From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V12 #193 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, July 23 2006 Volume 12 : Number 193 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: love songs [breinheimer@webtv.net (bill)] Re:lovesongs [breinheimer@webtv.net (bill)] Re: love songs ["Xenu's Sister" ] RE: New Releases of Note--Jewel ["JoAnn Whetsell" ] Re: The 25 Biggest Wusses Ever [FAMarcus@aol.com] Brina [neal copperman ] new Cocteau's compilation? [neal copperman ] Re: love songs [breinheimer@webtv.net (bill)] new Cocteau's compilation? [Steve VanDevender ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:16:55 -0400 From: breinheimer@webtv.net (bill) Subject: Re: love songs I don't know if it's what you're looking for or not but I've always had a real fondness for Kate's "oh to be in love". It's just such a nice turn of phrase. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:10:25 -0400 From: breinheimer@webtv.net (bill) Subject: Re:lovesongs How about Laurie Freelove's "The Nineline"? It's a wonderful romantic tune. np: two loons for tea-looking for landmarks That makes the score for ectophile recommended recent purchases a tip of the hat- 4 a poke in the eye with a sharp stick- 0 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:59:44 -0700 (PDT) From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: Re: love songs Happy offerings (that aren't gender-specific): Hold Me song: http://wretchawry.com/happy/samples/HappyRhodes_BuildingTheColossus01_HoldMe.mp3 lyrics: http://www.ecto.org/lyrics/colossus/holdme.html Come Here song: http://wretchawry.com/happy/samples/HappyRhodes_RhodesII01_ComeHere.mp3 lyrics: http://www.ecto.org/lyrics/rhodes_ii/comehere.html If Love Is A Game, I Win song: http://wretchawry.com/happy/samples/HappyRhodes_Ecto02_IfLoveIsAGameIWin.mp3 lyrics: http://www.ecto.org/lyrics/ecto/iwin.html The title of this is gender-specific, but the lyrics aren't: Omar http://wretchawry.com/happy/samples/HappyRhodes_BuildingTheColossus06_Omar.mp3 lyrics: http://www.ecto.org/lyrics/colossus/omar.html Of course, the Greatest Love Song Ever Written (in, of course, my opinion) hasn't been released yet, but if you want HERE AND HEREAFTER for your compilation, let me know and I'll send you the damned thing (which in my opinion is a buried classic that should have been/be a hit of epic porportions) to you. Lyrics: http://www.ecto.org/lyrics/findme/hereandhereafter.html - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Music, all I hear is music, guaranteed to please... Happy's MySpace profile: http://www.myspace.com/happyrhodes Happy Rhodes song samples and rarities: http://wretchawry.com - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 16:56:52 -0400 From: "JoAnn Whetsell" Subject: RE: New Releases of Note--Jewel Jeff posted way back on Jewel's new album, Goodbye, Alice in Wonderland. Now that it's been out a couple of months, I was wondering if anyone has any thoughts on it. I was never a huge Jewel fan, but I did like some of her early work and had heard that this album was kind of a return to form. JoAnn -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jjhanson@att.net To: ecto@smoe.org Subject: New Releases of Note--Jewel, Joy Eden Harrison, Lisa Gerrard, Tom McRae, Wendy Rule Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 01:02:18 +0000 >As most of you are probably aware, Jewel's new album, Goodbye Alice in Wonderland is due out >May 2nd. The video of the first single, "Again and Again" can be seen at her website--www.jeweljk.com. >While it's no big departure for Jewel, it's a fairly catchy song, though not one of my favorites. The album >sounds somewhat promising--definitely more of a return to her earlier style than the dance-oriented stuff >from the last album. I must say she's looking better than ever. > >From the track listing, it looks like there may be some old favorites on the album, or Jewel may have >just recycled some titles as she's been known to do: >1. Again and Again >2. Long Slow Slide >3. Goodbye Alice in Wonderland >4. Good Day >5. Satellite >6. Only One Too >7. Words Get In the Way >8. Drive To You >9. Last Dance Rodeo >10. Fragile Heart >11. Stephenville, TX >12. Where You Are >13. 