From: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org (support-system-digest) To: support-system-digest@smoe.org Subject: support-system-digest V3 #204 Reply-To: support-system@smoe.org Sender: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk support-system-digest Tuesday, August 1 2000 Volume 03 : Number 204 Today's Subjects: ----------------- brief liz mentionings at sonicnet [Riot Poof ] Re: More Fractured Thoughts ["Jason Long" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 14:00:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Riot Poof Subject: brief liz mentionings at sonicnet Sonicnet.com did this weird "top ten albums of the nineties that only had one hit" type deal...here's the intro: By Kate Sullivan With few urgent messages to deliver, most one-hit wonders deserve their status. Vanilla Ice wanted us to know his posse was in effect. Tone-Loc loved to do the wild thing and drink that funky cold Medina. Spacehog's still standing on the launch pad. Occasionally, though, a one-hit album actually provides good listening from start to finish programmers lost their nerve when it came time to select that second single. It's time to give a second chance to those 1990s one-hitters whose entire albums are worth listening to, repeatedly. The albums were Veruca's American Thighs, Elastica, The Breeders' Last Splash, Jeff Buckley's Grace, Digable Planets, Dee-lite's World Clique, OM Dawn, The Verve, Semisonic, and Kris Kross (haha jump, jump, daddy mac!) (i think it's weird...in detroit, American Thighs, Elastica, Last Splash, and even freakin Kriss Kross had at least two radio hits each...whatever, i dont care haha) Here's the snippets that had random Liz mentionings (she kept poppin up, so i had to post this) :) Veruca Salt: American Thighs Hit: "Seether" (RealAudio excerpt) This could be the link connecting '90s indie-rockers (see also: Liz Phair, the Breeders) to their sister-ancestors, the honorable Heart, who perfected female vocal-guitar harmonics. "Seether" is fabulous, but check out "All Hail Me"--perhaps the greatest Heart tribute yet recorded--as well as "Get Back" and "Spiderman '79." Not a totally consistent album, but the band' 1994 debut was as promising as hell. Elastica: Elastica Hit: "Connection" ( RealAudio excerpt) One of the few female rock bands with a genuine sense of entitlement to the genre and most of its spoils: loud guitars played well; insidious hooks sprouting from three-minute monster cuts; and bad, bad behavior. Spiritually and musically, Elastica leader Justine Frischmann has much more in common with arrogant male Brit-rockers (ex-boyfriend Damon Albarn, of Blur, for example) than do American female rockers Liz Phair, Courtney Love or Gwen Stefani, all of whom sometimes let self-consciousness get the best of them. As they proved on this 1995 release, Elastica just rock. (since when is gwen stefani a "rocker"????) steve ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 00:54:05 EDT From: "Jason Long" Subject: Re: More Fractured Thoughts Bill in CT wrote: >BTW: JSBX is on Matador, and Pavement still is? I thought you liked them >Jason. I do like Pavement, but I thought they were on hiatus or taking a break right now, so I didn't really think to include them. But yes, they are one of my favorite bands. As for JSBX, I guess my enthusiasm for them has wavered quite a bit. I didn't like _Acme_ as much as their previous albums, which, truth be told, I haven't listened to in quite a while either. I go through periods where I'm really into them, then others where I can only handle them in small doses. Cheers, Jase ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of support-system-digest V3 #204 ************************************