From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V7 #284 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Friday, October 5 2001 Volume 07 : Number 284 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Best albums of 2001? [RocketsTail@aol.com] Re: Best albums of 2001? [Craig Gidney ] Re: Guilty pleasures ["Renee Campbell" ] Re: Guilty pleasures ["Brian Errickson" ] Re: Guilty pleasures [Todd Tyrtle ] Re: Best albums of 2001? [Neile Graham ] Re: All pleasure, no guilt :) [strange little woj ] Re: Best albums of 2001? ["Brian Errickson" ] Re: Guilty pleasures [dmw ] Re: good 2001 albums [strange little woj ] Re:stupid people like me/blonde offers apology for belief in petitions,bad taste in friends,being trusting,and generally too busy to check everything out in advance,not being computer-sauvy for and being a liberal hippie chick [] Re: Best albums of 2001? [Andrew Fries ] late night tv [meredith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:35:51 EDT From: RocketsTail@aol.com Subject: Re: Best albums of 2001? Definatly Kristin Hersh "Sunny Border Blue"~ MP3.COM- The Bubblegum Complex "The music with that fresh squeezed lemon taste" Support Indie Rock!!!!!! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 17:20:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Craig Gidney Subject: Re: Best albums of 2001? For starters... Shannon Wright, "Dyed in the wool." Violet Indiana, "Roulette." Ekova, "Space Lullabies and Other Fantasmorgie." Mahogany, "Dream of a Modern Day." Louisa John-Krol, "Ariel." Rufus Wainwright, "Poses." Eliza Carthy, "Angels & Cigarettes." - --Craig ===== "Tired moons ask higher tides."--Zelda Fitzgerald NEW from Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 20:37:43 -0400 From: "Renee Campbell" Subject: Re: Guilty pleasures Wow... good topic... my guilty pleasures are very simple... CRASH TEST DUMMIES!! I own everything they have ever put out and then some!! fantastic.... so there you go... ~renee '] >From: Todd Tyrtle >To: >Subject: Guilty pleasures >Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 22:25:27 -0500 (CDT) > >Hi there, > I know a bunch of you already as I have been corresponding for >some time with y'all and I've lurked off and on here for some time now but >I just got curious (or maybe I just wanted to confess in company). Surely >everyone here has some unpredictably non-ecto music guilty pleasures. > >Me? Mine are all over the map: >Steely Dan, B-52s, Early to mid 80's heavy metal (early Van Halen, Judas >Priest, AC/DC), art of noise, yello. Most of mine are not only not shared >by my wife, but are actually *banned* from her earshot. > >And I will "out" Sage (my wife who many of you also know) by saying that >we *both* love Frank Sinatra (and Skanatra by association). Sage is a bit >more over the top in this respect, I think nine times out of ten I find >myself starting the car after she drives it to find that the radio is >blaring Wink Martindale hosting the "Music of your life" radio station >which seems to be filled sith nothing but old songs by Peggy Lee, Frank >Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Tom Jones, and the like. It's a little surreal. > >Oh, and another (former - we haven't done this really since we left >Bethlehem 3 years ago) was the Delilah show (www.radiodelilah.com). > >I told you they were guilty pleasures. Do you all still respect us? > > >------------------------------------------------ >Todd Tyrtle >Just Off the Square >www.yurtsweetyurt.com >todd@yurtsweetyurt.com - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 17:42:14 -0700 From: "Brian Errickson" Subject: Re: Guilty pleasures This is just sad if you guys go on with the guilty pleasures you will have named almost all of the cd's I own. My Top Five guilty pleasures Bridgett Bardot and Serge Gainsbourg "Bonnie and Clyde" Johnny Mann singers "greatest hits" Thoroughly modern Millie Soundtrack Wayne Newton "Night Eagle One" Billy May "Today!" Dare I add Ace of Base? Brian ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:38:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Todd Tyrtle Subject: Re: Guilty pleasures Hey! On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Renee Campbell wrote: > Wow... good topic... Thanks :) > > my guilty pleasures are very simple... > > CRASH TEST DUMMIES!! > > I own everything they have ever put out and then some!! What *happened* to them is what I'd like to know? I loved their first couple of albums and then forgot about them until I saw a circa 1999 album at the library. It was - um - rather weird and not what I expected. The album that starts out with the "who put the ______ ...in the _____house" song. It didn't seem to have all the nice acoustic sound and harmony I was expecting. Forgive me, but I was truly disappointed with it. - -Todd - ------------------------------------------------ Todd Tyrtle Just Off the Square www.yurtsweetyurt.com todd@yurtsweetyurt.