From: owner-vicious-thorn-digest@smoe.org (vicious-thorn-digest) To: vicious-thorn-digest@smoe.org Subject: vicious-thorn-digest V3 #19 Reply-To: vicious-thorn@smoe.org Sender: owner-vicious-thorn-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-vicious-thorn-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk vicious-thorn-digest Wednesday, March 17 1999 Volume 03 : Number 019 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [V-Thorn] Kristy's influences ["John Nogueira" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 12:26:35 -0500 From: "John Nogueira" Subject: [V-Thorn] Kristy's influences The more I listen to Kristy, the more I'm surprised not to find two singers listed as her influences because I seem to "hear" them every now and again in her music. The first is Terri Nunn of Berlin. Many know them as the band behind the Top Gun theme "Take My Breath Away" (which in turns out was not performed by Berlin -- just Terri on vocals) and "Sex". But there's more to the band than radio ever gave them credit for. Berlin produced some truly well-crafted songs that never saw the light of radio but happily can still be found on CD. They have a "Best Of 79-88" if you want to go that route; but, I would put collecting order as Count Three And Pray, Love Life, then the Pleasure Victim EP. Some of the best ballads I own. The second is Dale Bozzio of Missing Persons. If you like Kristy's quirky vocal stylings on Happily Ever After, you'll like Dale's singing but only if you're into 80's new wave (oddly enough, I noticed that I put Ted Nugent and Missing Persons back to back on the same tape so disregard EVERYTHING that I ever say on this list again). There a 14 track version of "Spring Session M" on CD that combines a lot of their earlier music. I have yet to see "Rhyme And Reason" on CD but it's a classic. Avoid "Color In Your Life". J o h n N o g u e i r a L o n d o n O n t a r i o C a n a d a ------------------------------ End of vicious-thorn-digest V3 #19 **********************************