sovay: (PJ Harvey: crow)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2014-07-05 03:41 pm

I have visions in my brain that are different from the truth

And this is a drive-by music post, because I've had some things in my head for days.

Appropriately, this one really doesn't want to leave: Jessica Lea Mayfield, "I Wanna Love You." I love its steady, quietly implacable obsessing: you're going to find this out. I keep wanting to pair it with PJ Harvey's "To Bring You My Love," of which it feels like the less Biblically apocalyptic cousin.

Speaking of Polly Jean, I am mostly indifferent to Uh Huh Her (2004). Neither of her albums from that period do much for me; I really only like two or three tracks from Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea (2000) and it's grown on me. I ran into this cover of "Pocket Knife," however, and I've been evangelizing for it ever since: The Secret Sisters, "The Pocket Knife." It got me to listen to the lyrics. Can't you see my pocket knife? You can't make me be a wife.

The same duo are responsible for the glorious anti-torch song "Dirty Lie," which I cannot but read as the signature theme of a stone cold femme fatale. Heard in a nightclub in the first act, one of those clear, unapologetic warnings the sap of a protagonist somehow never believes will apply to him. I never settle, I never cry. And whosoever told you, told you a dirty lie.

I finally tracked down Yasmine Hamdan's "Hal," featured in Only Lovers Left Alive (2013). I should track down more.

[identity profile] ookpik.livejournal.com 2014-07-06 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
By any chance do you know Lynn Miles? If you don't mind strongly country-flavored--I don't know you well enough to answer that--I think you'd like "I Always Told You the Truth," which might be another anti-torch song.

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2014-07-08 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
I SUCCESSFULLY DOWNLOADED!! And now I'm really, really enjoying the PJ Harvey cover of Pocket Knife. Do I dare to test my luck? I will try…

those clear, unapologetic warnings the sap of a protagonist somehow never believes will apply to him. Everybody always has to assume they're exceptional--so ordinary in their exceptionalism!

P.S. Re: pocket knife, it makes me think of Henry Lee (not in terms of sound, but just as an echo: "remember what these are used for? yeah.")

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2014-07-08 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, "Hal" is *really* nice.

[identity profile] asakiyume.livejournal.com 2014-07-08 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
And now I have "Dirty Lie"!

Looks like I *can* download songs, at least.