Sarah McLachlan: Classic, Dud, Search, Destroy, Tastes Great, Less Filling, etc...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9PGl5RjXHA

Possession always kills me, i think there's a sense via the performance that there's something gauzier about the song but there is a real nightmare at the heart of it.

Into this night I wander,
It's morning that I dread,
Another day of knowing of
The path I fear to tread,
Oh, into the sea of waking dreams
I follow without pride,
Nothing stands between us here
And I won't be denied

And I would be the one
To hold you down
Kiss you so hard
I'll take your breath away
And after I'd, wipe away the tears
Just close your eyes dear

the song is heard so frequently that it's probably underrated as a horror story.

the story of how that song was written and then the consequences are even scarier to me

Surfacing is a good album but one of the unintended consequences of its success was to obscure just how dark about two thirds of Fumbling Towards Ecstasy was.

I only listened 'Fumbling Towards Ecstasy' two years ago and it was such a blessing.

https://x.com/dfriend/status/1782171991107051550

I should probably visit (revisit? I can't remember now if I have listened to any of them) Sarah's post-Surfacing work before I decide whether to be excited or not about a new album.

However the revival of this thread is always a good opportunity to point out again that ivy's review of Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (linked above) is a work of absolute brilliance/genius/etc.

(also lol @ me in 2004 being quite curmudgeonly about Sarah's music aside from FTE - that was probably the highpoint of me second-guessing my teenage aesthetic predilections)

saw her tour ‘solace’ in 1992 and it was a fantastic show but then i never really kept up

The “in the aaaaaarms of an angel” song popped into my head this week and I was thinking about how it was a bizarro world Trinity Sessions. Slow it down a hair and make it more lofi.

Sarah's post-Surfacing work

The absolute highlight of the last 27 years are the two new songs she put on her greatest hits in the wake of her sinking marriage; they also appeared on her next album Laws of Illusion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v33gY7HqlQ

i did refresh my opinions on her post-surfacing work and came away very impressed by laws of illusion... can't remember any of it now of course

Haha apt revival, last night I was speaking with a friend about Lilith Fair and how stacked their lineups were particularly those in 1998.

I don’t know if I’m excited about a Mclachlan album at this point because I don’t think I’ve heard anything past Surfacing either… but sure I’ll give it a try and approach it with low expectations.

her working with tony berg is encouraging