From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V8 #8 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, January 8 2002 Volume 08 : Number 008 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Voice on the Verge [Dracovixen@aol.com] Re: Splashdown [Dracovixen@aol.com] First ever purchases [Andrew McMichael ] Recent changes to the Ectophiles' Guide ["The Ectophiles' Guide" ] Re: Firsts [NeverForever22@aol.com] Re: my first record [Greg Bossert ] Introduction and first [Davide Mana ] Re: my first record [James mitchell ] Re: firsts ["Angel's Shadow" ] Firsts ["Marcel Kshensky" ] Re: MicroCrap [kerrywhite@webtv.net (kerry white)] SWING OUT SISTER... [Irvin Lin ] SONiA in Australia/NZ [Sherlyn Koo ] RE: My first concert [Phil Hudson ] tongue tied - michal the girl ["Karen Hester" ] Superannuation can be fun and other stories ["Mitchell A. Pravatiner" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 02:21:23 EST From: Dracovixen@aol.com Subject: Re: Voice on the Verge Hi Meredith, Thanks for the info. Now when I play them, I at least have some background info. Always useful to share with listeners who have questions! Black Dove In a message dated 01/06/2002 10:57:31 PM Pacific Standard Time, owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org writes: > Cool! > > Voices on the Verge is a collaboration thing much like the "Cry Cry Cry" > project of a few years ago. It features four women who are > singer/songwriters with their own careers in various stages of getting > going: Beth Amsel, Jess Klein, Erin McKeown, and Rose Polenzani. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 02:48:37 EST From: Dracovixen@aol.com Subject: Re: Splashdown Oh! Oh! Could I have a copy too, please? I have been having such a hard time finding Splashdown, except for the occassional mp3, or compilation disc. I would love to hear this! I would send you money for shipping of course, and a small fee if you so wish to impose one. Black Dove In a message dated 01/06/2002 10:57:31 PM Pacific Standard Time, owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org writes: > Any chance of duping me off a copy? You've piqued my interest. Or > maybe ripping it to MP3 and posting it to Usenet? After all, when a > record company abandons a project like that, their interests are no > longer of my concern, no matter what the law 'droids have to say. As > to the artist losing money, I would happily send her $2 which is > probably a lot more than she would have gotten from the record co. > > Michael ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 09:10:10 +0000 From: Andrew McMichael Subject: First ever purchases Hi folks, What an interesting thread this is..! Well, my first '45' wasn't a definite purchase (i.e. in that I just wanted a record, and didn't care who by!). You see, lots of my peers had bizarre blue and red coloured vinyl records, so I wanted one! I remember going into Woolworths and asking for a 'red record', so the confused woman behind the counter gave me a standard black record with a red label in the middle. I was maybe ten, perhaps my english wasn't too good, I don't know. I didn't return it, and in fact enjoyed hearing it at the time on my father's old portable record player.. Only when I grew up and found the record again did I realise it was the first single from Siouxie And The Banshees, 'Hong Kong Garden'. Well, I could have done worse!! And I never did get myself a red record (sigh). My first single purchase for real was 'Rage Hard' by Frankie Goes To Hollywood (remember trying to write down all the lyrics to the song by playing it loads of times and annoying my parents!). First tape was probably 'Control' by Janet Jackson after being amazed by those early videos, and first LP as such was Blue Bell Knoll by the Cocteau Twins back in 88...and that was a quality pressing by the way, nice thick slab of vinyl!! Sorry, got a bit carried away..! :-) Thanks for indulging me.. Andrew. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 04:16:23 -0800 From: "The Ectophiles' Guide" Subject: Recent changes to the Ectophiles' Guide Latest changes to the Ectophiles' Guide 06 January 2002 New Guide entries added for: * First of June * Tiger Zane Changes made to the entries for: * Laurie Anderson (new album) * Magdalen Hsu-Li (new album) * Lanterna (new album) * Suzanne Vega (new album and additional comments) - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this email because you have asked to be notified of updates to the Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music at http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide/. If you are no longer interested in receiving these notifications, please unsubscribe yourself using the form at http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide/guide.cgi?newsubscribe&action=unsubscribe ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 08:52:27 -0500 From: runly@hvi.net Subject: My first concert Shoot me. It was The Osmonds. I was in row, like, 8,000. So is that worse than my first record being Captain and