Dead Can Dance — The Snake and the Moon
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i migliori!!
Excellent track and album. It is accurate that Lisa Gerrard sometimes speaks in tongues when singing (hence "no lyrics available").
lizardking wrote:
Well, it's been about a year since you posted, and the rating is now at 6.0. Slowly moving towards the '8' rating I also gave it.
It seems to age well - it's at 6.4 this October 2023 and rightly so. I hope that my 8 points helped a bit.
Well, it's been about a year since you posted, and the rating is now at 6.0. Slowly moving towards the '8' rating I also gave it.
It seems to age well - it's at 6.4 this October 2023 and rightly so. I hope that my 8 points helped a bit.
This always makes me want to listen to Fila Brazillia
RicoDrumz wrote:
I think anyone from Florida is annoying
Not good, not fun, just plain annoying IMHO...
I think anyone from Florida is annoying
Lovely.....DCD is amazing
It has been a long time since I listened to DCD. It is not the band I remember. Interesting.
Not good, not fun, just plain annoying IMHO...
SO disappointed they have canceled their show in Chicago next year. Apparently many shows were canceled; I believe only 2-3 now in North America.
S-curvy wrote:
I live Yulunga as well, spiritual dance vibe!!
Thanks for this RP!
Years ago, they produced an amazing movie/vid with their music set to amazing footage (tribal, aerial) from Africa, S. America, Philippines, N. Guinea, India (?); it's called "Yulunga Spirit Dance" and it can be found on YouTube with other wonderful DCD vids. The combo of striking video and music is quite good.
I live Yulunga as well, spiritual dance vibe!!
Love everything except for the Yoko Ono part. Hard to enjoy the song with that annoying screech.
Nice tune to hear on a Saturday morning
gosh, I've heard this album million of times, great choice/mix :) Thx *rp*
lizardking wrote:
Well, it's been about a year since you posted, and the rating is now at 6.0. Slowly moving towards the '8' rating I also gave it.
now at 6.2
haven't rated it myself yet, but maybe a 7 at most. It's leaning to a 6 and really I tend not to rate 5 or 6-ish songs as not being worth the bother. This line of comments just caught my eye.
Well, it's been about a year since you posted, and the rating is now at 6.0. Slowly moving towards the '8' rating I also gave it.
now at 6.2
haven't rated it myself yet, but maybe a 7 at most. It's leaning to a 6 and really I tend not to rate 5 or 6-ish songs as not being worth the bother. This line of comments just caught my eye.
kaybee wrote:
Yes, it's definitely an African origin influence.
I can ear some Brasilian Portuguese words in there, sometimes
Yes, it's definitely an African origin influence.
I can ear some Brasilian Portuguese words in there, sometimes
Thanks for this RP!
Years ago, they produced an amazing movie/vid with their music set to amazing footage (tribal, aerial) from Africa, S. America, Philippines, N. Guinea, India (?); it's called "Yulunga Spirit Dance" and it can be found on YouTube with other wonderful DCD vids. The combo of striking video and music is quite good.
Years ago, they produced an amazing movie/vid with their music set to amazing footage (tribal, aerial) from Africa, S. America, Philippines, N. Guinea, India (?); it's called "Yulunga Spirit Dance" and it can be found on YouTube with other wonderful DCD vids. The combo of striking video and music is quite good.
Lazarus wrote:
Time is fun when you're flying an alien space craft. Or flying anything else for that matter.
Time is fun when you're flying an alien space craft. Or flying anything else for that matter.
whomhow wrote:
Well, it's been about a year since you posted, and the rating is now at 6.0. Slowly moving towards the '8' rating I also gave it.
What? 5.9?!? This track deserves 8 at least!
Well, it's been about a year since you posted, and the rating is now at 6.0. Slowly moving towards the '8' rating I also gave it.
aspicer wrote:
Hear, hear!
Brilliant - Transcendent. Nothing like DCD
Hear, hear!
