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| Joanna Newsom – Only Skin Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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It's one of the finest, most emotional songs I have ever heard... up there with Kate Bush "Moments of Pleasure", and Swansea off The Milk-Eyed Mender. I love the way the emotion lifts up and sails away when she sings "but I took my fishing pole, fearing a fever..." Wow.On another note, one of the government's top science advisors gave an interview in a paper recently. His favourite music.... Mozart and Joanna Newsom. What a comparison! |
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| Joanna Newsom – Cassiopeia Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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These songs are drawn from deep deep down, and the motives for their creation and the way they come out are probably beyond to much analysis. But with musuc as gorgeous as this, who cares! One lovely thing with this song is the way she obviously enjoys the simple pleasure of singing the word Cassiopeia. Who wouldn't? This is the most remarkable CD I've bought since Kate Bush " A Sea of Honey." All you JN fans out there should get this..the 2nd disc is truly remarkable in a similar way to JN's work and should take your breath away. And I've still not heard Ys yet, I'm getting it for Christmas. Oh brave new world....... |
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| Joanna Newsom – This Side of the Blue Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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I'd just like to be controversial and point out that "The Milk-Eyed Mender" could be a reference to the male organ of generation . After all, she is obviously an Eng. Lit sort of person. And it is the TITLE, which is a good place for a deep double meaning. Any comeback? |
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| Kate Bush – Aerial Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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I love the big heartbeat rhythm, the breathtaking chord shifts, it's just a huge emotional rush. The whole suite is totally hot emotionally... I am so pleased Kate has written this gorgeous thing! Thankyou. |
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| They Might Be Giants – I Palindrome I Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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It's one of their funny/serious songs. TMBG must be close to unique in their ability to do this. I'm waiting for them to write a song about Ferdinand de Lesseps, the "builder" of the panama canal. On his gravestone it says " A MAN, A PLAN , A CANAL, PANAMA. " Come on John and john!!!!!!! |
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| Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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And nobody has mentioned the Kathryn Williams version either. Whoever sings it, it goes beyond interpretation and hits the subconscious, like all good poetry...notably T.S. Eliot in Four Quartets. |
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| Roy Harper – Another Day Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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Paul Simon said a song is anything that can walk by itself...and this does. It's one of Roy's songs from FolkJokeOpus which made me want to play the guitar so it means a lot to me for that alone. It's obviuos what it is "about", but the song itself is a beautifully realised object in itself.... form and content and all that. Interesting chords too.The whole album is a goldmine, with Goodbye, East of the Sun etc etc...buy it if you can find it! |
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| Kate Bush – The Morning Fog Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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It's not so much the meaning, it's the atmosphere of the song, the hypnogogic, half-asleep voice, the huge pendulum of the rhythm sweeping to and fro throughout. It's just a beautiful object. |
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| Kate Bush – Moments of Pleasure Lyrics
| 20 years ago
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One of our purposes in life is to give pleasure to others, and it is these fleeting, given pleasures which others remember and which illuminate or little lives. There is an old story about a sumptuous banquet, when a beautiful bird flies in at one door. It flies over the banqueters and they all stare in wonder as it flies out of the far door. That little flight, wondrous to others, is our life.
The last section in which she speaks to her dead friends is one of the most moving few seconds in pop music.... I hope it will be played at my funeral anyway. Delichon. |
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