Tennille? Sharon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 10:05:29 EST From: KBolin0418@aol.com Subject: Re: My first concert In a message dated 1/7/02 8:55:34 AM Central Standard Time, runly@hvi.net writes: << Shoot me. It was The Osmonds. I was in row, like, 8,000. So is that worse than my first record being Captain and Tennille? >> No shame there! They were also my first concert, with Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods (before "Billy") opening. The Elvis jumpsuits, harmonies, and choreography were cool. Just curious, what were Happy's "firsts"? Adding first 45: Probably Rick Springfield's "Speak to the Sky". Most recent CD purchase: Mary Lee's Corvette, "True Lovers of Adventure". Most recent concert: Jay Bennett. Karen ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 15:21:00 +0000 From: Andrew McMichael Subject: Re: Firsts Oh, oh..and.. My first concert, it was Prince at Parkhead Stadium here in Glasgow..he was a little yellow dot that jumped up and down with lots of light and smoke and...oooh..it was AWESOME! Barely Ecto of me, I know, but Prince and Kate are my ying and yang (or something like that..). And I'm partially vindicated because they did 'sing' together. Best concert for making me go all tingly was probably The Blue Nile, I've been lucky enough to see them five or six times now because I'm a scary obsessive. However, I reckon if I ever saw Happy live I'd probably faint and end up missing it, how ironic. Most deafened by: The Cocteau Twins, when I was right of stage and couldn't hear out of one of my ears for most of a day (pardon?). Oooh..the thrill and the hurting.. I'm really looking forward to the Indigo Girls next month - should be good, my first time at seeing them live. I only just got their Swamp Ophelia album after their last visit to these shores, years and years ago.. Don't you just hate that, when you miss out on something because you're ignorant and haven't been exposed? It's like I don't mind being relatively young, but I'd love to have had the chance to go see Kate's Tour Of Life rather than be five and just starting primary school, you know?? Bye all, Andrew (born in the wrong decade) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 10:30:14 EST From: NeverForever22@aol.com Subject: Re: Firsts >Barely Ecto of me, I know, but Prince and Kate are my ying and yang I love Prince. Lucky you, I wish I could've seen him in concert, especially in the '80s >And I'm partially vindicated because they did 'sing' together. Huh? *confused* Nancy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 16:38:06 +0100 (W. Europe Standard Time) From: Greg Bossert Subject: Re: my first record hmm, that would be the Beatles "Red" collection on vinyl. must have been '76 or so. followed by the "Blue" collection, then every other US Beatles LP. then the UK Revolver. i'm not quite sure what my first non-Beatles purchase was. probably "Wings over America" or Lennon's "Shaved Fish" collection. the first really-non-Beatles purchase was, i think, James Taylor's "JT", an album i still find more interesting than it seems. - -g - -- "I have never been afraid to change the circumstances of the world" - -- Happy Rhodes - -- "Except for bunnies" - -- Anya ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 19:27:49 +0100 From: Davide Mana Subject: Introduction and first Greetings. I've been lurking so far on this list and this is my first post. I'm Davide, from Turin, Italy. In brief - . Geologist (currently unemployed), born 1967. . Like science fiction and fantasy, Chinese and Japanese literature, play some flute and some keyboards. . Long time music fan, eclectic tastes currently leaning towards jazz with a dash of world music. . Discovered Happy Rhodes' music six months ago and fell in love with "Warpaint". . Scanned the web, discovered mailing list, finally subscribed. More details available upon request. As for this very interesting "Firsts" thread, here come mine: . first 45 - Glen Miller's "American Patrol", found somewhere while exploring the attic. . first LP - McCartney's "Band on the Run" . first concert - Jethro Tull And this is it. Back to lurking. Cheers! Davide Mana Torino, Italy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 10:59:43 -0800 (PST) From: James mitchell Subject: Re: my first record 1st casette: Paul Simon / Rhythm of the Saints 1st LP: probably something by the Police from the $1 bin at a used shop 1st CD: Kate Bush / The Red Shoes 1st Concert: Poi Dog Pondering at the Vic in Chicago say... winter 1996. 