What? 5.9?!? This track deserves 8 at least!
Brilliant - Transcendent. Nothing like DCD
DCD are GOD!
DCD is such a favorite of mine. Saw them at Zellerbach Hall at Cal during the tour wherein they made a video some 18 years ago. Clearly, they are really dedicated, perfectionist musicians of very high caliber training/talent. I was utterly mesmerized thru the whole show — the music, the sounds were wonderfully familiar yet other worldly, and how they came together was magical. I hope to see them perform again ... someday.
pretty cool, think I'll toke up just a tiny bit ; )
First time to hear this. Liked it.
One of my recently departed friend's favorites. Everytime I hear DCD I will think of you Howard.
heliosweb wrote:
Actually, if I remember correctly, they were exploring the native voodoo culture and music of Haiti when they did this album.
Yes, it's definitely an African origin influence.
Actually, if I remember correctly, they were exploring the native voodoo culture and music of Haiti when they did this album.
Yes, it's definitely an African origin influence.
EXELLENT!!!!!!!!
Outstanding group. Not my favorite song of theirs. But DCD are AMAZING. Thanks for giving them airplay.
Who needs this?
Very interesting 
Brendan Perry and Robin Guthrie from the Cocteau Twins just played a show here locally. Hearing this reminds me that I probably missed out on something very cool because I didn't attend.
As usual...DCD - hypnotic and soothing to me.
SmackDaddy wrote:
I always thought they were pulling from Native American music on this one.
Actually, if I remember correctly, they were exploring the native voodoo culture and music of Haiti when they did this album.
I always thought they were pulling from Native American music on this one.
Actually, if I remember correctly, they were exploring the native voodoo culture and music of Haiti when they did this album.
emh wrote:
Agreed.
Strange thing is that (In my opinion) their best albulms are "In the realm of a dying sun" and "Serpent's Egg" and none of the tracks from those albums have been uploaded. Such a shame to see them rated at 5.something when they've done quite a few 10's
Eh. Like the band. This song...not so much.
Agreed.
Strange thing is that (In my opinion) their best albulms are "In the realm of a dying sun" and "Serpent's Egg" and none of the tracks from those albums have been uploaded. Such a shame to see them rated at 5.something when they've done quite a few 10's
Eh. Like the band. This song...not so much.
First listen i gave this a 4.
Just heard it over headphones and its much more intriguing and lush in the lugholes.
Rating revisited.
Just heard it over headphones and its much more intriguing and lush in the lugholes.
Rating revisited.
SOOO MARRGGIINNNAAALLLLL!!!!!!!11111
Canlistener wrote:
I'm right there with you on this one!
Holy s$#t make it stop!!!!
I'm right there with you on this one!
calypsus_1 wrote:
Klaus Schulze & Lisa Gerrard - La Cigale, Paris, France - 23/09/09 by HostOfSeraphim
https://www.flickr.com/photos/42640080@N05/
All rights reserved
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MASSIVE ATTACK!
Klaus Schulze & Lisa Gerrard - La Cigale, Paris, France - 23/09/09 by HostOfSeraphim
https://www.flickr.com/photos/42640080@N05/
All rights reserved.
MASSIVE ATTACK!
Klaus Schulze & Lisa Gerrard - La Cigale, Paris, France - 23/09/09 by HostOfSeraphim
https://www.flickr.com/photos/42640080@N05/
All rights reserved.
Holy s$#t make it stop!!!!
SmackDaddy wrote:
I always thought they were pulling from Native American music on this one.
That's my take on it too.
I love DCD, but this was my least favorite of theirs. Although even being my least favorite it is still much preferred to a lot of other "popular" music out there. And I did enjoy watching a PBS special a few years ago that used music from this disc in the background. I don't even remember what the PBS show was about — outer space or something — but I just remember being excited that DCD was getting some play.
I always thought they were pulling from Native American music on this one.
That's my take on it too.
