Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (10/02/90)
Really-From: gtaylor@vme.heurikon.com (Gregory Taylor) In article <7921@scolex.sco.COM> Love-Hounds@gaffa.MIT.EDU writes: >Rumor has it that the Cocteau Twins often sing in Esperanto. >Is this truth or fiction? Anyone know anything about this? In the middle of an interview with Harold Budd for my radio show, I asked him about precisely this, since he's worked with Liz Fraser before. He says that she does, indeed, sing in English. The lyrics are quite often merely lists of words chosen for sound or the sound they have when she alters the pronunciation. -- history is an angel/being blown backwards into the future/ and the angel wants to go back and fix things/to repair the things that have been broken /but there is a storm blowing from paradise/and the storm keeps blowing the angel/backwards into the future/and this storm is called progress.
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (10/08/90)
Really-From: gb10@gte.com (Gregory Bossert) Gregory Taylor ends his post: > history is an angel/being blown backwards into the future/ and the angel > wants to go back and fix things/to repair the things that have been broken > /but there is a storm blowing from paradise/and the storm keeps blowing > the angel/backwards into the future/and this storm is called progress. !!!! Where is this from!!??!! It seems familiar, but maybe I've just seen a previous post of Greg's. Anyway, it's (as the kids say) way cool, and if it is a quote from a song I'd like to track it down... On the subject of Liz Fraser's lyrics, KaTe's whispers in SiG, etc., I just bought the Pylon compilation CD (containing most of their first and second albums) and, lo and behold, it had lyrics. I've been looking for the lyrics to _Crazy_ for a long time, but, truth is, I was disappointed when I read them. Now I've got this sneaking fear that Liz Fraser is really writing about ant farming, and REM's "Murmur" is about deficit spending. As long as we all *don't* agree on all of Ms. Bush's mysterious whispers, groans, and shrieks, they'll continue to leave me pleasantly baffled. This just popped into my head, so don't jump all over me, but I think one of the problems I have with some of the songs on _TSW_ is the relative directness of the lyrics. I'm gonna have to get the lyrics before I give examples, but certainly the lyrics that stick with me most strongly from _TWS_ are from "Rocket's Tail" (sic); the language and imagery is clear, simple, concise, and utterly baffling. These are the traits of, for example, "Get Out of My House", "Hounds of Love", etc. etc. etc. that keep me up late repeating sections of KaTe's albums and wading through this newsgroup... -greg -- gb10@gte.com -- "Go stick your head in a pig!"
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (10/08/90)
Really-From: Jeffrey C. Burka <jburka@silver.ucs.indiana.edu> >Really-From: gb10@gte.com (Gregory Bossert) >Gregory Taylor ends his post: >> history is an angel/being blown backwards into the future/ and the angel >> wants to go back and fix things/to repair the things that have been broken >> /but there is a storm blowing from paradise/and the storm keeps blowing >> the angel/backwards into the future/and this storm is called progress. > >!!!! Where is this from!!??!! It seems familiar, but maybe I've just seen a >previous post of Greg's. Anyway, it's (as the kids say) way cool, and if >it is a quote from a song I'd like to track it down... Yup, it's from a song..._very_ easy to 'track down,' too. The song is "The Dream Before," by Laurie Anderson, from her most recent album, _Strange Angels_. Go buy this album. Jeff "Strange angels -- singing just for me Old stories -- they're haungint me This is nothing Like I thought it would be." -- |Jeffrey C. Burka | "At night they're seen | |jburka@silver.ucs.indiana.edu | Laughing, loving, | |jburka@amber.ucs.indiana.edu | They know the way to be happy" --KaTe |
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (10/09/90)
Really-From: dnb@meshugge.media.mit.edu (David N. Blank) > history is an angel/being blown backwards into the future/ and the angel > wants to go back and fix things/to repair the things that have been broken > /but there is a storm blowing from paradise/and the storm keeps blowing > the angel/backwards into the future/and this storm is called progress. If you are going to quote someone, please give the artist credit! It's only polite and can give a pointer to others if they want to find the music you cite (in this case, finding Laurie Anderson would certainly be to their benefit, IMHO). Peace, dNb
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (10/09/90)
Really-From: kk4fs!s_fungus@crdgw1.ge.com (Slender Fungus) Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU writes: > Really-From: gtaylor@vme.heurikon.com (Gregory Taylor) > > > In article <7921@scolex.sco.COM> Love-Hounds@gaffa.MIT.EDU writes: > >Rumor has it that the Cocteau Twins often sing in Esperanto. > >Is this truth or fiction? Anyone know anything about this? > > In the middle of an interview with Harold Budd for my radio show, I > asked him about precisely this, since he's worked with Liz Fraser > before. He says that she does, indeed, sing in English. The lyrics > are quite often merely lists of words chosen for sound or the sound > they have when she alters the pronunciation. > -- > history is an angel/being blown backwards into the future/ and the angel > wants to go back and fix things/to repair the things that have been broken > /but there is a storm blowing from paradise/and the storm keeps blowing > the angel/backwards into the future/and this storm is called progress. wow. I was able to discern a few words from Cocteau songs, e.g. the titles of the songs, but for the most part, they are sounds, I guess. There was an article in a mag in response to someone's request for Cocteau lyrics...but, they aren't available because they are just weird pronunciations... Anyway, I recognized the lyrics from "The Dream Before"... Hello, fellow Laurie Anderson fan! and Cocteau Twins! and Kate Bush! I've been trying to order "Home of the Brave" (video), but to no avail. Have you heard "United States I-IV"??? It's expensive, but it's a must for Laurie Anderson fans... whatever... "I -- I feel -- feel like -- I am -- in a burning building and I gotta go"
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (10/14/90)
Really-From: wnoe@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Bill Noe) In article <9010081849.AA02272@meshugge.media.mit.edu.noname> you write: >If you are going to quote someone, please give the artist credit! It's >only polite and can give a pointer to others if they want to find the >music you cite (in this case, finding Laurie Anderson would certainly >be to their benefit, IMHO). > Peace, > dNb If you had read the post, you would have understood that the writer did not know who the artist was. No use wasting bandwidth at any rate. Use e-mail please. ...B
Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU (10/17/90)
Really-From: NEWSMGR@kontu.utu.fi Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.0 1/9/90 VAX/VMS V5.3; site kontu.utu.fi Path: kontu.utu.fi!polaris.utu.fi!news.funet.fi!sunic!uupsi!njin!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!GAFFA.MIT.EDU!Love-Hounds-request Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Re: Idioglossia: the language of twins Message-ID: <9010140657.AA18467@en.ecn.purdue.edu> From: Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Date: 14 Oct 90 06:57:53 GMT Reply-To: Love-Hounds@gaffa.MIT.EDU Sender: Love-Hounds-request@gaffa.MIT.EDU References: <9010081849.AA02272@meshugge.media.mit.edu.noname> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network Approved: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu Lines: 18 Really-From: wnoe@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Bill Noe) In article <9010081849.AA02272@meshugge.media.mit.edu.noname> you write: >If you are going to quote someone, please give the artist credit! It's >only polite and can give a pointer to others if they want to find the >music you cite (in this case, finding Laurie Anderson would certainly >be to their benefit, IMHO). > Peace, > dNb If you had read the post, you would have understood that the writer did not know who the artist was. No use wasting bandwidth at any rate. Use e-mail please. ....B