Whip-poor-will came on shuffle during a mountain bike ride today.
it was sheer joy; weather was perfect, air was sweet with pine needles, i hadn't seen anybody for miles-- just an absolute ideal setting for that song. it was nice to know that these songs could make me happy again after enough time had passed since his death.
then the line about "all the folks up in heaven stop ringin your bells / some of us down here aren't doing very well" came up and i had to pull to the side of the trail because i couldn't see through the tears.
brittle wrote:Whip-poor-will came on shuffle during a mountain bike ride today.
it was sheer joy; weather was perfect, air was sweet with pine needles, i hadn't seen anybody for miles-- just an absolute ideal setting for that song. it was nice to know that these songs could make me happy again after enough time had passed since his death.
then the line about "all the folks up in heaven stop ringin your bells / some of us down here aren't doing very well" came up and i had to pull to the side of the trail because i couldn't see through the tears.
coffee shop playing a lot of Songs: Ohia right now, good for getting work done
It's comforting to think that somewhere unfathomably far away incomprehensible beings are possibly having some kind of subjective experience of a world that possibly observes basically the same laws as our own
brittle wrote:Whip-poor-will came on shuffle during a mountain bike ride today.
it was sheer joy; weather was perfect, air was sweet with pine needles, i hadn't seen anybody for miles-- just an absolute ideal setting for that song. it was nice to know that these songs could make me happy again after enough time had passed since his death.
then the line about "all the folks up in heaven stop ringin your bells / some of us down here aren't doing very well" came up and i had to pull to the side of the trail because i couldn't see through the tears.
Listened to a bunch of his stuff last night. There's a copy of the RSD box set at the shop down the street from me and I am feeling magnetically drawn to it, oy
rest in piss dawg(from the booze you drank that killed you )
jockesh or jakesh in farsi means pimp and unlike american in farsi pimp is a big insult and commonly applied to scoundrels and bad people like bush jr and i dont know of a word for actual jocks i dont think its a thing in iran but also anyway i wanted to say i believe in nothing
edit: hmm looks like I'm gonna listen to Didn't It Rain all the way through now what an album. makes me want a mattress lined room in the house so I can moan along and not freak out the girlfriend.
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didn't it rain's lyrics are the type of thing you print out and stick on a wardrobe door and read for strength when you're feeling beat
No matter how dark the storm gets overhead They say someone's watching from the calm at the edge What about us when we're down here in it We gotta watch our own backs But if you do see that golden light That it shines in its fiery eye Go on and catch it while you can Go on and catch it if you can Let it course through you And let it burn through you If it's the light of truth If it's the light of truth If they think you got it they're going to beat it out of you With work and debt whatever all else there is You got to watch your own back Try to see the light of goodness burning down the track Through the blinding rain through the swaying wires If I see you struggle I will not turn my back I've seen a good man and a bad man down the same path I've seen the light of truth keeping out of it and told them to watch their own backs If I see you struggle and givin all that you got I see you work all night burning your light to the last of its dim watts I'm gonna help you how I can, if you see me struggle all night And give me a hand cause I'm in need I'll call you friend indeed But I'm going to watch my own back Didn't it rain
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been cranking Molina real loud any chance I get home alone the last few days
am I alone in thinking that Didn't It Rain was like a start of his best period and everything before that isn't close to as good as anything after
like the obvious thing is the way his voice became more mournful and memorable, but I feel like the songwriting seems more, uh, legendary and epic, or less generic, or something like that
basically feelin kinda guilty (not guilty.. more disappointed, perhaps?) that Lioness, Ghost Tropic, even Axxess and Ace aren't really gripping me at all
that's not necessarily such bad thing since his latter years were so prolific anyway withe Magnolia and Jason Molina solo albums, but I really wish I could love all the Molina but I don't see it happening
a comparison might be early Red House Painters to latter albums and following that Sun Kil Moon, and the similar shift in voice and approach that Koz undertook
sorry for the spitbally post but Molina isn't really someone you can just bring up in casual conversation at work to unload your thoughts about his back catalogue
My listening experience in balanced mode reveals the great depth of EARTH