From: owner-sycophant-digest@smoe.org (sycophant-digest) To: sycophant-digest@smoe.org Subject: sycophant-digest V8 #89 Reply-To: sycophant@smoe.org Sender: owner-sycophant-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-sycophant-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk sycophant-digest Friday, August 8 2003 Volume 08 : Number 089 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: sycophant Question for the list [WoW ] Re: sycophant Question for the list ["celia keren" Subject: Re: sycophant Question for the list Well, I was writing a feature on female singer-songwriters for a magazine back in '97, and another journalist told me to look into Lisa as well, which I did - and at first, I didn't like Love Circus very much, I was more into the Alanis en Meredith Brooks types at the time, until mid-'98, when I gave Love Circus another chance - and it totally blew me away! I quickly bought the previous albums, singles, promo's, etc (anything I could get my hands on; which is hard here in Europe), I even wrote a play partly inspired by her music in 1999, and finally last April I met her in Brussels. Favorite album: Geek, favorite track: Cry Wolf - --- TRman2323@aol.com wrote: > Question for everyone: > > How did you get turned on to Lisa's music? What was > your initial exposure, > and how and why did you come to like her music as > much as you do? > > > --Personally, I read a review of "Happiness" that > referenced her violin > playing. I play myself, and wondered how she was > using it in contemporary pop music > (where it's pretty rare). > > So I bought the album...I was disappointed in the > violin playing as it seemed > pretty minimalist (at first anyway--now I can hear a > lot of subtleties in her > playing that are very cool). But I liked the album > anyway, especially "Bad > Attitude" and--dare I admit it?--"Boots Are Made For > Walking." > > After a while I got to liking it so much I bought > Moon Palace--it blew me > away! Then I got more albums, joined the list, saw > her in person, went into the > button business--the rest is history. > > --Tom Lucas > > > > ------- > The Ectophile's Guide to Good Music: > http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide/ > ------- > To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with the message: > unsubscribe sycophant > > If you gave an infinite number of monkeys an > infinite number of computers, > they would all get AOL accounts and send unsub > messages to the list > address. AOL users please read the instructions six > lines up before > unsubbing. > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com - ------- The Ectophile's Guide to Good Music: http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide/ - ------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with the message: unsubscribe sycophant If you gave an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of computers, they would all get AOL accounts and send unsub messages to the list address. AOL users please read the instructions six lines up before unsubbing. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 14:28:32 +0200 From: "celia keren" Subject: Re: sycophant Question for the list Boots are made for walking???never heard of that song!! I got to know Lisa's music (interesting question...) cos she played as a support band in Paris for the eels for the 2nd album tour (I've really been into the eels since the very beginning...) I usually don't pay a lot of attention on support bands but here it was amazing. Afer like half a song I just sit in the 2nd row and after another half I think the whole venue was completely silent and hypnotised by her music and...presence, so to say. It really knocked me out!!! I told a lof of friends about it, and then maybe 8 months ago a friend of mine got me slide for my birthday and I realised I remembered half the lyrics...Then I bought more albums, joined the list cos I just wanted to absolutely know it if she was ever going to play again in Paris (I mean her own songs) and that's it! >From: TRman2323@aol.com >Reply-To: sycophant@smoe.org >To: sycophant@smoe.org >Subject: sycophant Question for the list >Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 16:54:57 EDT > >Question for everyone: > >How did you get turned on to Lisa's music? What was your initial exposure, >and how and why did you come to like her music as much as you do? > > >--Personally, I read a review of "Happiness" that referenced her violin >playing. I play myself, and wondered how she was using it in contemporary >pop music >(where it's pretty rare). > >So I bought the album...I was disappointed in the violin playing as it >seemed >pretty minimalist (at first anyway--now I can hear a lot of subtleties in >her >playing that are very cool). But I liked the album anyway, especially "Bad >Attitude" and--dare I admit it?