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Vienna Teng — In Another Life
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ufamsm
(Phoenix, AZ, USA)
Posted: Apr 24, 2011 - 20:34
 
Saw her in Austin last week, what a great show! Pity she didn't play this one but I may have completely lost it if she did.

Rhinofin
(Portland, OR)
Posted: Jan 20, 2011 - 14:37
 
 This song just stopped me in my tracks.  I couldn't help but listen intently.

coccyx
Posted: Nov 18, 2010 - 11:35
 
 t00lur wrote:
i hate vienna tang, i rated 1 all her fucking songs hahahah!

 
What is the extra h for on your laughing?  "ha ha ha h".   What is that?  Or maybe it's supposed to be "ah ah ah ah", and you just missed the first 'a' ?   I need to know before I can seriously consider the rest of your interesting post.  You seem to be quite deep.  Loser On Line, man



andrewmi
(capitoltown)
Posted: Nov 18, 2010 - 11:23
 
My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-War Paris, smuggling bombs for the underground...

Rooney
(Near Paradise)
Posted: Oct 17, 2010 - 20:56
 
 ufamsm wrote:
The first time I heard this song, it hit me like a b*tchslap when I caught the lyrics. Instantly popped to iTunes and downloaded everything she has released. All of my friends are huge fans.

"I was married at 13 / You were killed at 21 / On a minor battlefield"

That other life, deep underground...  
 

I did exactly the same thing when I heard her "Blue Caravan".  I downloaded everything I could...

ufamsm
(Phoenix, AZ, USA)
Posted: Oct 17, 2010 - 19:17
 
The first time I heard this song, it hit me like a b*tchslap when I caught the lyrics. Instantly popped to iTunes and downloaded everything she has released. All of my friends are huge fans.

"I was married at 13 / You were killed at 21 / On a minor battlefield"

That other life, deep underground...  

2cats
(Oklahoma)
Posted: Sep 24, 2010 - 08:59
 
Love the bassoon.

Rp10v3r
(Gainesville, FL)
Posted: Aug 23, 2010 - 08:49
 
Very nice.

Bone
(Divided States of Sanity)
Posted: Aug 16, 2010 - 16:15
 
 t00lur wrote:
i hate vienna tang, i rated 1 all her fucking songs hahahah!

 
Wahoah!!  You must REEEALLY hate Vienna Tang!!  Every single song??  Look at how strongly you feel about her music!! EVERY SINGLE song?!?!?  That is quite a statement!!  From the look of some your other 'opinions' YOU, my friend, are a discerning listener!

Wow, every song... what a pathetic Excelsior v 2.0.


Walrus_Gumbo
Posted: Aug 16, 2010 - 16:05
 
nigelr wrote:
Sugar plum faeries, anyone?

Exactly!


Guyeeno
Posted: Jul 22, 2010 - 09:46
 
Very lame song. 

t00lur
Posted: Jul 21, 2010 - 10:19
 
i hate vienna tang, i rated 1 all her fucking songs hahahah!


socalhol
(Seattle)
Posted: Jul 15, 2010 - 18:28
 
Love this song — and she performs it well at live shows

Carl
(The Summit City)
Posted: Jun 05, 2010 - 20:44
 
 bjrubble wrote:
The line about "marveling at the bounty our days contain" always makes me push back from my desk, look around at my air conditioned office and the work that I generally enjoy, and consider my good health and comfortable life and astoundingly small chance of being brutally oppressed or consigned to die, and really appreciate how fortunate is my lot next to what passed for normal through most of human history.

I think the world could use more music that has this effect.
 
I can't recall how many times I've had the same thought. Love this one, BTW.



bjrubble
Posted: May 11, 2010 - 12:11
 
The line about "marveling at the bounty our days contain" always makes me push back from my desk, look around at my air conditioned office and the work that I generally enjoy, and consider my good health and comfortable life and astoundingly small chance of being brutally oppressed or consigned to die, and really appreciate how fortunate is my lot next to what passed for normal through most of human history.

I think the world could use more music that has this effect.

prickelpit96
(Hannover, Germany)
Posted: Mar 24, 2010 - 01:06
 

Had to interrupt my work and to find out, who is behind the awesome voice. {#Daisy}

Lovely song.



Darlington
(Columbia, South Carolina)
Posted: Mar 17, 2010 - 09:10
 
Listening with my sound turned low, I thought for a minute this was Regina Spektor.

Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida)
Posted: Mar 10, 2010 - 18:27
 
DarceySuzanne wrote:
If there weren't so many cute-girlie-tiny-petite-speaksingy-soft-whispery-precious-baby women singer-songwriters out there nowadays...
Stop! I can't stand this teasing. Seriously, this is a cool dadist little song. Nice to have it in the rotation.


t00lur
Posted: Feb 07, 2010 - 06:02
 
6 -> 1
overplayed sad shit.

df1489
(Lake Palestine, Tyler Tx)
Posted: Feb 07, 2010 - 06:02
 
 ziggytrix wrote:


If there weren't so many X out there nowadays, I might not be so sick of this sound.
Where X = anything that's not completely unique.