10000 Miles Away ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 16:34:33 -0700 From: Michael Pearce Subject: The 25 Biggest Wusses Ever Pretty off topic, but I found myself laughing with agreement on a lot of them. http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?ID=1990 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 21:18:45 EDT From: FAMarcus@aol.com Subject: Re: The 25 Biggest Wusses Ever In a message dated 7/22/2006 7:43:43 PM Eastern Standard Time, mp@moonmac.com writes: Pretty off topic actually its right on topic. i want to officially apply for the position of wussy #26. in most of the cases those were reasons why i liked the albums or bands or person. it depends on your outlook on life. i have no opinion on the boy bands but when it comes to metallica enter the sandman was to me the best song they ever did. i totally agree on pat boone for all those reasons and more. the cure was my favorite band in the 80's exactly for the reasons stated. yeah, sure natalie can get on your nerves a little but i love her just the same. bread, donovan, cat stevens, nash and taylor................ listening to them made me realize that a male didn't have to be a macho asshole. we all have different sensibilities i guess. i'm definetely a wussy. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 20:01:24 -0600 From: neal copperman Subject: Brina Through a really strange set of circumstances, I picked up a really lovely CD by Brina & String.si called Grascakinja when I was in Lubljana in 2002. I bought it at a table in the town square where they had weekly concerts. Brina wasn't playing that week, but a brief conversation with the woman at the table, and the lovely looking CD in front of me, convinced me that it was something I would probably like. And it was. It was just the kind of updated regional folk that takes the spirit of a region into modern times without losing that regional flavor. Last year, at my first WOMEX conference, I found myself talking to some folks from that general region, and realized the name tag for one was Brina. I told her the story and she ran off to get me her latest CD (now just tagged Brina), called Druga Godba. (This year she's a featured showcase performer at WOMEX, so I'll finally get to see her perform!) Anyway, I've been listening to Druga Godba a lot lately and it is a great CD. Not exactly a revelation, but so warm, appealing and catchy that I'm very happy to have it and listen repeatedly. I'm not really sure how you buy it. There is some nice on-line info at http://www.brina-slovenia.net, but I didn't see sounds samples or order info. Below is a nice review from fRoots. While I like the CD, I'd never compare it to Iva Bittova! neal np: in the cool - Pieta Brown Mlado leto Druga godba DRUGOD 001 Brina's lovely CD opens with a brief cappella harmony intro - before breaking into the same song in the upbeat acoustic style of the Accordion Song that opens Eliza Carthy's Red CD. The comparison is more than superficial - Brina has a very similar voice, unforced in tone; no great fireworks, but an unusual depth of intent. And musically, with the other musicians being of a jazz background, there is the same spirit of reinvention and rediscovery that made Red Rice so great. And Brina Vogelnik also grew up in a folk music family. I could go on - but what about the music? There are a couple of surprises: a translation of a Swedish Protestant hymn; a Guinean lullaby with kora and a rolled 'r' so extended as to become vowel. But the majority of the music seems to be Brina's rewriting of traditional Slovenian songs, backed by a beautifully varied selection of instruments - all acoustic, and played with a real deftness of touch. The other comparison that springs to mind is with Czech violinist and singer Iva Bittova - both musically and vocally this has the same spirit of mischievousness and improvisation that she embodies. It's a truly beautiful CD, with no weak moments, and well packaged as well. Hunt it out. Geoff Burton ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 20:03:27 -0600 From: neal copperman Subject: new Cocteau's compilation? This sounds lovely! Anyone have it yet? I can't believe Pink Opaque is out of print! Or that "Millimillenary" isn't available anywhere. I have the Cocteau's single box (which I can't say I listen to much and still haven't burnt it all onto a few CD's). But they are a band that I could imagine would benefit from modern mastering. Anyone? neal From the All Music Guide Even if it had been available only in a steel box stuffed with thousands of Styrofoam peanuts, Lullabies to Violaine would be a welcomed and indispensable part of Cocteau Twins' discography. In just about every way imaginable, the compilation outdoes the title-less ten-disc singles box released by 4AD in the early '90s. It certainly looks and feels different: the sturdy flip-top box of old housed the singles in individual jewel cases, while this set squishes most of the old contents, and then some, into four discs that are wrapped in a foldout package that seems to be made of an exotic wintertime plant, which is then encased in a rice-paper-like sheath. You'd be wise not to handle the thing more than a couple times. In fact, just to be