From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V14 #1 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Saturday, January 3 2009 Volume 14 : Number 001 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- the 2008 list [cjmacs ] loreena mckennitt's "a midwinter night's dream." ["heidi maier" ] Interesting new finds [neal copperman ] Re: must . . . stop . . . hitting repeat . . . [Andrew Fries Subject: the 2008 list the cds i listened to the most in 2008: elbow: the seldom seen kid mercury rev: snowflake midnight of montreal: skeletal lamping emiliana torrini: me and armini shearwater: rook laura marling: alas i cannot swim the stills: oceans will rise veda hille: this riot life the innocence mission: street map deerhunter: microcastle cut copy: in ghost colours alanis morrisette: flavors of entanglement department of eagles: in ear park aimee mann: @#%&*! smilers eponymously titled cds i listened to a lot in 2008: glasvegas: glasvegas robyn: robyn fleet foxes: fleet foxes santogold: santogold vampire weekend: vampire weekend other cds i listened to a lot in 2008: mgmt: oracular spectacular portishead: third bon iver: for emma forever ago m83: saturdays=youth kylie minogue: x my brightest diamond: a thousand sharks' teeth she and him: volume one girl talk: feed the animals biggest disappointments in 2008: okkervil river: the stand ins david byrne and brian eno: everything that happens will happen today the hold steady: stay positive cranes: cranes calexico: carried to dust c. ********** these electrons have been brought to you by: cjmacs@me.com cjmacs@comcast.net ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:00:31 +1000 From: "heidi maier" Subject: loreena mckennitt's "a midwinter night's dream." greetings ecto folk ... i stupidly forgot to bring all of my decent christmas music here to my family home. i remembered sarah mclachlan's and diana krall's seasonal albums, and aimee mann's, but forgot loreena's "a midwinter night's dream". it is still sitting on my bed in the bag from the shop because i am an idiot and forgot to bring it with me. i wondered if anyone would be willing to upload it for me? i'd be incredibly grateful ... and you'd be saving me from my father pulling out his old german choir records from the seventies. which is as bad as it sounds! ha. warmly, heidi. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 13:14:52 -0500 From: JoAnn Whetsell Subject: RE: loreena mckennitt's "a midwinter night's dream." That reminds me that I ordered the deluxe package from Maple Music in late October and never received it. They never responded to my email and phone call either. JoAnn > Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:00:31 +1000 > From: heidi.maier@gmail.com > To: ecto@smoe.org > Subject: loreena mckennitt's "a midwinter night's dream." > > greetings ecto folk ... > > i stupidly forgot to bring all of my decent christmas music here to my > family home. i remembered sarah mclachlan's and diana krall's seasonal > albums, and aimee mann's, but forgot loreena's "a midwinter night's dream". > it is still sitting on my bed in the bag from the shop because i am an idiot > and forgot to bring it with me. i wondered if anyone would be willing to > upload it for me? i'd be incredibly grateful ... and you'd be saving me > from my father pulling out his old german choir records from the seventies. > which is as bad as it sounds! ha. > > warmly, > heidi. _________________________________________________________________ Its the same Hotmail.. If by same you mean up to 70% faster. http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_broad1_12 2008 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:52:41 -0800 From: jessica spurling Subject: Re: New MySpace Blog Post from Happy Rhodes (Vickie, actually) I miss Vickie too. :/ morayati@email.unc.edu wrote: > Wow. That's impressive. > > I know there's probably no chance she'll read this, but I know I miss > her presence on ecto. It just isn't the same without her. > > -Sarah > > Quoting Richard Messum : > >> Happy Christmas, everyone. >> >> Richard >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: MySpace >> To: spriggsoc@cyg.net >> Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 7:14 PM >> Subject: New Blog Post from Happy Rhodes on 12/24/2008 4:14:35 PM >> >> >> Happy Rhodes has published a new blog post on MySpace. >> >> Click the link below to read the post: >> http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=77283341&blogID=458816265 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:34:24 +0000 (GMT) From: gordodo@optonline.net Subject: my lists for 08 Top ten albums: 1. My Brightest Diamond - A Thousand Shark's Teeth 2. Portishead - Third 3. Emiliana Torrini - Me and Armini 4. Terami Hirsch - A Broke Machine 5. Johnny Hollow - Dirty Hands 6. Jonatha Brooke - The Works 7. Thea Gilmore - Liejacker 8. Gregory and the Hawk - Moenie and Kitchi 9. Veda Hille - This Riot Life 10. Frida Hyvvnen - Silence Is Wild Top three E.P.s Melodyguild  AituUnder Byen -SiamesiskEfterklang  Tour EP #1 Top ten artists seen in concert in 2008: 1. Efterklang 2. My Brightest Diamond 3. Stars of the Lid 4. Rachel Unthank and the Winterset 5. Slaraffenland 6. Gregory and the Hawk 7. Jonatha Brooke 8. Devon Sproule 9. Norfolk and Western 10. Clare and the Reasons ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 15:52:28 -0500 From: "Karen Hester" Subject: Re: must . . . stop . . . hitting repeat . . . An important experiment to try on the next feral child discovered - Tubular Bells albums, supplied to the child in the wrong sleeves. I can imagine the scientists watching from behind one-way-glass. The child decides that II is more fun to smash. There must be parents who have tried feeding their child music without all the cultural info that goes with it. I'd have loved to have heard The Beatles a-historically, and without having been told they were the greatest thing ever by multiple adults before-hand (oh, you say that silly song about being 64 that we sing during assembly is from a seminal pop group? Adults are dumb). Would an innocent ecto kid pick Kate as a forebearer or would later artists seem more interesting? K (is there a world without bunnies?) > Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:48:20 +1100 > From: Andrew Fries > Subject: Re: must . . . stop . . . hitting repeat . . . > > I agree the first always seemed the best but I have to wonder how much > our perception is due to it simply being the first. It was really > something different when it came out... then II and III were... well, > just more of the same, really. But I wonder how we would feel about > things if, say by some quirk in release schedule, II saw the light of > day before I? > > I guess we'll never know, unless we travel to alternative universe that > is exactly like ours, except with Tubular Bells released in reverse > order ... I hear it's out there, right next to the world with no shrimp* > > > *obscure Buffy reference ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 14:36:28 -0800 From: "Sue Trowbridge" Subject: Re: must . . . stop . . . hitting repeat . . . On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Karen Hester wrote: > There must be parents who have tried feeding their child music without > all the cultural info that goes with it. I'd have loved to have heard > The Beatles a-historically, and without having been told they were the > greatest thing ever by multiple adults before-hand Hey, I had that experience! My dad had quite a good record collection, including all the Beatles LPs and many 7" singles. He never tried to indoctrinate me or tell me they were The Greatest Thing Ever, though. I was allowed to play the records as long as I was careful with them, so I could discover things on my own. Somewhat embarrassingly, my favorite was Paul McCartney & Wings' "Mary Had a Little Lamb." (Well, maybe not that embarrassing since I was, like, 5.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Had_a_Little_Lamb_(Paul_McCartney_song) My least favorite was "Magical Mystery Tour" because I thought the cover was so scary. As it turned out, though, I preferred ABBA to the Beatles -- and still do! - --Sue ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:52:10 -0500 From: Mike Connell Subject: Re: New MySpace Blog Post from Happy Rhodes (Vickie, actually) jessica spurling wrote: >I miss Vickie too. :/ "miss Vickie" I SWEAR to God...JUST before I read this email I posted on a message board about a YouTube video of Tiny Tiny marrying Miss Vickie on the Carson show. What are the odds of that? Mike P.S. In case you are interested http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOjso0rPncc P.P.S. Happy New Year all :-) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:43:12 -0500 From: Dave Subject: ah....what've I been listening to? I've lost all sense of time.. I don't remember what I bought when or when what came out... the whole 'best of' thing is pretty much irrelevant anymore. So this is who I've mostly been listening to... Laura Pausini. All the freaking time. Not to mention watching her concert DVDs repeatedly. Her new album, Primavera In Anticipo, has a duet with James Blunt. I'm not a big fan of his but I don't really mind it. Nolwenn Leroy. I can't wait to hear her new album, see what she was working on with Jonatha Brooke. Lady Sovereign. Yeah. I generally dislike rap and hip-hop and all that. She's the exception to that rule. La Oreja de Van Gogh. Unfortunately their singer, Amaia Montero, left the group to "pursue a solo career (tm)". They found a new singer on the Spanish version of 'The X Factor'. She's actually not bad. New album is decent. Arden of Eden finally released an album, pretty good stuff... only concert I bothered to attend last year. Look them up on youtube, couple of good videos. And lots of stuff none of you would have the slightest interest in. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 22:02:28 -0700 From: neal copperman Subject: Interesting new finds I have been really enjoying Honeyhoney's debut CD "First Rodeo". I found them first through a Paste sampler, where their high energy indie pop "Little Toy Gun" track was a complete standout. But I recently got the CD and it is full of a wildly engaging mix of indie pop, folk, and country, thanks to the fiddle and banjo playing of lead singer Suzanne Santo. But it's definitely not an alt-country/folk album. Much more indie pop. The "Little Toy Gun" video is a lot of fun too. "Like Amy Winehouse fronting a jazz-influenced country band, Honeyhoney's debut is a diverse offering of twang, swagger, swing, and stomp." - All Music Guide http://www.honeyhoneymusic.com I'm pretty intrigued by Larkin Grimm too. Again, I've only listened to one track and the album "Parplar" is in my listening stack. It's on Young God Records (The Swans record label). Definitely Freakfolk. The web site screams Devendra Banhardt, and sure enough, her bio says she's shared the stage with him. http://larkingrimm.com/ New CD from Toni Childs! It's her first release in 14 years. Her last album "The Woman's Boat" was such an overwhelming and powerful listening experience that it would be hard to beat. "Keep The Faith" doesn't shoot for TWB's lofty thematic interconnectedness, but on first listen, it seems a solid offering with some immediately catchy and interesting songs. Some fun oddities coming out next month: Dan Milner's Irish Pirate Ballads & Other Songs of the Sea - on Smithsonian Folkways - with guest appearances from Susan McKeown and many excellent Irish musicians. Klaus Schulze - Rheingold: Live at the Loreley - featuring Lisa Gerrard. 2CD/2DVD set of a concert filmed at the "Night of the Prog III" Festival in Gemany. neal np: Keep The Faith - Toni Childs ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:07:59 +1100 From: Andrew Fries Subject: Re: must . . . stop . . . hitting repeat . . . Karen Hester wrote: > There must be parents who have tried feeding their child music without > all the cultural info that goes with it. I'd have loved to have heard > The Beatles a-historically, and without having been told they were the > greatest thing ever by multiple adults before-hand (oh, you say that > silly song about being 64 that we sing during assembly is from a > seminal pop group? Adults are dumb). > > Would an innocent ecto kid pick Kate as a forebearer or would later > artists seem more interesting? Ah, but would that really make a 'better' or 'purer' way of experiencing music? I am not convinced... it seems to me that: music - cultural context = just noise ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V14 #1 *************************