From: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org (jinglejangle-digest) To: jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Subject: jinglejangle-digest V1 #19 Reply-To: jinglejangle@smoe.org Sender: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jinglejangle-digest Friday, February 27 1998 Volume 01 : Number 019 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [MLL] Mary Lou and RT [Michael Zwirn ] Re: [MLL] Philly show tickets - help! [Matthau54@aol.com] [MLL] Re: jinglejangle-digest V1 #18 [Stephanie Kirk ] Re: [MLL] Re: jinglejangle-digest V1 #18 [Rachel ] [MLL] Rolling Stone 9:30 Club review [Rachel ] Re: [MLL] Re: jinglejangle-digest V1 #18 [AWeiss4338 ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 08:38:07 -0500 (EST) From: Michael Zwirn Subject: [MLL] Mary Lou and RT In Washington, MLL was very enthusiastic in crediting Richard Thompson with 1952 VBL. She spoke highly of him at both the in-store and the concert. I am an enormous RT fan and was really pleased to hear her version of that song, having not received the EP yet. I would be interested in hearing How Will I Ever Be Simple Again (that's the real title), however. Does anyone have a copy of that somewhere on tape? - --------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Zwirn zwirnm@ari.net mzwirn@oao.com alm_zwirnm@carleton.edu Kibbutz Music Reviews: http://carleton.edu/~alm_zwirnm/kibbutz.html This week: Hum, Richard X. Heyman, David Poe, Reign of Frogs, Dan Hartal - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 13:28:04 EST From: Matthau54@aol.com Subject: Re: [MLL] Philly show tickets - help! Hey, I personally sent a letter to Rachel explaining the Philly show but here it is for the whole list. My band plays Pontiac alot and I know the owner so this is accurate info. The best way to get tickets is through the station sponsoring the show(WXPN) Ticketmaster may or may not sell them depending on how well WXPN does on there own. Knowing what the pontiac is like WXPN will sell all the tickets due to the fact Pontiac only holds 100 people so anyone wanting to go should call this number as soon as possible- 1-800-565-WXPN Thanks, KYle ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 14:54:01 -0500 From: Stephanie Kirk Subject: [MLL] Re: jinglejangle-digest V1 #18 > Date: Thu, 26 Feb 98 01:30:24 -0500 > From: "Lee S. Kilpatrick (Mr. Breeze)" > Subject: Re: [MLL] another MLL review > > It's kind of bittersweet that Lord has gone to > the majors, but they seem > > to be treating her well. It's nice to see someone get a push who > > deserves it, and "Got No Shadow" balances the shine with a respectable > > earnestness on Lord's part. All the music geeks will delight in the > > lyrical references to Richard Thompson, the Pogues, Bob Dylan and > > however many others I didn't catch, and all the romantics will want to > > die in the arms of the love that she swears is out there. > > Are those supposed to be the references he mentions in "Thong of > Blowtown"? The "shoot out the lights" and the reference to "the > jester"? I guess they are just meaningless references, then, as > Richard Thompson and Bob Dylan didn't seem to fit into the Studio 54 > scene. And what does the "tonight tonight the Billys will fight" line > refer to? > > Lee > There is also a Dylan reference in Western Union Desperate ("I'm Rimbaud and you're Verlaine" is referring to "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" which Shawn Colvin also covered.) Plus in WUD there is a nod to Joni Mitchell's "California". As for "the Billys will fight," I think Rachel mentioned that it was about Billy Corgan and Billy Idol and their legal battles (involving copyrights?)... Steffi ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 15:10:16 EST From: AWeiss4338@aol.com Subject: Re: [MLL] Philly show tickets - help! Thanks for the info, I'm an XPN member so I'm calling them right now. ANdrea ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 15:24:00 -0500 From: "Rivers, Ata" Subject: Re: [MLL] Philly show tickets - help! Get me a ticket please! Thanks ---------- From: AWeiss4338@aol.com To: Matthau54@aol.com; rkb200@is5.nyu.edu; jinglejangle@smoe.org Subject: Re: [MLL] Philly show tickets - help! Date: Thursday, February 26, 1998 3:10PM Thanks for the info, I'm an XPN member so I'm calling them right now. ANdrea ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 18:09:52 -0500 (EST) From: Rachel Subject: Re: [MLL] Philly show tickets - help! Thanks Kyle...just wanted to say though that only Philly area folks can call this phone number. I called Pontiac Grill yesterday and was told tickets would be on sale with Ticketmaster, they didn't say exactly when but I'd guess over the weekend so that's how I'm gonna try to get in. I don't really understand this system of selling tickets but if this is what we have to do, ok. :) Rachel On Thu, 26 Feb 1998 Matthau54@aol.com wrote: > Hey, > I personally sent a letter to Rachel explaining the Philly show but here it > is for the whole list. My band plays Pontiac alot and I know the owner so this > is accurate info. The best way to get tickets is through the station > sponsoring the show(WXPN) Ticketmaster may or may not sell them depending on > how well WXPN does on there own. Knowing what the pontiac is like WXPN will > sell all the tickets due to the fact Pontiac only holds 100 people so anyone > wanting to go should call this number as soon as possible- 1-800-565-WXPN > Thanks, > KYle > "do something pretty while you can don't fall asleep riding from California to New York" -- belle and sebastian - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- my Mary Lou Lord page is at http://pages.nyu.edu/~rkb200/ To join Some Jingle Jangle List, the Mary Lou Lord mailing list, email Majordomo@smoe.org with ONLY "subscribe jinglejangle" OR "subscribe jinglejangle-digest" in the BODY. Email me for information about my zine I'M NOT WAITING. