― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Sunday, 26 February 2006 07:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― amateurist0, Sunday, 26 February 2006 07:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― corey c (shock of daylight), Sunday, 26 February 2006 08:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― bendy (bendy), Sunday, 26 February 2006 12:48 (eighteen years ago) link
actually, i do. have fun listening to limp bizkit.
― team jaxon (jaxon), Sunday, 26 February 2006 21:01 (eighteen years ago) link
-- timmy tannin (timmytanni...), Yesterday 8:28 PM. (pompous)
OTM, they way he controls the (muliple) tempos of that song is great.
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 26 February 2006 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link
I do enjoy Joni Mitchell, esp. Hissing of Summer Lawns.
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Monday, 27 February 2006 04:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Melissa W (Melissa W), Monday, 27 February 2006 05:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 24 March 2006 16:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link
but these are trifling matters. awesome piece, DL.
― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― whatever (boglogger), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:20 (eighteen years ago) link
for those completely obsessed with sill, that tommy peltier disc that came out last year is pretty good. her contributions aren't too overwhelming, but it's nice stuff.
― crumsho (clikatowi), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Friday, 24 March 2006 17:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Saturday, 25 March 2006 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link
so, there's a new Judee Sill release! Live recordings from BBC sessions, on Water. picked it up last weekend -- great stuff, even better than the live stuff that was on the Rhino CD of the first album.
Her guitar playing really sounds great on "There's a Rugged Road" and ditto her piano on "Enchanted Sky Machines". there's a funny moment in an interview with a BBC dude who asks if she's enjoying playing European venues, and Sill says "What's a venue?" also a sweet part where she says she misses her basset hound.
anyone else pick this up?
― Stormy Davis, Friday, 22 June 2007 19:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Yep, got it in mail the other day. Sounds really good, tho hearing those between song talks sheds as much light on JS as the songs do to me
― Dominique, Friday, 22 June 2007 20:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Just got the BBC disc in the mail this morning. Stunning from the outset.
― fukasaku tollbooth, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 17:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Voxtrot's new album has a song about Judee Sill called "Real Live Version". I have mixed feelings about it, but ultimately I think I may like that at least someone tried to write a song about her. Any other examples?
― oo, Sunday, 2 September 2007 22:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Jackie Leven, 'The Silver In Her Crucifix,' from his fine 2007 album 'Oh What A Blow That Phantom Dealt Me.'
― Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt, Monday, 3 September 2007 00:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Was listening to that BBC session earlier, when she introduces The Kiss as "a new song I finished a few weeks ago", wow... that's intense beautiful. Like Dominique said, you can tell by those talks she wasn't really kidding around.
Apparently there's a Tommy Peltier record called Chariot of Astral Light which supposedly features Sill, anyone heard it?
― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 8 July 2008 23:45 (fifteen years ago) link
the harmonies in "my man on love" are wacky; love it.
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Monday, 9 August 2010 03:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Her voice can make me cry sometimes.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 9 August 2010 03:15 (thirteen years ago) link
can someone tell me where is this song from originally?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73Y1YimQa5U
― nostormo, Monday, 21 October 2013 20:47 (ten years ago) link
there's a couple of songs on that comp that were based on unrecorded sheet music
― Number None, Monday, 21 October 2013 21:05 (ten years ago) link
thanks
― nostormo, Monday, 21 October 2013 21:24 (ten years ago) link
why was i not told about this artist
― Treeship, Saturday, 9 April 2016 05:31 (eight years ago) link
listening to "heart food" over and over. saving the s/t for tomorrow.
oh wow i'm jealous. she's literally the greatest
― J. Sam, Saturday, 9 April 2016 05:38 (eight years ago) link
♥Judee♥
― Austin, Saturday, 9 April 2016 16:09 (eight years ago) link
Yeah I also discovered her pretty recently. Incredible.
― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Saturday, 9 April 2016 16:14 (eight years ago) link
I cry almost every time I hear the bridge on "The Kiss." This brief set from '73 is a little rough but endearing: http://youtu.be/AnVa2GK3_T8
― one way street, Saturday, 9 April 2016 16:23 (eight years ago) link
this performance of "the kiss" is sublime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0feFedDW_iQ
― map, Saturday, 9 April 2016 16:54 (eight years ago) link
Treeship, seek out Sybille Baier next for extra joy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY_F0mPq7ec&feature=youtu.be
― clog dabussy (fgti), Saturday, 9 April 2016 18:39 (eight years ago) link
^^^ otm. Also, Connie Converse doesn't sound much like Sill or Baier, but as she has a similar quality of being both eccentric and uncomfortably emotionally direct.
― one way street, Saturday, 9 April 2016 18:45 (eight years ago) link
long time judee fan
i always thought her first record was way better than her second
have a first pressing of it in near mint condition
she was one wacky lady which adds to the allure
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 11 April 2016 17:17 (eight years ago) link
One thing that's amazing about her live is that the records have a lot of enhancements and overdubs, yet she manages to get the same level of intensity with just her voice and a guitar or piano.
― human life won't become a cat (man alive), Monday, 11 April 2016 17:20 (eight years ago) link
ya'll like mary mccaslin?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnEXe2gGU94
― ian, Monday, 11 April 2016 17:58 (eight years ago) link
I really, really like that LP ("Way Out West") but haven't heard or got around to hearing any others. Where next with Mary?
― Tim, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 11:08 (eight years ago) link
I just heard Heart Food for the first time. What an Incredible record.
Really wishing that it wasn't expensive to get a copy on vinyl right now. Even the reissue is really hard to get.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 22:33 (seven years ago) link
Tim, I love the Old Friends album as much as I do Way Out West. Sunny California is her major-label debut and also quite good.
― Edd Hurt, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 22:48 (seven years ago) link
https://www.discogs.com/Judee-Sill-Abracadabra-The-Asylum-Years/release/1720277
That's a really good compilation that has a lot of really worthwhile bonus material and the price is right.
― Austin, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 22:49 (seven years ago) link
Thanks for the link. I might have to get that for now. Feels like I'm discovering my next big musical obsession.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 22:52 (seven years ago) link
judee looks like an aunt who incidentally also grew up in california in the 70s and was obsessed with religion and was a bit of a hippy
must've been something in the air at that time
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 23:04 (seven years ago) link
You got it, also a bit of a junkie, as she forthrightly confessed/professed. What do yall think of that Laura Veirs song about her on the album w Neko Case and kd lang? So far (only heard a few times, on the stream, which can filter sound), seems like music & lyrics sail in candid, vivid and undersold, but maybe a little too much of that last--?I also really like xpost Mary McCaslin & semi-reformed ramblin' hubbie Jim Ringer's duet album, The Bramble and the Rose.
― dow, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 23:36 (seven years ago) link
I do like the Way Veirs simulates Sill's aw-I'm-gonna California accent throughout, but the song is a bit slight. I do think it would've been far swankier if it had tried to emulate Sill's compositional method, which was really sophisticated and mathematical--voice leading and stuff, real structural stuff that hung together and all that. This doesn't do that, but it's not bad at all, just vague musically. Judee Sill really was a composer. I don't know anyone who does that kind of thing now--does Rufus Wainwright count? I've had moments where I rate her up there with Joni Mitchell, she's the classical writer and Joni's the one who breaks the rules.
