But at the end of 60 straight minutes of this record, you feel like you've just spent half your life in an upscale women's clothing store.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 7 May 2017 16:57 (seven years ago) link
"haha, that'll show them"
― austinb, Sunday, 7 May 2017 17:04 (seven years ago) link
might be late to the game, but i just came across Ada's cover of Each And Every One todayβstill holds up incredibly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAYHbrcHMB8
― austinb, Sunday, 7 May 2017 17:06 (seven years ago) link
"Missing" kills me. Revived my interest by finding an old cassette stuck in a player and this track was in the sequence. I know the feeling of this song to a tee, love this track
― Paisley Window Pane (Ross), Tuesday, 18 July 2017 05:54 (six years ago) link
Alan Sparhawk guests on one of Ben's new tracks. Alan's interview with Ben is insightful: http://floodmagazine.com/70506/ben-watt-shares-new-single-irene-answers-questions-from-lows-alan-sparhawk/
― that's not my post, Saturday, 26 October 2019 04:42 (four years ago) link
interesting interview, thanks. the new song irene is quite wonderful:
http://www.youtube.com/watch? &v=XS3REGSWyd8
― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 26 October 2019 08:46 (four years ago) link
ok then: https://youtu.be/XS3REGSWyd8
― walking towards the sun since 2007 (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 26 October 2019 08:47 (four years ago) link
New song is nice and worth 3 posts :)
― that's not my post, Saturday, 26 October 2019 13:35 (four years ago) link
Just heard their "Birds" cover on the St. Giga archive (see ambient recommendations thread) and my God, so beautiful. Studying and stopped me in my tracks.
― hrep (H.P), Tuesday, 22 March 2022 01:00 (two years ago) link
best ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4vsMf1NQ1Q
"big deal" (1996)
― γππ π π € π ‘ π π π彑 (Austin), Thursday, 18 August 2022 19:04 (one year ago) link
biiiiiiig deeeal
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 August 2022 19:06 (one year ago) link
would not be surprised if tracey has been side hustling in mental health the whole time because ... wow that's some insider info you got there, friend
sade also does this pretty well and of course she's easily tracey's equal, so.
this is a great live recording, btw. never heard it beforeβhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLpqs2i7V84
"before today" live in tokyo, 1997 from the deluxe edition of walking wounded (which i am just now listening to for the first time. the extras are good! the album is forever classic.)
― γππ π π € π ‘ π π π彑 (Austin), Thursday, 18 August 2022 19:20 (one year ago) link
Several videos from this show are up on YT. Forum 1999, "Before Today"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YhnJFwriw8
― that's not my post, Friday, 19 August 2022 02:49 (one year ago) link
sade also does this pretty well and of course she's easily tracey's equal, so
If I remember right, Sade was recording Diamond Life in the same studio where they were doing Eden.
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Friday, 19 August 2022 04:15 (one year ago) link
...24 years later:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOF2pjm9_IE
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 09:52 (one year ago) link
Whoops, missed that anticipation is over here:
Everything But The Girl Album Poll
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Tuesday, 10 January 2023 10:20 (one year ago) link
What was this in response to? "would not be surprised if tracey has been side hustling in mental health the whole time because"
Is this (new album) being discussed elsewhere? Strangely, I really like seeing the photos of them draped over each other appearing on my Twitter feed, without not really being into what I've heard of their new recordings (very open to the idea that I'll realise I love the tracks, at some later date).
― djh, Thursday, 20 April 2023 20:24 (one year ago) link
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 April 2023 20:37 (one year ago) link
What was this in response to? "would not be surprised if tracey has been side hustling in mental health the whole time because"β djh, Thursday, April 20, 2023 1:24 PM
β djh, Thursday, April 20, 2023 1:24 PM
hi.
umm, i think i meant her ability to get into hyper-specific narratives that simultaneously could apply to many different scenarios? "big deal" inspired that post and here's the first verseβ
You spend four nights a week now looking for your inner childWhat you gonna say when you find him?Suppose you don't like him or he doesn't like you?Suppose once you wake him up he won't go back to bed and wants to stay up late watching TV?But you say there must be some reason why you feel this way
i have a lot of mental health problems, so these feel like questions from a therapist. tough, maybe even intentionally provocative, but ultimately coming from a place of compassion. and only posed in the first place to redirect and change unhealthy behavior. especially when she concludes, "big deal, that's the way we all feel." (with the implication that it's okay, she's not mocking you; the world is scary and we're all in it together)
more importantly: it's framed in that song as a relationship conflict ("first you doubt yourself and then you doubt her"), but most of the song is only about what's going on for one side β a biased narrative. if the psychoeducation i've received was worth anything at all, one of the main themes is that folks like me have an inherently biased, unhealthy narrative that needs questioning, needs correction. that she frames it in a seemingly specific relationship context, yet still manages to ask universal questions, is a pretty neat trick and what inspired my post up there. she does this a lot (especially on albums like temperamental love and its opposite). i could get into many other examples, "big deal" was just hitting with some extra heft that day i guess.
― W E F L Y T O G E T H E R (Austin), Friday, 21 April 2023 15:38 (one year ago) link
βMirrorballβ ftw
― calstars, Sunday, 30 April 2023 21:08 (one year ago) link
Might be of interest (Ben Watt's Private Passions on Radio 3):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001l4jf
― djh, Sunday, 7 May 2023 20:12 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NljK-sXaMtk
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 29 August 2023 21:38 (nine months ago) link