your favourite Judee Sill song

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