From: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org (headline-girl-digest) To: headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Subject: headline-girl-digest V4 #258 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 Tuesday, November 6 2001 Volume 04 : Number 258 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: suzanne vega's tour [Johan Braennlund ] vaguely emm-related.... [Smirky ] Re: Alana Davis ["Robert Tittel" ] Re: Alana Davis ["Lindi ." ] Re: Alana Davis ["Julian C. Dunn" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 22:51:28 +0100 (CET) From: Johan Braennlund Subject: Re: suzanne vega's tour On Sun, 4 Nov 2001 Starfall18@aol.com wrote: > hey...does anyone know who suzanne vega is touring with? who is her opening > act??? On her European tour a few months ago it was just her and a guy called Mike Visceglia on bass. Could be different now, I guess... - - Johan ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 13:57:58 -0800 (PST) From: Smirky Subject: vaguely emm-related.... okay, a couple of people have asked me to send them any emm-related art that I might do, but I can't remember which ones of you, so, umm... well, i'm going to torture all of you. this one started out being more emm-ish than it ended up. i more or less borrowed one of my favorite lines out of 'stereochrome' and played with it a little to fit better. then i realized that i needed to make the eyes blue for color-harmony reasons. for any of you in the dc area, it should be showing at the gallery in georgetown very soon (near the 4 seasons on m street). *ducks back under a sheet of canvas into lurking mode* ===== "Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death" http://smirky.com/ Find a job, post your resume. http://careers.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 22:06:08 -0500 From: "Robert Tittel" Subject: Re: Alana Davis Jess writes: << Alana had another single ("Crazy" I think?) later on which I think would've been a better choice as her first single... pretty catchy and I think she might have co-written it (not 100% sure) >> Fairly or unfairly, I think her record company may be starting to think that Alana's songs with the best chance for commercial success are her cover songs. I fear that may become all she is known for. Case in point: The first single off her second CD ("Fortune Cookies") is ALSO a cover.... it's "I Want You", originally by Third Eye Blind. Strange strategy. I've never seen a label release a cover song as the first single for an artist on not only their first, but their second album as well... Odd indeed.... Rob ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ JERICHO TWO Do you have a T1/DSL/Cable connection? Then listen to my internet radio station, Jericho Two, at: http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=piggio New adds this week: Maren Ord - Perfect Natalie Merchant - Just can't last Michelle Branch - All you wanted The Cure - Cut here Leona Naess - I tried to rock but you only roll New Order - Crystal Depeche Mode - I feel loved Incubus - Wish you were here Ivy - I think of you Jonatha Brooke - Because I told you so Ani DiFranco - Heartbreak even Radiohead - Knives Out Death Cab for Cutie - Information travels Garbage - Androgyny and many more.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 3:32 PM Subject: RE: Alana Davis > "At least I thought that was her debut single, it certainly gave the appearance of being the first. If she had it later on and acknowledged > Ani a little more, I don't think I would've minded as much. Perhaps I'm not making any sense at all." > > You're making sense ;) > > And I see where you're coming from. Actually I remember hearing it on the radio several times when it was released a few years ago and always heard "here's the new single by Alana Davis" or "a great new song by Alana Davis" but no mention of Ani. And that used to piss me off... But I also see Rannie's point--the record company might have chosen the song because it was the strongest contender for radio play, and Alana might not have had any choice. Who knows. Alana had another single ("Crazy" I think?) later on which I think would've been a better choice as her first single... pretty catchy and I think she might have co-written it (not 100% sure)... but, whatever :D > > Jess > > www.jessicaweiser.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 03:22:20 +0000 From: "Lindi ." Subject: Re: Alana Davis Natalie Imburglia's "Torn" was he first single... and also a cover. -Lindiwww.mp3.com/lindi www.lindi.org >From: "Robert Tittel" >To: , >Subject: Re: Alana Davis >Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 22:06:08 -0500 > >Jess writes: ><< Alana had another single ("Crazy" I think?) later on which I think >would've been a better choice as her first single... pretty catchy and I >think she might have co-written it (not 100% sure) >> > >Fairly or unfairly, I think her record company may be starting to think that >Alana's songs with the best chance for commercial success are her cover >songs. I fear that may become all she is known for. Case in point: The >first single off her second CD ("Fortune Cookies") is ALSO a cover.... it's >"I Want You", originally by Third Eye Blind. Strange strategy. I've never >seen a label release a cover song as the first single for an artist on not >only their first, but their second album as well... > >Odd indeed.... > >Rob > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >JERICHO TWO >Do you have a T1/DSL/Cable connection? > >Then listen to my internet radio station, Jericho Two, at: >http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=piggio > >New adds this week: >Maren Ord - Perfect >Natalie Merchant - Just can't last >Michelle Branch - All you wanted >The Cure - Cut here >Leona Naess - I tried to rock but you only roll >New Order - Crystal >Depeche Mode - I feel loved >Incubus - Wish you were here >Ivy - I think of you >Jonatha Brooke - Because I told you so >Ani DiFranco - Heartbreak even >Radiohead - - Knives Out >Death Cab for Cutie - Information travels >Garbage - Androgyny >and many more.... >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >----- Original Message ----- >From: >To: >Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 3:32 PM >Subject: RE: Alana Davis > > > > "At least I thought that was her debut single, it certainly gave the >appearance of being the first. If she had it later on and acknowledged > > Ani a little more, I don't think I would've minded as much. Perhaps I'm >not making any sense at all." > > > > You're making sense ;) > > > > And I see where you're coming from. Actually I remember hearing it on the >radio several times when it was released a few years ago and always heard >"here's the new single by Alana Davis" or "a great new song by Alana Davis" >but no mention of Ani. And that used to piss me off... But I also see >Rannie's point--the record company might have chosen the song because it was >the strongest contender for radio play, and Alana might not have had any >choice. Who knows. Alana had another single ("Crazy" I think?) later on >which I think would've been a better choice as her first single... pretty >catchy and I think she might have co-written it (not 100% sure)... but, >whatever :D > > > > Jess > > > > www.jessicaweiser.com - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 22:53:15 -0500 (EST) From: "Julian C. Dunn" Subject: Re: Alana Davis On 06-Nov-2001 Robert Tittel wrote: > Fairly or unfairly, I think her record company may be starting to think that > Alana's songs with the best chance for commercial success are her cover > songs. I fear that may become all she is known for. Case in point: The > first single off her second CD ("Fortune Cookies") is ALSO a cover.... it's > "I Want You", originally by Third Eye Blind. Strange strategy. I've never Oh dear God. As if Third Eye Blind isn't bad enough as a band... now someone is *covering* them as a commercial release? Yuck. Isn't the strategy usually to cover songs that are at least semi-classics? Covering bland songs by bland, generic bands is a such a cop-out. Sure doesn't lend Alana Davis any credibility. On a related note, I invite you to examine again this funny cartoon by Emm: http://www.aquezada.com/staff/julian/music/emmtoon.gif - - Julian [ Julian C. Dunn * ] [ WWW: http://www.aquezada.com/staff/julian/ * PGP: 0xFDC205B9 ] [ "and out of your mouth comes a stream of cliches/ but i have given you ] [ so much rope you should have been hanging for days" -- aimee mann ] ------------------------------ End of headline-girl-digest V4 #258 ***********************************