From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V11 #308 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Friday, November 11 2005 Volume 11 : Number 308 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Editing Aerial [Ed Cole ] Today's your birthday, friends... [Mike Matthews ] Re: Editing Aerial ["Xenu's Sister" ] Re: Editing Aerial ["afries@internode.on.net" ] Re: Editing Aerial ["Xenu's Sister" ] aerial [anna maria "stjärnell" ] Re: How much did you pay for Ariel ? [Laura Clifford ] American vs foreign versions of Ariel ["mrl220" ] So far $10.99 (US funds) gets the prize for Ariel ["mrl220" ] Re: Editing Aerial [Greg Bossert ] Re: Editing Aerial [wojizzle forizzle ] Re: comeback wishes [Kim Justice ] Re: Editing Aerial [Craig Gidney ] Yet another Ariel review... [Adam K ] no love for "Bertie"?:-( [Toriamosrising@aol.com] Re: ecto-digest V11 #293 [franjo ] Aerial Review in the Age Newspaper, Melbourne Australia [Amanda Williams ] Article from the Age on copy-protection technology [Amanda Williams ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 22:49:23 -0800 From: Ed Cole Subject: Re: Editing Aerial On 11/9/05, afries@internode.on.net said silly things: > How about that? I managed to reduce "Aerial", the double > album, to "Aerial" - EP. :) Humbug! a:) it's perfect as is. b:) I can only wish that it were twice as long. It may have to last us another 12 years. Ed ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 03:00:04 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friends... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ***************** Rachel Kramer Bussel (no Email address) ***************** ******************* Neb Rodgers (clam_nebula@yahoo.com) ******************* *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Rachel Kramer Bussel Mon November 10 1975 Scorpio Neb Rodgers Tue November 10 1959 Space Available - Inquire Within Ken Latta Sun November 11 1951 Scorpio Craig Gidney November 11 Scorpio Michael Doyle Wed November 12 1969 Scorpio Jenny Bruce Mon November 14 1966 fire-horse scorpio Dave Cook Mon November 15 1971 Scorpio Jeff Pearce November 16 Orpheus Naama Avramzon Mon November 18 1974 Scorpio Jeff Smith Mon November 19 1962 Crash Kevin Bartlett Fri November 21 1952 Scorpio with Saturn and Pluto issues Claudia Spix Wed November 23 1960 Schuetze Anja Baldo Tue November 23 1965 Garbanzo Tommy Persson Wed November 25 1964 Sagittarius Pat Tessitore November 26 Sagittarius Valerie Kraemer November 26 Sagittarius Justin Bur Fri November 27 1964 Sagittarius Sue Trowbridge Sun November 27 1966 Skytten Ward Kadel Tue November 29 1977 Sagittarius Jesse Hernandez Liwag Wed November 29 1972 Water Rat Mirko Bulaja Sat November 30 1974 Block Juha Sorva Thu December 02 1976 Sagittarius Chip Lueck Thu December 05 1968 Sagittarius Lenore December 05 sagi Michele Wellck December 08 Sagittarius - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 00:11:41 -0800 (PST) From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: Re: Editing Aerial My last post came off sounding much more combative and flamey than I actually meant. It's entirely Andrew's loss if he's dismissing so many wonderful songs so early. I wanted to clarify something. I said: > Goddess save me from people who think they're > smarter than Kate Bush. Obviously, a *LOT* of people are book and education smarter than Kate. I meant about her music, and how her albums should be. No one knows more than Kate. What a person thinks about the final product is entirely a matter of taste, or lack of. Vickie - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Music, all I hear is music, guaranteed to please... - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 19:04:10 +1050 From: "afries@internode.on.net" Subject: Re: Editing Aerial Vickie, my post was simply my way of taking stock of my reaction to this record. As you probably gathered, my reaction is not overly positive. To put it plainly, on this double album I found two songs I really like, two I strongly dislike, a few that were not that special but enjoyable enough, and quite a few I would prefer to be shorter and more focused. Frankly, I find the whole album is much too long for me. After 12 years in the making, that's not a great score. I was hoping for something more so yes - I am clearly underwhelmed, and disappointed, and I call it as I see it. But I didn't wish to cause you and other die-hard Kate fans any grief. From now on I will take your feelings into account and shut up on this subject. