From: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org (support-system-digest) To: support-system-digest@smoe.org Subject: support-system-digest V6 #80 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 Friday, April 4 2003 Volume 06 : Number 080 Today's Subjects: ----------------- she's crafty ... ["sandra" ] Bounced message [owner-support-system@smoe.org (by way of Jase ] Re: support-system-digest V6 #79 [Aaron Walker ] Rumor from GreenPlasticRadiohead ["Chris DeLisle" ] Re: who's righteous? [fallout@purdue.edu] "Let The Night Come" question ["Chris DeLisle" ] Re: support-system-digest V6 #79 [LULU428@aol.com] Review [Kate Stewart ] PS [Kate Stewart ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 00:34:08 -0600 From: "sandra" Subject: she's crafty ... ok, this is hilarious. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2315648840&category=20561 quite seriously, i'd like to know -- how would one make one of these? is it, like, decoupage? sandra ps: you know, i searched ebay and came up with nuttin on the new album. liars. so i will have to say: who wants a video of sessions at west 54th for a copy of the goddamn album? AND WHY IS NO ONE OFFERING TO TREE IT? ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 03:47:14 -0500 From: owner-support-system@smoe.org (by way of Jase ) Subject: Bounced message From: Al Madrid Subject: The God's Must Be Crazy So Monday I'm walking my dogs (cute little intelligent creatures they are) yesterday and I begin hearing this high-pitched whistling sound right over my head and as I look up to see what it can be, lo and behold and to my surprise I get hit on the head by a flying CD. As I'm rubbing my head and with my two dogs (Lucy and Linus) pointing and laughing at me, I realize that it is the new Liz Phair album with the title Happy Tragic Thing. I then rush home draggin my two pooches and put it in my cd player. First impression is that it is good (a little avrilesque in some of the songs specifically Why Can't I?) but some real cool jamming songs too. Now that I have given it a spin around my cd player, in the car and at home and on my head phones and at work, non-stop since the God's dropped it into my hands, er, on my head, I think it is absolutely BRILLIANT and vintage Liz Phair but with a totally different sound. Does that not make sense? I don't know how to explain it but I guess if Liz Phair is gonna go mainstream this is what I expected she would sound like. Some vintage Liz sounds and rythms come through in some of the songs. I won't go into detail because ya'll will have your own thoughts and opins on each song but LIZ and CAPITOL if you are reading this PLEASE MAKE EXTRAORDINARY the first SINGLE. That song is soooooooo awesome. I mean Why Can't I is growing on me but EXTRAORDINARY is just tooooo cooool!!!!! I can't see EXTRAORDINARY following Why Can't I? as a single. I just can't. It doesn't feel right at all. EXTRAORDINARY doesn't sound like anything on the radio but it definitely has the "HIT" feel to it. Why Can't I? does too but it also sounds like everything out there right now. LIZ, put it this way, EXTRAORDINARY is like one big splash into the pool of mainstream. All of the other songs are just the ripples that will feed off of it. Some real cool songs, Bionic Eyes, White Hot Cum, Firewalker, You're in Love With Me, Rock Me, etc. I don't mind pop/mainstream music as long as the lyrics aren't too cheezy and forced. I don't feel that way with this album. Vintage Liz Phair songwriting but in a total new and different sound!!!! Way to go Liz. Great job!!!!!!! Thanks to the God(s) who dropped this onto my big fat head! :) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 06:45:25 -0600 From: "Brooke, Robert" Subject: New CD and Girlysounds I also have not heard or have the new cd. In this day and age you think someone can make mp3, post it somewhere and I could download it. I went up on ebay as well and did not find it. Please share, I go out and buy it as soon as it is in stores. I'm just jonesing so bad for some new Liz. It's like I'm hooked on crack and have been going through withdraw for 5 years. I would like a copy of girlysounds on cd. if anyone can help me please e-mail me privately. Rob ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 11:00:44 -0600 From: Aaron Walker Subject: Re: support-system-digest V6 #79 Sorry, that's TV. The channel is Trio: http://www.triotv.com/ Sessions at West 54th info: http://www.triotv.com/programs/shows/sessions/ Showtimes: http://www.triotv.com/schedules/sched.php3?search=SESSIONS - -- - -Aaron Walker > Subject: support-system-digest V6 #79 > > Someone posted these times 4/9 7:00 & 10:00 pm for Sessions at West 54th / > Lounge Lizards. Is this a radio show if so what Chicago station or is it a > funky cable station? > > Thanks > > SMc ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 12:06:21 -0500 From: "Chris DeLisle" Subject: Rumor from GreenPlasticRadiohead NY Festival Radiohead is still strongly rumored to play the Field Day = Music Festival in Riverhead, NY. They are said to appear on the 6/7 = bill, with the Beastie Boys on the 6/8 date. Other guests rumored = include Sigur Ros, NERD, Beth Orton, Spiritualized, Liz Phair, My = Morning Jacket, plus others.