From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V11 #296 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, October 31 2005 Volume 11 : Number 296 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: "aerial" review. [Doug ] Re: "aerial" review. [Russ Van Rooy ] Re: Another Kate interview [meredith ] Re: the Guardian review of Aerial [Richard Konrad ] RE: "aerial" review. ["Collected Sounds" <2345@collectedsounds.com>] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 08:12:32 -0600 From: Doug Subject: Re: "aerial" review. I frickin' hate professional music reviewers...always so damn pretentious and pompous. They don't give a rip about whether anyone understands or relates to what they write...they just want to sound like they're at the center of the "in" crowd, and as such you should automatically comprehend each of their little insinuations and references. If you don't, of course, you must not be with the "in" crowd yourself. Blowhards. Even if they write a positive review, even if they worship your favorite artist, they still spew crap out of their laptops. Gimme a break. And get your head out of that dictionary, Kitty, or whatever the hell your name is. You're not impressing anyone by using words that died out before the birth of Abe Lincoln, words that aren't even in YOUR working vocabulary. SIGH. - --Doug > http://observer.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5321453-102280,00.html > Kitty Empire > Sunday October 30, 2005 > > Observer > > Kate Bush > Aerial > (EMI) > #14.99 > > Kate Bush means a lot to a lot of people. There are gay men who thrill > to her rococo sensibilities, who repay her early endorsement of their ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:26:42 -0800 From: Russ Van Rooy Subject: Re: "aerial" review. Not that there is anything particularly special or groundbreaking about this review, but I do not see exactly what you are complaining about. What, did you have to look up 'rococo' ? Somehow it did not strike me as that positive or gushing of a review, a lot of back-handed compliments here. I agree with you that a lot of reviewers are just out to impress... themselves and their small clique of fellow reviewers. I just don't get that impression here and believe me, I hate pretentious reviewers as much as anyone. - - Russ Van Rooy http://ganesharesonance.blogspot.com/ Doug wrote: >I frickin' hate professional music reviewers...always so damn >pretentious and pompous. They don't give a rip about whether anyone >understands or relates to what they write...they just want to sound >like they're at the center of the "in" crowd, and as such you should >automatically comprehend each of their little insinuations and >references. If you don't, of course, you must not be with the "in" >crowd yourself. > >Blowhards. Even if they write a positive review, even if they worship >your favorite artist, they still spew crap out of their laptops. >Gimme a break. > >And get your head out of that dictionary, Kitty, or whatever the hell >your name is. You're not impressing anyone by using words that died >out before the birth of Abe Lincoln, words that aren't even in YOUR >working vocabulary. SIGH. > >--Doug > > > >>http://observer.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5321453-102280,00.html >>Kitty Empire >>Sunday October 30, 2005 >> >>Observer >> >>Kate Bush >>Aerial >>(EMI) >>#14.99 >> >>Kate Bush means a lot to a lot of people. There are gay men who thrill >>to her rococo sensibilities, who repay her early endorsement of their ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:42:44 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: Another Kate interview Hi, Sue Trowbridge wrote: > Here's a story that will run in the New York Times Sunday; it moved on > the wire today, and a journalist friend was kind enough to forward it > to me: I was offline for a couple days, so earlier today I was paging through the Arts & Leisure section and saw a photo out of the corner of my eye and I thought "hey, that kinda looks like Kate Bush" and then I looked right at it and did a classic spit-take. :) Great article, even if I don't much agree with the first paragraph. As soon as I was done reading, I said "ok, I need to hear this album NOW". Only 9 more days!!! (Is anyone else as stunned as I am that _Aerial_ hasn't leaked yet??) - -- =============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth =============================================== hear at the HOMe House Concert Series http://hom.smoe.org =============================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:19:38 -0500 From: Richard Konrad Subject: Re: the Guardian review of Aerial Review says: "Bush's juices really get going on 'Pi', a sentimental ode to a mathematician, audacious in both subject matter and treatment. The chorus is the number sung to many, many decimal places." Has anyone here attended a Lucy Kaplansky concert from about 2000 to 2003? She was fond of doing a ditty called "Pi", composed by her dad, a professional mathematician and amateur musician. It was hilarious and very closely matched the reviewer's description of Kate's "Pi" Coincidence or cover? Anyone know anything about this? - --Richard nr: Confederates in the Attic: Tony Horwitz np: Brad Mehldau Trio: Day is Done ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 21:57:19 -0600 From: "Collected Sounds" <2345@collectedsounds.com> Subject: RE: "aerial" review. Doug said; "I frickin' hate professional music reviewers...always so damn pretentious and pompous. " Holy cats!! I'm now scared to even put in a CD and begin writing about it! Please cut us reviewers some slack and realize that it's VERY hard to write about several CDs and come up with something new to say every single time. We have to resort to dictionaries or thesauruses (thesauri?) or every review would sound too similar. I only do a few a week, I know there are people out there who do a h*ll of a lot more than I and it's very difficult. Even if you love the music. Sometimes it's hard to put into words the way it makes you feel. I did not read the review in question, so I can't comment on the state of the reviewer but this comment really triggered something in me. Walk a mile... and all that. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V11 #296 ***************************