People who like those might like a lot of the darker songs on Lhasa's The Living Road album, although Lhasa is pretty much the opposite of Stina vocally.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 3 January 2005 12:30 (nineteen years ago) link
well, which is more accurate?
― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 3 January 2005 13:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 3 January 2005 13:43 (nineteen years ago) link
I used to love Dynamite a lot, and it really hit me hard in, oh, 1999 or so when I first found it. Since getting into TWIS, I'm less enamoured, somehow. Maybe it's just less striking now. It's still a phenomenal album, just less monolithic, I guess.
re: vocals, yeah, it's a constant understatement. she's developed it over time, too; Memories of a Colour, while still nowhere near the operatic grandstanding Bjork is famous for, is much more conventionally expressive. She's become more deadpan with each album since, I think, and it's worked better and better, maybe less so on This Is....
― derrick (derrick), Monday, 3 January 2005 20:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― .ada.m. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 January 2005 02:13 (nineteen years ago) link
The new(ish) album is fantastic. That is all.
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 20 January 2005 02:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 20 January 2005 02:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 20 January 2005 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link
Great reading.
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 11 April 2005 20:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 24 June 2005 00:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 June 2005 00:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 24 June 2005 02:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Friday, 24 June 2005 02:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 24 June 2005 03:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Friday, 24 June 2005 03:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 24 June 2005 03:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 June 2005 03:12 (eighteen years ago) link
It's a shame all of her records aren't released in the States. Really an underrated artist of the last 15 years. Everyone I've ever played her for has liked her--and non-music-freaks like my sisters recognise her from the 'Romeo + Juliet' soundtrack, apparently, and like her, too.
― I.M. (I.M.), Friday, 24 June 2005 04:03 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost
― Michael "Not very Quotable" Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 24 June 2005 04:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Friday, 24 June 2005 12:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 24 June 2005 13:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 24 June 2005 13:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 24 June 2005 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Saturday, 5 November 2005 00:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Saturday, 5 November 2005 00:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Saturday, 5 November 2005 00:19 (eighteen years ago) link
note cold snap in england.
― The Lex (The Lex), Saturday, 5 November 2005 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Saturday, 5 November 2005 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Saturday, 5 November 2005 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 5 November 2005 21:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― I.M. (I.M.), Saturday, 5 November 2005 23:20 (eighteen years ago) link
It was 18 C here on Wednesday, it's been unusually mild for this time of year.
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Saturday, 5 November 2005 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 6 November 2005 03:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― zappi (joni), Sunday, 6 November 2005 03:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 6 November 2005 03:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Saturday, 31 December 2005 10:20 (eighteen years ago) link
I think this is her most underrated album, and from time to time I think of it as her best. "Reason to Believe" and "I Dream of Jeannie" are two of the most gorgeous things she's ever produced. It's a less fragile record than And she closed her eyes and seems better-constructed than Dynamite. And few albums can touch it for sheer imaginative deconstruction of other people's songs.
― Myke Weiskopf (Myke Weiskopf), Saturday, 31 December 2005 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link
And she closed her eyesAnother Story GirlClothe Yourself for the WindCrimeDynamiteFirst Day in SpringGet On With Your LifeGreetings from the Old WorldHis Song (...or at least the first 2:00)I Dream of JeannieKeen Yellow PlanetLittle StarMemories of a ColorMurder in Mairyland ParkNow When I See YouPeople Are StrangeProposalPurple RainReason to BelieveSo LeeStationsTrainsurfingWhen Debbie's Back from TexasWinter Killing
― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Monday, 2 October 2006 23:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 04:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 11:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 11:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― lex pretend (lex pretend), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link
Completely!
it's so right that it seems this thread is always bumped every winter!
Yeah, I'll go with that. Even better that today is gray here (it's been mostly sunny all week).
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link
...Dream of Jeannie with the Light Brown Hair. Apparently an old folk song...Ain't exactly a folk song, allegedly. According to olden chronicles, 'twas written by one Stephen Foster (1826-1864), author of also "Oh! Susanna", "Old Folks At Home" and other popular faves of yore.
― tiit (tiit), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link
Remix of "Wonderful World" duet & "Birds Sing For Their Lives" is Stina solo. Very elegiac, reminds me slightly of Murcof.
― xcixxorx (xcixxorx), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― tiit (tiit), Thursday, 4 January 2007 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hairy Asshurt (Toaster), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:05 (seventeen years ago) link