1st CD appeared on: An Evening in Nivram Everyone in the building was called into the studio to be in the choir on the chorus. The Security guy who was sent to clear us out was invited too, but demured. Best concert of 2001: I haven't gone to many name-brand shows this year... there are only two I can remember. Of those, special mention goes to the Residents for their show at the Congress Theater in Chicago, a vast and decaying hall from the 1920s. It was a perfect match for their brand of weirdness. My vote for the best show has to go to the Jazz series at the Hungry Brain in Chicago. Every (nearly) Sunday night for the past year they have featured at one or two mostly young, mostly avant jazz groups. While no expert, I've found the quality stellar, the atmosphere good, the beer strong and the bathrooms clean. And, in a small bar with no amplification that the bands don't bring themselves, you could hardly ask for more intimacy. James Mitchell ecto@jmitchel.com Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 11:00:56 -0800 From: "Angel's Shadow" Subject: Re: firsts My first 45 when I was about 7 was a single of Neil Diamond's "Love on the Rocks" which melted in the car in the Las Vegas sun and never made it home. My first cassette was the soundtrack to "Labyrinth." My first CD before I even had a CD player was a Tears for Fears CD single "Advice for the Young At Heart." My first concert (went with my mom) was Neil Sedaka and Marilyn McCoo. I must have been around 8 years old. My first concert I actually wanted to go to and my dad took me was David Bowie in 1987 with Duran Duran playing beforehand when I was 13. My dad took me all the way to Toronto, Canada from Las Vegas, Nevada. The only concerts I've been to since have been with my dad who's been to Tears For Fears, Erasure and the Nine Inch Nails/David Bowie concert with me. I wish I'd made it to Ectowest to see Happy Rhodes, but I'd just had the previous week off with my husband (we'd just gotten married), and he couldn't take another day off, and he works weekends. :-( Kristen ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 14:13:40 -0500 From: "Marcel Kshensky" Subject: Firsts No one (well, maybe some of the flower children) will remember my first single bought, Jimmy Soul's "If You Want to be Happy for the Rest of Your Life (Never Make a Pretty Woman Your Wife). Yes, words to live by. First LP: Meet the Beatles, bought at Woolworth's. First concert: at the Fillmore East, Jefferson Airplane, or was it Hendrix, hmmmm, maybe Three Dog Night, no it was the Chambers Brothers, no, wait a minute, Pink Floyd and the Amboy Dukes. They're kind of all mushed together a bit. - -Marcel ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 15:53:41 -0600 (CST) From: kerrywhite@webtv.net (kerry white) Subject: Re: MicroCrap Hi, At home, where most of my surfing takes place, I have MSNTV nee WebTV. Nothing pops up, ever! I was at work when they jumped me from behind!! KrW I'm Peter Pan! I'm perpetually young!! OW!! What's wrong with my back? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 14:01:35 -0800 From: Irvin Lin Subject: SWING OUT SISTER... >  > > Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 21:54:18 -0600 (CST) > From: "Mitchell A. Pravatiner" > Subject: Worst by default only and other stories > > I don't know that Swing Out Sister did any albums subsequent to _Kaleidoscope > World_. But the latter does, I think, have some good stuff on it, even if the > album isn't quite as good overall as _It's Better to Travel_. So _Kaleidoscope_ > qualifies as their worst solely by being second in a field of two. heh. they never really had a hit after BREAKOUT here in the states did they? sort of fell off the radar i guess. SWING OUT SISTER actually have SEVEN full length albums, a live album, a best of, and numerous compilations of "remixes". granted most of the stuff was released over in JAPAN, but i know that at least three albums after KALEIDOSCOPE WORLD were released stateside. i would really recommend GET IN TOUCH WITH YOURSELF the album after KW, and easily found in cheap used bins around the country. it's not as dated sounding as their previous two (that reek of last 80's early 90's) and should appeal to those who like WORKSHY, JULIA FORDHAM and ONCE BLUE. i dunno why, but the japanese absolute adore SWING OUT SISTER, hence the mutitude of albums and best of remixes that were only released there. i haven't bought anything really recently by them but there is talk of the their latest album (SOMEWHERE DEEP IN THE NIGHT) being released in europe, and possibly in the states. right now it is only available in JAPAN. it's suppose be quite lush and orchestrated. perhaps i will see if can dig some mp3's up on the net to get a sampling, now that i am thinking of them again. for more info, you can always just hit www.swingoutsister.com and see what you have been missing. irvin ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 10:35:16 -0800 From: Sherlyn Koo Subject: SONiA in Australia/NZ Hey folks, SONiA (of disappear fear) is currently touring Australia and will also be in New Zealand later this month. Here're her dates, more are still being added so check www.soniadf.com for more info... 11 January 2002, Friday Katoomba, Australia, Clarendon Guest House and Dinner Theatre, 68 Lurline Street, Ph: (02) 4782 1322, 17 January 2002, Thursday Melbourne, Australia, The Corner Hotel, with Salley Dastey (ex-Tiddas) and Kristy Apps 19 January 2002, Saturday Sydney, Australia, Tribute to Phil Ochs with SONiA and some great Australian talent. Eastside Arts , 2 