2.11 My Only Friend 2.22 Abigail, Belle of Kilronan
3.2 It's a Crime 3.6 The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure 3.10 Yeah! Oh, Yeah! 3.14 Queen of the Savages 3.16 I Can't Touch You Anymore 3.18 How to Say Goodbye
La de Yeah! no me convence nada, la verdad. Pero bueno, entiendo menos otros votos como Boa Constrictor o Reno Dakota.
Cómo mola que se hayan hecho cosas bonitas para casi todas las canciones del disco. Me da pena no tener tiempo para estudiarme las canciones en la wiki con ganas
Ay lo sé, pero Absolutely cuckoo creo que gusta porques la primera: how fucking romantic es parecida y la gente la ha votado. Y Time enough for rocking when we're old, creo que también hay otras de ese estilo que me gustan más.
En realidad, he votado por descarte ya, pero és que hay algunas que no puedo votar porque les tengo mucho cariño: Asleep and dreaming no puedo porque es preciosa y me siento muy identificado con ella, Abigail me parece también muy bonita; Yeah! una maravilla, y en directo más, My only home me la guardo si algún dia me separo, Promises of eternity... en fin, esto es como La decisión de Sophie, ya digo.
No había hecho un survivor antes y joder, duele más de lo que creía.
Lo de que es Absolutely Cuckoo es como How Fucking Romantic (la voto desde el principio porque me irrita) no lo veo nada, y por primera, pues las dos primeras canciones del segundo se han ido a la primera
2. 9 You're My Only Home 2. 11 My Only Friend 3. 4 I'm Sorry I Love You 2.19 Asleep and dreaming 3.14 Queen of the savages 1. 17 Parades go by 3. 5 Acoustic Guitar 3.16 I Can't Touch You Anymore
Promises of eternity es una de mis favoritas actuales. No le había hecho caso hasta hace un par de años, haciendo una selección para una lista de spotify. Me la imagino cantada por Marc Almond... tiene un punto soft cell, o de ese popdrama de los 50/60... una delicia.
Ay, pero que le pasa a la gente con Asleep and Dreaming?? Si es una preciosidad!
"No se decir si eres guapo/a o no, porque te quiero tanto que no puedo ser objetivo. Lo más bonito que hay es verte durmiendo". Es lo más precioso que se le puede decir a alguien...
Con Promises of Eternity tengo un poco de amor/odio. Reconozco que al principio no me gustaba nada, de hecho pensaba votarla esta ronda, pero según la he ido escuchando cada vez me mola más.
Eso sí, no me matéis pero a veces me recuerda a la canción de La historia interminable...
1.10 The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be 2.5 Very funny 2. 9 You're My Only Home 2. 11 My Only Friend 2.19 asleep and dreaming 3.4 I'm Sorry I Love You 3.5 Acoustic Guitar 3.18 How to Say Goodbye
"In the 69 Love Songs booklet, Stephin Merritt and Daniel Handler discuss how this song evokes the work of Ennio Morricone and Georgia O'Keeffe, and through them the desert spaces of Southwest USA.
LD Beghtol writes:
The prickly, dulcimer-like instrument you hear is my 1917 Marxophone. Stephin borrowed all of his friends' oddball instruments during the recording of 69 Love Songs, to augment his own vast collection, which is why the album has such a diverse sonic range."
1.17 PARADES GO BY
"The singer of Parades Go By is dead ('and so I lost the world above / beyond the moss' etc), and in the 69 Love Songs booklet Stephin Merritt and Daniel Handler discuss other songs where the narrator is dead. Stephin cites The Byrds' I Come and Stand at Every Door as a precedent.
He goes on to say, "I read a lot of H.P. Lovecraft. I think I wrote Parades Go By under the influence of H.P. Lovecraft".
LD Beghtol adds, "Everyone realizes this is yet another Stephin Merritt vampire song, yes? The synth line makes me shivery." (Other Merritt vampire songs include I Have the Moon and Crowd of Drifters from The Charm of the Highway Strip and, clearly, I'm a Vampire from Future Bible Heroes' Eternal Youth.)
