Comments on: Clarion Marian Call

By: Marian Call in LA! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Marian Call in LA! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:56:55 +0000

[...] even has a nerd album coming out, and I will be ordering it as soon as I can. The last time I blogged about her, she got a lot of new fans; of course music is a matter of taste, and some of you will like her, [...]

By: Chiya

Chiya — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:45:34 +0000

She’s good, and pretty because she looks real (ie not covered in too much makeup). Shiny…

By: Will’s Blog - New Music: Marian Call - Vanilla

Will’s Blog - New Music: Marian Call - Vanilla — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:27:43 +0000

[...] Posted in Music by Will on October 11, 2007. Phil Plait (of Bad Astronomy Blog fame) stumbled onto an Alaskan singer Marian Call a few weeks back, and blogged about it. [...]

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 02:35:06 +0000

Just placed an order for the CD. That’s my kind of music.

By: Donnie B.

Donnie B. — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:39:50 +0000

BA, I posted about this over on fireflyfans.net. Marian’s Saffron song found quite a few new fans over there… and Marian (aka ginny) popped in herself.

Sweet!

By: Moose

Moose — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:28:36 +0000

Singing about how she’s “Not hot but wants to be” while listing a bunch of quirks that are hot as hades… Heh.

And she captured YoSafBridge as neatly as capturing… Well… YoSafBridge in the dumpster.

By: Random Tangent

Random Tangent — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:12:05 +0000

[...] thanks to a posting by The Bad Astronomer, I too am being enchanted by the music of Marian Call. Her music is really good and it’s [...]

By: Arthur Maruyama

Arthur Maruyama — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:44:11 +0000

Thank you, ginny! My order has been placed.

By: The Ridger

The Ridger — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:26:45 +0000

Ah, c’mon. In Trash Mal knew EXACTLY what was going on. Sure, he didn’t want to believe it, but he knew better. Of course, he couldn’t unload the Lassiter, so maybe he did lose out …

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:15:25 +0000

Thanks Phil – I ordered a copy straight away (two actually thanks to Paypal hanging on me). It looks like I’m the first person in Australia to get a copy

By: Elwood Herring

Elwood Herring — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:11:47 +0000

Regarding apostophes: the trick is to look for the missing letter. “Who’s” is shorthand for “who is”, so the sentence “I stumbled on a singer who is voice I just love” obviously doesn’t (does not) make sense. Therefore in this case the correct word is “whose”.

(By the way I absolutely refuse to take the opportunity of using the subject of this thread to promote my own music, which just happens to be astronomy-related – well, sometimes.)

Elwood Herring (that’s one l, two r’s for Google’s sake…)

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:50:48 +0000

If you like that, try Mary Chapin Carpenter. Some of her stuff is pop-country. But some is very much like the samples on Marian Call’s MySpace page.

By: ginny

ginny — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:12:04 +0000

Hooray for independent music!

Re. Paypal — you don’t have to sign in to purchase. When you get to the “please sign in” page, there’s a little link over to the left that allows you to purchase without having a Paypal account or signing in. Bwah!

By: The Bad Astronomer

The Bad Astronomer — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:17:42 +0000

Oops! “Who’s” and “whose” are some of the very few words I still confuse on occasion. I’m very good about it’s and its, for example.

By: reasonable

reasonable — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:11:20 +0000

“I stumbled on a singer whoâ€™s voice I just love”

Ouch. See what happens to people who use myspace, and their poor poor apostrophes?

By: Lurchgs

Lurchgs — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:04:32 +0000

I’ll have to try this again from home – I can’t get to myspace at the moment. (At first, I thought it was a firewall thing, but I can’t even get there on my phone)

As PsyberDave noted, taste is personal… I’ve obviously not yet heard Marion or Disappear Fear (though I think I’ve heard of the latter). If you like *voices* (any genre) I might recommend India Arie – who sings the blues better than any female vocalist since Billie Holliday.

Then there’s Heather Alexander in the folk category. I especially like her March of Cambreadth – it’s in the car along with other “heck with the cops, drop the foot” tunes.

As soon as I hear some of Marion’s work, I’ll know if I have yet ANOTHER reason to return to Alaska.

By: Josh Charles

Josh Charles — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:01:05 +0000

Along this vein, have you seen Mal’s Song?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXSMZdfVS7o

There’s an MP3 floating around that’s much better.

By: PsyberDave

PsyberDave — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:14:06 +0000

I don’t generally do this either, but if you like this sort of music, you may also like a band called disappear fear. I was introduced to them in the early 90s and I have loved the music ever since. It really moves me. But taste is personal, so I leave it to you to hear for yourself.

http://www.myspace.com/soniaanddisappearfear

By: Irishman

Irishman — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:44:03 +0000

Dennis said:
> Count me in! I might order two copies.

And a CD!

By: Dennis

Dennis — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:41:18 +0000

Wow. Sexy redhead who doesn’t know how sexy she is? With a voice like that? Count me in! I might order two copies.

Thanks, Phil!

By: Edward Cohen

Edward Cohen — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:36:31 +0000

We need more of her type of music and voicing.

By: bigjohn

bigjohn — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:35:00 +0000

Here you will find another picture of Marian:

http://new.jpgmag.com/photos/204764

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:38:46 +0000

Wow. I had to tell all my friends about that.

I think the line that really sold me was “I’m not hip but I really want to be, All the bands I like you heard of and I watch too much tv.”

I can really relate to this woman.

and she’s so wrong. she’s damn sexy.

By: |BrownCoat|[Ravi]

|BrownCoat|[Ravi] — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:26:30 +0000

YoSafBridge is hot

This Marian chick has a lovely voice, likes Firefly to boot!
How cool is that

Redheads are hot btw

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:56:36 +0000

I don’t think I’d call YoSafBridg lovely. Attractive, yes, but lovely is too nice an adjective.