I can't stop listening to The Boys Next Door's "Shivers" lately. I just think the lyrics are absolutely FANTASTIC. I don't even want to know how many times I've listened to it this past week or so. It is so bloody fantastic. It's heart-wrenching and his voice is wonderful on it...guh.
Question time! Which N.C. songs get your waterworks a-runnin'?
I also must mention my favorite N.C. song, "(Are You) the One..." because...COME ON! LISTEN TO IT!
But yes..."Shivers" is aptly named. We've all seen these, but I can't help it:
Awww, awkward youth!
Goodbye
8 years ago
It's funny, every Nick song from BND -> Grinderman makes me insanely happy because they're just so good, and yet some BND and some BS ones do make me cry at the same time --sometimes just because they're so overwhelming!
ReplyDeleteA few that spring to mind (in approx. chronological order)
Boys Next Door - After a Fashion
Bad Seeds - In The Ghetto (I can't help it!)
- From Her to Eternity
- The Carnival Is Over
- Sad Waters
- Your Funeral My Trial
- Stranger Than Kindness
- Long Time Man
- The Mercy Seat
- New Morning
- City of Refuge (acoustic version)
- The Ship Song (can't help it!)
- The Train Song
- Loom of the Land
- When I First Came to Town
- I Let Love In
- Nobody's Baby Now
- Almost EVERY track on the the Boatman's Call :D
- Right Now I'm a-Roaming
- Oh My Lord
- Sweetheart Come
- Good Good Day
And there are some others, like TBS doing "Knockin On Heaven's Door" live in the 80s.
Wow. That was way more than I planned writing down! :D
Laura, that list was AMAZING! And I loooove his version of In the Ghetto! Thank you so much for taking the time to leave such a lovely list. :)
ReplyDeletenot in chronological order :
ReplyDelete- plain gold ring (live in Seattle in 1998)
- knocking on joe
- mercy
- watching Alice
- slowly goes the nigh
- a grief came riding
- no more shall we part
- the loom of the land
- your funeral my trial
- sorrow's child
- straight to you
- christina the astonishing
- when i first came to town
- i let love in
- ain't gonna rain anymore
- bless his ever loving heart
- most of the songs from The boatman's call (especially Brompton oratory and Idiot Prayer)
- the sorrowfull wife
- we came along this road
- darker with the day
- cannibal's hymn
- messiah ward
- spell
- shoot me down
- Time Jesum Transeuntum
- Avalanche (tha amazing version at a Leonard Cohen tribute concert in 2006)
Maybe some of the songs are not "typical ones" to start howling, i think its because of personal memories sometimes and because some stuff is simply soulshaking to me and the performances are so overwhelming...
ReplyDeleteThe absolute number one: Stranger Than Kindness (You can fill a paddling pool when i put everytime i heard that howling my ass off together :D)
Boys Next Door
-Friends Of My World
-Shivers ;)
Birthday Party
-Jennifers Veil
-She`s Hit
-Say A Spell
Bad Seeds
-Halleluja
-The Mercy Seat
-The God Son (Especially live at the Paradiso 1992)
-There She Goes My Beautiful World
-Straight To You
-Sundays Slave
-Far From Me
-The Weeping Song (haha :D)
-Tupelo
-Loom Of The Land
-Jesus Of The Moon
Coverversions:
I`m Gonna Kill That Woman
Hey Joe
In The Ghetto
Wanted Man
Thank you, Anna! :D
ReplyDeleteTo Be By Your Side always gets me howling and if it's accompanied by the migating birds video on youtube, I can't even finish watching/listening to it because the tears are streaming down my face!
ReplyDeleteAlso Shivers sung by Rowland always sets me off.