01-31-2006, 08:55 PM
The Dominion of BigRedCatJan 30 2006, 11:21 PM
The only band I ever e-mailed was Hungry Lucy. I just popped one off to let them know how much I enjoyed their "Apparitions" album. I especially love Christa Belle's voice. They never wrote back, but I was okay with that.
It's good to knwo somebody who is REALLY into new and strange music and can point out good stuff that you might have otherwise missed. [/quote]
There is an Italian band, The Frozen Autumn, where one of the two band members was googling their band and she found my online reference catalog, where I had a question mark for the release date of one of their albums. She emailed me the date and just started chatting a bit.
I didn't have much to say, but I thought that was cool.
Last summer I meet Mika G. from This Morn' Omina and we talked for a bit while in Germany. He asked me to email him, and I did, but I never heard back from him.
If you like Hungry Lucy, then I *highly* recommend the Sacramento, California based band Claire Voyant. Victoria Lloyd's vocals are similar in style.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Voyant
Victoria has collaborated with Daniel Myer (Haujobb) ... and I personally think Daniel (like Mika) is one of the more brilliant musicians around. I'm not sure how he hooked up with Victoria, but their project HMB seemed to work out great for their solo album.
Hungry Lucy's "Apparitions" is Christa's only album I own.
I love some of the tracks, but others are just too soft for me. For example, I don't like her cover of Blue Dress. Technically it is fine, but it just doesn't do much for me. While I like the opening track Alfred and the fourth track Grave.
Recently I sold off something like 40 CDs, and actually "Appartitions" was on the cutting block. I had to listen to it several weeks in a row to decide I wanted to keep it (Grave was a strong reason the album is still in my collection).
On music, I'm something of a fan of getting the most bang for my buck, who isn't ... so for a long time I loved artists putting remixes and covers as the last tracks on their albums in order to break the old 45 minute length of older albums and stretch our purchase into something like 60 minutes. However, sometimes I've found that the remixes break the concept behind the album -- it is like telling a story, finishing the story, and then going back and reading the middle chapter again knowing how it finishes.
What I think happened with Appartitions is that the two remixes near the end weren't as good as the earlier original tracks, so the reason I was wishy-washy about the album is I listen to albums at home from start to finish (often while NationStating), and I forgot how much I liked the first half of this album.
I'm not a DJ, but sometimes I toy with the idea of trying to talk my radio DJ friends into showing me the ropes so that I could sub for them if necessary ... Grave is certainly a track I'd *love* to play on air. It is hands down my favorite.
The only band I ever e-mailed was Hungry Lucy. I just popped one off to let them know how much I enjoyed their "Apparitions" album. I especially love Christa Belle's voice. They never wrote back, but I was okay with that.
It's good to knwo somebody who is REALLY into new and strange music and can point out good stuff that you might have otherwise missed. [/quote]
There is an Italian band, The Frozen Autumn, where one of the two band members was googling their band and she found my online reference catalog, where I had a question mark for the release date of one of their albums. She emailed me the date and just started chatting a bit.
I didn't have much to say, but I thought that was cool.Last summer I meet Mika G. from This Morn' Omina and we talked for a bit while in Germany. He asked me to email him, and I did, but I never heard back from him.
If you like Hungry Lucy, then I *highly* recommend the Sacramento, California based band Claire Voyant. Victoria Lloyd's vocals are similar in style.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Voyant
Victoria has collaborated with Daniel Myer (Haujobb) ... and I personally think Daniel (like Mika) is one of the more brilliant musicians around. I'm not sure how he hooked up with Victoria, but their project HMB seemed to work out great for their solo album.
Hungry Lucy's "Apparitions" is Christa's only album I own.
I love some of the tracks, but others are just too soft for me. For example, I don't like her cover of Blue Dress. Technically it is fine, but it just doesn't do much for me. While I like the opening track Alfred and the fourth track Grave.
Recently I sold off something like 40 CDs, and actually "Appartitions" was on the cutting block. I had to listen to it several weeks in a row to decide I wanted to keep it (Grave was a strong reason the album is still in my collection).
On music, I'm something of a fan of getting the most bang for my buck, who isn't ... so for a long time I loved artists putting remixes and covers as the last tracks on their albums in order to break the old 45 minute length of older albums and stretch our purchase into something like 60 minutes. However, sometimes I've found that the remixes break the concept behind the album -- it is like telling a story, finishing the story, and then going back and reading the middle chapter again knowing how it finishes.
What I think happened with Appartitions is that the two remixes near the end weren't as good as the earlier original tracks, so the reason I was wishy-washy about the album is I listen to albums at home from start to finish (often while NationStating), and I forgot how much I liked the first half of this album.
I'm not a DJ, but sometimes I toy with the idea of trying to talk my radio DJ friends into showing me the ropes so that I could sub for them if necessary ... Grave is certainly a track I'd *love* to play on air. It is hands down my favorite.