Wow, I just discounted everything. :(
 
couldn't agree more...(he said with just enough sarcasm)



jagdriver
(Just a nod and a wink south of Paradise)
Posted: Feb 05, 2010 - 15:19
 
I like some of her stuff, but not this number.

kilroyjoe3
(Charlottesville, VA)
Posted: Jan 30, 2010 - 09:01
 
Whoa... and I thought the Decemberists sang about depressing stuff.  "I was killed on a minor battlefield and buried next to a still-born child."

ziggytrix
(Dallas, TX)
Posted: Jan 13, 2010 - 08:28
 
 DarceySuzanne wrote:
If there weren't so many cute-girlie-tiny-petite-speaksingy-soft-whispery-precious-baby women singer-songwriters out there nowadays, I might not be so sick of this sound.
 

If there weren't so many X out there nowadays, I might not be so sick of this sound.
Where X = anything that's not completely unique.

Wow, I just discounted everything. :(

lbaltz
(Sag Harbor, NY)
Posted: Jan 13, 2010 - 08:25
 
 ScottN wrote:

Oboe too, and this from a very accomplished pianist.  Nice song on my first listen.
 
I must agree the arrangement here really sets this song apart.


michaelgmitchell
(Belleville, ON, Canada)
Posted: Dec 27, 2009 - 10:34
 
 DarceySuzanne wrote:
If there weren't so many cute-girlie-tiny-petite-speaksingy-soft-whispery-precious-baby women singer-songwriters out there nowadays, I might not be so sick of this sound.
 
Nicely stated, yes.

ScottN
(Vacationing in Gaza)
Posted: Dec 19, 2009 - 15:22
 
 WonderLizard wrote:
What an astonishing arrangement! That punctuating bassoon is amazing—as is everything else. Wow.
 
Oboe too, and this from a very accomplished pianist.  Nice song on my first listen.


WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: Dec 04, 2009 - 20:01
 
What an astonishing arrangement! That punctuating bassoon is amazing—as is everything else. Wow.

earthbased
(By a Big Lake)
Posted: Nov 28, 2009 - 13:21
 
The Ghost of Kurt Weill?

      Mack the Knife!


sirdroseph
(Outer Mongolia)
Posted: Nov 11, 2009 - 13:15
 
Ooops! I forgot to comment the first time I heard this song, but at least it was verified and validated that, yep, still hate it!{#Lol}

Felix_The_Cat
(Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Posted: Nov 11, 2009 - 13:09
 
RP Classic :-)

CamLwalk
(Albany NY)
Posted: Nov 03, 2009 - 10:48
 
Irving Cohen

Give me a bouncy C!

nigelr
(Coffs Harbour, Australia)
Posted: Oct 11, 2009 - 01:10
 
Sugar plum faeries, anyone?

lophrequa
(the very edge of the land)
Posted: Oct 04, 2009 - 12:12
 
 DarceySuzanne wrote:
If there weren't so many cute-girlie-tiny-petite-speaksingy-soft-whispery-precious-baby women singer-songwriters out there nowadays, I might not be so sick of this sound.
 
bwahahaha too true, although i find Vienna's more interesting than most. sadly Bill follows with the embodiment of your description, Imogen Heap.

Limpopoking
(The Parish of St. Alfonzo)
Posted: Oct 04, 2009 - 12:08
 
 DarceySuzanne wrote:
If there weren't so many cute-girlie-tiny-petite-speaksingy-soft-whispery-precious-baby women singer-songwriters out there nowadays, I might not be so sick of this sound.
 
...some issues, I note


natalita
(Philadelphia, PA)
Posted: Oct 04, 2009 - 12:06
 
haha! very funny.  although i do like this song.

 DarceySuzanne wrote:
If there weren't so many cute-girlie-tiny-petite-speaksingy-soft-whispery-precious-baby women singer-songwriters out there nowadays, I might not be so sick of this sound.
 



DarceySuzanne
(Columbus)
Posted: Sep 18, 2009 - 11:25
 
If there weren't so many cute-girlie-tiny-petite-speaksingy-soft-whispery-precious-baby women singer-songwriters out there nowadays, I might not be so sick of this sound.

jagdriver
(Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA)
Posted: Sep 18, 2009 - 11:24
 
 nagsheadlocal wrote:
The last time an oboe fit well into a rock tune was "Since I Don't Have You" by the Skyliners (thanks to a young and unknown Phil Spector).

Unfortunately, they just sound out of place here.
 


fuh2
(salmon land)
Posted: Sep 09, 2009 - 12:37
 
Bit too submissive sounding for me.

