From: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org (support-system-digest) To: support-system-digest@smoe.org Subject: support-system-digest V6 #152 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 Monday, June 16 2003 Volume 06 : Number 152 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Liz EMI email spiel... [Brian Cooper ] little digger redeemed ["sandra" ] Spin review [Emil Breton ] everything's coming up roses! [Liza Kosciuch ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 17:03:53 +1000 From: Brian Cooper Subject: Re: Liz EMI email spiel... Sally asked: >The email also came with an e-card that said that the album's coming out >in Australia June 30 - can anyone confirm this? Also, are any Aussies >going to the Veruca Salt or Placebo concerts coming up? I'm getting quite >excited about them! From an article I've seen before June 30 was the suggested release date here, though Derek (another Aussie on this list) had news that it had blown out to July 28. Maybe they've changed their minds again. As for the impending Veruca Salt tour, I should be excited. While they were a band I really loved in the late 90's, no tour since '98 and their last album being released here two years later than the U.S., it's hard to keep the interest going. I certainly hope they're going to try out some new material because if they don't have a new album in the pipeline they might as well pack it in. Stephen asked: >Anybody know of any good concerts on in the States between 27th of June >and 14th July? I've always found www.pollstar.com to be a wonderful source when I've been travelling to the U.S. I've seen Tori Amos in Washington D.C. and Heart in Seattle from news on their site. Have a great trip. Brian ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 09:19:01 -0500 From: "sandra" Subject: little digger redeemed the > heart-wrenching "Little Digger," a song that documents > a meeting between a young son experiencing his > father's absence and his mother's new boyfriend. It is > one of the most moving moments Phair has ever > committed to tape. "My friends cried when they heard > that one," says Phair. > Good God, someone is finally agreeing with me! I cried too, Liz. sandra ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 12:24:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Emil Breton Subject: Spin review For those who haven't read it yet, here's the review from Spin. Strange that it was awarded a B-, when it's apparent the reviewer has considerable grievances about it. Liz Phair B- Liz Phair Liz Phair (Capitol) By Chuck Klosterman There is a song on Liz Phair's self-titled fourth album called "Rock Me," and it's a little like Steely Dan's "Hey Nineteen": Phair is dating a guy who's nine years her junior, and he's broke and not very smart, but he's good at ripping off her dress, and he likes to tell her how smart she is, and this is what she wants. And it's weird, because when Donald Fagen talked about hanging out with a girl too young to know about Aretha Franklin, he felt so guilty that he had to snort mountains of Colombian coke to get through the conversation. But Phair loves it. She just wants to sit on the floor of the boy's apartment and play with his Xbox. On her 1993 debut, Exile in Guyville, Phair deconstructed relationships with an insight that didn't seem mortal. Now she plays videogames with some slacker dude. This is not what I want to hear. But you know what? That's fine. It's not Liz Phair's job to be the icon we want her to be; Liz Phair's job is to reflect her own reality. And surrendering her spirit is evidently where she's at right now. People keep accusing her of trying to become Sheryl Crow on this album, but that's inaccurate--mostly because Crow's songs are way catchier. The music on Liz Phair (produced in part by Avril Lavigne collaborators the Matrix) is boilerplate MOR. It lacks the emotive eccentricity of Phair's first three records, and it won't be enough to make Lavigne's fans fall for her, either. But what Liz Phair delivers is authenticity: When she sings about her son's interaction with her new boyfriend ("Little Digger") or about the semidark secrets of her normal life ("Extraordinary"), she's writing what she knows in a way Crow never will. And if it makes her happy, it can't be that bad. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 20:24:53 -0400 From: Liza Kosciuch Subject: everything's coming up roses! From this week's Soapbox column from The New York Times New Jersey Weekly section, headlined A Serenade That Says 'Scram' The author (Andrea Higbie) is writing about music she puts on her answering machine in hopes to disorient and hopefully dissuade telemarketers and other unwelcome callers. She prefers Ethel Merman, and this excerpt talks about how she chooses her music: "My rule is that I have to like the performers, because I, too, have to hear them when I'm screening calls as well as when I call home and no one picks up by the fourth ring. So while Celine Dion, Mariah Carey and the new Liz Phair are annoying, they're too annoying for me." Ouch. ------------------------------ End of support-system-digest V6 #152 ************************************