the Smashing Pumpkins were everything to me for a while, and this was my favourite song of all for that time.
It's still beautiful, and sweet and sad, and restrained. A delight.
I've wasted all my years
Been chasin' all my fears
For another
Brighter than you
I gave in long ago
To make it to the show
It's not easy
When you're alone
All your prayers
In my ears
Don't you care
Whir yourself around
Just to fall back down
Whir yourself around
My honey, little girl
C'mon let's go for a whirl
It's still early
Sun is sleeping
She says she wants to marry me
She says she wants a baby
It's not easy
When you're scared
Whir yourself around
Just to fall back down
Whir yourself around
All your prayers
In my ears
Don't you care
Mayonaise - live accoustic version from earphoria, a little treat for scrolling
Friday, April 22, 2011
Songs I love - I've just seen a face - Jim Sturgess v Pearl Jam
You can thank the Beatles of course, but you won't need to look far to find their versions, and these are my favourite anyway.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS31XNJOdpU
I've just seen a face,
I can't forget the time or place
That we'd just met, she's just the girl for me
And I want all the world to see we've met
Na na na na na na
Had it been another day
I might have looked the other way
But I had never been aware
And as it is I dream of her tonight
Na na na na na na
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS31XNJOdpU
I've just seen a face,
I can't forget the time or place
That we'd just met, she's just the girl for me
And I want all the world to see we've met
Na na na na na na
Had it been another day
I might have looked the other way
But I had never been aware
And as it is I dream of her tonight
Na na na na na na
Songs I love - Darren Hanlon - Happines is a chemical
Because love is just a lazy generalisation that we use for 100 different feelings and as many situations going through each others pockets is not like us and flattery should get you somewhere and your happiness is just a chemical
Songs I love - Heavy Heart - TZU vs You am I
More Triple J like a version briliance, again covering the masterful You am I, and again taking it in a very different direction.
I talk a lot about football
And girls I kissed in Grade 4
I piss off my friends
I'm digging a hole just staring at the floor
Now every t-shirt's got a wine stain
I'm loving cigarettes again
I know every tune about guys and girls
and hurts and hearts and moans
I miss you like sleep
And there's nothing romantic about the hours I keep
The morning's when it starts
I don't look so sharp
Now I got a heavy heart
I talk a lot about football
And girls I kissed in Grade 4
I piss off my friends
I'm digging a hole just staring at the floor
Now every t-shirt's got a wine stain
I'm loving cigarettes again
I know every tune about guys and girls
and hurts and hearts and moans
I miss you like sleep
And there's nothing romantic about the hours I keep
The morning's when it starts
I don't look so sharp
Now I got a heavy heart
Songs I love - Berlin Chair - Holly Throsby vs You am I
From the often magnificient Triple J Like a version sessions, the tremendously talented Holly Throsby does the tremendously fantastic You am I song, Berlin Chair
And the original, for good measure (and because it will rock your mother ucking socks off)
And the original, for good measure (and because it will rock your mother ucking socks off)
Songs I love - Gillian - The Waifs (and Spotlight, and Take it in)
Josh from The Waifs wrote this song, and there is just a certain something about a man who loves his mother. In any other context this would be creepy "Gillian if you weren't my mother I would make you my wife", but it totally works.
I'm also going to go for Spotlight, and Take it in. It's London Still that I do at karaoke, but you can google that your self. Take it in reminds me so much of being in Nepal and feeling like the entire universe was spread out ahead of me for the taking.
The versions I have linked to are all from their live double album and it is oustanding, make it yours and you will not regret it.
Spotlight
Twenty something and the fog has all but disappeared
With each day passed I learn something more
At all rate I'm thinking here I must know it all
Love, death, a little pain have passed through these walls
Situations still arrive where I can see
The way I behave it's unjustified
These are the times I look inside
And I see I'm a child after all
Take it in
I'm also going to go for Spotlight, and Take it in. It's London Still that I do at karaoke, but you can google that your self. Take it in reminds me so much of being in Nepal and feeling like the entire universe was spread out ahead of me for the taking.
The versions I have linked to are all from their live double album and it is oustanding, make it yours and you will not regret it.
