It's one of Tanya Donnelly's songs, off "The Real Ramona". (Another fine TM album, BTW!) I was listening to that particular track a few minutes ago since I was playing the CD, so not having played it in quite a while, I played the song again to get a good listen.
Even though her half-sister, Kristin Hersh, writes and sings the lion's share of TM's material, it's always nice to hear a Tanya song for a little change of pace. Tanya writes more "pop" sounding, melodically haunting tunes and sings so sweetly innocent to lyrics that are (using Amongthetrees's words) pretty bizarre like warped children's fairy tales or disturbing fantasy stories (imagine if Anne Rice had written those Harry Potter books!).
Ironically, "Honeychain" sounds a lot like a Belly song, since Tanya left TM right after they finished recording "The Real Ramona" to play on the Breeders' 1st album, "Pod" before starting her own band, Belly. BTW, that 1st. album they did, "Star", is one terrific album. Even though "Feed the Tree" is my favorite Belly tune, I'd have to say the rest of that album, much like the Beatles' "Abbey Road", has great songs straight through--not a bad song in the bunch.
It's one of Tanya Donnelly's songs, off "The Real Ramona". (Another fine TM album, BTW!) I was listening to that particular track a few minutes ago since I was playing the CD, so not having played it in quite a while, I played the song again to get a good listen. Even though her half-sister, Kristin Hersh, writes and sings the lion's share of TM's material, it's always nice to hear a Tanya song for a little change of pace. Tanya writes more "pop" sounding, melodically haunting tunes and sings so sweetly innocent to lyrics that are (using Amongthetrees's words) pretty bizarre like warped children's fairy tales or disturbing fantasy stories (imagine if Anne Rice had written those Harry Potter books!). Ironically, "Honeychain" sounds a lot like a Belly song, since Tanya left TM right after they finished recording "The Real Ramona" to play on the Breeders' 1st album, "Pod" before starting her own band, Belly. BTW, that 1st. album they did, "Star", is one terrific album. Even though "Feed the Tree" is my favorite Belly tune, I'd have to say the rest of that album, much like the Beatles' "Abbey Road", has great songs straight through--not a bad song in the bunch.