From: Automatic digest processor To: Recipients of SOMMS digests Subject: SOMMS Digest - 17 Sep 1999 to 18 Sep 1999 (#1999-9) Date: Saturday, September 18, 1999 2:05 AM There are 13 messages totalling 488 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Chris on Polish radio 2. Australian Album version 3. No Cleveland Show... 4. Feeling better all the time, all the time 5. EM on WRAT 6. Chris Cornell at Town Hall, NYC, 9/13 7. Motorvision 8. Just a question 9. hey SF SOMMSters! (2) 10. Yahoo News article (2) 11. ...antidoe to ennui... To UNSUBSCRIBE from SOMMS, send email to LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU with the following in the body of your message: SIGNOFF SOMMS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 16:26:26 +0200 From: badmotor Subject: Chris on Polish radio This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0034_01BF0129.635895A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hey! I was just listening to the polish radio program (cuz I live in Poland) = and they played Moonchild!!! I've heard only CCM so far, so I was pretty = amazed and excited. And they played Chris saying "welcome to the program = 3"... in Polish... it sounded sooo cute!!!... but he said it really = fluently! And tomorrow they gonna play interview with Chris. If you = receive Polish program 3 (102.3 MHz) tune your radio at 17.30 CET. Take care!!! Agata (check out my web site at: http://members.xoom.com/faithgarden ) ------=_NextPart_000_0034_01BF0129.635895A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hey!
 
I was just listening to the polish radio = program (cuz=20 I live in Poland) and they played Moonchild!!! I've heard only CCM so = far, so I=20 was pretty amazed and excited. And they played Chris saying "welcome to = the=20 program 3"... in Polish... it sounded sooo cute!!!... but he said it = really=20 fluently! And tomorrow they gonna play interview with Chris. If you = receive=20 Polish program 3 (102.3 MHz) tune your radio at 17.30 CET.
 
Take care!!!
 
Agata
 
(check out my web site at: http://members.xoom.com/fait= hgarden=20 )
------=_NextPart_000_0034_01BF0129.635895A0-- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 22:49:35 +0800 From: Georgia Subject: Australian Album version This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01BF015E.E9CC57E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable For anyone who's interested, the Australian version of Euphoria Morning = may perhaps be a little different from most other country's releases. =20 The last track (13) is another version of Can't Change Me, performed at = about half the tempo of the original, done in a "french" style, with = Chris singing (for the most part) in French. =20 Ah. Lovely. =20 georgia ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01BF015E.E9CC57E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
For anyone who's interested, = the=20 Australian version of Euphoria Morning may perhaps be a little different = from=20 most other country's releases.
 
The last track (13) is another = version of=20 Can't Change Me, performed at about half the tempo of the original, done = in a=20 "french" style, with Chris singing (for the most part) in=20 French.
 
Ah.  = Lovely.
 
