milipili
(by the Black Sea) | | Posted: Aug 21, 2012 - 05:41 | |
This would have definitely sounded better if she had split it into two songs. Her vocals and the instrumental part VERY far away from each other...
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rtrudeau
(Bay Area, California) | | Posted: Oct 06, 2009 - 22:36 | |
I tried to like this. FAIL.
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joanie
(Baltimore) | | Posted: Sep 05, 2009 - 10:34 | |
She took the goosebumps out of one of the most powerful spirituals ever written. Big Zero.
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avidfan
| | Posted: Sep 05, 2009 - 10:34 | |
Fantastic...actually a 10. (I'm sure I'm the only one)
Best rendition I've heard recently, though, was a guy on Coronado Island (San Diego) playing Amazing Grace on the bagpipes out on the rocks overlooking the ocean during sunset.
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bam23
(Berkeley) | | Posted: Sep 05, 2009 - 10:33 | |
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cayenne
(in over my head) | | Posted: Sep 05, 2009 - 10:31 | |
WonderLizard wrote:This is a terrific version. IMHO Ani does what Ani does best—imbues a mournful plea with subcutaneous rage, almost as if the prayer might not have been answered, or simply not answered soon enough. Sorta like Job, "So, what is it, Lord? Don't I rate?" Lord, "Sometimes, boy, you just piss me off..."
Great description. I am digging this. |
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Greendragon00
| | Posted: Sep 05, 2009 - 10:30 | |
 Had to mute this mess. |
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lisa999
(Bend, Oregon) | | Posted: Jun 02, 2009 - 10:16 | |
I rarely want to turn the station when I'm listening to RP....this song did it
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WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise) | | Posted: Jun 02, 2009 - 10:12 | |
This is a terrific version. IMHO Ani does what Ani does best—imbues a mournful plea with subcutaneous rage, almost as if the prayer might not have been answered, or simply not answered soon enough. Sorta like Job, "So, what is it, Lord? Don't I rate?" Lord, "Sometimes, boy, you just piss me off..."
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pannaramma
(not from around here) | | Posted: Jun 02, 2009 - 10:11 | |
Horrible. And L O N GGGGGGG too.
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davin
(Victoria, British Columbia) | | Posted: Jun 02, 2009 - 10:11 | |
krich58 wrote:Ho man, I love this tune.
I guess you gotta have a pretty weird sense of rhythm and such. As a musician, I would love to be able to play something with this strange timing...That voice a-la my life in the bush of ghosts, and that ringing bell. So otherworldly...
This is the best thing I have heard from AD and the most original cover of a really played out song. Refreshing in a couple ways. Timing is not too complicated though, this is in a 4/4 time signature if you listen carefully.. |
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stevematic
(san diego) | | Posted: Jun 02, 2009 - 10:11 | |
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ThePoose
| | Posted: Jun 02, 2009 - 10:10 | |
It's amazing how she's taken the grace out of this song.
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More_Cowbell
(North of Chicago, IL, USA) | | Posted: Jun 02, 2009 - 10:10 | |
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AvoidingWork
(Home of Big Boy #4004) | | Posted: Jun 02, 2009 - 10:10 | |
If she used the words to Gilligan's Island I would like it more.  |
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Leslie
(Antioch, CA) | | Posted: Jun 02, 2009 - 10:09 | |
I love the different timing.
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zipper
| | Posted: Jun 02, 2009 - 10:08 | |
n4ku wrote:I keep going back and forth between rating this a 10 and a 1. Right now it is a 1.
I've never had a song mess with my mind like this.
Good call. I can't pick a number. Like/almost hate it. edit: wtf is that whoofing noise?!  |
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pannaramma
(not from around here) | | Posted: Jun 02, 2009 - 10:06 | |
raindogt00 wrote:LOVE the strong reactions this one evokes. Yeah - more 1's than anything else. (mine included) |
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krich58
(SCruz) | | Posted: May 01, 2009 - 17:06 | |
Ho man, I love this tune.
I guess you gotta have a pretty weird sense of rhythm and such. As a musician, I would love to be able to play something with this strange timing...That voice a-la my life in the bush of ghosts, and that ringing bell. So otherworldly...
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Shesdifferent
(Just visiting this planet this is not my home) | | Posted: May 01, 2009 - 17:05 | |
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Papernapkin
(Mountain View, CA) | | Posted: May 01, 2009 - 17:05 | |
philbertr wrote:
Her so very very spooky what? Finish your sentence, please.
Your dumb. :) |
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macadavy
(Cascadia's attic, eh?) | | Posted: May 01, 2009 - 17:04 | |
Never heard this magnificent anthem quite like this before (and nothing can equal Joni Mitchell's soaring rendition, please put it on the playlist!) but this gives it what my french friends call 'une nouvelle interpretation'.
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raindogt00
| | Posted: Mar 31, 2009 - 04:08 | |
LOVE the strong reactions this one evokes. |
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Ears_of_Stone
(Crushed under the hooves of the herd) | | Posted: Feb 27, 2009 - 15:35 | |
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TernaryBit
(O-town) | | Posted: Feb 27, 2009 - 15:33 | |
This went from a 9 to 6, because I just recognized the awkward timing and now it drives me crazy. Best not to mess with the classics too much.
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NoEnzLefttoSplit
| | Posted: Jan 27, 2009 - 01:46 | |
MrDill wrote:delightfully weird, love it
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Frater_Kork
(Uppsala, Sweden) | | Posted: Jan 27, 2009 - 01:45 | |
erichb wrote:Isn't Ani Difranco and Amazing Grace an oxymoron?
LOL! |
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erichb
| | Posted: Dec 26, 2008 - 11:24 | |
Isn't Ani Difranco and Amazing Grace an oxymoron?
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MrDill
(Lake Distict U.K.) | | Posted: Dec 26, 2008 - 11:11 | |
delightfully weird, love it
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rachlan
(nyc) | | Posted: Dec 26, 2008 - 11:07 | |
That talking voice scared the crap out of me.
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