From: owner-support-system-digest@smoe.org (support-system-digest) To: support-system-digest@smoe.org Subject: support-system-digest V9 #51 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 Sunday, December 3 2006 Volume 09 : Number 051 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [support-system] Favorite Albums 2006 [Emil Breton ] [support-system] anyone have a few recordings.......? [Jeff L Subject: [support-system] Favorite Albums 2006 Tyler wrote: <> I for one have certainly been thinking about my favorite albums of 2006. I've considered the 3 new CDs I purchased this year and have ranked them thusly: 1) Fox Confessor Brings the Flood--Neko Case I can't say enough good things about this record. Neko is a true independent, the girl with the biggest and best voice in contemporary pop/rock/alt/country/whatever today, her songs are dark and funny and darkly funny (I think either a person or animal dies or gets maimed in, like, every song), gorgeous, rocking, weird, hugely melodic, and sad, and she was the funniest motherf---in' live performer I'd seen in my life this past August until I saw ... 2) The Duper Sessions--Sondre Lerche Sondre is best experienced live, alone, and with an electric guitar (gee, who does that remind you of?), but this is him doing a jazzy throwback kind of album with his backing band The Faces Down. He has a new record coming out in January, I think, that is supposed to be more Elvis Costello-inspired. Either way, go see him in concert. He's even better now than he was when he opened for Liz Phair in 2003. 3) Highway Companion--Tom Petty Why is this record so good? I don't know. How did he pull this off at such a late stage in his career? I don't know. But I enjoy listening to this even more than I enjoy listening to his Greatest Hits album, the one with "Mary Jane's Last Dance". His lyrics are like dimestore Dylan, I suppose, but that's beside the point. The melodies, the harmonies, the riffage...! I swoon & swoon again. Now, here's a record I bought this past year that was reissued in 2005, I think, but was originally released in 1971. The artist is long gone (d. 1979), but her music is ready for widespread rediscovery via Volkswagen ads: Judee Sill--Judee Sill Ever wonder what the direct, female missing link was between Liz Phair and the 1970s? Actually, maybe that's stretching it, but a LOT of people, upon hearing Judee Sill, are instantly reminded of good early Liz Phair and conclude that she must have heard this record at some point. I kind of doubt that, but there's something about the unexpected bluesy bits of melody that she forces into the corners of her un-bluesiest songs... Her records rely heavily on Christian mythology without being actual Christian music, if you get my drift (think late 60s psychedelia), but Sill was such a gifted folk guitarist/pianist and pitch-perfect singer, and her songs are so rich, warm, and invigorating that even a hard-line atheist like myself has no qualms about submitting completely to it. I could go on & on. Check her out, please. That's all! - -Emil ____________________________________________________________________________________ Any questions? Get answers on any topic at www.Answers.yahoo.com. Try it now. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 11:02:20 -0800 (PST) From: Jeff L Subject: [support-system] anyone have a few recordings.......? Hey there listers! It's been quiet on here for quite a while. Wish Liz would start doing something to drum up some talk soon! I am looking for a few recordings and hope someone can help me out. I want to get a copy of the show Liz did at Ceasar's Tahoe a few years back as well as copies of each of the 2 acoustic shows she did in San Francisco on the SM tour. I was at all of these shows and would love to be able to hear them again. I don't really have much for trade, but could pay all costs for materials and shipping. Please help me out. Thanks everyone! Jeff ____________________________________________________________________________________ Cheap talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. http://voice.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 21:53:40 -0600 From: "Liz J" Subject: RE: [support-system] Favorite Albums 2006 I've never participated in this end o' the year list before because I've never bought any new music. That's all changed this year. Here's some good stuff I heard in 2006: - - Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - "Ballad of the Broken Seas" Isobel's a Scottish cellist/singer most famous for being in Belle & Sebastian. She quit the group several years ago and started out on her own. Here she teams up with Mark, most famous for the '90s grunge band Screaming Trees and as a sporadic member of Queens of the Stone Age. "Ballad" is a collection of folky country songs - but it's good, not Shania or Garth. Their duets have brought a lot of comparison to Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra (indeed, Isobel's covered Nancy's "Bang Bang" before), but unlike a lot of male/female duos, Isobel wrote all of the material except for one Mark song and one Hank Williams cover of "Ramblin' Man." She