georgia
------=_NextPart_000_000D_01BF015E.E9CC57E0-- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 11:47:08 EDT From: Niki Freer Subject: Re: No Cleveland Show... In a message dated 9/17/99 12:52:35 AM Pacific Daylight Time, MrMtPants1@AOL.COM writes: > philly(be sure to check out woolworths chris) maybe its just me, but i've seen nothing but fantastic shows in philadelphia. we've got a ton of smaller totally rocking venues. nothing is better than the Trocadero and the TLA. the tower [where cornell is booked] is a semi-large sit down theater with 3 balconies [yeah, really]. holds about 3200. when i saw sg in 96 they mentioned how they liked Philly. many bands have. i dont know, always seemed like a pretty hard rock town to me, especially with the CBGB's-like history of the JC Dobb's bar [now called the Pontiac Grille]. oh, and woolworths went out of business. -mindriot ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 09:40:16 -0700 From: Andrew Snodgrass Subject: Re: Feeling better all the time, all the time Joe Franks wrote: > > I have a feeling that Chris' album may do better than we expect. > > I listened today on 107.7 a Seattle radio station. Waiting an hour to hear > the new Stone Temple Pilots song. Luckly they played Black Hole Sun and a > Pearl Jam song to get me through. I heard the song and I was F*cking > disappointed. The song sucked, and I heard the new Nine Inch Nails song > also, that F*cking sucked too. > > Even though being disappointed by those songs I relized something. Chris > ain't gonna have no competition. I says that he's going to be #1 for sure. > I thought he was going to have some compitition from STP and NIN. But after > hearing those songs..... have only headr like 2 song off the new NIN album, and none of the STP one. The NIN songs are not the best of his stuff but they were decient. But to say they will be no compitition to chris is a big overstatement. I have a feeling no matter what people have heard of the NIN CD so far, the masses will be out to buy it. It's one of the most hyped albums of the year. I expect to see it #1. However, Chris will be a close runner up i believe (unless there is some backstreet boys or ricky martin album coming out since it seems they have a new album out ever other month. hehe) I got a new job at a kick ass record store and they have been playing EM at least once a day. everyone there seems pretty pleased with it. So looks like all is going to go good with Chris. Another new albums i have heard at work that i think should be picking up when they hit the shelves are Supersuckers (out 10/19/99). Yeah not to many people out there dig em, i could be wrong, but after hearing the album once i already love it. So go give em a listen -- -AS mailto:asnod@home.com http://members.home.net:80/asnod/ |---------------------------------------------------------------| | "Everybody likes my stuff! Everybody knows that I can rock! | | Everybody knows that I can whip a horse's ass! | | Everybody in my general time knows that I can rock good. | | And as I rock well, I'm going to rev it up!" | | | | - Wesley Willis | |---------------------------------------------------------------| ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 13:48:07 EDT From: Mike Gallagher Subject: EM on WRAT last night, my local radio station The Rat, 95.9 WRAT pt. pleasent, nj, played Euphoria Morning in it's entirety as a special hurrican floyd edition or Rat Tracks. and, of course, i taped it. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 14:03:49 -0400 From: Seth Perlman Subject: Chris Cornell at Town Hall, NYC, 9/13 I've got something to say about the show on Tuesday night: Alain, you are no Kim Thayil. Kim was probably rolling on his couch knowing that Alain was out there somewhere, destroying one of the best guitar solos in any Soundgarden song. I'm talking, of course, about Like Suicide. This is one of the parts of the show that I don't understand: During Soundgarden's final tour, Chris performed Black Hole Sun solo even though the whole band was there, and now that he's on his own, his backup band attempts the full-on Soundgarden treatment of Like Suicide. Neither one was very good. Overall I enjoyed the show a lot. I find a lot of Cornell's new songs to be too rock-ballady and not as challenging as the material he turned out with Soundgarden, but they were definitely much better live than recorded. To his credit, Chris has obviously spent a *lot* of time working on his voice since SG disbanded. SG's live performances were often marred by Chris' unpredictable vocals (e.g., the painful SNL episode in 1996) but Tuesday night he was right on. Witness Sweet Euphoria, which may as well been titled The Chris Cornell Vocal Showcase; it was perfect, and my favorite part of the evening. I'm not sure I'll ever get used to seeing Chris Cornell flanked by a bunch of strangers, especially during SG or TOTD songs, but he's a hell of a singer. -seth ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 14:37:59 EDT From: Charlie Mccutcheon Subject: Re: Motorvision aIn a message dated 9/17/99 5:36:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ojpahati@NETSCAPE.NET writes: << just picked up a copy of Motorvision and watched the video for the first time. What do you guys think of it? I must say that I was a little bit disappointed. With the camera moving so much and the slow motion effects it was hard to get a real sense of what was going on at those shows. >> EXACTLY!! it bugs the hell out of me. the damn director thought he was shooting an hour long music video. the little van scenes are pretty funny except for the slow mo & fast cut parts that induce migranes. i'd honestly preffer three guys with handheld cameras (plus the soundboard recording) to all of those editing and camera effects. i wonder if there's anyone on this list who actually didn't mind the director fucking up what otherwise would've been a very powerful experience? little joe was awsome, too. thanks charlie ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 11:43:00 -0700 From: Mike Coleman Subject: Just a question Has the Can't Change Me single been released in the US, or am I just blind? I know the import is out there, but I have not heard anything else about a single over here to buy. Someone just let me know what is going on! