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jawnbcMeme: 5 albums, 5 tracks, 5 tags
Albums
Avalon, Roxy Music: when a great innovative band reaches its artist peak, it should quit. They did. This was the tape I wore out backpacking through Europe in 1982. I was really into Flesh and Blood but this album is in a league of its own.
Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen: I love my rock and this is my favourite disc. No concept, but so many themes (lust, escape, small-mindedness, freedom, family, identity, Gawd, the Church, the expressive heart, shal I stop there?)--and every one of them integrated into an incredible song. If I have to nominate one song though, it'd be Thunder Road: ...all the boys you sent away,they haunt these dusty beach roads in their skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets." Poetry to a rockin guitar. And this is when Bruce was earthy/wild hawt, rather than gym pumped hawt.
D'eux, Celine Dion: With the right producer and the right material, you can take a raw talent like Celine, harness and refine it, and create music that is inspiring in its quality and just great to listen to. Unlike her anglo stuff, there are torch songs, dance tracks, rock, blues, and pop; Celine sings about where she is, where she's come from, where she's headed, who she is. The title is a pun, of deux (2, Celine and writer/produce Jean-Jacques Goldmann), and j'ai partie d'eux (I'm a part of them, as in Quebec and Canada). By the end of the last track--Vole, Fly...the song of a mother whose child is dying--I'm howling. Goldmann was briliiant in not showing her that song until all the others were in the can. Apparently it's the 2nd take: she sobbed through the first one.
Common Ground, (various): Being of the Irish diaspora means crossing borders: where does my Irishness stop and my Canadianness (or Americanness) begin? Who am I, in relation to other "Irish" people. Donal Lunny did something brilliant here: he gathered an array of brilliant musicians and had them sing songs of Ireland. Many of the artists (Christy Moore, Paul Brady, Bono & Adam Clayton from U2, Brian Kennedy) are considered among Ireland's best; others like Kate Bush (mother Irish) and the Finn Brothers from Split Enz (mother Irish) bring in the voice of people like me. Irish who've not ever lived in Ireland, yet for whom the identity and culture are compelling and powerful. The first time I heard it I thought "jesus, they've made a record for me".
There is no #5
Tracks
Full of Grace, Sarah McLachlan: heartbreaking and beautiful, yet hopeful.
Hymne a l'amour, Edit Piaf: this seems to be following me, since I "discovered" it last year. A full-on melodramatic, die-for-you love song.
American Pie, Don McLean: captures a generation, captures a moment. The facile way a lot of people clung to it after 11/9 didn't make me happy, however...
The Town I Loved So Well, no version in particular: After a childhood of empty republican rhetoric, it was the words--the heartache--of a Derryman himself that made "the Troubles" human for me.
Forever (Voodoo & Serrano radio edit), N-Trance: the first trance track I ever "got". It was used in the 2003 Sydney Queer Film Fest trailer and every time they showed the trailer I got goosebumps.
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Albums
Avalon, Roxy Music: when a great innovative band reaches its artist peak, it should quit. They did. This was the tape I wore out backpacking through Europe in 1982. I was really into Flesh and Blood but this album is in a league of its own.
Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen: I love my rock and this is my favourite disc. No concept, but so many themes (lust, escape, small-mindedness, freedom, family, identity, Gawd, the Church, the expressive heart, shal I stop there?)--and every one of them integrated into an incredible song. If I have to nominate one song though, it'd be Thunder Road: ...all the boys you sent away,they haunt these dusty beach roads in their skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets." Poetry to a rockin guitar. And this is when Bruce was earthy/wild hawt, rather than gym pumped hawt.
D'eux, Celine Dion: With the right producer and the right material, you can take a raw talent like Celine, harness and refine it, and create music that is inspiring in its quality and just great to listen to. Unlike her anglo stuff, there are torch songs, dance tracks, rock, blues, and pop; Celine sings about where she is, where she's come from, where she's headed, who she is. The title is a pun, of deux (2, Celine and writer/produce Jean-Jacques Goldmann), and j'ai partie d'eux (I'm a part of them, as in Quebec and Canada). By the end of the last track--Vole, Fly...the song of a mother whose child is dying--I'm howling. Goldmann was briliiant in not showing her that song until all the others were in the can. Apparently it's the 2nd take: she sobbed through the first one.
Common Ground, (various): Being of the Irish diaspora means crossing borders: where does my Irishness stop and my Canadianness (or Americanness) begin? Who am I, in relation to other "Irish" people. Donal Lunny did something brilliant here: he gathered an array of brilliant musicians and had them sing songs of Ireland. Many of the artists (Christy Moore, Paul Brady, Bono & Adam Clayton from U2, Brian Kennedy) are considered among Ireland's best; others like Kate Bush (mother Irish) and the Finn Brothers from Split Enz (mother Irish) bring in the voice of people like me. Irish who've not ever lived in Ireland, yet for whom the identity and culture are compelling and powerful. The first time I heard it I thought "jesus, they've made a record for me".
There is no #5
Tracks
Full of Grace, Sarah McLachlan: heartbreaking and beautiful, yet hopeful.
Hymne a l'amour, Edit Piaf: this seems to be following me, since I "discovered" it last year. A full-on melodramatic, die-for-you love song.
American Pie, Don McLean: captures a generation, captures a moment. The facile way a lot of people clung to it after 11/9 didn't make me happy, however...
The Town I Loved So Well, no version in particular: After a childhood of empty republican rhetoric, it was the words--the heartache--of a Derryman himself that made "the Troubles" human for me.
Forever (Voodoo & Serrano radio edit), N-Trance: the first trance track I ever "got". It was used in the 2003 Sydney Queer Film Fest trailer and every time they showed the trailer I got goosebumps.
Tags
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