your favourite Judee Sill song

lady-o only got one vote o_0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj8RFOp7iVQ

I absolutely adore this version, one of my favourite things ever.

"Lopin' Along Through The Cosmos" for me. Those strings...

Would have went for "The Kiss", but it could have been easily any track off Heart Food.

No votes for "'til Dreams Come True"? Y'all had some lead ears.

I woulda voted Lady-O.

Lady-O and Crayon Angels got stiffed.

love love love the frida version of crossmaker

ooh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0feFedDW_iQ

― rural juror (get bent), Tuesday, June 30, 2009 7:36 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^ <3 this vid!

2.3 Emerald River Dance (home recording) 3:08 0

this is one of the most beautiful things ever put to tape imo
https://open.spotify.com/track/4QGlZqAxFtcjV97rULUVTn?si=3o-K4ObtQHm-A64OVRV_EQ

It seems like everyone's so afraid of emotion cause they can't bear the pain
But the deeper sorrow carves in the heart of your being the more joy you can contain

Donor ftw

Kyrie Ellison also referenced in a Maria Minerva house track

The Kiss is probably the most beautiful song ever written

Kiss is so gorgeous

The Donor is incredible - those harmonies

Blinding me, his song remains reminding me
He's a bandit and a heartbreaker
Oh, but Jesus was a crossmaker

^Some of the best lyrics ever on that song, especially this:

He wages war with the devil
A pistol by his side
And tho' he chases him out windows
And won't give him a place to hide
He keeps his door open wide

0 votes for “When the Bridegroom Comes” is a shame

Yep, same for The Lamb Ran Away with the Crown

Emerald River Dance (home recording) is really one of the best recordings ever

JWACM is really kind of singular in lyrics, vocal, style, I can't think of anything else like it, and it's so good and so clever

I'd put Soldier of the Heart in my top 5 (and I rate her general catalogue extremely highly)

The Pearl is a top 5 for me that didn't get much love

I like both of her "proper" albums, and don't know a lot about either addiction or religious faith, but I have some cognitive dissonance how someone who apparently had so much trouble simply living takes such a tone of rectitude or spiritual confidence in her songs. I don't hear any doubt or questioning in her music.

california baby. also i don't think loving drugs and having a wild side would be viewed by j.s. as having trouble simply living. also when have drugs and wildness been at odds with intense inner spirituality. also trauma factors in here with the addiction and disregulation part imo.

the bbc radio documentary and the newish rolling stone piece are worth checking out.

I did read that Rolling Stone article, it gave a more nuanced perspective of her life than the strictly tragic one you would get if you only read liner notes and reviews.

must be this one? https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/judee-sill-songwriter-profile-1130869/
look fwd to reading it

I guess her wild history (she was involved in armed robbery as well as hard drugs etc) seem perceptually at odds with her bookish, ascetic and dry persona, not to mention the music which is about as far from rock n roll derring do as it gets. But yes, these are all just assumptions we make

I never dug "Jesus Was A Crossmaker" much. I was saddened to see it on a compilation once because I'd never be drawn in to hear more from just that song. I heard "The Kiss" on a compilation and I needed more urgently. I should probably hear the former again because people think so highly of it.

i think it's incredible but i don't think she has another song quite in that vein, i.e. it's unique. that's about as peppy as she gets afaik. if you get more out of "the kiss" i would definitely give a listen to the rest if you haven't already, sorry if you have i wasn't clear on that from your post.

one of the things i love about her work is that it still startles me. it's both very sophisticated and very singular. i can still put the albums on and think "holy shit what and who am i listening to".

I heard a brief interview once with Andy Partridge, who was moved to tears by "The Kiss." IIRC, it was on an episode of the KCRW Unfictional podcast about Judee's life and work.

Yeah I got her stuff many years ago after hearing that compilation appearance of "The Kiss", it was one of those excitingly impatient moods where I was just needing it.

When did people find out how she died? Maybe memory is fooling me but I thought when I got into her in the 00s, nobody knew where she went?

I don't really hear "rectitude" or "spiritual confidence" in most of her music, hard to see where one would get that other than maybe in The Kiss. There's a much more complex, playful, and sometimes cynical engagement with religion going on in most of her work. Jesus Was a Crossmaker and The Pearl are two obvious examples that come to mind.

I get the sense that she found something approaching spiritual enlightenment through drugs but also very self-consciously understood the tension in this, and had a tragic sense that it was always slipping out of her grasp again, in part because it was achieved through drugs, and in part because that's just how it is.

That's an excellent explanation.

I don't really hear "rectitude" or "spiritual confidence" in most of her music

I guess I'm thinking of songs like "The Vigilante" or "Soldier of the Heart", the more straightforward devotional things.

this is a beautiful tribute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-YWVGJIHcs

Once I heard a serpent remark....

"Make my fear fuel, and the fuel hi-octane" <3

lady-o has always been her song that stuck with me the most. i assumed that was the canonical pick but now everyone is going for cross-maker.

i kept meaning to hear that case/lang/veirs record, what a beautiful tribute.

the boston music hall performance of that is one of my favorite judee sill moments, moves me to tears every time.

i'm not even sure who 'lady-o' is for me - the earth maybe lol

wow hadn't heard that boston music hall performance, it's wonderful