Newcombe Street, Paddington, Sydney 20 January 2002, Sunday Erskineville, Sydney, Australia, Imperial Hotel, with Kristy Apps 23 January 2002, Wednesday Auckland, New Zealand, Temple, 486 Queen Street 25 to 27 January 2002 Auckland, New Zealand, Auckland Festival Cheers, sherlyn - -- Sherlyn Koo - sherlyn@fl.net.au "Raise your hands, raise your hands high Don't take a seat, don't stand aside this time Don't assume anything - just go, go, go..." - Indigo Girls ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 15:54:38 -0800 From: Phil Hudson Subject: RE: My first concert Stonehenge Blues Club, Oxford. Capacity 200. Late 1968/early 69?? King Crimson played there about two weeks before their first album (Court of the Crimson King) hit the stores. Outside of the incredible performances by Fripp, Giles, et al, the event was all the more memorable in that no-one had *ever* heard anything like these guys before. Crimson didn't even promote their debut album at the show ( remember, we were all into music, man, as opposed to that uncool money stuff!) We all came away from the show in a state of euphoric shock, trying to figure out how to make a Mellotron from used reel to reel tape decks and the keyboard from a Farfisa organ. I saw KC performing on a Brit TV show ( possibly TOTP) a few weeks later, and realized there was an album to be heard. At the time, the one record store in town had a small bin labeled " alternative music", containing about six albums, just past the Tom Jones and Perry Comatose sections. ( for those who think "alternative" is a relatively new term in music :) I had to go 60 miles to London to get Court of the Crimson King. We played it till our ears bled.... A few years later, playing in a prog band with a Mellotron, I learned first hand all the problems they are prone to, most notably, playing *seriously* out of tune when plugged into a varying AC line, tapes coming off their rails and getting eaten, etc. They basically had a 2' loop of tape for every note on the keyboard, so there was generally no such thing as a small problem , just really big ones, that always seemed to surface onstage. We eventually learned to just create alternative musical arrangements that we could substitute at a moment's notice to accommodate the capricious nature of the Mellobeast. Despite its problems, it had/has a fantastic sound, (providing it has clean power, fresh tapes and a full-time live-in technician). ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 13:44:05 +1300 From: "Karen Hester" Subject: tongue tied - michal the girl Tongue tied  Michal the Girl Frothy guitar pop, all about relationships, worth checking out if you like Mary Lou Lord, Juliana Hatfield, Sleater-Kinney during Michal's scrappier moments, etc. Available cdbaby.com (http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/82/michal_the_girl.html for downloads) This is a fun catchy album of guitar pop from the sometimes pissed off, sometimes in love Michal the Girl, who is indeed a girl, a little 5 ft shaggy blonde creature at that, which suits her music. Tongue tied, Double negative and Do baby do are melodic punk, Bittersweet is quietly menacing, and songs like Hook, line and sink me" and Blanket' and Wrong track minded (clearly dear, you were not made for me) are crunchy alterna-pop. The gentle acoustic snippet "Snow", piano and cello number Two hands and lapsteel guitar "Miss Guided" add prettiness and gravity to the album. The long (well, actually it just feels long) sitar based dirge Swivel it is a change of pace but drags after a few listens. Lyrics are all about romantic relationships, usually failures, as hinted by the booklet sign-off to "all of the guys Ive ever been involved with for giving me some great material." The Village Voice quote on her cdbaby page sums things up  "sassy, sugared alterna-pop temper tantrums." It is worth checking the sound samples at mp3.com for songs from her ep, particularly the enjoyable 'Superstar'. Also notable is 'Everything' in which 'now she's got the ring, and I've got nothing, nothing' - sentiments which seem oddly anachronistic to me. Karen ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 19:48:34 -0600 (CST) From: "Mitchell A. Pravatiner" Subject: Superannuation can be fun and other stories When _Walk Don't Run_ by the Ventures can be the first record of an Ectophile, somehow I feel less alone as I try to work thru my impending 50th bday in 6 months :-). One of my more memorable live performances was one by Rose Polenzani (whom I'm proud to say is a resident of the same suburb in which I work), at the Uncommon Ground in (I think) August of 1999. Attending a modern dance event some distance down the street caused me to miss the first half, but I'm glad I decided to catch the second half anyway. I think it was the first show at UG where I saw an actual headliner, at least by the standards of ectophilic music. The second, of course, was Sheila Nicholls later the same year. (The way we are coming up with new categories for this thing, don't blame me if we end up expounding