― Edd Hurt, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 23:52 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, xgau didn't and doesn't get into most folkie singer-songwriters, or *anything* to do with religion, as a matter of course---but back in the 70s, her music and even her visions or what she made of them got to him, as much as possible:
Judee Sill [Asylum, 1971]It's her devout hope that we'll "savor each word like a raspberry," and I do mean devout--Sill yearns for the day when Christ the Bridegroom will "take all the gentle away." Thank god her music is spiritually unpresumptuous--pythagorean melodies and spare, delicate chamber-folk arrangements that set off her homespun drawl (the lyric sheet favors spellings like "cuz" and "gunna"). Wish I could also say her lyrics were tart as raspberries, but they remind me more of peaches--fuzzy. B
Heart Food [Asylum, 1973]Beneath a lusher surface, her voice enriched with overdubs and less idiosyncratically accented, Sill has become a real militant. Christ is a "Soldier of the Heart," a "Vigilante": although "the chosen are few" we're supposed to "see how His mercy shines," presumably because he saves any of us sinners at all. Last shall be first or not, this is pretty repulsive as ideology, yet until the kyrie eleisons at the climax I find it paradoxically seductive. Say she's a mad saint instead of a sainted madwoman and make room for another rock crazy. B+
― dow, Friday, 19 August 2016 17:10 (seven years ago) link
Rufus Wainwright does write well at least some of the time, and can see how he attracted Van Dyke Parks as arranger, but his literal long-windedness tends to distract me: he can hold a note forever, so he does---not always; I love some of his tracks---but often.In a less polished but surefooted way, the 20-year-old Julien Baker---from a Southern fundamentalist family, out lesbian, still Christian---sounds like one of Sill's pilgrims, seems like; the live stream from Newport got and held my attention even while I was puttering around in a lot of mental clutter. Here's a post of the whole set, and yeah some Judee appeal:http://www.npr.org/event/music/488354526/julien-baker-live-in-concert-newport-folk-2016
― dow, Friday, 19 August 2016 17:23 (seven years ago) link
I had been hoping a Martha Wainwright song would be played but added “or a song by someone related to her” and The Roches sort of count, do u see?
― Because the Nighttoad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 April 2023 14:22 (eleven months ago) link
I didn’t even tell you about the sing-a-long encores of “Do Right Woman, Do Right Man” and the Tapestry version of “You’ve Got A Friend.”
― Because the Nighttoad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 April 2023 17:09 (eleven months ago) link
What's her name?
― dow, Sunday, 30 April 2023 17:21 (eleven months ago) link
Ali Dineen. Think she has maybe one album and a few other things out now. They seem pretty good but the live experience was really something extra.
― Because the Nighttoad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 April 2023 17:43 (eleven months ago) link
3) The artist behind this song is the phenomenally talented Ali Dineen. I was her 7th grade English teacher. So imagínate how proud I am.— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) February 8, 2017
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 30 April 2023 18:58 (eleven months ago) link
Yes, apparently she went to Hunter, I guess.
― Because the Nighttoad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 April 2023 19:06 (eleven months ago) link
I’m kind of equally if not more impressed that she has the likes of Richie Barshay playing gigs with her.
― Because the Nighttoad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 April 2023 19:13 (eleven months ago) link
Also, there's some kind of folksy scene at a place called Jalopy House in Brooklyn that I never heard of that she seems to be associated with, some other people from that place made the journey last night from their borough to ours.
― Because the Nighttoad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 30 April 2023 19:24 (eleven months ago) link
This may give you an idea about the vibe:https://www.instagram.com/p/CVWjK25jcdu/
― Because the Nighttoad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 May 2023 17:51 (eleven months ago) link
― Because the Nighttoad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, April 30, 2023 2:24 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
Jalopy Theater? A lot of their programming seems a little like folk music cosplay to me, like people who exactly replicate the Sun country sound or do 60s western swing or spot on piedmont blues or stuff like that. Curious to check her out though.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 1 May 2023 18:59 (eleven months ago) link
It seems like that, and maybe is like that, but what I have briefly experienced seemed to be at higher level.
― Because the Nighttoad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 May 2023 19:26 (eleven months ago) link
Looks like the doc is finally streaming. The trailer makes it look like the kind of talking-head doc with contemporary luminaries talking about how much the subject influenced them, but I'll probably still watch it because it's Judee Sill.
― o. nate, Friday, 12 April 2024 21:17 (one week ago) link
Its really great - there is loads of brilliant archive chat with Judee, some brilliant footage , plenty of scurrilous gossip. they do the annoying animation thing but it is based on her own illustrations so they get away with it. It packs a real emotional wallop. Think its the only time i have ever cried in a cinema.
― cw, Saturday, 13 April 2024 14:14 (one week ago) link
Just finished watching. Animations, "handless" handwriting, relevant talking heads—all the music doc tropes of the last howevermany years—but I found it a pretty rich experience because the details of Judee's story were all kind of a blur in my mind, having read or picked up some things here and there over the years. It was nice to have it all in one place, crafted with love.
― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 14 April 2024 03:51 (six days ago) link