PJ Harvey - Angelene from Is This Desire? (1998) /trip-rock/((”Dear God, life ain’t kind/People gettin born then dying/But I’ve heard there’s joy untold/Lays open like a road/In front of me”Atmospheric, moody, plaintive, wispy, hopeful. Reading the lyrics now, I discovered that a lot of the lyrics aren’t quite what I thought they were.))
Today is one of recovered memories - things I had forgotten I loved. Maybe it’s the snow that does that. I love snow. It puts me in a good place; I don’t know if it’s happy or what, but it’s a good feeling. Today specifically I speak of the plays of […]
The Shins - Saint Simon from Chutes Too Narrow (2003) /indie pop/((”Mercy’s eyes are blue/when she places them in front of you/nothing holds a roman candle to/the solemn warmth you feel inside”A lovely, lilting loop of pure melody, jangle, and swoop))
Soon I will be able to come home. Right now I’m ridiculously tired. Was up late doing the whole study for psych thing. Should have studied more. Exam went OK, seemed to go about as well as the midterm seemed to go, but I highly doubt I will be so lucky this […]
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah from Grace (1994) /man with guitar/“And it’s not a cry that you hear at night/It’s not somebody who’s seen the light/It’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah”((This one’s been with me for a while. In my opinion it is the best version of this wonderful Leonard Cohen song. […]
All I want to do is watch Tuesday’s episode of 24. Why must god punish me so? First it takes longer than normal for it to go online. And now Rezx has decided that all the episodes will refuse to work upon initially being downloaded. So though I have it, […]
U2 & Daniel Lanois - The Ground Beneath Her Feet from The Million Dollar Hotel (soundtrack) (2000) /rock/((”She was my ground, My favourite sound, My country road, My city street. My sky above, My only love. And the ground beneath my feet.”It’s a shame that the above lines were left out of the […]
In 8 hours I will be on the bus bac to mac (which means right now I should really be sleeping). It was nice to be home. It certainly did feel like home. A fairly nostalgic experience. I miss the night. I don’t get the experience of the night […]
The Turtles - Happy Together from Happy Together (1967) /sunshine.oldie.pop/((”Imagine me and you I do/I think about you day and night, it’s only right…”Everyone knows this piece of pop perfection, and well they should. I don’t think Melissa and Damon really had a “song”, but cliche as it may be this was closest to being […]
Handsome Boy Modeling School - Sunshine feat. Sean Lennon, Money Mark, Father Guido Sarducci, Josh Hayden of Spain and Paula Frazer from So…How’s Your Girl (1999) /nu soul/((”forget about your worries/forget about your bad times/life is nothing but a shadow/without your sunshine…shine on and on…”A dreamy, drippy, slow jam. It’s rather comforting and nice. […]