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 17:58:05 -0700 From: Neile Graham Subject: Re: Best albums of 2001? Craig wrote: >Eliza Carthy, "Angels & Cigarettes." Oh, yes! I forgot that this didn't come out in the U.S. until this year. I was in such I hurry I got the UK edition (not different) which came out in 2000. I need to pick up that new Shannon Wright, though I had mixed feelings about _Maps of Tacit_. - --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.ectoguide.org ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 20:59:42 -0400 From: strange little woj Subject: Re: All pleasure, no guilt :) when we last left our heroes, Phil Hudson exclaimed: >The Big F: ( Think Zep meets Aerosmith) "Kill the Cowboy" " Here's to the >Good Times" hmmmm. didn't they have a heironymous bosch snippet on the cover of one of their albums? woj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 18:13:11 -0700 From: "Brian Errickson" Subject: Re: Best albums of 2001? I add my vote for Ladytron (best album of the last 10 years) plus (all not very ecto) Bertrand Bergalat - SSSsound of Mmmusic The Beta Band - Hot Shots II Anubian Lights - Naz Bar Margo Guryan - 25 demos ( Who did a wonderful interview on the local station when it was released) Free Design - Cosmic peek - a - boo Fantastic Plastic Machine - Beautiful The Gentle People - Music to watch comets by Eggstone - Ca Chaufee en Suede The Incredible Moses Leroy- Electronic Pocket Radio Mellow - Another mellow spring . . .however this is basically the same as another mellow winter that was released in 1999 Brian - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart Myerburg" To: "Ecto" Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 1:16 PM Subject: Re: Best albums of 2001? > Here are some of my favorites thus far, with the Divine Comedy still my > number one of the year. Some of them are a bit more Ecto-friendly than > others... > > Regeneration - The Divine Comedy > Pleased to Meet You - James > 100 Broken Windows - Idlewild > 604 - Ladytron > Paper Scissors Stone - Catatonia > Songs in Red and Gray - Suzanne Vega > > And, from what I've heard of it (it's not released until next week), > Lamb's new album, _What Sound_, will almost definitely be in my best-of > for the year. > > Stuart ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 22:19:24 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: Re: Guilty pleasures On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, JoAnn Whetsell wrote: > >np amy ray _stag_ > > How is that, btw? Emily was always my favored half. ...just skimmed some songwriting credits; I don't think I *had* a favored half, both seem to have penned some songs I like a lot and one or two I really dislike. Overall my tag on _stag+ is "Uneven." I was interested mostly because the Butchies, one of my favorite punk bands, back her on some of it (the Butchies are led by Kaia, formerly of Team Dresch if that helps put things in perspective). Most of it sounds pretty good, but I think a few of the lyrics are too polemical to be very artful. Probably my favorite is the opening track, which sure sounds like an authentic appalachian folk ballad to me -- I had to look at the songwriting credits about four times before I was convinced there wasn't a "Trad. arr. Ray" buried in there somewhere. - -- d. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 22:54:26 -0400 From: strange little woj Subject: Re: good 2001 albums when we last left our heroes, JoAnn Whetsell exclaimed: >Laura Watling and Curve are names I haven't heard before. What are they like? curve blew onto the scene in 1991 fusing the seemingly disparate genres of shoegazer pop and dance music. the core of the group are toni halliday (who you may recall as the woman vocalist on robert plant's "tall cool one") and dean garcia, who are often joined by illuminaries such as kevin shields (my bloody valentine), flood, alan moulder and such. i picked up _the gift_ last week, but wasn't really expecting much since, since none of their releases (which i've inexplicably always picked up) have really caught my ear much since the first three fantastic eps (collected together on the compilation _pubic fruit_). that said, _the gift_, while not transcedent or ground-breaking, is pretty good. the first listen didn't leave an impression but the second is piquing my ear: lots of churning bass, some crunchy guitarwork, and a nice heavy sound. a good record for oppressive volume. there are some surprisingly smooth bits which seem a little out-of-place but still are alright. woj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 19:52:20 -0700 From: CyO Subject: Re:stupid people like me/blonde offers apology for belief in petitions,bad taste in friends,being trusting,and generally too busy to check everything out in advance,not being computer-sauvy for and being a liberal hippie chick To All Steve, not only have I been had, I guess I been bad. Not only did I have my web person send the petition out to my email list, but she also encluded ecto-digest, which I did not know (until seeing this post, ugh!!). After answering my own angry people all day, taking really mad ones off my list, thanking those that did sign, apologising, directing folks to the UrbanMyth site, apologising again, let me add one more general apology to this list. And especially; Adam, I am not into senseless games, I ASSUMED it was real and going somewhere....