From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #778 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Friday, May 24 2013 Volume 16 : Number 778 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Jewel as June Carter Cash on Lifetime Monday night [Mike Connell ] Re: Songs about birds [Raphael Schweikert ] Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] Re: Songs about birds [CountryMouse ] Re: Songs about birds [CountryMouse ] songs about birds [=?iso-8859-1?Q?anna_maria_stj=E4rnell?= ] Re: Songs about birds [Michael Colford ] Re: Songs about birds [Factory Alberto ] Re: Songs about birds ["Henning Rech" ] Re: Songs about birds [Urs Stafford ] Re: Songs about birds [Ken Descoteaux ] songs about birds 2 ["Varker, Patrick" ] Re: Songs about birds ["jhanson21@comcast.net" ] RE: Songs about birds [Steve VanDevender ] Re: Songs about birds [jeff burka ] RE: Thea Gilmore's new album, "Regardless" ["Michael Quinn" Subject: Jewel as June Carter Cash on Lifetime Monday night For those that do not know and may be interested, Jewel's new TV movie "Ring Of Fire" with her portraying June Carter Cash premieres on Monday night on the Lifetime channel at 9:00pm ET. For those wondering (since we recently had "Walk The Line"), its concentrates on June's story, from what I gather anyway. http://www.mylifetime.com/movies/ring-of-fire Mike ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 09:07:59 -0700 (PDT) From: neile Subject: Re: Songs about birds (fwd) Veda Hille's "and birds" There are various versions around of the traditional folk song, "The Twa Corbies" and "the Lark in the Morning". Steeleye Span has versions of both of these. Noe Venables has a song about sparrows Ingrid Karklins' "Leatherwing Bat" has a lot of birds in it A start! - --Neile Sent from my iPad On May 22, 2013, at 2:16 PM, jeff burka wrote: > I'm sure others will come to mind soon, but the one that immediately hits me is "The Cuckoo." Covered by many, but specifically the version from Kristin Hersh's "Hips and Makers" > > jeff > > On May 22, 2013, at 5:05 PM, "Marcel Rijs" wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> Here's a question for all those of you who like to participate in this kind of >> thing. >> For a friend of mine, I am currently compiling a mixed tape, well cd, with >> songs about birds. By that I mean songs that have the name of a certain type >> of bird in the songtitle. Examples: "Little bird" by Annie Lennox is not good >> (non-specific), "The nightingale" by Julee Cruise is good (i.e. specific). I >> am making a booklet to go with the cd and each song has to be represented by a >> real bird. That's the idea, anyway. >> >> To make matters a bit more difficult: my friend doesn't like 'heavy guitars' >> so some ecto artists will have to be dropped, while others (who use guitars >> but not in a 'hard' way) are still acceptable. >> >> Well, this is the briefing, I hope you have something to contribute. If all >> goes well I'll send out a nice tracklisting to this list. :) >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Marcel. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 15:38:56 +0200 From: Raphael Schweikert Subject: Re: Songs about birds Here are some that I found Kate Nash: I Hate Seagulls Genesis: Cuckoo Cocoon Simon & Garfunkel: Sparrow Carly Simon: Night Owl Jewel: Just Like Penguins Do The Alan Parsons Project: Vulture Culture Eels: I'm a Hummingbird Katy Perry: Hummingbird Heartbeat (though that might be stretching it on ecto) Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan: Hawk (though that might be stretching it on no heavy guitars) - - Raphael On May 22, 2013, at 11:05 PM, Marcel Rijs wrote: > Dear all, > > Here's a question for all those of you who like to participate in this kind of > thing. > For a friend of mine, I am currently compiling a mixed tape, well cd, with > songs about birds. By that I mean songs that have the name of a certain type > of bird in the songtitle. Examples: "Little bird" by Annie Lennox is not good > (non-specific), "The nightingale" by Julee Cruise is good (i.e. specific). I > am making a booklet to go with the cd and each song has to be represented by a > real bird. That's the idea, anyway. > > To make matters a bit more difficult: my friend doesn't like 'heavy guitars' > so some ecto artists will have to be dropped, while