--"Boots Are Made For Walking." > >After a while I got to liking it so much I bought Moon Palace--it blew me >away! Then I got more albums, joined the list, saw her in person, went into >the >button business--the rest is history. > >--Tom Lucas > > > >------- >The Ectophile's Guide to Good Music: http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide/ >------- >To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with the message: >unsubscribe sycophant > >If you gave an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of computers, >they would all get AOL accounts and send unsub messages to the list >address. AOL users please read the instructions six lines up before >unsubbing. > _________________________________________________________________ Dicouvrez les nouvelles imotictnes animies de http://g.msn.fr/FR1001/866 MSN Messenger nouvelle formule - ------- The Ectophile's Guide to Good Music: http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide/ - ------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with the message: unsubscribe sycophant If you gave an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of computers, they would all get AOL accounts and send unsub messages to the list address. AOL users please read the instructions six lines up before unsubbing. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 16:08:40 +0200 From: "Oskar Aspman" Subject: Re: sycophant Question for the list Hi all, Interesting thread this! Back when Geek the Girl was released I read a review in a musicmagazine here in Sweden. As the little goth-rocker I was then the line "darker and gloomier than The Sisters of Mercy" (quoted from memory) really caught my attention. I bought the CD and listened to it without interuption for two weeks. Needless to say I still adore all Lisa albums and my sistersrecords are collecting dust (although still pretty good in a rock'n'roll kind of way). I actually quoted one of the songs from Lullaby in one of my latest comics :) (as have I done before) regards /oskar - - hypnagogue - http://pinakothek.metagrafika.com http://www.cestbonkultur.com - ------- The Ectophile's Guide to Good Music: http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide/ - ------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with the message: unsubscribe sycophant If you gave an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of computers, they would all get AOL accounts and send unsub messages to the list address. AOL users please read the instructions six lines up before unsubbing. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 12:46:43 EDT From: TRman2323@aol.com Subject: sycophant Boots Are Made For Walking In a message dated 8/7/2003 5:29:20 AM Pacific Daylight Time, celiakeren@hotmail.com writes: > Boots are made for walking???never heard of that song!! This is a cover of an old Nancy Sinatra song that was on the Capitol version of "Happiness". Apparently Lisa hates the song, and it was left off of the 4AD version of the album. I know it's kind of a dumb song; I liked the arrangement anyway, and Lisa's singing on it is wonderful and funny. I felt like I got a different perspective on Lisa from hearing her do something that, for a change, she didn't write. - --Tom - ------- The Ectophile's Guide to Good Music: http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide/ - ------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with the message: unsubscribe sycophant If you gave an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of computers, they would all get AOL accounts and send unsub messages to the list address. AOL users please read the instructions six lines up before unsubbing. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 12:28:24 -0500 From: "Steven Hill" Subject: RE: sycophant Question for the list > >Question for everyone: > >How did you get turned on to Lisa's music? What was your initial > exposure Back in 1991 there was a little article in Rolling Stone (I think) about the release of "On the Way Down from the Moon Palace". I had of course noticed Lisa in John Cougar Mellencamp's videos, and the description of Moon Palace interested me enough to want to buy it. It took a few months for me to find a copy in a record store. I liked it, but it didn't bowl me over. In 1993 on one of my regular record store visits, I bought a new release I hadn't expected to see: "Happiness". Again, I liked it, but it didn't knock my socks off. I think it was only a few months later when I heard that 4AD signed her and would re-release the album in a new version. I was a big 4AD fan at the time, and the news excited me. I grabbed "Inconsiderate Bitch" as soon as it came out, and the new version of "Happiness" was an improvement. And it just got better from there. :) I think I still have that Rolling Stone (?) article somewhere, too. - -Steve - ------- The Ectophile's Guide to Good Music: http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide/ - ------- To unsub, mail majordomo@smoe.org with the message: unsubscribe sycophant If you gave an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of computers, they would all get AOL accounts and send unsub messages to the list address. AOL users please read the instructions six lines up before unsubbing. ------------------------------ End of sycophant-digest V8 #89 ****************************** ======================================================================== Please send any questions or comments about the list to sycophant-owner@smoe.org