I love DCD, but this was my least favorite of theirs. Although even being my least favorite it is still much preferred to a lot of other "popular" music out there. And I did enjoy watching a PBS special a few years ago that used music from this disc in the background. I don't even remember what the PBS show was about — outer space or something — but I just remember being excited that DCD was getting some play.
This piece is ok I guess, but that weird flute-like instrument playing while the woman is singing reminds me of some little Looney Tunes creature being beaten up!
fredriley wrote:
This is interesting because I have precisely the opposite point of view. This album is my favorite by DCD, I find the others a bit too, ah, pretentious and inaccessible. Aion is interesting in a kind of introspective RenFest kind of way but I don't listen to it. The Serpent's Egg is also interesting from an artistic perspective but it must appeal to some aesthetic about which I know nothing, since I have owned it for over 20 years but have probably not listened to it 20 times.
Most of the African music I have heard (which is probably some small subset of the stuff deemed worthy of pop export markets and thus nowhere near representative) is kind of fluffy, whereas DCD's interpretation of that genre in this album is interesting, listenable, funky, and has plenty of Gerrard's soaring vocals to have been on my rotation for years.
Also, I will admit a soft spot for this song since it was playing one of the first times that I met my wife, and she later said that anyone who listened to this kind of music was worth talking to...
I was a big, big fan of DCD, and latterly Lisa Gerrard when the duo dissolved. This, though, was an absolute turkey of an album, a gobbler, a real mother clucker. Whilst Gerrard and Perry succeeded well in plundering other musical styles in preceding albums, they completely failed with their homage to / rip-off of African styles. I gave this effort two listens then took it down the charity shop.
Of all the DCD songs in all the DCD albums in the world, RP just had to play this one. Not a fitting representative of DCD's innovative and seminal body of work.
Of all the DCD songs in all the DCD albums in the world, RP just had to play this one. Not a fitting representative of DCD's innovative and seminal body of work.
This is interesting because I have precisely the opposite point of view. This album is my favorite by DCD, I find the others a bit too, ah, pretentious and inaccessible. Aion is interesting in a kind of introspective RenFest kind of way but I don't listen to it. The Serpent's Egg is also interesting from an artistic perspective but it must appeal to some aesthetic about which I know nothing, since I have owned it for over 20 years but have probably not listened to it 20 times.
Most of the African music I have heard (which is probably some small subset of the stuff deemed worthy of pop export markets and thus nowhere near representative) is kind of fluffy, whereas DCD's interpretation of that genre in this album is interesting, listenable, funky, and has plenty of Gerrard's soaring vocals to have been on my rotation for years.
Also, I will admit a soft spot for this song since it was playing one of the first times that I met my wife, and she later said that anyone who listened to this kind of music was worth talking to...
S-curvy wrote:
You could have just written your last 5 words.Watch... I don't like it. There. simple.
It's interesting reading some of the comments for the this tune and others like it. The comments about "ripping off" other cultures or musical styles is rather naive. As someone involved in a creative field, I can point out that while creative purity has a certain cache to it, it really falls quite short of creative reality and creative goals. The shallow goal is sort of akin to the selective/eugenic motives that lead to the problems of hemophilia in the European aristocracy or hip dyslexia in pure-bred dogs — without cross-pollination, we'd be hearing endless musical dead-ends. If you've never witnessed a live jazz performance, you might want to try it out, because that scene is all about collaborative interplay and the understanding that no individual player knows what the other players are going to add next to the mix, so the sum of the parts outweighs the individual pieces and it's almost as if they toss a musical ball back and forth; this is the ultimate in borrowing.
Clearly, all of DCD's music draws heavily from other music (it's name says it all), and so does all rock and roll — they all have "ripped off" the Blues, so does that mean we should toss all rock 'n roll out? Or the Blues because they copied many rythmic patterns from the African songs of the slaves? Or how about several of Mozart, Bach, and Berlioz' works, amongst those of many others, because they reused and tweaked the "Dies Irae?" I agree that DCD has written better material, but that misses the point that this tune could subjectively be better than 75% of the rest of the music that came forth at the same time as this piece. It may not be their best, and it may have threads of others' creative work, but if it sounds good, then that's what counts, and I happen to like it.
