boy, there is no musical complexity to this song at all.  ho hum

...interesting vocal presence...

starclan97 wrote:
Yeah, this is not good. The bass is driving me nuts.

i am rating this 3 bananas out of 6
the rest are bad stuffs

I like this voice. There is something about it that places it above the fray to me. This is the first time i've heard it which has a bearing no doubt.
Peace

Waiting for Surfin Bird by the Trashmen ...

Deb's fantastic and she has a special voice.

so, the crane wife should be next then
*tweet tweet*

Shes one of those singers that sounds the same live in concert as she does on the recorded album. Great talent!

fpicca wrote:


Get off the grass! This voice is a Celtic mirror, even if she's a Frank, a Gaul, or any other line; she carries the ancient songster's craft.

A birdwatchin' set:

Hummingfish - Herons
Eels - I Like Birds
Sufjan Stevens - Godbird
Buffalo Springfield - Bluebird

Topped off with a really good song. . .don't know what the Joni reference below was all about because this song is pretty darn good.

I'm heron' ya

I'm heron' ya

did not like this song at all.could only think, how sad for joni.

There's a heron that lives on the property where I work, majestic birds.

Whoever it was (I can't bear to search for you now) who mentioned the 'peed-on herons': I hate you.

Every time this song plays, that's what I hear. It's worse than Steve Miller Band's "Bingo jet had a light on"

This is a pretty song. Her voice reminds me slighty of Sam Phillips sometimes.

This is nice...her voice tumbles up and down like a little brook!

This song is pretty. Ibis' behavior might be more apt, but it just wouldnt sound as good.
Based on the band name, album and song name, it would appear this album is brought to you by the letter "H"...nice pleasant song though.

This song entertains me. I think it is the sound of her voice; its undulation, and the way it harmonizes with all the other instruments (in this song, especially, it is an instrument). Too, the bass line evokes motion - flight, maybe (good in a song about birds) or maybe a canoe ride on a fast moving stream (especially as one glides gently into the eddy at the end). And if history repeats, I'll be humming this song until tomorrow - because it entertains me.

I generally like this song, but not the way she sings "launching". Sounds like lunching. Herons are lunching...

beautiful song..silly comments...these ornithologists should study some more birds and maybe read a little more poetry....they don't seem to get either...sorry, i just love the song and see no problems with the use of language or description of the birds. I've seen quite few herons - great blue, green, night, etc. They are not always solitary and I can certainly imagine them drifting. But beyond that it doesn't seem to me that the song is really about birds at all but about a relationship between the two people in the song.

I do think the peed on comment was pretty funny though. I also misheard something funny in the lyrics — the line "all the patient dignity of a human form" sounded like "all the patient dignity of a unicorn" which is much sillier....I'm pretty glad hummingfish didn't stoop to either peed on herons or unicorns.

sloppy timing on the drums...

Just misses being absolutely gorgeous because of the singer's weak voice.

Ohhh, "Pre-dawn herons". Not peed-on herons. I'm so glad.

xkolibuul wrote:

I like the song but must agree with you. Herons don't gracefully soar...they bob up and down with effort.

My brother is an ornithologist so I know what you mean. He frequently corrects the layman's bird reference.

Caribbeing wrote:
An exception is heron rookeries, where you can have quite a few herons together. Check out this rookery.

Or these random herons.

Not that any of this really has anything to do with the song.