From: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org (support-system-digest) To: support-system-digest@smoe.org Subject: support-system-digest V8 #133 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 Wednesday, October 12 2005 Volume 08 : Number 133 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [support-system] HOB Anaheim show - 2 for 1 tickets [Paul Veravanich ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 23:18:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul Veravanich Subject: [support-system] HOB Anaheim show - 2 for 1 tickets FYI - Tomorrow, Tuesday October 11, the House of Blues Two for Tuesday promo includes the Liz Phair show on November 15. Two tickets for $20. It runs from 10am to 10pm, and I believe you go to hob.com to buy the tickets. __________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 01:37:27 -0700 From: Kenneth Lee Subject: [support-system] Somebody's Miracle review (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) From The Seattle Post-Intelligencer: (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/pop/244039_newcds11.html?source=rss) LIZ PHAIR "Somebody's Miracle" (Capitol) There are some good songs here but, at age 38, Liz Phair should be doing better. Unlike Aimee Mann, she has not developed her singular approach into a strong, individual voice. All the elements are present, but an indie indifference pervades when the performances are begging for emotional commitment. And her signature off-tune singing isn't as endearing when it sounds this self-consciously intentional. Still, Phair's knack for giving irregular twists to the dynamics of a pop song make "Leap of Innocence" and the title track hard to resist. (Bill White) GRADE: C+ - -Ken kenmlee@ix.netcom.com MeSmErIzInG - AnOtHeR LiZ PhAiR WeBsItE http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Club/2471/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:09:24 -0400 From: "Jenny Sayler" Subject: [support-system] cant get out of what im into it wont let you purchase the song if you havent bought the whole album on itunes, since i already bought the cd, i really cant afford to pay for the album again. does anyone have a copy of this song to trade or just send to me? jenny ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 06:47:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Gabriel Peterson Subject: [support-system] Capital & iTunes Sorry if I just sent a copy of the last digest, I hit a key and suddenly there was no message anymore. Anyway, I'm really annoyed at Capital. I just received an email from them today saying that you can get "Can't Get Out of What I'm Into" on iTunes if you buy the album. I understand that it seems like a last minute decision to pull it from the regular album but I feel like they're punks for telling the people who signed up for the mailing list about this after the album's out. I can only guess that they're trying to double-dip since it is a group of people that would probably buy the album within a couple days of the release and they had already sent an email about it being available. I'm a huge fan of iTunes but I wish they had bragged about having the exclusive because I had even checked them first but decided to go for the liner notes instead (which iTunes didn't have for her album). I would gladly pay iTunes the buck for the track but not 10 bucks for this marketing ploy. If anyone could help me obtain this track I'd appreciate it. It sounds like the girlysounds version is better but I'd like a hiss-free copy of the song. Thanks, Gabe - --------------------------------- Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:45:36 -0400 From: "Chris DeLisle" Subject: [support-system] review(s) and thoughts on "Somebody's Miracle" it's hard to stomach all of these reviews. i don't believe a word in much of any of them. first, my two criticisms: 1) they didn't get the first single right...again. 3rd record in a row. i would have chosen "Giving It All To You." 2) "Leap Of Innocence" isn't the best song to lead the record off with. i would have started off with "Stars And Planets" or "Why I Lie." i think "Giving It All To You" could also have been a good opener, but it's a better closer. now, everything i think is great about the record. 1) "Giving It All To You" is a great pop song through and through. i don't understand how you can't enjoy this song. 2) "Why I Lie" is like the daughter of "Never Said." there's a link there, from the Stonesy sound to the coyness of the lyrics. 3) "Count On My Love" has, possibly, the most joyous refrain that Liz has ever come up with. that also wouldn't have been a poor choice for a single. 4) the trio of ballads ~ "Everything To Me," "Closer To You" and "Why I Lie" ~ sound like they were written in a similar vein to the COMEANDGETIT EP's "Fine Again." it sounds like a singer-songwriter ballad from the early 70's. Rod Stewart should have covered them back then. (not now, of course, though.) 