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Lewian 
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micky
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Posted: February 19 2019 at 18:56 |
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f**k if i know what counts for melancholic and fragile.. that is highly personal... but Espers rings that bell for me Greg if you haven't heard them..
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Logan
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Posted: February 19 2019 at 19:53 |
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I have heard a fair amount of Espers, but it's a really nice reminder. It definitely fits the bill and rings the bell that I was going for. Really enjoying the music in the video that Doug posted from The Ganja Tree, erm The Weed Tree (had heard it before by good to enjoy it again)
It's interesting that Syd Barrett got mentioned earlier in the thread as I had a meeting with someone this morning that I didn't know and we ended up chatting about Syd Barrett for a good portion of it (I do have the Madcap Laughs, Pentangle's Basket of Light, and The North Sea Radio Orchestra album, and had heard some Circulus and quite a bit of Sufjan Stevens). I will look into the music I don't know that has been mentioned when I get the chance and dig deeper into some that I do know but should know more.
I like quite a bit of Françoise Hardy's music very much (don't know if I'd heard that one before). I like quite a few chanteuses -- Claude Lombard, Jane Birkin, Brigitte Fontaine, France Gall.... Off topic, but: Edited by Logan - February 19 2019 at 19:57 |
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Snicolette
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Posted: February 19 2019 at 20:24 |
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Definitely Espers (I hate auto-correct on my phone. Esperanto? Really?) struck a chord with me. Had never heard then before. So much great discovery here
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"Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp
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Logan
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Posted: February 19 2019 at 20:30 |
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A favourite of mine that sort of fits (didn't think it fit well enough to mention it in my first post) is Willows Song off the Wicker Man OST (I love that soundtrack).
A nice gentle one that I remembered. Edited by Logan - February 19 2019 at 20:44 |
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Logan
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Posted: February 20 2019 at 11:48 |
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Another favourite of mine, again from Nick Drake:
Just thinking about Nick Drake makes me feel sorrowful (and having depression and having this sense of fragility myself, it makes it all the more poignant and personal to me, but there's something cathartic about listening to such music for me). It deeply resonates with me (EDIT: while musically different, Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom is another that deeply resonates with me, and actually, I think this song does fit such a topic well: Feel free to move beyond the folk-proper realm in posts to music that you find poignant in a melancholic, fragile, or somewhat sorrowful way. Edited by Logan - February 20 2019 at 12:02 |
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Snicolette
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Posted: February 20 2019 at 12:00 |
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Me too. But I do love Nick Drake. And perfect suggestion here.
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"Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp
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Logan
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Posted: February 20 2019 at 12:05 |
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Fruit Tree is such a moving song for me -- the music and lyrics have a quality of vulnerability. I like a feeling of sensitivity in music commonly. Glad that you appreciate his music.
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Posted: February 20 2019 at 12:06 |
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Also, some of the rest of Pearls Before Swine may be of interest, outside of "The Use of Ashes." "These Things Too," and "Beautiful Lies You Could Live In," are just as melancholic. Tom Rapp also released a solo recording, "A Journal of the Plague Year," with new material, and an old find (in a shoebox in his closet) that is very reminiscent of "Uncle John," from One Nation Underground, and a hilarious story of the early days of ESP and Elektra Records in NYC. The rest of the recording is in his "Constructive Melancholy," frame of mind, which is what they entititled a compilation of 30 years of PBS, also in 1999.
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"Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp
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jamesbaldwin
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Posted: February 20 2019 at 12:07 |
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From Lisa Germano's albm Geek The Girl
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Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion.
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Logan
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Posted: February 20 2019 at 12:17 |
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^^ Thanks, Nickie, I love Pearls Before Swine and I haven't heard Beautiful Lies You Could Live In. I have heard Tom Rapp's Stardancer, but not, I think, A Journal of the Plague Year (I know of it and maybe I've heard a track or two). Thanks.
^ I like that Lorenzo (I'm into a fair amount of dream poppy and downtempo music). Air is one of my favourite bands, and this also has a melancholic feel to me. |
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Posted: February 20 2019 at 12:19 |
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Not folk and quite dark but highly personal and thoughtful.
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Posted: February 20 2019 at 12:20 |
I think you'll love Beautiful Lies, Logan. It's one of my favourites.
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Logan
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Posted: February 20 2019 at 12:28 |
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^ Listening now to music off Beautiful Lies on youtube and I do really like it. That's one for purchase.
^^ Thanks Barbu, not a Peter Hammill album that I own. If it's personal and thoughtful, I wouldn't mind if it is folk or not and I am a fan of Peter Hammill. |
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Posted: February 20 2019 at 12:39 |
Not really melancholic (too happy), certainly not fragile and not always gentle, but this one takes the prize and runs with the cash box |
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Logan
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Posted: February 20 2019 at 12:53 |
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^ It's a terrific album, and has been in my collection. I haven't listened to it in ages, but I'm rectifying that now.
Still working my way through the Saper suggestions that I hadn't heard (which was most of them). It's fun to post and hear people's first impressions of music, I find. And I'm glad that I'm not the only one discovering new-to-them music thanks to this topic -- hopefully this will turn out to be a good resource and discussion-base for a number of people. I just hope no one posts Bon Jovi's "You Give Love A Bad Name", which is sort of the antithesis of what I'm hoping for. ;) One could think of others that are even more antithetical.... I think I might revive another folk thread I made.... If it doesn't lead to more discussion and offerings, well that would be rather embarrassing, and there is something awkward when it comes to reviving one's own threads. I'm gonna do it as there is crossover between the two. Edited by Logan - February 20 2019 at 13:08 |
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Barbu
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Posted: February 20 2019 at 14:03 |
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You're welcome, Logan. EYH is quite dense and it might take some spins to fully appreciate but it truly is a special record, one of his very best.
One last from me: most folks here must be familiar with 'Secrets of the Beehive' but I think that this beauty cannot be passed over in silence.  |
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Posted: February 20 2019 at 14:38 |
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I thought about mentioning Sylvian, but he's a far cry from Vashti Bunyan, emotionally speaking. His most personal album, Blemish, is quite bitter. His quietest album, Manafon is quite bleak and austere. I love his music to bits, though.
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Posted: February 20 2019 at 14:42 |
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Great topic. Phil Ochs - Changes
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Posted: February 20 2019 at 14:54 |
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In the same vein as the sublime North Sea Radio Orchestra, this beauty from one of the best albums of the past few years - William D. Drake's The Rising of the Lights: |
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