The Somewhat Delayed Song Thread

[teamsaint]

quite why somebody hasn't picked this song up and had a huge hit with it is well beyond my understanding.

[cloughie]

The voice of Auger (who was born and died in the same years as Lucia Popp, 1939-1993) makes the words of the song all the more moving.

Both singers did very good Four Last Songs, Auger with Previn, Popp with Tennstedt. If allowed to put song cycles in this thread I would include Ravel's Scheherazade - again Arleen Auger but other very good versions are available not least Von Otter and Boulez and Crespin with Ansermet.

[doversoul1]

Off the beaten track.
The song (aria) starts at 5.01 but don’t skip if you decide to hear the aria.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8Rh-StSzcM

[antongould]

I have/had no part in this mildly wonderful thread - all teamsaint.........

For me, as the members of Alphabet Associations will recall, there is a fair chance Paul Simon will play a part and as a father of 4 beautiful daughters then ..........

https://youtu.be/COQPSoRFdwg

[EdgeleyRob]

I've been listening to Purcell's King Arthur today,this will need no introduction

[Keraulophone]

Despite being a student during the 1970s, I'd never heard of Judee Sill (1944-79) until this programme from last September on Radio 4: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04g8hrd
"Unlikely..quite the librarian", thought Whispering Bob as she entered the Whistle Test studio, and yet 'The Kiss' seems to have a peculiar magic all its own... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0feFedDW_iQ

[ahinton]

Both singers did very good Four Last Songs, Auger with Previn, Popp with Tennstedt. If allowed to put song cycles in this thread I would include Ravel's Scheherazade - again Arleen Auger but other very good versions are available not least Von Otter and Boulez and Crespin with Ansermet.

Ah, Ravel, oui; I am reminded of Sorabji's chapter on the great French song composers in his book Mi Contra Fa: The Immoralisings of a Machiavellian Musician (1947) where he opines of the composer's Mallarmé songs in a footnote towards the end of his essay that he had never heard those wonderful songs sung - he had only heard them interpreted, adding that the experience was most unpleasant...

[cloughie]

Ah, Ravel, oui; I am reminded of Sorabji's chapter on the great French song composers in his book Mi Contra Fa: The Immoralisings of a Machiavellian Musician (1947) where he opines of the composer's Mallarmé songs in a footnote towards the end of his essay that he had never heard those wonderful songs sung - he had only heard them interpreted, adding that the experience was most unpleasant...

Is that interpreted as in translated. The beauty of a song sung in a foreign language can be destroyed by subtitles when the direct translation renders them quite banal.

[ahinton]

Is that interpreted as in translated. The beauty of a song sung in a foreign language can be destroyed by subtitles when the direct translation renders them quite banal.

No; Sorabji was referring to the singer's manner of presentation (and I'm fairly sure that what he had heard was sung in French, otherwise he would most likely have said that it wasn't).

[cloughie]

Back to really good songs. 'Who knows where the time goes' written by Sandy Denny, on Fairport Convention's Unhalfbricking album. An equally good version by Judy Collins as the title track on her 1969 album, which has Steve Stills on guitar.

[teamsaint]

THis from a really excellent album , " A singsong and a Scrap" which I thoroughly recommend.

[Daniel]

I like this. It also makes me laugh. As Mark E. Smith often does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIT8El1NFoo&NR=1

[teamsaint]

I like this. It also makes me laugh. As Mark E. Smith often does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIT8El1NFoo&NR=1

A blast of the Fall does help to recalibrate the system very well, Daniel. Great choice, not seen that video either.

I had considered putting a Fall song on this thread, but wasn't brave enough ., so well done !!

Touch Sensitive was one I thought of, but there are certainly plenty of winners to choose from.
"How I wrote Elastic Man" is a particular favourite of mine.

[Beef Oven!]

One of the greatest British pop songs ever!

The Mighty Wah!

RIP JP
Welcome back thru Corbyn!
Pete Wiley, a genius? Well of course not, but you know what I mean!

[teamsaint]

One of the greatest British pop songs ever!

The Mighty Wah!

RIP JP
Welcome back thru Corbyn!
Pete Wiley, a genius? Well of course not, but you know what I mean!

i can only agree Beefy. A truly great song.

an absolute all time favourite. Simple but wonderfully effective. a spine tingler every time,, even 30 years on.

Seven Minutes to Midnight isn't far behind.