The first time I heard The Girl From Ipanema was a YouTube video of that synth cat thing. Love the sax on The Girl From Ipanema (also every track of course) and hi-hats crispy as they should be. Great glissando halfway or so in on Para Machucar Meu Coração. I specifically enjoy the sort-of chaotic feeling key changes on So Danco Samba, and on O Grande Amor I find the somber tone mesmerizing. Overall relaxing head-bobbers. I like it for solitude, just you know, perfect for being alone.
Reading about how he passed made me cry. I have this album on vinyl, it's great. I've also heard that his father made some good music as well, and unfortunately had a similarly tragic death. Rest In Peace to the both of them.
On Mojo Pin the way his voice bends between the notes, other-worldly. Grace is one of the best songs ever made, I discovered this one from a vinesauce brb. I like how it goes from a dog frolicking in a sunny field to a storm of emotions that descends and then rises back to the sunlight, eventually crescendoing beautifully. Last Goodbye has a spectacular bassline progression and strings too. The messy sort of crooning at the end stood out to me, I don't know why it just sounds cool. I haven't listened to the original of Lilac Wine, I should though. Perfect rendition from what I feel and I assume that it's much more instrument dense than the original. There's a few chords on So Real that feel like Slint. Delightfully gloomy, and uh, dreadfully real. As a kid I thought Hallelujah on this album was the original. Near the end, how did he make his voice sound better than the best ever theremin? Lover, You Should've Come Over's Reverbed snare is superb. Beautiful guitar arpeggios. Amplified guitar at the end feels like a Jimmy Hendrix thing. The space/sound staging is amazing on Corpus Christi Carol. It would be funny if the intro for Eternal Life with the clean guitar wasn't there. Dream Brother is haunting.
This album has a perfect mix. The strings throughout it reminds me of In Utero by Nirvana. Also you should listen to one of Jeff's favorite bands, Shudder to Think.
Lost my notes, yeah it's a good Beatles album I enjoy, had a teacher that had an Abbey Road poster and he was cool. There are a couple of tracks that have really cool choirs, and plenty of cool strings on like every track.
Thank you David Bowie for everything you have given us.
Stunning work of art and lyrical subject matter. I enjoyed raking leaves to this album. I had no idea that these were his first written songs, and the fact that this was the most expensive album cover produced at the time is interesting to me for how simple it looks. Such a robust tracklist, the opener and closer is a perfect tone setter and tone ender respectively. Dewit!
My Grandma had all his CDs, bless her heart.
Introduction's string swells are greatly graceful. I like the drummer's galloping beat and fills on Hazey Jane II. I'm a sucker for descending and somber sounding riffs followed by uplifting and sunny sounding song sections like on At The Chime of a City Clock, guitar work incredible on this one, and did I mention it features a saxophone?! One of These Things First dealing lyrically with identity, it's resonant with me in these times. Nice Bossa nova beat and arpeggios. Bryter Layter's central riff reminds me of the Disney Pixar Cars game main theme for the Xbox360. Fly sounds a bit baroque, hmm, I wonder what instrument makes it sound that way... A steady mambo beat sits patiently in the sidelines on Poor Boy, interesting the Latin inspirations throughout this record, for it's time I'd imagine that to be revolutionary. Northern Sky has this short but sweet piano part before the second verse that feels like when the sun peers through a gap in a thin gray cloud on a soggy afternoon with an almost blinding, white light across a plain, grassy field that in a nano-second, renders the already calm and tepid air to a warm blanket that consoles the outer layer, this song speaks of the seasons and love with intrepid curiosity. Sunday is an alright closing instrumental and gently sets the baby down in it's cradle.
Plenty of instrumentation to pay attention to, it can become a meditative and engaging process to focus on one set of sounds or a calming background to contrast life's daily chaos. That's right, this album has me waxing poetic. This record is going to make me cry at some point in life, I just know it.