Spotlight
Twenty something and the fog has all but disappeared
With each day passed I learn something more
At all rate I'm thinking here I must know it all
Love, death, a little pain have passed through these walls
Situations still arrive where I can see
The way I behave it's unjustified
These are the times I look inside
And I see I'm a child after all
Take it in
Songs I love - Jesus gave me the water - Sam Cooke
There is something about gospel, and there is certainly something about this song.
I can't explain why I love it so, and I am certainly not a Christian, but, well, however, here you go.
I can't explain why I love it so, and I am certainly not a Christian, but, well, however, here you go.
Songs I love - Got to give it up pt 1 - Marvin Gaye
I like this comment on the YouTube video "Every cat you see in this video is cooler than anyone you'll ever meet in your lifetime these days."
I don't think I knew this song before hearing it in Charlie's Angels. But I certainly noticed it then.
"As long as you're grooving, there's always the chance, somebody watching might want to make romance". Gold. Remember kids, don't be a wallflower, bust it out on the dance floor, and stay in school
I don't think I knew this song before hearing it in Charlie's Angels. But I certainly noticed it then.
"As long as you're grooving, there's always the chance, somebody watching might want to make romance". Gold. Remember kids, don't be a wallflower, bust it out on the dance floor, and stay in school
Songs I love - Multiply - Jamie Lidell
AFAIK, Jamie is at the pinacle of the mountain of White Guys Who Sound Like Black Guys
Songs I love - We Float - PJ Harvey
Miss Polly Jean in one of many fine moments.
"Until my middle name was excess"
"Until my middle name was excess"
Ephemera & Miscellany meets Songs I Love : HOME
I'm not sure how I feel about the whole internet sensation thing, and am not posting the follow up from this (where they appeared on Ellen and I don't know what else). But this song is totally beautiful and amazing and that little girl is beautiful and amazing and I definitely wish them well.
And the original
Songs I love - Heretic Pride - The Mountain Goats (& This Year)
Not actually video clips. But still, nothing not to love.
Songs I love - The Waitress Song - Seth Sentry
It's better without the video clip. I'd never actually seen it before hunting it down right now. But no matter, I remain absolutely charmed.
It has me from the opening line "There's a place I go for breakfast every afternoon"
It has me from the opening line "There's a place I go for breakfast every afternoon"
Songs I love - Modern Giant - Angie Hart (w/lyrics)
This band is not well known (and is now no longer together), so much so
that there is no youtube video (but you can listen to it on their myspace here)
and these lyrics were not online, until now.
Because there is a youtube video for another great song of theirs, the band has broken up, I'm posting it here. But do go and hunt down Angie Hart post haste, it is a button pusher.
Transcribing the lyrics from the albm liner notes reminds me of my mid teens in the late 1990s, before I had internet access, obsessing over lyrics in liner notes or listening closely trying to get them just right. Quoting them in emphatic letters written in class to friends, passed to them in the halls. Do the kids even know what liner notes are these days?
Here I am, 29 and transcribing again. For this song it's worth it. I've never had much time for spoken word, but I heard this song playing on RRR one day and was immediately smitten. Total swoon. With some effort, I was able to track it down and order it from a local record company. Minutes later I had an email from the owner, wondering how I'd heard of the band. When I told him about hearing this song and how it made me feel, he said he'd had the same experience and it was what made him sign the band.
I don't know how much knowing about Melbourne, knowing about Sydney, and knowing about Angie Hart and Frente factors in to your enjoyment of the song, but for me with all three it hits all the spots that you want to have hit, and a little bit more for good measure. I like to think if it was written now who the artist would be, and what the album would be to take the measure of the time. I think Clare Bowditch would be the lass, but what album could fill the role of Nevermind, I'm at a loss to suggest.
Angie Hart from the album Satellite Nights
When I look back on this time
I'll see myself as being out of control
When I look back on this time
I'll see myself as being
completely out of control
Her name was Claire
She lived at the back of Wheels & Doll Baby in Darlinghurst
Just off Crown Street
Went down there one night
must've been '92
I know cause she had *Nevermind* on
She later gave me the tape and
She said she might move
to Newcastle
And I said cool
cos I might move to Melbourne
Quite literally going
our separate ways
After one night
At least I got Nevermind out of it
(And if I saw her today I'd say to her.)
