From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V12 #304 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, November 15 2006 Volume 12 : Number 304 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: interesting article about hit-prediction software [kerrywhite@webtv.n] Re: interesting article about hit-prediction software [kerrywhite@webtv.n] Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] Re: Muzak plays "King of the Mountain" ["Kim Justice" ] Re: Muzak plays "King of the Mountain" ["Chris Stack" ] King Of The Mountain ["Ronald Adamson" ] Live broadcast at WPKN - please come! 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Corry Fri December 11 1970 Sagittarius Renee Canada Tue December 13 1977 Sagittarius - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 06:48:48 -0600 From: "Kim Justice" Subject: Re: Muzak plays "King of the Mountain" On 11/13/06, meredith wrote: > Kim Justice wrote: > > My workplace subscribes to brand-name Muzak (http://www.muzak.com/) > > with a couple of dozen flavors on tap. I was shocked today to hear KT > > on the ceiling speakers. Very weird. > > Was it the actual version, or a Moo-sick version? Real version. Muzak has moved beyond its roots in cheesy cover versions; now, most of what they pipe into businesses consists of the original versions of songs. A part of me misses the cheese, I must confess. I always found the cover versions hilarious. kj - -- Kim Justice justicekw@gmail.com "There can always be new beginnings -- even for people like us." - -- Susan Ivanova ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 06:09:24 -0800 (PST) From: Craig Gidney Subject: Imogen Heap last night Jeff Burka and I saw Imogen Heap last night at the 9:30 Club. It was amazing. My write up is here: http://ethereal-lad.livejournal.com/327132.html (It's linkified and prettified, so is easier to link to than to post here.) Blog: http://ethereal-lad.livejournal.com Music Blog: http://www.last.fm/user/ethereal_lad/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:41:15 -0500 From: "Chris Stack" Subject: Re: Muzak plays "King of the Mountain" I had a very strange muzak experience a while back. I may have mentioned it here before, so pardon me if you've already heard (read) it... I was in a local mall and some un-memorable song was being played over the speakers. Tori Amos' "Jackie's Strength" was running through my head pretty strongly. I was shocked and pleasantly surprised when it turned out that it was the next song played. I was very shocked and saddened when I found out the next day that JFK Jr. had died. Chris ====================== Chris Stack www.stackdigital.com My MySpace page www.myspace.com/chrisstackmusic MP3 music clips... www.stackdigital.com/music.html Performance Calendar... www.stackdigital.com/calendar.html Graphic Arts... www.stackdigital.com/art.html Blogishness... www.stackdigital.com/journal.html ====================== A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry and see a fine picture every day of his life in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. - -Goethe ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:42:02 +0000 From: adamk@zoom.co.uk Subject: Observer Gay issue Flogging a somewhat dead horse, here, I realise, but I thought that the response I got from the magazine would be worth re-producing, if only to show that, while they may not have mastered any sense of scope when it comes to music, they sure have mastered the art of sarcasm. Mind you, I know I can be pretty pissy sometimes. Okay, a lot of the time. It also appears I was labouring under a misapprehension: I had no idea the remit was purely "pop", as the editor below now claims it to be. That truly is a horse of an entirely different colour, but it goes along with a lot of current music criticism: that music should be fun, superficial and ultimately disposable. Man, am I ever out of step. adam k. "Dear Adam Bully for you and your wide-ranging tastes. Janis Ian: ok. But are you really telling me that the Indigo Girls and Ani DiFranco, never mind Melissa Ferrick and Ferron, have made a lasting contribution to the history of pop music? I understand your point about ghettoisation, but it's only a charge that would have stuck if we had included artists based soley on their sexuality, and ignored the question of whether they'd made a lasting cultural impact. Of course, you might argue that your candidates are more deserving of inclusion in such an issue than Ma Rainey or bands such as Fifth Column, for example. But then you'd be wrong. Ah, your pissy tone is aggravating, but if you're still happy with your letter, I guess we'll consider it for publication. Thanks for your attentive reading. Caspar Editor, The Observer Music Monthly" adamk@zoom.co.uk 13/11/06 08:29 To: omm@observer.co.uk cc: Subject: Gay issue Well, whatever next? A Catholic issue? A Jewish issue? If you are going to embark upon such ghettoisation, a bit more scope would have been nice, although I've learnt not to expect it from your publication. You managed to get through an entire "gay" edition without a single mention of artists such as the Indigo Girls, Melissa Ferrick, Ferron, Ani DiFranco or even Janis Ian. How did you manage that? Lesbians that I knew in NYC in the late 70s were also listening to Chris Williamson and Holly