I think the Current Difficulties are getting to me. Working in the office with the new Fleet Foxes album on. This came on, started listening to it properly and I am a blubbing hot mess. Not sure why. Anyone else had this reaction to music recently or is it just me?
This song has reduced me to a tearful wreck
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Understandable reaction to fleet foxes – emotional stuff . (Hope you’re ok)
yeah it was cathartic to be honest. Guess there is quite a bit going in my real life as well as the CV19 stuff and this was the final twist to open the emotional fizzy pop bottle
Yes – LInda Thompson singing Walking on a Wire on the Hard Luck Stories box set
Yes – Linda Thompson singing Dimming of the Day, on the BBC “A Little Night Music” programme…
This, from OGWT
I reported on the other RT thread that I saw R and daughter sing it. Dusty, it was.
The new Fleet Foxes album is a belter. Hasn’t reduced me to tears, yet, but its a beautiful thing. The last music that had me welling up was Ghosteen. Nothing has moved me as much since that.
Currently enjoying these two lovely new things… Both are covers, by coincidence
First Aid Kit ‘Come Give Me Love’
Andrew Bird ‘Andalucia’
Thanks Lemon. That Old Kit Magic at work again. What a gem.
When Aldous sung this Gerry Rafferty cover at Roskilde, I was lost for words.
Lately I switch from comfort music, old slippers, familiar warm and cosy, to self-harm for the ears, provocative music that screeches, wails and fires up the adrenaline, music to me feel something, anything, even pain.
Top five albums during lockdown:
1. Fiona Apple – Fetch The Bolt Cutters. An extraordinary brain dump, defying convention, accompanied by kitchen utensil percussion.
2. Eighth Blackbird – Singing In The Dead Of Night. Avant Garde classical musicians, inspired by Paul McCartney’s simple ditty, take the 24 existence of a garden bird to extremes. The night is terrifying when you are a tiny creature.
3. Pere Ubu – By Order Of Mayor Pawlicki (Live In Jarocin). Wild and raucous, David Thomas and co challenge your ears and bogle your mind. Outstanding. I’d love to witness them in the flesh.
4. Bessie Jones – Get In Union. Whenever I feel my life is bad, I listen to old black music. Bessie had an amazingly powerful voice that tapped into a well of suffering, sorrow and grief. These recordings were made when black people were regularly lynched.
5. Shabaka And The Ancestors – We Are Sent Here By History. I can’t praise this album enough. It came out at the beginning of lockdown and has sustained me throughout. It perfectly captures the feel of world collapsing into chaos. It also offers a small sliver of hope at the end. So often over these months, that’s exactly what I’ve needed.
Stay strong JimBob and don’t be afraid of displaying some emotion now and then. It’s the right thing to do.
You forgot to mention that the Fiona Apple goes to the dogs.
Shabaka And The Ancestors is another contender for album of the year. Certainly top ten.
I’d like to blame yet another typo for that omission, but I can’t.
Woof!
Your number 3 is the same as mine, as you know. Add the backstory and the terrific artwork to the actual music and it’s a right rollicking classic.
With a name like ‘Big Jim bob’ I’m kinda disappointed that you’re not protecting the likes of Tiggerlion and H.P. Saucecraft. You know. The most vulnerable amongst us.
Here’s Bonnie Rait.
Do you mean venerable? Searching for the most venerable amongst us
Terry Venerables
Best manager England never had.
You are not alone Big Jim.
This catches me everytime. Part of me wishes it didn’t but giving in to our sentiments can be most cathartic and a necessary part of being human.
Wow, that is a belter PS. Thanks for the steer.
@pencilsqueezer I can totally understand why it catches you. What a brilliant song and a fabulous voice.
I really cannot recommend Stacey Kent enough. She is often described as “classy” and “sophisticated” and she is definitely both of those but mostly she is just a fantastic singer full stop.
I’m brought back to this thread after seeing this “reaction” YouTube video to a Depeche Mode song called Home.
There are dozens of ones with teenagers reacting amusingly to old songs but this is a middle aged man who finds his meaning to the lyric and is brought to tears while listening to it for the first time. I found it quite touching.