Listening to artists who no longer

[Guest The Rising Star]

I heard "Hurt" by Johnny Cash today, and it realy touched me. I mean, all the lyrics really describe how it is to lose someone who you've been with for decades, and the pain and sorrow that follows. You could hear that Johny Cash was sick, and I think the whole music world was in sorrow after he died.

 

For once, I actually made a serious thread where I mean every single word I said.

[SpikeFayeJettEdBebop]

Im not sure about other artists, if any of their songs touch me as much as "Hurt" does by Cash. It REALLY hits hard whenever I hear it, as I agree, you can HEAR just how sick he is. And he really means every word he's singing.

[Red Hot Thumbtack In The Eye]

off topic(which has been done to death anyway): Dames banned Rising Star, but he's back? Not that I mind, he always has had the best damn insults for me.

[Youth N Asia]

Huge Warren Zevon fan. Fuck the Grammys for ignoring his great work in the 70s and 80s and giving him a pair of pitty death Grammys this year.

[Masked Man of Mystery]

I guess it depends on who you listen to. I get a certain vibe from listening to "If 6 Was 9" by Jimi Hendrix where he says he simply wants to live his way, and that hit me, whereas it doesn't hit me the same way when I hear the Beach Boys when two of the Wilson brothers are dead

[Henry Spencer]

The album London Calling has hit me pretty hard ever since Joe Strummer died.

[1234-5678]

Jim Morrison singing the Soft Parade........

 

"All our lives we sweat and save

Building for a shallow grave"

 

"Can you give me sanctuary

I must find a place to hide

A place for me to hide

Can you find me soft asylum

I can't make it anymore

The man is at the door"

 

Always touching to listen to, for me at least.

[Corey_Lazarus]

"To Live Is To Die" and "Fade To Black" are kinda awkward to listen to when you think about Cliff...

 

As for recent ones, well, aside from the aforementioned NIN cover by the Man in Black...nada.

[Paul Stanley]

"God Gave Rock N' Roll To You II"

 

 

The video itself is damn good, but when you see Eric Carr playing drums...for the final time, and then his voice during the end solo part and just getting chills because that was the final time he was ever taped playing/singing before he died.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Frank Zappa made at least three lifetimes worth of music in his career, so I don't get too choked up listening to him.

[haVoc]

Janis Joplin can hit me that way at times. Everything from Big Brother & the Holding Company to her last album "Pearl" with the big tilt boogie band.

[Guest frowned]

Jeff Buckley - particularly on the song Grace towards the end when it's built up totally and he's screaming his eyes out or his cover of "The Way Young Lovers Do" on the recently released Legacy CD where he's scatting along and his voice his literally is jumping all over the place. Always leaves me completely in awe at the untapped talent that was just oozing to escape from him.

[Guest The Rising Star]

off topic(which has been done to death anyway): Dames banned Rising Star, but he's back? Not that I mind, he always has had the best damn insults for me.

Hey. Thumbtack, I figured I would start acting like a grown-up and make serious and witty threads instead of the other shit I did.

Sorry for calling you a suicidal metal fan, Thumbtack, sincerely from me to you.

[spiny norman]

I find listening to Starting Over by John Lennon depressing in that it's his last song to be released while he's alive. In fact, all of his songs on Double Fantasy just sadden me, because they had optomism and it seemed like he was finally somewhat at peace with his life and had it all sorted before it being taken away for no good reason at all. Now *that* depresses me.

[B. Brian Brunzell]

Jeff Buckley - particularly on the song Grace towards the end when it's built up totally and he's screaming his eyes out or his cover of "The Way Young Lovers Do" on the recently released Legacy CD where he's scatting along and his voice his literally is jumping all over the place. Always leaves me completely in awe at the untapped talent that was just oozing to escape from him.

I totally agree about the untapped talent in Buckley. Every time I listen to ANY of his stuff, it just gets to me. Songs like "Last Goodbye" just touch a nerve in me and I just lose myself completely.

 

I'm no big Benjamin Britten fan, but listening to Jeff's rendtion of the Chorpus Christi Carol leaves me awestruck. I'm not sure if I'd call his vocals falsetto because he seemed to hit the high notes so flawlessly and had total control over what he was doing. I've never heard a male hit notes that he did, especially the final "oooh" at the end of the Carol.

 

His versatility and different tastes are what got me hooked. You can listen to a track like "Eternal Life", which is just an out-and-out JAM then immediately follow it up with "Hallelujah" or "Satisfied Mind", and the songs still just mesh together perfectly.

 

Frowned, when was this Legacy album released?

[5_moves_of_doom]

"Silver and Gold" by Joe Strummer bums me out. Even though it's a cover and everything, you can tell that he really means every lyric of the song.

[Anorak]

I only find it slightly weird listening when the artist has died very recently and I own some of their work. Elliott Smith would be the biggest case I can think of in recent times, listening to somebody you know stabbed themself to death in his thirties only months ago obviously brings up certain thoughts and emotions.