Claire do you know what made me
Want to move to Melbourne?
Angie Hart made me want to move to Melbourne
Yeah, and fall in love
and drink coffee
And sit in cafes and drink beer
And have a genuine use for the
Many beanies that I've collected
over the years
And love love love
love love love love
love
(You get the picture)
With furry hatted girls
who wear matt lipstick lips
or no lipstick at all
fuck it, cos that's even better
and we could walk
or maybe run or maybe skip
Through frost-lens parks
And someone would capture
the whole thing
On a super Eight camera
And there'd be a dog involved
with a tennis ball in its mouth
And at some stage
we would play on swings
There'd be a bag of hot chips
in there somewhere
Maybe an ice cream but that
might have been too cold
Cos it would have always been cold
And I would have gone
to AFL matches
I would have seen bands and
I would have taken up smoking
And I would have felt that this
was really home
And then thought of my real home
back in Sydney
And been glad that I had both but
Been happy that in these years
I'd started again
And everything would unfurl and
I'd wash my clothes in laundromats
And speak to men and women
With lines like my father's
in their faces
And always present
Alwasy present would be
The earth-colour-wearing-girls
Their musically-inclinded friends
And there would have been
guitars in there
And there would have been
VB involved
And maybe I would have moved
on to Melbourne Bitter
And never drunk anything else
I would have gotten older
And I would have become
a regular at Fitzroy Pool
And I'd emphatically know
the tram system Claire
And the right turn traffic rule
And I'd have scoured every pub and
Found every decent restaurant and
Become an acitivist in some area
A prominent spoken word performer
And done a benefit gig with
Paul Kelly, Mick Thomas,
Archie Roach, Chris Wilson
And somewhere along the line
Somewhere along the line
Angie Hart may have been involved
Angie Hart from the band Frente
Maybe would have been involved
Somewhere I may have just
accidentally bumped into her
And Angie would give me
a version of a knowing nod
And I"d give her one back and
maybe I'd suggest a coffee
And Brunswick Street
would be all over me
And I'd be all over it
Like the cheapest suit
I could buy in an op-shop
And Angie would say,
"Hey man, hey! Jeez I like your suit."
And I almost but thankfully not
Ask her the rhetorical question of:
"Angie, hey Angie, you know
what made me want to move to Melbourne?"
"Hey Angie, do you know
what made me want to move
to Melbourne?"
yeah.. I would ask it
and she wouldn't answer
How can you say something
like that to someone you've
never met before?
but that's the point of all this:
I didn't actually move to Melbourne
And I"ve heard she's married
An American guy now anyway.
Every idea passes,
every thought has an end
Regardless, however, but
Angie Hart made me
want to move to Melbourne
Angie Hart made me
want to move to Melbourne
She did, like nothing else
I could've got in the car
and just gone
I could've got in the car and just gone
I could've got in the car and just gone
Cos there's a name for this feeling
Cos there's a name for this feeling
They just haven't named it yet
They just haven't named it yet
Cos when I look back on this time
Claire, '91, the future
I'll see myself as being completely
out of control
that there is no youtube video (but you can listen to it on their myspace here)
and these lyrics were not online, until now.
Because there is a youtube video for another great song of theirs, the band has broken up, I'm posting it here. But do go and hunt down Angie Hart post haste, it is a button pusher.
Transcribing the lyrics from the albm liner notes reminds me of my mid teens in the late 1990s, before I had internet access, obsessing over lyrics in liner notes or listening closely trying to get them just right. Quoting them in emphatic letters written in class to friends, passed to them in the halls. Do the kids even know what liner notes are these days?
Here I am, 29 and transcribing again. For this song it's worth it. I've never had much time for spoken word, but I heard this song playing on RRR one day and was immediately smitten. Total swoon. With some effort, I was able to track it down and order it from a local record company. Minutes later I had an email from the owner, wondering how I'd heard of the band. When I told him about hearing this song and how it made me feel, he said he'd had the same experience and it was what made him sign the band.
