From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V14 #302 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, November 4 2009 Volume 14 : Number 302 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Free Clare & the Reasons song on Amazon [Karen Hester ] RE: NPR 50 voices part 2 ["Mike Connell" ] Clare and the Reasons & my latest obsessions (long mail..) [Leonora Chris] Re: NPR 50 voices part 2 [Paul Blair ] Best-selling artists (was re: NPR 50 voices part 2) [Philip David Morgan ] Re: Best-selling artists (was re: NPR 50 voices part 2) [birdie Subject: Free Clare & the Reasons song on Amazon (so only USers) - 'Ooh you hurt me so', which is cute and Beatlesque, though too cutesy for me. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002S22XJ4/ref=dm_ty_trk Kkkkkkkkk ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:53:25 -0500 From: Michael Quinn Subject: Re: NPR 50 voices part 2 Nina Simone and Sandy Denny would actually probably made my real top 5 list of vocalists. I also voted for Joni Mitchell, Neko Case and K.D. Lang who are definitely very talented vocalists even if maybe not actually top 5 ever in my opinion. It was a pretty good list although I wish they had Tori and Kate on there and Sarah Brightman (for pure singing ability she's amazing). Philip David Morgan wrote: > Hello, Paul: > > You sent the link to National Public Radio's 50 voices voting page: > >> http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114013402&sc=fb&cc=fp >> >> >> > and added: > >> Very, very thin on ecto-goddesses. >> > Considering that NPR has to appeal to a wide audience (but thankfully > not in a dumbed-down fashion like other entities we could name but > won't...), I wasn't surprised. > > What -did- surprise me is that the iconic Japanese _enka_ singer and > movie actress Hibari Misora (!) made the cut; I have several vintage > Nippon Columbia 45s from her heyday, as well as DVD-R dubs of two NHK > TV specials devoted to her. She ended up in a pick of five which also > include Toots Hibbert (Toots and the Maytals), Meredith Monk, and > India's two playback singing queens, Lata Mangheskhar and Asha Bhosle. > > Not at all ectoish, certainly, but the selection could have been far > worse. > > Philip David > > 2009.11.02-03 > > --- > Philip David Morgan > La studio Konstelacio, k.t.p./Konstelacio Entertainment > 287 Cambon Avenue > Saint James, New York/Novjorkio 11780-2518 > United States/Usono > Voice: 1-631-584-7622 > > http://konstelacio.ipernity.com/ > http://whackaflick.blogspot.com/ > > -Eks-acxetu filmojn. Ek-faru- filmojn. > -Stop- buying movies. Start -making- movies. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 14:06:55 -0500 From: "Mike Connell" Subject: RE: NPR 50 voices part 2 Like others, I too cannot believe some of the inclusions (like Busta Rhymes...huh?) I am glad its not a "50 Greatest Ever", there are way, way too many to list and impossible to select just 5. Still, where are Annie Lennox?? Dusty Springfield? Julie Andrews? Sarah Brightman??? Andy Williams? Nana Mouskouri???? For decades she was only THE all-time best selling female artist with #1 albums in 6 different languages. Might still be #1 for all I know. For a variety of reasons from that list I voted for Roy Orbison, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Ella Fitzgerald and Maria Callas. Write-ins would have been Mouskouri and Lennox, taking out Callas (reluctantly) and Gaye. Mike ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 22:42:49 +0100 From: Leonora Christina Skov Subject: Clare and the Reasons & my latest obsessions (long mail..) I actually downloaded the whole album by CLARE AND THE REASONS from emusic today and I like it so much that I have already ordered a physical copy from amazon.co.uk. On first listen Arrow is very similar to The Movie which is a good thing, in my opinion. I have played that album over and over. I would encourage everyone to check out ELIZABETH AND THE CATAPULT'S debut album Taller Children which is somewhat similar to Clare and the Reasons (both have a retro feel is what I mean to say), but Elizabeth doesn't have Clare's high-pitched girly voice. Actually, she sounds a great deal like A Girl Called Eddy or Karen Carpenter and I find the tracks remarkably varied and well-arranged  but then I have always been a sucker for piano and strings. I'd have to say that their first single Taller Children is probably the weakest track on the disc and the youtube-video doesn't do them any favors, either. The album has got fairly mixed reviews for reasons I don't get. This album is most definitely in my top twenty this year  so far along with Bat for Lashes, Camera Obscura, Fever Ray, Soap & Skin, Carina Round, Taken By Trees, Hope Sandoval, Sarah Blasko, Pink Martini and .. Speaking of bad reviews that I disagree with: AMY MILLAN's second solo album Masters of the Burial is absolutely stunning. It didn't even get mixed reviews, actually, all the reviews I have read have been bad. People find the album sedate and dull and unremarkable compared to the solo work of Feist etc., while I certainly find it a huge leap forward. Amy Millan has one of those big, calm voices that just resonate with me. I suspect she could sing anything and I would still listen. I even liked her debut, Honey from the Thombs, even though I don't usually listen to country music and this time the country