From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V2 #195 Reply-To: precious-things@smoe.org Sender: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org 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 Monday, July 21 1997 Volume 02 : Number 195 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Polls [Marcel F G Rijs ] Poll and intro [pallen@ou.edu (Patrick Allen)] This poll thing [meredith ] Re: Polls [WAlexAMX@aol.com] Chatting [Arnaud ] I'll join too...:) [Cathi Magariello ] Poll [dilbert@metro.net] Re: 2 Polls [MinnetteMaid] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 14:38:45 -0100 From: Marcel F G Rijs Subject: Polls Hi, Someone started a poll ,I believe. Okay, let's do it then. I like this one. >Poll # 1. What is THE ONE Tori song (okay - you can have a tie) that >did it for you; that made you say 'I've gotta go out and >get everything I can by this person?' It was China, interestingly enough. I first discovered Tori via a video of SATY on Super Channel (a European satellite channel, which, at the time, was run by an Italian company which led Super Channel to disaster until it was more or less saved by NBC.) I thought "Hm, nice song, I'll buy it." So I had to order it, because the single, apparently, was a few months old. The shop "messed up" and two weeks later offered me China instead. I thought I might as well try it, and I was blown away when I first played it. It was a song that was very fitting to my mood at the time, and I was very surprised that I could sing (okay, howl) along at first listen. One week later they had SATY for me, one week after that I bought the CD and two weeks after that I bought a ticket for Tori's show in Rotterdam. I was very lucky that I became a fan just in time to be able to see a show from her first tour and buy all those ltd editions for reasonable prices. A few months later and it wouldn't have been that easy. >Poll #2. What do you do? Student? Studying what? Working? Doing >what? I was educted for library work, but I am currently involved in bibliographic data entry work - I type for 6-8 hours a day and while my typing speed is now 200 a minute or something, I am not enjoying myself. I hope to find a job as HTML-editor. (Anyone?) Greetings, Marcel Rijs "Conan the librarian" Den Haag, Netherlands, EUROPE BRAND NEW HOMEPAGE: http://www.bart.nl/~mfgr/ ORDER THE KATE BUSH COVERED CD! Check my homepage for details. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 16:56:52 -0500 From: pallen@ou.edu (Patrick Allen) Subject: Poll and intro Poll # 1. The first Tori song I heard was SATY, so I bought LE and loved it. But it wasn't until UtP came out that I really got hooked, and "Pretty Good Year" has become *my* song. In fact, I did a music theory analysis paper on it last fall and got a 95%, which for this particular professor was quite an accomplishment. Poll #2. Which leads to.......hey there, my name's Patrick Allen, and I've been on this list for a couple of months, but a Tori fan since LE. A friend of mine referred me here, and I have no complaints so far. :) Anyway, I'm a twenty year old junior at the University of Oklahoma, studying for a bachelor of musical arts which is a vocal performance degree with secondary emphases in piano and choral conducting. I'm currently taking the summer off from school and work, apparently, as I can't find a job anywhere. With this said, it probably isn't too smart of me to have bought the new discs by Sarah McLachlan, Dar Williams, Chantal Kreviazuk, Shawn Colvin, Indigo Girls, and fifty million singles, imports, and boots over the past few weeks. Thank god I don't have a budget, because I'd be feeling pretty damn guilty about now. ;) Anyway, thanks everyone who took the time to read my blabberings, and I hope to be a little more active on the list if time permits. Take care, Patrick **************************************************************************** CURRENT OBSESSIONS IN: Music: Surfacing - Sarah McLachlan Books: The Wiesenthal File - Alan Levy Movies: Love! Valour! Compassion! "See, there's as many Stonewall stories as there is gay queens in New York...and that's a shitload of stories, baby!" -Miranda, in "Stonewall" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 21:23:31 -0400 From: meredith Subject: This poll thing Hi! Okay, I'll cave and capitulate and all that and participate in this poll thing. :) 1.) The first song I ever heard by Tori was SATY, on a radio promo that had come into the college radio station I was working at before _LE_ was released in the States. I'd been waiting for the album to come out, because European folks on rec.music.gaffa (the Kate Bush newsgroup/mailing list) had been raving about her for some time already. We got the promo, and I played it on my show, and liked it quite a bit. However, "Winter" is the song that made me finally decide that Tori is a goddess. I'd had the album for some time already, and wasn't quite sure what to think of it even though I hadn't been able to take it out of my player for weeks. But we were driving to New Jersey from Albany, where we had just seen Happy Rhodes play live for the very first time, and it was blizzarding. We drove (slowly) all night, and as the day was breaking we were listening to _LE_ in the car, and one of us was singing along with every word (which was okay because she has an amazing voice), and when "Winter" came on it was one of those transcendent moments that reinforce my belief that music is more of a religion than anything else for me. 2.) I am almost 26 (which makes me relatively old around here, I think), and am an account manager for a teleservices company located in Connecticut. Basically, that means I manage projects for big deal companies that have big deal 1-800 numbers, and we're the ones who answer the calls. Whoo-hoo. So if anyone ever asks you what to do with your degree in German and Medieval Studies, that's one option. ;) +==========================================================================+ | Meredith Tarr meth@smoe.org | | Boonton, NJ USA http://www.smoe.org/~meth | +==========================================================================+ | "Marmots will stick to you in Delaware." | | - The Surrealist Compliment Generator | +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 22:01:31 -0400 (EDT) From: WAlexAMX@aol.com Subject: Re: Polls I've been on the list for a month or so, and I've learned lot's! about Tori, but this is my first post. It seemed like a good time! #1 - I first heard Tori when a friend made me listen to Space Dog. I liked it so she made me a tape of lots of random songs, including Tori. They were all great, but it was Winter and Pretty Good Year that got me. They were the first that I could "feel". Since then, I think that Putting the Damage On, Hey Jupiter, and China have come to mean the most, but I'll always love my firsts. #2 - I am in my second year as an English major at the College of Charleston (SC), this summer I'm working at a PR firm as an intern. We'll see where that leads. Thanks for all the info over the last few months! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 22:59:03 +0200 From: Arnaud Subject: Chatting Hello chaps, Please send me your uin if you have one. regards, Arnaud. mailto:dewdropinn@mail.dotcom.fr. Mon num=E9ro ICQ : 1131969 Beverley Craven Midi Page --- Tori Amos elevator music http://www.chez.com/kheops/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 22:51:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Cathi Magariello Subject: I'll join too...:) Hey everyone out there.... I thought I would give my answer in the poll- #1- The first Tori song I ever heard was SATY, on MTV one weekend. I really liked it and was drawn to it for some reason, and got the tape that weekend (it was before I had a CD player). I listened to it over and over, but I wasn't really a fanatic. I bought UtP when it came out, and really liked it, but didn't really get into Tori until BfP was released and I just started buying singles on a whim almost. I was going through a rough time at the time, and a lot of the music really hit those chords in my soul (ok, that was a little cheesy- sorry). So, for about a year and a half I have been a big fan, which is about how long I've been on the list. #2- Right now I am going to hairdressing school, taking some time off of college to figure myself out (wow, I'm just full of these pop psychology terms tonight). I hope to go back for the spring semester next year (I would be a junior, making me 19), but we'll see. I saw someone said that they were a hairdresser- sorry I deleted your post, but if you want to chat, I'd love to!:) I have a question, and I don't know if anyone can answer it. I am a little worried about 'growing out of Tori'- my lust for music isn't as great as it used to be, and most of it doesn't seem to really ring true with me as it used to. Not Tori, I still love her, and have my phases with her as well, but I'm worried that in a couple years I'll just laugh at this time when I was crazy about that red haired piano player. Any advice/comments/suggestions? It would be greatly appreciated. And thanks to everyone who makes the great posts about new Tori info- it really keeps me going when there isn't a whole lot of new developments. :) Cathi My feel for you, boy, is decaying in front of me Like the carrion of a murdered prey And all I want is to save you, honey Or the strength to walk away Fiona Apple ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 20:23:43 -0700 From: dilbert@metro.net Subject: Poll Okay. here are my poll answers: 1. I can't pinpoint it exactly, but here are the culminatives: FIRST, the combination of PTDO, BR, CALS, and PW on BFP. I had listened to the album before, anmd I put it so that it would play these songs, and it was in the middle of Blood Roses, and I just sat down and listened. I mean LISTENED, with my ears and eyes and mind... SECOND, Silent All These Years, the video on the LE video... beauty.... THIRD, the song Little Earthquakes on LE... I mean it, it is PURE POWER... I LOVE IT, it is AWESOME Live too... THIRD, The song Precious Things, but NOT live, on the album. It is so amazing, I can't describe it. I've been in situations like that, but of course it was sort of reversed, as I'm a guy... #2 I'm a student in the seventh grade, running after billy, running after the rain...... =-) Tarot Scream! You got an e-mail from Tarot Or, write me at DILBERT@METRO.NET Webmaster of "Shadows of Ourselves, The Groovy Duncan Sheik Site" http://metro.net/dilbert "I sit down, close my eyes, open my mind... and I am there." --Maya Angelou ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 23:01:32 -0500 From: MinnetteMaid Subject: Re: 2 Polls At 05:02 PM 7/17/97 PDT, you wrote >Poll # 1. What is THE ONE Tori song (okay - you can have a tie) that >did it for you; that made you say 'I've gotta go out and >get everything I can by this person?' I bought LE in '93, and becuase my sister told me that "it was boring", I never really listen to it. Then I bought UTP in '94. My friend had it and we listen to it all the time, so I thought that I would buy it. I listened to it for about four months, and one day I was driving, and it hit me... This woman is a genus!!! I absolutly loved Pretty good year and Icicle. So then I started listening to LE and I loved every song! Especially Tear in Your hand. So I guess my answer is Pretty good year, and tear in your hand. >Poll #2. What do you do? Student? Studying what? Working? Doing >what? This is *suppose* to be my last year of college, (if you actually go by the 4 year plan), and I work as a staff assitant for Hines Interests. There. I've contributed. Now I feel better! **/\/\INNETTE** _________________________________ http://web.wt.net/~nacho/toripage.htm http://web.wt.net/~nacho ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V2 #195 *************************************