From: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org (mad-mission-digest) To: mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Subject: mad-mission-digest V6 #61 Reply-To: mad-mission@smoe.org Sender: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-mad-mission-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk * If you ever wish to unsubscribe, send an email to * mad-mission-digest-request@smoe.org * with ONLY the word unsubscribe in the body of the email * . * For the latest information on Patty's tour dates, go to: * http://www.quackquack.net/pattyg * OR * go to http://www.amrecords.com * then click "tour" and fill in the blanks :) * . * PLEASE :) when you reply to this digest to send a post TO the list, * change the subject to reflect what your post is about. A subject * of Re: mad-mission-digest V4 #xxx or the like gives readers no clue * as to what your message is about. mad-mission-digest Wednesday, February 27 2002 Volume 06 : Number 061 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: MM: Pre ordering ["Corey Atkins" ] MM: Sting [] Re: MM: Pre ordering ["Gary Jacques" ] MM: Annoying Ani? [Brian Hancill ] MM: More Patty ["Don Henn" ] Re: MM: More Patty [IUDoReMi@aol.com] Re: MM: More Patty ["Mare :-)" ] MM: Why Is Everyone Against Real Music Stores?? [Richard Challen ] MM: list ["horton the elephant" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 16:30:13 -0700 From: "Corey Atkins" Subject: Re: MM: Pre ordering MAn, I must be SUPA bored here at work. I never post this much in a week let alone in a day. You're right about blind adoration -- Brand New Day was not the pinnacle of Sting's career... But a listen to Soul Cages makes it easy to forget the blunders... I guess I think of it more as admiring the person - or, maybe more precisely, the artist - who does the work, as opposed to just the work itself. - -CA ******* ******* ** "El teatro es la poesma que se levanta ** ** del libro y se hace humana." ** ** ** ** "Theatre is the poetry which rises ** ** from the page and is made human." ** ** ** ** --Federico Garcma Lorca ** ******* ******* _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 18:35:03 -0800 From: Subject: MM: Sting I'm reading Stings Biography right now. Started yesterday and have 50 pages to go. I actually like the song Brand New Day and Mercury Rising stuff too. They aren't his best but still ok. Soul Cages and Bring on the Night (live) do it for me. Chris ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 17:19:02 -0500 From: "Gary Jacques" Subject: Re: MM: Pre ordering I think your a trouble maker and I'm telling Mike! EG - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 6:20 PM Subject: Re: MM: Pre ordering > Sting can do no wrong?! He hasn't done much right in the past 5 years > if you ask me... The quality of his work has gone progressively > downhill from album to album. Note that he re-released "Fragile" in the > wake of Sep 11 rather than anything from the horrific "Mercury Rising" or > even the more palatable "Brand New Day". Even he knows his older work > was better.... Don't get me wrong - I'm a fan, I LOVE the good stuff, > but that doesn't mean I have to love the crap too. > The same goes for Patty too- she's great and all, but that doesn't mean > she's flawless. I would have much rather had one of her other > unreleased songs on Flaming Red in the place of Big Daddy which I find to > be lyrically vague, emotionally dull and musically uninspired. And I > know that's just a matter of personal taste- no insult meant to those who > love the song. My point is that fanship doesn't mean blind adulation. > Or does it? What do you all think? > > Aaron > > Oh, and for a brand new C.D. like Alanis' "Under Rug Swept" I could go to > Best Buy or Target here in L.A. and get it for $11.99. But in the case > of Patty, that won't be an option, at least not at Target where it only > gets in if it'll be a top 10 hit... I will probably pre-order from ATO > if the price is reasonable A)because $17.99 is ridiculous, esp. for a > store like CDNow that has less overhead than a brick&mortar like Tower > and B) because the label WILL get more of the money without the > middleman, which at the very least rewards them for signing and > distributing Patty's music too us so that we didn't have to wait any > longer. Patty won't get much money from the CD no matter where you buy > it. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 23:55:08 +0000 From: Brian Hancill Subject: MM: Annoying Ani? - - -----Original Messages----- From: Lisa Zwick [mailto:xenacrazy@att.net] Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 1:48 PM To: mad-mission@smoe.org Subject: Re: MM: pre ordered! oooo what's Ani (Difranco)'s new album called? - ------------------------------- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 13:45:55 -0500 From: Gary Jacques Subject: RE: MM: pre ordered! I think it's called "Annoying Bitch II" EG - ------------------------------- Hi there Good joke Gary, even though Ani Difranco doesn't annoy me and I have no idea whether she's a bitch or not (I'm obviously not evil enough). But I have to admit that in my whole life I've only heard one track of hers that I like. This was her cover version of "Wishing And Hoping" which opens the film My Best Friend's Wedding. She sings it in a cute "ickle girl" voice and the whole thing was obviously meant as a savagely ironic statement as she collected Hollywood's dollars. But hey.. it works for me. In the glory days of Napster I downloaded about a dozen of her "normal" songs, sure there'd be something I'd like enough to go out and buy. Sadly not. Maybe if I wait long enough she'll do a cover of The Shoop Shoop