Comments on: After Slumber (ix)

By: Dominic

Dominic — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:22:16 +0000

It is a very strange sounding piece of music – the voice is unusual, distinctly mannered. It doesn’t go in the directions you expect harmonically, either. I remember desperately waiting for it to come on the radio so that I could tape it. I was equally fascinated by Running up that hill when it came out, for perhaps related reasons – not wholly unrelated to curiosity about sex. I had no way to make sense of this music at the time (I was 11 or 12), but what was most inaccessible to me about it then seems in a way equally inaccessible now: to what dimension of (adult?) experience is this really addressed?

By: ec

ec — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:58:15 +0000

That breathing at the start – I don’t remember that – tho I can remember every word of this tune – video only special?

By: musicinpieces

musicinpieces — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:41:02 +0000

In that category, ‘Why Can’t I Be You’ by The Cure springs to mind as well. ‘If I Was Your Girlfriend’, maybe?