PJ Harvey performing Rid of Me at a Sydney music fest in 2001. I cannot express how much I love this woman!
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I'm going to give you earworms
Jan 30
Coward by Swans live
Nov 07
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Antony and the Johnsons - Christina’s Farm
Oct 25
Sorry for not updating this for so damn long. Here’s an excerpt of Death Cult’s Horse Nation
Aug 13
Avant artist garde David Wojnarowicz with music by Diamanda Galas called Fire in My Belly
May 26
Ok, I take back the negative things I said about Susan Boyle (I liked her singing, I just didn’t think she was a gift from God like many other people were going on about) but this is just so beautiful!
May 22
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I just HAD to re-reblog this absolutely incredible song!
The other day I went to see Mono and an orchestra play at the Society for Ethical Culture. To be honest, I think Mono are just ok. I had only listened to a few tracks off their first album, and I thought they might be cool to see live.
The Society for Ethical Culture seems to be a church without the burden of religion, or a very churchy lecture hall. There was no standing room, only pews. I paid for my own ticket, and snuck in my ticketless friend. I know that’s not right but the show sold out in advance and there were still plenty of seats left, plus we bought merch.
Mono’s opening number was Ashes in the Snow and it went like this:
At 2:07 I got a shiver up my spine.
At 3:18 my eyes went very wide.
At 7:52 my jaw went limp, my mouth hung open and it felt as though I’d been punched in the stomach.
For the rest of the song I bit my knuckle.
I know you guys know that I go to a lot of shows. Some shows are really good: by which I mean I liked the songs the bands were playing and had fun. This was completely different because it felt like my heart was going to fly out of my chest and my stomach was churning. And I wasn’t even really a big fan of the band. Nor was I under any kind of chemical influence.
Anyway, I’m glad I went to this show because although I am a huge fan of music and enjoy it very much, it had stoped reaching all the way to my heart a long time ago and now I know that there are still things that can reach all the way down there and that my heart is not yet hard and crusty and dead.
(You can download a free and completely legal MP3 of this song at http://www.mono-jpn.com/hymn_flash/index.html)
Oh lord, this is gorgeous. It’s wonderful when you find music that moves you.
May 04
Anatomy of a Song : O Fortuna
Song: O Fortuna from Carmina Burana
Music Composer: Carl Orff
credits to Wikipedia
O Fortuna is a poem from Carmina Burana, a collection of Latin poems written in early 13th century. Fortuna is the goddess of fortune in Roman Mythology. German composer Carl Orff selected 24 poems from the collection and set them to new music between 1935 and 1936. O Fortuna is the most famous movement from Orff’s Carmina Burana composition, and opens and closes the cycle.
Orff’s setting of the poem has become immensely popular and has been performed by countless classical music ensembles as well as popular artists. It powerfully conveys the human condition of struggle. The composition appears in numerous movies and television commercials and has become a staple in popular culture, setting the mood for dramatic or cataclysmic situations
Original Latin lyrics:
O Fortuna
velut luna
statu variabilis,
semper crescis
aut decrescis;
vita detestabilis
nunc obdurat
et tunc curat
ludo mentis aciem,
egestatem,
potestatem
dissolvit ut glaciem.
Sors immanis
et inanis,
rota tu volubilis,
status malus,
vana salus
semper dissolubilis,
obumbrata
et velata
michi quoque niteris;
nunc per ludum
dorsum nudum
fero tui sceleris.
Sors salutis
et virtutis
michi nunc contraria,
est affectus
et defectus
semper in angaria.
Hac in hora
sine mora
corde pulsum tangite;
quod per sortem
sternit fortem,
mecum omnes plangite!
English:
O Fortune,
like the moon
Stands constantly changing,
ever waxing
or waning;
hateful life
now oppresses
and then soothes
as fancy takes it;
poverty
and power
it melts them like ice.
Fate - monstrous
and empty,
you whirling wheel,
stand malevolent,
well-being is vain
and always fades to nothing,
shadowed
and veiled
you plague me too;
now through the game
I bring my bare back
to your villainy.
Fate, in health
and virtue,
is against me
driven on
and weighted down,
always enslaved.
So at this hour
without delay
pluck the vibrating strings;
since Fate
strikes down the strong man,
everyone weep with me!
Here’s a funny O Fortuna “misheard” lyrics video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpAzvKt_8lk
SALSA COOKIES! WINDMILL COOKIES!
Apr 26
I’ve Seen It All musical sequence from Dancer in the Dark. I thought the movie was kind of take it or leave it, but Bjork was amazing. She’s a great dramatic actress!
I’ll post another “Schizophrenic” song later
Apr 04
Schizophrenic Songs
I’m going to start posting songs that sound like the artist has totally lost their fucking minds!
Here’s Fat Slut by Tori Amos
Fat Slut - Tori Amos
