From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V12 #307 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Saturday, November 18 2006 Volume 12 : Number 307 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- "pop" music [adamk@zoom.co.uk] RIP Belinda Emmett ["Amanda Williams" ] emilie simon [anna maria "stjärnell" ] vienna teng @ the living room 2006-11-16 [wojbearpig ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 08:50:28 +0000 From: adamk@zoom.co.uk Subject: "pop" music It's a fair point, there, Greg, and I quite agree. There's a lot of intelligent pop out there that transcends time with its fads and vagaries (I listened to Badfinger's "Day After Day", recently, and it still sounds as if it was recorded yesterday). The impression I get from critics, however, (especially in Britain) is that music is disposable, and anything that doesn't meet with current approval gets airbrushed out in favour of the Next Big Thing, as if there's some Critic's Consensus of Approval. Todd Rundgren, I feel, has been a victim of this: over here he's pretty much unknown (sure, WE know who he is, but we have taste and ,more importantly, a respect for music)and even my son's US girlfriend has no idea who he is, which actually saddened me. When the editor used the word it took me by surprise, as it hadn't been mentioned before in the articles, or if it was I missed it. I don't know why they just don't change the title of the magazine to Observer Pop Monthly and have done with it, then: make it a sort of upmarket Smash Hits. Sorry, I'm rambling: I guess my distrust of critics (save for the excellent and much-missed Ross Fortune) means that when they use the word "pop", I don't trust that, either. adam k. - ----------------------------------------------- This mail sent through http://webmail.zoom.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 19:45:49 +1100 From: "Amanda Williams" Subject: RIP Belinda Emmett One of the news headlines which has dominated Australia in the past few days is the passing of Belinda Emmett,the wife of one of Australia's most popular entertainers, Rove McManus. She was 32. Her funeral has just been held today, and the Sydney Morning Herald online newspaper has a file available for you to download a song she composed reflecting on her life- battling first breast then bone cancer. http://www.smh.com.au/multimedia/2006/lessthanperfect.mp3 It is a charming little piece - a bit light and fluffy, but there are distinct ectoish elements in there. Her style reminds me of Alanis and while the accompaniment is rather formulaic, it is nevertheless a pleasant tune. It is a shame she never had a chance to spend more time on a music career - it might been a brilliant career. Apparently she was just experimenting and was planning to release an album if she got a chance, that is a future. Our federal opposition leader (10 points to the people outside Australia who know his name :-) endeared himself even more deeply to Australian voters when he gave condolences to Carl Rove rather than Rove McManus :-) Amanda ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ooooooooooooooooooo~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The man who realizes "It is the Supreme Life that shines in and through all life" does not waste words. His Pleasures and his love are then all in the soul. He becomes the most enlightened among the philosophers. - -Mundak Upanishad, III-(I)-4 http://www.samatayoga.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 01:02:46 -0800 (PST) From: anna maria "stjärnell" Subject: emilie simon Hi. A compliation of Emilie Simon's work is out in the us, it's called Flower Book and has stuff from her first and second album.. I highly recommend her work if you can find it. Kinda Bjorky but original. Emilie Autumn's Opheliac arrvied..ah. Brilliant if harsher than her other work. Very neat songs but if you don't like goth maybe you wont like this. I'm obssessing now. Shalott and Gothic Lolita stand out. Anna Maria ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sponsored Link $420k for $1,399/mo. Think You Pay Too Much For Your Mortgage? Find Out! www.LowerMyBills.com/lre ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 08:40:18 -0500 From: wojbearpig Subject: vienna teng @ the living room 2006-11-16 vienna was at the living room in rain-drenched noo yawk city last night. she did a solo set, but had two guests: co-bill sander boelkhe on vocals on bryan webb's "that's where i'll be" and the inimitable jim batcho on "1br/1ba". here's what she played: Nothing Without You Whatever You Want Gravity That's Where I'll Be [Bryan Webb] [w/Sanders Bohlke on vocals] Now Three Pontchartrain Homecoming (Walter's Song) L|dao Xiaoyequ (Green Island Serenade) Atheist Christmas Carol 1br/1ba [w/Jim Batcho on drums] City Hall - -- Hope On Fire a very fun set indeed! and definitely worth the drive down from connecticut through the monsoon to get there. woj ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V12 #307 ***************************