tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8020036606005757534.post4632553280043908421..comments2024-02-16T00:48:56.686-08:00Comments on The Man Who Painted Agnieszka's Shoes: Sixteen Songs that Make Me CryAgnieszkas Shoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07831763071877082489noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8020036606005757534.post-40677720155137210592009-12-29T11:22:42.857-08:002009-12-29T11:22:42.857-08:00I remember Bauhaus from my youth - never really ha...I remember Bauhaus from my youth - never really had them pegged as great emoters like you say, but maybe worth revisiting. ThanksAgnieszkas Shoeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07831763071877082489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8020036606005757534.post-51623235661072729992009-12-28T12:45:07.984-08:002009-12-28T12:45:07.984-08:00Hey all, with all this Joy Division love about, I ...Hey all, with all this Joy Division love about, I have to add Bauhaus's All We Ever Wanted was Everything, which, for a band that typically leaned more towards dramatis than emotus, cuts pretty deep.P. M. Hollotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01542635131280325135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8020036606005757534.post-7199009826783266522009-12-27T12:04:41.135-08:002009-12-27T12:04:41.135-08:00Phillipa, thank you, I'll look that out :)
Ma...Phillipa, thank you, I'll look that out :)<br /><br />Marc, they were a Salisbury based band called The SatellitesAgnieszkas Shoeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07831763071877082489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8020036606005757534.post-90160376018859499602009-12-27T11:10:54.131-08:002009-12-27T11:10:54.131-08:00Which band was your dad in Dan?
marcWhich band was your dad in Dan? <br /><br />marcSulci Collectivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03293833259808943096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8020036606005757534.post-38942183532068998712009-12-26T23:49:31.419-08:002009-12-26T23:49:31.419-08:00and the Black Angel cd by Kronos Quartet, that'...and the Black Angel cd by Kronos Quartet, that's a killer after a few drinks and a bad dayPhillipahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00264700263885367373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8020036606005757534.post-68615498020696679492009-12-26T15:40:14.257-08:002009-12-26T15:40:14.257-08:00Ronkeytonk - yeah, Don MacLean - when I was a firs...Ronkeytonk - yeah, Don MacLean - when I was a first year undergrad (1989/90) American Pie went through a revival - great song, great voice.<br /><br />Anne, thanks - I'm determined to make a proper start on it before the New Year - but I keep on procrastinating - those "50 best toatsers of 2009" reviews are just so irresistible!Agnieszkas Shoeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07831763071877082489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8020036606005757534.post-23727286212647698452009-12-26T12:10:30.712-08:002009-12-26T12:10:30.712-08:00I only know a few of those songs, too. I need to e...I only know a few of those songs, too. I need to expand out! I love so many genres! <br /><br />I want to second what Marc said about your book - Life Drawn Freehand and the concept - I think that sounds fascinating with so much meat on that Free bone to chew on! Good luck to you!Anne Tyler Lordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16909141266966569378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8020036606005757534.post-67961303615606426012009-12-26T06:24:06.192-08:002009-12-26T06:24:06.192-08:00Good list, i agree about 'where did you sleep ...Good list, i agree about 'where did you sleep last night' the emotion in his voice is heart rendering. <br /> The main tear -jerking song for me is 'starry starry night' by Don McClean, everything about it, subject matter,lyrics, delivery, tone...such a beautiful song. I only discovered it recently too! Good times.ronkeytonkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09410577294610977970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8020036606005757534.post-83607341586070307742009-12-25T14:45:39.784-08:002009-12-25T14:45:39.784-08:00Hey, Cat. I wasn't brought up on classical mus...Hey, Cat. I wasn't brought up on classical music - have come to that later in life. My father was in a band in the 60s so I was subjected to much UK 60s rock. <br /><br />I've heard that about cows before, I'm sureAgnieszkas Shoeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07831763071877082489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8020036606005757534.post-58120171300872199892009-12-25T13:10:42.599-08:002009-12-25T13:10:42.599-08:00My musical education clearly needs extending. Almo...My musical education clearly needs extending. Almost your entire list is unknown to me!