also played a lot of the instruments. Love it, love her. Isobel's voice is very soft and thin -- it's been described both as asthmatic and angelic and Mark's voice sounds like he's two drinks away from complete liver failure. (Isobel also released "Milkwhite Sheets" a few weeks ago, which focuses more on spooky English folk songs. I also recommend it.) Hear their stuff here: http://hype.non-standard.net/search/isobel%20campbell/1/ - - Neko Case - "Fox Confessor Brings the Flood" There's not much I can write about Neko except that she's never hit a bad note in her life and her voice could knock down a house. It's even better live - I've never seen her live, but the NPR concert recording is great. Hear the NPR recording here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5325695 - - The Decemberists - "The Crane Wife" Yeah, the titles rival Sufjan Stevens in pretentiousness and length, but even though Colin Meloy writes/sings about archaic subjects, it somehow all comes together. The song "Yankee Bayonet" is fantastic. Hear "Yankee Bayonet" here: http://hype.non-standard.net/search/yankee%20bayonet/1/ More good stuff: Camera Obscura - "Let's Get Out of This Country" Belle & Sebastian - "The Life Pursuit" Margot and the Nuclear So and So's - "The Dust of Retreat" (gotta give it up for a band from my temporary hometown) And more good stuff I bought this year that wasn't released this year: The New Pornographers - "Mass Romantic," "Electric Version," "Twin Cinema" A.C. Newman - "The Slow Wonder" (Newman heads The New Pornos; Neko also sings with them) Regina Spektor - "Soviet Kitsch" >From: Emil Breton >To: support-system@smoe.org >Subject: [support-system] Favorite Albums 2006 >Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 09:46:57 -0800 (PST) > >Tyler wrote: > ><quiet Support System, I hope everyone is thinking of >their favorite albums of 2006. I've been narrowing >down all of the albums I've acquired all year and, >having trouble coming up with just ten, expanded my >list to fifteen.>> > >I for one have certainly been thinking about my >favorite albums of 2006. I've considered the 3 new CDs >I purchased this year and have ranked them thusly: > >1) Fox Confessor Brings the Flood--Neko Case > >I can't say enough good things about this record. Neko >is a true independent, the girl with the biggest and >best voice in contemporary >pop/rock/alt/country/whatever today, her songs are >dark and funny and darkly funny (I think either a >person or animal dies or gets maimed in, like, every >song), gorgeous, rocking, weird, hugely melodic, and >sad, and she was the funniest motherf---in' live >performer I'd seen in my life this past August until I >saw ... > >2) The Duper Sessions--Sondre Lerche > >Sondre is best experienced live, alone, and with an >electric guitar (gee, who does that remind you of?), >but this is him doing a jazzy throwback kind of album >with his backing band The Faces Down. He has a new >record coming out in January, I think, that is >supposed to be more Elvis Costello-inspired. Either >way, go see him in concert. He's even better now than >he was when he opened for Liz Phair in 2003. > >3) Highway Companion--Tom Petty > >Why is this record so good? I don't know. How did he >pull this off at such a late stage in his career? I >don't know. But I enjoy listening to this even more >than I enjoy listening to his Greatest Hits album, the >one with "Mary Jane's Last Dance". His lyrics are like >dimestore Dylan, I suppose, but that's beside the >point. The melodies, the harmonies, the riffage...! I >swoon & swoon again. > > >Now, here's a record I bought this past year that was >reissued in 2005, I think, but was originally released >in 1971. The artist is long gone (d. 1979), but her >music is ready for widespread rediscovery via >Volkswagen ads: > >Judee Sill--Judee Sill > >Ever wonder what the direct, female missing link was >between Liz Phair and the 1970s? Actually, maybe >that's stretching it, but a LOT of people, upon >hearing Judee Sill, are instantly reminded of good >early Liz Phair and conclude that she must have heard >this record at some point. I kind of doubt that, but >there's something about the unexpected bluesy bits of >melody that she forces into the corners of her >un-bluesiest songs... Her records rely heavily on >Christian mythology without being actual Christian >music, if you get my drift (think late 60s >psychedelia), but Sill was such a gifted folk >guitarist/pianist and pitch-perfect singer, and her >songs are so rich, warm, and invigorating that even a >hard-line atheist like myself has no qualms about >submitting completely to it. I could go on & on. Check >her out, please. > >That's all! > >-Emil > > > >____________________________________________________________________________________ >Any questions? Get answers on any topic at www.Answers.yahoo.com. Try it >now. _________________________________________________________________ View Athletes Collections with Live Search http://sportmaps.live.com/index.html?source=hmemailtaglinenov06&FORM=MGAC01 ------------------------------ End of support-system-digest V9 #51 ***********************************