From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V13 #494 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Thursday, May 22 2008 Volume 13 : Number 494 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] Re: Scarlett Johansson's "Anywhere I Lay My Head" [CollectedSounds ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 03:00:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ******************* Yngve Hauge (yngveh@pingvin-it.no) ******************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Yngve Hauge Fri May 21 1971 Gemini Lisa Laane Tue May 22 1973 Gemini Jewel Kilcher Thu May 23 1974 The Gem Chandra Sriram Thu May 27 1971 Gemini Taina Sahlander Mon May 28 1973 Gemini Urs Stafford Thu May 31 1973 Give Way Perttu Yli-Krekola Thu June 02 1966 Kaksoset Alex Gibbs Thu June 08 1967 Betelgeuse Gleb Zverev Tue June 09 1964 Gemini Sonja Juchniewich Mon June 10 1963 Pegasus Joerg Plate Mon June 12 1967 Gemini Chris Montville Tue June 13 1978 Gemini Ectoplasm (original name) Mailing List Thu June 13 1991 Fuzzier blue Paul Huesman Wed June 14 1967 coffee drinker Mark R. Susskind Wed June 15 1966 Gemini Dave Upham Sun June 15 1958 Gemini Mike Matthews Mon June 16 1969 Pr. SAFH Albert Philipsen Mon June 17 1968 Gemini Neal R. Copperman Thu June 17 1965 Gemini Susan Kay Anderson Tue June 17 1969 Gemini Ecto-The Mailing List Tue June 18 1991 Fuzzy blue Tracy Barber Mon June 18 1956 Gemini Greg Dunn Thu June 18 1953 + Paul Blair Thu June 18 1964 Objectivist Mike Connell Sat June 18 1955 Apollo David Lubkin Fri June 20 1958 OurLady Marisa Wood Fri June 20 1969 Gemini Cheri Villines Sun June 20 1965 Gemini-Leo rising Ray Misra Sat June 20 1970 Gemini - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 08:11:43 -0500 From: CollectedSounds Subject: Re: Scarlett Johansson's "Anywhere I Lay My Head" I have finally heard it now too and what struck me the most is that they did such weird things to her vocals. She actually has a really terrific voice, but you wouldn't know it because of the effects and distortion on there. A while back I reviewed a record of lullabies sung by movie stars and she sang "Summertime" (not that is necessarily a lullaby, but it was on there) and her track was my favorite. I loved her voice. This new album, while really cool, I think...does not sound like what I remember Scarlett sounding like. But if I can get over that, I think I'll like it. I'm just afraid critics are going to think of her as another movie star that wanted a recording contract, but can't sing so they alter her voice. When I don't think that's the case. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 06:02:29 -0800 From: Adam Kimmel Subject: Now, I know/It's not really ecto/But I like it ... or....Okkervill River at the Borderline A newcomer to this band, whose last album delighted me last year and made my top table, I saw that they were playing my beloved Borderline and nabbed a ticket. Good thing, too: it sold out quickly and I don't think I've ever seen the place so jam packed, which made for a sweltering and airless evening. Initially muffled sound and a lot of unfamiliar (to me) material became, due to sheer brio, a great gig, one of those that for the first hour is good as in, "This is good, I'm enjoying this, I'll definitely buy more of their material and give it due consideration". Then, something just took flight and, for the last half hour it became "This is one of the BEST GIGS I'VE EVER BLOODY BEEN TO/I LOVE YOU GUYS/YOU'RE MY BESTEST FRIENDS EVER!" as the whole stage seemed to levitate out of sheer energy and sense of fun, taking the audience with it. Blistering, blinding, uplifting and thoroughly exhilirating, everything I'd hoped it would be. I said that a lot of the material, naturally, was unfamiliar to me, but the very first song ran along the lines of "They killed the president" which seemed oddly familiar to me and I was sure (and AM sure) I've heard it before. Apparently they have toured the UK before, and I've been wondering if I'd seen them as a support act. Anyone with any info or a link to any info would be greatly appreciated. found my way home listening to Camille's "Music Hole", to look up and see a big, fat, creamy full moon hovering above the rooftops of Acton. Okkervil