Comments on: Review (Sam’s Top 10 #9): Beth Orton, Central Reservation

By: joiezabel

joiezabel — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:33:28 +0000

i sent christine my best of 2006 list too. and “comfort” wasn’t on it. and neither was kylie minogue.

By: Sam E.

Sam E. — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:58:33 +0000

I’m glad someone else liked Comfort of Strangers as much as I did! I sent Christine my year-end list last week, and that album figured prominently on it.

By: TonyJNeal

TonyJNeal — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 01:00:29 +0000

Also, nice you attacked Clear Channel!

By: TonyJNeal

TonyJNeal — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:57:49 +0000

For some reason I don’t own this album. This year’s Comfort of Strangers is the first album I’ve owned of hers and it’ll be in my top 20 0f 2006, with Conceived being a top 10 song. I’ll have to check this out soon.

By: amber

amber — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:15:20 +0000

hahaha, i know sam, i just look for every opportunity to wax lyrical about joy e….because i am….a….huge….nerd.

By: Sam E.

Sam E. — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 08:08:01 +0000

I\’m going to go with less embarrassing than Hanson, more embarrassing than Genesis (because everyone in the band went on to have incredibly insipid lite-FM solo careers, I think people forget that there was a time when they were a pretty good band), and….maybe about as embarrassing as Phil Collins, but in a very different way.

I\’m going to keep talking about it like this but avoid giving any real clues as a clever way to drum up reader interest.

And Amber, I would never dispute Ronnie Martin\’s mastery of the analog synths. If that were the only criterion, he\’d win hands down. I just like the EG\’s songs better — though as I said, I\’m pretty high on both bands.

By: amber

amber — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 23:24:58 +0000

genesis/phil collins?

pffff, echoing green better than joy electric? no one on this planet, NO ONE, can work an analog synthesizer the way ronnie martin can. the album the white songbook was recorded completely monophonically (no chords were used, just single notes) with an analog synth - and there was no drum machine or percussion, supposedly. the analog made every single sound on the album. i have a thing for analog synths, you see…the echoing green, yes, are very good, but joy e will always have a place in my heart.

By: joiezabel

joiezabel — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 22:43:53 +0000

hanson?

By: Sam E.

Sam E. — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 22:40:02 +0000

Eh, Joy Electric are only Christian on every other album. Though for the record, I quite like them too, though I think the Echoing Green are slightly better.

Also, for the record, my #6 is WAY more embarassing than that.

By: amber

amber — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 20:37:19 +0000

sam, your #6 cant be any worse than my obsession with joy electric…thats christian synth pop, my friend.

By: Sam E.

Sam E. — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:41:28 +0000

Heh…that’s an awfully tepid response. ^_^ I didn’t really expect Beth to make anyone else’s top 10, but I did expect her to be at least slightly more popular around here

That’s okay. I actually don’t think I’m ever going to get to finish my list, because I’m pretty sure that #6 is going to get me kicked off the site altogether ^^

By: amber

amber — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:42:07 +0000

i’m not a big fan of hers…or at least i wasn’t when this album came out. maybe i should give it another listen or something.

By: joiezabel

joiezabel — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 18:08:53 +0000

hmmm, that was a good album and all, but i’d never give it 10 out of 10. i guess this is why this is sam’s top 10 fave list, not joie’s.