5) "Lost Tonight" has a keyboard part right outside of Tony Banks' repertoire (from Genesis). it sounds like it came out of one of their 1970's albums with Peter Gabriel. 6) i'm not necessarily a huge fan of the first half of "Wind And The Mountain" (not to say that it's terrible), but from 3:08 to the end of the song, it's some of her best music on the whole record. probably a good show closer. i think those writers concentrating on her lyrics are missing the point. a lot of those early songs were very specific in their lyrics, off the top of my head, and these are very unspecific. this may be one of the problems with fans of "Exile" who aren't willing to follow her down new avenues. i, myself, am following like any other good sheep. i think this is a great record, myself, but she's a different artist than she used to be. i still think she's throwing songs up against the wall like spaghetti and she's trying to figure out what sticks. she might not be as innovative as she was in the beginning, but she's becoming a good crafts(wo)man. sounds from the music she probably likes come through her songs. "Lazy Dreamer" sounds like she wanted to sound either like U2 or the Smiths. quite a few of these songs sound like they belong in the 1970's (the sounds of which were an obvious influence on her). i probably have more to say, but that's enough for now. Chris DeLisle ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:54:07 -0700 From: Kenneth Lee Subject: [support-system] Somebody's Miracle reviews (Winnepeg Sun / Boston Herald) Here's a link to the Spin review: (http://www.spin.com/reviews/magazine/2005/10/051011_liz_phair/) From The Winnepeg Sun: (http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Artists/P/Phair_Liz/AlbumReviews/2005/10/06/1251254.html) SOMEBODY'S MIRACLE Yet another face of Liz Phair By DARRYL STERDAN -- Winnipeg Sun Liz Phair "Somebody's Miracle" Capitol/EMI We want to like Liz Phair. Honest we do. But she doesn't make it easy with her consistently inconsistent ways. In 1993, on her indie-rock debut "Exile in Guyville", she sounded like she wanted to be Patti Smith. Two years ago on her self-titled set of Matrix-produced teen-pop, she sounded like she wanted to be some MILF version of Avril Lavigne. Now, on her fifth studio album "Somebody's Miracle", she sounds like she wants to be Sheryl Crow. So the guitars jangle and shimmer, the melodies are rich, the grooves are mellow and the blandly commercial production polishes everything to a generically shiny semi-gloss. That might work for a lot of artists, but it doesn't do justice to Phair's waifishly (and endearingly) thin vocals or the stark, confessional songcraft of "Table for One", "Why I Lie" and "Leap of Innocence". Though perhaps it does balance her endless mood swings; one minute she's achingly pining for the titular miracle of long-term monogamy, the next she's flippantly dismissing the notion for the next guy who comes along. It's all a shame, really, since "Somebody's Miracle" offers some of Phair's most compelling, personal and likeable work in years. But if she could figure out how to pick a stance and stick with it, we'd like her a lot more. ***** From The Boston Herald: (http://theedge.bostonherald.com/discReviews/view.bg?articleid=106069) "Somebody's Miracle'' By Sarah Rodman Phair-weather fans who cried "indie-rock Judas!'' after hearing her splendid last album have only themselves to blame for this solid but unspectacular follow-up. The songs have a less grabby pop sheen, sure, but Phair also lets a few melodies and structures drift out of her reach as well. But she succeeds splendidly with a stark country waltz about alcoholism, a song full of not-so-friendly advice for today's pop tarts and a sly, swaggering anthem of self-confidence. Download: "Got My Own Thing.'' (Appearing Oct. 14 at the Paradise, Boston.) - -Ken kenmlee@ix.netcom.com MeSmErIzInG - AnOtHeR LiZ PhAiR WeBsItE http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Club/2471/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 22:29:02 -0500 From: "Bill Callahan" Subject: [support-system] Oh well Bill in CT asked: Liz played for 2 1/2 hours? You're right, it was 1.5 hours. My mistake! It was a typo. ;) Katie (); ) Didn't think so. Was hoping for a new trend. :-) I'll be happy if she plays that long Friday. After The New Pornographers tomorrow.(w/Neko this time!). And Death Cab 4 Cutie next week. And then the Dandy Warhols and X. Looking forward to it. Liz BTW is in the new issue of HARP. They also had a live concert(in studio?) of Liz last week on XM. And I didn't see it mentioned, but did anyone see Courntey Love's comments in SPIN about Liz? She trashed WCSE. Can only wonder what she thinks of the next 2. ;-) Later, Bill in CT Imagine that.....America's sweetheart talking bad of someone. ------------------------------ End of support-system-digest V8 #133 ************************************