From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V10 #25 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, January 26 2004 Volume 10 : Number 025 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Old Monkey? ["Robert Lovejoy" ] Minkeys [tedonastick ] Re: Minkeys? Gorillas? Apes? Gibbons? [Alberto Carrasco ] An actual official Sleater-Kinney website [Michael Curry ] Just another list [Ed Cole ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 08:19:16 -0500 From: "Robert Lovejoy" Subject: Old Monkey? I went over the posts a few times and failed to find mention of the Beatles' "Everybody's Got Something To Hide 'Cept For Me and My Monkey" (White Album). I was almost certain someone would have posted that, so if it was indeed previously mentioned, sorry for the repeat! Bob Lovejoy ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 08:35:34 -0500 From: tedonastick Subject: Minkeys And how could we forget classics like "Gorilla My Dreams" and "Gibbon You My All". . . ? "You Drive Me Ape, You Big Gorilla" also springs, or swings, to mind. . . That Ted guy NR: Last month's Skeptic Magazine NP: Lots of lounge music (I'm doing "1940's Radio Hour") ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 08:02:55 -0800 (PST) From: Alberto Carrasco Subject: Re: Minkeys? Gorillas? Apes? Gibbons? Heyyyyyyy.... Nobody said those were allowed... Then I have to throw "Wot Gorilla?" by Genesis on the pile... pyre? pile. - --- tedonastick wrote: > And how could we forget classics like "Gorilla My > Dreams" and "Gibbon You > My All". . . ? > > "You Drive Me Ape, You Big Gorilla" also springs, or > swings, to mind. . . > > That Ted guy > > NR: Last month's Skeptic Magazine > NP: Lots of lounge music (I'm doing "1940's Radio > Hour") __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 09:22:14 -0800 From: Daniel Subject: Re: Minkeys That Ted guy wrote: > "Gorilla My Dreams" > "Gibbon You My All" > "You Drive Me Ape, You Big Gorilla" Ow! Do you have a lie-SONCE for your minkey? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 15:28:32 -0500 From: Michael Curry Subject: An actual official Sleater-Kinney website Shockingly enough, the year 2004 has seen the arrival of the first official Sleater-Kinney website at: http://www.thisissleaterkinney.com/index.php Plus there's good news in the Q&A section: Here is our first answer to the most commonly asked question. Yes, there will be another record. We are currently writing songs. We will record before the end of the year. Michael ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 19:51:05 -0800 From: Ed Cole Subject: Just another list Hi. Thought I should attempt a best of before the end of January. Am having a hard time selecting ten of the seventeen purchased this year. Think I'll just list them all in approximate order of favorites. 1. The Children's Hour SOS JFK Debated about this selection as top favorite. Been playing it a whole lot lately. But I tend to do that while exploring new discoveries. We'll see how this holds up after a year. Don't know much about them. A couple, Josephine Foster and Andy Bar. Reminds me most of Innocence Mission at their acoustic best except Josephine's voice is in a lower range. Not as beautiful a voice as Karen's but still a quite haunting and lovely voice. This album is quite melancholy. It's feel is reminiscent of Birds of my Neighborhood. 2. Lucinda Williams World Without Tears This one beats out Car Wheels on a Gravel Road as my current favorite Lucinda album. Really exposes her soul on this one. Some very raw bluesy stuff. 3. Gillian Welch Soul Journey I have a theory that a lot of artist's seem to put their best efforts in their first album. Don't know how Gillian manages to stay so consistently wonderful with all her releases. This one lives up to it's name. Has a real introspective soulful feel to it. 4. Emmylou Harris Stumble into Grace I've mentioned this one in an earlier post. An exquisite piece of work. Most happy to see the collaboration with the McGarrigles. Would assume they've been friends since she covered Anna's Heart Like a Wheel. Hope they do more together. As much as I love the look back to her roots in Red Dirt Girl, this album does more for me. I like it's exploration of lofty themes. 