others (who use guitars > but not in a 'hard' way) are still acceptable. > > Well, this is the briefing, I hope you have something to contribute. If all > goes well I'll send out a nice tracklisting to this list. :) > > Kind regards, > > Marcel. [demime 0.97c-p1 removed an attachment of type application/pkcs7-signature which had a name of smime.p7s] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 03:00:00 -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********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ******************** Jewel Kilcher (no Email address) ********************* *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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 June 01 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 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 I'd turn back if I were you! 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 Nik Popa Sun June 22 1969 Cancer Teresa VanDyne Thu June 23 1960 Cancer - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 08:53:26 -0400 From: CountryMouse Subject: Re: Songs about birds Oops, forgot all the bonus songs (songs that don't adhere to the guidelines of that week): http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYzV809rmiZg7Ql9ztshUojyNuQkxU_9c On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 8:49 AM, CountryMouse wrote: > For one of the weeks of "Seasons of the Ukulele" challenge on Ukulele > Underground, our theme was "For the Birds". You can see which ones > were covers and then find professional recordings of these: > > http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYzV809rmiZg-5ShO2rxZpmJ8_RehPJSK > > Enjoy! > > fleur (CountryMouse/Mousie) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 08:49:00 -0400 From: CountryMouse Subject: Re: Songs about birds For one of the weeks of "Seasons of the Ukulele" challenge on Ukulele Underground, our theme was "For the Birds". You can see which ones were covers and then find professional recordings of these: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYzV809rmiZg-5ShO2rxZpmJ8_RehPJSK Enjoy! fleur (CountryMouse/Mousie) On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Marcel Rijs wrote: > Dear all, > > Here's a question for all those of you who like to participate in this kind of > thing. > For a friend of mine, I am currently compiling a mixed tape, well cd, with > songs about birds. By that I mean songs that have the name of a certain type > of bird in the songtitle. Examples: "Little bird" by Annie Lennox is not good > (non-specific), "The nightingale" by Julee Cruise is good (i.e. specific). I > am making a booklet to go with the cd and each song has to be represented by a > real bird. That's the idea, anyway. > > To make matters a bit more difficult: my friend doesn't like 'heavy guitars' > so some ecto artists will have to be dropped, while others (who use guitars > but not in a 'hard' way) are still acceptable. > > Well, this is the briefing, I hope you have something to contribute. If all > goes well I'll send out a nice tracklisting to this list. :) > > Kind regards, > > Marcel. - -- My YouTube Channel My Flickr Photostream The Mouse House ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 08:01:32 -0700 (PDT) From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?anna_maria_stj=E4rnell?= Subject: songs about birds Hi.. here's some Anouk "Birds" Rebecca Pidgeon "The Raven" (two birds with one stone sort of) Adele and Glenn "I dreamt I was a sparrow" Dolly Parton "Little sparrow" Anna ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 17:21:23 +0000 From: "Varker, Patrick" Subject: songs about birds Check out: Ghost Bird by Amanda Shires (there's even a neat little video) from her Carrying Lightning CD I also love "When you're waiting on a train it never comes" from that same cd but now I'm getting off our subject matter ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 21:58:55 -0400 From: Michael Colford Subject: Re: Songs about birds Oh yeah, then there's Two Doves by the Dirty Projectors and My Mother Is Not the White Dove by Jane Siberry Michael Michael R. Colford Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film, President P.O. Box 301237 Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 781 526-5384 colford@chlotrudis.org http://www.chlotrudis.org/ "Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion!" - -- Kittie Farmer, Donnie Darko On May 22, 2013, at 7:55 PM, jhanson21@comcast.net wrote: > Wendy Rule - three ravens > Stevie nicks -white winged dive > > I know Veda Hille has a lot about birds but not sure birds are in the title. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On May 22, 2013, at 5:43 PM, Paul Blair wrote: > >> Noe Venable, "Sparrow I Will Fly" >> >> >> On May 22, 2013, at 7:36 PM, Ken Descoteaux wrote: >> >>> Rockin' Robin - various cover versions.. maybe The Jackson Five >>> >>> On 5/22/2013 5:05 PM, Marcel Rijs wrote: >>>> Dear all, >>>> >>>> Here's a question for all those of you who like to participate in this kind of >>>> thing. >>>> For a friend of mine, I am currently compiling a mixed tape, well cd, with >>>> songs about birds. By that I mean songs that have the name of a certain type >>>> of bird in the songtitle. Examples: "Little bird" by Annie Lennox is not good >>>> (non-specific), "The nightingale" by Julee Cruise is good (i.e. specific). I >>>> am making a booklet to go with the cd and each song has to be represented by a >>>> real bird. That's the idea, anyway. >>>> >>>> To make matters a bit more difficult: my friend doesn't like 'heavy guitars' >>>> so some ecto artists will have to be dropped, while others (who use guitars >>>> but not in a 'hard' way) are still acceptable. >>>> >>>> Well, this is the briefing, I hope you have something to contribute. If all >>>> goes well I'll send out a nice tracklisting to this list. :) >>>> >>>> Kind regards, >>>> >>>> Marcel. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 16:18:15 -0700 From: Factory Alberto Subject: Re: Songs about birds Most of these are only vaguely about birds (the last two are instrumental)... and even more vaguely Ecto, though I tried to keep it to songs with a semblance of an Ecto esthetic. * Magpie - Beth Orton * Songbird - Fleetwood Mac or Eva Cassidy * King of Birds - REM * The Eagle Will Rise Again - Alan Parsons Project * Hummingbird - Seals & Crofts * Skyline Pigeon - Elton John * Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel * Bluebird - Paul McCartney * Mockingbird - Barclay James Harvest * Sparrowfall 1, 2, 3 - Brian Eno * Albatross - Fleetwood Mac ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 02:45:01 +0200 From: "Henning Rech" Subject: Re: Songs about birds From: > I know Veda Hille has a lot about birds but not sure birds are in the > title. Most have just unspecific "bird" in the title: birdpatter birdsong And birds Trompe-l'oiseau Goodnight Kildeer (the last two purely instrumental) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 10:24:29 +1200 From: Urs Stafford Subject: Re: Songs about birds Bernie, I think the cover of Blackbird you're referring to might be Sarah McLachlan's one from the "I am Sam" soundtrack? Or possibly the one from "Across the Universe", sung by Evan Rachel Wood? Both versions are fantastic and very ecto-friendly. Cheers, Urs. - -- We come from everywhere. Speak peace and welcome home. On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Bernie Mojzes wrote: > Yes, brilliant song. > > There is also the Beatles "Blackbird" which is lovely just as it is, but > there is a very slow, haunting version by a female vocalist that I can't > find now. > > However, I did find this, that I didn't know existed: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=CgTgledCjOI > > Julie Fowlis covering the song in Scots Gaelic. > > > > > On Wed, 22 May 2013, jeff burka wrote: > > I'm sure others will come to mind soon, but the one that immediately >> hits me is "The Cuckoo." Covered by many, but specifically the version from >> Kristin Hersh's "Hips and Makers" >> >> jeff >> >> On May 22, 2013, at 5:05 PM, "Marcel Rijs" wrote: >> >> Dear all, >>> >>> Here's a question for all those of you who like to participate in this >>> kind of >>> thing. >>> For a friend of mine, I am currently compiling a mixed tape, well cd, >>> with >>> songs about birds. By that I mean songs that have the name of a certain >>> type >>> of bird in the songtitle. Examples: "Little bird" by Annie Lennox is not >>> good >>> (non-specific), "The nightingale" by Julee Cruise is good (i.e. >>> specific). I >>> am making a booklet to go with the cd and each song has to be >>> represented by a >>> real bird. That's the idea, anyway. >>> >>> To make matters a bit more difficult: my friend doesn't like 'heavy >>> guitars' >>> so some ecto artists will have to be dropped, while others (who use >>> guitars >>> but not in a 'hard' way) are still acceptable. >>> >>> Well, this is the briefing, I hope you have something to contribute. If >>> all >>> goes well I'll send out a nice tracklisting to this list. :) >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> >>> Marcel. >>> >> >> > -- > > brni > > i don't want the world, > i just want your half. > > http://www.kappamaki.com/ > http://brni.livejournal.