(you know what they say about the word assume, it certainly made an ass of me) and to JoAnne, who knows me, who knows I am silly but not stupid, crazy but not cruel, I thank you for providing real urls where people can go and find out info. Neile, who knows I do work on political issues in many ways and forgives my ignorance quite sweetly. and to Vickie, who doesn't know me at all, first of all, yes, some of us are "that stupid" to believe something that comes in from a friend, some of us even signed it a year ago and re-signed it, (jeez, I must be really really stupid), some of us did think that someone somewhere would get those names of white bleeding heart liberals(I prefer the label hippie to yuppie as I am too poor to be a yuppie) to someone who might give a shit, yes, I was that dumb. Although, I was not sending it to "strangers", but rather a list I have been on for 3/4 years with lots of friends on it. Plus, in the text of my rude, stupid, senseless game, I did offer a free song for those who cared. Once again, my apologies to the entire list and I promise I will make sure this list is no longer on my "gig" or "fan" list. thanks, peace, cyoakha Here is what I wrote my fan list, it goes double for my co-horts on this list. dear folks, since I already blew it I guess by being a dumb bleeding heart liberal without checking urbanmyths first, let me apoligize and I will make it brief since spam is a bad tasting and looking meat product. Someone I knew very well sent the Afghani women's petition to me. I too had sent and signed one a while ago and so instead of letting my fans know I was playing this week end at a benefit, I choose to send this out instead first, as I thought it way more important than my little gig. I am also sorry to all those that re-signed it, and my apologies to many many people that said they had signed it long ago and returned it to me. My apologies also to those whose work does not allow them chain letters. It won't happen again. And last but not least, to those who were actually MAD at me for not knowing about where to check to see if emails are dead ends and petitions are bullshit or not, my deepest apologies for my innocence and and natural naivite', you can bet I will not do this again, nor do anything without checking the truth or lie website first. for those that want to check out things first before you dump or sign them here are the websites sent to me Please see: http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/petition/afghani.htm http://www.snopes2.com/inboxer/petition/petition.htm http://www.snopes2.com/ hand slapped and wiser cyoakha PS, in a positive light, I will copy the entire signed list, print a hard copy myself and send it to G. Bush in the White House, as well as Amnesty International, so your signing will not be completely in vain, I hope. Yes, I still hope. PSS I still offer a FREE cdr of the song I wrote about the subject, send your address and I will mail you one, and promise to not put any junk mail in with it..tee hee O'Manion Music PO Box 198 Mill Valley, CA 94941 cyo@landoftheblind.com http://www.landoftheblind.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 13:15:34 +1000 From: Andrew Fries Subject: Re: Best albums of 2001? What's this, best-of-the-year lists already?!? People, people... October is just beginning! There are many more glorious records on the way - just have faith :) np: Kirsty Stegwazi - Jailbirds (something that will definitely squeeze into my list when the time comes, in fact probably somewhere close to the top) - ---------------------------------------------------- "People who make peaceful change impossible make violent change inevitable." - ---------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 23:44:54 -0400 From: meredith Subject: late night tv Hi, For those who catch this in time, Suzanne Vega will be on the Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn on CBS TONIGHT (Thursday). That's in an hour or so for those on the East Coast... Sarah Harmer was on Letterman the other night - I think it was Tuesday. She did "Don't Get Your Back Up", and it was quite lovely. It was also hilarious, because it was Stage Manager Biff's birthday, and right before Letterman introduced Sarah he called Biff onto the stage to wish him a happy birthday, then said "stay and sing with the band!" So he did. It was hilarious. Sarah took it all in stride. In fact, I was impressed by how poised she was throughout -- if I'm not mistaken that was her first big-time TV appearance in the States, and she didn't look or sound nervous at all. One question, though -- who was in her band? I didn't recognize anyone... ======================================= Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth "an eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind" -- mahatma gandhi ======================================= Live At The House O'Muzak House Concert Series http://www.smoe.org/meth/muzak.html ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V7 #284 **************************