It was 18 C here on Wednesday, it's been unusually mild for this time of year.
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Saturday, 5 November 2005 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 6 November 2005 03:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― zappi (joni), Sunday, 6 November 2005 03:39 (eighteen years ago) link
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― derrick (derrick), Saturday, 31 December 2005 10:20 (eighteen years ago) link
I think this is her most underrated album, and from time to time I think of it as her best. "Reason to Believe" and "I Dream of Jeannie" are two of the most gorgeous things she's ever produced. It's a less fragile record than And she closed her eyes and seems better-constructed than Dynamite. And few albums can touch it for sheer imaginative deconstruction of other people's songs.
― Myke Weiskopf (Myke Weiskopf), Saturday, 31 December 2005 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link
And she closed her eyesAnother Story GirlClothe Yourself for the WindCrimeDynamiteFirst Day in SpringGet On With Your LifeGreetings from the Old WorldHis Song (...or at least the first 2:00)I Dream of JeannieKeen Yellow PlanetLittle StarMemories of a ColorMurder in Mairyland ParkNow When I See YouPeople Are StrangeProposalPurple RainReason to BelieveSo LeeStationsTrainsurfingWhen Debbie's Back from TexasWinter Killing
― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Monday, 2 October 2006 23:31 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 11:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 11:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― lex pretend (lex pretend), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link
Completely!
it's so right that it seems this thread is always bumped every winter!
Yeah, I'll go with that. Even better that today is gray here (it's been mostly sunny all week).
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link
...Dream of Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair. Apparently an old folk song...Ain't exactly a folk song, allegedly. According to olden chronicles, 'twas written by one Stephen Foster (1826-1864), author of also "Oh! Susanna", "Old Folks At Home" and other popular faves of yore.
― tiit (tiit), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Remix of "Wonderful World" duet & "Birds Sing For Their Lives" is Stina solo. Very elegiac, reminds me slightly of Murcof.
― xcixxorx (xcixxorx), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― tiit (tiit), Thursday, 4 January 2007 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hairy Asshurt (Toaster), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 2 February 2007 08:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 2 February 2007 08:17 (seventeen years ago) link
I'd love to see her collaborate with The Knife. Hmm. . .
― I.M. (I.M.), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Antony Holt (ant), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link
The Knife remix of "Parliament Square" is basically a collab.
― brittle-lemon (brittle-lemon), Saturday, 3 February 2007 12:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― richarquis, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 10:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alan, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 11:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 11:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alan, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 12:23 (seventeen years ago) link
seriously, 'the world is saved' is a total gem. the sort of record i can really sink my teeth into. static and restrained with something really penetrating beneath the surface. is serving as a nice companion record to joy division's 'closer' for me these last weeks.
― Charlie Howard, Saturday, 10 January 2009 02:59 (fifteen years ago) link
i find it difficult to imagine people having trouble listening to her albums from start to finish. for me they establish an arresting mood very quickly and don't let go from there. they sustain a constant mood for certain, but i think that's pivotal to keeping things measured and compelling throughout.
― Charlie Howard, Saturday, 26 September 2009 11:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Where's another album already.
― Tim F, Saturday, 26 September 2009 14:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Ha I was hoping this revive would be announcing such news...
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 26 September 2009 14:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Ditto ...
― djh, Saturday, 26 September 2009 14:47 (fourteen years ago) link
OK, my turn here... Hadn't heard a single thing she's done until The World Is Saved finally arrived at the top of my unlistened stack. WTF was my probably in waiting so long...
