From: owner-sycophant-digest@smoe.org (sycophant-digest) To: sycophant-digest@smoe.org Subject: sycophant-digest V3 #35 Reply-To: sycophant@smoe.org Sender: owner-sycophant-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-sycophant-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk sycophant-digest Sunday, May 24 1998 Volume 03 : Number 035 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: sycophant OTS- Red house painters [Anthony Kyle Monday Subject: Re: sycophant OTS- Red house painters At 12:36 AM -0400 5/23/98, Mark wrote: >Gabriel and Adrienne, I love the Red house painters. "Songs for a blue >guitar" is a great album. On it, they take Mcartney's "Silly love songs" >and transform it into a gut wrenching blues song with an awesome, wicked >guitar finish and incredible vocal...truly remarkable, only the lyrics >are the same. And those lyrics which in Paul's original are bubble gum >sing-a-long, suddenly become tragic! The rest of the album is also >terrific. Great stuff. Mark Well, if you like Songs for a Blue Guitar, you should *love* the other four albums, which feature Red House Painters proper ("Songs" was originally conceived as a Mark Kozelek solo album and was recorded with session musicians, not the actual band), particularly the untitled one (with Rollercoaster) and Ocean Beach. None of the gratuitous Mark-thinks-he's-Thurston-Moore guitar solos that bogged down "Songs" (just my opinion, of course). RHP's next album should be out late summer on Island. cheers, Kyle - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Kyle Monday akmonday@hooked.net "My troika was pursued by wolves" svevo@uclink4.berkeley.edu - -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 08:11:08 EDT From: GeektheGrl Subject: Re: sycophant Re: can we get some meaningful subject lines up here please In a message dated 98-05-22 22:40:27 EDT, the clouds parted and Pam uttered: (hehe) << Jolene wrote: <> So, Jolene, Is she doing any recorded work these days? Pam >> i dont think so. but her book "paradoxia" came out not too long ago, and she has been touring sporadically. its 8:09 on a saturday morning and i'm getting ready for SCHOOL. ugh. we have to finish the school newspaper today. ick. but im listening to the new tori amos, which is breathtaking. anybody else get this CD? jolene http://members.aol.com/GeektheGrl/index.html ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 00:06:38 +1200 From: "Simon Shuker" Subject: sycophant Re: No more pumpkins, yet more lists etc > LISA GERMANO LEAVES SMASHING PUMPKINS TOUR Well, so much for that line of thought - unfortunately not going to be bending the ear of the masses now. Still, it did spark off this list revival... A bit late to the party I know, but here is a selection of the mandatory "my likes" - Female singer songwriters such as Lisa (obviously), Bjork, Indigo Girls, Lisa Loeb (again), Edie Brickell, Tori Amos, Tanya Donelly, Carole King, Ana Christensen, Janis Joplin, Liz Phair, Jane Siberry, Babes in Toyland etc (though Babes don't really fit...) NZ artists such as the Finn brothers (in their various incarnations - separate, Crowded House, Enz, together etc) Dave Dobbyn, Clean, Able Tasmans, Muttonbirds, Greg Johnson, Bic Runga etc (could go on but even this much is probably meaningless to the majority of you) Can't think of other major groupings - laid-back semi-"alternative" Morphine, Cowboy Junkies, Red House Painters etc I suppose, then just a conglomeration/melange of all the rest - Ben Harper, Beck, Pearl Jam, A House, Lightning Seeds, Mel & Kim (Said not at all defensively), Primus, Metallica etc, not to mention the 20s Jazz, 40s Jazz and 60s Jazz stuff, or the classical, lounge etc. Speaking of arbitrary lists such as these, has anyone else read Nick Hornby's "High Fidelity" (He also wrote "Fever Pitch") - as well as being a cool book, the lead character's music obsession did arouse amused flashes of recognition. Sorry if this post is a bit lengthy, but have been busy writing crosswords all day and I needed a break. See ya, Simon. