot of fun with this song too! but on the other hand i guess i have almost legendarily bad judgement when it comes to thinking of good songs for other people to do... so maybe that was an idea better off soon forgotten. -veronica ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 22:14:15 -0800 (PST) From: kitty kat Subject: Re: Splashdown Headline Middle East Downstairs on Saturday, Feb 2nd OK, if nobody else is going to do this, I have to... On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Neile Graham wrote: > I'm not 100% clear on where the Middle East is, It's where Israel and Iran and Iraq and all those countries are. But I thought we just decided to try to not talk about politics... ;) - -Kat - ------------- Yesterday at dawn, my friend said, How long will this unconsciousness go on? You fill yourself with the sharp pain of love, rather than its fulfillment. -Rumi - ------------- ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V7 #27 *************************