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Kinda re-discovered Mazzy Star last year, extremely good! Lots of melancholic nostalgia.
I remember my mom listening to it a lot when I was a kid in the mids 90s, it was a hard time for her as she had just separated with my dad. Being a single mom, with me at around 5 years of age and my little sister at 3 years old she had found several female musicians with powerful music that helped her get through life at that point. These aren’t specifically musically related to Mazzy Star but they are closely related in my heart, and all highly recommend, some of my earliest memories:The Sugarcubes - Birthday (I turn to a pile of mush when I listen to this, in a good way of course)
Angelique Kidjo - Agolo (the whole album rhis is from, Ayé, is so damn good)
The Cranberries - Zombie (No need to say anything here other than “holy shit” at the view count)
Thanks for posting!
Wow, thank you for taking the time to share something personal!
Yes, nostalgia is such a great thing for a bit, but let us not forget to continue to live in the present!
Great recommendations, I have added them to my post on community folder, hahahaha!
Seems Birthday is not available for me:
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What a great voice!
Seems this link works for me:
The Sugarcubes - Birthday (Official Music Video) [HD Upgrade] https://youtu.be/qQPm5wqMScE
“Birthday” appeared on Icelandic band The Sugarcubes’ debut album, Life’s Too Good in 1988.
Björk quoted in Martin Aston’s Björkgraphy:
It’s a story about a love affair between a five year old girl, a secret, and a man who lives next door. I was always changing my mind about what the lyrics should be about. I had the atmosphere right from the start but not the facts. It finally ended up concentrating on this experience I remembered having as a little girl, among many other little girls’ experiences. It’s like huge men, about 50 [years old] or so, affect little girls very erotically but nothing happens … nothing is done, just this very strong feeling. I picked on this subject to show that anything can affect you erotically; material, a tree, anything.”
The Sugarcubes’ first international single, released on the small indie label One Little Indian, the single blew up after Chris Roberts named it Single of the Week in the UK music weekly Melody Maker.
Quoting from Evelyn McDonnell’s “Army of She”:
Birthday’ is a delicious lark, an upbeat ballad that crackles and pops with sensual delight. The music – a loping, laid-back beat punctuated with scattered fractals of squonking horns – provides a backdrop for Björk’s vocal capers, which escalate from Kate Bush ethereal to an Ethel Merman-esque exclamation: that guttural “brrruoh” belt that has become a Björk trademark but at the time seemed to indicate the sister was from another planet – Iceland indeed.
As lead singer Björk is quoted as saying:
Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.
I think this is a first, I do not remember hearing this song!
Reminds me of another song but it is not coming to mind…
Here is a Janet Jackson song: Janet Jackson - Together Again (Official Music Video) https://youtu.be/7SXKHiPQPhk
Translations available in the booklet:
ENGLISH: Agolo (Please)
I just saw the face of the God of love and tenderness passing my window. At this moment don’t despair, let’s think of the love that mother earth offers us. If we are generous, she will make our future prosperous. Love, life, Mother Earth. Love, life, Africa motherland. Enjoy the benefits of Mother Earth.
FRENCH: Agolo (Please)
Je viens de voir passer devant ma fenêtre, le visage du dieu de l’amour et de la tendresse. Ne soyons pas inquiets maintenant, pensons à l’amour de notre mère terre. Si nous lui donnons suffisamment elle nous emportera loin, si loin. L’amour, la vie, la terre – mère.
https://genius.com/Angelique-kidjo-agolo-lyrics
https://oldtimemusic.com/the-meaning-behind-the-song-agolo-by-angelique-kidjo/
One of my favorite of all time, while also being a protest song!
The Cranberries describe the violence in “The Troubles,” the decades-long conflict in Northern Ireland between nationalists (mainly self-identified as Irish or Roman Catholic) and unionists (mainly self-identified as British or Protestant).
Dolores O’Riordan wrote the song during the band’s English tour in 1993 in memory of two young boys, Tim Parry and Johnathan Ball, who were killed in an IRA bombing in Warrington, England.
“This song is our cry against man’s inhumanity to man, inhumanity to child,” she said.
During a performance of “Zombie” in January 1994 at The Astoria in London, Dolores O’Riordan said:
This song is our cry against the violence in London, against the war in the north of Ireland. And we want it to stop.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/qQPm5wqMScE
https://piped.video/7SXKHiPQPhk
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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
[4:21 | Pop-Rock]
“Fade Into You” by Mazzy Star evokes the feeling of deep longing with its slow and repetitive melody, wrapped in sorrowful strings that pull the song’s tone back and forth between hope and despair. Tambourines gently jingle, barely audible, with clockwork precision, eventually rising past monotony and punctuating the song with a sense of hopeful yet elusive joy.
The musical arrangement as a whole is built around a 3/4 time signature, which essentially creates a rhythm that is based upon the number 3. It is the tambourine counting out the beat triplets while the kick drum and snare take turns marking the beginning of each triplet, creating a subdued and hypnotic rhythm.
The song appeared as the first track on the album So tonight That I May See and was written by lead singer and lyricist Hope Sandoval with music composed and produced by the band’s guitarist, David Roback.
While the song never made much of an impact on the music charts it became very well known and was often used in the soundtrack of television shows and films.
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