Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!world.std.COM!katefans From: katefans@world.std.COM (Chris'n'Vickie of Kansas City) Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Christine Lavin Message-ID: <9001220907.AA17048@world.std.com> Date: 22 Jan 90 09:07:50 GMT Sender: root@athena.mit.edu (Wizard A. Root) Organization: The Internet Lines: 140 Approved: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu Vickie here. (Steve Schonberger) In article <25b58430@sensual.wa.com>(Steve Schonberger) writes: >I just got back from seeing Christine Lavin at the Backstage in >Seattle. She did a great show. WAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!! I've been wanting to see Christine live for years and she's never come anywhere NEAR Kansas City (and if she has been here I don't want to know because I didn't know about it and I MISSED IT!) Here's what Ladyslipper has to say about Christine: Christine Lavin Future Fossils This is Christine's first LP (she had an earlier EP called "Husbands and Wives", about relationships--the unequal kind) full of social commentary, 50/50 humor and serious, somewhere between live and studio, of original songs. This artist is someone the NY Times calls "a pungent folk-pop humorist...writes wryly comic vignettes of city life that also have an emotional edge." Includes Cold Pizza for Breakfast, a spoof of diets, Regretting What I Said which skewers men who find it difficult to tell the truth, and Don't Ever Call Your Sweetheart By His Name which turns the tables on men who've called women "darling" for centuries...this song was banned from Gracie Mansion. During a discussion with this reviewer, Christine said "My mantra is pizza." (PH1104) Christine Lavin Beau Woes and Other Problems of Modern Life From undoubtedly the sharpest wit in the contempary folk scene, a splendidly entertaining, lively, honest and eclectic album. Includes her clever Biological Time Bomb; her song for all those athletically challenged, Ballad of a Ballgame; the more servious Gettin' Used To Leavin' with veteran folkie Eric Anderson; her spoof on Camping; and other humorous and cynical vignettes. A gem. (PH1107) (V here. This is my favorite CL album. EVERY SINGLE SONG IS GREAT!! The song Steve talked about is on this one. It's called Doris & Edwin-the Movie.) Christine Lavin Good Thing He Can't Read My Mind First of all, if you are a Suzanne Vega listener, this album is an absolute must for your collection...Christine's Mysterious Woman adds new dimensions to the existential meanings of defrosting the refrigerator! Title song accurately describes the delicious experience of eating sushi (sucking down a bucketful of tentacled slime; or, chewing the suction cups off the bottom of an old bathtub mat) and other activities tolerated in the name of love. Both satire and good folk music fill this album and even a duet with Livingston Taylor. (PH1121) ------------------------------------------ Here are the lyrics to "Doris & Edwin-the Movie" The first time that she saw him was in the office canteen He was buying a cup of coffee (3 sugars & double cream) Two weeks later she saw him by the elevator banks His hands were full, she held the door for him and he said "thanks" Now she's in love (for her it don't take much) She's in love but this is not your ordinary office crush 'cause she works in the basement, near the boiler room door and he works in accounting on the 37th floor Now I'm not much of a mathematician but even I can see in a building of 37 floors and 4000 employees her chances of running into him are really not too good even though she hung out at the canteen and rode the elevator every spare minute she could Cause she's in love and she don't even know his name (it was Edwin) she's in love. Love can be such a cruel, cruel game cos she works in the basement near the boiler room door and he works in accounting on the 37th floor And by the way, did I happen to mention... that when this building was consturcted it was done improperly and one day on the 4th floor there was a short in the electricity it burned up walls and desks and chairs and all the secretarys The alarm did not go off until it reach floor 33 (floor 33, floor 33) and on the upper floors people were running and screaming and jumping out the windows to get away from the flames (it was gross) Now the woman in the basement, she raced up the stairs, out the emergency exit, into the fresh air. She looked up because just then it began to shower and that's when she saw her true love coming--one hundred miles an hour oh oh oh, oh oh oh, oh no, no no no (bloodcurdling scream in background) I'm not much of a mathematician but even I can see the chances of him landing on her were very slim indeed (but he did!) So they buried him together the following day and even now, when I ride the elevator I can hear someone say "She was in love (for her it didn't take much). she was in love but this was not your ordinary office CRUSH cause she worked in the basement near the boiler room door and he worked on accounting on the 37th floor yeah she worked in the basement and he the 37th floor but fate brought them together, parted nevermore nevermore...........nevermore See, she has a very strange and wonderful sense of humor I've got more lyrics that I'll post later. Her albums really shouldn't be that hard to find. I've seen CDs at our local Sound Warehouse and other stores. I really like Shawn Colvin a lot but it hurts that she's gotten so much attention for her first album, yet Christine has been ignored for years. I don't mean that Christine is "better" than Shawn, it's just that she should have the recognizibility factor that Shawn has. Life's not fair. ---------------------------------- >On another topic, I've listened to Beautiful Pea Green Boat a lot more >since I first wrote about them. That album is so great I have been >playing it over and over since I got it. It's truly wonderful, in >spite of the dumb name for the group. They deserve wider distribution >than small labels like C'est La Morte (U.S.) and Slaughterback (U.K.) >can give them. Or else enlightened labels that publish such great ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >stuff deserve to be rewarded for it. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ YOU BET!! C'est La Mort deserves to be rewarded for all they're doing for music in America. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % Vickie of Vickie'n'Chris of Kansas City katefans@world.std.com % % % % "Suspended in Gaffa" KKFI 90.1fm % % Kansas City's alternative alternative to boyz with guitars % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%