River, Camille, a full moon and Acton. It doesn't get much better than this. Adam K. np: Thea Gilmore/Liejacker (liking it so far, a definite improvement on the hard gloss of Harpo's Ghost) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 07:34:00 -0700 From: "Sue Trowbridge" Subject: Re: Now, I know/It's not really ecto/But I like it ... or....Okkervill River at the Borderline On 5/21/08, Adam Kimmel wrote: > Blistering, blinding, uplifting and thoroughly exhilirating, everything I'd hoped it would be. Coincidentally, I just saw Shearwater (which began as an Okkervil River side project) and had the same reaction. Their new album ROOK will be out in early June. I almost think Shearwater could qualify as "male ecto," since the lead singer has an achingly beautiful falsetto that comes out on many of their songs. MP3 available here: http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/?p=1275 - --Sue ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 21:25:00 -0400 From: "Karen Hester" Subject: Juliana Hatfield, Joe's Pub 21st May Slow strummy guitar songs with pleasant piano accompaniment. Relationships and drugs and relationships with people on drugs. All new songs except "You choose drugs" which was particularly pretty (but also slow and strummy and druggy). Three covers - "Bad moon rising", "It's only rock and roll (but I like it)" and, oddly, "What's a girl to do" by Bat for Lashes. Juliana didn't introduce any on the covers, which is fine for the recognizable ones but not fair on Bat for Lashes - - surrounded by completely new material, most of the audience would think it's her music. The songs that deviated from pleasant strumminess were best. A bloke from Nada Surf added vocals and guitar color to a song about a pretty girl in an ugly world; a bloke from Fountains of Wayne added melody and rawk to two songs. Juliana urged the audience to sing along to a cute grumpy number about letting in a drunken lover at 3am, "it's just lust, it doesn't mean I love you" (and later, "I might not even like you"). We laughed when she told how she had dug an old Dead Kennedy's button out of her drawer and attached it to her purse, but then Ted got sick and she felt as his constituent she should remove the button. She dedicated the final number 'He's on drugs again' to its author, Some Girls bandmate LonPaul Ellrich, who died a couple weeks ago. She'll tour with a band when the new album comes out in August. I wouldn't see her again with just a piano/backing vocalist, but with fuller sounds and drums it could be worth it. K. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 23:52:13 -0400 From: "Paul Blair" Subject: I'm glowin'! *Glow in the Dark* was waiting for me in my mailbox when I got home today. I've already listened to it once. A few notes: Inside the booklet cover is a verse that I can't find referenced on Google. Is it Kevin's? It's very good. Bartlett's familiar quotations, part 2: I probably have "Exit the Body" on the brain, but the first track on the album ("Nothing, Really') starts off reminiscent of the way "Exit the Body" starts, though with a much more purely ethereal sound. The same theme is echoed on the second-to-last track ("Something, Probably"). "The Sorrow, the Fish, and Glastonbury Hill" begins with something that sounds like Susan McKeown singing in Gaelic. From there it gets Mike-Oldfield-y, and builds up a lot as it goes along. I really like this one. "God's Little Do-over" everyone can hear on Kevin's MySpace page. The little "knock-knock" sound follows me into bed and pops up in my dreams. "Chauncey Saucer Survives 2012" is the track that I said has the "ecto sound" on it, though it has a male vocal. Listening to it now, I'm reminded of Happy's "Runners," though I keep thinking there's something else that it's even closer to. "Moon v. Moon" starts out vaguely in Vangelis "Chariots of Fire" territory, with calm piano and atmosphere over surf sounds, but a bit over halfway through a guitar reminiscent of Mike Oldfield enters, and things get more intense for a bit. That's all for now, except to say that the artwork is great. Some of the credit goes to Tom Ditto, according to the notes. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V13 #494 ***************************