The quasi-orchestral arrangement and Stephin Merritt's vocal make this song the most likely one on the album to draw comparison with Scott Walker. "
3.4 I'M SORRY I LOVE YOU
"'Do not listen to my song / Don't remember it, don't sing along / Let's pretend it's a work of art / Let's pretend it's not my heart...'
Another song with a reflexive twist (cf. The Way You Say Good-Night): a love song that deprecates the love song.
'A single rose in your garden dwells / Like any rose it's not itself / It is my love in your garden grows / but let's pretend it's just a rose'
I'm Sorry I Love You also undermines the idea of metaphor in the first verse (as indulged in extremis in A Pretty Girl is Like..., Love is Like Jazz, Love is Like a Bottle of Gin) and evokes Gertrude Stein's "A rose is a rose is a rose" (cf. The Things We Did and Didn't Do).
LD Beghtol writes:
This apparently was supposed to be a Bow Wow Wow tribute (see their), though it didn't quite come out that way. All the gorgeous backing vocals are multiple tracks of Shirley Simms being Annabella Lwin. "
3.5 ACOUSTIC GUITAR
"A girl implores her guitar to bring back her girl. In the 69 Love Songs booklet, Stephin Merritt points to the folk tradition of singing in the character of the opposite gender. A song like House of the Rising Sun, originally written from the female point of view, may be straightforward when sung by Joan Baez or Marianne Faithful, but is less so when sung by Bob Dylan, who retains the same point of view. A similar ambiguity arises when Claudia Gonson sings Acoustic Guitar (having previously been straight, Gonson is now openly lesbian).
The cast of 'hard players' ('Acoustic Guitar, if you think I play hard / well, you could have belonged to...') is
-Steve Earle (born 1955, Virginia) is a singer-songwriter working on the borders of country music. He has a reputation for being tough and hard-living, but liberal. He has released sixteen albums and been married six times.
-Charo (born 1941, 1942 or 1952, according to different sources, in Spain) is a dancer, composer, singer, comedienne and star of showrooms, television and film, with very big hair. She performs mainly in Hawaii and Las Vegas. She appears to share with Stephin Merritt a fondness for Chihuahuas.
-GWAR are a death/goth metal/punk band, formed around 1980 in Virginia. The name is apparently onomatopaeic."
3.16 I CAN'T TOUCH YOU ANYMORE
"'You want to tell me / 50 ways you've left your lovers'
A reference to Paul Simon's song Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover.
'You want to tell me / how you loved 200 others...'
This could conceivably be a reference to Annabel Chong, who had sex with 251 men in a day — though the documentary film about this feat was only released in 1999, the same year as 69 Love Songs' completion. "
3.18 HOW TO SAY GOODBYE
"The other side of the coin in the pair of songs about lovers' speech: after the sweetness of The Way You Say Good-Night comes How To Say Goodbye.
'but baby, you know how to say goodbye The thing I spent my whole life waiting for has just walked out and locked the door'
These lines evoke Bob Dylan's saying goodbye song It's All Over Now, Baby Blue with its line "The lover who just walked out your door", and How To Say Goodbye could also be a reply to It's All Over Now, Baby Blue. "
"It's A Crime is The Magnetic Fields' "Swedish Reggae" song.
It makes for a joyously camp performance when played live, featuring the full ensemble — regarding which, LD Beghtol writes:
The ABBA-esque version we did live (which some day might come out on the DVD of the London shows) was born in a car while Shirley Simms, Stephin Merritt, Dudley Klute and I were driving to South Carolina for Merge-Fest to premiere the album in 1999. It was the hottest summer on record.
I'd heard all the album by then at Stephin's, but neither Shirley or Dudley had, so we pretty much listened to the three discs over and over in the car on the way — both to hear it in sequence and to rehearse our songs a bit.
When It's a Crime came on, Shirley and I just started improvising the backing parts (we both lovelovelove to sing backing vocals and can harmonize on command) and it just really worked from the first attempt. So we after one run-through, we skipped the CD back to the beginning and Stephin improvised then perfected his reggae vocal-bass part. What bliss! When we got the club for soundcheck later that afternoon, we taught it to Claudia and performed it that night — and thereafter the same way whenever we all were together.
Pity it was never a single.
