This is so funny, especially for music geeks: Nick Sylvester pretending to be Robert Christgau doing an overview history of Pazz and Jop over Trapped in the Closet.

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Love it. New tag!

I'm trying to research and enter recording dates in for my '20s and '30s stuff that's on reissues. This is very time-consuming. But if I'm going to make a smart playlist to help me select repertoire by decade (which I currently need to do when I perform at Crooners & Songbirds), I gots to do it.

Data entry hell.

I saw this ahem on DimeADozen and immediately thought of Jilli -- [link]

Are there any other Buffistas who are also members of DAD, and who don't have a download limit to worry about, and so could possibly grab it for b.org'ers if necessary? If not, and it is wanted, I can grab it and make it available on a private tracker but it wouldn't be for another 7 days or thereabouts.

eta: hmm, now that I think about it, I'm not even sure that link will work for non-members, so here's the details.

Jim Steinman 
Dance of the Vampires 
Broadway Demos 
Demos: July 2001. Based on the Broadway production
reading at the Chelsea Studios, NYC. 
Directed by John Caird & Jim Steinman. 
Demos recorded in New York, New York. Hit Factory Studio. 

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1. Overture 
2. Angels Arise* 
3. God has Left the Building 
4. Original Sin 
5. There's Never Been a Night Like This* 
6. Invitation to the Ball* 
7. Braver Than we Are 
8. Midnight Serenade 
9. Total Eclipse of the Heart 
10. Carpe Noctem (Seize the Night) 
11. For Sarah 
12. Forgive me Father / Confession of a Vampire 
13. The Dance of the Vampires 

* new demos for the aborted West End production 

1. (original Vienna cast recording) 
2. (unknown singers. This would have been sung by 
      Charlotte Church on the aborted concept album) 
3. Demo by Jeff Bova, Jim Steinman & Steve Rinkoff. 
      Excerpted piano by Steve Margoshes. There are 
      several other alternate takes of this track 
4, 8 & 12. Steve arton 
5 & 6. (unknown singers) 
7. Marcus Lovett & Elaine Caswell 
9. Intro by Ellen Foley. Steve Barton & Elaine Caswell 
10. Kyle Gordon & Vienna cast 
11. Aris Sas (original Vienna Alfred) 
12. Monologue: Jim Steinman 
13. Steve Barton, Elaine Caswell, Jim Steinman 
& Barry Keating 

***Lost Track*** Celine Dion: Is Nothing Sacred 
(this appeared on The Very Best of Meat Loaf, and 
the aborted debut album of Karine Hannah)

I saw this ahem on DimeADozen and immediately thought of Jilli -- [link]

Heh. I'm so predictable. But yesssss, if someone manages to download it, I would dearly love a copy.

It looks like the Boston Globe (via Boston.com), now requires registration for some of their articles, but if you go in and access the weekly Ideas section (it's in the Sunday paper), they had an article on the 33 & 1/3 series, and some similar books. No mention of the specific upcoming titles, though.

But yesssss

Jilli speaks parseltongue?

Jilli speaks parseltongue?

Bwah-ha-ha-ha!

they had an article on the 33 & 1/3 series, and some similar books.

Except they called editor David Barker, "Barkley". The 33 1/3 blog reproduced the article here: [link]

The RIAA goes even further into cuckoo land. Coming next: the RIAA determines that listening to music on CDs you just bought is not covered under fair use.