From: owner-precious-things-digest To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V1 #118 Reply-To: precious-things@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-precious-things-digest Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "precious-things-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. precious-things-digest Saturday, 29 June 1996 Volume 01 : Number 118 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Paul Tweedy...aka your want of info quick... Jay Leno Appearance ADMINISTRIVIA: smoe.org outage two records Re: Jay Leno Appearance Tori-TV ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ariana@kbp.com Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 07:05:06 -0500 Subject: Paul Tweedy...aka your want of info quick... You should continue to open your mouth on here. I just felt a bit of what is the word...annoyance more than I thought was necessary with all the f's and such. I guess you are right in a way. Someone here should have just said to you we just don't know. I guess that is like trying to talk to someone and they ignore you. I am sorry if we ignored you. I know I don't like being ignored which people do to me quite often. ------------------------------ From: Surf the World Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 10:07:22 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Jay Leno Appearance Hello all! I'm curious how many people caught Tori singing Hey Jupiter last night on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno? She looked really great! It was an incredible performance. The only questions I had was: 1.) What was the writing on her hand for? I remember in concert in Washington DC she messed up the lyrics to this song and was kinda embarassed by it. 2.) Did she sing all the lyrics? I listen to that song a lot and it seemed like she skipped the part where she says "thought I knew myself so well, all the dolls I had ... Took my leather off the shelf, your apocalypse was fab..." Any ideas? [Chris Blunck] --> [windsrfr@wam.umd.edu] | [snowbrdr@glue.umd.edu] [http://www.eng.umd.edu/~snowbrdr/] && [Your fortune:] [If you push the "extra ice" button on the soft drink vending machine] [you won't get any ice. If you push the "no ice" button, you'll get] [ice, but no cup.] ------------------------------ From: jeffw (Jeff Wasilko) Date: Fri, 28 Jun 96 19:02:42 EDT Subject: ADMINISTRIVIA: smoe.org outage Due to telephone company problems, smoe.org's connection to the internet has been down since 10:30 (eastern time). Mail is queued up on another system and should be processed soon. Please don't send test messages or send additional copies of your messages. I'm working on upgrading the router that connects smoe.org to provide a backup connection. - -Jeff ------------------------------ From: "Sister Ray --- pogue mahone!" Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 22:20:58 +0100 Subject: two records Hi. Yesterday i went to a shop in Rotterdam, Holland which is specialised in promostuff etc. They had two Tori Amos items: 1. "New Music From Tori Amos" which is released by Atlantic 1995. It's a promo. There's a sticker on the front, "Look for Tori's new single in stores Jan 2nd '96. [small font:] PRCD 6353". It contains the songs Cornflake Girl, God, Silent All These Years, Crucify (remix), These Precious Things [1], ? [3], Me And A Gun, Past The Mission, Smalls Like Teen Spirit. To me it looked like an original promo. It wasn't cheap: 95 dutch guilders. 2. One package, sized as if it would contain several vinyl recordings. In fact only i only found a book, of about (i guess) 50 pages, size was half of the width of the package, with a lot of pictures. The package may contain one or more disc, but i didn't saw them. Pictures on the inside looked real, the pic on the front looked liked it was edited (Tori's hear is red, but i doubt it is as red as on that picture). It not released by Atlantic. Because i was in a hurry i don't have more info. If you want me to, i will take one more look. But please, tell me what you want to know. Bye, -Sis. [1] This is strange because the title to that song is on Little Earthquakes Precious Things. But, i have written the songtitles in my notebook, shortening the titles, but this was written whole, so i don't think i have written this wrong. [2] [2] Sorry, my english isn't that good :-) [3] Don't which was this one, i was in a hurry. I will take a look again if you want me too. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me." - Nathaniel Lee *********************************************************************** email: sister.ray@pi.net Sister Ray Headqtrs. or email: sister@mediaport.org url website: http://mediaport.org/~sisterra *********************************************************************** ------------------------------ From: flaky white stuff Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 20:05:51 -0400 Subject: Re: Jay Leno Appearance also sprach Surf the World : >I'm curious how many people caught Tori singing Hey Jupiter last night on >The Tonight Show with Jay Leno? She looked really great! It was an >incredible performance. hmmm. i thought she looked a little tired. she also looked like she was about to start crying during the especially emotioanlly charged parts of the song - as if the only reason she wasn't bawling was cos she knew she was being televised. >1.) What was the writing on her hand for? i couldn't read what it said when they did the close-up on her hand, but she has been known to write lyrics on her hand for songs she sometimes forgets. >2.) Did she sing all the lyrics? she shortened the song, though not quite as drastically as when she sang this on regis and cathy lee. >I listen to that song a lot and it >seemed like she skipped the part where she says "thought I knew myself so >well, all the dolls I had ... Took my leather off the shelf, your >apocalypse was fab..." which reminds me: when she sang this part during the unplugged performance, she really emphasized the fab and followed it quickly with the next line, "for a day." get it? fab. for. fab. four. fab four. am i stretching? ;) +w ------------------------------ From: "Donald G. Keller" Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 12:39:30 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Tori-TV A few remarks on the Unplugged show and the Tonight Show appearance last night (I haven't seen =Crossroads=). I wish I hadn't seen the setlist for the Unplugged show beforehand, because as it turned out they only broadcast nine of the sixteen songs listed, and I waited the whole show to hear "Honey," which I still haven't seen her do live. Oh well. "Blood Roses" was excellent (I got to the place I was watching late and missed "Cornflake Girl"), I could have done without "Silent All These Years" (just tired of it after all these years), "Icicle" was pretty good (especially with the "Onward Christian Soldiers" intro). I really like the almost ballady (no rhythm track) arrangement of "Caught A Lite Sneeze" she's doing now, even though it drops lyrics left and right (no "Belle" at all). The middle part where she stops playing and starts tapping her knuckles was really fine, though not as otherworldly as when she did it in New Haven a month or so ago. Question: I'm under the impression that the song's proper title is "Over the Rainbow," though everyone (including MTV's subtitles) seems to be referring to it as "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." Guess I'll have to hunt up a Judy Garland record... Anyway, that was OK. "Hey Jupiter" on piano was wonderful as usual (no question it's one of her very best songs). And "In the Springtime of His Voodoo" (which the subtitle simply had as "Voodoo") is probably my least favorite =BfP= cut, but having seen this live performance and the one on Conan O'Brien a little while ago, I'm warming to it a little bit. It's got a lot of swing. I'm on record of not liking "Hey Jupiter" nearly so well done on the harmonium, but the third such performance I've seen (including the--remarkable--2:20 version on Regis & Kathy Lee) last night on Jay Leno was the best, a really fine, heartfelt, very moving vocal performance, and Caton's very subtle added guitar bits were quite tasty. This performance was about 3 1/2 minutes, with the "thought I knew myself so well" verse omitted and the purplerainish vocal bridge reduced to one-and-a-half repetitions, very interestingly. ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V1 #118 *************************************