From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V12 #190 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Thursday, July 20 2006 Volume 12 : Number 190 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: 10 worst album covers ever [Joseph Zitt ] bad album covers, re-covered... [adamk@zoom.co.uk] worst album covers [anna maria "stjärnell" ] Judie Tzuke live London! ["Xenu's Sister" ] Re: 10 worst album covers ever ["mrl220" ] Re: 10 worst album covers ever [Ed Cole ] Re: Amy Millan ["JoAnn Whetsell" ] Re: 10 worst album covers ever [meredith ] TOTALLY OT: was.....Re: 10 worst album covers ever [Ed Cole ] Re: 10 worst album covers ever [Joseph Zitt ] Re: Judie Tzuke live London! [Ellen Rawson ] Re: 10 worst album covers ever [Robert Lovejoy ] Re: bad album covers, re-covered...(Late again!) [Robert Lovejoy ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:08:27 -0700 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: 10 worst album covers ever Mike Connell wrote: > These are REALLY bad: > http://porktornado.diaryland.com/albumcover.html I remember one from the late 70s of a latin jazz album. A man (in a leisure suit, of course) and a woman were dancing, while chomping down on opposite ends of what appeared to be a giant spinach leaf. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:14:31 +0100 From: adamk@zoom.co.uk Subject: bad album covers, re-covered... This isn't the first time I've seen this list in some form or another -- for a more comprehensive view, see http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/ -- and I'm beginning to think that all they do is steal the artwork from each other and add new commentary. That said, this one was pretty funny, and I want to explore the rest of the site. The presence of Orleans always surprises me, but what surprises me more is the extent that they've been forgotten. They were verrrry big in the 70s (hey, I even remember this album cover from the first time round), with their brand of fun, breezy pop/rock and hits like "You're Still the One" and "Dance With Me". The former was actually used by one of the big three networks in the 70s to promote it's new season. Apparantly, they were really good live, as well. adam k, sweltering in an un-airconditioned office in London. np: Mary Lee's Corvette/Love, Loss and Lunacy (hey, nobody else is in yet, I can play what I like) - ----------------------------------------------- This mail sent through http://webmail.zoom.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 01:07:39 -0700 (PDT) From: anna maria "stjärnell" Subject: worst album covers Hi.. took a look and my eyes are still bleeding. The winner is just..eww. The Millie Jackson one was a real laugh too. What will people think of next? Anna Maria Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 05:06:27 -0700 (PDT) From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: Judie Tzuke live London! You lucky people in the London area! The Bulletin itself says "Tonight" but if my eyes don't deceive me, the Subject Line said 26th August. =========================== 26th August "BREAKING THROUGH - Feat. Judie Tzuke and friends" "BREAKING THROUGH - Feat. Judie Tzuke and friends" One of a series of events in support of "Team Silvas" and their charity walk for the Aviva Weekend to Breakthrough Breast Cancer later this year (www.breakthroughweekend.org); Tonight is an evening of music and entertainment in aid of this great charity and all proceeds will go to Breakthrough (www.breakthough.org.uk). Iconic singer/songwriter Judie Tzuke, takes a break from her day job of writing hit records with Lucie Silvas, and for the likes of Alex Parks, and many more to do what many feared would never happen again - perform live. Judie will be performing songs from some her 18 albums (not including compilations) plus some new ones, and will be joined on stage by some of her many friends for this evening of music, entertainment and mingling. 7:00pm doors 8:00pm start Tickets #10 (with all proceeds going to charity) available from Norwich Arts Centre (www.norwichartscentre.co.uk) (01603 660352) ============================================ I think if I were in the UK I'd get those tickets asap. Judie Tzuke fans are going to be on this quickly (after they've woken up from fainting, then cleaned up their drool, then woken up from fainting again, then going to the doctor because they hit their heads on the coffee table as they fell, then rushing down to the corner pharmacy to buy smelling salts to make sure they don't faint from shock again before they get their tickets, much like Kate fans would do). Here's Judie's MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/tzuke In one of those creepy coincidences that almost (almost) make a skeptic a believer, I was checking my personal page on MySpace when I saw this Bulletin from Judie Tzuke. I was listening to Suspended In Gaffa 4 (yes, I actually do listen to my own shows for pleasure...they're "compilation tapes" after all) and immediately after opening the Bulletin, "For You" started! Bizarrorama. Vickie - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Music, all I hear is music, guaranteed to please... Happy's MySpace profile: http://www.myspace.com/happyrhodes Happy Rhodes song samples and rarities: http://wretchawry.com - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:01:55 -0500 From: "mrl220" Subject: Re: 10 worst album covers ever I guess you have never seen the album covers of the long gone ESP records. The covers of the Fugs and Patty Waters were really awful. So was the music. Marty L. - ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Mike Connell Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:06:35 -0400 >These are REALLY bad: >http://porktornado.diaryland.com/albumcover.html > >I even recall seeing one of them in the stores, as it was a very popular >group in the mid-to-late 70s (Group = Orleans). > >The one I think is the worst is the 3rd one down (The McKeithens). The >hairdo on the woman in the middle is a bonafide knee-slapper! :-) > >Mike > ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at msg.dcwis.