Songs You May Have Missed #571

13 Feb 2016 Leave a comment

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John Ford: “All the Songs I Never Heard You Sing” (2000)

Sometimes you can like a song without the lyrics making complete sense to you. You keep it around for its melodic or atmospheric appeal until one day…boom! Events in your life align to the song and it becomes yours.

It’s a happy event when the song itself is a happy one. But more often, I think, it’s the sad songs that can ambush you in this way.

Tonight for the first time, every line of this song made sense to me. It went from merely poignant to potent. And I’ll listen to it again and again…and I’ll never wash away my misery.

john ford

Songs You May Have Missed #570

12 Feb 2016 2 Comments

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The Chapin Sisters: “Borderline” (2007)

The Chapin Sisters evoke the gilded harmonies of the Roches on this version of the early Madonna hit, uncovering an emotional cache the dance version didn’t quite reveal.

Songs You May Have Missed #569

10 Feb 2016 Leave a comment

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Beach House: “Space Song” (2015)

Fans of Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval will probably have an affinity for Victoria Legrand, whose delicate and alluring vocals float along on a billowy arrangement accented by Alex Scally’s wistful, whining guitar and playful synths here.

It’s a hypnotic mix, laden with emotional weight. Whether the emotion it induces is bliss, melancholy or outright heartbreak is in the ear of the listener, or perhaps depends upon the listener’s mood.

But it seems impossible to listen to the cooing harmonies and rich, hypnotic cosmos of sound and feel nothing.

If this song’s vibe is appealing, Depression Cherry is an album you could get lost in, especially with a good pair of headphones.

beach house

Songs You May Have Missed #568

10 Feb 2016 Leave a comment

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Episode: “Swim” (2016)

The funkified rock sounds of the Spin Doctors and Red Hot Chili Peppers are alive and well in the hands of New York band Episode. College radio has embraced this tune and only time will tell if these guys will make a long-term impact, or perhaps even start a full-fledged 90’s revival.

swim

Songs You May Have Missed #567

05 Feb 2016 Leave a comment

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The Lemonheads: “The Outdoor Type” (1996)

Evan Dando’s warm voice and simple, accessible, and slightly subversive songwriting is on display in this easy country-rock-via-Gram Parsons gem.

From a few years after his band’s period of greatest success, which Dando’s struggles with addiction helped derail. Car Button Cloth was recorded while Dando was in the process of working toward sobriety.

Lyrical highlight:

I can’t go away with you on a rock climbing weekend/

What if something’s on TV and it’s never shown again?

dando

Songs You May Have Missed #565

13 Jan 2016 Leave a comment

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Enya: “So I Could Find My Way” (2015)

If you’re blessed enough to have known at least once in your life the kind of love Enya describes here, you are most fortunate indeed.

A thousand dreams you gave to me
You held me high, you held me high
And all those years you guided me
So I could find my way

How long your love had sheltered me
You held me high, you held me high
A harbour holding back the sea
So I could find my way

So let me give this dream to you
Upon another shore
So let me give this dream to you
Each night and ever more

Yet only time keeps us apart
You held me high, you held me high
You’re in the shadows of my heart
So I can find my way

You held me high, you held me high

So let me give this dream to you
Upon another shore
So let me give this dream to you
Each night and ever more

A thousand dreams you gave to me
You held me high, you held me high
And all those years you guided me
So I could find my way

So I could find my way

See also: https://edcyphers.com/2013/03/30/songs-you-may-have-missed-378/

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