RE: SoJ/I, Week Six: "when I was a boy"
Koen Beeuwsaert <[email protected]> Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:46:18 +0100
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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. _________________________________________________________________ Aanwezig zijn op kantoor zonder er eigenlijk echt te zijn? Ja, dat wil ik ook! http://mobile.live.com