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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. 8148. anomie - 3/30/2006 11:03:39 PM Ms. No, email is on the way... 8149. anomie - 3/30/2006 11:05:51 PM This is probably not news to anyone, but you can watch recent music videos at Yahoo. I found this out while doing a search on Fiona Apple's O Sailor video. 8150. Ms. No - 3/31/2006 12:55:56 AM The only song off the new album that I've heard so far is the title track Extraordinary Machine. Her first two albums were so different from one another I'm wondering if she's continued that trend and changed it up yet again.
I loved her first album mainly because I could hear so much of Nina Simone's influence in her work and I'm a huge Nina Simone fan. The second album sort of shocked me when I first heard it and I had to play it a couple of times before I learned to like the whole thing. Now I love both (although I still couldn't tell you the whole title of the second album).
I'll have to take a look at O Sailor when I get a chance. I can't remember the last time I saw a music video since I don't have cable. Hell, I don't think I've even turned my television on except once in the last two or three months and that was to watch the Triplets of Belleville. 8151. judithathome - 3/31/2006 1:06:23 AM Uz, sorry, I did miss your response.
MsNo, Steve is an on-line friend, He has a show off-Broadway called "The Big Voice" where Ethel Merman is the voice of God. He is a brave man who has faced death and stared it down. Anomie is correct that his music reflects a certain genre but he's a talemted guy in that genre and I'd rather listen to Steve than Usher, 50 Cent, Jessica Simpson, or myriad others popular these days. 8152. uzmakk - 3/31/2006 2:05:55 AM I saw these guys recently, purchased a CD(Postcards from Gypsyland) and will purchase more. Besides being good musicians and playing jazz manouche, their website is excellent. 8153. Ms. No - 3/31/2006 2:48:38 AM Juditha,
Ewwww! Yeah, those folks are so NOT on my listening list. 8154. Ms. No - 3/31/2006 2:51:02 AM Uzmakk, those guys are FABULOUS!! Where'd you find them?
I love that I can wander through the site without resetting the music every time I change pages. 8155. Ms. No - 3/31/2006 3:03:35 AM Okay, I've now discovered a whole new style of music to obsess over thankyouverymuch. ;-> 8156. Adam Selene - 3/31/2006 4:10:02 AM Come on...Nellie McKay is the real thing... talent like this only comes around once in a lifetime...
8157. Ms. No - 3/31/2006 5:54:02 AM I couldn't find a place to hear her until just now --- none of the samples were working at the places I was checking but NPR has an archived performance.
She's wonderful. Another artist to aquire! And yet another girl and her piano. ;-> 8158. Macnas - 3/31/2006 9:48:57 AM Jack McGahern is dead.
8159. alistairconnor - 3/31/2006 9:49:58 AM Ah music! I remember music.
I really need to get plugged into something, anything, to get the sluggish musical juices flowing again.
And more importantly, need to take in hand the delicate business of orienting my daughters' musical education. Their early influences have been eclectic and their tastes are sound, but they are necessarily soaking up the FM radio, so I need to be hip to what's hip, and throw them a few things out of left field.
Need to buy them some CDs. I am heartily sick of the Corrs and the Cranberries, which were my most recent contributions. They are going to thrash whatever I get them, so it had better be things I can live with.
(this is along the lines of a Memo to Self. Sadly I can't check out music from work, and my band is not broad at home.) 8160. Macnas - 3/31/2006 9:55:48 AM alistair, don't bother, you'll hate what's current and hip, it jars so much with the music we like.
They'll be into the teens when they "rediscover" punk or whatever, and end up plundering your old collection. 8161. alistairconnor - 3/31/2006 10:08:16 AM I guess you're right. I've tried to bone up on the current English bands -- Arctic monkeys and the like -- but it all sounds so samey and derivative to my old-fart ears. 8162. Macnas - 3/31/2006 10:42:01 AM The only band (see? I still call them bands!) I like of that crop is Franz Ferdinand. I still like good lyrics.
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