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:47:55 PDT From: Pretty Noose Subject: hey SF SOMMSters! well, the 20th is monday, aren't you guys psyched! Are we stil doing anything? I have been so busy with classes, that I just haven't had time to check up on you guys. Let me know. I might have to take a cab from CCAC to the Fillmore. Plus, I don't know anyone who is going to the show, so if we got together as a group, it'll be really cool! ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 14:52:09 PDT From: Omar Pahati Subject: Yahoo News article This appears in Yahoo News Entertainment Headlines today. CHRIS CORNELL GOES SOFT by Dean Goodman If Soundgarden fans hope that frontman Chris Cornell's upcoming solo debu= t will be the son of ``Badmotorfinger,'' the defunct band's 1991 hard rock = opus, they will be sorely disappointed. ``Euphoria Morning,'' due out next Tuesday, finds the 35-year-old in a decidedly mellow mood, with no piercing shrieks a la ``Jesus Christ Pose'= ' or heavy guitar riffs. As usual, perusing the simile-laden lyrics will probably lead to a headac= he, and grammarians will have a fit when they spot the tautological song titl= e ``Sweet Euphoria.'' Cornell said one tune does date from the Soundgarden era: ''Flutter Girl'= ' was written five to six years go. The song never was in consideration for the= band, just one of many tunes he wrote ``just for fun.'' It originally was= a sparse acoustic song but has now been fitted with new music, and it sound= s just as melodic as everything else on the album. Anyone with a basic understanding of alternative rock knows Soundgarden p= layed a key role in the so-called ``grunge'' revolution, helping to kill off th= e garish hair bands of the '80s and bring a more serious twist to the age-o= ld tale of teen angst. When Soundgarden broke up two years ago, it seemed the revolution had pet= ered out. The bands now competing for kids' affections, such as Kid Rock, Limp= Bizkit and Korn, seem to adopt the cartoon swagger of all those vanquishe= d '80s bands. So was all of Cornell's groundbreaking work in vain? ``If it's entertaining on whatever level -- a white guy dressing up like = a pimp -- I think it's fun,'' he says with a laugh, referring to Kid Rock, = a double-platinum rocker from Detroit. ``It was an after-thought when we realized we replaced a lot of stuff we didn't like, and thought, 'Well good, that's fine.' But I don't think it = was ever anyone's goal.'' = ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webm= ail.netscape.com. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 18:47:46 -0600 From: Fluttergirl Subject: Re: Yahoo News article >If Soundgarden fans hope that frontman Chris Cornell's upcoming >solo debut will be the son of ``Badmotorfinger,'' the defunct band's >1991 hard rock opus, they will be sorely disappointed. Well duh, if you compare it to "Badmotorfinger." More appropriately they should be comparing it to their last album "Down on the Upside," which I have been listening to recently. It's not that big of a step from DOTU to "Euphoria Morning." Sure, Chris does some blues and such on EM, but I wasn't utterly suprised in the direction he was going. The reviewer must have been "sorely disappointed" with DOTU, too. Fluttergirl (new and improved! more hard rock opus in every email!) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 17:58:40 -0700 From: ? Subject: Re: hey SF SOMMSters! I wasn't able to get tickets to the Fillmore show, but rumors persist of a Sacramento show at an undisclosed venue. Tickets to that show are supposed to go on sale on Sept. 24th. Hopefully those of us who weren't able to get tickets to the SF show won't have to cry ourselves to sleep knowing we missed our chance. Tiffany On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Pretty Noose wrote: > well, the 20th is monday, aren't you guys psyched! > Are we stil doing anything? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 23:58:06 EDT From: Niki Freer Subject: ...antidoe to ennui... http://www.soundgarden.net/ and yeah. i'm liking the album for the most part, but i'll had to agree with seth on the balladry comment. i said to a friend a couple weeks ago, that at times you kind of wonder out loud if he's kidding or not, because there are points where its almost satirical of that type of music, but you cant be sure... could be cornell humor, could be just him taking himself entirely too seriously. personally, i've begun to think he's taking himself too seriously, especially with the balls to re-do Like Suicide as a whole backup band thing. while the entourage he's carrying along might be competent, i just cringe at the idea of seasons with a band, and like suicide with any band but SG in entirety. its like.... he took lessons from axl or something. get a new backing band, play the same songs plus some new ones. but i am not complaining about his looks, attitude, anything. the music is all that matters, and i'm pretty sheepish about how i've acted in the past concerning Cornell. we all are hypocrites sometimes, i suppose. great to hear he's worked on that voice of his. best news i've heard about this shindig. And dont forget, not only does NIN and Cornell come out tuesday, so does Tori Amos and Barbra Steisand. No chance in the universe cornell would make number one. he'll be lucky for the top ten, really. --mindriot ------------------------------ End of SOMMS Digest - 17 Sep 1999 to 18 Sep 1999 (#1999-9) **********************************************************