From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V11 #106 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, April 19 2005 Volume 11 : Number 106 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Happy site updated! (and mp3s) ["Xenu's Sister" ] Best albums in the world....ever. [Adam K ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 07:19:53 -0700 (PDT) From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: Happy site updated! (and mp3s) http://www.auntiesocialmusic.com/index.htm In the Many Worlds section, she talks about her week from hell. I wondered why she was stuck at the airport, and why Bob wasn't in Philly. It's good reading. In case anybody reads the News section and has a "huh?" moment, Happy sent me the lyrics of the songs on the Find Me Sampler and asked me to put them up on happyrhodes.org. I'm still not quite sure why, but I was glad to do it. I formatted them to look all the same (Happy requested Comic Sans) and put them up. I thought she was going to link song by song, but she links to happyrhodes.org. No problem, but I wish I could think of a better way to do the front page. I suck at that stuff. Hey, several people have gotten the concert mp3s, and I have plenty of bandwidth left, plus brni has offered to host them too (thanks!). I am in the midst of separating them into individual songs, which will replace the full concerts. I probably should have waited to annouce until I did that, but I wanted some people to have the full copies (consider yourelves my backup band). If anyone else wants the full concerts, write me. If you'd rather wait, I'll announce when I take down the full shows and put up the individual songs. V __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 06:22:16 +0100 From: Adam K Subject: Best albums in the world....ever. Over here, TV channel 4 recently ran the results of its viewers poll for its top 100 albums....ever. An impossible task, one would think, but never underestimate the short-term memory of your Brit music listener. I don't know, exactly, what the brief was, and only tuned in for an hour of the four-hour countdown, enough to see Joni Mitchell's Blue, Patti Smith's Horses and Dylan's Blood on the Tracks nestling in the 50s, just below the music journalists' fave The Libertines. I also saw that they roped in such luminaries as Katie Melua to discourse on the artists involved. This was an harbinger, I guess, of things to come. I can't find the total list, but the top 20 are at http://www.drownedinsound.com/articles/11919.html. For those that can't be bothered (a bit like me, really) number one was Radiohead's OK Computer. When I heard this, I thought it could have been a lot worse. And then heard that, in the entire 100, there was only one Bowie album (go on, guess) and, at no. 17, Led Zeppelin's only entry, album 4, gets beaten out by .....Alanis Morisette's Jagged Little Pill. Not to mention Oasis and Guns N Roses. Disturbing, but not surprising, I guess. These things never reflect the true greatness of the item being listed, just it's place in the nostalgic heart of the people voting. There's never a long-term, big-picture view. But it could have been worse. adam k. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V11 #106 ***************************