Clearly, all of DCD's music draws heavily from other music (it's name says it all), and so does all rock and roll — they all have "ripped off" the Blues, so does that mean we should toss all rock 'n roll out? Or the Blues because they copied many rythmic patterns from the African songs of the slaves? Or how about several of Mozart, Bach, and Berlioz' works, amongst those of many others, because they reused and tweaked the "Dies Irae?" I agree that DCD has written better material, but that misses the point that this tune could subjectively be better than 75% of the rest of the music that came forth at the same time as this piece. It may not be their best, and it may have threads of others' creative work, but if it sounds good, then that's what counts, and I happen to like it.
You could have just written your last 5 words.Watch... I don't like it. There. simple.
It's interesting reading some of the comments for the this tune and others like it. The comments about "ripping off" other cultures or musical styles is rather naive. As someone involved in a creative field, I can point out that while creative purity has a certain cache to it, it really falls quite short of creative reality and creative goals. The shallow goal is sort of akin to the selective/eugenic motives that lead to the problems of hemophilia in the European aristocracy or hip dyslexia in pure-bred dogs — without cross-pollination, we'd be hearing endless musical dead-ends. If you've never witnessed a live jazz performance, you might want to try it out, because that scene is all about collaborative interplay and the understanding that no individual player knows what the other players are going to add next to the mix, so the sum of the parts outweighs the individual pieces and it's almost as if they toss a musical ball back and forth; this is the ultimate in borrowing.
Clearly, all of DCD's music draws heavily from other music (it's name says it all), and so does all rock and roll — they all have "ripped off" the Blues, so does that mean we should toss all rock 'n roll out? Or the Blues because they copied many rythmic patterns from the African songs of the slaves? Or how about several of Mozart, Bach, and Berlioz' works, amongst those of many others, because they reused and tweaked the "Dies Irae?" I agree that DCD has written better material, but that misses the point that this tune could subjectively be better than 75% of the rest of the music that came forth at the same time as this piece. It may not be their best, and it may have threads of others' creative work, but if it sounds good, then that's what counts, and I happen to like it.
Clearly, all of DCD's music draws heavily from other music (it's name says it all), and so does all rock and roll — they all have "ripped off" the Blues, so does that mean we should toss all rock 'n roll out? Or the Blues because they copied many rythmic patterns from the African songs of the slaves? Or how about several of Mozart, Bach, and Berlioz' works, amongst those of many others, because they reused and tweaked the "Dies Irae?" I agree that DCD has written better material, but that misses the point that this tune could subjectively be better than 75% of the rest of the music that came forth at the same time as this piece. It may not be their best, and it may have threads of others' creative work, but if it sounds good, then that's what counts, and I happen to like it.
fredriley wrote:
I always thought they were pulling from Native American music on this one.
I was a big, big fan of DCD, and latterly Lisa Gerrard when the duo dissolved. This, though, was an absolute turkey of an album, a gobbler, a real mother clucker. Whilst Gerrard and Perry succeeded well in plundering other musical styles in preceding albums, they completely failed with their homage to / rip-off of African styles. I gave this effort two listens then took it down the charity shop.
Of all the DCD songs in all the DCD albums in the world, RP just had to play this one. Not a fitting representative of DCD's innovative and seminal body of work.
Of all the DCD songs in all the DCD albums in the world, RP just had to play this one. Not a fitting representative of DCD's innovative and seminal body of work.
I always thought they were pulling from Native American music on this one.
Endless.
AdyMiles wrote:
Obviously, there's no accounting for taste!
how the heck did these get through the selection criteria? terrible
Obviously, there's no accounting for taste!
how the heck did these get through the selection criteria? terrible
One of my favorites from them. Good collection of sounds and percussion.
