Moderators Lee Knight Posted December 19, 2014 Moderators Share Posted December 19, 2014 Hey, hi! Post it. Tell us about it. Why DO you like it? We want to know. ______________________ This new Marc Cohn tune came my way via Bonnie Raitt's Facebook page posting her recommendation on my feed. I really like it. It's a slow/grow type tune. The use of 3/4 and 2/4 bars sprinkled in here and there are very nice. Not gimmicky in the least. Completely serving the melody. Nice. Note the pattern in the Chorus and the following instrumental section on the chorus chords immediately (well, 4 bars) after that 1st chorus. It's the same pattern and chords. [ 4/4 ][ 4/4 ][ 3/4 ][ 4/4 ] [ 4/4 ][ 2/4 ][ 4/4 ][ 4/4 ] There's an additional bar of 2/4 in the verses. It appears in the 2nd half of the verse as it goes to the relative major. [ 4/4 ][ 2/4 ][ 4/4 ][ 4/4 ] Another very cool thing about the tune is its structure. That instrumental on the chorus chords, only 4 bars after the 1st chorus, is great. I don't want it to be any where else. Right there. That's the place. But it never would've occurred to me. The playing is both simple and very refined. Great taste and chops from the band. And Cohn sounding a little like Randy Newman.I like this. Cool images lyrically. Makes me want to spend some time with the lyrics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tbry Posted December 19, 2014 Members Share Posted December 19, 2014 I saw these guys way back in the day...I thought they were doing stuff that was other worldly...Page can just flat out play and no one sings like Plant. I always enjoyed this song for its simplicity and acoustic sound. The vid cuts off to soon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rsadasiv Posted December 19, 2014 Members Share Posted December 19, 2014 Been listening to a lot of Zep lately. Dig the way that Bonham's snare drives the groove from slightly behind the beat. Led Zeppelin - The Ocean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrV6exi1WlM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rsadasiv Posted December 19, 2014 Members Share Posted December 19, 2014 More drums.... Johnny Jenkins - I Walk On Gilded Splinters[video=youtube;8fZnOIVq-lw] The Dr. John version is no slouch in the groove department either. Dr. John - I Walk On Gilded Splinters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rsadasiv Posted December 19, 2014 Members Share Posted December 19, 2014 Robert Plant's new album is really good - he's discovered a rich vein of form in his later career (unlike Page, who seems to spend his days creating inessential remasters and watching the filthy lucre flow in ). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tbry Posted December 19, 2014 Members Share Posted December 19, 2014 He still sounds great^^^...enjoyed...while I'm at it found this after listening to your submission...the Rain song with full orchestration and Page's acoustic cuts through so clear... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Lee Knight Posted December 20, 2014 Author Moderators Share Posted December 20, 2014 Man... Page plays with such an amazing feel. What a great musician. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted December 20, 2014 Members Share Posted December 20, 2014 Marianne Faithfull doing Dylan's, "Visions of Johanna." Wikipedia" "Several critics have acclaimed "Visions of Johanna" as one of Dylan's highest achievements in writing, praising the allusiveness and subtlety of the language. Rolling Stone included "Visions of Johanna" on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In 1999, Sir Andrew Motion, poet laureate of the UK, listed it as his candidate for the greatest song lyric ever written. Numerous artists have recorded cover versions of the song, including the Grateful Dead, Marianne Faithfull and Robyn Hitchcock." Personally, I wasn't much of a fan of this song until I heard this version. It's a definite influence because when I came up with an idea for a song a while back, I chose the name "Hannah" for one of the characters as a kind of nod to this tune by Dylan, even though they're nothing alike. