buddhu wrote:Cranberry wrote:buddhu wrote:
I love that song, Cran
. That was in the days before she went all annoying...
Hah. I've heard a lot of people say that before she became a Catholic priest or before she had the whole "Pope incident" she made good music but now she doesn't, but I disagree. I believe a lot of people dislike her political/theological views so they dismiss her music as crap, when it's really not. She's a first-rate musician, who just happens to be a little bit crazy.
At any rate, "Never Get Old" has some spine-tingling shouting. I really hesitate to call it shouting, though, because that's just how her voice works. It's really beautiful.
Another song by her which I hesitate to suggest is "Fire On Babylon." It's a song about child abuse and I guess it does have a lot of shouting, but I've never thought of it as shouting, more as singing with A LOT of force and power, and she does it very very well.
She's not at all crap. I prefer the vitiolic stuff to her quiet moments, but she makes good records. That said, I quite liked that 'Nothing Compares' one until it got played to death on UK radio. Grr... why do they have to do that?
I can't bear to watch her in interviews though. That's the context in which I find her annoying. 'Madinka' remains my favourite track. I think I still have the single somewhere.
Sadly, I
do know what you're talking about re: interviews. She comes across as contradictory, "not all there," painful to watch, and sometimes just plain weird (
like me! haha), especially with all her retirements from the music industry and the way she came out as a lesbian then got married to a man a few months later. She has publicly announced her retirement, I think, three times, mabey four, only to come back a year or two later with a new album.
She seems to be infected with music and seems like one of those people who has to record to stay alive which, I suppose, can be a blessing (for the listeners) and a curse (for her).
As you might know, she didn't sing "Nothing Compares 2 U" for a lot of years because of the overplaying and the way everybody only associated her with one song, but, a year or two ago, she released a live version
which featured low whistle and it sounded like a completely different song. I love the live version.
