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Hm, waiting a bit might have been the right idea!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 June 2005 00:59 (eighteen years ago) link

NICE!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 24 June 2005 02:13 (eighteen years ago) link

great

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Friday, 24 June 2005 02:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Even nicer for you David, as a quote from your review made it to the album cover.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 24 June 2005 03:01 (eighteen years ago) link

DAVID LOVES STINA

― a real bear behind the microphone (nordicskilla), Friday, 24 June 2005 03:06 (eighteen years ago) link

YOU ARE SHITTING ME

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 24 June 2005 03:07 (eighteen years ago) link

Heheh, the power of Pitchfork.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 June 2005 03:12 (eighteen years ago) link

I tried to order this via GEMM when it was released, but got ripped off. So, hurrah.

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

Not shitting you man!

xpost

― Michael "Not very Quotable" Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 24 June 2005 04:04 (eighteen years ago) link

'The World Is Saved' is easily my favourite album from last year.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Friday, 24 June 2005 12:15 (eighteen years ago) link

goddamn you US bonus tracks!

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 24 June 2005 13:00 (eighteen years ago) link

aaargh bonus tracks!

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 24 June 2005 13:29 (eighteen years ago) link

oooh, i will get this

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 24 June 2005 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link

four months pass...

This is still a perfect winter album. I love it greatly

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Saturday, 5 November 2005 00:10 (eighteen years ago) link

It is almost THE perfect winter album.

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Saturday, 5 November 2005 00:14 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't recall any other album of this decade that has kept me interested and charmed for this long.

― Googley Asearch (Toaster), Saturday, 5 November 2005 00:19 (eighteen years ago) link

haha i just started listening to it in the past week again too.

note cold snap in england.

― The Lex (The Lex), Saturday, 5 November 2005 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link

Just dl'd this last week. I really happy she's released a decent album again. I don't know if ten years can ever be "worth the wait", but I'm glad anyway.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Saturday, 5 November 2005 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link

(I like parts of the previous three, and Memories, but find them a bit tedious the whole way through.)

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Saturday, 5 November 2005 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link

I came around massively to This Is Stina Nordenstam, which I only managed to find just after The World Is Saved was released, and which sounded very slight in comparison initially. I now fairly love it. But... The World Is Saved is truly exceptional. Especially "Morning Belongs to the Night"!

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 5 November 2005 21:34 (eighteen years ago) link

'This Is' is still my fave by a long ways. 'The World is Saved' is ok, but doesn't hit me quite as much.

― I.M. (I.M.), Saturday, 5 November 2005 23:20 (eighteen years ago) link

note cold snap in england

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

is one of her tracks playing in a current Orange phone advert? if so what's the track?

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 6 November 2005 03:23 (eighteen years ago) link

joanna newsom "this side of the blue"? her singing on that songs a lot more er restrained than usual

― zappi (joni), Sunday, 6 November 2005 03:39 (eighteen years ago) link

thanks zappi. i've never heard Newsom.

― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 6 November 2005 03:41 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Listening to 'People Are Strange' right now; I forget how gorgeous the tempo and pacing is on this album. A wonderfully warm sound, too. 'Like A Swallow', 'Came so Far for Beauty' and especially 'Reason to Believe stand out for me.

― 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

nine months pass...

C-90.

And she closed her eyes
Another Story Girl
Clothe Yourself for the Wind
Crime
Dynamite
First Day in Spring
Get On With Your Life
Greetings from the Old World
His Song (...or at least the first 2:00)
I Dream of Jeannie
Keen Yellow Planet
Little Star
Memories of a Color
Murder in Mairyland Park
Now When I See You
People Are Strange
Proposal
Purple Rain
Reason to Believe
So Lee
Stations
Trainsurfing
When Debbie's Back from Texas
Winter Killing

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Monday, 2 October 2006 23:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Word is that a new album is expected in 2007.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 04:35 (seventeen years ago) link

possibly with "as heard on the washing machine ad" all over it.

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 11:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't remember the last time I saw a washing machine ad.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 11:39 (seventeen years ago) link

three months pass...

