Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!gateway!dont-send-mail-to-path-lines From: jburka@SILVER.UCS.INDIANA.EDU (Jeff Burka) Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Re: Happy misc. Message-ID: <9104272156.AA29649@EDDIE.MIT.EDU> Date: 27 Apr 91 21:56:59 GMT References: Sender: Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Lines: 65 Approved: Love-Hounds@hayes.ims.alaska.edu Vickie writes: >I (at one time) >would have called _Rearmament_ weak, but I've seen the light Larry, I'm >sure you'll be happy to know. I came to appreciate the album more when I >was listening on headphones while pouring over Jeff's lyric sheets. I'm so happy to hear this! Makes all those hours of backing-and-forwarding with my walkman, hunched over the keyboard, worthwhile! I know that seeing the lyrics (or even just fragments) has increased my appreciation of so many songs. wrt "Friend You'll Be," I was listening to it last night (wasn't even paying much attention, as I'm studying for finals), and I heard the first line of the song perfectly clearly. I have no idea why the words escaped me every time I tried to transcribe it. As I recall, it's "I'm influenced by my friend," or something very close to that (I didn't write it down) >I can even listen to "Box H.A.P" and "The Issue Is" without gagging now. >The synth sounds she used on those particular songs used to irritate the >hell out of me, but I found out that she's a huge Wendy Carlos fan so >their use makes more sense to me now. To be honest, I'd still love to see >those two songs re-recorded sometime. The songs really are very good and >Happy's voice is utterly beautiful. I never found the synth sounds on these annoying at all. Maybe it's because Happy's vocals and lyrics are so beautiful. >For those interested: >To get Happy's tapes and the new CD, write: > >Aural Gratification >P.O. Box 8658 >Academy Station >Albany, NY 12208 > >Tapes are $9.95 + $1.50 p&h >The CD is $13.99 + $2.00 p&h > >Albums: >Rhodes Vol. I 1986 \ >Rhodes Vol. II 1986 |- A GOOD year for Happy fans in Albany! >Rearmament 1986 / >Ecto 1987 >Warpaint 1991 Just a point of interest: Vickie has mentioned that Happy is now 25 (actually, when will she be 26? In the letter she sent me in August, she said she was 25). If you put two and two together, you realize that Happy's first three albums came out when she was ~20. Roughly KaTe's age at the time of the release of TKI and LH. Except, of course, that Happy hadn't had the support of EMI and established musicians like Gilmour for several years. Jeff (who really should get back to sociology) "Yes they can say/She's not so great/That they could do the very same." -- |Jeffrey C. Burka |"I've lost my way through this world of | |jburka@silver.ucs.indiana.edu | profanities/I thrive on the wind and | |jburka@amber.ucs.indiana.edu | the rain and the cold." --Happy Rhodes|