<br />Bach's "Sleeper's Wake", Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D, O'Carolan's "Sidhe Beag agus Sidhe Mor, the Missa Luba, Sol Inca...I will not go on. I was not brought up on popular music. We lived in a dairy farming district for a while and cows prefer classical music in the milking shed. (Yes, seriously.)catdownunderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06959328192182156574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8020036606005757534.post-45976668632600368672009-12-25T10:53:25.862-08:002009-12-25T10:53:25.862-08:00Marc, thank you so much for some great playlist ma...Marc, thank you so much for some great playlist material. Especially looking forward to trying out the Tupac inthis context - you're right, there's an incredible emotional intensity and depth to a lot of what he did.<br /><br />and there's a lot of names in there from my past - New Order and The Cure being the ones I'm most looking forward to going back to.<br /><br />Hmm - talking of amazing songs associated with death - I totally forgot a real hair on the back of my neck one in the shape pf Red Hot Chili Peppers' Scar Tissue.<br /><br />and the whole album from REM after their drummer died - esepcially Daysleeper and Electrolyte.<br /><br />And the Manics after Richey Edwards - Design for Life being the one that comes to mind first.Agnieszkas Shoeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07831763071877082489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8020036606005757534.post-18093601836711824132009-12-25T03:38:09.029-08:002009-12-25T03:38:09.029-08:00Dan - Life Drawn Freehand is a wonderful title &am...Dan - Life Drawn Freehand is a wonderful title & I love the concept of exploring every nuance of the word free - there's a hell of a lot to juggle with. Good luck with it.Sulci Collectivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03293833259808943096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8020036606005757534.post-17455444110596726792009-12-25T03:37:33.318-08:002009-12-25T03:37:33.318-08:00(cont) Gang Of Four's "To Hell With Pover...(cont) Gang Of Four's "To Hell With Poverty" is a real rocker, but with the line "To hell with poverty/ We'll get drunk on cheap wine" ...<br />Massive Attack's "Safe From Harm" always gives me goosebumps, her voice is amazing, like a security blanket wrapped around the gibbering child me<br />"History Lesson pt2" by Minutemen is just so sad, the history of the band, with that West Coast drawl "Our band could be your life". Made all the more poignant by singer D.Boon's death in a car crash. Wrenching. As close as I get to crying. "Mr narrator, this is Bob Dylan to me... I could be his soldier child"<br />"In A Lonely Place" New Order's first release after the death of Ian Curtis, god this just drips in lamentation "How I wish you were here with me now" and the percussion on it. Ugh<br />The Ruts "Love In Vain" white reggae is so often risible, but here it is done with such feeling, a voice stretched to breaking - of course Malcolm Owen's plea "Don't want you in my arms no more" may have been to his one true love Heroin that ultimately killed him. Hmm, seems to be a lot of songs by dead people on this list.<br />Saint Etienne's cover of Neil Young's "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" gets to me because of Sarah Cracknell's voice giving it body, unlike the reedy one's original. Perfectly crafted pop song about loss. <br />Tupac seen as just Thug Life, but I challenge you to listen to "So Many Tears" and not be moved by his prognostication of an early death living just such a lifestyle. If you think this was an aberration, listen to his "Changes"<br />Husker Du's "Never Talking To You Again" with the tensions between Bob Mould and Grant Hart that splintered such a great band. You can imagine the harmonies on this being targeted at the other. A band in quiet meltdown. <br />Nas "Let There Be Light" should be a song of uplift, but on such a grim LP as "Hip Hop Is Dead" it just nails the lid of the coffin down. The gospelly backing vocal slices through me like a knife. "As I walk through the shadow of death, I know I ain't got much time left"<br />"Walking With Jesus" by Spacemen3, an ode to drugs, something about it just sets my bones resonating cos you know it's delusionary: "I walked with Jesus and he would say ah you poor child you ain't comin to me today, you found heaven on earth" But the song moves to, "here it comes, the sound of confusion", even singer Sonic Boom doesn't believe in its redemptive powers. <br /><br />17 tracks, 5 by/to do with dead men. So there you have it. Happy Xmas. I'm off to collate these into an I-Tunes playlist!Sulci Collectivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03293833259808943096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8020036606005757534.post-72392730801298880722009-12-25T03:37:03.419-08:002009-12-25T03:37:03.419-08:00"Groovy Situation" by Keith Rowe when h..."Groovy Situation" by Keith Rowe when he lets rip towards the end makes my spine tingle every time http://bit.ly/4rEz5P<br />"Decades" final track of Joy Division's "Closer" having listened to the whole album, is just the depths of despair. Otherwise, listen to "Atmosphere" for the sound of a man who's completely alienated from his own species.