Nice smooth track from DCD. Not as complex as some of their earlier work, but enjoyable nonetheless.
Quite interesting.
aronson wrote:
Lucky guy! (or gal as the case may be) I love that soundtrack. And the movie was pretty good too.
I like other DCD stuff, but not sure what I think of this track yet.
(snip) I had seen a private concert with Lisa Gerrard for the release of Mann's "The Insider" and was blown away.
Lucky guy! (or gal as the case may be) I love that soundtrack. And the movie was pretty good too.
I like other DCD stuff, but not sure what I think of this track yet.
I was a big, big fan of DCD, and latterly Lisa Gerrard when the duo dissolved. This, though, was an absolute turkey of an album, a gobbler, a real mother clucker. Whilst Gerrard and Perry succeeded well in plundering other musical styles in preceding albums, they completely failed with their homage to / rip-off of African styles. I gave this effort two listens then took it down the charity shop.
Of all the DCD songs in all the DCD albums in the world, RP just had to play this one. Not a fitting representative of DCD's innovative and seminal body of work.
Of all the DCD songs in all the DCD albums in the world, RP just had to play this one. Not a fitting representative of DCD's innovative and seminal body of work.
Faaaaar from the best I've heard from this gang.
This is a 3 in my book.
This is a 3 in my book.
Brings new meaning to the phrase "me love hurt you long time" 
rush-2112 wrote:
Oh! So sorry...you obviously must not be familiar with their music. They are highly talented and imaginative. Nice smooth beats on this one with some excellent vocalists!
Bill, thanks for adding this to the playlist. Call it eclectic.
This is not creative, I can blow on a flute, beat a drum, and chant and it takes almost NO talent. LEt them dance just don't let them play music.
Oh! So sorry...you obviously must not be familiar with their music. They are highly talented and imaginative. Nice smooth beats on this one with some excellent vocalists!
Bill, thanks for adding this to the playlist. Call it eclectic.
OOOOOhhh! Dead can dance! AWEsome!
The same 4 retarded bars over and over again.
Me too!
floydian wrote:
floydian wrote:
This entire album is fantastic. Each song as unique as the next. Been on my playlist for years...
rtrudeau wrote:
Oh please, this is sublime compared to Dengue Fever.
yeah, that Dengue Fever song with the barking Chihuahua tops them all.
rtrudeau wrote:
Oh please, this is sublime compared to Dengue Fever.
copy that rtrudeau. . .
I have heard better noise in the dentist's office!
Lisa Gerrard's voice is incredible and truly unique. She just gets lost in the background with DCD. Aside from Lisa G, this is just kind of Starbucksesque background music circa 1995.
southend wrote:
The may just be the worst song I've ever heard.
Oh please, this is sublime compared to Dengue Fever.
floydian wrote:
This entire album is fantastic. Each song as unique as the next. Been on my playlist for years...
Totally with you, Floydian. A lot of heartburn below, but I find every song unique yet common in being very pleasing melodically, rhythmically, and ecclectically. The backmasking use of Within You/Without You on another track from this album trips me out every time.
Quite simply, this is bad. But thanks for sharing Bill. Now make it go away. Or at least play it once every year or so.
very, very, l o o n n n g g g g g g . . . . . . .
YUCK! YUCK! YUCK! YUCK! YUCK!
I'm all for taking chances.
But sometimes they fail.
Sometimes they fail spectacularly.
Like this time.
I like the fact that RP plays all sorts of music since you never know what you will like. Now I know I don't like this. :)
At the end -- is someone stepping on cats?
Hannio wrote:
Oh good. I can go get some coffee without missing anything.
This is the entertaining way to show your disinterest in a song/artist. Not "Bill should never play this anymore" or "(Artist Name) SUCKS!"
Personally don't feel that way about this band, or this tune, but thought this comment worthy of comment.
