From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V2 #444 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Saturday, December 28 2002 Volume 02 : Number 444 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] The Who [Michael Mitton ] Re: [loud-fans] The Who ["O Geier" ] Re: [loud-fans] 2002 favorites [Dana Paoli ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 18:18:06 -0500 (EST) From: Michael Mitton Subject: [loud-fans] The Who I just saw a a running text blurb on TV that send Pete Townshend's web site had announced that he and Daltrey would be collaborating on a new studio album. I've checked his web site and found no such info. I know there have been rumors about this for a while, so does anyone have any confirmation that this is actually happening? And, do we really want it to happen at all? - --Michael ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 23:27:28 +0000 From: "O Geier" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] The Who <> Go here. http://www.petetownshend.co.uk/diary/display.cfm?id=31&zone=diary I'll always listen to any Townshend pens. He writes for himself well, but no so, I feel for Roger post 1981. _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 3 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail&xAPID=42&PS=47575&PI=7324&DI=7474&SU= http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/getmsg&HL=1216hotmailtaglines_stopmorespam_3mf ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 19:44:02 -0500 From: Dana Paoli Subject: Re: [loud-fans] 2002 favorites > Plus I have to mention...Tony Coulter, A WFMU DJ, > made a > compilation cd as a donation premium of a bunch of light psych songs > from > all these unknown sixties and early seventies bands that is just > wonderful, > (Linda Perhacs fans would love it) and it's probably impossible for > anyone > to get but it just shows me that finding great music from just about > every > era and area is like reaching into a bottomless well. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I'm not nearly ready to post a top 10 list, but along the same lines as the above, my favorite new-to-me album of the year was the absolutely incredible self-titled Daughters of Albion record (it's vinyl only, CD kids...sorry) that Aaron was nice enough to turn me on to. The fact that something so good-but-not-rare could completely escape my notice is one of those things that make me very happy. Anyone interested should know that it sells cheaply and frequently on eBay. The Allmusic review (which doesn't praise it as much as it should) follows. - --dana AMG REVIEW: Daughters of Albion is happy Californian pop/rock music, imbued with streaks of the kind of weirdness that only cropped up in otherwise normal pop/rock records in the late 1960s. Some of the harmonies are good, if a little on the super-sweet and high side. The odd interjections of orchestration and weird little effects  most likely producer Leon Russell was a strong contributor in this regard  make this more interesting than you might expect from the basis of the songs alone. If you're looking for rough ballpark cult figures that might indicate whether you should seek this out, it's kind of between the albums of the era by Millennium and the Judy Henske-Jerry Yester duo. With its frequent good-time bounce, it's closer to Millennium than the darker and more resonant Henske-Yester collaboration, though it doesn't sound extremely close to either act, and isn't as good as either. Still, the better tracks, like "Candle Songs," conjure an appealing never-never fairyland, far more innocent than those devised by psychedelic peers like the Jefferson Airplane on "White Rabbit."  Richie Unterberger ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V2 #444 *******************************