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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 09:03:21 -0500
- From: kstauff@APG-9.APG.ARMY.MIL (Kimberly Stauffer AMSTE-LGS 4900)
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- Subject: Finally-Happy/Funny Story/My Analysis-Opinion
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- Hi Love Hounds and Ectophiles,
-
- Well, FINALLY! I finally found a store that had a Happy Rhodes
- CD - and they let me sample it (they only had Warpaint though-
- but this is a step in the right direction, I suppose).
- After listening (actually - were not listening here we are
- reading, arn't we) to all the discussion about this Happy
- person, Happy vs. Kate, Kate vs. Happy, Happy doing Kate (not
- to mention Tori vs. Kate, Kate vs. Tori, Tori's piano capabilities
- vs. Kates, etc......) I have been on a mission to find Happy's
- music, so I was very "happy" when I found that one lone CD.
- For anyone who lives near Baltimore and may be looking I found
- Warpaint a place in Towson called AN DIE MUSIK (german maby),
- 1 Investment Place, Towson, MD 410-2.9.MUSIC.
-
- FUNNY STORY
-
- Well, there I was with this warpaint CD in hand, so I asked the
- salesperson if I could hear it and low and behold they actually
- had 2 CD/Headphone sampling areas.....I put on the head phones and
- began to listen. In the background, (outside of my headphones),
- the store had a hauntingly familiar female vocalist playing. And
- I thought, who is that playing---while at the same time I was trying
- to hear and concentrate on Happy....but I had to keep pulling away
- the headset to also listen to that female vocalist playing---so
- I went over to the counter to see what the CD was that was Currently
- being played and wouldn't you all know it, it was T___ ! (Did you guess,
- ??) Yes it was Tori. After all this dialog about Tori and Happy I thought
- it a bit ironic that when I actually did find Happy's music Tori was
- playing at the same time. (Does anyone else think that is odd)? Big
- deal most of you may say-but, I have only heard Ms.Tori on the radio so
- I don't really know her stuff that well, therefore, I was, needless to
- say also interested in hearing her music as well. So, I was comparing
- and contrasting Tori at the same time that I was hearing Happy while
- somewhere in the back far reaches of my mind I was thinking "Kate/is
- this Katelike/Kate,Kate,Kate).
-
- ANALYSIS/OPINION
-
- Ok, here goes. Happy Rhodes, my immediate reaction was...............
- .....................................................................
- um, uhm............... Now Tori on the other hand......................
- ..............captured me, yes - thats a good way to put it her music
- was capturing, I will buy Little earthquakes, definately. Oh, yeah
- Happy....................Well, I liked her music. I like most female
- artists (I said most, not all). I like anything from folk-Joan Armatrating
- (did I murder her name) to Siouxsie, to Cocteau Twins, to Enya (and I used
- to really like/now my opinion probably wouln't be respected anymore
- when I say this artist, but what are opinions for anyway/this was before
- I knew what else was out in the world/Stevie Nicks---ouh, oh, ouu-I can
- feel the rocks and bitter curses).
-
- But with Happy I found myself listening for her to sound like Kate. Now
- maby this is unfair. Maby I should just have been listening for her to
- sound like Happy but if I was listening for her to sound like Kate it
- is all of YOURRRRR faults ("smile" now/this is all in good humor).
-
- I found "Lay me down" and "Words weren't made for Cowards" to sound
- very very much like Ms. Bush. Happy finds that high clear sweet
- crystal Kate like pitch that so attracts me to Kate. The other songs
- were all very throaty and the pitch was flatter (not high a clear), but
- I like flat, I guess I just like high, and clear more. I would buy
- Warpaint (I will buy warpaint) but first I would like to hear her
- older stuff, Rhodes I, II, Rearmament, and then Ecto. I would also
- (will also) buy Little Earthquakes first and if Kate produces in early
- 93, say January 93 I would buy Kate before Tori or Happy, but only
- because I know and love Kates music dearly - I think Tori and Happy
- have the potential with me (say in 5 years, thats how long Ive know
- of Kate) to be long lasters-well see.
-
- Hope I have amused you all and not disturbed any. Just had to share.
-
- **Has any one ever heard of either of these two artists.
-
- - Bell Canto >Unicorn
-
- -P.J. Harvey >Dress
-
- I have caught both of them only quickly on a college radio station
- before they faded out - sounded good.
-
- I swear Bell Canto sounded like the lead from the Cocteau Twins and
- P.J. harvey was a folksey mix of Vega/10,000 M's and the lead singer
- from the Throwing Muses.
-
- Bye All
- Kim Stauffer
-
- "Don't put your foot on the heartbreak".
-
- (The salesperson from AN DIE MUSIK did confirm that about two years
- ago our own Ms. Bush did fly to the states, CA or somewhere like that,
- for some special reason - was it recording purposes? He said that
- his buddy went to where ever she was to get a bunch of autographs from
- her).
-