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When you needle the dark with your mind
When you're firing volleys of words in an arc
When you're snuffing out all that's still alive
And a droplet falls
From the dropper's eye
Blooms like a wave
That slowly overruns all of your days
And slips the caul
From off your eyes
You face alone
A fear that's dragging us all in its wake
And you kill the lights
I know
You're in the river now
And you yield to the water's embrace
And you lie like a stone on the banks, giving out
As it carries off all of our names
I know that sound
I know what it likes
I know it feels
Like all the guns of a battery trained
Right at your eyes
Because it's real
Because it pulls
A thread of slowly unraveling days
Annihilates
Your mother tongue
Your only light
But hold this sound
Follow it all the way
And put down the knife
The night is here
But still is spinning out stars in its wake
And that stubborn light
Pools in your heart
Warm and nacreous, baby
The milk of sighs
And dreams
Love the Talk Talk vibe.
When I'd been around, we'd exchanged music suggestions, but I'd never been able to suggest a band that he really loved. He loved music, made his own compilation CDs for friends around the holidays. (Got a Badly Drawn Boy one year and another Travis singing Brittany Spears "Hit Me, Baby, One More Time," which I thought was a pretty funny joke.)
I heard Shearwater for the first time just after he died. It's the band most of all I wish I'd been able to suggest to him. Perhaps Animal Life (surging at the blood's perimeter: / The half remembered wild interior / Of an animal life) or this one. I think I might have had a winner with Shearwater.
Intended that way or not it's got me deeply moved with that possibility as a suicide survivor many years back
Apropos of nothing really, but I bought this CD recently when taking kid to the record store (Criminal Records in Atlanta; kid turned her nose up at it when I blasted it in car later; Atlanta kids raised on their Atlanta hiphop/rap, well...), but I love it and it's perfect for car driving. Alone maybe. I hadn't bought a CD in years, but with a new-to-me car with a CD player I'll browse selections if taking kid record shopping.
The children must have vinyl. Is that not the loopiest thing ever?! Can't be a cool kid without having LPs these days, and the wink & nod part is that the children seem to think it's something their parents never really did or surely not in the way THEY do, and they're, like totally, onto something new and big.
At least we're not on f-ing Snapchat and the absurdly faux-everything Instagram 24/7 as they are. Although, had we had all that too in our own LP purchasing days, well...
LOL. I bought this album on 180 gram vinyl a few years ago when I was 65 years old.
*bump*
Advice for these times...
Holds true during these uncertain times Jack Ryan...
"Keep the back channels open to stave off disaster"
Jack Ryan, Sum of All Fears, 2002
*bump*
Advice for these times...
1 Of, or resembling nacre (mother of pearl).
2 Exhibiting lustrous or rainbow-like colors.
Sometimes used to refer to the oil-slick sheen.
Etc. Most excellent post-prog rock prog rock.
This is probably the strongest song (but that does present some pretty stiff competition for the remaining tracks).
There are eleven tracks - for me, five of them are excellent, the remaining six I can take or leave. Three of the five are on RP already.
Good take adib. Bought the CD and enjoy it.
Yes, that was a very clean and crafty manouevre. Same end/start note (chord?). Kudos.
I'm with these guys. I am awed. Great segue. Great job, Bill.
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Every. Time.
Screw it - 8-=> 9.
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This is probably the strongest song (but that does present some pretty stiff competition for the remaining tracks).
There are eleven tracks - for me, five of them are excellent, the remaining six I can take or leave. Three of the five are on RP already.
Jack Ryan, Sum of All Fears, 2002
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The children must have vinyl. Is that not the loopiest thing ever?! Can't be a cool kid without having LPs these days, and the wink & nod part is that the children seem to think it's something their parents never really did or surely not in the way THEY do, and they're, like totally, onto something new and big.
At least we're not on f-ing Snapchat and the absurdly faux-everything Instagram 24/7 as they are. Although, had we had all that too in our own LP purchasing days, well...
Yes. 6 => 8
So is the lead energy behind this band an ecologist? I ask after having read the lyrics.
Orthinologist (birder) :)
A Shearwater is a seabird.
The leader/singer of Shearwater is an Orthinologist (a bird expert, basically).
Tweet, tweet.
I needed the reminder. :-)
Agreed.
It's got that certain indefinable something . . .
Yes. 6 => 8
So is the lead energy behind this band an ecologist? I ask after having read the lyrics.