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 06:15:13 -0700 From: Ed Cole Subject: Re: 10 worst album covers ever I always kinda liked the Fugs. Not pretty music but definitely a sign of the times (meaning the turbulent '60s). And if it wasn't for the Fugs, an acquaintance back in Eau Gallie, FLA wouldn't have approached ESP about recording his music and the world would have been a tad worse off without Tom Rapp's Pearl Before Swine's songs. Tom never had a pretty voice but I think his subject matter was worthy of Ecto exploration. PBS's first 2 albums have been released on CD by a German company. Tom's recently moved back to FLA after a long career as a civil rights lawer. At 08:01 PM 7/18/2006, you wrote: >I guess you have never seen the album covers of the long >gone ESP records. The covers of the Fugs and Patty Waters were >really awful. So was the music. > >Marty L. > > >---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- >From: Mike Connell >Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:06:35 -0400 > > >These are REALLY bad: > >http://porktornado.diaryland.com/albumcover.html > > > >I even recall seeing one of them in the stores, as it was a very popular > >group in the mid-to-late 70s (Group = Orleans). > > > >The one I think is the worst is the 3rd one down (The McKeithens). The > >hairdo on the woman in the middle is a bonafide knee-slapper! :-) > > > >Mike > > > > > > > >________________________________________________________________ >Sent via the WebMail system at msg.dcwis.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:50:27 -0400 From: "JoAnn Whetsell" Subject: Re: Amy Millan For what it's worth, this album has already been released in the US. In case anyone didn't know and does care. JoAnn -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: DanS <2005.carnivore99@verizon.net> To: Joshua Yu Burnett , ecto@smoe.org Subject: Re: Amy Millan Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 20:51:26 -0400 >Amy Millan's Honey From the Tombs is due for U.S. domestic release >on August 22nd I believe, so you might be able to get it cheaper >than buying it as an import, if you can wait. > >Dan ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 12:17:35 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: 10 worst album covers ever Hi, Ed Cole wrote: > I always kinda liked the Fugs. Not pretty music but definitely a sign > of the times (meaning the turbulent '60s). And if it wasn't for the > Fugs, an acquaintance back in Eau Gallie, FLA wouldn't have approached > ESP about recording his music and the world would have been a tad worse > off without Tom Rapp's Pearl Before Swine's songs. Whoa, Eau Gallie?! That's a town name I thought I'd never see mentioned in these pages. (It's a section of Melbourne, Florida ... just a few miles away from the "Satellite Beach" of Peter Case fame, and a few miles in the other direcetion away from the town where I spent the worst years of my teenager-hood. Eau Gallie's main claim to fame is a beautiful eponymous causeway over the Indian River, and the first Wal-Mart to plague the area.) - -- =============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth =============================================== hear at the HOMe House Concert Series http://hom.smoe.org =============================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:45:12 -0700 From: Ed Cole Subject: TOTALLY OT: was.....Re: 10 worst album covers ever Interesting Meth, I'm thinking that if you were in the other direction you may have been from Palm Bay? I lived in Melbourne, West Melbourne, and Eau Gallie. I'm showing my age that when I say I left in '67 and never looked back. In those days Eau Gallie was an incorporated city unto itself. The joke was that the garbage men got $85 dollars a week and the cops only $80 a week. And you had to have at least 2 years of college to be a cop. Eau Gallie was facing bankruptcy and finally merged with Melbourne. I was a Mel-Hi Bulldog, class of '65. Never heard of Peter Case. Wikipedia says he was born in Buffalo in '54, which coincidentally enough is not far from where we lived before moving to Florida. Did he get his start in Satellite Beach or is that the name of one of his songs? The only musician I knew from Satellite Beach was Rick Jaeger. He had played drums with a local band called the Beau Gentry. I last saw him in San Francisco in '69 when he was drumming with A. B. Skhy. He later became the drummer for Dave Mason after Mr. Mason had left Traffic and went solo. Tom Rapp had never played with any of the local bands. One of my former student workers signed me up with another music list a few years ago. It's focused on current "psychedelic" groups (Bevis Frond, Ghost, Damon and Naomi, etc.) They have a "festival" almost annually for the magazine Ptolemaic Terrascope. Tom's son played at one of those gigs and talked his dad to come out of retirement and play. Unfortunately it wasn't local and I missed it. And when the next festival was here in the Seattle area where I'm at now, Tom didn't play. Thanks for the memory jog. Ed At 09:17 AM 7/19/2006, you wrote: >Hi, > >Ed Cole wrote: >>I always kinda liked the Fugs. Not pretty music but definitely a >>sign of the times (meaning the turbulent '60s). And if it wasn't >>for the Fugs, an acquaintance back in Eau Gallie, FLA wouldn't have >>approached ESP about recording his music and the world would have >>been a tad worse off without Tom Rapp's Pearl Before Swine's songs. > >Whoa, Eau Gallie?! That's a town name I thought I'd never see >mentioned