From: owner-headline-girl-digest@smoe.org (headline-girl-digest) To: headline-girl-digest@smoe.org Subject: headline-girl-digest V6 #158 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 Thursday, October 2 2003 Volume 06 : Number 158 Today's Subjects: ----------------- NEC: some many new CDs, so little time!! (Dido, Leona Naess, Vertical Horizon) [Stephanie Hierro Subject: NEC: some many new CDs, so little time!! (Dido, Leona Naess, Vertical Horizon) This is definitely an AWESOME time of year for new CD releases! Every Tuesday I've been making a trip to the store to purchase the latest release. Yesterday was Dido's new CD, "Life for Rent". I've been listening to it all morning. I don't think it's nearly as good as her last release, "No Angel". Although, it's growing on me. There are definite good songs - Sand in My Shoes and Don't Leave Home are stand-outs so far. Anyone have any thoughts on it? Also, I purchased Vertical Horizon's latest CD, "Go", last Tuesday. And I got to see them in concert last week as well. This follow-up to the last CD "Everything You Want" is awesome! If you're a fan, I encourage you to go out and purchase it. It definitely has a different flavor to it than the last CD. It's been in my CD player all week. I also purchased Leona Naess's new self-titled CD. I haven't listened to it enough to give it a fair review. On my first listen, I thought it was decent... different from her last release "I Tried to Rock, but You Only Roll". Anyone have any thoughts on it? I'm looking forward to Howie Day's CD next Tuesday, Matt Nathanson's the following Tuesday, BNL on the 21st and Sarah McLachlan's in November. And I'm happy to say (except for Sarah) I will have seen or will be seeing all these artists in the next couple months! Happy Listening! ~Stephanie work like you don't need the money... dance like no one is watching... and love like you have never been hurt... ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 11:07:35 -0500 From: "Sarah Butler" Subject: Re: NEC: some many new CDs, so little time!! (Dido, Leona Naess, Vertical Horizon) Stephanie wrote: >I also purchased Leona Naess's new self-titled CD. I haven't listened to it enough to give it a fair review. On my first listen, I thought it was decent... different from her last release "I Tried to Rock, but You Only Roll". Anyone have any thoughts on it? I really like her new CD. I would recommend it if anyone has liked her past work. A bit more relaxed/calmer than her other stuff.I was however very disappointed in her live performance that I caught in August in Minneapolis. She was hitting all the wrong notes on her old songs. Thank God she opened for HEM, who was awesome! She's coming back again, and I'll give her another chance. -Sarah - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get McAfee virus scanning and cleaning of incoming attachments. Get Hotmail Extra Storage! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 12:55:38 -0400 From: "Rob Tittel" Subject: Re: some many new CDs, so little time!! (Dido, Leona Naess, Vertical Horizon) I think I need a second job to support my habit. Since I don't want the RIAA coming for me, I've resorted to going back to actually buying CDs again, and there have been some tasties lately. I went out and picked up Dido's "Life for Rent" last night as well and listened to it twice last night and twice this morning, and I have to say its gorgeous... lush, and full sounding, Dido's vocals are beautiful as usual. "White Flag", the lead off single is beautiful, "Stoned" has a great world beat and is damn sexy sounding, and "Who Makes You Feel" is quite trip-hoppy, ala Esthero, with some nice pre-production, drum programming, and bass from P-Nut from the band 311. Speaking of Esthero, anyone know anything new of her? Leona Naess' latest is very nice as well, much more toned down and introspective than her past releases. I get the feeling it is her most personal work to date. Very laid back, even the "rockers" on this one are quite mellow. "He's Gone", "Yes, It's Called Desire", "How sweet", and "Home" are all quite lovely. Wasn't really impressed by John Mayer's latest, but some of the songs are slowly growing on me with additional listens. Much more jazz and blues influenced in places. Fans expecting another Room For Squares will be disappointed. It doesn't grab you instantly like RFS tracks did. "Clarity" and "Split Screen Sadness" are current faves. Also really enjoying Josh Kelley's "For the Ride Home", Gemma Hayes "Night on my side", and the latest Dashboard Confessional and Guster discs. On the heavier side, The Underworld soundtrack is excellent, the new A Perfect Circle disc hasn't received enough spins from me yet to rate, and Thursday's "War All The Time" is incredible. Geoff Rickly is one of my new favorite lyricists. You've got to love a band with song names like "For the Workplace, Drowning" and "This Song Brought To You By A Falling Bomb", which is an amazingly brooding but effective piano ballad placed squarely in the middle of these eleven screaming rockers. I have pre-ordered the Matt Nathanson major label debut as well as my own highly anticipated sophmore effort from Greg Dulli's Twilight Singer's, "Blackberry Belle". I've heard two songs off this one already, "The Killer", and "Teenage Wristband" and they are awesome. Also pre-ordered Death Cab for Cutie's "Transatlanticism"; all three should be arriving in the next two weeks... Death Cab's label mates on Barsuk Records, The Long Winters also have an pretty good new disc out that is worth a listen. and like everyone, I'm totally excited about Sarah's first disc in over 5 years... I can't fathom that its been that long! The idea that its been 4 years since the final Lilith boggles my mind. Where does the time go? Brrr.... its getting cold out. Go curl up under a warm blanket and listen to your favorite new CDs. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rob Tittel DreamsAwake Music NetRadio, CD and Concert Reviews, Artist Development, Photography, and more www.dreamsawake.com "Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake". -- Henry David Thoreau Click here to Listen to Jericho Two Indie-rock, folk, and 90's alternative internet radio www.dreamsawake.com/jericho2 "War all the time, in the shadow of the New York skyline; we grew up too fast, now we're falling like the ashes of American flags, and if the sun doesn't rise, we'll replace it with an H-bomb explosion, a painted jail cell of light in the sky like three-mile-island nightmares on TV that sing us to sleep" - -Thursday, "War all the time" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 22:12:50 -0500 From: "jessica weiser" Subject: Re: some many new CDs, so little time!! (Dido, Leona Naess, Vertical Horizon) Rob says: "and like everyone, I'm totally excited about Sarah's first disc in over 5 years... I can't fathom that its been that long! The idea that its been 4 years since the final Lilith boggles my mind. Where does the time go?" I've heard 3 of the songs from the new album ("fallen", "answer", and "stupid") and they are all awesome, especially "Answer". I think this album is going to be worth the wait :) And have you guys seen the new promo pics of her? She looks gorgeous! :) jessica ps: if you pre-order Afterglow through Amazon.com you can hear "answer" ;) - It reminds me of "angel" a bit... - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- jessica weiser :: www.jessicaweiser.com "If it takes my whole life, I won't break, I won't bend, It will all be worth it, Worth it in the end" - -sarah mclachlan "answer" ------------------------------ End of headline-girl-digest V6 #158 ***********************************