cautious, you probably shouldn't stare at it too long. Completists might be miffed to discover that it is missing a few things that the old box did contain, such as the 12" mixes of "Peppermint Pig" and "Pearly Dewdrops' Drops," and the four tracks that appeared on a bonus disc. Robin Guthrie also substituted a couple alternate mixes, but as he argued on his weblog, it's not a big deal: "It's a singles and EPs record, all the singles are there, where is the f*cking problem?" (Well, here's one problem: "Millimillenary," a gorgeous track left to languish on the out-of-print The Pink Opaque, shouldn't have been excluded.) The old box covered the 4AD years and therefore held the singles through Heaven or Las Vegas. This one covers the same ground on the first two discs; discs three and four cover the remaining A-sides, B-sides, and EP tracks through Milk & Kisses (secretly the band's third or fourth best album). Since the Cocteaus typically put the same amount of energy into their singles and EPs as their albums, Lullabies to Violaine features a prolific sum of prime material. The sheer breadth of content is a major factor, but the set is, by a wide margin, the best way to hear how this band consistently developed and constantly switched tacks, from punishing and stark, to elegant and dense, and many places between. It also doesn't hurt that the sound is pristine, improving upon whatever murkiness was audible in the initial round of CD issues. You might call all of the content amorphous goop, but the Cocteaus covered a wide range of emotions with a large set of colors, no matter how blurred they were at times. In fact, "The Spangle Maker," with its tidal structure and mixture of dread and bliss, indicates this in less than five minutes. There are 59 tracks in all, and they're not all overflowing with dreamy exotic genius, but they do form the equivalent of six good-to-tremendous stand-alone albums. For the fans who didn't go any deeper than the studio albums, this will be almost exactly like falling in love with the band for the first time. [4AD also split this into two separate volumes.] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 22:45:40 -0400 From: breinheimer@webtv.net (bill) Subject: Re: love songs I must have been thinking about this subconsciously because Nick Drake's "Northern Sky" popped into my head. It would be an excellent choice imho. np: Fred Frith- Gravity no love songs here but very highly recommended in a very non ectophilian way ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 20:12:48 -0700 From: Steve VanDevender Subject: new Cocteau's compilation? neal copperman writes: > This sounds lovely! Anyone have it yet? Not me, although I have almost all of their album releases. (Even _Garlands_, which is quite a lot of odd.) > I can't believe Pink Opaque is out of print! Or that > "Millimillenary" isn't available anywhere. I have the Cocteau's > single box (which I can't say I listen to much and still haven't > burnt it all onto a few CD's). But they are a band that I could > imagine would benefit from modern mastering. I have had copy of _The Pink Opaque_ for ten years or so now, which also contains the rousing "Musette and Drums" from an album I had until then never heard of, _Head Over Heels_, and as a result had my eye out for it for years. I finally found a copy last year which claims to be a remastered re-release and which is now my favorite Cocteau Twins album EVER. I was also amazed that _HoH_ was released in 1982; back then I had no idea music like that existed. n.p. "Five Ten Fiftyfold" (_Head Over Heels_ has stayed in my CD changer since I got it). ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 22:50:14 -0500 From: "Paul Jensen" Subject: Re: new Cocteau's compilation? I bought both volumes as soon as they came out here in the U.S., and absolutely adore them. Having finally bought all of their albums (I'd buy one and savor it for quite some time before buying another), I was just starting to collect the singles & EP's when this came out (talk about a time-saver!). So nearly every song included in this set was new-to-me. And man are there some gems here.. I can't believe most of this stuff wasn't included in full-length albums, it's that good. Definitely worth the purchase if you haven't heard many of the songs.. as for the sound quality, it's great - but I don't have many originals to compare them to. But considering how beautifully it's packaged & presented, I'm sure they put some effort into cleaning up the tracks. :-) - -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "This is the time. And this is the record of the time." -Laurie Anderson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V12 #193 ***************************