Near. None of these artists, of course, quite fit the glam or camp remit you seem to feel that "gay" requires. Nice to see Jobriath get a mention, but he was very much a corporate response to Bowie's androgeny, his label boss introducing him with words to the effect of "The music world's ready for a fag". Yours, Adam Kimmel 104 St George's Avenue London N7 020 76071659 - ----------------------------------------------- This mail sent through http://webmail.zoom.co.uk - ----- End forwarded message ----- - ----------------------------------------------- This mail sent through http://webmail.zoom.co.uk Dear Adam Bully for you and your wide-ranging tastes. Janis Ian: ok. But are you really telling me that the Indigo Girls and Ani DiFranco, never mind Melissa Ferrick and Ferron, have made a lasting contribution to the history of pop music? I understand your point about ghettoisation, but it's only a charge that would have stuck if we had included artists based soley on their sexuality, and ignored the question of whether they'd made a lasting cultural impact. Of course, you might argue that your candidates are more deserving of inclusion in such an issue than Ma Rainey or bands such as Fifth Column, for example. But then you'd be wrong. Ah, your pissy tone is aggravating, but if you're still happy with your letter, I guess we'll consider it for publication. Thanks for your attentive reading. Caspar Editor, The Observer Music Monthly [TABLE NOT SHOWN] Well, whatever next? A Catholic issue? A Jewish issue? If you are going to embark upon such ghettoisation, a bit more scope would have been nice, although I've learnt not to expect it from your publication. You managed to get through an entire "gay" edition without a single mention of artists such as the Indigo Girls, Melissa Ferrick, Ferron, Ani DiFranco or even Janis Ian. How did you manage that? Lesbians that I knew in NYC in the late 70s were also listening to Chris Williamson and Holly Near. None of these artists, of course, quite fit the glam or camp remit you seem to feel that "gay" requires. Nice to see Jobriath get a mention, but he was very much a corporate response to Bowie's androgeny, his label boss introducing him with words to the effect of "The music world's ready for a fag". Yours, Adam Kimmel 104 St George's Avenue London N7 020 76071659 - ----------------------------------------------- This mail sent through http://webmail.zoom.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:12:17 -0800 (PST) From: Ellen Rawson Subject: Re: Observer Gay issue Dear Casper, Your condescending tone is aggravating, but since you decide what is included in the Observer Music Monthly, I'm sure you're far superior to most mere mortals. *sigh* Okay, I haven't even looked at Sunday's Observer's Music Monthly because a. we were away in Germany this weelend and didn't return until Sunday night. I simply haven't had time. AND b. I rarely read the 'Music Monthly' anyway because it does tend to be about musicians I don't appreciate very much. It's not usually recycled as quickly as the 'Sport Monthly' (we both ignore that one entirely), but a brief skim is all it ever warrants. Ellen, seeing Steeleye Span a week from Friday and Johnny Dickinson the next day. "Literature stops in 1100. After that, it's just books." - -- JRR Tolkien ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 02:31:22 -0500 From: "Ronald Adamson" Subject: King Of The Mountain I work in a lot of retail stores and I keep hearing this Kate track too (the real version). Thank goodness some programmers have taste. JOHN R ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:37:08 -0500 From: frozenhead@rootsworld.com Subject: Live broadcast at WPKN - please come! Hello, friends and fiends I know... I'm asking you to come to scary old Bridgeport on a Wednesday night! It will be worth it! If you can't come, tune in! And please pass on the world to your friends. 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Call the station weekdays between 10 AM and 5 PM to get directions and let us know you are coming, so we can have some coffee waiting for you! 203-331-9756 No admission charge. http://www.wpkn.org/where/unclemoon2.jpg http://unclemoon.com/images/trey_photopage/DSC_6682.jpg Hear music and find out more about Uncle Moon on their web site http://unclemoon.com/ - -------------------------- "Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim." - George Santayana Cliff Furnald, editor RootsWorld, the online magazine of the world's music Box 1285, New Haven CT 06505 USA http://www.rootsworld.com SKYPE: rootsworld Also: cdRoots: importing unusual music from around the globe http://www.cdroots.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:44:48 +1100 From: andrew fries Subject: Re: interesting article about hit-prediction software Steve VanDevender wrote: > Karen Hester writes: > > (Sulzer also composed a B-side, Most Unwanted Song, using the same data > > to create a track he predicted would be liked by fewer than 200 members of > > the world population. It features abrupt changes of tempo, a soprano rapping > > about cowboys and plenty of bagpipes.) > > Wow. That sounds really Ecto. Like Throwing Muses with bagpipes. ... or Ani DiFranco with a mariachi band? ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V12 #304 ***************************