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 18:35:46 -0500 (EST) From: Rachel Subject: Re: [MLL] Re: jinglejangle-digest V1 #18 On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Stephanie Kirk wrote: > There is also a Dylan reference in Western Union Desperate ("I'm Rimbaud and > you're Verlaine" is referring to "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" which > Shawn Colvin also covered.) Plus in WUD there is a nod to Joni Mitchell's > "California". As for "the Billys will fight," I think Rachel mentioned that it was > about Billy Corgan and Billy Idol and their legal battles (involving > copyrights?)... Well, she did say it was about Idol and Corgan but didn't explain that. And also, this is probably stretching it, but that song "Going to California" (I forget whose song this is) is about Joni I think. Alex, maybe you know this, but on "His Indie World" she sings "I press play and record and a major chord" and isn't "Press Play and Record" a Lois 7"?....I could swear one time either on Indie or ND World she sang "and play a Lois chord" but maybe she didn't, sometimes she changes around stuff, like she used to sing that Cure line..."and show me how to do that trick/the one that makes you scream" on Western Union Desperate, which she said in this interview she stole chords from "Just Like Heaven" by the Cure b/c Dinosaur Jr. covers that song. :) Rachel "do something pretty while you can don't fall asleep riding from California to New York" -- belle and sebastian - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- my Mary Lou Lord page is at http://pages.nyu.edu/~rkb200/ To join Some Jingle Jangle List, the Mary Lou Lord mailing list, email Majordomo@smoe.org with ONLY "subscribe jinglejangle" OR "subscribe jinglejangle-digest" in the BODY. Email me for information about my zine I'M NOT WAITING. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 19:15:01 -0500 (EST) From: Rachel Subject: [MLL] Rolling Stone 9:30 Club review from: http://www.rollingstone.com/sections/news/text/newsarticle.asp?LookUpString =3371&NewsID=2997 (that didn't all fit on one line but that's the URL) 2/23/98 MARY LOU LORD 9:30 Club, Washington, D.C., February 21, 1998 Her days playing for loose change in Boston subway stations are (hopefully) behind her, yet Mary Lou Lord continues to sing to crowds as if they're all hapless commuters desperately in need of a lift. During her two-hour show in the nation's capital Saturday night, Lord giggled, chatted, smoked up a storm, and paced herself with a confident casualness obviously learned while performing in the most bustling (and stinky) of venues. You didn't want to clap for Lord this evening; you wanted to throw quarters. "Keep the lights just like that," Lord laughed as she sauntered onto the darkened stage, ember-ended cigarette in hand. "I haven't gotten used to the spot yet." But when the soft orange lighting was soon ignited and the street-smart blonde strummed into show opener "Supergun" -- a not-so-subtle mid-tempo innuendo ("I close my eyes/But your supergun won't shoot") off her major-label debut Got No Shadow -- a phobia of center stage was never a problem. In between Elvis impressions, anecdotes from her wander years, and a proper salute to Mary Kay pushers, Lord, backed by a capable five-piece band, dropped 16 songs into the night, most of which can be found on the new album. "His Lamest Flame," "She Had You," and "Two Boats," all about the evil that boys in love do, properly displayed the sweet pop hooks that have rescued the 32-year-old singer/songwriter from her days as a waifish indie outsider dreaming of just one shot. "Down Along the Lea," about the other major river in London ("where all the riffraff and bad-asses hang out," Lord said) and "Western Union Desperate" were offered up as stripped-down homages to her folk-singer heroes, while "Some Jingle Jangle Morning" and "Lights Are Changing" proved that she can rock just as well as she can unveil a sad story. If the laid-back evening had a downside, it was that fact that it was too laid-back. Because Lord runs such a loose, easy-goin' show, several huddles in the audience found it necessary to gab away before, during, and after songs. But Lord never got too pissed off. "Come on, guys, keep quiet," she said when the chitchat surpassed the volume of her guitar, but the admonition came off more like a dead-on impression of the annoying girl at work telling boring tales from her weekend. "Shut up! I can do whatever I want!" Lord said upon returning -- alone -- after a short break. "This is my encore!" Fans shouted out requests from Got No Shadow," but the lady would have none of it. With breathless clarity and as much heart and compassion as she pumped into her own material, Lord covered Shawn Colvin's "Polaroids" and Richard Thompson's "1952 Vincent Black Lightning." Upon finishing the latter (and the show), Lord grinned, closed her eyes, and sighed: "Now that's a song." SEAN DALY { Mary Lou Lord } "do something pretty while you can don't fall asleep riding from California to New York" -- belle and sebastian - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- my Mary Lou Lord page is at http://pages.nyu.edu/~rkb200/ To join Some Jingle Jangle List, the Mary Lou Lord mailing list, email Majordomo@smoe.org with ONLY "subscribe jinglejangle" OR "subscribe jinglejangle-digest" in the BODY. Email me for information about my zine I'M NOT WAITING. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 19:19:09 EST From: AWeiss4338 Subject: Re: [MLL] Re: jinglejangle-digest V1 #18 If i remeember correctly, Going To Calaforina is a Led Zepplin song. Andrea ------------------------------ End of jinglejangle-digest V1 #19 *********************************