From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V11 #62 Reply-To: precious-things@smoe.org Sender: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "precious-things-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. precious-things-digest Tuesday, September 12 2006 Volume 11 : Number 062 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [pt] Re: extra discount for B&N exclusive release [culturediva82@aim.com] [pt] a piano clips [wojbearpig ] [pt] "crucify" (unedited single version) preview stream [wojbearpig ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 07:46:59 -0400 From: culturediva82@aim.com Subject: [pt] Re: extra discount for B&N exclusive release Everyone, Just thought I'd pass this on as I haven't seen it posted anywhere else..... If you have a AAA membership, you receive an extra discount at B&N.com. It's an extra 5% to 10%. This discount is ONLY available if you get to the B&N site via the AAA site...just follow the links. You can pay via the phone, but you have to process everything up to the payment screen online. Additionally, since you will have spent over $25, you get free 3 day or less shipping. For me, here's what it came out to.... $59.98 (online list price) - -$3.00 (AAA online discount) FREE shipping $3.84 (sales tax) total...$60.82 all in all, it saves a little money, and you get it pretty soon. Plus, check your local grocery store for added savings. Where I live in Ohio (Columbus), we have a chain called Giant Eagle; I know they're in PA as well. At Giant Eagle you can buy gift cards for lots of different places, including B&N. For every $50 that you spend in the store, excluding alcohol and cigs but *including* gift cards, you get $0.10 off per gallon of gas. If you have a Giant Eagle, buy you B&N gift card to add to your gas savings and then use the gift card to pay for your new Tori! - --The Hy-Vee grocery store chain (In all of Iowa and parts of Missouri, Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Illinois--and I think Wisconsin too) sells $25 B&N gift cards in some of their stores. That's just $25 off the box set, and they should be able to honor it for the discounts/sale prices. It's good both online and at their stores. Lorna ________________________________________________________________________ Check Out the new free AIM(R) Mail -- 2 GB of storage and industry-leading spam and email virus protection. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:35:52 -0400 From: wojbearpig Subject: [pt] a piano clips i'm sure this is old news for most of you by now, but just in case anybody isn't permanently attached to the various webforums and such, buecher.de has posted clips of all songs from _a piano_ on their listing for the boxed set: http://www.buecher.de/verteiler.asp?Publica_ID=KNO-19181362661390165397&zz=8146&artikelnummer=000020898941&site=artikel.asp apologies for the long url -- you may have to paste it into your browser if your mail program wraps the text. there is a mp3 of the clips of the unreleased songs and demos which you can find at mollyknight.com if you'd rather listen that way too. wheeeee! woj ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:42:37 -0400 From: wojbearpig Subject: [pt] "crucify" (unedited single version) preview stream everythingtori.com is now streaming the unedited single version of "crucify". you can listen in quicktime http://streamos.rhino.com/qtime/rhino/listeningparties/77775/crucify.mov 56kbps windows media http://streamos.rhino.com/wmedia/rhino/listeningparties/77775/crucify_56.wax 100kbps windows media http://streamos.rhino.com/wmedia/rhino/listeningparties/77775/crucify_100.wax woj ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:08:12 -0400 From: wojbearpig Subject: [pt] aol music news blog post about the piano http://www.aolmusicnewsblog.com/2006/09/11/tori-amos/ Tori Amos Seizes Her 'Piano' With Both Hands Posted Sep 11th 2006 4:03PM by Jessica Robertson Filed under: Rock When Tori Amos makes up her mind to do something, it's always all-in and there'll be no deterrent. "Any time you get an opportunity to put something out, I'm in the mind that you seize the project with both hands," she says of her boxed set, 'A Piano: The Collection,' due Sept. 26 via Rhino. "And I'm not one to give the record company my blessing and do what [they] think is best. I don't think that anybody knows what's best except the composer or the midwives of the songs themselves." Inspired by Led Zeppelin's 'Complete Studio Recordings' collection, Amos mined her vaults for an 86-song, five-disc set that chronicles the piano provocateur's near 16-year solo career. "I had access to all the material since 1990, and my goal was to try and retain the integrity of everything," she says. " When you're putting together a work of this magnitude, [the songs] all have to work together. I wanted to have some kind of story -- a payoff denouement for each record." 'A Piano' runs the gamut from Amos' quirky humor as she kicks off the never-before-heard intro jam to 'Marys of the Sea' with her best Juvenile throwback, singing "Back that ass up," to the characteristically cryptic, as with the previously unreleased 'Zero Point.' That track Amos says was inspired by Zecharia Sitchin's 'Earth Chronicles' series, which concerns the writings of the ancient Sumerians and their ideas regarding time. "It talks about Rome ending - -- B.C. and then A.D. -- and the idea of what was supposed to happen at zero point," she explains. "I found there to be a strange correlation between America being the super power that it is and Rome being the super power that it was, and what comes along with that kind of power... how you can really forget the responsibility that you have to humanity. The ego becomes bigger than spirituality." Another unreleased song, 'Take Me With You,' was 16 years in the making, having been rediscovered by her engineer and husband, Mark Hawley. "When we put it up on the boards they looked at me and said, "Well, all it needs is a vocal.' I said, 'I can't do that 16 years later,'" Amos recalls. "I thought about it and the song really started to call me to it. After 48 hours, I could finally finish the lyric and record it." For a woman who typically minds no rules musically, Amos did set forth one this time around. "There were no remixes allowed to the first two records. That was my law. It's not a democracy. Well, it is 'til it isn't. When it comes to my world, I have to answer to the songs." ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V11 #62 *************************************