From: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org (jinglejangle-digest) To: jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Subject: jinglejangle-digest V2 #6 Reply-To: jinglejangle@smoe.org Sender: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jinglejangle-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jinglejangle-digest Thursday, January 7 1999 Volume 02 : Number 006 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [MLL] New York Times reviewers' Top Tens [Michael Zwirn ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 10:22:20 -0500 (EST) From: Michael Zwirn Subject: [MLL] New York Times reviewers' Top Tens The NYT critics have weighted in with their year-end top tens, and while there are no Mary Lou Lord or Loud Family albums on the list, there are some relevant tie-ins. http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/news/arts/poplife-yearend.html Elliot Smith gets some props, as do Quasi and Air (whose records I have not yet heard), Pernice Brothers, Eels, R.E.M., and Eels. Lucinda Williams (for whom I can't think of any ties, but she rocks anyway) and Lauryn Hill are the two biggest critical faves - can anyone offer a succint evaluation of the Miseducation record for a non-R&B fan who does like some Prince, PE, Marley and P.M. Dawn? - - mjz n.p. Lucinda Williams, Sweet Old World. Lovely, heartrending, and seemingly effortless. The Nick Drake cover is perfectly appropriate. n.r. Russell Banks, Rule of the Bone. Remarkably unlike the two other Banks novels I've read. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael J. Zwirn zwirnm@ari.net ICQ #12755821 Kibbutz Music Reviews: http://www2.ari.net/zwirnm/kibbutz.html Current: The Best of 1998 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ End of jinglejangle-digest V2 #6 ********************************