Music Dump!
Oct. 8th, 2006 10:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ontologyBecause you lot are awesome, and because I don't really know how to respond to your lovely comments on the last post, and because I got my computer back, and because I have been itching to do this for months, here are twelve songs. Download what you want, leave what you want, but it is all pretty awesome... ^-^
The Blower's Daughter - Damien Rice
ressie_noldo wanted this one, so hopefully she hasn't got it yet--but it's a stunning song anyway, with Rice's unique guitar stylings and strings.
Stolen Car - Patty Griffin
This is a Bruce Springsteen cover, but Patty Griffin made this song so much her own that I didn't know it wasn't until I looked at the liner notes. It and 'The Blower's Daughter' are some of the most subtlely emotional, pack-a-whallop songs I know.
Mrs. McGrath - Bruce Springsteen
One of my favourite songs from the utterly brilliant We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions. It's an old tradtional ballad, but Springsteen makes it sound so fresh and emotionally honest that you'd barely know it. Also, he's got the best backup band ever. (I'd have uploaded 'O Mary Don't You Weep', which is my favourite and has got a killer string-and-horn bit, but I'm saving it for a futuretuesday_skyline mix.)
June Gloom - The Like
Fun, energetic, creative, clever music to head-bob to. It may be the catchiest song you'll hear for a while, and Z Berg has a truly unique voice.
Angeltread - Sixpence None The Richer
One of my favourite pre-fame Sixpence songs, because it is awesome and slightly surreal and Matt Slocum and Leigh Nash are Amazing and should be, like, Beatles status by now instead of being broken up. *woe* (I will never get over Sixpence's breakup. The fact that it was a perfectly amicable breakup makes it even harder.)
Sirens - The Kennedys
Yes, it's based on the Oddyssey. If you play guitar (and maybe even if you don't), it will make your fingers hurt. It is also gorgeous, and the tone of the music fits the subject matter splendidly.
On a Sea of Fleur de Lis (Live) - Solas
wanderlight wanted to have a go at Solas, so here's a favourite--the original is dizzyingly wonderful and beautifully instrumentally textured, and the live version somehow manages to do it one better. Later, I'll have to upload Richard Shindell's version, as it's his song (and both have their merits: the original is darker-sounding, more elegiac, and this sounds like spring).
The Grey Selchie - Solas
Another favourite Solas song--a bit more traditional, but the arrangement is fresh without sounding modern, and it's--well, I'm using the word 'haunting' far too much, but you'll have to take my word for it: it's wonderful.
Erin - Solas
This one's forlady_moriel, because I've been trying to get it to her for about a year. Features Mick McAuley and his gorgeously Irish-accented voice, very pretty piano, and violin.
Marrakesh Night Market - Loreena McKennitt
Celtic-New-Age-Middle-Eastern music! Loreena McKennitt's ban could rival Springsteen's Seeger Sessions gang for the best backup band ever. I don't know if this one's got a hurdy-gurdy or an oud in it, but it defenitly has some excellent percussion and interesting strings, as well as McKennitt's spellbinding voice.
Mad Girl's Love Song - Fisher
This was the song that gave me some sort of musical epiphany--I felt like I had slipped into a completely different world, as completely corny as that reads. The lyrics are a Sylvia Plath poem, and the arrangement is just...magical. It's eerie and spellbinding and I am hunting desperately for anything that sounds remotely like it. (I've heard a little bit of Fisher's other stuff, which is wonderful, but it doesn't have the same sound.)
Us - Regina Spektor
It's got quirky, glorious lyrics, and a brilliant piano-and-strings arrangement that feels like motion, and like being in love probably does, not that I would know. Regina Spektor has an utterly one-of-a-kind voice, which she wields like an instrument, and not just a means of getting her point across. Listen to the way she trills the chorus.
ressie_noldo wanted this one, so hopefully she hasn't got it yet--but it's a stunning song anyway, with Rice's unique guitar stylings and strings. Stolen Car - Patty Griffin
This is a Bruce Springsteen cover, but Patty Griffin made this song so much her own that I didn't know it wasn't until I looked at the liner notes. It and 'The Blower's Daughter' are some of the most subtlely emotional, pack-a-whallop songs I know.
Mrs. McGrath - Bruce Springsteen
One of my favourite songs from the utterly brilliant We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions. It's an old tradtional ballad, but Springsteen makes it sound so fresh and emotionally honest that you'd barely know it. Also, he's got the best backup band ever. (I'd have uploaded 'O Mary Don't You Weep', which is my favourite and has got a killer string-and-horn bit, but I'm saving it for a future
tuesday_skyline mix.)June Gloom - The Like
Fun, energetic, creative, clever music to head-bob to. It may be the catchiest song you'll hear for a while, and Z Berg has a truly unique voice.
Angeltread - Sixpence None The Richer
One of my favourite pre-fame Sixpence songs, because it is awesome and slightly surreal and Matt Slocum and Leigh Nash are Amazing and should be, like, Beatles status by now instead of being broken up. *woe* (I will never get over Sixpence's breakup. The fact that it was a perfectly amicable breakup makes it even harder.)
Sirens - The Kennedys
Yes, it's based on the Oddyssey. If you play guitar (and maybe even if you don't), it will make your fingers hurt. It is also gorgeous, and the tone of the music fits the subject matter splendidly.
On a Sea of Fleur de Lis (Live) - Solas
wanderlight wanted to have a go at Solas, so here's a favourite--the original is dizzyingly wonderful and beautifully instrumentally textured, and the live version somehow manages to do it one better. Later, I'll have to upload Richard Shindell's version, as it's his song (and both have their merits: the original is darker-sounding, more elegiac, and this sounds like spring). The Grey Selchie - Solas
Another favourite Solas song--a bit more traditional, but the arrangement is fresh without sounding modern, and it's--well, I'm using the word 'haunting' far too much, but you'll have to take my word for it: it's wonderful.
Erin - Solas
This one's for
lady_moriel, because I've been trying to get it to her for about a year. Features Mick McAuley and his gorgeously Irish-accented voice, very pretty piano, and violin.Marrakesh Night Market - Loreena McKennitt
Celtic-New-Age-Middle-Eastern music! Loreena McKennitt's ban could rival Springsteen's Seeger Sessions gang for the best backup band ever. I don't know if this one's got a hurdy-gurdy or an oud in it, but it defenitly has some excellent percussion and interesting strings, as well as McKennitt's spellbinding voice.
Mad Girl's Love Song - Fisher
This was the song that gave me some sort of musical epiphany--I felt like I had slipped into a completely different world, as completely corny as that reads. The lyrics are a Sylvia Plath poem, and the arrangement is just...magical. It's eerie and spellbinding and I am hunting desperately for anything that sounds remotely like it. (I've heard a little bit of Fisher's other stuff, which is wonderful, but it doesn't have the same sound.)
Us - Regina Spektor
It's got quirky, glorious lyrics, and a brilliant piano-and-strings arrangement that feels like motion, and like being in love probably does, not that I would know. Regina Spektor has an utterly one-of-a-kind voice, which she wields like an instrument, and not just a means of getting her point across. Listen to the way she trills the chorus.
