RE: SoJ/I, Week Six: "when I was a boy"

Koen Beeuwsaert <[email protected]> Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:46:18 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.music.jane-siberry
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Wow Tracy, that's one hell of a personal review. Must do mine one of these
days...

(This mail is also to check if this gets posted - because last week... well
don't know, did anyone get my funeral-mail?)

Koen





> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:16:27 -0700
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: SoJ/I, Week Six: "when I was a boy"
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
>
> WIWAB - my most favorite cd. just made a trip in my car this weekend and
put
> on this cd with a friend who had never heard of jane. - wow. it's very hard
> for me to share jane with others, but she was open and receptive. i was
able
> to listen and share all at the same time, and i tell you - while driving i
> almost felt as if i would leave the pavement and go airborne - in a good
way.
> i was truly in an altered state as i sang along - at times the top of my
> lungs. it was a most euphoric experience.
>
> i love:
> temple,
> calling all angels (such a sweet young high voice in this version),
> love is everything (also - sweet and high),
>
> especially love:
> sail across the water (and to sing along)
> all the candles in the world
> the gospel according to darkness
>
> i skip sweet incarnadine every single time - i made myself listen to it
> yesterday, and i just can't listen to this song.
>
> i am CRAZY about:
> an angel stepped down - i love to sing along with "the love you make, the
> love you take, and so we give, give, give again a a a a a aaa a a
again....",
> and "were you not asking for this dance? ...chance? ... come on..." etc but
> then at the very end of the song when the cello or bowed bass does that
thing
> where it goes really reaalllly reaaaaaallllly low? - i turn that WAY up
coz,
> ohmigosh. wow. i would have liked to have managed the sound on this album.
i
> would have highlighted a lot of things that are just too low in volume that
i
> really want to hear and hear them well. i sing all the parts in this song.
i
> love the back and forth. it's SO beneficial to listen to this WITH the
words
> in hand and the really good headphones to give it every single iota of your
> attention. it's amazing. i loooooove it.
>
> i like - the vigil... the words and sounds of "are these yours or mine?"
and
> "you're so thin, you're so light..." and "well, we all need love..." - come
to
> mind a lot in my every day life. there is a squeaky sound in this song that
> my chair makes the exact same noise. it's really weird.
>
> the bells are a nice touch
>
> and my number 1 most all time favorite song of jane's is...
> at the beginning of time ... i am just crazy about it. did y'all see that
> link i sent of the baby in the womb set to this song? that was pretty cool,
> except i kept wondering if the baby was ok with such an intrusion on his
safe
> and dark world. apparently she was ok, coz when he/she opened her eyes, she
> didn't seem to react to the light, must have still been in his embryonic
> stupor.
>
> love is everything harmony version - essential.
>
> this cd is amazing. i have 2 copies, because well, you never know, and i
can't
> let the original cd that i first listened to out of my sight - because that
is
> the one that affected me so - over and over and over again. it's like it
has
> my energy now. when i loan this cd out - i loan out the new one. talk about
> attachments.
>
> thanks for letting me share my love for this cd. it's the most touching
work
> of art that i have ever experienced. very spiritual for me. i could talk
all
> day about it.
>
>
> Tracy
>
> --- On Sun, 3/15/09, Michael Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> From: Michael Williams <[email protected]>
> Subject: SoJ/I, Week Six: "when I was a boy"
> To: "Siblings" <[email protected]>
> Date: Sunday, March 15, 2009, 2:29 PM
>
> Released in 1993. 12 tracks (unless you count the one-minute space).
>
> this was my first jane album - a friend bought it for me because he knew
how
> much i liked kate bush, and thought i would be into this album as well.
>
> my friend was right.

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