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obviously he grew older and can only hear her heart beat three block away.
a very thoughtful mistake.
(funniest thread ever this one.)
i have yet to wrap my head aroud wrap my head around that (how many people made this dumb, cutesy comment?), but i adore every other song.
i even like the idea of birds having bank accounts, which a friend alerted me as the most weird (a sweet translation to english from a way harsher word in portuguese) lyrics he had ever heard.
we got ourselves a lovely live version of mama you sweet. bless the person who recorded the concert.
i uploaded it for the curious folks – and you should be curious, a killer version of a killer song, maybe lucinda’s most beautiful eulogy, perhaps her best song altogether. well, it’s the closest she ever came of pure, pure poetry. and it’s such a different vibe than the album version. faster in pace, and this incredibly enough agreed with the song. gorgeous stuff.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=671WGG1D
oh yes, i love the fact that LW still talks about the books that inspired 2 kool 16 years after writing the song. taking someone else’s art seriously is expected from someone that takes seriously her own songwriting, but being expected doesn’t make it less generous or warm or true. a very nice gesture.
best setlist ever (esp. 2-6). lucinda, don’t be hard on SYL! i want to hear this so-called best-sounding version ever.
EDIT: so i read everything. well, nice to know that she loves the song. there was a comment here a few years ago attached to a setlist in which she (supposedely) said that not all of her songs can be masterpieces, and that was refering to SYL. could never forget it because SYL is always a huge favorite around here.
SYL is a gorgeous love song that even my non-LUheads friends love, but i agree that the live versions i have aren’t exactly magical or stellar or whatever. the luscious aspect, of course, goes away, but the luscious aspect IS the song, you take that and all there’s left are half-empty words. i’m glad you’re working towards a glorious live version. it’s a song delved into our aesthetic pleasure, and keeping it sublime for a colective aesthetic experience should be the stairway to paradise. keep playing it.
yes. when LW played it sometime in 2009 or last year she said something like “not every song can be a masterpiece”. but this is. to me, top 2 or 3 ever.
from metro times…
she slurs in her trademarked Olive-Oyl-as-sex-kitten voice
jeez. this makes christgau get away with murder.
well, came to think of it and i guess that’s it. “the musical life” is a small section of “the talk of the town” and the articles filed under it are usually just a page length.
bummer. no dinner plans for us.
