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8128. anomie - 3/29/2006 12:35:13 AM Well Ms.No, I think you just made Tori Amos a few bucks off me. I listened to a few Amazon samples and the Beekeeper album sounded real good. Excellent production...her voice and piano came through very clear even on my crummy laptop. I'll start with that one. 8129. Ms. No - 3/29/2006 12:52:20 AM That's one I don't have, but she is an amazing pianist. I like her really big, bright stuff the best --- but I'm a fan of "big" piano stuff anyway. Or the way I define big, anyway --- Billy Joel, Scott Joplin, Chopin, Randy Newman
Amos studied at Juliard for awhile but got grief there because she wasn't much of a rule follower. I think her first band in LA was called Y Can't Tori Read --- which refered to her kind of blase attitude about learning to actually read music. She was a piano prodigy from a very young age, why did she need to learn to read music?
I've no idea whether she reads now or not. I don't think she arranges for anyone but herself so she may not. It would be interesting to know. 8130. wabbit - 3/29/2006 1:50:22 AM Since you two are discussing Tori Amos and Sarah McLachlan (and you should both email me, btw), anyone like Kate Bush (even in small doses)? Wendy Waldman?
Ok, I'm old, shoot me.
I've been trying to get a cd of Jesse Colin Young's first album, Soul Of A City Boy for ages, without having to pay $150 on eBay. I even wrote to JCY and *he* doesn't have a copy (he lost a lot of stuff in a house fire). That and Together (aka Good Times) are just a couple things on vinyl I would like to have on disk. I suppose I'll get around to doing a transfer some day. Some albums just don't seem to be available. 8131. judithathome - 3/29/2006 2:41:37 AM What in hell is a drool bucket? 8132. judithathome - 3/29/2006 2:43:32 AM Did no one listen to my link of Steve Shack's song upthread? This guy is an amazing personality and his life's story is extremely uplifting.
He's wonderful with lyrics AND music... 8133. wonkers2 - 3/29/2006 2:55:41 AM Drool bucket? A can that guys who chew tobacco carry around to spit in? I've heard it called a spit bucket or can, not a drool bucket. 8134. uzmakk - 3/29/2006 2:57:05 AM You are not paying attention, Judith. 8135. Adam Selene - 3/29/2006 3:15:23 AM Ok, so this is the right thread...
Any of you listen to Nellie McKay?
... and you call yourselves cultured. For shame. 8136. arkymalarky - 3/29/2006 3:50:42 AM I can't listen with my current setup, Judith. One of these days....
I like Kate Bush and Bro really loves her. I love her Wuthering Heights sung by Pat Benatar, whom I only like sometimes, but she does a great job with that song, imo. 8137. anomie - 3/29/2006 11:42:49 AM Wabbit...It took me only 5 or 6 albums to catch on to Sarah McLachlan, so maybe I'm on a role with female vocalists. I'll check out your suggestions.
Just the name Jesse Colin Young gives a nostalgic twinge, but I can't remember a specific song. Still, I'm surprised his stuff isn't released on CD. Seems practically everything else is. 8138. anomie - 3/29/2006 11:47:02 AM Speaking of expensive, hard to find albums. Michael Tomlinson stuff is going for a pretty penny at Amazon and elsewhere. I guess he sued his record company and pulled all the stock back. He was a sorta folk-rockish guy from the 80s. Used to hear him on "The Wave" radio station in La. I only had one of his records but it's one I'd replace if the price was reasonable. 8139. anomie - 3/29/2006 11:51:59 AM Judith, I'm listening now. You're right...very talented and a nice piano. It's a little too musical-theater for my taste. As I listen I see the dark stage, single spot on the lonley piano player... 8140. uzmakk - 3/29/2006 3:59:10 PM A Phraes
The hearth, the heart, the center --
From ruminations on the title of this thread. 8141. Ms. No - 3/29/2006 6:21:18 PM Juditha,
I did miss that, I'm not sure how. What a wonderfully resonant voice he has. I hear a lot of different influences working together that I don't know that I've heard put together that way before. Quite a unique sound. A little outside my usual choices but he's certainly talented.
What's his story? This is a friend of yours, right?
8142. Ms. No - 3/29/2006 6:27:54 PM Wabbit,
Yes, I do like Kate Bush --- have you heard her new album? I haven't yet but the rumblings about it have been good, I think.
Anyone here hooked up with Rhapsody?
8143. Ulgine Barrows - 3/30/2006 6:42:16 AM eww. no. No Rhapsody. 8144. anomie - 3/30/2006 11:51:01 AM Tori Amos album, Beekeeper, is good. Melodic and full of harmonies (self-harmonies, sounds like...seems to be part of the theme throughout the cd). Comes with a DVD I'd be glad to send to send you Ms. No. From the little I've watched so far it seems to be mostly interviews where she she discusses her music....very new-agey, touchy, feely.
Her voice and style is hard to pin down. At best it's like smoke coming off a knife edge. She's not at all imitative, but I can hear a mixture of styles and voices ranging from bluesy Ricky Lee Jones, to warbally Dolly Pardon.
I have a feel this album (also comes with a pack of wildflower seeds) may not be typical of her. But it shows off her voice pretty well. 8145. Ms. No - 3/30/2006 5:26:06 PM I don't know that she's ever used actual backup singers. I think it's always just her own voice double and triple and however-many tracked over itself. There are all kinds of vocal synthesizers that will let you sound like your very own chorus.
As for her influences she sometimes puts me in mind of Joni Mitchell because she's another soprano with unique phrasing (though not so bizarre as Amos' gets) and prone to making full octave leaps from one note to the next.
Yes, I'd love to see the DVD. Thanks so much! Drop me an email at bridgeburner99@yahoo.com and I can give you an address.
Speaking of female vocalists and their pianos.....Fiona Apple anyone?
8146. Ms. No - 3/30/2006 5:28:02 PM Ulgine,
Can you tell me a bit more? Will I be subject to spam without end? Spyware? Is it hard to use or what? 8147. anomie - 3/30/2006 10:52:30 PM Too Funny, Ms. No, I was listing to TA this morning on the way to work thinking...Janice Ian, Enya, Joni Mitchell. Joni Mitchell! WTF! Thought I was going off the deep end until I saw your note.
Another coincidence: Fionna Apple's O Sailor tune was running through my head at Best Buy yesterday. (She's just down from Amos as you know.) There on the cover was something about...Includes "O Sailor": The song that sticks in your head...or some such. Very weird. But yes I like the little I've seen of her music videos.
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