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 23:35:09 -0400 From: Mike Connell Subject: sycophant Smoe.org fundraiser - Thanx! (and deadline for the doorprizes) Hi folks :-) Just wanted to again say thanx to all those that contributed to the fund raiser for the new smoe.org hardware :-) As Jeff Wasilko posted yesterday, over $3500 thus far has been sent in and he is installing a new $4600 system this weekend. Also, as he said I am still accepting donations towards this cause, as we did fall about a grand short of the final cost (not to mention Jeff pays the $150+ a month operating costs....so I myself wouldn't mind seeing us foot the whole bill for the hardware :-) Also, also - I'd like to announce that the deadline for me to receive donations where you would be eligible for one of the door prizes is next weekend, as I am going to randomly pick the winners next Sunday May 31st, meaning donations I receive in the mail by next Saturday the 30th will be eligible. No matter if you donated one dollar or two-hundred fifty dollars, you have an equal chance for any of the prizes. (All of the door prizes are Jewel related) In addition to a bunch of Jewel key chains & Jewel pins, I have the seven Jewel autographed items listed below (at the end of this email). These items were autographed by Jewel herself, not some stamp, not another person, not some machine. (People have been asking me if her presigned poetry books that are available at various Virgin Megastore bookstores around the USA were actually signed by her....that I cannot answer, as I don't have an answer) I might add that the odds of winning one of these autographed items isn't too bad, since as of this moment there's only been 145 donations sent in. So the odds right now are just a tad over 20-1. To donate, send cash, check or money order. PLEASE make out any checks or money orders to Jeff Wasilko. Send donations to: Mike Connell PO Box 1206 Binghamton NY 13902-1206 This is the last time I'll be ringing that bell :-) Again, I wish to thank all of you who have donated already, all who may soon do so, and all of you who belong to any smoe.org mailing list, as it is the people and their love of the artists' music that make these lists special :-) To see what artists mailing lists exist for on smoe.org, check out http://www.smoe.org/lists cybernetly yours, Mike :-) P.S. If you are new to any of these lists and want more info on this fund raiser, just email me privately and I'll send you copies of my previous posts, and/or answer any questions you may have. *************************************************************************** THE DOOR PRIZES THE DOOR PRIZES THE DOOR PRIZES *************************************************************************** (In addition to a bunch of Jewel key chains and pins) The seven autographed items are (each individually awarded) a) Two twenty page, full of pictures, full color Jewel lyric books autographed in gold ink on the front cover. These are the same books that were being sold at last summers' Lilith Fair and Jewel's 1997 Fall Tour. b) Two sets of five 5x7 semi-glossy color photo packs, with the first picture autographed in gold ink. The pictures and lyric book can be viewed here: http://www.jeweljk.com/catalog1164/catalog.htm c) TWO of Jewel's ten times platinum Pieces Of You CD, with the insert autographed in gold ink. d) This is the top prize, especially to the collectors out there! A brand spanking new autographed in gold ink, RARE promotional CD, commonly known as "Phyllis Barnaby Finally Gets A Bra". It's a 4 track "You Were Meant For Me" promo CD that is pretty much impossible to find now a days. In fact, I myself consider it harder to find than her other promo CD "Save The Linoleum". The 4 tracks are an unreleased version of You Were Meant For Me (known as the Juan Patino version), and three other unreleased tracks Cold Song, Rocker Girl and Emily (although all three have subsequently been released on the vinyl version of Pieces Of You) * The Patty Griffin/Mad-Mission@smoe List Homepage is at: * http://www.spectra.net/~ducksoup/pattyg/pattyg.htm * * The Jewel EveryDay Angels List Homepage & Guide is at: * http://www.spectra.net/~ducksoup * * aka DuckOfPrey@aol.com WhyADuck55 on AOL Instant Messenger ------------------------------ End of sycophant-digest V3 #35 ****************************** ======================================================================== Please send any questions or comments about the list to sycophant-owner@smoe.org