'You won't be hearing from me anymore cause I can't see through my tears anymore If it takes years to be any more than a jellyfish'
Rhyming by repeating the same word is generally regarded as fairly lame (except in the context of blue songs that repeat whole lines), so Stephin is making a songwriting joke by repeating "any more" not once but twice. It's a crime, indeed."
En este último lugar hubo empate pero se salva Very Funny por tener menos votos acumulados.
No entiendo cómo os gusta tanto la del pollo, así que venga....más madera:
1.04 A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off 1.05 Reno Dakota 1.22 Sweet-Lovin' Man 1.23 The Things We Did and Didn't Do 2.20 The Sun Goes Down and the World Goes Dancing 2.21 The Way You Say Good-Night 3.06 The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure 3.08 Bitter Tears
I'm Sorry I Love You also undermines the idea of metaphor in the first verse (as indulged in extremis in A Pretty Girl is Like..., Love is Like Jazz, Love is Like a Bottle of Gin) and evokes Gertrude Stein's "A rose is a rose is a rose" (cf. The Things We Did and Didn't Do).
¿Una rosa es una rosa tendrá la misma inspiración? Lo que menos me esperaba es una conexión con Mecano.
Comentarios
2.22 Abigail, Belle of Kilronan
3.2 It's a Crime
3.6 The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure
3.10 Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
3.14 Queen of the Savages
3.16 I Can't Touch You Anymore
3.18 How to Say Goodbye
La de Yeah! no me convence nada, la verdad.
2.8 If You Don't Cry
2.12 promises of eternity
2.19 asleep and dreaming
3.2 it's a crime
3.6 The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure
3.10 Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
3.16 I Can't Touch You Anymore
3.18 How to Say Goodbye
1 Absolutely Cuckoo
20 My Sentimental Melody
23 The Things We Did and Didn't Do
Disco 2
4 Time Enough for Rocking When We're Old
5 Very Funny
Disco 3
4 I'm Sorry I Love You
5 Acoustic Guitar
16 I Can't Touch You Anymore
DANGER:
@Caotico y @dwaki han votado algunas de mis prefes.
En realidad, he votado por descarte ya, pero és que hay algunas que no puedo votar porque les tengo mucho cariño: Asleep and dreaming no puedo porque es preciosa y me siento muy identificado con ella, Abigail me parece también muy bonita; Yeah! una maravilla, y en directo más, My only home me la guardo si algún dia me separo, Promises of eternity... en fin, esto es como La decisión de Sophie, ya digo.
No había hecho un survivor antes y joder, duele más de lo que creía.
2. 9 You're My Only Home
2. 11 My Only Friend
3. 4 I'm Sorry I Love You
2.19 Asleep and dreaming
3.14 Queen of the savages
1. 17 Parades go by
3. 5 Acoustic Guitar
3.16 I Can't Touch You Anymore
Me la imagino cantada por Marc Almond... tiene un punto soft cell, o de ese popdrama de los 50/60... una delicia.
and I'll go if you let me go
but I won't go far away
because you're my only home
¿de verdad, @sebas?
1.10 The cactus where you heart should be
2.5 Very funny
2.7 No one will ever love you
2.19 Asleep and dreaming
3.2 It's a crime
3.6 The death of Ferdinand de Saussure
3.14 Queen of the savages
3.16 I Can't Touch You Anymore
1.15 The one you really love
1.17 Parades go by
2.5 Very funny
2.19 Asleep and dreaming
3.5 Acoustic Guitar
3.4 I'm Sorry I Love You
3.18 How to Say Goodbye
Lo paso muy mal...
"No se decir si eres guapo/a o no, porque te quiero tanto que no puedo ser objetivo. Lo más bonito que hay es verte durmiendo". Es lo más precioso que se le puede decir a alguien...
Eso sí, no me matéis pero a veces me recuerda a la canción de La historia interminable...
2.8 If You Don't Cry
2.5 Very funny
2. 9 You're My Only Home
2. 11 My Only Friend
2.19 asleep and dreaming
3.4 I'm Sorry I Love You
3.5 Acoustic Guitar
3.18 How to Say Goodbye
no quiero que se vaya yeah, yeah
Con 6 votos:
2.19 ASLEEP AND DREAMING
De ésta no hay info
Con 5 votos:
1.10 THE CACTUS WHERE YOUR HEART SHOULD BE
"In the 69 Love Songs booklet, Stephin Merritt and Daniel Handler discuss how this song evokes the work of Ennio Morricone and Georgia O'Keeffe, and through them the desert spaces of Southwest USA.
