I'm going to show the CD to my 'sister' when she pries herself away from the sewing machine, and if she likes it (I imagine she will; she falls head over heels for sad songs like "River Lies") I will probably get her a copy for Christmas; I'll have to see about Pretty Little Dead Girl, because I'm broke . . .
I have this thing about live music . . . if I'm used to the song being a certain way, every single little deviation from the recording I'm used to hearing is astonishingly jarring; I hear live music that I'm not used to hearing live and I can easily spend the whole time nitpicking that the tempo's a little off or the words or the cadence of the words are changed, and it takes me a little while to get used to the new version.
I bought it mostly because I was utterly in love with "Follow Me Down," and wanted to hear the full song and not just keep playing the two teasers and trying to reconstruct the tune of the rest of the song on my own. I could sing what I thought it was but that was no substitute :) I did get that afore-mentioned jarring thing going on 'cause I'd anticipated that you'd go down and then up on the seven "Follow Me"s, and you went up and then down and that threw me for a few days, but I like it now.
Very, completely, utterly awesome CD, anyway. I could not have ever expected to like "Pretty Little Dead Girl" as much as I do, given the music style and the subject matter. (Both are OK, but I never expected something of either to make it into my alltime favorites OK, American Pie did exactly that like this did. (OTOH, if I die young I wanna be a ghost with a car too.)
I can't remember if I've said this before: I cannot possibly say enough good things about your rhyming talents and the imagery you create. "If you wanna be specific it was Paleolithic" is the most awesome thing I've heard in recent memory.
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Date: 2008-11-24 04:06 am (UTC)I have this thing about live music . . . if I'm used to the song being a certain way, every single little deviation from the recording I'm used to hearing is astonishingly jarring; I hear live music that I'm not used to hearing live and I can easily spend the whole time nitpicking that the tempo's a little off or the words or the cadence of the words are changed, and it takes me a little while to get used to the new version.
I bought it mostly because I was utterly in love with "Follow Me Down," and wanted to hear the full song and not just keep playing the two teasers and trying to reconstruct the tune of the rest of the song on my own. I could sing what I thought it was but that was no substitute :) I did get that afore-mentioned jarring thing going on 'cause I'd anticipated that you'd go down and then up on the seven "Follow Me"s, and you went up and then down and that threw me for a few days, but I like it now.
Very, completely, utterly awesome CD, anyway. I could not have ever expected to like "Pretty Little Dead Girl" as much as I do, given the music style and the subject matter. (Both are OK, but I never expected something of either to make it into my alltime favorites OK, American Pie did exactly that like this did. (OTOH, if I die young I wanna be a ghost with a car too.)
I can't remember if I've said this before: I cannot possibly say enough good things about your rhyming talents and the imagery you create. "If you wanna be specific it was Paleolithic" is the most awesome thing I've heard in recent memory.