From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V9 #260 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, September 14 2003 Volume 09 : Number 260 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Two Loons For Tea ["[[ todd bramy ]]" ] Re: pixies reunion, my bloody valentine [RedWoodenBeads@aol.com] Space promo [aural gratification ] Re: television and reunion tours [breinheimer@webtv.net] Questions (there are no wrong answers) [karen hester ] Bel Canto - Rush (1998) | Dorothy's Victory (2002) [karen hester ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 23:16:45 -0700 From: "[[ todd bramy ]]" Subject: Re: Two Loons For Tea The very same! >On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Neile Graham wrote: >> >Mike Dillon: vibes & percussion (Critters Buggin, Brave Combo, etc.) > >mike dillon? is this the mike dillon from 'Ten Hands' and 'BillyGoat'? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 16:17:30 EDT From: RedWoodenBeads@aol.com Subject: Re: pixies reunion, my bloody valentine In a message dated 9/12/03 10:55:58 PM Pacific Daylight Time, owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org writes: > Never mind about the Pixies, when are Husker Du getting back together? Now > that I'd pay for! Or how about This Mortal Coil!!!!!... no, wait..... This might be of interest to some people: My Bloody Valentine actually got back together to do some studio work. Between losing lots of great artists recently and chatter about reunions, it seems like the past is as big as anything brand new going on in most musical universes today. joe and ellen music: http://www.jotdot.net/joeandellen http://www.mp3.com/joeandellen ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 16:23:51 -0400 From: aural gratification Subject: Space promo Hi For anyone interested www.musicalstarstreams.com is featuring NLE this week. It's a pretty trippy show ala Hearts of Space, but I've heard some very cool stuff on it. Many artists I had no idea of. Thanks KB ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 17:09:03 -0400 (EDT) From: breinheimer@webtv.net Subject: Re: television and reunion tours Is it just me or is it rather ironic (and irritating for those of us in the area) that television is gigging in socal and japan but not in the NY area? Hopefully we'll see more of this kind of thing mentioned in the list as there are fewer things more dissappointing than missing the reunion of a band you didn't get to see the first time around. np: Coleman Hawkins 1951-1957 Coleman Hawkins ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 18:27:25 -0700 (PDT) From: karen hester Subject: Questions (there are no wrong answers) Kia Ora Here are some questions I'm not sure of my own answers to. What artist do you think has put out the longest run of consistently great albums? What's your favourite example of an album with great songs, but the recorded versions are terrible? (due to whatever - instruments, players, production). Among the albums that you love, which are the two by one artist that are the most different from one another? Karen __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 18:31:56 -0700 (PDT) From: karen hester Subject: Liz Phair's latest Kia Ora, I'm finding Liz Phair's new lp boring (ordinary rather than bad). I was looking forward to pop hooks, stuff indie credibility, but merely making the verses and choruses distinct doesn't result in a catchy hook. The guitar sound is dated, it reminds me of middle-American rock from a decade ago, the stuff that never made it outside of the States. The lyrics are mainly bland because they're so general ('you tell me that good love never dies' type stuff), and there are odd clunkers ('why can't I speak whenever I talk about you?'). The only song I like is 'my bionic eyes', a boastful hard woman number ('I'm a secret weapon') with somewhat sci-fi-ish keyboards. There's the fun game of re-sequencing the tracks to compare the Matrix and Michael Penn ones, but the album is of a sameness. Ho hum. Karen __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 19:58:38 -0700 (PDT) From: karen hester Subject: Bel Canto - Rush (1998) | Dorothy's Victory (2002) Quite unexpectedly, I really really like 'Rush' and 'Dorothy's Victory. [Pause while I clean off the dough I got on the keyboard. The problem with breadmaking is properly cleaning ones hands between kneadings!] Right. Back again. Didn't like the previous album, maybe it would seem different after learning to love these two, but not sure if I can be bothered listening again. There are poppy songs on both albums, which may be less appealing to fans of their first two albums. Rush has 'Images' with its catchy noises and levitating frogs, the funky 'Spacejunk', and dancey beepy 'Hearts Unite'; Dorthy offers the soaring young love song 'Feels Like I'm Already Flying', dancing-around-the-room giddy pop anthem 'You Rock My World Tonight', the beats, bass, paradise and vacancy of 'Corals, Jade and Pearl', the heartbeat and unease of 'Disappear Club 5', a club that offers more than just a venue for dancing and assignations. As well as the love/relationships lyrics which are concentrated in the poppier songs, there's the usual dollop of Bel Canto mythology. In Rush's 'Idly I De-Ice', held in place by two wordless DCD-ish numbers, Anneli leads you through a 'misty garden gate' into a garden 'not drawn on any map', against slow chiming and dripping keyboards, which reminds me of numerous magic secret gardens such as the one in Hawthorne's 'Rappaccini's Daughter.' 'Dinosaur-Slipper-Man' is a modern nonsense-fairytale. A young man drifts out to sea in 'Heaven', in the cold ocean that often features in their songs. The controlled fear of 'Rush' is bult over deep keyboard notes which slide out of key and leave me tense until they return; I had thought the village was fleeing the arrival of the 'dark blue men', but the lyric sheet reveals that they run to join their 'Far-descending guests'. Dorothy's tales include her own mysterious (and victorious, one presumes) disappearance, the French-language worship of trees (in 'Tree', fancy that), a fisherman turtle saviour of the Japanese fairytale recited in 'Happy Times Fly Fast!' and the angel-harp pop-song 'Ladonia' in which Anneli declaims "has not ever become, so has not been yet" inbetween gorgeous German verses (the music reminds me of Delerium, but I like it much more). Both albums have slow periods, Rush 4-6 and 11-13 (mainly wordless numbers), Dorthy 4-7. I'm not sure about this pacing decision. The songs on Rush are built over interesting keyboard textures, percussion and noises, which unites the album despite its pacing and varied lyrical concerns. Dorothy's Victory is more like short stories to me, the songs often perfect in themselves, but it is hard to comprehend that while Rosalind arrives at the lakeside in her Lambretta for an evening of fevered teenage fumbling, elsewhere on the album a fisherman rides over the ocean on the back of a talking turtle to spend 300 years in an underwater Dragon Palace. Yeah. You rock my world tonight. Ooh-ooh. Karen. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! 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