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 03:16:55 -0800 (PST) From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: Re: Editing Aerial Oh Andrew, of course you shouldn't shut up about how you feel. It was my fault for reading the post in the first place, then letting kneejerk emotion get the better of me. If I were honest, I'd admit to a certain, deep-buried glee that not everyone thinks the album is all that. I was so afraid that it would be so IN YOUR FACE BRILLIANT that all future album releases from female artists should be cancelled immediately or not even planned, due to the definitive album of the century having already been released, no other women need apply. Happy still has a chance to impress with Find Me. Whew! Vickie (who does think Aerial is all that, though not as good as The Dreaming, and ok, I'd make "Bertie" a B-side) - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Music, all I hear is music, guaranteed to please... - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 05:07:28 -0800 (PST) From: anna maria "stjärnell" Subject: aerial Hi all. Impressions on Aerial..well,it's uneven but it's kate..the wait was partially worth it. I like some of the songs..she could have left the birdsong out. but bertie, king of the mountain and joanni are great. As long as I try to forget the lyrics to bertie..eww. Oh well..it's still good to have her back. anna maria np-aerial nr-tanith lee-the birthgrave __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 11:29:27 -0500 From: Laura Clifford Subject: Re: How much did you pay for Ariel ? It's $15.99 at Newbury Comics in MA, but they had $3 off coupons available as well... At 04:44 PM 11/9/2005 -0800, you wrote: >At 08:41 PM 11/08/2005, mrl220 wrote: >> >> I paid $14.99 at Best Buy. > >It's 14.99 at Tower Records, >every state that has Tower. > >-- >Deb ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 11:48:03 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: Editing Aerial Hi, Andrew responded: > But I didn't wish to cause you and other die-hard Kate fans > any grief. From now on I will take your feelings into > account and shut up on this subject. Aye, but there's the rub when expressing personal opinion. You're always going to have people who disagree with you, some more vehemently than others. Yet you'll also have people agreeing with you -- some more enthusiastically than others. But if we all shut up about our opinions to avoid causing disagreement, the entire Internet would go away. :} Personally I would "leave it the fuck alone" (to quote Vickie) as well ... but that's not to say I won't skip over a few tracks on disc 1, or maybe just bring disc 2 with me in the car for shorter trips. I can't really say anything about making a "special edit" for oneself, since I once did exactly that combining two Nields albums I thought were less than stellar into one great one, by taking the best songs of the two and putting them onto one tape. (I still have that tape, and it still makes me happy in the car sometimes.) - -- =============================================== 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: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 15:40:38 -0600 From: "mrl220" Subject: American vs foreign versions of Ariel Is there any difference? Is there a DVD that comes with the foreign (Japanese?) versions? Does anybody know? Marty ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at msg.dcwis.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 18:19:29 -0600 From: "mrl220" Subject: So far $10.99 (US funds) gets the prize for Ariel Hello: Somebody said Tower was selling it for $10.99 on Tuesday. That was the best price I have heard. I paid $14.99 and Best Buy had it on Tuesday. Also picked up Sinead Oconnor's "Throw Down Your Arms." So much for her being a priest or retiring from music. Marty ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at msg.dcwis.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 11:29:57 -0600 From: Doug Subject: Re: Editing Aerial On 11/9/05, afries@internode.on.net wrote: > 'Joanni' goes too - without prejudice. Nothing wrong with > it, but it is *such* a Tori Amos song! He's right on that score...(grin)...it's definitely a Tori cover. Or should be. > OK then - the second track on my record: "Coral Room". That Speaking of covers, I'd like to hear Vienna Teng, or even Tori, cover Coral Room. Beautiful song... - --Doug ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:38:52 -0800 From: Greg Bossert Subject: Re: Editing Aerial On Nov 10, 2005, at 12:14 AM, afries@internode.on.net wrote: > But I didn't wish to cause you and other die-hard Kate fans > any grief. From now on I will take your feelings into > account and shut up on this subject. please don't "shut up". goodness, if people avoid controversial topics or opinions (about music, at least) on ecto, then ecto will no longer be worth reading. "grief" comes from loss and hardship, not from a disagreement over an artistic work, no matter how anticipated the work or beloved the artist. Kate Bush isn't perfect, isn't some goddess, she's just another one of us -- isn't that part of what this album is about? -- and if her music didn't inspire a range of reactions, it would be far less interest than it is. one of the things i find fascinating about her music is she takes such risks, and that means that she does sometimes miss her target. andrew's post was perhaps mischievous, even flippant, in its style, but i thought he did a good job of presenting his reaction to the album -- my reaction was that he was actually thinking about the music. there was a day when artistic criticism meant a discursive study of art, and was not a negative concept. mind you, any decent conversation starts with (or creates) a difference of opinion, and that often leads to some emotional friction, but that's just not a bad thing. let us not fear disagreement...! - -- greg bossert -- bossert@iceblink.com -- Ice Blink Studios -- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:00:24 -0500 From: wojizzle forizzle Subject: Re: Editing Aerial one time at band camp, Doug (dbailey4117@gmail.com) said: >On 11/9/05, afries@internode.on.net wrote: >> 'Joanni' goes too - without prejudice. Nothing wrong with >> it, but it is *such* a Tori Amos song! >He's right on that score...