tuzticzka
| | Posted: May 07, 2013 - 16:22 | |
I'm just wondering from where I am recognizing the melody... Try to listen Fast car by Tracy Chapman :-) Its quite similar, but it sounds like some "remake" and Ani have made it by her way.
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Ballzak
| | Posted: May 07, 2013 - 16:18 | |
Love this one.
And I'm beyond your peripheral vision
So you might want to turn your head
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Spiderwoman
(Lake Chelan, North Central Washington) | | Posted: Feb 02, 2013 - 16:49 | |
Hypertalented. I always wonder which voice I would choose: Ani or Sinead?
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ditty
(trying to be in my head) | | Posted: Feb 02, 2013 - 16:46 | |
I;ve never really like Ani that much. But this particular song, done live like this, is pretty darn good.
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Segue
(Almost Paradise) | | Posted: Feb 02, 2013 - 16:43 | |
Amazed that so many rave about this pretentious annoyance. RP could take her and Natalie Merchant off with no loss.
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asilbuch
(way too close) | | Posted: Jan 02, 2013 - 08:34 | |
love the lyrics, but like Alana Davis's version better.
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michaelgmitchell
(Stirling, ON) | | Posted: Jan 02, 2013 - 08:32 | |
You know, with Ani, it always seems like if I didn't get the invite to her "party", I'm out of the loop. She's just too hip for me, I guess.
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hikinfiend
| | Posted: Dec 17, 2012 - 11:12 | |
can't beat these lyrics —- insight, truth, metaphor —- and i dig the delivery
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linz_bobinz
(the city of the newly wed & the nearly dead) | | Posted: Oct 15, 2012 - 17:47 | |
an all time favorite......
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dogpound
(the island on which I belong) | | Posted: Aug 29, 2012 - 15:47 | |
and it just gets worse with age.
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WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise) | | Posted: Jul 13, 2012 - 06:45 | |
I love her live performances—she communicates her emotional tie to a song as well as anyone and does this consistently.
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richlister
| | Posted: Jul 13, 2012 - 06:44 | |
"I only wanted vanilla...."
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TJS
(Bradley, Il) | | Posted: Jul 13, 2012 - 06:43 | |
Priceless version of this song. Passionate, brilliant.
squint your eyes and look closer
I'm not between you and your ambition
I am a poster girl with no poster
I am thirty-two flavors and then some
and I'm beyond your peripheral vision
so you might want to turn your head
cause someday you're going to get hungry
and eat most of the words you just said
both my parents taught me about good will
and I have done well by their names
just the kindness I've lavished on strangers
is more than I can explain
still there's many who've turned out their porch lights
just so I would think they were not home
and hid in the dark of their windows
til I'd passed and left them alone
and god help you if you are an ugly girl
course too pretty is also your doom
cause everyone harbors a secret hatred
for the prettiest girl in the room
and god help you if you are a phoenix
and you dare to rise up from the ash
a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy
while you are just flying past
I'm not trying to give my life meaning
by demeaning you
and I would like to state for the record
I did everything that I could do
I'm not saying that I'm a saint
I just don't want to live that way
no, I will never be a saint
but I will always say
squint your eyes and look closer
I'm not between you and your ambition
I am a poster girl with no poster
I am thirty-two flavors and then some
And I'm beyond your peripheral vision
So you might want to turn your head
Cause someday you might find you're starving
and eating all of the words you said
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soulcollision
(Vancouver, BC) | | Posted: Mar 08, 2012 - 10:26 | |
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AndyJ
(Oregon) | | Posted: Feb 21, 2012 - 19:01 | |
Spaceship music... From another time and place that has not yet arrived...
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iTuner
| | Posted: Jan 04, 2012 - 22:43 | |
I'm not a lesbian, or a woman but I do like that song.
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Sasha2001
(I can see Zabars from my window) | | Posted: Nov 18, 2011 - 14:17 | |
spacemoose wrote:
Sounds too much like Alannis Morissette for my tastes.
You mean that the other way around. Ms. Morissette was still a child actor in Toronto when Difranco started recording. |
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membeth
(Washington, D.C.) | | Posted: Nov 18, 2011 - 14:14 | |
pcicatar wrote:Ah, 1997 - Long time, no see. It reminds me why I stopped attending her concerts - The screaming teenage girls began outnumbering the burly screaming lesbians. Hey, I was one of those screaming teenage girls! I guess I should be proud that I was an early adopter, though, as I started going to her shows way back in 1996. |
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Sasha2001
(I can see Zabars from my window) | | Posted: Nov 18, 2011 - 14:14 | |
I don't love all of her music, but knowing Ani Difranco's in the world makes me a little happier.
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scrubbrush
(Sea of Calm) | | Posted: Nov 18, 2011 - 14:13 | |
I like Ani's angrier tunes. She's got a beautiful/angry song called Untouchable Face that's absolutely fantatstic
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bluecshells
(EARTH) | | Posted: Nov 18, 2011 - 14:13 | |
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ginger
(Connecticut) | | Posted: Nov 02, 2011 - 13:29 | |
Love it. Bill — don't pay any attention to those negative comments! ;)
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Sloggydog
(UK) | | Posted: Nov 02, 2011 - 13:27 | |
Truly one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard. I love this song and am so glad to have the music of Ani DiFranco in my life thanks to a tip from a Canadian friend of mine. Her lyrics are like poetry. This song, hello birmingham and her 9/11 poem self evident all stir deep emotion for me not that I don't enjoy loads more as well.
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vandal
(arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | | Posted: Sep 16, 2011 - 09:47 | |
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Jelani
(Home of the freak, land of the vague) | | Posted: Sep 16, 2011 - 09:45 | |
Oh not again!
She was just inflicted on us yesterday!
Ugh.
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Cynaera
(Kenneth's Frequency) | | Posted: Aug 31, 2011 - 15:03 | |
spigolli wrote:
An acquired taste that I'll likely never acquire. Not a good start to my RP listening, I may just skip the rest of the day.
Oh, geez - a couple of drops of rain and you're gonna go back to bed? Sorta skewed logic there, kiddo.  Still - you have the choices, so if you choose to disregard a day of RP just because of one song, I hope you have a day's worth of much better stuff with which to substitute. (I hope you know I'm only teasing you!) P.S. - Ms. Difranco has a lot better songs than this one (which got played to death on AM and FM radio, even here in the land of sand fleas and sagebrush.) I don't like this one much, either, but I do like some of her music. |
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mpatnode
| | Posted: Jul 15, 2011 - 16:14 | |
spacemoose wrote:
Sounds too much like Alannis Morissette for my tastes.
Ohh, but so much more talented... |
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spacemoose
| | Posted: Jun 13, 2011 - 23:54 | |
coding_to_music wrote:her best
Sounds too much like Alannis Morissette for my tastes. |
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coding_to_music
(Beantown) | | Posted: May 13, 2011 - 09:15 | |
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Jelani
(Home of the freak, land of the vague) | | Posted: Apr 27, 2011 - 13:58 | |
Her and Beth Orton should do a gig together...dueling heavy breathers.
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