<br />Nick Cave's "Box For Black Paul" is simply stunning poetry of the highest order asking who will build a coffin so a man know one likes can be buried. <br />"Boys Don't Cry" by the Cure, Robert Smith's reedy, whiny voice is perfect for the sentiment "Hiding the tears in my eyes"<br />"Armenia" by Einsturzende Neubauten is melancholia personified, based on Armenian folk music, it captures and brutalises a nation's pain. Strangely it appeared on the soundtrack of a hollywood Cop movie cos Henry Rollins acted in it &presumably had some say over the music. Otherwise you could have "Thirsty Animal" where they mic'd up Blixa's ribs as they hit them with various objects. Now that's writing (or singing) pain!<br />The Fall's "In My Area" always makes me feel sad, cos it does what it says on the tin. Smith listing the insanity of our times in that indifferent drawl: "I have seen the birth of bad/I have seen declining tracks/I have seen the madness in my area"Sulci Collectivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03293833259808943096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8020036606005757534.post-64599449285594372252009-12-25T01:57:33.716-08:002009-12-25T01:57:33.716-08:00Hi Phillipa,
Orpheus and Eurydice is sucha sad ta...Hi Phillipa,<br /><br />Orpheus and Eurydice is sucha sad tale I think any rendering would be heartbreaking - I remembering having to do a reading in Latin from Virgil's account in the Georgics (I think).<br /><br />It's interesting what you say about needing to be strong to listen. I actually find when I'm low I need songs that make me cry - as though I need to flush out the poison.Agnieszkas Shoeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07831763071877082489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8020036606005757534.post-14003207703580975402009-12-24T21:28:56.783-08:002009-12-24T21:28:56.783-08:00There's an aria from Gluck's Orpheus and E...There's an aria from Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice sung by Maria Callas and during the aria she calls Eurydice's name and then there's a pause and she sing 'silence morte' and it gets me everytime in the chest - no matter how many times I listen. Also a Mozart violin concerto, number five I think, I can't put my finger on it exactly but there is a moment in the adagio that I can't listen to if I'm down. Another one I avoid if I'm low is the middle movement of a Haydne cello concerto played by Jacqueline Du Pre that causes tears. That Sinead O'connor song is a teary one, primarily because of the way she sings it, I think another person could sing it and it would be schmaltzy. There are heaps of songs that have made me cry, but those three classical ones do it for me consistently. And John Tavener's music often does it too, I love him passionately but have to be in a strong mood to listen to him.Phillipahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00264700263885367373noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8020036606005757534.post-4700526384270727992009-12-24T17:01:33.016-08:002009-12-24T17:01:33.016-08:00You get to see it when it's in my list! I'...You get to see it when it's in my list! I'm working on it now.<br /><br />Man, you DIDN'T see Monkey? Well, I don't know if I would have. Not the Gorillaz . . . I dunno. Damon is one of my favourite sexy singing Brits. Maybe number one?Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15277986037840711382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8020036606005757534.post-83772166130262705722009-12-24T16:23:44.470-08:002009-12-24T16:23:44.470-08:00WHAT IS IT? :)
Yeah, I love Gorillaz.
Hmm, &...WHAT IS IT? :) <br /><br />Yeah, I love Gorillaz.<br /><br />Hmm, & I still can't believe we somehow didn't go and see Monkey when it was on in London. Damon was on absolute top form at Hyde Park this summer - End of the Century, Tender, The Universal were all mindblowingly beautiful.Agnieszkas Shoeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07831763071877082489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8020036606005757534.post-91317488234238577132009-12-24T16:07:08.840-08:002009-12-24T16:07:08.840-08:00You need to hear Stop the Dams (by the Gorillaz --...You need to hear Stop the Dams (by the Gorillaz -- aka Damon Albarn) and the live version of Hong Kong -- talk about Damon's voice being heartbreaking! Oh lordy.<br />I think I'm going to my own list. Though only one song has actually ever made me cry.Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15277986037840711382noreply@blogger.com