Finally listening to The World is Saved. That took me long enough.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

You're such a Ned.

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link

it's so right that it seems this thread is always bumped every winter!

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link

You're such a Ned.

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

she also sings on one track on the new nine horses ep I think, which is part new stuff, and partially remixes of stuff from the album. I think.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I am a huge, longtime Stina fan, and yet I cannot stand This is.... Am I wrong?
Must say I've always loved This Is... lots more than the apparently universally-adored-on-this-thread Dynamite. That I've always found kinda hard going, for me. But maybe I'm "wrong" as well :)

...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

Nine Horses EP:
http://www.discogs.com/release/799675

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

Reminds slightly of Murcof?!
Oh boy. Must get teh Horses EP then, uhuh.

― tiit (tiit), Thursday, 4 January 2007 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I would love a new Stina album this year.

― Hairy Asshurt (Toaster), Friday, 5 January 2007 11:05 (seventeen years ago) link

four weeks pass...

I heard the Knife have covered Stina's "Soon after Christmas" live, has anyone heard it?

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 2 February 2007 08:13 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.stinanordenstam.com/ is the new website, soon to be updated. V2 has said there *will* be a new album this year.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 2 February 2007 08:17 (seventeen years ago) link

'This Is' has always been my fave, followed by the covers record. 'The World is Saved' might even come before 'Dynamite,' though I still think of myself as digging that album.

I'd love to see her collaborate with The Knife. Hmm. . .

― I.M. (I.M.), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Went out and purchased a Fleshquartet album on the strength of some track I heard way back in the day on 120 minutes. Remember loving the track, which may or may not have been called "walk" but not really caring for the album.

― Antony Holt (ant), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd love to see her collaborate with The Knife. Hmm. . .

The Knife remix of "Parliament Square" is basically a collab.

― brittle-lemon (brittle-lemon), Saturday, 3 February 2007 12:58 (seventeen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Well, memories of a color may not have that darker edge that makes her later work so good, but give her her due, every artist has to start somewhere, and for my part, i have to say, "another story girl" can still reduce me to tears faster than any other track i've heard from her yet. The woman is a goddamned genius, and she keeps getting better with every new album. My friends have been giving me sideways looks for the 10 years i've been listening to her, but they're just now starting to get into the swing of her music. And what's up with all the "diehard" stina fans not liking "lori glory"? So many posts say that "the great thing about stina, is that she ignores convention, she breaks the rules" yet when she breaks her own rules, they suddenly can't take it. Every post i've read about that track has been negative, not one that i've read so far has said anything good about it, which i think is a shame. Isn't the fact that she is not only gutsy enough to stand against the world, but also against herself, the hallmark of a true artist? I really wonder just how many of her fans can understand her from this perspective. And it's not just ethics, that song is aesthetically, lyrically, rhythmically magical. It's like Bowie, but the sex change worked this time. The warmth, the energy, that rebound inside that song, are a wonderful thing to hear from someone who so clearly lives in a darkened world. If she was your friend, wouldn't you be overjoyed to hear a moment of such brightness, when all else you'd heard showed so little of the sort? Well, that's how it is for me. And god only knows what rabbits she'll pull out of the hat with the next album. Here's to our generation's most misunderstood genius.

― richarquis, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 10:43 (seventeen years ago) link

"I heard the Knife have covered Stina's "Soon after Christmas" live, has anyone heard it?"

OMG WTF etc. dere internets sort this out now. kthxbye

― Alan, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 11:20 (seventeen years ago) link

i love stina

those understated vox really lend a sense of claustrophobia to the songs - you can really get caught up in her music

― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 11:47 (seventeen years ago) link

oo i found a preview of that parliament sq remix

― Alan, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 12:23 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

seriously, 'the world is saved' is a total gem. the sort of record i can really sink my teeth into. static and restrained with something really penetrating beneath the surface. is serving as a nice companion record to joy division's 'closer' for me these last weeks.

― Charlie Howard, Saturday, 10 January 2009 02:59 (fifteen years ago) link

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