From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V15 #165 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, July 6 2010 Volume 15 : Number 165 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 ] Re: New Liz Phair [heidi maier ] Sarah Harmer, "Oh Little Fire" [meredith ] $5 MP3 albums at Amazon.com, US only [JoAnn Whetsell ] Re: Sarah Harmer, "Oh Little Fire" [Robert Callaghan ] Re: New Liz Phair [Jeffrey Burka ] Re: Recent Obsessions [Robert Callaghan ] Re: New Liz Phair [drahma@gra.midco.net] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 03:00:03 -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********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ******************** Kevin Harkins (no Email address) ********************* ********************* Laurel Krahn (no Email address) ********************* ******************** John J Henshon (jjh969@juno.com) ********************* *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Kevin Harkins Thu July 05 1973 Cancer Laurel Krahn Mon July 05 1971 Cancer John J Henshon Mon July 05 1954 The Year Of The Horse / Ruled By The Moon Jim Gurley Mon July 06 1959 Cancer Courtney Dallas Fri July 09 1971 Catte Michael Peskura Sat July 09 1949 HallOfFamer Finney T. 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Kate Bush Wed July 30 1958 God Chuck Smith Wed July 30 1958 Reboot Yves Denneulin Fri July 30 1971 Lion-Heart Joel Kenyon Wed July 31 1963 Leo Allan Anderson Sun August 04 1974 Signifier/Signified Eli Brandt August 05 Leo Amanda Williams Tue August 05 1969 phoenix - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 02:17:40 +1000 From: heidi maier Subject: Re: New Liz Phair oh my god, that is so mind-blowingly appalling. it's been a long time since i really connected with any of her music, i concede, but this is just horrible! i feel incredibly old when i think of when "exile in guyville" came out. i was in grade ten and remember buying it. is this wretched new song some massive joke? it's just so ... BAD. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:45:36 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Sarah Harmer, "Oh Little Fire" Hi, Executive Summary: Sarah Harmer's new album is most excellent. Seek and buy. I had the pleasure of getting to see her with her band at The Borderline in London on Friday (along with ecto lurkers Garrick and Rob :), and it was a most excellent show, too -- may well have been the best Harmer show I've seen, in fact. It was a great mix of old and new tunes, and really gave a sense of what the album is about. I picked the album up at the show, and we have it on endless repeat here at home today. It's more rocking and upbeat than her previous solo work, much closer to Weeping Tile in sound and instrumentation, and the songwriting is as strong as ever. Any Weeping Tile/Sarah Harmer fans need to have this one in their collection ASAP. Meredith :) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 13:17:31 -0400 From: JoAnn Whetsell Subject: $5 MP3 albums at Amazon.com, US only You can get Imogen Heap's Speak for Yourself (which you should, if you don't have it already), Brandi Carlile's Give Up the Ghost, and the Indigo Girls' Poseidon & the Bitter Bug (which is much better than the several preceding albums). There are probably others, but these are the ones I know of with potential ecto interest. JoAnn _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the too busy. Combine all your e-mail accounts with Hotmail. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multiaccount&ocid=PID2832 6::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_4 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 10:54:45 -0700 From: Sue Trowbridge Subject: Re: New Liz Phair I was at a party last night and a couple of the people there were huge Liz Phair fans back in the day, so I "forced" them to listen to the new song. The response was shock & dismay. One person said that if Liz had simply retired after "Whip-Smart," she would be a legend, but the work she's done in the past 10 years has been so far below the standard she set in the 90s that it's sad. I can't even imagine what it must be like to have to spend your whole life living up to the work you did when you were 21-22 years old, so I have a lot of sympathy for Liz... but I just can't get behind this at all. http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/48560541.html has posted some more tracks -- the song "U Hate It" proves she's obviously a very bitter person. It might have been better to keep this stuff to herself... or share it with her therapist. - --Sue On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 9:17 AM, heidi maier wrote: > oh my god, that is so mind-blowingly appalling. it's been a long time since > i really connected with any of her music, i concede, but this is just > horrible! i feel incredibly old when i think of when "exile in guyville" > came out. i was in grade ten and remember buying it. is this wretched new > song some massive joke? it's just so ... BAD. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 20:53:37 +0100 From: Robert Callaghan Subject: Re: Sarah Harmer, "Oh Little Fire" *de lurk* Having subscribed for, er... a while, I'll finally de-lurk to second this. Despite the postal service still not actually getting my copy to me, Spotify has come to the rescue and allowed me to listen to the joy that is this album. Having feared that she had disappeared for good after I'm A Mountain, she has returned on very fine form. As for the gig... his was only the second time I've seen her, but it only reinforced her on my lists of "artists to rearrange life around to make sure I get to see when they play somewhere vaguely close to where I live". Rob np. Weeping Tile. Thanks to Meredith for pointing out something I'd missed until now. On 5 July 2010 17:45, meredith wrote: > Hi, > > Executive Summary: Sarah Harmer's new album is most excellent. Seek and > buy. > > I had the pleasure of getting to see her with her band at The Borderline in > London on Friday (along with ecto lurkers Garrick and Rob :), and it was a > most excellent show, too -- may well have been the best Harmer show I've > seen, in fact. It was a great mix of old and new tunes, and really gave a > sense of what the album is about. I picked the album up at the show, and we > have it on endless repeat here at home today. > > It's more rocking and upbeat than her previous solo work, much closer to > Weeping Tile in sound and instrumentation, and the songwriting is as strong > as ever. Any Weeping Tile/Sarah Harmer fans need to have this one in their > collection ASAP. > > Meredith :) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 16:28:33 -0400 From: Jeffrey Burka Subject: Re: New Liz Phair well, okay, that was pretty much unlistenable, but she does get props for working in a HHGTG reference... jeff ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 21:35:27 +0100 From: Robert Callaghan Subject: Re: Recent Obsessions As a self-confessed fanboy of Anais, everything she does is amazing - Hadestown no less so. I've really liked everything she has included within her shows and the album is even better than I thought (hoped) it could be. Of course, I'd pay damn good money to hear her sing a shopping list. And if I couldn't get that, some Sesame Street would be OK too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu4616rFKOc :-) My obsession: Dust and Gold by Rachel Taylor-Beales. http://www.racheltaylor-beales.com/ Her other albums are also well worth a listen, with Red Tree being the stronger/better of the two (IMO). Rob On 5 July 2010 01:19, neal copperman wrote: > We have had Anais out here for shows several times and she is a real treat. > > She's been performing the songs off of Hadestown for a few years now and it > is an amazing body of work. I haven' t actually heard the CD, so I don't > really know how the songs sound as interpreted by other people, but I've > heard Anais do most of them and they are clever and original, with really > sharp songwriting and interesting perspectives. > > Adam, if you are sold on them, you might do some YouTube searching. You > can find Anais doing all the songs herself as well as a full stage > production of Hadestown that was put on last year. > > And I'd definitely recommend spending some time with her previous CD "The > Brightness". I was a little slow to warm to it myself, but over time I > have really grown fond of it. > > neal > > np: All Songs Considered - Listeners Pick 2010's Best Music (So Far) > (Thanks Sue!) > nr: The Lacuna - Barbara Kingsolver > > > > On Jul 4, 2010, at 11:01 AM, Adam Kimmel wrote: > > Late to the table, as always, with this, but why break a habit? >> >> My recent obsession is Anais Mitchell's "Hadestown", which is utterly, >> staggeringly brilliant and, by far, the best album I've heard all year. >> Anais had been recommended to me by ecto-lurker Garrick (big shout-out >> there to Garrick) and his friend Rob, but I hadn't been moved by anything >> I'd heard online, so quite how I came to buy the album, let alone be so >> enchanted by it, is a bit of a mystery, but a happy one, especially in a >> year when my expected big-hitters (Patty Griffin, Tom McRae and Broken >> Social Scene) have left me disinterested and dispirited. A concept album >> based on the myth of Orpheus and set in depression-era America and stuffed >> with a gallery of guest stars including Ani Di Franco and the man behind Bon >> Iver, this is breathtaking in its audacity and ambition, not to mention its >> sheer beauty and the heartfelt intelligence at work here. A variety of >> music styles and vocal styles are used, obviously enjoyed and combine to >> maximum effect. >> >> I've also been surprised, bemused and delighted by the new Joanna Newsom, >> which I can only liken to wandering the halls of a particularly >> idiosyncratic art gallery, in which it takes one a while to realise that the >> strangely beguiling music that follows you around from room to room is the >> exhibit itself, and that each time you return to a room, it somehow seems >> different as you discover something new this time around. >> >> Most new CDs I've bought this year, I've been listening repeatedly out of >> duty as I try to "crack them" and this can, after the twelfth time (if I >> last that long), become something of a chore. these two CDs have been a >> pleasure to listen to again and again. >> >> Adam K >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> Send your photos by email in seconds... >> TRY FREE IM TOOLPACK at http://www.imtoolpack.com/default.aspx?rc=if3 >> Works in all emails, instant messengers, blogs, forums and social >> networks. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:21:45 -0500 From: drahma@gra.midco.net Subject: Re: New Liz Phair Does this have an April 1st release date? As in an April Fool's joke? This "album" does shed some light on the why the record industry has been in a death spiral... 20 years ago someone would have had the sense to run a magnet over the master tape and save Liz from herself... Maybe Liz helped Prince write "Purple and Gold"????? Go buy Lucy Woodward and cleanse your noodle... Happy 5th of July!! ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V15 #165 ***************************