I don't know how much knowing about Melbourne, knowing about Sydney, and knowing about Angie Hart and Frente factors in to your enjoyment of the song, but for me with all three it hits all the spots that you want to have hit, and a little bit more for good measure. I like to think if it was written now who the artist would be, and what the album would be to take the measure of the time. I think Clare Bowditch would be the lass, but what album could fill the role of Nevermind, I'm at a loss to suggest.
Angie Hart from the album Satellite Nights
When I look back on this time
I'll see myself as being out of control
When I look back on this time
I'll see myself as being
completely out of control
Her name was Claire
She lived at the back of Wheels & Doll Baby in Darlinghurst
Just off Crown Street
Went down there one night
must've been '92
I know cause she had *Nevermind* on
She later gave me the tape and
She said she might move
to Newcastle
And I said cool
cos I might move to Melbourne
Quite literally going
our separate ways
After one night
At least I got Nevermind out of it
(And if I saw her today I'd say to her.)
Claire do you know what made me
Want to move to Melbourne?
Angie Hart made me want to move to Melbourne
Yeah, and fall in love
and drink coffee
And sit in cafes and drink beer
And have a genuine use for the
Many beanies that I've collected
over the years
And love love love
love love love love
love
(You get the picture)
With furry hatted girls
who wear matt lipstick lips
or no lipstick at all
fuck it, cos that's even better
and we could walk
or maybe run or maybe skip
Through frost-lens parks
And someone would capture
the whole thing
On a super Eight camera
And there'd be a dog involved
with a tennis ball in its mouth
And at some stage
we would play on swings
There'd be a bag of hot chips
in there somewhere
Maybe an ice cream but that
might have been too cold
Cos it would have always been cold
And I would have gone
to AFL matches
I would have seen bands and
I would have taken up smoking
And I would have felt that this
was really home
And then thought of my real home
back in Sydney
And been glad that I had both but
Been happy that in these years
I'd started again
And everything would unfurl and
I'd wash my clothes in laundromats
And speak to men and women
With lines like my father's
in their faces
And always present
Alwasy present would be
The earth-colour-wearing-girls
Their musically-inclinded friends
And there would have been
guitars in there
And there would have been
VB involved
And maybe I would have moved
on to Melbourne Bitter
And never drunk anything else
I would have gotten older
And I would have become
a regular at Fitzroy Pool
And I'd emphatically know
the tram system Claire
And the right turn traffic rule
And I'd have scoured every pub and
Found every decent restaurant and
Become an acitivist in some area
A prominent spoken word performer
And done a benefit gig with
Paul Kelly, Mick Thomas,
Archie Roach, Chris Wilson
And somewhere along the line
Somewhere along the line
Angie Hart may have been involved
Angie Hart from the band Frente
Maybe would have been involved
Somewhere I may have just
accidentally bumped into her
And Angie would give me
a version of a knowing nod
And I"d give her one back and
maybe I'd suggest a coffee
And Brunswick Street
would be all over me
And I'd be all over it
Like the cheapest suit
I could buy in an op-shop
And Angie would say,
"Hey man, hey! Jeez I like your suit."
And I almost but thankfully not
Ask her the rhetorical question of:
"Angie, hey Angie, you know
what made me want to move to Melbourne?"
"Hey Angie, do you know
what made me want to move
to Melbourne?"
yeah.. I would ask it
and she wouldn't answer
How can you say something
like that to someone you've
never met before?
but that's the point of all this:
I didn't actually move to Melbourne
And I"ve heard she's married
An American guy now anyway.
Every idea passes,
every thought has an end
Regardless, however, but
Angie Hart made me
want to move to Melbourne
Angie Hart made me
want to move to Melbourne
She did, like nothing else
I could've got in the car
and just gone
I could've got in the car and just gone
I could've got in the car and just gone
Cos there's a name for this feeling
Cos there's a name for this feeling
They just haven't named it yet
They just haven't named it yet
Cos when I look back on this time
Claire, '91, the future
I'll see myself as being completely
out of control
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