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When we are alone
When nobody's watchin'
We might take it home
We might make out
When nobody's there
It's not that we're scared
It's just that it's delicate
So why'd you fill my sorrows
With the words you've borrowed
From the only place you've known?
And why'd you sing hallelujah
If it means nothin' to ya?
Why'd you sing with me at all?
We might live
Like never before
When there's nothin' to give
Well, how can we ask for more?
We might make love
In some sacred place
That look on your face
Is delicate
So why'd you fill my sorrow
With the words you've borrowed
From the only place that you've known?
And why'd you sing hallelujah
If it means nothin' to ya?
Why'd you sing with me at all?
Why'd you fill my sorrow
With the words you've borrowed
From the only place that you've known?
And why'd you sing hallelujah
If it means nothin' to you?
Why'd you sing with me at all?
It's been suggested this song is about Jeff Buckley. In that context the strained and empassioned vocals are appropriate.
Unfortunately, most of the time it's the haters who like to post their opinions. Apparently, it makes them feel really clever! Really?!?
According to the little graph, the vast majority voted it "7", followed by "8" and then "9". The rest of the ratings are by the RP illuminati, who know better than the majority...
Based on the 90% negative comments, I can't believe the rating for this. The lovers must be rating 10
Unfortunately, most of the time it's the haters who like to post their opinions. Apparently, it makes them feel really clever! Really?!?
Some comments sure do get dusty over time...
Hover over columns for data: 1: 43; 2: 25; 3: 59; 4: 33; 5: 46; 6: 76; 7: 221; 8: 240; 9: 135; 10: 64
—> Mean = 6.8047
—> Mode = 8
—> Median = 7
The mode may be 8, but the low numbers do a good job of dragging the mean down.
On a different note, I like this song.
Why some people are obsessed with frequency histograms? Next thing, they will be explaining skewness and statistical moments.
I agree! So many great songs on "O". Top for me - Volcano, Cannonball, Blower's daughter and this one.
I think it's been used before, somewhere ...
There are probably thousands of songs which fit that description. Apparently, you've never heard The Shaggs.
It's certainly mine.
Still sucking as 2014 dawns!
Geeks wanna know: can we get a website update that lets us click through to the raw data?
(I gave it a 9, primarily for the aching yearning in his vocals and the melancholy of the cello.)
You don't have to make excuses for your rating. Damien Rice is great, and for some reason people love to shit on the moody, mellow songs. This one's worth a "9".
Geeks wanna know: can we get a website update that lets us click through to the raw data?
(I gave it a 9, primarily for the aching yearning in his vocals and the melancholy of the cello.)
Hover over columns for data:
1: 43; 2: 25; 3: 59; 4: 33; 5: 46; 6: 76; 7: 221; 8: 240; 9: 135; 10: 64
—> Mean = 6.8047
—> Mode = 8
—> Median = 7
The mode may be 8, but the low numbers do a good job of dragging the mean down.
On a different note, I like this song.
Geeks wanna know: can we get a website update that lets us click through to the raw data?
(I gave it a 9, primarily for the aching yearning in his vocals and the melancholy of the cello.)
She's quite a singer. Keep her at it, and even if it doesn't boom into a career in music, at least her loved ones will get to enjoy sharing in her passion for music. And she has good taste in songs to cover as well.
My daughter (fledgling artist among thousands) covered another of his. Quite something. I'd never heard of it before.
"To Love Somebody" is the second single released by the Bee Gees from their third LP, Bee Gees 1st. The band's manager Robert Stigwood wanted Barry Gibb to write a soul song for Otis Redding. Barry, along with Robin wrote "To Love Somebody", a soulful ballad in the style of Sam & Dave or The Rascals. However, Redding died in an airplane crash before he could record the song.
The song was recorded at IBC Studios, London in March, 1967 and released as a single in mid July, 1967 in the U.S. Wikipedia
One of the most famous Gibb compositions, "To Love Somebody" was covered by hundreds of artists, most notably:
- Nina Simone (1969 single and album To Love Somebody)
- Janis Joplin (on the 1969 album I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!)
- P. P. Arnold (1968)
- Joe Cocker
- Buried At Sea
- Gram Parsons
- Lulu (November 1967)
- Rod Stewart with Booker T. and the M.G.'s
- Billy "Crash" Craddock (from 1989's Back on Track)
- Damien Rice & Ray LaMontagne
- Eric Burdon & The Animals (1968)
- Roberta Flack (on the 1971 album Quiet Fire)
- The Flying Burrito Brothers
- Billy Corgan feat. Robert Smith (found on the 2005 album TheFutureEmbrace)
- Bonnie Tyler (on the 1988 album Hide Your Heart)
- Jimmy Somerville (UK #8)
- Tom Jones
- Simply Red
- Blue Rodeo
- Jimmy Barnes
- Michael Bolton recorded a version of this song in 1992 for his album of covers songs, Timeless: The Classics (Billboard #11 pop, #1 adult contemporary).
- Slobberbone
- Sandy Lam (on the 1997 album Wonderful World)
- Mule
- Gallon Drunk
- Silver Ginger 5
- James Carr
- Clay Aiken
- Jordin Sparks
- Michael Johns (on the 2009 album Hold Back My Heart)
- Dusty Springfield
- Hank Williams, Jr. (on the 1979 album Family Tradition (album))
- Miguel Mateos, plays in live shows
- The Mighty Sparrow
- Eagle-Eye Cherry (on Y tu mamá también soundtrack)
- Ronan Keating feat. Brian McFadden
It's entirely possible to have great personal emotional experience, be aware of the background and influences of an artist, comprehend the point of the lyric and still not appreciate that artist (or anything else).
Damien Rice was lucky enough to have an uncle influential in the recording business and worked hard to take advantage of his good fortune. Prolific and interesting, just not the sweetest fruit on the tree to my ears.
We're too busy enjoying the song to comment. I'll make an exception. 8
You are incorrect. You rate it a 3 because you don't like the performance. That's a lot different than the performance sucking.
I don't like hospitals. This album is interesting
Seriously though... just looking down a few of the comments ... I'm like.. yeah.. I feel that way about TGD (The Grateful'o Dead) ok.. I apologize I don't do that for "windoze" and I don't mean to insult your demigods ... but Radio Paradise is one of the best places to hear just about anything that isn't country or western... and even some that come quite close..
what many need to remember when they hear these songs that they dislike.. is that somewhere, someone is having their little moment of paradise in the day.. and for me.. i hear this song starting and I start to feel a little calming mellow spot in the center of my chest ... and I then make the point of enjoying the moment because someday I'll have wished I could ...
Well said. This is why i listen to RP. Nuggets for me. It doesn't matter to me how many people like it or what the rating is.
I'm later in life than I'd like, and might like this if it didnt' induce narcolepsy
I'm 52, have been around long enough to have perspective on life, and now rate this a 3. Why? The performance sucks.
You are incorrect. You rate it a 3 because you don't like the performance. That's a lot different than the performance sucking.
I'm 52, have been around long enough to have perspective on life, and now rate this a 3. Why? The performance sucks.
I rate it in an 8. Showing my age. I rate Older Chests damn near a 10. I bet a lot of y'all that give this song a 4 would give that one a 2.
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point well taken ...
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What is this guys story? He's Irish?