(grin)...it's definitely a Tori cover. Or >should be. 'splain that one, please. woj ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:04:56 -0600 From: Kim Justice Subject: Re: comeback wishes On 11/9/05, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote: > [...] of course I wish Poe would get her legal entanglements sorted, too, > but I think that's just a question of time. I'd like to buy a new Poe album, too. As a side note, when I got my iPod they offered free engraving. Mine says, "It's a wonderful idea. But it doesn't work." Heh. kj - -- Kim Justice justicekw@gmail.com "There can always be new beginnings -- even for people like us" - --Susan Ivanova ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 11:45:36 -0800 (PST) From: Craig Gidney Subject: Re: Editing Aerial The only things I'd edit out of Aerial are: 1. The spoken bits 2. The laughter in the title track. I am not a huge fan narration in music (Laurie Anderson and the spoken bits on 'Hounds of Love' excepted). Otherwise, it's a great album... - --------------------------------- Yahoo! FareChase - Search multiple travel sites in one click. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:32:43 +0000 From: Adam K Subject: Yet another Ariel review... ...and another great one, at that, from Drowned in Sound's excellent site "It's over twelve years since *Kate Bush*'s last album, 1993's 'The Red Shoes' and oh how things have changed. The world lives in fear of terror and natural disasters, the French have learned to fight, and musically the most successful British bands are coming from the Midlands instead of unmarked factories in southern London. So Kate Bush's extreme isolation from the outer world is all too apparent in her 'comeback' album /Aerial/, and I for one couldn't be happier. At times it may feel clogged and sound more than a little predicatble but Aerial is the complete antithesis to the current music scene. She chooses minimalism and introspection over the clogged, packed sound prefered by todays crop of artists. Current single /'King of the Mountain'/ introduces the album, and its probably the closest she gets to a straightforward 'hit'. Most tracks offer little in the sense of direction but Bush manages to fill every second with ethereal magic. Fans of *Bjork* will surely appreciate tracks like /'Somewhere in Between'/ and the haunting, sonorous orchestration of /'Prelude'/ and parts of the title track wouldnt sound out of place on the first *Silver Mt Zion* album. Some may argue that the album's lack of change from previous material represents a lack of effort but /Aerial/ is timeless. It doesn't dwell in a certain space of the timeline of music, it nestles in a perpindicular direction, possibly in a seperate dimension construced in isolation on the fringe of insanity. Maybe some questions shouldnt be asked, or at least answered." 9/10 adam k. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:31:36 EST From: Toriamosrising@aol.com Subject: no love for "Bertie"?:-( I love Aerial..( of course I love more songs better than others but I'm sure I will like them more in time..give it time..lol) BUT it seems hardly anyone likes "Bertie"?? so far..It's my fav song on Aerial ( that and An Architect's Dream) ..my least favs at the moment are Joanni and KOTM..but I need more time listening to them I'm sure..they are still great but compared to the others ...*shrugs* eh.. (I've noticed you REALLY have to watch what you say on here, in this lil Ecto list..lol..the person that said something about that Kate review got slaughtered on here jeez! ***mental note..don't say anything "bad" about reviewers or their reviews*** even though I never listen to reviewers:-) Bright Blessings Kris the boy ***and threads that are golden don't break easily*** ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 03:22:47 +0000 From: franjo Subject: Re: ecto-digest V11 #293 She's coming to Cardiff as well (where I am at the moment) and playing not one but TWO nights (I'm only back here visiting family and can hardly believe my luck). Weehee! That's tonight and tomorrow night (Fri & Sat) at Chapter arts centre ...in case anyone is in the area and hadn't heard about it already. Any other ecto peeps going? Ditto on the album of the year, Adam. There's been some great stuff out this year but Veda has quite easily held on to my top slot. Runner up is Hanne Hukkelberg's 'Little Things'...and after that it gets more confusing. ciao, Fran > ------------------------------ > > Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:23:30 +0100 > From: Adam K > Subject: a month in music (takes years off my life) > > > And, so far, Veda Hille's Return of the Kildeer is my absolute fave > album of the year -- and she's coming to London!!! