From: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org (support-system-digest) To: support-system-digest@smoe.org Subject: support-system-digest V6 #23 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 Thursday, January 30 2003 Volume 06 : Number 023 Today's Subjects: ----------------- album title [biskinikill@aol.com] Re: album title [Jase ] RE: Liz story at RS.com ["Brooke, Robert" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 01:48:13 -0500 From: biskinikill@aol.com Subject: album title ugh. anyone else think the title "happy tragic thing" is terrible? sigh. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 02:26:33 -0500 From: Jase Subject: Re: album title biskinikill@aol.com wrote: >ugh. anyone else think the title "happy tragic thing" is terrible? Well, I'll admit, it's a little underwhelming, but it's certainly no worse than _whitechocolatespaceegg_ and has the advantage of being more aesthetically pleasing. Besides, the title may yet change. Originally Liz had wanted to name _Whip-Smart_ either _Tailhook_ or _Unfinished Business_. There was even one magazine blurb a few months before its release that referred to it by the latter title. Who knows what kind of tweaking may go on between now and the album's release? Ultimately, title be damned, I'm just glad the record will be out in less than four months! I'd like to humbly suggest, though, that they release the album a couple of weeks earlier. May 6 is a Tuesday and happens to be the same week as my birthday... ;) Starting to get anxious, Jase ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 06:31:43 -0600 From: "Brooke, Robert" Subject: RE: Liz story at RS.com OK, The new CD is called: Happy Tragic Thing And I'm guessing that the Three songs titles that were mention are on the new CD which are as follows: Extraordinary Why Can't I Rock Me I am getting really excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rob ________________________________________________________ Liz Phair debuted three new tunes during a nine-song set at the Ray-Ban Visionary Awards party at the Sundance Film Festival last week. The new material was a preview for her upcoming album, Happy Tragic Thing, due May 20th on Capitol Records. It had been nearly five years since Phair released an album, and about three since she'd played in public. Despite so much time out of the spotlight, Phair -- known for paralyzing stage fright in her early years -- was confident and warm in delivering six older songs along with the soothing, upbeat "Extraordinary," the acoustic love song "Why Can't I?" and the name-checking rocker "Rock Me." Her recognizable, husky delivery, which previously seemed a lo-fi instrument of dissonance, has grown and changed into an almost girlish alto. "My voice is so much better because I'm not as self-conscious as I used to be," she said afterwards. "Somewhere along the way I got rid of a lot of my fear about singing, and I've really been working hard on developing my voice." Phair has been writing and recording with producers including Walt Vincent, Michael Penn and pop production team the Matrix (Avril Lavigne, Nick Carter), and reports that theme-wise "a lot of the songs have to do with my own personal gender issues." Phair plans to release some alternate mixes of the Happy Tragic Things tunes over the Internet, keeping the straight-ahead rockers for the album. "The songs that made it onto the album are the ones that rock," she says. "I wanna sell some records, goddammit!" ANDREW STRICKMAN (January 28, 2003) ------------------------------ End of support-system-digest V6 #23 ***********************************