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 18 June 2010 22:01 (fourteen years ago) link
WTF was my problem I mean
she also did three or four songs as a soundtrack for some european film (the photographer's wife); apparently this was actually slated to be a golden palominos project but for some reason came out as stina nordenstam/anton fier. I have this if anyone wants a copy, it's impossible to find now.― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, June 19, 2003 5:12 PM (7 years ago)
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, June 19, 2003 5:12 PM (7 years ago)
weird that virtually nothing is known about this project aside from speculation based on the cover info. two of the tracks are listed as Descendence remixes and the other as a Microman remix, so I wonder if the original versions are out there somewhere. it's possible that it wasn't meant to be a soundtrack at all and just has a misleadingly cinematic title, cf. the Olivia Tremor Control's Music from the Unrealized Film Script... album.
one film that Stina really did score was Jean Claude, a 2002 Swedish television documentary about a homeless Parisian man. it's interesting (to me) that a few tracks from The World Is Saved ("I'm Staring Out the World", "The World Is Saved", "Morning Belongs to the Night", and the bonus track "Failing to Fly") originally appeared on that soundtrack in slightly unfinished form. while a lot of the rest of the material on The World Is Saved veers toward trip-hop (or fairly modern indie pop, anyways) and has semi-narrative lyrics about adultery and postcards and turning into butterflies, those tracks have always stood out for me as being really organically/classically arranged and lyrically abstract, and I wonder how an entire album of that kind of material — or even a double album with one disc of "I'm Staring at the World" sounding stuff and another of "Butterfly" sounding stuff — would have turned out. brilliant, possibly.
I just wish she'd release the handful of songs from Jean Claude that didn't make it onto the album. "Give Me More of Everything" has a particularly exquisite arrangement of strings and woodwinds and creaking wagon wheels (?) that would've been a highlight on any of her albums. I really just wish she'd put out a new album one of these days, though, even if it's self-released.
― gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 00:54 (thirteen years ago) link
People who like those might like a lot of the darker songs on Lhasa's The Living Road album, although Lhasa is pretty much the opposite of Stina vocally.― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, January 3, 2005 7:30 AM (6 years ago)
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, January 3, 2005 7:30 AM (6 years ago)
she said in an interview around the time The World Is Saved came out that she rarely listened to music by other singers but that Lhasa was one she enjoyed. one artist who really reminds me of Stina is former Sparklehorse collaborator Sol Seppy, who put out a solo album and EP in 2006. I'm suspicious of reviews that compare other artists to Stina Nordenstam, though. it seems like her name is whipped out almost as lazily as Bjork's to describe any and all "quirky", "mysterious" Scandinavian female singer-songwriters regardless of what their music actually sounds like.
― gtforia estfufan (unregistered), Wednesday, 25 May 2011 01:26 (thirteen years ago) link
it's so right that it seems this thread is always bumped every winter!― lex pretend (lex pretend), Thursday, January 4, 2007 9:30 AM (5 years ago)
― lex pretend (lex pretend), Thursday, January 4, 2007 9:30 AM (5 years ago)
Well, still fall here but the time is right. And Memories of a Color is sounding good right this second.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
an apt Sol Seppy reference upthread :)
― t**t, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
miss you boo :-( come out of retirement
― Tim F, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
there used to be a tour section on her website which when you clicked it read "Stina don't tour"
― zvookster, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
damn it thread bumpers on this
― katherine, Thursday, 1 November 2012 01:17 (eleven years ago) link
that said this sol seppy album is kind of amazing
I just wish she'd release the handful of songs from Jean Claude that didn't make it onto the album. "Give Me More of Everything" has a particularly exquisite arrangement of strings and woodwinds and creaking wagon wheels (?) that would've been a highlight on any of her albums.
http://sclors.tumblr.com/post/40897837779/give-me-more-of-everything-stina-nordenstam-i
still feel like this is one of the best songs recorded by anyone ever
― ikwikiykwim (unregistered), Friday, 15 February 2013 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
the way her voice cracks on "have no favorites at all" is pretty much perfect
― katherine, Sunday, 17 February 2013 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
well, she's still alive
(but there's no mention of a new album in the works, so I apologize for getting anyone's hopes up)
― Remember! The cormorant is a big brrd. It has got a long neck. (unregistered), Monday, 30 September 2013 21:18 (ten years ago) link
literally the other day I was telling someone I was afraid she'd just quit music altogether so this is encouraging
― katherine, Monday, 30 September 2013 22:14 (ten years ago) link
must be autumn again
― zvookster, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 00:43 (ten years ago) link
also that
― katherine, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 00:51 (ten years ago) link
(but an interview is about 1000x more than "uh, we heard this snippet of this song in a Crystal Castles song" or w/e