twang is, fortunately, much less prominent. This is more of a slow folk album in the vein of Mazzy Star or Speck Mountain , very atmospheric, great strings, hypnotic from start to finish. I adore her cover of Sarah Harmer's Old Perfume and first single Bury This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA3Zq9nB3PE Two albums that I didn't expect to like as much as I do would have to be A FINE FRENZY'S Bomb in a Birdcage and JENNY OWEN YOUNG's Transmitter Failure. The two singer/songwriters don't really have much in common except that they are young, these are their second albums, and I had pretty much written both of them off. On her debut I found A Fine Frenzy very young and sugary, especially lyric wise, trying too hard to be the piano-playing, balladering Tori, but this time around she's much more upbeat and several of the tracks are infectious. This is the album Regina Spektor should have made after Begin to Hope, in my opinion ( I am utterly disappointed with Far). I found Jenny Owen Youngs' debut quite bland, but this one is really interesting. Many different styles, great voice, last time she seemed to be channeling Ani de Franco, but this time she doesn't really resemble anybody. Or if any it would have to be Aimee Mann on the absolute highlight, Here Is a Heart. I have played that song again and again. http://www.myspace.com/jennyowenyoungs Which reminds me: Thanks to Joshua for mentioning MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS the other day. I immediately downloaded her debut EP from Amazon and that is just glorious. Especially I'm Not a Robot which keeps getting stuck in my head: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_oMD6-6q5Y Wow. What a splendid voice! Part Kate Bush, part Shara Worden. Thanks:-) Ugh, have any of you listened to the new Tori Amos yet? I must surely be streaming somewhere already?! I own all her albums up until now but I'm afraid I'll have to give this one a miss. Seasonal classics? I think not. I'm looking so much more forward to NELLIE MCKAY's new album of Doris Day-covers, Normal as Blueberry Pie (great title, too). Have listened to Doris Day for ages. I had never heard of the Dutch band The Gathering until one of my friends got me the debut album from ANNEKE VAN GIERSBERGEN who fronted the band. And what a wonderful pitch perfect voice she has! I'll have to listen to this album some more because every time I decide to give it a spin I keep skipping back to the first track  a cover of Damien Rice's The Blower's Daughter. Her interpretation of that song is amazing. Here's a great live version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkGG8tQPiHs Speaking of pitch perfect voices I'm all for PRISCILLA AHN. In a way her debut, A Good Day, is a bit too mainstream for me, but Dream, Lullaby, and A Good Day are slow and beautiful piano pop with sweet lyrics. Heres Dream, my favourite track: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKfDwChOoHI What is there not to like?! Other songs that I have enjoyed lately: Gina Gershon: Watch Over Me (In Search of Cleo, 2007) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KePa5lY1IjE The Mummers: March of the Dawn (Tale to Tell, 2009) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UMMu_KBRy8 Julia Marcell: Carousel (I Might Like You, 2009) - talented Polish singer/songwriter http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8bm_cKgFh0 Zee Avi: Bitter Heart (Zee Avi, 2009) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGDvkjIf0Lg&feature=fvst Laura Marling: Old Stones (Alas I Cannot Swim, 2008) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0X_JnAtb6o Sharleen Spiteri: All the Times I Cried (Melody, 2008) - this album is seriously underrated. Wonderful retro stuff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUtnQTzimMw Imelda May: Johnny Got a Boom Boom (Love Tattoo, 2008) - pretty similar to Devil Doll http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZucJAkzCNq8&feature=fvst All the best from Copenhagen, Leonora _________________________________________________________________ Word Up! Fe opdateringer fra Facebook og Arto i din Messenger. Gxr det her! http://www.microsoft.com/danmark/windows/windowslive/import-friends/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 20:32:05 -0500 From: Paul Blair Subject: Re: NPR 50 voices part 2 I voted for more men than I expected: David Bowie, Isaac Hayes, Johnny Cash. And Neko Case and Bjork. On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Michael Quinn wrote: > Nina Simone and Sandy Denny would actually probably made my B real top 5 list > of vocalists. I also voted for Joni Mitchell, Neko Case and K.D. Lang who > are definitely very talented vocalists even if maybe not actually top 5 ever > in my opinion. > > It was a pretty good list although I wish they had Tori and Kate on there > and Sarah Brightman B (for pure singing ability she's amazing). > > Philip David Morgan wrote: >> >> Hello, Paul: >> >> You sent the link to National Public Radio's 50 voices voting page: >> >>> >>> http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114013402&sc=fb&cc=fp >>> >>> >> >> and added: >> >>> Very, very thin on ecto-goddesses. >>> >> >> Considering that NPR has to appeal to a wide audience (but thankfully not >> in a dumbed-down fashion like other entities we could name but won't...), I >> wasn't