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[sovay]

What goes around comes around. Tagged by pythia_akrypta, so blame her if necessary.

List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LJ along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to.

In no particular order—

1) Leonard Cohen, "I'm Your Man"
2) Steeleye Span, "Gaudete"
3) Lal Waterson, "Midnight Feast"
4) Kaizers Orchestra, "Død Manns Tango"
5) "Belle," Beauty and the Beast
6) Tim O'Brien, "Farewell, Angelina"
7) Joanna Newsom, "Peach, Plum, Pear"

Well, that looks properly eclectic. If nineweaving, kraada, erzebet, lesser_celery, strange_selkie, hans_the_bold, or shirei_shibolim would like to perpetuate* this meme, I'd be delighted.

*Originally typed as "perpetrate." That too.

Comments

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

Interesting, I first read it as 'perpetrate' anyway...

[sovay]

Well, feel free to perpetrate it too . . .

[ombriel.livejournal.com]

See, I knew it was right to pick you--I don't know any of those artists! :D

[sovay]

I can recommend Lal Waterson and Kaizers Orchestra wholeheartedly: the first wrote strange and numinous folksongs primarily in the '70s and '90s, and the second sounds rather like what might happen if Tom Waits stumbled drunkenly into the Norwegian Mafia. "Midnight Feast" is a seaside ramble with a demon lover and a predatory moon; "Død Manns Tango" is the nihilistic end of November and the letters you tell other people to write home for you. Find; listen. Your ears will thank you.

I'm ambivalent about Steeleye Span, because too many of their ballad versions didn't survive the wane of '70's folk-rock, but "Gaudete" is marvelous: it sounds like a procession in a cold cathedral and stained-glass light on the stone. Likewise, I'm not sure Joanna Newsom's The Milk-Eyed Mender rocks my world—you will either like her childlike, newspaper-twist voice, or it will drive you up the wall—but "Peach, Plum, Pear" gets stuck in my head with insane frequency. As for "Belle," I am fonder of Beauty and the Beast than any other Disney animated musical, and particularly this song. "Farewell, Angelina" is one of my all-time favorite Dylan Songs, and Tim O'Brien covers it on Red on Blonde like a steel-stringed Appalachian ballad. And most of the Leonard Cohen I've heard has been covers—Joan Baez for "Suzanne," Concrete Blonde for "Everybody Knows," the Dresden Dolls and half the planet for "Hallelujah"—but I first heard "I'm Your Man" in the film Secretary, and I do like it.

That help? : )

[ombriel.livejournal.com]

Oooh, thank you so much for the info and links! I know I must have heard "I'm Your Man" because I saw Secretary, and "Gaudete" rings a bell, now that I think about it. Your description guarantees I'll look for it again. Lal Waterson and Kaizers Orchestra are on the "find immediately" list.

:)