Me too! Not bad for a pretend band!
Agreed.
It's got that certain indefinable something . . .
Live performance is even more powerful.
Godlike.
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To me too
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8 -> 9 (getting the goosebumps listening to this) and I bought the album - very good.
This is really growing on me...
To me too
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Skydog wrote:
you can hear Bowie's "Lodger" and "Heroes",....luv it
best album of 2016
Noé wrote:
And TALK TALK
Don't forget the Talking Heads (Filaments).
you can hear Bowie's "Lodger" and "Heroes",....luv it
best album of 2016
Noé wrote:
And TALK TALK
yes Sir, you are correct
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you can hear Bowie's "Lodger" and "Heroes",....luv it
best album of 2016
And TALK TALK
This is really growing on me...
you can hear Bowie's "Lodger" and "Heroes",....luv it
best album of 2016
I've just listened to their catalogue on Spotify and I feel they are well worth investigating. They've been around a long time, so listening to their development was fascinating. I missed their visit to The Fleece here in 2014, which I am disappointed about. Next time, for sure ...
A Shearwater is a seabird.
The leader/singer of Shearwater is an Orthinologist (a bird expert, basically).
Tweet, tweet.
It's contributions like this make PR forum very special.
I'm actually listening at work and over the past week through my window I've been watching two birds as they make a nest on top of the tree. How beautiful it is to witness the miracles of nature in the middle of a busy city. This song was a beautiful backdrop and I'm so glad I checked the comments too.
A Shearwater is a seabird.
The leader/singer of Shearwater is an Orthinologist (a bird expert, basically).
Tweet, tweet.
Good to know.
When I was roughly 8 years old, I knew the location of couple of dozen bird nests in the fields in back of our house. From ringneck pheasants to flickers.
time to do the clicky thing and have the cd sent my way
A Shearwater is a seabird.
The leader/singer of Shearwater is an Orthinologist (a bird expert, basically).
Tweet, tweet.
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Ditto...and maybe 2017 too!
I can't even tell you how many times I've written nearly the SAME THING...RP has sure expanded my audio world
I like this band more every time I hear them so looked into them a bit more. They've been around since 1999 and Jet Plane and Oxbow is their 13th release so there's a lot of new (old) material for me to discover. This album is on Amazon Music so you can hear it all there. Also, there's a great version of Backchannels from KEXP on youtube here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ_PDEAT-_E
It's related to this feeling, very strange and still mysterious to scientific, although there are some explanations now, when one live a complete sequence of one's life with the feeling of having lived that already. It's a very volatile moment, quite mundane most of the time.
Ah, not pedant, me. Just a bit French
A bit French maybe. But well spoken!
8 —> 9
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Agreed, I'm all about their Talk Talk/Talking Heads/Peter Gabriel feel, will now have to check out this album in it's entirety
On another note : déjà-vu "already seen", never used for already heard.
It's related to this feeling, very strange and still mysterious to scientific, although there are some explanations now, when one live a complete sequence of one's life with the feeling of having lived that already. It's a very volatile moment, quite mundane most of the time.
Ah, not pedant, me. Just a bit French
If certain aspects of their sound are similar to A-ha or Talk Talk, I would say it was coincidental.
In any event, I quite like this tune.
Yup, those few chords that were played on guitar in the foreground reminded me too of Talk Talk.
If certain aspects of their sound are similar to A-ha or Talk Talk, I would say it was coincidental.
In any event, I quite like this tune.
and in any other language I would call it:
utter rubbish
I really like the Shearwater sound, it is not as screamish as AHA/Morten voice
This track sounds a lot like A-ha to me. Take a closer listen to A-ha's Hunting High and Low for instance. In fact I like both very much.
and in any other language I would call it:
utter rubbish
I really like the Shearwater sound, it is not as screamish as AHA/Morten voice
justin4kick wrote:
That's what I thought! I would call it an A-ha Erlebnis. Which is German for a deja vu. Which is French for, hey I heard this before.
Sloggydog wrote:
and American for copyright infringement??
That's what I thought! I would call it an A-ha Erlebnis. Which is German for a deja vu. Which is French for, hey I heard this before.
and American for copyright infringement??
That's what I thought! I would call it an A-ha Erlebnis. Which is German for a deja vu. Which is French for, hey I heard this before.
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ps. Great album from start to finish.
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