From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V4 #315 Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk shindell-list-digest Thursday, November 28 2002 Volume 04 : Number 315 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [RS] Re: Top Ten List [Lisa Davis & family ] [RS] interview with Richard and Tracy/ review of the Courier [Norman John] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 06:24:40 -0500 From: Lisa Davis & family Subject: Re: [RS] Re: Top Ten List Just to provide total contrast: Although I finally bought Jay Ansill's "Lost World" and listened to that quite a bit, *principally* I have been engaging in cheap therapy by listening to upbeat stuff, or at least, stuff with a beat, and especially, stuff in other languages: Manu Chao (Clandestino and proxima Estacion Esparanza) and my current most-often-in-the-CD, the MExican band Mana, of which most favorite albums (forgive the misspellings / lost accents) are "Unplugged" (MTV) with as runner-ups, the new one (2002) Revolucion de Amor, Sueqos Liquidos and Cuando los Angeles Lloran. My husband says it is all "derivative" and some does sound like U2, or the occasional HM ballad, and even a sitar-laden Beatles type throwback, but I have to say I love almost all of it. OK, it's also 'cause I'm trying to learn Spanish through tapes in the car, and I do find that listening to MUSIC in the other language is very inspirational, because you want to understand the lyrics! And a good 50% very danceable, if only I had the correct joint in my hips! (The other 50% has enough melancholy to appeal to the Shindellite) lisa ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 19:31:13 -0500 From: Norman Johnson Subject: [RS] interview with Richard and Tracy/ review of the Courier I found an interview with Richard and Tracy Grammer about their thoughts on 9-11 and about Dave. http://www.rockzilla.net/bonnyh26.html http://www.rockzilla.net/bonnyh27.html as well as a review: http://www.rockzilla.net/bonnyh14.html >>The courier image is a perfect one for Richard Shindell. His lyrics are less autobiographical than they are allegorical, and his characters more often that not are reporting their condition, not asking for anything. He writes and sings of dead soldiers, truckers ("I've never even been in the cab of a truck," he says, "my life is dull, I make things up."), Heloise & Abelard, a civil war mascot, Mary Magdalen, a witch, a secret lover, an ex-husband, a nun who is a choir conductor at a prison. He throws in a Bruce Springsteen song at the end, a terrific version of "Fourth of July Asbury Park".<< I hope this wasn't posted before. Norman ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V4 #315 ***********************************