From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #779 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Saturday, May 25 2013 Volume 16 : Number 779 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Songs about birds [Alexander Johannesen ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 08:32:45 +1000 From: Alexander Johannesen Subject: Re: Songs about birds "Blackbird" by the Beatles, try the Bobby McFerrin version; it's great! "Toucans dance" by Sergio Mendes "Dr Tyrell's owl" by Vangelis (from Blade Runner special edition) "Venus' birds whose mournful tune" by John Bennet, especially sung by Andreas Scholl "Parrot fashion love" by Split Enz "There were swallows" by Jan Garbarek (!!) "The swan" (also) by Julee Cruise "The chicken" by Jaco Pastorius "Falken's maze" by the Yellowjackets "Blackbird" by Mike Oldfield "Cuckoo Song" by Mike Oldfield "Nite owl" by Steps Ahead Just off the top of my head ... Alex On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 7:16 AM, 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. > - -- Project Wrangler, SOA, Information Alchemist, UX, RESTafarian, Topic Maps - --- http://shelter.nu/blog/ ---------------------------------------------- - ------------------ http://www.google.com/profiles/alexander.johannesen --- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 23:37:50 -0800 From: Adam Kimmel Subject: New Patty Griffin Looking forward to it, and have been for a while, but stupidly thought I had it on pre-order and have been sitting waiting for it for a week before I realised I hadn't. It's now on its way, and I even have tickets to see her over at the Union Chapel in July, one of my ever-rarer forays to gigs these days (mind you, I think it's been about ten years since she's been over here). Adam K > Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 13:13:10 +1000 > From: Sherlyn Koo > Subject: New Patty Griffin > > Hey folks, > > Haven't seen it mentioned here, so I just thought I'd put out there that > Patty Griffin has a new album, "American Kid". Can't wait to get my copy! > > - -sherlyn > ____________________________________________________________ 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. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #779 ***************************