search/destroy: sighing in songs

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destroy: Travolta & Neutron-Bomb 'Summer Nights'

stevem (blueski), Monday, 8 December 2003 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

S: Basement Jaxx, "Plug it In"

jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 8 December 2003 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

S: Tommy James in "Crimson & Clover"

Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Monday, 8 December 2003 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

D: In a dreadful Mission b-side called "Forever More," Wayne sighs all over the microphone in an attempt to sound amorous (I suppose), but ends up putting everybody off their food.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 8 December 2003 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

S: Girl From Ipanema - Astrud Gilberto

may pang (maypang), Monday, 8 December 2003 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

S: the beginning of Jeff Buckley's "Hallelujah"

cis (cis), Monday, 8 December 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

s: jeff buckley - hallelujah

Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Monday, 8 December 2003 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

ha
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Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Monday, 8 December 2003 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

That one is chilling.

Obligatory Bright Eyes mention: the beginning of 'June on the West Coast'

bnw (bnw), Monday, 8 December 2003 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

al johnson in us maple does nothing but sigh

chris besinger (chris besinger), Monday, 8 December 2003 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Kahimie Karie's entire catalogue

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 8 December 2003 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

S: Lovage: Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By, in particular the sighs/breaths/moans in "Book of the Month" and "Sex (I'm A)".

nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 8 December 2003 19:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Francoise Hardy - "Chanson d'O" from La Question

Curt (cgould), Monday, 8 December 2003 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

S: This Mess We're In - PJ Harvey and Thom Yorke

Chris Jones (Crackity Jones), Monday, 8 December 2003 19:56 (twenty-two years ago)

S: "Fool To Cry" -- Rolling Stones, "Love to Love You Baby" -- Donna Summer, "Je T'Aime" -- Serge Gainsbourg/Jane Birkin

D: "She's Out of My Life" -- Michael Jackson

Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Monday, 8 December 2003 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)

S:the beatles "girl"
well, it's heavy breathing of some kind.

Felcher (Felcher), Monday, 8 December 2003 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

search everything by the smiths or morrisey

webcrack (music=crack), Monday, 8 December 2003 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

S: Martin Fry in the spoken part of ABC's "Look of Love".

Arthur (Arthur), Monday, 8 December 2003 23:32 (twenty-two years ago)

S: the rhythms of "I Want You Now" by Depeche.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 8 December 2003 23:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I misread this as 'search/destroy: singing in songs' and I thought gosh you're all so modern.

N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 8 December 2003 23:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I was just thinking about this. Jeff Lynne's cute multi-tracked sigh towards the end of ELO's "It's Over".

Sean (Sean), Monday, 8 December 2003 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

S: the opening sigh in Tricky's "Overcome."

Leee Trevino (Leee), Monday, 8 December 2003 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to think that "Comfortably Numb" sounded like a big musical sigh

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 02:16 (twenty-two years ago)

S: The Pixies: "Tame"
D: Tricky: "Lyrics of Fury"

dieblucasdie (dieblucasdie), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 02:30 (twenty-two years ago)

D'oh I meant "Christiansands"

Leee Trevino (Leee), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 07:37 (twenty-two years ago)

S: Paul Westerberg in the Replacements' "Rock'n'roll Ghost". For me that whole song is about that one astonishing moment.

NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

S -- "Chinese Whispers" -- New Model Army

christoff (christoff), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not exactly a sigh, but the moment in Blondie's "Pretty Baby" where Debbie says "You'll look at me/Then look away... ohhh" is pretty classic.

Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

way to obvious and postomodern and stuff:
badly drawn boy, "silent sigh"

bucky wunderlick (bucky), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

is there sighing in it tho?

stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

S: Every Rose Has Its Thorn!

My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

S: "Pagan Poetry"

nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)


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