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 19:36:16 -0400 From: Ken Descoteaux Subject: Re: Songs about birds Rockin' Robin - various cover versions.. maybe The Jackson Five On 5/22/2013 5:05 PM, Marcel Rijs wrote: > Dear all, > > Here's a question for all those of you who like to participate in this kind of > thing. > For a friend of mine, I am currently compiling a mixed tape, well cd, with > songs about birds. By that I mean songs that have the name of a certain type > of bird in the songtitle. Examples: "Little bird" by Annie Lennox is not good > (non-specific), "The nightingale" by Julee Cruise is good (i.e. specific). I > am making a booklet to go with the cd and each song has to be represented by a > real bird. That's the idea, anyway. > > To make matters a bit more difficult: my friend doesn't like 'heavy guitars' > so some ecto artists will have to be dropped, while others (who use guitars > but not in a 'hard' way) are still acceptable. > > Well, this is the briefing, I hope you have something to contribute. If all > goes well I'll send out a nice tracklisting to this list. :) > > Kind regards, > > Marcel. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 18:22:31 +0000 From: "Varker, Patrick" Subject: songs about birds 2 I know several mentioned Paul McCartney's Blackbird (recorded by many artists) What about McCartney's "Bluebird"? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 17:55:55 -0600 From: "jhanson21@comcast.net" Subject: Re: Songs about birds Wendy Rule - three ravens Stevie nicks -white winged dive I know Veda Hille has a lot about birds but not sure birds are in the title. Sent from my iPhone On May 22, 2013, at 5:43 PM, Paul Blair wrote: > Noe Venable, "Sparrow I Will Fly" > > > On May 22, 2013, at 7:36 PM, Ken Descoteaux wrote: > >> Rockin' Robin - various cover versions.. maybe The Jackson Five >> >> On 5/22/2013 5:05 PM, Marcel Rijs wrote: >>> Dear all, >>> >>> Here's a question for all those of you who like to participate in this kind of >>> thing. >>> For a friend of mine, I am currently compiling a mixed tape, well cd, with >>> songs about birds. By that I mean songs that have the name of a certain type >>> of bird in the songtitle. Examples: "Little bird" by Annie Lennox is not good >>> (non-specific), "The nightingale" by Julee Cruise is good (i.e. specific). I >>> am making a booklet to go with the cd and each song has to be represented by a >>> real bird. That's the idea, anyway. >>> >>> To make matters a bit more difficult: my friend doesn't like 'heavy guitars' >>> so some ecto artists will have to be dropped, while others (who use guitars >>> but not in a 'hard' way) are still acceptable. >>> >>> Well, this is the briefing, I hope you have something to contribute. If all >>> goes well I'll send out a nice tracklisting to this list. :) >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> >>> Marcel. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 22:25:07 -0700 From: Steve VanDevender Subject: RE: Songs about birds Bill Mazur writes: > Here's a few more for you. Hopefully no repeats. > > Peter Gabriel from "So" - "This is the Picture (Excellent Birds)" Don't forget its counterpart, "Excellent Birds (This is the Picture)" from Laurie Anderson's "Mister Heartbreak". ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 17:16:59 -0400 From: jeff burka Subject: Re: Songs about birds I'm sure others will come to mind soon, but the one that immediately hits me is "The Cuckoo." Covered by many, but specifically the version from Kristin Hersh's "Hips and Makers" jeff On May 22, 2013, at 5:05 PM, "Marcel Rijs" wrote: > Dear all, > > Here's a question for all those of you who like to participate in this kind of > thing. > For a friend of mine, I am currently compiling a mixed tape, well cd, with > songs about birds. By that I mean songs that have the name of a certain type > of bird in the songtitle. Examples: "Little bird" by Annie Lennox is not good > (non-specific), "The nightingale" by Julee Cruise is good (i.e. specific). I > am making a booklet to go with the cd and each song has to be represented by a > real bird. That's the idea, anyway. > > To make matters a bit more difficult: my friend doesn't like 'heavy guitars' > so some ecto artists will have to be dropped, while others (who use guitars > but not in a 'hard' way) are still acceptable. > > Well, this is the briefing, I hope you have something to contribute. If all > goes well I'll send out a nice tracklisting to this list. :) > > Kind regards, > > Marcel. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 23:38:39 -0400 From: "Michael Quinn" Subject: RE: Thea Gilmore's new album, "Regardless" Finally got a chance to hear this and my first impressions are very positive. I do agree, her 2 previous covers albums were a bit underwhelming for me. Very glad she is back to recording original material. The strings and orchestral touches add a lushness and sense of musical depth that I've not really noticed in her previous work. Of course the melodies are brilliant and the lyrics very interesting (I would expect nothing less from Thea). It also seems a bit more up-tempo than her last few albums. Recalling my personal favorite Thea Gilmore album "Avalanche". Although there are a few gorgeous ballads such as "Punctuation" as well. Getting this and The National's brilliant new album in the same week makes me feel musically overwhelmed. I'm sure both will be strong contenders for my album of the year. Mike - -----Original Message----- From: owner-ecto@smoe.org [mailto:owner-ecto@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Adam Kimmel Sent: May-15-13 9:10 AM To: ecto@smoe.org Subject: Thea Gilmore's new album, "Regardless" I was a bit apprehensive about this one, what with the last two side projects (the rather pointless Dylan album and the rather better Sandy Denny release) plus the somewhat glossy looking album cover, the upbeat and string-laden single and the knowledge that two of the other tracks on the album were going to be revamps of, IMHO, a couple of her weaker fan-only releases. Add to that the fact that I've actually spent the last year fixated on classical music (I'm in the middle of a Bruckner bender right now) and completely unable to connect with any new music, or even a lot of my old music. To my surprise and delight, this is a really great album -- up there with her best, I think. I know, I know, fans always say that kind of thing, but I'm really impressed by the subtle stylistic changes she's made: Regardless, with it's strings, is lusher, denser, more layered than anything she's done before, and contains some of the most heart-stoppingly beautiful songs she's ever recorded. As far as I can tell, the theme -- if indeed there is one -- is motherhood, which she tackles with her usual sharpness, forthrightness and lyrical dexterity, forgoing any sentimentality or gushiness that you might expect with this sort of thing. There are a couple of outright odd songs -- "Spit and Shine" seems, to me, to be poking fun at the kind of middle-class mother she dreads becoming (with a really curious African beat), while "Punctuation", which details a conversation between God, Adam and someone called Lucy, has me stumped. But these are still really enjoyable, and the rest ! of the album ranges from joyous rockers to moments of such sublime, swooning beauty that even on first listening on the way to work, I was tempted to collar random fellow commuters and say, "Do you know what I'm listening to? Have you any idea how MAGNIFICENT life can be with this kind of music in it?" I have since gone on to listen to it three times a day for seven days straight, and can't wait to listen to it again. Yes, it's THAT kind of great. Buy it and feel love, heartbreak and joy all at once. I'm glad I did. Adam K ____________________________________________________________ GET FREE 5GB EMAIL - Check out spam free email with many cool features! Visit http://www.inbox.com/email to find out more! ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #778 ***************************