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Post by rosabelbelieve on Apr 26, 2008 17:43:33 GMT
Looks like this board has been very quiet for quite a while, but I really like the idea of playlists arranged by theme and musical flow. Would it be all right if I comtribute one of my own? Symphony In Bluewww.youtube.com/watch?v=-VzIIBt2uxY(I love the piano introduction in this version.) Blow Away (For Bill) combined with Night Scented Stockwww.youtube.com/watch?v=AGU1eHWt7YAHoudiniTop Of The CityA Coral RoomWhat do you think?
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Adena
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Post by Adena on Apr 26, 2008 18:03:14 GMT
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Post by rosabelbelieve on Apr 27, 2008 1:05:59 GMT
^ Thank you for reminding me of how fabulous the videos are for The Dreaming and The Kick Inside. Good list.
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Post by tannis on Apr 27, 2008 3:10:31 GMT
I enjoyed both of these playlists. Thank you... I had not heard the 'Blow Away/Night Scented Stock' before, so that was new. But I do love how NSS clicks into Army Dreamers. And the 'violin' costumes on SIB remind me of Cocteau's La Belle et la bĂȘte! BTW, the intro is Erik Satie, GymnopĂ©die No.1, and Kate plays the beginning different to the album version, which I also like. And I very much like 'Oh England My Lionheart'...Q: As someone who's written a very stirring song about England (Oh England My Lionheart), will you always be happiest here?
KB: (Astonished) Do you like that one? That's one of the ones I meant. It makes me just want to die. There's just something about that time. It's such an old song. Ooh God, I haven't heard it for so long. Must have been on tour in 1979. Anyway, England, yeah , I am happiest here. We're a funny race, we give each other such a hard time, don't you think? One thing we take very seriously is the whole business of taking the piss, the whole stuff about irony. I think there's a real integrity about us under all the layers and our sense of humour is so strong. I've always felt pulled to Ireland because my mother was Irish but whenever I've gone, I've never felt very at home. So I've played with the idea of staying there. I'm not sure I really could live anywhere else but here. But it might be interesting. For a while.Kate bush: Q magazine interview December 1993.www.paradiseplace.org.uk/Kate/Katep3.htmlQ: Did you use the first of Eric Satie's Trois Gymnopedies to lead into 'Symphony in Blue' in your concerts, and if so, why? KB: "It's really marvellous that people have recognised this, and it is so. At the time, some of us were really into the piece, and Paddy and the band were working on a version of it. We all really liked it, and as it seemed a good way of leading into the song, I decided to use it. I'm glad you liked it. Funnily enough, at the same time the band were working on it, several other versions were coming out, so it seems a lot of people were discovering him at the same time."gaffa.org/garden/kate2.html
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Post by rosabelbelieve on Apr 27, 2008 18:16:39 GMT
I'm glad you enjoyed the playlists. I love the way NSS clicks with Army Dreamers as well, but I thought this version flowed better with Houdini. It seems so strange to me that Kate feels that way about her early songs, considering how highly I think of them - yet I guess I do understand how as an artist they must just seem incredibly outdated for her. Oh, England, My Lionheart is a beautiful song nonetheless.
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Post by tannis on Apr 27, 2008 21:06:45 GMT
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Adena
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Post by Adena on Apr 28, 2008 12:34:43 GMT
That's my cry playlist, actually. I thought you may like it.
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Post by rosabelbelieve on Apr 29, 2008 0:38:35 GMT
Adena, isn't it funny how in the times we just need to cry, Kate can be such an incredibly direct consolation, and her music can move us in a way it never could without 'the thrill and the hurting'? At least that's the way I've always found it to be.
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Post by Adena on Apr 29, 2008 10:14:40 GMT
That playlist cheers me up at the start and then gives me a good 15 minutes to cry before I get perked up again by listening to The Dreaming.
I find Kate really helps when I need to cry. Listening to her has made a lot of situations a good sight more optimistic. Kate's music and my sister could sort out almost anything for me.
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Post by Adey on Apr 29, 2008 12:57:41 GMT
Looks like this board has been very quiet for quite a while, but I really like the idea of playlists arranged by theme and musical flow. Would it be all right if I comtribute one of my own? Symphony In Bluewww.youtube.com/watch?v=-VzIIBt2uxY(I love the piano introduction in this version.) Blow Away (For Bill) combined with Night Scented Stockwww.youtube.com/watch?v=AGU1eHWt7YAHoudiniTop Of The CityA Coral RoomWhat do you think? I think just great! All are fave tracks of mine from their individual albums - and you just HAVE to love this version of Symphony in Blue, a song that always blows me away..
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Post by Barry SR Gowing on Apr 29, 2008 13:04:00 GMT
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Post by rosabelbelieve on Apr 29, 2008 21:28:46 GMT
I think just great! All are fave tracks of mine from their individual albums - and you just HAVE to love this version of Symphony in Blue, a song that always blows me away.. I'm glad you enjoyed the list. And if the theme isn't clear to anyone - it's meant to be sort of about art and loss, the desire we have to make sense of life creatively as it goes on around us. In Symphony In Blue, the narrator sees music as a way to put her in touch with the greater truths of existence, in Blow Away it is a comfort in the face of mortality, in Houdini, it's not exactly art but rather the magician's work that is at the centre of the quest to understand the world. In Top Of The City, the narrator looks to transcend the hurt of a broken relationship, and the 'top of the city', to me, means a spiritual plane or a poetic perspective, where she can finally be free of the pain in her life. And in A Coral Room, an incredible loss is come to terms with... Just wanted to share the reasons why I put the songs together.
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Post by Adena on Apr 30, 2008 9:53:14 GMT
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Post by tannis on May 4, 2008 10:57:49 GMT
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Post by rosabelbelieve on May 6, 2008 16:07:17 GMT
I'm starting to think now that Moving should go at the very start of the first playlist I posted here... It would fit well, wouldn't it? So now we have: MovingSymphony In BlueBlow AwayHoudiniTop of the CityA Coral RoomSunset
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