maxmox
(Broome, Western Australia) | | Posted: Apr 24, 2013 - 04:05 | |
Rachoh wrote:Sometimes when I hear songs like this, I cannot help but realize how I've changed. When I was more depressed, melancholy I would have been all over this song & artist. Today, my heart isn't in that place anymore and it's amazing, but I'll be honest sometimes — I miss that strange feeling of bliss that is found in melancholy; music seemed to be the only thing that touched it. And I miss that sense of connection. But I do not miss the pain...so I'm blessed listening to this type of music as a reminder of how far I've come  Clear, erudite, wise and simple. Thanks. |
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calispera
(Brussels) | | Posted: Apr 07, 2013 - 03:40 | |
Rachoh wrote:Sometimes when I hear songs like this, I cannot help but realize how I've changed. When I was more depressed, melancholy I would have been all over this song & artist. Today, my heart isn't in that place anymore and it's amazing, but I'll be honest sometimes — I miss that strange feeling of bliss that is found in melancholy; music seemed to be the only thing that touched it. And I miss that sense of connection. But I do not miss the pain...so I'm blessed listening to this type of music as a reminder of how far I've come I think I understand what you mean. I know how this kind of song could connect me to melancholy. But presently, it still connect me. Not to melancholy, simply to my heart. Much more enjoyable ;) Melancholy is the ability to connect to a hurt heart. Connecting to a healthy heart is also possible. We often forget to use it. |
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1wolfy
(Mission Viejo California) | | Posted: Dec 05, 2012 - 08:49 | |
 You seem to have keen insight..Rachoh wrote:Sometimes when I hear songs like this, I cannot help but realize how I've changed. When I was more depressed, melancholy I would have been all over this song & artist. Today, my heart isn't in that place anymore and it's amazing, but I'll be honest sometimes — I miss that strange feeling of bliss that is found in melancholy; music seemed to be the only thing that touched it. And I miss that sense of connection. But I do not miss the pain...so I'm blessed listening to this type of music as a reminder of how far I've come |
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Rachoh
(Boston) | | Posted: Dec 05, 2012 - 08:46 | |
Sometimes when I hear songs like this, I cannot help but realize how I've changed. When I was more depressed, melancholy I would have been all over this song & artist. Today, my heart isn't in that place anymore and it's amazing, but I'll be honest sometimes — I miss that strange feeling of bliss that is found in melancholy; music seemed to be the only thing that touched it. And I miss that sense of connection. But I do not miss the pain...so I'm blessed listening to this type of music as a reminder of how far I've come |
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lily34
(GTFO) | | Posted: Dec 05, 2012 - 08:46 | |
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1wolfy
(Mission Viejo California) | | Posted: Dec 05, 2012 - 08:45 | |
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Imkirok
(The Arctic Hinter Land) | | Posted: Nov 15, 2012 - 12:04 | |
Rafter101 wrote:I took my Elbow CD, my Porcupine Tree CD, my Coldplay CD, and my Portishead CD, and smashed them into a little ball. Came up with Greg Laswell. Yep. With lots of PT. |
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oldsaxon
(Wales via Vancouver, BC.) | | Posted: Nov 15, 2012 - 12:03 | |
ziakut wrote:
Somehow find myself agreeing with this post. Greg Laswell has some talent as a songwriter, but the movement of his music and voice sorta grates my nerves.
I don't know...I always seem to be turning his music up... I also love the album artwork. |
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Rafter101
(Davis, California) | | Posted: Oct 03, 2012 - 15:31 | |
I took my Elbow CD, my Porcupine Tree CD, my Coldplay CD, and my Portishead CD, and smashed them into a little ball. Came up with Greg Laswell.
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ziakut
(Right Here) | | Posted: Sep 13, 2012 - 14:26 | |
Byronape wrote:Greg Laswell occupies that uncomfortable place (for me) between indie singersongwriter and wanna-be hip soccer mom minivan music.
If there are any soccer moms out there on RP, I don't mean to offend. Maybe it's a local thing, but the soccer mom comment around here is a reference to any woman with children who drives a boring people mover, thinks that everything their kid does deserves a freaking prize, and that they should automatically get all the best parking spots because they managed to do something that humanity has been doing for a long, long time... breed. I hate that. Somehow find myself agreeing with this post. Greg Laswell has some talent as a songwriter, but the movement of his music and voice sorta grates my nerves. |
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EXPLORER11
| | Posted: Sep 02, 2012 - 02:28 | |
UN ENORME COUP DE COEUR POUR CETTE CHANSON. J'ADORE
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Byronape
("post-capitalist wreckageville") | | Posted: Jul 01, 2012 - 05:19 | |
Greg Laswell occupies that uncomfortable place (for me) between indie singersongwriter and wanna-be hip soccer mom minivan music.
If there are any soccer moms out there on RP, I don't mean to offend. Maybe it's a local thing, but the soccer mom comment around here is a reference to any woman with children who drives a boring people mover, thinks that everything their kid does deserves a freaking prize, and that they should automatically get all the best parking spots because they managed to do something that humanity has been doing for a long, long time... breed. I hate that.
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pinnyrat
| | Posted: Jun 13, 2012 - 17:52 | |
lily34 wrote:for a quick second i thought it was elbow...
Seriously! With just a hint of Coldplay at times. (Don't be hatin' y'all!) Quite nice! |
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socalhol
(Seattle) | | Posted: Jun 13, 2012 - 17:48 | |
I LOVE this — very Elbow-ish indeed
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lily34
(lexvegas) | | Posted: May 30, 2012 - 07:30 | |
for a quick second i thought it was elbow...
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Darlington
(Columbia, South Carolina) | | Posted: Feb 28, 2012 - 13:25 | |
He is perpetually on my list of artist to check out. Really need to investigate him further.
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jkhandy
(Near the ocean (in my mind)) | | Posted: Feb 22, 2012 - 10:49 | |
What's so depressing about this song? People are nuts.
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oldsaxon
| | Posted: Nov 04, 2011 - 15:32 | |
I like the cover of the album. The peeling paint on the wall, the peeling paint on the desk....the "writing desk" with no paper on it, no pens. The writing desk with all the discards crumpled and torn under it....
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Bocephus
(Boulder, CO) | | Posted: Nov 04, 2011 - 15:31 | |
Relative to Bill Laswell?
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cohifi
(Denver) | | Posted: Nov 01, 2011 - 23:25 | |
Cynaera wrote:This is so depressing - the CD cover looks like my apartment before I painted it... I wish I could like this song, but it drags me down to a place I don't want to ever go again. Please, make it stop |
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Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC) | | Posted: Oct 21, 2011 - 09:28 | |
Quite a good song: engaging production sound and I don't find it depressing at all.
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Cynaera
(In a hammock under my own vine and fig tree.) | | Posted: Oct 18, 2011 - 16:09 | |
This is so depressing - the CD cover looks like my apartment before I painted it... I wish I could like this song, but it drags me down to a place I don't want to ever go again.
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jpdribbler
(Berlin) | | Posted: Sep 17, 2011 - 01:30 | |
Not that everyone has to sound edgy and daring, but this one - much like "Take Everything" from the same record - just feels like by-the-numbers indie pop to me.
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cayenne
(in over my head) | | Posted: Sep 02, 2011 - 15:56 | |
mandolin wrote:...stretchy vowels...
That's good, right? Greg's voice is growing on me the more of his songs I hear. |
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mandolin
(...drifting...) | | Posted: Aug 16, 2011 - 16:21 | |
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