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AkMebZzzVI Ain’t it just like the night to play tricks when you’re tryin' to be so quiet?We sit here stranded, though we’re all doin’ our best to deny itAnd Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin’ you to defy itLights flicker from the opposite loftIn this room the heat pipes just coughThe country music station plays softBut there’s nothing, really nothing to turn offJust Louise and her lover so entwinedAnd these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind In the empty lot where the ladies play blindman’s bluff with the key chainAnd the all-night girls they whisper of escapades out on the “D” trainWe can hear the night watchman click his flashlightAsk himself if it’s him or them that’s really insaneLouise, she’s all right, she’s just nearShe’s delicate and seems like the mirrorBut she just makes it all too concise and too clearThat Johanna’s not hereThe ghost of ’lectricity howls in the bones of her faceWhere these visions of Johanna have now taken my place Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriouslyHe brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerouslyAnd when bringing her name upHe speaks of a farewell kiss to meHe’s sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and allMuttering small talk at the wall while I’m in the hallHow can I explain?Oh, it’s so hard to get onAnd these visions of Johanna, they kept me up past the dawn Inside the museums, Infinity goes up on trialVoices echo this is what salvation must be like after a whileBut Mona Lisa musta had the highway bluesYou can tell by the way she smilesSee the primitive wallflower freezeWhen the jelly-faced women all sneezeHear the one with the mustache say, “JeezeI can’t find my knees”Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the muleBut these visions of Johanna, they make it all seem so cruel The peddler now speaks to the countesswho’s pretending to care for himSayin’, “Name me someone that’s not a parasiteand I’ll go out and say a prayer for him”But like Louise always says“Ya can’t look at much, can ya man?”As she, herself, prepares for himAnd Madonna, she still has not showedWe see this empty cage now corrodeWhere her cape of the stage once had flowedThe fiddler, he now steps to the roadHe writes ev’rything’s been returned which was owedOn the back of the fish truck that loadsWhile my conscience explodesThe harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rainAnd these visions of Johanna are now all that remain Copyright © 1966 by Dwarf Music; renewed 1994 by Dwarf Music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mbfrancis Posted December 20, 2014 Members Share Posted December 20, 2014 "Visions of Johanna" is without question my favorite Dylan song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nat whilk II Posted December 20, 2014 Members Share Posted December 20, 2014 There are precious few songs that are so powerfully emotional that they are just too hard to listen to at times...this is one for me. A Christmas song! What sparse, suggestive lyrics....so much of what gets said is in the spaces between the words. There are some interesting variances in the lyrics from this live version compared to the album version lyrics copied below. Family Life - The Blue Nile[video=youtube_share;AdrIKMDRLbU] Starlight, do you know me?Please, don't look at me nowI'm falling apart Silver on the windowLike the bike I once hadAt home in the yard Jesus, love let me downAnd I know where You areIt might lead somewhere Gather me in snowfallAnd the cars going byThe north and the south Flowers on the tableAnd the coffee gets coldLike the milk in my mouth Sailing on no honeymoonJust separate chairs in separate roomsJesus, please make us happy sometimesNo more shout, no more fight, family life Tomorrow will be ChristmasWe'll be singing old songsAnd light up the tree God and all the mercyAnd say all your prayersFor little old me Jesus, You wipe the tears from her faceAnd the sound of his voice, family life Mystery Jesus, I go to sleep and I prayFor my kids, for my wife, family life nat whilk ii Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Etienne Rambert Posted December 28, 2014 Members Share Posted December 28, 2014 "So taunt me and hurt me,deceive me, desert me, I'm yours till I die, So in love, so in love, So in love with you, my love, am I..." I have obsessed about this song for days. Such tragic passion. I hear this as an existential waltz or a perfect Bossa Nova. It doesn't matter. It's become my new favorite song. I played it one morning in my bistro. The staff wanted to hear it repeatedly. They didn't really understand the English. But they apparently talked to each other about it because each one who arrived asked me to play it - with encores. Passion, universality beyond language, what more can a songwriter aspire to? Cb9Qx2NomZk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LCK Posted December 29, 2014 Members Share Posted December 29, 2014 "So taunt me and hurt me, deceive me, desert me, I'm yours till I die, So in love, so in love, So in love with you, my love, am I..." Passion, universality beyond language, what more can a songwriter aspire to? One of my favorite Cole Porter songs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94mBgwhPhro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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