From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V10 #86 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 Thursday, April 21 2005 Volume 10 : Number 086 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Tori and Fiona [theultramind@charter.net] Record labels [Lisa071573@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 21:47:48 -0400 From: theultramind@charter.net Subject: Re: Tori and Fiona Fiona's new album, 'Extraordinary Machine,' has been complete for over two years, but Sony refuses to release it because "there's no single." Fans have waged the http://www.freefiona.com/ campaign to try to convince Sony to release it, which they have so far ignored. In the last month or so someone got hold of it, and released all the tracks on the net. [I think] It's an amazing piece of work, and definitely an evolution in Fiona's sound; she's musically gaining confidence and finding her stride now that all the ridiculous hype has died down and she's matured a bit. I can see how record label execs might be nonplussed by it [in probably the exact same way they were by Tori initially] because it is complicated and unusual. Still, I'd like to think we're all not as bland and frightened of anything different as they think we are. A dj in Seattle has been playing some of it on the air since it snuck out, and it's getting good press. Of course, now that it's out and everyone loves it [and they've been completely unable to stop the spread of it], Sony is starting to make noises about maybe releasing it after all. Personally, I think they're a bunch of dumbasses who totally shot themselves in the foot with this. But hey, it's a great album, and Sony was incredibly generous to not want to make any money off of me for it. Go figure. J. On 18 Apr 2005 at 15:49, Amanda Bradley wrote: > Dunno. Is it similar? I don't keep up with Fiona Apple because I don't > like her music. What is she going through? > > >>Sooo.... >> It just occurred to me... >> When I was reading Piece by Piece I didn't realise but right now I've just >> started thinking about the part where Tori was recounting how Atlantic >> preferred killing her to releasing her and my mind flicks straight over to >> the little dilemma that Fiona Apple's been in for the last three years... >> Similar? >> Simon.<< > > Peace Out, > Amanda ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 15:41:06 EDT From: Lisa071573@aol.com Subject: Record labels In a message dated 4/19/2005 10:36:09 PM Pacific Daylight Time, owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org writes: they say it was because they don't see a clear "single" on the record, - ----- Record labels are notoriously stupid... this "we don't hear a single" crap happens all the time. Patty Griffin's cd Silver Bell was supposed to have been released by A&M/Interscope back in 2000/2001 and that was the line they used when they decided to drop her and not release the cd that had already been completed. Funny how they didn't hear a single but the Dixie Chicks did, since they covered two of Patty's songs off of that cd and Dave Matthews picked up Patty onto his label. The big record companies suck. (And I think Apollo's Frock isn't about Caton, but rather about Arthur Spivak and the whole mess with Atlantic.) Lisa ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V10 #86 *************************************