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user: You are replying to Stuart Dubois about "Re: new stuff".

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C>could just borrow your CDs too, I s'pose.  On tape I have _One of a
C>Kind_ and I may have another one floating around somewhere.
SD> LP's.  I have _Feels Good to Me_ and _Bill Bruford's Earthworks_.
C> SD> what did you think of
C> SD> that  Renaissance live?
C>Well, I can't seem to get enough of "Carpet of the Sun" (truly a
C>phenomenal song) and I like "Mother Russia" a lot too.  "Running Hard"
C>is OK.  That's all I've listened to.
SD> It's a good start.  Other than (maybe) the flip side, it's the best
SD> side  they ever did.  Old Fart Story:  First I ever heard of
SD> Renaissance was  on the campus radio station at New Mexico State (the
SD> one you can't hear  off the campus).  They played "Carpet of the Sun".
SD> Eventually I found  _Live_.
SD> As for Annie's voice, well, it's
C>the best female singing voice I've ever heard.
SD> I think Linda Ronstadt is easily as good, if not better, but I don't
SD> like most of her music.  Annie reminds me of Olivia Newton-John
SD> singing  for the Moody Blues.  Again, I also don't like O's music as
SD> much as  Renaissance.
SD> I think I'll need to
C>try more Renassaince.
SD> You have a tape somewhere...too bad you don't have a tape player.
C> C>The Beatles Anthology 3
C> SD> Are they fully finished George Martin versions?  I'd buy the
C> SD> Anthology just for that.
C>Martin produced and Glyn Johns engineered the following:
C>are "*I've Got A Feeling," "*Dig A Pony," "*Two of Us," "*For You
SD> Blue,"
C>"*The Long And Winding Road," "*Get Back," all of which, if I'm not
C>mistaken, ended up on _Let It Be_ (I don't have that album).  These
C>are all the non-Spectorized versions.
SD> Missing trax:
SD> Across the Universe
SD> I Me Mine
SD> Dig It (expendable)
SD> Let It Be
SD> Maggie Mae (expendable)
SD> One After 909

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assistant: The message from Stuart Dubois rises higher:
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Oh, OK.
I can't believe that "Carpet of The Sun" wasn't some really big 70s hit.
It's fantastic.
I don't know much of Newton-John except for her work in "Grease" and
"Xanadu."  At least with those two, her voice doesn't remind me of
Annie's.  Newton-John does have a good voice, though.  As for the Moody
Blues reference, I do hear that.
While we're on the subject of female vocalists, I've always thought that
Christine Perfect/McVie had a good voice -- better than Stevie Nicks.
I'll give it a shot.  You did say the tape was expendable, right?
"Across The Universe" is on the second Anthology and also a third
version is on _Past Masters, Vol II_.  "I Me Mine" *is* on the 3rd
Anthology, but I just overlooked it -- they stuck it way toward the end
with a lot of _Abbey Road_ stuff.
I kind of like that, but it's not much I'll agree.
This is on the 3rd Anthology too.  I overlooked it too.
Um, how's that one go?  That doesn't sound familiar.
OH yeah, that one.  I've never much cared for that, but an early version
of that was on Anthology 1.  I've also got a cover version of that by
The Smithereens.  Pretty good, actually, and they do that "Dany Boy"
thing at the end of the song too.
NP: "Good Night" -- The Beatles, Anthology 3