LD Beghtol writes:
The prickly, dulcimer-like instrument you hear is my 1917 Marxophone. Stephin borrowed all of his friends' oddball instruments during the recording of 69 Love Songs, to augment his own vast collection, which is why the album has such a diverse sonic range."
1.17 PARADES GO BY
"The singer of Parades Go By is dead ('and so I lost the world above / beyond the moss' etc), and in the 69 Love Songs booklet Stephin Merritt and Daniel Handler discuss other songs where the narrator is dead. Stephin cites The Byrds' I Come and Stand at Every Door as a precedent.
He goes on to say, "I read a lot of H.P. Lovecraft. I think I wrote Parades Go By under the influence of H.P. Lovecraft".
LD Beghtol adds, "Everyone realizes this is yet another Stephin Merritt vampire song, yes? The synth line makes me shivery." (Other Merritt vampire songs include I Have the Moon and Crowd of Drifters from The Charm of the Highway Strip and, clearly, I'm a Vampire from Future Bible Heroes' Eternal Youth.)
The quasi-orchestral arrangement and Stephin Merritt's vocal make this song the most likely one on the album to draw comparison with Scott Walker. "
3.4 I'M SORRY I LOVE YOU
"'Do not listen to my song / Don't remember it, don't sing along /
Let's pretend it's a work of art / Let's pretend it's not my heart...'
Another song with a reflexive twist (cf. The Way You Say Good-Night): a love song that deprecates the love song.
'A single rose in your garden dwells / Like any rose it's not itself /
It is my love in your garden grows / but let's pretend it's just a rose'
I'm Sorry I Love You also undermines the idea of metaphor in the first verse (as indulged in extremis in A Pretty Girl is Like..., Love is Like Jazz, Love is Like a Bottle of Gin) and evokes Gertrude Stein's "A rose is a rose is a rose" (cf. The Things We Did and Didn't Do).
LD Beghtol writes:
This apparently was supposed to be a Bow Wow Wow tribute (see their), though it didn't quite come out that way. All the gorgeous backing vocals are multiple tracks of Shirley Simms being Annabella Lwin. "
3.5 ACOUSTIC GUITAR
"A girl implores her guitar to bring back her girl. In the 69 Love Songs booklet, Stephin Merritt points to the folk tradition of singing in the character of the opposite gender. A song like House of the Rising Sun, originally written from the female point of view, may be straightforward when sung by Joan Baez or Marianne Faithful, but is less so when sung by Bob Dylan, who retains the same point of view. A similar ambiguity arises when Claudia Gonson sings Acoustic Guitar (having previously been straight, Gonson is now openly lesbian).
The cast of 'hard players' ('Acoustic Guitar, if you think I play hard / well, you could have belonged to...') is
-Steve Earle (born 1955, Virginia) is a singer-songwriter working on the borders of country music. He has a reputation for being tough and hard-living, but liberal. He has released sixteen albums and been married six times.
-Charo (born 1941, 1942 or 1952, according to different sources, in Spain) is a dancer, composer, singer, comedienne and star of showrooms, television and film, with very big hair. She performs mainly in Hawaii and Las Vegas. She appears to share with Stephin Merritt a fondness for Chihuahuas.
-GWAR are a death/goth metal/punk band, formed around 1980 in Virginia. The name is apparently onomatopaeic."
3.16 I CAN'T TOUCH YOU ANYMORE
"'You want to tell me / 50 ways you've left your lovers'
A reference to Paul Simon's song Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover.
'You want to tell me / how you loved 200 others...'
This could conceivably be a reference to Annabel Chong, who had sex with 251 men in a day — though the documentary film about this feat was only released in 1999, the same year as 69 Love Songs' completion. "
3.18 HOW TO SAY GOODBYE
"The other side of the coin in the pair of songs about lovers' speech: after the sweetness of The Way You Say Good-Night comes How To Say Goodbye.
