From: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org (navy-soup-digest) To: navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Subject: navy-soup-digest V2 #133 Reply-To: navy-soup@smoe.org Sender: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk navy-soup-digest Tuesday, October 5 1999 Volume 02 : Number 133 In This Digest: ----------------- RE: Not dealing with Sarah (is this a sin?) [Amy Lotsberg ] Re: Amy about 'Blue Parade' [James McGarry ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 08:58:28 -0500 From: Amy Lotsberg Subject: RE: Not dealing with Sarah (is this a sin?) Christine asked: > I'm wondering if everyone's had the chance to check out > Tori Amos' new > CD, To Venus and Back. Any way, if not, it's a good one. I have Tori's new CD and I absolutely love it!! > There are quite a > few great new songs (one of them being 1000 Oceans... 1000 Oceans is my favorite. So beautiful. I also like "Concertina"...hell, I love the whole damn thing!! Way to go Tori! I also just got Sarah's "Blue Parade". It arrived in my mailbox on Friday! I really like it! At first listen I was a bit skeptical because it sounded like it was a bit over produced. But I think, it's not that, but the fact that it's just new and different. And I think it's gorgeous! So far, I am very smitten with "Eliot". And of course, I have loved "Twin Moon" since the moment I heard the MP3 from her site when it first went up. All in all a pretty good 2 weeks for music! (I also got Bree Sharp, "Cheap and Evil Girl" and Beth Hart "Screamin for my Supper" Both also good.) ~Amy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 18:52:44 +0200 From: "Edi Vermaas" Subject: Re: Amy about 'Blue Parade' Amy Lotsberg wrote: > I also just got Sarah's "Blue Parade". It arrived in my mailbox on Friday! > I really like it! At first listen I was a bit skeptical because it sounded > like it was a bit over produced. But I think, it's not that, but the fact > that it's just new and different. And I think it's gorgeous! So far, I am > very smitten with "Eliot". And of course, I have loved "Twin Moon" since > the moment I heard the MP3 from her site when it first went up. Indeed, I also believe that most of the songs on 'Blue Parade' are not easy-listening. "Eliot" is the exception! But is not a typically Slean-song! I understand that she is also famous in making covers of songs of (already) famous colleagues. I also like "Eliot" for the nice 'atmosphere' of the song. When I hear it I have visions of big cities like Paris and Berlin (yes, I am from Europe). It is somewhere in between: it is the atmosphere from Brussels. The typical songs are: the songs which interpret deep feelings: bonnie's song, my invitation, blue parade, narcolepsy weed and, of course, twin moon. Twin Moon is very special, before I did understand the words I did understand the feeling from Sarah's voice and the music! That why I still find Twin Moon the best in this category. The song in which Sarah broadens her talents. It not only the singing and the piano but the total orchestration. The music is constructed in a more complex way. That's why it is not easy-listening anymore. Only after hearing the song more then ten times you can appreciate them fully. Playing cards with Judas, High, Habit, Before your time are the examples. After weeks of listening I like Playing cards with Judas most. I also like this category of songs most and I hope this is the real own style of Sarah (of course I will also like Twin Moon forever). "Awake soon" is an out-of-categories song. It is in the tradition of "Pie Jesu" from the Universe CD. The song text is much better: a neutral (non-religious) 'mindstorm'. It is (like Eliot) another demonstration of the wide possibilities of Sarah's talent. Edi ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 21:13:45 -0400 (EDT) From: James McGarry Subject: Re: Amy about 'Blue Parade' On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Edi Vermaas wrote: > famous colleagues. I also like "Eliot" for the nice 'atmosphere' of the > song. When I hear it I have visions of big cities like Paris and Berlin > (yes, I am from Europe). It is somewhere in between: it is the atmosphere Exactly, it has the atmosphere of Roxy Music/Brian Ferry's "A Song for Europe" or, there's one Grace Jones song... but the feel of a happy/whistful Jacques Brel song... ...visions of old-style cafes and big bowls of coffee... and loads of black berets... James. ========================================================================== James McGarry | jmcgarry@UoGuelph.CA - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- An artist should be fit for the best society and keep out of it. - - John Ruskin ========================================================================== ------------------------------ End of navy-soup-digest V2 #133 *******************************