on our second of various things soon, after we play out the first of everything :-). ) Mitch ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 21:24:25 -0500 From: Jeff Wasilko Subject: [Kenableken@aol.com: OT: Alison Moyet on agoraphobia and legal battle with Sony] - ----- Forwarded message from Kenableken@aol.com ----- From: Kenableken@aol.com Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 12:35:03 EST Subject: OT: Alison Moyet on agoraphobia and legal battle with Sony To: mannlist@lists.cc.utexas.edu X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Mac sub 36 Reply-To: Kenableken@aol.com X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.2.09/990901/11:28 -- ListProc(tm) by CREN I stumbled onto this interesting interview with Alison Moyet, in which she talks about spending years waiting to get out of her Sony contract. She's still looking for a new label for her next, already recorded disc. The link is to the full interview, which is from August. She's been filling her time now starring as the warden in Chicago on the West End. http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:dZ6bE9l8hSIC:www.observer.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,532505,00.html+%22chicago%22+alison+moyet&hl=en There is an obvious temptation, while we wait for Moyet to get her hair done, to use this knackered room as some clumsy metaphor for the state of her career: the huge star, whose extraordinary, foundation-shaking blues voice gave her top 10 hits first with Yazoo in 1982 and then as a solo artist, is now aged 40. Hungry for renewed exposure she is entering the retirement home for jaded former pop stars, a West End show. In 10 days' time she is taking over as Mama Morton - a dykey Chicago jailer with two songs - in Kander and Ebb's dark musical Chicago. That, however, is to presume Moyet was ever particularly good at being a pop star; that she bought into it. Yes, she's had the hits: she has sold more than 20 million records worldwide. Her biggest successes may have been in the Eighties but as recently as 1995 an album of her singles went to number one and her two most recent solo albums, Essex and Hoodoo, were critically well-received. She still has a solid fan base. Sustained by The Voice, Moyet has never run the risk of being merely some nostalgia item on a BBC2 programme called I Love 1982. But she is also a card-carrying member of the awkward squad with enormous stretches of blank time on her CV to prove it. She has spent six of the last 20 years tied up in legal wrangles with her various record companies over the distinctly uncommercial records she has wanted to release. As to her decision to take a part in Chicago, it has nothing to do with a hunger for the spotlight, she says. It's altogether more curious than that: Alison Moyet may be the first person in theatrical history to take a part in a West End musical as emotional therapy. So why agree to take the part? 'I was stuck in legal problems with my record company,' she says. 'I was in my house for months on end and I needed the company of living people.' A friend who is connected with the musical could see that being at home was doing her no good. 'He could sense my decline, I think, and my lack of exuberance so he told me that I could get the part of Mama Morton without auditioning.' It was, as it turned out, a whopping lie. Moyet went to the meeting last January, without having seen the show, and soon found herself singing for producers with whom she thought she was just chatting over possibilities. A few weeks later the senior production team from Broadway flew in to watch her. 'I think it was when all the Americans were sitting six rows back that I realised I was being auditioned.' Lying to her was the best thing her friend could have done, she admits now. 'I felt so exhilarated because I'd stood there on my own and I'd done all these things in front of these people I'd never met before. I'd climbed all these mountains.' It makes her sound like a hopeful on Popstars rather than a seasoned pro; it makes it sound like her time at home in Hertfordshire with her three kids was not just a spot of isolation, but something much darker. It was, she says. Two years ago Moyet fell out with an A&R man at Sony, her record company, who wanted her to return to the shiny mainstream pop that had been so successful in the Eighties. She declined and, although they allowed her to record a new album, it was clear that they wouldn't release it. 'I sank into this rut. My daily activity was get up, tidy the house, get some food in for the kids' tea and then make the call to my managers to see if the record company had agreed to let me go.' It went on for months, this waiting and phoning and waiting. 'I'd sit at home getting enormously fat, watching TV and all the time I'd be thinking: I can't go on television... I can't do that. I was becoming more and more distanced from the world that I normally work in.' She pauses. 