Song... Brian ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 19:19:48 -0500 From: "Don Henn" Subject: MM: More Patty Patty at the Somerville Theater , Somerville , Ma. , (Outside of Boston). April 26 , 8PM , w/ Michael Fracasso. Tix on sale thru TM , 10AM tomorrow. I am a river baby I've got plenty of time I don't know where I'm going I'm just following the lines Patty Griffin "We Are Water" Don ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 21:37:17 EST From: IUDoReMi@aol.com Subject: Re: MM: More Patty The ONE night Patty comes to my city is the night before my Master's recital. What is UP with this world?!?!?! What's the deal? Does this crap always have to happen to me? That's my new mantra. - -Carrie ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 03:03:42 +0000 From: "Mare :-)" Subject: Re: MM: More Patty Don, you just made my day...I can't go to WAM fest because I have to take a prep course for the Massachusets teacher liscensing so here I am thinking hmmmm get a job or see Patty? It was a serious debate, but now not only will I be able to get a job, but I will also be able to see Patty...I am pretty sure life does not get any better... Mary - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: Click Here ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 22:35:45 -0500 From: Richard Challen Subject: MM: Why Is Everyone Against Real Music Stores?? Just my own 2 cents, but... WHY would you NOT go to a good, local, independent music store and BUY the Patty Griffin album on April 9th? (All of you who live in the boonies with one stoplight and one gas station are forgiven.) Do you REALLY think Amazon.com cares about promoting Patty's career? Nah, they just wanna sell as much stuff as possible to keep from going bankrupt like the rest of the dot.coms. Then again, for that matter... Best Buy isn't in the habit of developing artists' careers. And you're right, they won't have Patty at $11.99 on April 9... They might not even stock it. And Tower Records' prices are super high because they're about to go bankrupt themselves. For everyone who realizes that sales tax is still a LOT cheaper than Internet "shipping & handling charges," or who thinks $25 is too much to pay for one CD (even overnighted), please check out this site: http://www.cimsmusic.com/ That's right, there are nearly 100 stores in the Coalition of Independent Music Stores. I work at one of them, Manifest Discs & Tapes in Charlotte, NC. Before that, I ran the one in Clemson, SC, where my good friend Joel first turned me on to Patty (back when HE was running the store). We probably sold over 200 copies of "Living With Ghosts" over the years... and this was a store where a HUGE seller (like Dave Matthews) sold about 600 copies and a Britney or N'Sync was lucky to sell 50 copies TOTAL. You can still walk into any Manifest in the Carolinas and buy LWG for $9.99. Beat that, Amazon. Currently, the CIMS stores try to promote up-and-coming artists every month. This month, it's Kasey Chambers... But everybody from Wilco to Ben Harper to Lucinda Williams to Moby had their day in the sun as well. Last month, John Mayer was one of our featured artists... This guy has yet to crack the Hot 100 but our store in Charlotte has been selling 20+ copies a WEEK since October and "Room For Squares" is perpetually in our Top 10. (At a sales price of $6.99, I might add!!) Do you think radio notices this? Do you think his record company notices this? You think Rolling Stone giving him a 4-star review just HAPPENED, or was it because of sales stories like this one across the country? Yeah, I know, any Patty sale is a good sale. But remember that 100 sales in one week doesn't make a dent in Amazon's weekly sales chart, but 100 sales of "1000 Kisses" would put Patty #1 at almost any indie store in the country. If you're anywhere near one of those 100 CIMS stores, I would recommend going there and picking up "1000 Kisses" on April 9, the first legal day of release. I betcha we have it on sale for $11.99, too. :^) see ya, rICH Listen to Rich: Check out the official website of Backyard Green, featuring tour dates, lyrics, pictures, and sound clips from the new album: http://www.backyardgreen.com And be sure to check out Rich's solo website at: http://listen.to/rich.com http://www.geocities.com/richardchallen ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 22:42:07 EST From: FlamingRed74@cs.com Subject: Re: MM: More Patty mare4682@hotmail.com writes: >> now not only > >will I be able to get a job, but I will also be able to see Patty...I am > >pretty sure life does not get any better... >> Uhh.. I don't know about you Mary, but I DO NOT like my job THAT much to think that life can't get any better than this.. LOL .. or were you referring to getting to see Patty.. ?? :-) Have fun! Dave ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 03:54:28 +0000 From: "Mare :-)" Subject: Re: MM: More Patty Uhh.. I don't know about you Mary, but I DO NOT like my job THAT much to >think that life can't get any better than this.. LOL .. or were you >referring to getting to see Patty.. ?? :-) Well I am certainly referring to going to see Patty....but I am also going to have to pay back my student loans somehow, so to do that I will need a job, but then again I want to be a teacher so that won't help with any money...OK so yes it is going to see Patty... - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: Click Here ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 22:22:36 -0600 From: "horton the elephant" Subject: MM: list i need to switch my subscription to digest. i.r. baboon ------------------------------ End of mad-mission-digest V6 #61 ********************************