Oh good. I can go get some coffee without missing anything.
This entire album is fantastic. Each song as unique as the next. Been on my playlist for years...
There isn't a scientific machine on the face of the planet that could measure how much I don't like this song.
Always loved them. Thought that ending on this particular album was interesting given the aboriginal influences on their first record. Almost like coming full circle.
I was never goth and I looooooove this band.
However, I was a little disappointed seeing them in concert. I had seen a private concert with Lisa Gerrard for the release of Mann's "The Insider" and was blown away. Not so much with DCD.
when I was goth, I used to loooooove this band.
LennytheB wrote:
Strangely compelling
Indeed (or is it "undead"?)
Wonderful!
...like a drumming circle.
awful.
This is just dreadful.
I'm liking this.
Strangely compelling
The may just be the worst song I've ever heard.
fishercat wrote:
Last played March 30. Are they on vacation. The last two songs were last played March 30.
There is definately a pattern, but the music's good!
Show me an other station where you only hear songs every two weeks! I like this one!
Last played March 30. Are they on vacation. The last two songs were last played March 30.
Sounds like what the natives would play in Commander Kurtz' compound when Willard finally makes it there.
You gotta hear the rest of the CD....intrigingly primeval.
Drummer4soul wrote: 
Please make it stop. What is that horrible screeching in the background? The dead may dance but they sing like the undead! yuk!
Ignore the screeching you can hear. Turn up the volume, tweak your speaker settings and in there you'll find a sublime and terrific thumping bass rhythm driving onwards.
Almost makes me wanna start dancing around a fire. 
Please make it stop. What is that horrible screeching in the background? The dead may dance but they sing like the undead! yuk!
Great jam that displays the band's diversity. I have always been a huge fan of DCD. When I first listened to this album, it totally knocked me off my paradigm of them.
So Bill, on a little spiritual trip tonight?
Koan, Seen and Not Seen, The snake and the moon...
Koan, Seen and Not Seen, The snake and the moon...kazuma wrote:
Wow, surprised at all the negative comments about this one. I'm diggin' it.
ditto. hi kazuma!
Wow, surprised at all the negative comments about this one. I'm diggin' it.
Normally, I like DCD, but I find this a tad grating. Mostly it's those whiny vocalizations...
muzak for the casino
Any station that plays Dead Can Dance is OK by me. One of my fav groups, though this is a kind of mediocre song on an otherwise good album.
lobster claw
Dead can Dance has many awesome songs - this one is just a 7.
Dead can also sing!
Was digging it. But now i'm hoping it will quickly come to an end.
We seem to be having a run on planetarium show music this afternoon . . . which is a good thing! :!:
Oh wewe! La mort peut danser!
MM_Prague wrote:
(consulting my CD's).. Toward the Within was 1994, this was 1996.
The live album is newer that this one... 
um, actually no. (consulting my CD's).. Toward the Within was 1994, this was 1996.
redshifted wrote:
Yes, more Dead Can Dance please. Something off earlier albums perhaps. The "Towards the Within" live album is awesome.
The live album is newer that this one...
Perfect song for the start of Glastonbury 2005. Thunder and lightning storms, knee deep in rivers of mud and the great unwashed. Just put this song on the iPod and chill out.
Please make it stop. What is that horrible screeching in the background? The dead may dance but they sing like the undead! yuk!This is just annoying and boring
A pioneering band, one of their lesser efforts.
rush-2112 wrote:
This is not creative, I can blow on a flute, beat a drum, and chant and it takes almost NO talent. LEt them dance just don't let them play music.
Let me guess... You don't like nonfigurative art, either....
Please, let's refrain from arguments like "I can do that, it takes no talent..." It's not relevant. Try listening to the music and form your opinions according to that, instead of judging the musicians' technical dexterity.
Uuh, not my style :grumpy.gif:
guh!
yick...a hippy jazzbo world music mess. :( please make it stop.