'but baby, you know how to say goodbye
The thing I spent my whole life waiting for
has just walked out and locked the door'
These lines evoke Bob Dylan's saying goodbye song It's All Over Now, Baby Blue with its line "The lover who just walked out your door", and How To Say Goodbye could also be a reply to It's All Over Now, Baby Blue. "
3.2 IT'S A CRIME
"It's A Crime is The Magnetic Fields' "Swedish Reggae" song.
It makes for a joyously camp performance when played live, featuring the full ensemble — regarding which, LD Beghtol writes:
The ABBA-esque version we did live (which some day might come out on the DVD of the London shows) was born in a car while Shirley Simms, Stephin Merritt, Dudley Klute and I were driving to South Carolina for Merge-Fest to premiere the album in 1999. It was the hottest summer on record.
I'd heard all the album by then at Stephin's, but neither Shirley or Dudley had, so we pretty much listened to the three discs over and over in the car on the way — both to hear it in sequence and to rehearse our songs a bit.
When It's a Crime came on, Shirley and I just started improvising the backing parts (we both lovelovelove to sing backing vocals and can harmonize on command) and it just really worked from the first attempt. So we after one run-through, we skipped the CD back to the beginning and Stephin improvised then perfected his reggae vocal-bass part. What bliss! When we got the club for soundcheck later that afternoon, we taught it to Claudia and performed it that night — and thereafter the same way whenever we all were together.
Pity it was never a single.
'You won't be hearing from me anymore
cause I can't see through my tears anymore
If it takes years to be any more than a jellyfish'
Rhyming by repeating the same word is generally regarded as fairly lame (except in the context of blue songs that repeat whole lines), so Stephin is making a songwriting joke by repeating "any more" not once but twice. It's a crime, indeed."
En este último lugar hubo empate pero se salva Very Funny por tener menos votos acumulados.
Disco 1:
1 Absolutely Cuckoo
2 I Don't Believe in the Sun
3 All My Little Words
4 A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off
5 Reno Dakota
6 I Don't Want to Get Over You
7 Come Back From San Francisco
8 The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side
9 Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits
11 I Think I Need A New Heart
12 The Book of Love
15 The One You Really Love
20 My Sentimental Melody
21 Nothing Matters When We're Dancing
22 Sweet-Lovin' Man
23 The Things We Did and Didn't Do
Disco 2
3 When My Boy Walks Down the Street
4 Time Enough for Rocking When We're Old
5 Very Funny
6 Grand Canyon
7 No One Will Ever Love You
8 If You Don't Cry
9 You're My Only Home
10 (Crazy for You But) Not That Crazy
11 My Only Friend
12 Promises of Eternity
13 World Love
14 Washington, D.C.
15 Long-Forgotten Fairytale
16 Kiss Me Like You Mean It
17 Papa Was a Rodeo
18 Epitaph for My Heart
20 The Sun Goes Down and the World Goes Dancing
21 The Way You Say Good-Night
22 Abigail, Belle of Kilronan
Disco 3
3 Busby Berkeley Dreams
6 The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure
8 Bitter Tears
10 Yeah! Oh, Yeah!
12 Meaningless
14 Queen of the Savages
19 The Night You Can't Remember
Estamos dejando el disco 3 como un solar y el 2 sigue siendo el que mejor se mantiene.
Volvemos a eliminar 8 canciones de aquí a mañana a las 14:00 h.
Esta ronda sí que va a ser muy difícil, más tarde mis votos.
Oh Yeah! aguanta!!!
1.04 A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off
1.05 Reno Dakota
1.22 Sweet-Lovin' Man
1.23 The Things We Did and Didn't Do
2.20 The Sun Goes Down and the World Goes Dancing
2.21 The Way You Say Good-Night
3.06 The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure
3.08 Bitter Tears
I'm Sorry I Love You also undermines the idea of metaphor in the first verse (as indulged in extremis in A Pretty Girl is Like..., Love is Like Jazz, Love is Like a Bottle of Gin) and evokes Gertrude Stein's "A rose is a rose is a rose" (cf. The Things We Did and Didn't Do).
¿Una rosa es una rosa tendrá la misma inspiración? Lo que menos me esperaba es una conexión con Mecano.