From: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org (support-system-digest) To: support-system-digest@smoe.org Subject: support-system-digest V6 #349 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 1 2004 Volume 06 : Number 349 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [support-system] direct fan ticketing [sarahmay14 ] Re: [support-system] for those about to courtney, we salute you [Jase Subject: [support-system] direct fan ticketing hello - does anyone have the link to the fan ticketing site? I erased it and now I need to make an additional purchase...pls send to me sarahmay14@yahoo.com thanks! sarah __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Find out what made the Top Yahoo! Searches of 2003 http://search.yahoo.com/top2003 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 03:09:49 -0500 From: Jase Subject: Re: [support-system] for those about to courtney, we salute you o wrote: >the i-tunes music store has an 'exclusive' song from courtney love's new >album. From what I gather, it's just the first single, "Mono," which is also available through the Musicmatch Store. The song can also be streamed from courtneylove.com, which also has a free download of it that expires after 15 days. I'm waiting until the actual CD single is released at the end of January to purchase it. Until then, the burned copy I have will suffice. It's a great song, though. I was expecting it to be a lot poppier, given Linda Perry's involvement, but it skews about halfway between the aesthetics of _Live Through This_ and _Celebrity Skin_. I'm really looking forward to the full album in February. If the live versions of the songs are any indication, I think it may be the best thing she's done yet. Jase ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 04:15:52 +0000 From: "over pavema" Subject: [support-system] comments, peer comments, pics, and even a video, all in one post. sunday ny times had 4 best-of-2003 lists for 'pop' music (as opposed to classical) today. 'L/P' wasn't on any of them, but it *was* discussed briefly in a 4-way forum published as a companion piece, featuring the 4 critics whose lists were published: PARELES How about Liz Phair? That was just the shot not heard round the world. SANNEH It's on pace to outsell her last one. And I thought the album was actually pretty good. PARELES This year's album was like an old-fashioned, blockbuster album. Spend a lot of money on producers, hype it to the skies. SANNEH I'm not mad that Liz Phair worked with the Matrix, who also write songs for Avril Lavigne. I like Avril  I just don't think Liz Phair has Avril's voice. I think Avril's record was better than the new Liz Phair album. PARELES Meanwhile, if you put the CD in your computer and download the five songs she calls an E.P.  "Come and Get It"  they're actually pretty good Liz Phair songs. It's just that you have tolaboriously download them and give away the privacy of your Windows Media Player to play them. SANNEH She's definitely set herself up for a triumphant return-to-the-roots comeback. (some portions edited out in this post...) SANNEH This year, a lot of the best underground rock I heard focused more on songwriting than it did on trying to find a new sound. It was conservative in a sense. PARELES I don't think there has to be an opposition between songwriting and innovation. Have all the ways to present the song been exhausted? I don't want a commentary on how all the good ideas have been used. I want a new idea. [excellent point!] ============================ also, michelle branch surprised me (at least) by being the maxim cover girl on the new issue (actually, i'm not sure if it's new or old -- i just saw it today at a b&n store). ken lee may want to add this to his "Comments by Liz's Peers" page: Maxim: What's your opinion of what's being played on the radio these days? MB: Recently I was asked to host a show called Reality Radio, and the hosts were like, "You can pick any song you want and play any music you want for an hour!" I thought it would be really cool, but when I got there they handed me this list of 30 songs and asked me to pick 14 from the list. I couldn't even pick two! It's amazing how radio plays the same songs over and over. It's hard as a music fat to listen to it... Maxim: What song in particular makes you want to drive into incoming traffic? MB: Someone asked me that question before, and I said that Hilary Duff song. I hated that song, but she read that I'd said that and she got really upset and apparently hates me. So I'm trying not to be mean now... Maxim: But... MB: Well, you konw that new Liz Phair single? It sounds like a lame attempt to be Avril Lavigne. C'mon, Liz, you can do better than that. And that's what irks me: She *can* do better. I also don't like that Jewel song -- the one they're using to sell those razors now. ================== finally, some liz pics from the bonaroo festival earlier this year: http://www.bonnaroo.com/2003/photos03/saturday/liz_phair/image1.htm and a really interesting fun site with an 'electronic press kit' for WCSE, including a short video covering some of the recording sessions, at: http://www.anglepark.com/projects_25.html# that one is definitely worth checking out. _________________________________________________________________ Make your home warm and cozy this winter with tips from MSN House & Home. http://special.msn.com/home/warmhome.armx ------------------------------ End of support-system-digest V6 #349 ************************************