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:18:56 +1100 From: Amanda Williams Subject: Aerial Review in the Age Newspaper, Melbourne Australia Wonderful that he gave it such a hight rating! http://theage.com.au/news/music/aerial/2005/11/10/1131578157726.html?page=1 ==================================== Aerial November 11, 2005 Kate Bush (Capitol/EMI) * * * * = There's a bit halfway through disc one of this outrageously long-awaited double album, in a song called Mrs Bartolozzi, that's destined to polarise the curious listener and the Kate Bush obsessive. The former is perhaps unaware that Aerial is her first release in 12 years. The latter has counted with anguish every empty Christmas since The Red Shoes, and knows precisely what has kept the Bexley doctor's daughter occupied during this unprecedented absence. To the delicate, staccato accompaniment of her piano, the bit goes like this: "Slooshy sloshy slooshy sloshy/Get that dirty shirty clean/Slooshy sloshy slooshy sloshy/Make those cuffs and collars gleam". A new mother and oblivious pop legend, Kate Bush's chief occupations these past dozen years have been blissfully domestic. Judging by the ingenious micro/cosmic focus of this home-studio opus, her deliberate distance from pop fashion and expectation has enhanced her gift for finding magic under her own fingernails. Mrs Bartolozzi, for instance, is a sexually charged Cinderella fantasy loaded with ghosts and longing and one of Bush's favourite metaphors, a fearful body of water. Or maybe it's about an Italian washing lady enjoying a sneaky spliff. Aerial is barmy, sumptuous, personal, playful, profound and unmistakably Kate. It cares not a newt's whisker for cool - yes, that's THE Rolf Harris on An Architect's Dream and The Painter's Link - and it refers any question of musical progress to the old "ain't broken" rule. Del Palmer's trademark slithering fretless bass and the late Michael Kamen's lush orchestrations weave through the same pristine, three-dimensional cathedral of sound that Bush pioneered in the 1980s. That's what happens if you blithely ignore 12 years of alleged musical progress: you can pretend the post-grunge backwash, the nu-rock cacophony, the Prodigy, Robbie Williams, generations of recycled retro filler, a thousand sub-genres of dance music and the entire chill-out muzak tragedy never happened. Mmmm, nice. Not that Kate Bush has taken the tiniest leaf from anyone else's book since the British art-rock of Pink Floyd, David Bowie and Roxy Music inspired her as a mid-'70s teenager. In form and content she's always drawn purely on her eccentric English imagination. Her high-concept roots show in Aerial's twin-disc presentation, each with subtitle: A Sea of Honey and A Sky of Honey. Given that both could have squeezed onto one CD, we're clearly dealing with an Artistic Statement here, stubbornly rooted in the age when such things came with Side One and Side Two, with the enforced listener participation that used to entail. A Sea of Honey comprises seven unconnected songs, beginning with the downbeat single King of the Mountain. With its references to Elvis Presley, Citizen Kane and "a multimillionaire (filling) up his home with priceless junk", it's an unusually transparent song about the sad game of wealth and celebrity. The alleged reclusive pop sorceress enjoys another joke about her reputation with How To Be Invisible. It grooves like a spooky incantation, but the spell lists household ingredients: "Hem of anorak/ Stem of wallflower/ Hair of doormat . . . Jump into the mirror/ and you're invisible". A slightly dodgy song about Joan of Arc continues her flirtation with literary and/or historical figures, but it's mostly kitchen-table heroes that inspire these songs. Her six-year-old son Bertie is celebrated in a medieval pastoral feel, with the kind of open-hearted expression that will aggrieve cynics no end. p (Pi) is a highlight, both for its eccentricity and unlikely lyricism. To the whimsical throb of bass and synthesisers, Bush sings the titular mathematical conundrum digit by digit, to 120 decimal places. Infinitely daft or unfathomably deep? Make your own calculation. Where The Red Shoes erred on the side of over-production and unwelcome guests, much of Aerial finds Bush returning to her elegant acoustic piano and vocal arrangements. A Coral Room is a touching song about her late mother with a refrain based on Little Brown Jug. Again, perhaps only Kate people understand. That goes double for disc two, A Sky of Honey, which is your full-blown concept album awash with birdsong and shifting colours as it follows the natural cycle of light from late afternoon to night. Bertie and Rolf both crop up in the orchestrated soundscape, and mummy sings an astonishing harmony duet with a blackbird before bedtime. No, really. Think of it as a calmer, gracefully older sequel to Side Two of Hounds of Love. According to the logarithmic spread of previous releases, the ninth Kate Bush album is due sometime in the 2050s. On this evidence, it will probably sound like she's only popped off for a minute to do the laundry. ================================================ np: Aerial (as if I would be listening to anything else :-) . I have a Sea of Honey on continuous play while i'm working at my desk...i want to get this under my skin before I assimilate a Sky of Honey. I will put my thoughts about Sea of honey probably next week after I've had a chance to fully absorb it... NOTICE This e-mail and any attachments are intended for the addressee(s) only and may be confidential. They may contain legally privileged or copyright material. You should not read, copy, use or disclose them without authorisation. If you are not the intended recipient please contact the sender as soon as possible by return e-mail and then please delete both messages. This notice should not be removed. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:58:41 +1100 From: Amanda Williams Subject: Article from the Age on copy-protection technology Who knows, if there is enough of a backlash against the security risk that DRM introduces, they may withdraw it. Here's hoping. I'm just glad Aerial is free from it. It's playing merrily in my cd drive at work. Amanda ================================= http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/viruses-exploit-sony-cd-protection-system/2005/11/11/1131578203700.html Viruses exploit Sony CD protection system November 11, 2005 - 10:13AM A controversial copy-protection program that automatically installs when some Sony BMG audio CDs are played on personal computers is now being exploited by malicious software that takes advantage of the anti-piracy technology's ability to hide files. The Trojan horse programs - three have so far been identified by anti-virus companies - are named so as to trigger the cloaking feature of Sony's XCP2 anti-piracy technology. By piggybacking on that function, the malicious programs can enter undetected, security experts said today. "This could be the advanced guard," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at the security firm Sophos. "We wouldn't be surprised at all if we saw more malware that exploits what Sony has introduced." The copy protection program is included on about 20 popular music titles, including releases by Van Zant and The Bad Plus, and disclosure of its existence has raised the ire of many in the computing community, who consider it to constitute spyware. Sony BMG Music Entertainment and the company that developed the software, First 4 Internet, have claimed that the technology poses no security threat. Still, Sony posted a patch last week that uncloaks files hidden by the software. Today, Sony released a statement "deeply regretting any disruption that this may have caused". It also said it was working with Symantec and other firms to ensure any content-protection technology "continues to be safe". Neither Sony spokesman John McKay nor First 4 Internet CEO Mathew Gilliat-Smith returned messages seeking additional comment. Windows expert Mark Russinovich discovered the hidden copy-protection technology on October 31 and posted his findings on his web log. He noted that the license agreement that pops up said a small program would be installed, but it did not specify it would be hidden. Manual attempts to remove the software can disable the PC's CD drive. Sony offers an uninstallation program, but consumers must request it by filling out two forms on the internet. "What they did was not intentionally malicious," Cluley said. "If anything, it was slightly inept." The copy-protection software, which Sony says is a necessary "speed bump" to limit how many times a CD is copied, only works on Windows-based PCs. Users of Macintosh and Linux computers are not restricted. The viruses also only target Windows-based machines. The infection opens up a backdoor, which could be used to steal personal information, launch attacks on other computers and send spam, antivirus companies said. NOTICE This e-mail and any attachments are intended for the addressee(s) only and may be confidential. They may contain legally privileged or copyright material. You should not read, copy, use or disclose them without authorisation. If you are not the intended recipient please contact the sender as soon as possible by return e-mail and then please delete both messages. This notice should not be removed. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 22:54:02 -0800 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: no love for "Bertie"?:-( Toriamosrising@aol.com wrote: >I love Aerial..( of course I love more songs better than others but I'm sure >I will like them more in time..give it time..lol) BUT it seems hardly anyone >likes "Bertie"?? so far.. > I find the song quite charming, and enjoy it. So far nothing on the album has really bugged me, except perhaps for Rolf Harris's singing (and I might be missing some extra-musical resonance that its presence might have for some). The album hasn't quite broken down into individual songs for me, and thus I'm not reacting to it song-for-song yet. When I actually buy the album on Friday and sit down with the booklet, it'll probably come more into focus. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V11 #308 ***************************