she's got a lovely voice, and i also think she's sort of foxy.
ive got pretty much all her albums, and while some of it is overproduced tosh, by the same token, she can write some half decent tunes.
but then again this might just be a ploy to exploit my weakness for female vocals (sundays, VU, etc)
although im not sure if i should hang my head for mentioning VU in this thread...
― Rob Carthy, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
DV: "My Fidelity" is on her first and best album Glow Stars ie. the one I talked about the most. It's probably the most singer- songwritery thing on the album, but precisely because of that it sounds even better.
― Tim, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Oh, and *JUST* for Melissa....
http://www.maliciousdamage.com/gallery/band/ band80doorway2.JPG
― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Joe, Sunday, 17 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Thursday, 16 February 2006 13:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― js (honestengine), Thursday, 16 February 2006 13:30 (eighteen years ago) link
God it would have been so amazing to see Heather live circa 1993. The version of “Talking To Strangers” on Blow sounds like Bark Psychosis’ “Big Shot” a year before the fact. Everything feels simultaneously so exploratory and so cathartic.
― Tim F, Sunday, 18 February 2018 05:34 (six years ago) link
I never understood why she never did more songs like Frontier.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 18 February 2018 18:39 (six years ago) link
Tim, you have a way of "here, let me..." grab a puzzle piece out of my hands and place it exactly where it's supposed to be, me having not seen where it goes, staring for hours. The Bark Psychosis comparison is so, so spot on. It's a shame she pretty much dropped off the radar after Oyster/London Rain.
I've been listening to Glow Stars and Blow again recently. They really hold up. Oyster was the last Nova album that really did anything for me. She's still touring and releasing albums I saw - one of those artists that, after the decline of chart/press success, just ploughs on, doing what she does, with a steady fan base by the looks of it. Bless her.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 18 February 2018 18:56 (six years ago) link
The fanbase isnt that steady by the looks of it, she played 10.000-capacity venues fifteen years ago, now it’s more like 400-800.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 18 February 2018 19:56 (six years ago) link
Thanks La Bateau.
I am curious as to how/why she moved to that heavy rock sound on some of the tracks on ‘Blow’ only a year after ‘Glowstars’, which is gorgeous and layered and dreamy but never really heavy per se - what was she inspired by? I’m tempted to imagine Throwing Muses and similar.
On ‘Oyster’ the rock production is pretty smoothed out and only “Island’” (I guess “Sugar” too to some extent) really captures what she could have done with that weight and intensity. The way she murmurs, “he’s too scared to hit me now / he’ll bring flowers instead”, and then later on the insane bridge that hissed “a kiss a kick a kiss a kickkkkkk”.
― Tim F, Sunday, 18 February 2018 21:24 (six years ago) link
Tim, you're a quality poster. Your tori posts are all time
― kolakube (Ross), Sunday, 18 February 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link