in these pages. > >(It's a section of Melbourne, Florida ... just a few miles away from >the "Satellite Beach" of Peter Case fame, and a few miles in the >other direcetion away from the town where I spent the worst years of >my teenager-hood. Eau Gallie's main claim to fame is a beautiful >eponymous causeway over the Indian River, and the first Wal-Mart to >plague the area.) > > >-- >=============================================== >Meredith Tarr >New Haven, CT USA >mailto:meth@smoe.org >http://www.smoe.org/meth >=============================================== >hear at the HOMe House Concert Series >http://hom.smoe.org >=============================================== ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:58:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Craig Gidney Subject: Lisa Germano, IN THE MAYBE WORLD In cognitive therapy, the point is to defeat your bad core beliefs (Im too fat; Im an annoying personality; Im not worthy of love, etc.) Lisa Germano sets her bad core beliefs to music, singing them in a low, husky whisper-speak. It would almost be comical (and theres plenty of gallows humor in her lyrics) if she didnt construct interesting sound environments to put to confessionals to. Thats right: I said sound environments and not songs, because thats what they are. They are formless, folk-flavored dreampop lullabies created with violins, music box figures and soft guitar feedback. Its music from a Mister Rogers Neighborhood where Meow Meow Kitty is anorexic and Lady Elaine is a repressed lesbian. In the Maybe Worlds juxtaposition of child-like music with adult subject matter can be mesmerizing, tedious or both. It is simultaneously pretensions and artless. Germanos music is an acquired taste, like haggis or scrapple. But once you have it, you cant get enough. Not recommended for those in an emotionally fragile state. --Craig Laurance Gidney Blog: http://ethereal-lad.livejournal.com Music Blog: http://www.last.fm/user/ethereal_lad/ - --------------------------------- See the all-new, redesigned Yahoo.com. Check it out. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:13:40 -0700 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: 10 worst album covers ever mrl220 wrote: > I guess you have never seen the album covers of the long > gone ESP records. The covers of the Fugs and Patty Waters were really awful. So was the music. > Hmm! I was just listening to the Patty Waters a few days ago. She does go over the top on "Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair" (where she sort of turns into the Albert Ayler of vocals), but the rest is quite good. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:26:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Ellen Rawson Subject: Re: Judie Tzuke live London! - --- Xenu's Sister wrote: > You lucky people in the London area! London? It says Norwich -- that's East Anglia, not London! ;) Alas, I'm in Stratford that night in August anyway to see Patrick Stewart in 'The Tempest' -- booked the tickets months ago. Ellen "Literature stops in 1100. After that, it's just books." - -- JRR Tolkien ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:06:48 -0400 From: Robert Lovejoy Subject: Re: 10 worst album covers ever OK then, how about this site? http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/ Enjoy, Bob ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:09:49 -0400 From: Robert Lovejoy Subject: Re: bad album covers, re-covered...(Late again!) Sorry, it looks like Adam beat me to it. Thought I'd checked the entire thread. Sorry. Perhaps this one will make up for it: http://rateyourmusic.com/list/djlanda/the_100_worst_album_covers_ever/ Bob adamk@zoom.co.uk wrote: >This isn't the first time I've seen this list in some form or another -- for a >more comprehensive view, see http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 22:18:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Bernie Mojzes Subject: Re: bad album covers, re-covered...(Late again!) some of this stuff is truly awful. on the other hand, some of it is actually fairly brilliant (and/or appropriate for the genre). i certainly don't think that lennon and ono belong on the list, and rupaul's is brilliant irony (as is pat boone's - not that i'd have ever thought i'd say that about mr boone...). now, devastatin' dave, on the other hand... brni > Sorry, it looks like Adam beat me to it. Thought I'd checked the entire > thread. Sorry. > > Perhaps this one will make up for it: > http://rateyourmusic.com/list/djlanda/the_100_worst_album_covers_ever/ > > Bob > > adamk@zoom.co.uk wrote: > > >This isn't the first time I've seen this list in some form or another -- for a > >more comprehensive view, see http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/ > - -- brni i don't want the world, i just want your half. www.livejournal.com/~brni ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 19:52:33 -0700 (PDT) From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: Re: Judie Tzuke live London! - --- Ellen Rawson wrote: > --- Xenu's Sister wrote: > > > You lucky people in the London area! > > London? It says Norwich -- that's East Anglia, not > London! ;) Ooof! *embarrassed* I should have looked it up first. I just assumed it was a suburb of London. I used to know the UK pretty well too. In the early '80's I had lots of Kate pen pals in the UK and someone sent me a large map. I used to pour over that thing because everything about the UK fascinated me (still does). Vickie (chagrined dumb American) - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Music, all I hear is music, guaranteed to please... Happy's MySpace profile: http://www.myspace.com/happyrhodes Happy Rhodes song samples and rarities: http://wretchawry.com - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V12 #190 ***************************