Shouts
Want to share your thoughts about this track? Join Last.fm or log in to leave a shout.
-
-
Replies
-
Cavalry_ala
I know music taste is subjective, to each his own etc., but this is one of those rare cases where a track is so transcendental, the onus really is on you to improve your ear, and not on the artist to improve his arrangements.
Actions
-
steerpike
I first heard this song in a live webcast of a November 2005 concert with Calexico recorded at Washington DC's 9.30 Club and broadcast by NPR. The recorded version is too fussy to my musical ear (which I don't think needs to be improved btw!) The live recording of Sam Beam's plaintive voice + acoustic guitar is in my opinion simpler and far more effective. I agree that the song is transcedental
Actions
Replies
-
Cavalry_ala
Yep live version is lovely. I’ll check out that Calexico concert - love the ‘live @ ACL’ version on YouTube too
Actions
-
Cavalry_ala
It lacks some of the immediacy of the live version maybe, but what I like about the studio version is it gives you a little textural world to follow along to that supports the image-making in Sam Beam’s lyrics.
Actions
-
-
-
-
-
Replies
-
-
This shout is unavailable.
-
-
CallMeSushi
@infinity-inc hmmm maybe because every refrain has different lyrics? I mean you could say it about a song if the verses were the same. But theyre not, I think Mr. Beam just had a lot to say in this song :)
Actions
-
This shout is unavailable.
-
-
-
-
-
infinity-inc
Good song, but about three times as long as it needs to be. I love the refrain, but I don't know if I need to hear it 100+ times.
Actions
-
-
-
SinsOfArcadia
Top 10 songs ever for me, and I don't even particularly care for the rest of his music.
Actions
-
-
bionicbigfoots
Is this the saddest song of the past decade, or merely the most beautiful? I will leave that for you to ponder.
Actions
-
-
EternalExodus
I appreciate sam's fight against the evil restriction of record labels, but I really think that everyone should be able to hear and feel the beauty of the norfolk recording. it's one of the few songs that has really changed my life simply by virtue of its transcendent magnificence, and no one should be restricted from that, I think.
Actions
-
-
EternalExodus
I typically get about one verse in to the norfolk take before I'm just a blubbering pathetic mess.
Actions
-
bruno-maletoile
agree with the previous commentary! why should this make us sad? gives me strength, happiness and a belief things will work out they way it should.....!
Actions
-
-
-
SinsOfArcadia
The studio version sounds like absolute shit compared to the stripped-down acoustic live takes. In that form, this is legitimately one of the best songs ever written.
Actions
-
-
WILDHEARSES
This is the saddest song I can think of in that it makes me cry and cry and cry, practically everytime I listen to it. There's something about where it describes everything with just the right amount of intensity- there may be technically more intense or sadder songs, but they seem garish and overwrought in comparison.
Actions
-
-
-
-
-
-