From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V14 #130 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, May 13 2009 Volume 14 : Number 130 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, friends... [Mike Matthews ] am loving Carina Round's new EP [Karen Hester ] re: abnormally attracted to sin [morayati@email.unc.edu] Re: am loving Carina Round's new EP [morayati@email.unc.edu] Re: abnormally attracted to sin [Doug ] Re: am loving Carina Round's new EP [Neile Graham ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 03:00:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friends... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ***************** Patrick Varker (pvarker@gibraltar1.com) ***************** ************* Philip David Morgan (pmorgan@suffolk.lib.ny.us) ************* *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Patrick Varker Wed May 12 1954 Torius Philip David Morgan Sat May 12 1962 Chinese Tiger in Bull Clothing Steve Fagg Tue May 13 1958 Nightwol Karel Zuiderveld Fri May 13 1960 Stier Michael Colford Wed May 16 1962 Taurus Christopher Boek Tue May 19 1970 Taurus Julia Macklin Mon May 20 1968 ethereus 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 Onna Addis Tue June 01 1954 Gemini Perttu Yli-Krekola Thu June 02 1966 Kaksoset Alexander Johannesen June 03 Gemini 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 - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 12:58:16 -0400 From: Karen Hester Subject: am loving Carina Round's new EP EPs allow for perfection much more than full albums, esp albums with 17 tracks from redheads who don't know how to edit :) Carina's voice sounds lovely. If 'Slow motion addict' was too glossy pop for you, you might enjoy this ballad-heavy collection. Perhaps she can't write a raw 'First blood mystery' again because her sense of perfect pop melody is too strong. Single 'Backseat' is pretty and one day I might get over my irritation with the closing lyrics. (video on website) 'Please don't stop' is gorgeous and soft then loud, yey. 'Thief in the sky' is one of the catchiest songs Carina has ever written, up there with 'Into my blood'. A recording can't replicate the fun of watching her layer her voice with loops live, but still wonderful. 'Do you' is the gorgeous delicate whisper that climaxes with loud guitasr and eyes being scratched out. Not as vicious as live versions, but works better as a song this way. 'For everything a reason' is another lovely ballad which gets loud. That seems to be her new favorite song structure :) Carina's website is useful again too - http://www.carinaround.com/. Karen ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 13:17:15 -0400 From: morayati@email.unc.edu Subject: re: abnormally attracted to sin I don't know. I've only heard the one song, but from what you've said, this actually sounds rather promising. Well, half promising. The "lite pop" sounds profoundly boring - I still haven't gotten into Beekeeper - and the extraneous tracks, from what you've said, seem like they'd trend towards that category wrong. Is this a misjudgment? But electronics and guitars are things I can get behind. I *liked* "Teenage Hustling." I like "Body and Soul." I liked American Doll Posse because it was just a complete 180 from Beekeeper. So I'm not going to dismiss it until I hear it. Maybe it's a case of mileage varying. - -Sarah ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 13:17:34 -0400 From: morayati@email.unc.edu Subject: Re: am loving Carina Round's new EP Yes! Go listen to it! It's every bit as good as they're saying from what I've heard. Still wish I'd gotten to see her when she was here... - -Sarah Quoting Karen Hester : > EPs allow for perfection much more than full albums, esp albums with 17 > tracks from redheads who don't know how to edit :) > Carina's voice sounds lovely. If 'Slow motion addict' was too glossy pop > for you, you might enjoy this ballad-heavy collection. Perhaps she can't > write a raw 'First blood mystery' again because her sense of perfect pop > melody is too strong. > > Single 'Backseat' is pretty and one day I might get over my irritation with > the closing lyrics. (video on website) > 'Please don't stop' is gorgeous and soft then loud, yey. > 'Thief in the sky' is one of the catchiest songs Carina has ever written, up > there with 'Into my blood'. A recording can't replicate the fun of watching > her layer her voice with loops live, but still wonderful. > 'Do you' is the gorgeous delicate whisper that climaxes with loud guitasr > and eyes being scratched out. Not as vicious as live versions, but works > better as a song this way. > 'For everything a reason' is another lovely ballad which gets loud. That > seems to be her new favorite song structure :) > > Carina's website is useful again too - http://www.carinaround.com/. > > Karen ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 13:18:15 -0500 From: Doug Subject: Re: abnormally attracted to sin I agree...though I've heard only California and England, both are quite boring to me, as was Beekeeper. I pretend she didn't make that one. I hope I won't have to pretend she didn't make this one either. It's like Beekeeper was an attempt to go into a new direction, and when that didn't work, she released Doll to prove she still could make a good album, and when that was proven (IMO), she tried the Beekeeper thing again. Admittedly I've heard only the two songs... And yes, I'm one of the (hopefully many) people who ranks Doll right up there with her pre-Venus material. It rocks IMO. - --Doug On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:17 PM, wrote: > I don't know. I've only heard the one song, but from what you've said, this > actually sounds rather promising. Well, half promising. The "lite pop" > sounds profoundly boring - I still haven't gotten into Beekeeper - and the > > But electronics and guitars are things I can get behind. I *liked* "Teenage > Hustling." I like "Body and Soul." I liked American Doll Posse because it ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 16:19:57 -0700 From: Neile Graham Subject: Re: am loving Carina Round's new EP What Karen said. This is terrific. (I liked about half of Slow Motion Addict and I'm afraid I'm past done with redheads who don't know how to edit). - --Neile - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - - Neile Graham .... neile@sff.net/@zipcon.com ... www.sff.net/people/neile Les Semaines: A Weekly Journal ........ www.sff.net/people/neile/ semaines Editor, The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music ........... www.ectoguide.org Workshop Administrator, Clarion West ................ www.clarionwest.org On May 12, 2009, at 9:58 AM, Karen Hester wrote: > EPs allow for perfection much more than full albums, esp albums > with 17 > tracks from redheads who don't know how to edit :) > Carina's voice sounds lovely. If 'Slow motion addict' was too > glossy pop > for you, you might enjoy this ballad-heavy collection. Perhaps she > can't > write a raw 'First blood mystery' again because her sense of > perfect pop > melody is too strong. > > Single 'Backseat' is pretty and one day I might get over my > irritation with > the closing lyrics. (video on website) > 'Please don't stop' is gorgeous and soft then loud, yey. > 'Thief in the sky' is one of the catchiest songs Carina has ever > written, up > there with 'Into my blood'. A recording can't replicate the fun of > watching > her layer her voice with loops live, but still wonderful. > 'Do you' is the gorgeous delicate whisper that climaxes with loud > guitasr > and eyes being scratched out. Not as vicious as live versions, but > works > better as a song this way. > 'For everything a reason' is another lovely ballad which gets > loud. That > seems to be her new favorite song structure :) ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V14 #130 ***************************