PG – I am struggling getting through this song, not because it is bad, but because my mood right now can’t handle it, its a perfect song for a gloomy day like today, but I need something uplifting. PG is another artist I need to get into the rotation. Always looking for new things but fall back to comfortable regulars.
Uhhhhhhhhh
FA – I love Fiona, never heard this one but this is the exact opposite of PG its to jarring and is giving me anxiety, its too much…. I can’t listen.. I have a feeling today is going to be a tough one.
I love both these artists but my mood is just not in the right place for either of them.
Fiona- I can see how people do not like Fiona Apple. I can even see how people despise her music. It’s weird. It’s challenging. It’s dissonant and abrasive at times. Maybe these are some of the reasons I like her. This song has her sonorous, resonant piano, the frenetic drums and the tossed salad if an architecture. How many different sections are there? Underneath it all, or top of it all, there is some sinewy narrative slithering. Good stuff
Peter Gabriel – Mercy Street
A deep cut off an album that went Big Time. I drifted into this yesterday, as I type, and never came back to consciousness enough to make comments. I can picture a boat slowly making its way across calm waters to a safe space you can’t quite get back to. He tightens up some of the things he experimented with on his previous record, IV (see San Jacinto, The Family and the Fishing Net). Pulsing warmth.
Fiona Apple – Shameika
Appreciated the “Take a moment” suggestion which allowed me to reset after the PG track.
I am initially reminded of some of Jools Holland’s work, with Squeeze and solo. Also Tori Amos. Of course Fiona does her own thing. This song careens along with a few rest stops. Love the bass work – sounds like a double. Definitely has potential.
“Mercy Street”/Peter Gabriel. “So” was a ginormous album but I guess I never heard the whole thing because I don’t know this one. Highly characteristic of him, with a pulsing but new-agey beat and that high,plaintive melody instrument (flute?). PG’s voice as warm as ever. On the whole, relaxing on the surface but summons depths.
“Mercy Street” by Peter Gabriel: Slow reflective song. It was nice to re-visit it. Thumbs Up. Not clear on who Mercy Street was but I am sure it must be a full name of someone somewhere ; )
“Shameika” by Fiona Apple: The piano arp pattern is a cool second voice and was fun to split my brain and follow her voice and the pattern at the same time. A different, very creative and interesting journey. Super.
PG – I am struggling getting through this song, not because it is bad, but because my mood right now can’t handle it, its a perfect song for a gloomy day like today, but I need something uplifting. PG is another artist I need to get into the rotation. Always looking for new things but fall back to comfortable regulars.
Uhhhhhhhhh
FA – I love Fiona, never heard this one but this is the exact opposite of PG its to jarring and is giving me anxiety, its too much…. I can’t listen.. I have a feeling today is going to be a tough one.
I love both these artists but my mood is just not in the right place for either of them.
Ugg, I que up some Peter Gabriel, and first song is……..Sledgehammer! Noooooo ….. I….Just….Can’t
Fiona- I can see how people do not like Fiona Apple. I can even see how people despise her music. It’s weird. It’s challenging. It’s dissonant and abrasive at times. Maybe these are some of the reasons I like her. This song has her sonorous, resonant piano, the frenetic drums and the tossed salad if an architecture. How many different sections are there? Underneath it all, or top of it all, there is some sinewy narrative slithering. Good stuff
Peter Gabriel – Mercy Street
A deep cut off an album that went Big Time. I drifted into this yesterday, as I type, and never came back to consciousness enough to make comments. I can picture a boat slowly making its way across calm waters to a safe space you can’t quite get back to. He tightens up some of the things he experimented with on his previous record, IV (see San Jacinto, The Family and the Fishing Net). Pulsing warmth.
Fiona Apple – Shameika
Appreciated the “Take a moment” suggestion which allowed me to reset after the PG track.
I am initially reminded of some of Jools Holland’s work, with Squeeze and solo. Also Tori Amos. Of course Fiona does her own thing. This song careens along with a few rest stops. Love the bass work – sounds like a double. Definitely has potential.
“Mercy Street”/Peter Gabriel. “So” was a ginormous album but I guess I never heard the whole thing because I don’t know this one. Highly characteristic of him, with a pulsing but new-agey beat and that high,plaintive melody instrument (flute?). PG’s voice as warm as ever. On the whole, relaxing on the surface but summons depths.
“Mercy Street” by Peter Gabriel: Slow reflective song. It was nice to re-visit it. Thumbs Up. Not clear on who Mercy Street was but I am sure it must be a full name of someone somewhere ; )
“Shameika” by Fiona Apple: The piano arp pattern is a cool second voice and was fun to split my brain and follow her voice and the pattern at the same time. A different, very creative and interesting journey. Super.