=20 holy crap!!!! four of my favorite artists (RH, Liz, Beth Orton & = Spiritualized) in one Festival!!!! chris deLisle [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type image/gif] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 12:09:16 -0500 From: fallout@purdue.edu Subject: Re: who's righteous? Someone rip the CD already. jeremy ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 12:25:18 -0500 From: "Chris DeLisle" Subject: "Let The Night Come" question For all of those who are fortunate enough to have heard the final track, which is apparently "Let The Night Come," i have a question: is it one of those final tracks that ends the album on one great and final rush/summation (like "Strange Loop" or "May Queen"), or does it end on more of an odd, open-ended sigh like "Girls Room?" there's really no reason why i have to know this. but if we're talking so much about the new album, i figured i'd get this question out of the way. "Girls Room" tacked on at the end didn't really do it for me. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 15:53:46 EST From: LULU428@aol.com Subject: Re: support-system-digest V6 #79 i just read in timeout ny that liz phair will be performing in this 2 day "music and camping" festival that is at Calverton Enterprise Park which is 9 miles west of Riverhead, Long Island on June 7-8. it will be headlined by Radiohead and Beastie Boys. The concert will also feature Sigur Ros, N.E.R.D., Beth Orton, Spiritualized, My Morning Jacket, Ben Lee and the Transplants. It says that many other acts will be added and will also be art installations, booths and other festival fare. the website is www.fielddayfest.com sounds interesting! Lani ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 13:26:06 -0800 (PST) From: Kate Stewart Subject: Review Alrighty. I've given it a few listens.... and.... I'm still kind of undecided. I don't think it's her best since Exile (does anybody really think these songs top May Queen, or Go West? Or Support System? Uh, no). I've been trying very hard to keep an open mind. That said, I'll give a little review. Extraordinary is the better of the uber-produced pop songs. It's pretty forceful and there's some emotion behind it. I like that. Scared is way too long. (if your going to have a song be longer than 3 and half minutes, it better be damn good) It's ok, but kind of depressing. Why Can't I is utterly forgettable to me. It just sounds like it could be by anybody on the radio. ("It's just like we were meant to be"? What is this, 7th grade?) I find it hilarious that when she sings, "Isn't this the best part of breaking up," I expect the next line to be, "Finding someone else you really want to fuck." So I'll just sing that. I think it's terrible, but maybe some 13 year old will really love it. I'll be hitting the skip button on this one. I really like You're in love with me, especially the intro. It's different and cool and the music is actually really good. I dig. Rock me. Hmm. It encapsulates how I feel about this new album. Good lyrics...generic music. I really hate the Babybabybaby part. Take a Look, we've all heard it before. Bland to me. My Mother is Mine- someone said it doesn't fit with the rest of the album, and I agree, but I think it's a really good song anyway. Very personal, obviously. Firewalker. I like the live version better, just because she seemed to be singing with a lot more oomph. In this version, she sounds kind of bored and like she's holding back. Still a great song though and I love the intro, even though it doesn't seem to fit with the song. I wish she would pick up the tempo or something. Again, My Favorite Underwear has great lyrics and cheesy, generic radio music. I'm beginning to wonder if she wrote these great songs and the matrix or whoever took over and changed the music a lot but kept the lyrics. It's a War- Still like the old version better. I do like the lyrics (never could understand the old lyrics). I wish she had kept the music exactly the same as the original. Hot White Cum is the best song on the album, hands down. Real music, although its cute and hand-clappy. I keep wondering about that cum/happiness medical study. Is she sarcastic or does she really believe it? Hard to tell. I love the harmonica, it gives me hope for the Liz Phair future. I hope to hell this song is ultracontroversial. I can imagine the feminists duking it out over this one. Bionic eyes is pretty good. I like the lyrics a lot. One thing I love about Liz is her unabashed confidence about her sexuality and whatnot. She knows everybody wants her and loves to roll her eyes at the whole thing. Friend of Mine and Let the Night Come I am still kind of undecided on. They're good but not wonderful. So overall... I don't know. I am really surprised Don't Apologize didn't make it on. If any song she's written in the last few years "rocks," it's that one in my opinion. Thank god the live version is really good. And what about conversation overheard between two bouncers? arg. People have said they like her voice better, but it often seems so radio-generic-american idol or something. I guess I prefer the warbles. They were real and honest. My biggest hope for the album, though, is that some unsuspecting 14 year old will go into a record store and accidentally buy Exile. That would make it all worthwhile. She needs to rope in those youngin's. Kate Yahoo! 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