From: owner-god-shiva-digest@smoe.org (god-shiva-digest) To: god-shiva-digest@smoe.org Subject: god-shiva-digest V1 #19 Reply-To: god-shiva@smoe.org Sender: owner-god-shiva-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-god-shiva-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk god-shiva-digest Saturday, September 19 1998 Volume 01 : Number 019 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: god-shiva-digest V1 #18 [Snow2iger@aol.com] Discovery [Streetism ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 21:00:21 EDT From: Snow2iger@aol.com Subject: Re: god-shiva-digest V1 #18 In a message dated 9/17/98 8:41:26 AM !!!First Boot!!!, owner-god-shiva- digest@smoe.org writes: << I thought it might be cool to get to know each other by talking about how we discovered Me'Shell's music. >> It was the Fall of 1994. About a year after Plantation Lullabies was released. I was starving, STARVING for some new, QUALITY music. Earlier in the year Rolling Stone magazine named Me'Shell "Best Hope For 1994" (or something like that) in their year end critics poll. I had read an article about her and her debut album in RS earlier in 1993...saw her name in a couple of other publications...she was getting mad accolades. I kept thinking to myself...:::::::yeah, yeah, yeah...she's probably nothing special...::::::::::::: I've bought very few albums because of critics, but if one usually has something good to say about music I already have and like, I'll SOMETIMES give them the benifit of the doubt. Nelson George, for example, is someone I hold in high esteem. Anyway, I waited about a year after PL was released. I actually bought it thinking it would be the weakest of what I bought that day, which included a couple of Van Morrison cds among others. I would constantly play it on my home stereo, and be just as mesmerized with her with her lyrics as I was with her bass playing (and that's coming from a bass player). Every morning I took the cd to listen to on my way to work...the rainy season had just started and it was always dark during this time of the year at 6:00 am heading out to my job. To me, this was perfect weather for this album. My attention was just as much on her music as it was on the red/green/yellow traffic lights, and my fingers would constantly push the buttons back to specific parts within her songs on the cd. I listened to this album for about a year and a half straight. That's no exaggeration. I was astounded that this album was a DEBUT. There aren't many debut albums that are this strong, and have such a flow in every aspect. And I'm the type of person that wants music lovers to hear the latest, best album that most people haven't heard. Since Me'Shell was getting very little airplay, she was the candidate. I took a few tapes of it to my college class the following Spring of '95 and hipped a few of the non-initiated to her. One of my classmates came back with the tape during the next class, "Girl, that tape is deep! And it's jammin'! Can I have that tape?" Gave her the tape. I gave the other two tapes to people on the last day of the class and never kept in touch with them, so I don't know their responses. If cd's could be worn out just by playing them...I would have worn the grooves out of PL long ago. This album insured that I'll buy any album with Me'Shell's/Bashir's name on it. She's special. SnowCat ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 21:14:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Streetism Subject: Discovery I first discovered Me'shell on BET. I was at home doing some home work and I saw this video. I was shocked at first because the woman in the video was shaving her head. I was like "is this the Black Sheenade O'Conner??" But when I heard the music I was like "DAMN...that song is smoove" So I always looked for the video..then that Christmas I asked for the Me'shell album Plantation Lullabies. I played it 25 times that Christmas day. My mother was like "who is that? I like this album play it again..." So soon after that I attened my first Me'shell concert in DC and have been a STRONG FAn sence. Mike Street http://www.wam.umd.edu/~street http://www.wam.umd.edu/~street/BGLAD.html http://www.angelfire.com/biz/streetism/index.html Kiss me tenderly love me my sweet babe over, and over let me show you how I really feel