surprised. >> >> What -did- surprise me is that the iconic Japanese _enka_ singer and movie >> actress Hibari Misora (!) made the cut; I have several vintage Nippon >> Columbia 45s from her heyday, as well as DVD-R dubs of two NHK TV specials >> devoted to her. She ended up in a pick of five which also include Toots >> Hibbert (Toots and the Maytals), Meredith Monk, and India's two playback >> singing queens, Lata Mangheskhar and Asha Bhosle. >> >> Not at all ectoish, certainly, B but the selection could have been far >> worse. >> >> Philip David >> >> 2009.11.02-03 >> >> --- >> Philip David Morgan >> La studio Konstelacio, k.t.p./Konstelacio Entertainment >> 287 Cambon Avenue >> Saint James, New York/Novjorkio 11780-2518 >> United States/Usono >> Voice: 1-631-584-7622 >> >> http://konstelacio.ipernity.com/ >> http://whackaflick.blogspot.com/ >> >> -Eks-acxetu filmojn. Ek-faru- filmojn. >> -Stop- buying movies. Start -making- movies. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:40:47 -0500 From: Philip David Morgan Subject: Best-selling artists (was re: NPR 50 voices part 2) Hello, Mike: Following on who did (not) make NPR's 50 voices survey: > [...Where] are Annie Lennox?? Dusty Springfield? Julie Andrews? Sarah Brightman??? > Andy Williams? Nana Mouskouri???? For decades she was only THE all-time best selling > female artist with #1 albums in 6 different languages. Might still be #1 for all I know. > I don't have the figures for the all-time best selling -European- singers - although certainly the bespectacled one from Greece is up there (when I had a large LP library, she was the reason it was top heavy with Philips and Fontana vinyl) - but a check online reveals that, from 1974 to 1991, the Guinness Book of World Records gave the all-time best selling honor to Lata Mangeshkar - "for having sung the most number of song recordings by any singer in the world," according to Wikipedia. She and her sister Asha Bhosle certainly did a lot of heavy lifting in Bollywood during the last century. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playback_singer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lata_Mangeshkar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asha_Bhosle And both are still quite active (Mme. Mangeshkar recently celebrate a birthday). By the way, S. P. Balasubramanyam holds the record for male singers. One last note from me on the NPR list: I wish Annie Haslam had made the cut. But then, how many public radio listeners remember Renaissance? Philip David (sifting through rationales, and deciding to put them aside) 2009.11.03-04 - --- Philip David Morgan La studio Konstelacio, k.t.p./Konstelacio Entertainment 287 Cambon Avenue Saint James, New York/Novjorkio 11780-2518 United States/Usono Voice: 1-631-584-7622 http://konstelacio.ipernity.com/ http://whackaflick.blogspot.com/ - -Eks-acxetu filmojn. Ek-faru- filmojn. - -Stop- buying movies. Start -making- movies. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 21:50:06 -0800 From: birdie Subject: Re: Best-selling artists (was re: NPR 50 voices part 2) She of the platform shoe..... and Fruit on her head... Carmen Miranda was the biggest international singer of all, during the 1940's bigger than Madonna was in the 80's HUGE with very successful 20th Century Fox musicals, to boot.... On Nov 3, 2009, at 8:40 PM, Philip David Morgan wrote: > Hello, Mike: > > Following on who did (not) make NPR's 50 voices survey: > >> [...Where] are Annie Lennox?? Dusty Springfield? Julie Andrews? >> Sarah Brightman??? >> Andy Williams? Nana Mouskouri???? For decades she was only THE all- >> time best selling >> female artist with #1 albums in 6 different languages. Might still >> be #1 for all I know. >> > I don't have the figures for the all-time best selling -European- > singers - although certainly the bespectacled one from Greece is up > there (when I had a large LP library, she was the reason it was top > heavy with Philips and Fontana vinyl) - but a check online reveals > that, from 1974 to 1991, the Guinness Book of World Records gave > the all-time best selling honor to Lata Mangeshkar - "for having > sung the most number of song recordings by any singer in the world," > according to Wikipedia. She and her sister Asha Bhosle certainly did > a lot of heavy lifting in Bollywood during the last century. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playback_singer > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lata_Mangeshkar > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asha_Bhosle > > > And both are still quite active (Mme. Mangeshkar recently celebrate > a birthday). > > By the way, S. P. Balasubramanyam holds the record for male singers. > > One last note from me on the NPR list: I wish Annie Haslam had made > the cut. But then, how many public radio listeners remember > Renaissance? > > Philip David > (sifting through rationales, and deciding to put them aside) > 2009.11.03-04 > > --- > Philip David Morgan > La studio Konstelacio, k.t.p./Konstelacio Entertainment > 287 Cambon Avenue > Saint James, New York/Novjorkio 11780-2518 > United States/Usono > Voice: 1-631-584-7622 > > http://konstelacio.ipernity.com/ > http://whackaflick.blogspot.com/ > > -Eks-acxetu filmojn. Ek-faru- filmojn. > -Stop- buying movies. Start -making- movies. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V14 #302 ***************************