'I actually think there's something a bit funny in my head,' she says. It's not the first time she has retreated into herself. In the Eighties a disdain for the baggage of celebrity, a simple hatred of being recognised, slipped all too easily into something resembling agoraphobia. 'I didn't even go out to the shops,' Moyet said during an interview in the mid-Nineties, when that episode had passed. 'It got to the point when if someone knocked on the door I'd hide in the cupboard for two or three hours. Going out terrified me. When I went out, the road used to rise up to meet me.' This, she eventually realised, was no way to live. 'You get to the point where you think you're letting yourself and your kids down. It's no life for them with you living in fear the whole time.' She started off slowly, dying her hair black so she was less easily recognisable out on the streets. Then she discovered the glorious anonymity of live football matches, involving Southend, the team she supports. By going to watch them play she could become part of a massive crowd that had no interest in her. 'I could go to matches and people just left me alone.' Clearly, the recent battles with Sony had pushed her back into the dark, domestic pit that she thought she had scrambled out of. Had she ever considered seeking help? 'I've never understood how people who need help pluck up the courage to go and get help.' Perhaps she wasn't in such a bad way, then. Perhaps, she says, though she believes she was in the grip of a depression. 'I need to work. Where I come from people work and I wasn't working.' For her fans this emotional vulnerability may seem unlikely. She has always represented a certain strength and dependability in a music world built on flimsy reputations. She was the one who really could sing. Her thick ballsy tones gave bottom to Vince Clarke's flash electronics in the Yazoo days and while her first two solo albums, Alf and Raindancing, were clearly pop products, her roaring voice made them seem so much more substantial. She takes my appalling fandom graciously but says 'people's relationships with records are their own. That's fine but I see them differently.' Both Yazoo's first album, Upstairs at Eric's, and her first solo album are special to her because of what was going on at the time. But she says 'it was always important to me that I made a record where I really sang well and I don't think it's happened yet. There's always a possibility, with each album, that I might not record again and I wanted to produce one that I could feel was mine.' She thinks the one she finished seven months ago - the one Sony records have passed on, which is called Hometime - is it. 'It's an adult album but it's not mainstream. There's some blues on it, some chanson, some heavy strings. It's the best album I've ever made. A lot of people will love it but it's not Radio One.' Now she has to find someone to release it. Sony records only finally agreed to let her go last week - ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 21:57:12 -0500 From: "Michael Colford" Subject: Re: [Kenableken@aol.com: OT: Alison Moyet on agoraphobia and legal battle with Sony] Thanks for posting this Jeff. Just the other day, I was wondering to my boyfriend, "I wonder what Alison's been up to?" My next sentence was, "She'd be great in a musical." Now I have answers to both toughts. I can't wait to hear her new album. I hope it gets released. Michael n.p. Emm Gryner - Girl Versions - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Wasilko" > ----- Forwarded message from Kenableken@aol.com ----- > > From: Kenableken@aol.com > Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 12:35:03 EST > Subject: OT: Alison Moyet on agoraphobia and legal battle with Sony > To: mannlist@lists.cc.utexas.edu > X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Mac sub 36 > Reply-To: Kenableken@aol.com > X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.2.09/990901/11:28 -- ListProc(tm) by CREN > > I stumbled onto this interesting interview with Alison Moyet, in which she > talks about spending years waiting to get out of her Sony contract. She's > still looking for a new label for her next, already recorded disc. The link > is to the full interview, which is from August. She's been filling her time > now starring as the warden in Chicago on the West End. > > http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:dZ6bE9l8hSIC:www.observer.co.uk/review/ story/0,6903,532505,00.html+%22chicago%22+alison+moyet&hl=en ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 22:47:14 -0700 From: Neal Copperman Subject: Re: Firsts At 10:30 AM -0500 1/7/02, NeverForever22@aol.com wrote: > >Barely Ecto of me, I know, but Prince and Kate are my ying and yang > >I love Prince. Lucky you, I wish I could've seen him in concert, especially >in the '80s > > >And I'm partially vindicated because they did 'sing' together. > >Huh? *confused* Prince appears on The Red Shoes. And Kate does barely perceptable back-up on one song on Prince's 3 CD Emancipation set. neal np: Annie Gallup house concert ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V8 #8 ************************