5. Kristin Hersh The Grotto Hmmm....seems to be a pattern here. Don't know if it's the mood I've been in lately but there are a lot of introspective, bluesy, moody, soulful, and melancholy selections in this list. I really love the timbre of her voice on this album. And the laid back acoustic songs hit the spot perfectly. 6. Rickie Lee Jones The Evening of My Best Day Any album that starts out with a song calling G. W. B. an Ugly Man is tops on my list. An excellent jazz arrangement on that song by the way. She's in fine form on this album. My favorite since Pop Pop. Her voice is in terrific shape. And her songwriting on this one is some of her best. I'm hoping that she'll do a Welcome Home concert at one of the local venue's when she returns home from touring behind this album. 7. Martin Pahinui Ho'olohe Not really connected with this list of course. But I've been a big fan of slack key music since '72 when I moved back to Hawaii. Had the great pleasure of seeing Martin's dad, "Pops" Gabby Pahinui, four times. He was the leader of the slack key revival. It's wonderfully soothing and uplifting music. Some folks were attracted by the delightful version of Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World by Iz Kamakawiwo'ole but disappointed by the bland pop-ness of the rest of that album. Martin's album is the real thing. He's an excellent vocalist. It's his first album on George Winston's Dancing Cat Records. Unlike most of Dancing Cat's albums, it's not just solo guitar work. He has a small group. This does a better job of capturing the essence of slack key music and the spirit of aloha. (this album has a Monkey song on it btw) 8. The Innocence Mission Befriended Not their best (strings???). But still makes my top ten on the strength of Karen's voice (so beautiful!!!) and Don's tasteful guitar work. If Don's guitar wasn't so understated he'd be ranked up there with the best of his generation. All in all this is a wonderful ode of love from Karen to Don. 9. Edie Brickell Volcano Good to see Edie back in the game. This is a solid, polished piece of work. Lacks the charming funkiness of her work with the New Bohemians but I like it a lot. 10. Sarah McLachlan Afterglow What can you say...it's Sarah. This one is growing on me more and more. Seems to get better every time I listen to it. 11. Natalie Merchant The House Carpenter's Daughter Nice take on some old folk songs. Can't go wrong with a voice like Natalie's. 12. The Be Good Tanyas Chinatown Made the mistake of trying to compare it to Blue Horse and didn't like it as much at first. But after listening to it a few more times I've come to really appreciate it on it's own merits. Lovely, low key, and again, melancholy. 13. Throwing Muses Throwing Muses A fine album. Good to see Kristin and Tanya back together again. Doesn't seem to quite have the creative spark that their earlier work had. But it's growing on me the more I play it. 14. Van Morrison What's Wrong With This Picture? Almost feel guilty about having an old favorite like Van this far down the list. It's a very good blues album. His voice is in excellent shape. A great band backing him. Some nice original material. However the melodies are all too familiar. But I guess that's the nature of blues songs. Van created one and probably two albums on my all time best of list. (Astral Weeks for sure, and maybe Moondance.) 15. Rufus Wainwright Want One Another one with a melancholy feel to it. There's a certain smarmy smartaleckness to the "asides" he throws in at the ending of a few of the songs. Annoying as heck. Still, I love his voice. And the richly layered instrumentals are a delight. 16. Dido Life for Rent Nice work. Logical extension of her first but I would have liked to seen more exploration of new territory. Not too thrilled with the string arrangements. Neil Young & Crazy Horse Greendale Can't really rate this one yet. Only listened to it once. Liked it a lot. But my 15 year old Sony CD player died and hasn't been replaced yet. Greendale has a darn copy protection scheme on it that won't allow it to be played on my computer. This album would most likely rank somewhere in the middle. It's an ambitious effort to create a musical. I can just picture Joss Whedon directing the movie version. Been playing all these albums this weekend ('cept for Greendale of course) to refresh my memory. I started with SOS JFK and am replaying it right now. I'm gonna leave it at number one. Great stuff. Ed ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V10 #25 **************************