Emily's music page

Music-related links

• The Internet Underground Music Archive
• A suggested basic repertoire for a classical music collection
• The Nettwerk home page, from the music label who brought you such cool people as Sarah McLachlan
• The Eyesore database of everyone who records at 4AD (including the Cocteau Twins and Dead Can Dance)
• The Ultimate Band List. Must be seen to be believed.
• The WWW Virtual Library Music Page. Another great place to look for links.
• FolkBook is a site with a large amount of information and links for folk musicians. If you automatically associate folk music with hippies wailing about how we all should love each other blindly, think again.
• Classics Web, a site for classical music enthusiasts.

Home pages of people I've seen in concert

• Pat Benatar. Saw her at Ontario Place in July, 1996. She still has that big powerful voice. "Hit Me with Your Best Shot" and "Love is a Battlefield" took me right back to my early adolescence, and the blues stuff she recorded in 1990 is cool.
• Frank Black. Okay, so I missed his set, but I did see him play with They Might Be Giants.
• Boiled in Lead. A great high-energy Celtic-influenced band.
• Johnny Cash. Saw him for free at the Canadian National Exhibition in the summer of '94.
• Leonard Cohen. Took Dave to see him as a birthday present in Toronto in April, 1994, or so. What an amazing man he is.
• Elvis Costello. Saw him in about 1990 at Great Woods in Massachusetts. He was playing with the Rude 5, not with the Attractions, so it wasn't one of his greatest shows. "God's Comic" was terrific, though.
• The Cure. Spring of 1992, at the Worcester (Massachusetts) Centrum. We had terrible seats, so Robert Smith et al. looked like little ants, and all the music sounded exactly the same way it did on the CDs. Oh well.
• Depeche Mode. Once in June, 1990, at Great Woods, and again in 1994 at the SkyDome in Toronto. I've been a fan of their stuff since 1985, but I'm not much enamored of their most recent CD. Ergo, I liked the Great Woods show better.
• Ani DiFranco. Summer of 1993 at the Winnipeg Folk Festival. She's a funny, self-effacing, charismatic performer. After this show, I bought all her CDs. Saw her again in July of 1995. Check out Megazone's Ani page, too.
• Erasure. October of 1992 at the O'Keefe Centre in Toronto. Wonderfully campy and overdone.
• Frente. They opened for They Might Be Giants. I like their music, but they weren't that engaging live.
• The Gipsy Kings (shudder) -- saw them at the Channel in Boston on a night so hot I thought I was going to die. I got dehydrated, and there were all these oily men in leather jackets crammed up against me, and the band looked really, really bored. Even now, hearing a Gipsy Kings song gives me the willies. It's a really lame page, too.
• The Steve Miller Band, also at Ontario Place in July, 1996. Not generally the kind of stuff I listen to, but hey, the tickets were free, and it was a good show.
• Moxy Früvous. Also at the Winnipeg Folk Festival in 1993. Four guys from Toronto who do a lot of a cappella stuff and who are cute, funny, and talented as anything. See them. Buy their CDs.
• Nitzer Ebb. They opened for Depeche Mode at the Great Woods show. One guy waved his hair a lot and pulled off his shirt; the other one bashed at a drum machine. Not quite like anything I've seen before or since.
• Pink Floyd. Spring of 1988. The first concert I ever saw. I went with 21 other people from Wellesley and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Wow.
• Jonathan Richman. Sometime after I moved to Toronto. I danced with him before the show. He's fun.
• Saffire: The Uppity Blues Women. Also at the 1993 Winnipeg Folk Festival. They're wonderful. "Two in the bush is better than one in the hand."
• They Might Be Giants. Sometime near the end of 1994, in Toronto, after they decided to start touring with a full band. Lots of fun -- they even played "Frankenstein."
• Trout Fishing in America, '93 Winnipeg Folk Festival. Two guys, one short and one tall, who play some great music.
• Suzanne Vega. Saw her in Toronto, probably sometime in 1993, after 99.9 Fahrenheit Degrees came out. She was great, but her band wasn't. Maybe next time.
• Violent Femmes . Spring of 1992, when they played at MIT. This was by far the best live show I've ever seen, and I wasn't even that psyched to go. If you ever get the chance to see them, go.
• The Wolfgang Press -- I saw them open for the Charlatans UK, who don't seem to have a page yet. Quite cool. (A 4AD band.)

(I have seen more, but these are the only ones for which I could find home pages.)