From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #798 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Thursday, June 13 2013 Volume 16 : Number 798 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, friend... [Mike Matthews ] Re: New stuff: Patty Griffin and Laura Marling [=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_He] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 12 Jun 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********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ********************* Joerg Plate (no Email address) ********************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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. 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Tsai Sat July 09 1966 Cancer Larry Greenfield Tue July 11 1950 Virgo Rising; Gemini Moon Tim Jones-Yelvington Mon July 12 1982 Cancer - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 20:11:21 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Henrichs=E9n?= Subject: Re: New stuff: Patty Griffin and Laura Marling Well tastes differ really. Laura Marlings new album "Once I Was an Eagle" is for me the most interesting, thrilling, poetical album I had the honour to listen to for a very long time. Lauras music speaks to my soul as no other artists. It4s so nice to hear intelligent texts, so rare these days, especially in mainstream media. 2013/6/10, Adam Kimmel : > Somebody asked about the new Patty Griffin, "American Kid" and, at that > point, I was still waiting for it. Well, it's arrived and, after several > intense listens I can say it's...well, patchy. To be honest, much as I love > her, I find a lot of her albums variable in themselves. Where they shine, > they shine brightly and beautifully, but seems to always be the occasional > stumble (I feel the exception is "Impossible Dream", which I think is pretty > much perfect). After a somewhat disappointing collection of gospel songs > and then a long hiatus during which she toured with Robert Plant's Band of > Joy, she's finally back with an album of (mostly) original material, and > it's always a joy to have her back on the scene. But....well, I do feel it > starts out strongly, with the raw, rocking "Florida" and the dreamy "Ohio", > but for me the cover of Lefty Frizell's "Mom and Dad's Waltz" is a major > problem. It's just such a cloying, sentimental song it sets my teeth on edge > and I'd go so fa! > r as to say it's the worst thing she's ever set down. After that, things > markedly improve and the songs are really good, but rarely hit the heights > of her previous albums. Although I've listened to this one several times, > there are songs in the latter half that just haven't stuck in my mind, yet. > I'll keep listening: Again, when it's good it's breathtaking, so it's worth > the effort. > > As for Laura Marling's "Once I Was an Eagle": well, another album, another > pretentious title and another...well, another Laura Marling album. I'm > given to understand, from the reviews, that this is her best album, and I'm > happy to accept this but, after following her from the start and buying and > listening intensely to all her albums, I think this is where we part > company. I'm just not getting it, and find her musings, while articulate, > soporific and somewhat dreary. There are none of the lyrical disasters that > cropped up in her previous release, but the last time I gave this one a spin > I got so weary of it halfway through that I switched over to some Led > Zeppelin to get the blood flowing again. Intelligent, yes; heartfelt, more > than likely, but to me it sounds just like her last two albums, sometimes > good, sometimes college-coffee-house generic, with the one energetic track > ("Master Hunter" on this one, "All My Rage" on the last one, "Devil's Spoke" > on the one before t! > hat) to liven things up. I can't believe I feel this way, and am > disappointed -- I saw her on tour for the first album, and was impressed - > but I'm just not feeling the love. Individual mileage may vary, of course. > > Best, > > Adam K > > ____________________________________________________________ > FREE 3D MARINE AQUARIUM SCREENSAVER - Watch dolphins, sharks & orcas on your > desktop! > Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/marineaquarium ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #798 ***************************