Moments in Love: The Thread

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remember this? at least some of you should. it's a real pity that it petered out so soon. i propose we resurrect it in thread form. perhaps even with anonymity intact. To get us started:

Freeway
"All My Life"
1:41-1:44
like Harry Potter learning how to ride that flying bird-horse, taking even momentary charge of such a lumbering, drunken beast of a beat seems superhumanly triumphant/triumphantly superhuman.

― m. (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

A fine thing to revive, good Mr. Mitch!

I can't name the specific moment because it's a live arrangement, but the recent Ron/Russ-only versions of the early Sparks' song "Hospitality on Parade" has a whirring/pulsing electronic base. As soon as it starts, it's a perfect blend of subtle drama and kick-up-your-heels showiness, the band's metier in a nutshell.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Can somebody repost the "rules"?

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

The first is that you do not talk about Moments in Love.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

ARTIST
"Song Title"
Temporal moment within previously referenced song (M:SS - M:SS)
Brief blurb about said moment

That's all, if I recall correctly.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

What a great idea to revive this FT column in thread form! Why are there not 200 posts here already?

Galaxie 500
"Crazy"
1:00 - 1:03
The fuzzy guitar drops out for precisely two bars, and the basic two lines "and you're so old, you must be 23" are sung almost bare before the guitar rejoins the action. I can't explain why such a simple frill could produce such a memorable break in a simple song. Blame the alcohol in my system.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i think about that column all the time!!

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 04:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Diamanda Galas
"My World is Empty Without You"
3:18-3:37

A man's lying on his deathbed, drifting in and out of consciousness. Past mixes with present until it's all somehow confused. Memories of the orange groves of his youth. The sweet smell of fruit, ripe on the vine and birdsongs and sun dappling on the pond. The paralysis that afflicted his body not long after he buried his wife caused as much by will as by the attrition of sixty years in the field. Low humming of flourescent lights, gnashing of bedpans, voices that never rise up and become anything audible just a infrequent,low moan.
A last gasp in a brief burst of white light. A picture from the past comes slowly stealing. A voice reaching out from beyond the dark to sing you back home. Though there's darkness all around a path is lighted and you can almost see the way from here.

― dialecticbricks (dialecticbricks), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 04:57 (twenty-one years ago)

you've got a couple weeks to think of some good ones.

― m. (mitchlnw), Friday, 2 July 2004 09:56 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

what happened? i really wanted to revive with a new entry, but i searched this to remind me what that freeway song was called and thought i'd do it despite not being able to think of one right now.

― m. (mitchlnw), Thursday, 16 September 2004 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

some of those are mine; all are brilliant

― Jimmy Mod, Man About Towne (ModJ), Thursday, 16 September 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

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