OCDHG
Posted: Sep 07, 2009 - 08:59
 
 Jack_Jefferson wrote:
It feels like I'm missing something.  This song sounds like it belongs in a musical where the protagonist has a contemplative moment.
 
Or a contemplative movement, maybe



Frater_Kork
(Uppsala, Sweden)
Posted: Sep 03, 2009 - 00:06
 
 ProgFusion wrote:
Oboe, clarinet, and piano??? I like it!!!
 
Totally! ;)

Rotterdam
Posted: Sep 03, 2009 - 00:02
 
In the first few seconds of this song, I keep expecting it to be the Dance of the Sugar Plum Faires.

Mandible
Posted: Sep 01, 2009 - 08:57
 
 sonofpick wrote:

 
LOL, so does this mean you like it or not?



nagsheadlocal
(North Carolina, the new New Jersey)
Posted: Aug 04, 2009 - 06:45
 
The last time an oboe fit well into a rock tune was "Since I Don't Have You" by the Skyliners (thanks to a young and unknown Phil Spector).

Unfortunately, they just sound out of place here.

Mandible
Posted: Aug 04, 2009 - 06:44
 

The instrumentals overpower her soft voice. They are too loud.



Jack_Jefferson
(Columbus, OH)
Posted: Aug 02, 2009 - 11:22
 
It feels like I'm missing something.  This song sounds like it belongs in a musical where the protagonist has a contemplative moment.

Bone
(Divided States of Sanity)
Posted: Aug 02, 2009 - 11:21
 
 ProgFusion wrote:


So, are you saying that musicians are only allowed to write songs about things they've experienced personally?

The Beatles really went on a Yellow Submarine, and rode Across The Universe?

David Bowie really went into orbit with Major Tom?

The Crash Test Dummies really attended Superman's funeral?

Right Said Fred really is Too Sexy?

Britney Spears really Did It Again? Well, alright, I'll give you that one.

A-ha's lead singer really took a girl into a newspaper comic strip?

You seem to want rather narrow musical boundaries.

Paul McCartney wrote a song for you. It's called "Silly Love Songs." {#Tongue-out}
 

WIN

Bazooka
(Mountain View, CA USA)
Posted: Aug 02, 2009 - 11:20
 
Something wicked this way comes. Thank Godsa {#Umbrella}

rtwingo
(Out of my mind (be right back))
Posted: Jul 23, 2009 - 14:50
 
 OCDHG wrote:

No.  Absolutely, that is almost just exactly unlike what I am saying.

Al Stewart was a soldier in WWII (Roads to Moscow), Gillian Welch was an Orphan Girl, Johnny Cash was a Boy Named Sue... etc. ad nauseum.

What I AM saying is if you're going to do it, at least convince me.  Vienna fails.  Miserably. 

Is it the contrived nature of her sickly sweet voice?  The cutesy delivery?  The god-awful peppiness of that damn bassoon?  I don't know. I just know that it's almost painful to listen to.  It actually makes me cringe.

My musical boundries are a anything but narrow.  Though I do draw the line at smooth jazz.  And anything else that seems insincere.  Like Vienna Teng.
 

Have you ever heard of the funny little word called "metaphor"?

OCDHG
Posted: Jul 22, 2009 - 23:25
 
 ProgFusion wrote:


So, are you saying that musicians are only allowed to write songs about things they've experienced personally?

The Beatles really went on a Yellow Submarine, and rode Across The Universe?

David Bowie really went into orbit with Major Tom?

The Crash Test Dummies really attended Superman's funeral?

Right Said Fred really is Too Sexy?

Britney Spears really Did It Again? Well, alright, I'll give you that one.

A-ha's lead singer really took a girl into a newspaper comic strip?

You seem to want rather narrow musical boundaries.

Paul McCartney wrote a song for you. It's called "Silly Love Songs." {#Tongue-out}

 
No.  Absolutely, that is almost just exactly unlike what I am saying.

Al Stewart was a soldier in WWII (Roads to Moscow), Gillian Welch was an Orphan Girl, Johnny Cash was a Boy Named Sue... etc. ad nauseum.

What I AM saying is if you're going to do it, at least convince me.  Vienna fails.  Miserably. 

Is it the contrived nature of her sickly sweet voice?  The cutesy delivery?  The god-awful peppiness of that damn bassoon?  I don't know. I just know that it's almost painful to listen to.  It actually makes me cringe.

My musical boundries are a anything but narrow.  Though I do draw the line at smooth jazz.  And anything else that seems insincere.  Like Vienna Teng.



Dave_Mack
(Four bus, Snore bus!)
Posted: Jul 16, 2009 - 17:54
 
 mcj2a wrote:
There isn't enough bassoon in pop music these days.
 
I agree totally, but this is an awfully dull bassoon part.  I'd hate to get stuck playing that.  I'll take one of the clarinet parts.