From: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org (headline-girl-digest) To: headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Subject: headline-girl-digest V2 #289 Reply-To: headline-girl@smoe.org Sender: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk headline-girl-digest Friday, December 3 1999 Volume 02 : Number 289 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: http://www.furia.com/twas/twas0252.html [dana wagner ] toronna ["Andrea" ] Re: no emm content, just wanted to recommend something ["Andrea" Subject: Re: http://www.furia.com/twas/twas0252.html although there were quite a few names that i didn't recognize either, i thought as i was reading that he must be targeting it toward people like us - - fans of numerous female musicians, probably people on mailing lists who often discuss these female musicians and comparisons. anyhow, while good reviews, i thought he went a *bit* overboard on the comparisons and his tangent during emm's "review" seemed to be a little unnecessary. one or two examples would have sufficed. but, he did drive home some interesting ideas. and his review of chantal's album was also very vague - he said he liked it, even more than UTRAS, but was definitely not as enthusiastic as with emm. it was a little difficult to get at exactly what his opinion of the album was. coincidentally, i happened to be listening to science fair as i pulled up the link. :) "you do something to me" was playing, and i found it exemplifying so much of what he was saying - the stripped down, bare, pure side of emm. still not sure whether i prefer SF to public (or public to SF for that matter), because each is unique in its own right and each has a good number of songs which i adore, but i agreed with a lot of what he had to say. dana - -- Dana Wagner University of Pennsylvania, Class of 2000 http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~dwagner "the only way out is through." -tara maclean ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 09:00:55 -0500 (EST) From: James McGarry Subject: Re: That SF review... On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Tab Siddiqui wrote: > Mark told us to go here: > > >http://www.furia.com/twas/twas0252.html > > All I can say is, whoa, that's some... *deep* review (well, all of them - > the Emm/Chantal/soundtrack reviews at the link). Remember what I was saying > about depth, insight, and all that? This review takes those concepts almost > a little *too* seriously. ;-) No no Tab, that's how a review should be written. Deeeep, as deep as a Hail Mary pass in the last seconds of a game. :-) Though there is that dig at journalism ;-) "Not only is the question unanswerable without resorting to (shudder) journalism..." James. (Interested in the route "from Sarah Slean to Clannad.") ========================================================================== James McGarry | jmcgarry@UoGuelph.CA - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- An artist should be fit for the best society and keep out of it. - - John Ruskin ========================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 13:59:23 -0500 From: "Andrea" Subject: toronna just surfing around and i found a nifty new toronto online magazine... check it out http://www.allstylz.com it looks better than it reads and makes toronto seem a lot cooler than i remember it being, but check it out yo! makes me miss the big shitty :-) heh heh - --andy-- AIM: TheAndyC ICQ: 10294764 "i know i'm not perfect but i can smile" ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 20:10:02 -0500 From: "Andrea" Subject: Re: no emm content, just wanted to recommend something yes i worship napster! trust me, you'll never fully appreciate until it's been taken away from you...that's what happened here at school, but thankfully, i discovered that my school has unblocked it! wooo! so i finally got to hear the massive attack version of 'protection'...hmm still like emm's version better. np: bill barilco dissapeared that summer he was on a fishing trip - --andy-- AIM: TheAndyC ICQ: 10294764 "i know i'm not perfect but i can smile" ------------------------------ End of headline-girl-digest V2 #289 ***********************************