From: owner-harbinger-digest@smoe.org (harbinger-digest) To: harbinger-digest@smoe.org Subject: harbinger-digest V10 #7 Reply-To: harbinger@smoe.org Sender: owner-harbinger-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-harbinger-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk harbinger-digest Tuesday, May 10 2005 Volume 10 : Number 007 HARBINGER DIGEST To post, mail harbinger@smoe.org To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe harbinger-digest To get list info file, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info harbinger-digest Today's Subjects: ---------------- Re: (harbinger) Rare Paula CDs [Brian C ] Re: (harbinger) Rare Paula CDs ["Kenn Carpenter" ] Re: (harbinger) Rare Paula CDs ["Kenn Carpenter" ] (harbinger) Just Paula in general! [HunterXTC@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 20:32:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian C Subject: Re: (harbinger) Rare Paula CDs Hey Kenn and all, I just got this email today and didn't see anything on ebay. did they sell already? brian - --- Kenn Carpenter wrote: > Thought some of you might like to know there are a > few very rare Paula > recordings up for bids at eBay. The holiday CD that > has 'St. Nicholas Is > Carrying A Gun', a couple of Berklee CDs that > feature Paula singing vocals, > and the 2CD set of Karsh Kale/Jonathan Peters > remixes of 'I Believe In Love' > that so many people have wanted to get. > > ------------------------------ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: > unsubscribe harbinger > > Btw, if you are an AOL subscriber the above > instruction will > work for your EVERY time. > > Digest, further unsub and problems FAQ at: > http://www.netaxs.com/~jgreshes/lists/harbinger.html > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ - ------------------------------ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe harbinger Btw, if you are an AOL subscriber the above instruction will work for your EVERY time. Digest, further unsub and problems FAQ at: http://www.netaxs.com/~jgreshes/lists/harbinger.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 00:12:30 -0400 From: "Kenn Carpenter" Subject: Re: (harbinger) Rare Paula CDs No, most of them are still up for bids. Two of the auctions -- the ones for both Berklee CDs -- ended without anyone bidding on them. Just do a search for Paula Cole, and you'll find them. Seller is travelingfabulon. - ------------------------------ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe harbinger Btw, if you are an AOL subscriber the above instruction will work for your EVERY time. Digest, further unsub and problems FAQ at: http://www.netaxs.com/~jgreshes/lists/harbinger.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 01:56:25 -0400 From: "Kenn Carpenter" Subject: Re: (harbinger) Rare Paula CDs P.S. Sorry, Brian... looks like the Karsh Kale/Jonathan Peters remixes did sell. But the rest of it's still up there for bids. - ------------------------------ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe harbinger Btw, if you are an AOL subscriber the above instruction will work for your EVERY time. Digest, further unsub and problems FAQ at: http://www.netaxs.com/~jgreshes/lists/harbinger.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 02:39:13 EDT From: HunterXTC@aol.com Subject: (harbinger) Just Paula in general! Hey everyone! I know that you are all still out there, and over the years, after the swell of fame and decline and fall of the Lilith-era love fest with Paula, you still have a passion for her work and her passion for that work. I have not posted here in several years... and it's interesting in a way, now I can look back on that time and just last night I was remembering how I was driving home from the gym one night in the mid-90s, and I heard I Am So Ordinary playing on the radio, and I almost wrecked my car because I thought, "my God, here is someone who is talking to me...." Even though music has changed radically, and the way music is marketed has changed, that feeling, that sensation that a piece of music has changed your life... that will never leave me. I went on Yahoo last night and I watched some of her old videos... the short haired intense Paula in I Am So Ordinary, Paula in all her glory singing Me, and that remixed Where Have all the Cowboys Gone... and I thought to myself, geez, now I am listening to stuff like the Decemberists and the Dresden Dolls and Regina Spektor, but none of it has the truth behind it of a record like Harbinger. In retrospect, I am so happy that for a brief shining moment the world embraced Paula the way that we do every day... and of course back then, I think I was jealous in a way, because she went from being our secret to being "that Dawson Creek girl" or "the girl who didn't shave her armpits"... and now I ask myself, is that just the price of fame, or is it a condition of what the music business has become? I look at an artist like Aimee Mann, and how she has basically told the industry to go screw themselves (after they told her the same thing), and she is still making these simple beautiful records. When you think back, both she and Paula were on imago records, Paula with Harbinger and Aimee with Whatever... and while Paula went on to get her moment in the sun, Aimee Mann basically flew under the radar, with her cult following never wavering for a moment... and over the years, in the post Lilith era, she's been able to put out decent records like Lost In Space and The Forgotten Arm. I say to myself, hell, if Aimee Mann can do this, why can't Paula? I suppose that one criticism of Paula's work I can see as i look back at that time is that there was this radical change (in my opinion) that happened after This Fire came out, that marked what Amen was about. To me, Harbinger was a perfect record... I can remember putting it on with Sarah McLachlan's Fumbling and Tori Amos' Under The Pink and just thinking "the world does not get better than this." Part of me hates the fact that Paula is potentially going to be remembered as one of those artists who had the kiss of death by being the Grammy winner for Best New Artist (even though harbinger had been out for several years), someone who years from now is going to be a VH-1 "Whatever Happened to the Women of Lilith Fair", or someone who got lost in the shuffle of the recording industry. Would it be so wrong, or so impossible for her to put out another Harbinger-esque record and perhaps put the Dawson Creek stigma behind her? Again, I look at an artist like a Jonatha Brooke, someone who has flown under the radar for years, but still, every couple of years she makes a perfect record. Again, I know it is unfair to make these comparisons because I'm sure Paula has a lot going on in her life that I know absolutely nothing about... but first an foremost, I was (and am) a fan of her work, not of the cult of personality that seemed to surround her in the late 90s. I just wonder if like Faust, there was some sort of deal made where she had to sell part of her soul for the fame, and now, there is just this period of limbo where "there is no audience for THAT music." Well, we are still here. And at the height of that wave, I was into her stuff, but I can't say I was a fanatic... but then again, I'm not a fanatic about anything. But I think I do see right and wrong pretty clearly. And it is so wrong that Paula Cole is not making music, for whatever reason that may be. - ------------------------------ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe harbinger Btw, if you are an AOL subscriber the above instruction will work for your EVERY time. Digest, further unsub and problems FAQ at: http://www.netaxs.com/~jgreshes/lists/harbinger.html ------------------------------ End of harbinger-digest V10 #7 ******************************