Neko Case kinda frightens me - she has femme fatale written all over her. Still, self-destruction has its charms and all the pics of ladies above seem to have it in their eyes...

Any decently intelligent, decently attractive famale is going to have femme fatale written all over her.

Ok, so I have this playlist that I throw songs that would be good for a mixtape to my girlfriend in (she LOVES my mixes... it's so cuuuttteee haha) and I had to throw Dramarama's cover of Femme Fatale in there because it (sadly) reminds me so much of her (I def. won't be putting it on a mix for her though... it'll boost her ego too much haha)

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Originally posted by b0arder753:

Ok, so I have this playlist that I throw songs that would be good for a mixtape to my girlfriend in (she LOVES my mixes... it's so cuuuttteee haha)

How romantic.

When I was younger (in the 80s), I used to do the same for my girlfriends. It was a lot harder back then. You'd have to go tape to tape or CD to tape - and that took a lot of time. So, you had to really love the girl to go to that much effort.

Now, it's just click and drag. It's easy enough to do for your one-night stands.

That gives me an idea for a new thread - What songs would you put on a soundtrack for your one night stand?

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How romantic.

When I was younger (in the 80s), I used to do the same for my girlfriends. It was a lot harder back then. You'd have to go tape to tape or CD to tape - and that took a lot of time. So, you had to really love the girl to go to that much effort.

Now, it's just click and drag. It's easy enough to do for your one-night stands.

That gives me an idea for a new thread - What songs would you put on a soundtrack for your one night stand?


The world was made for people without the curse of self-consciousness.

haha. yea i remember making some mixes like that back in the early 90's. i was still young then but old enough to remmber it took hours instead of minutes.

and thats a great idea for the thread. ill be a regular on it. lol.

Update: I've been living with Ys for about a month. I have been listening to it often. The song structure was difficult to get my ears around, but now I find them beautiful and enjoyable to listen to.

But, I am having trouble penetrating the lyrics. The only song that I think I get is Monkey and Bear. Monkey is the male, Bear is the female. Bear wants to break out of normal gender roles. Monkey says he wants to as well, but can't break through societies barriers.

I have no idea what the rest of the songs are about. I love Sawdust and Diamonds, but I spent some time trying to concentrate on the lyrics and they still don't make any sense to me.

So, if any of you "get" Emily, Sawdust and Diamonds, Only Skin, or Cosmis, please clue me in.

On this site there is (I think) a pretty good interpretation of Monkey and Bear (see Annelise's post) : http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=3530822107858623196

Re Emily: Emily is based on Joanna's sister Emily (she sings backing vocals) who is an astrophysicist (you can also search on the songmeanings site for more details) hence the meteor's etc.

In Sawdust and Diamonds she seems to be singing about playing the Harp ("the wires...made with glue and a glove and some pliers") and performing to an audience ("..while the audience admires").

Only Skin features fiance Bill Callahan (Smog) on vocals and seems to be a love song.

Cosmia seems to be about being lonely, broken hearted, "darkness" and ties in with the overall theme of the stars, the universe etc.

These decipherments are all generalised and simplistic, but may provide you with a basis to form your own interpretation.

In the liner notes of the album where she says her thank you's--I don't know if it is the last name or the penultimate person thanked--but she thanks Will Oldham. I have been meaning to ask, does anybody know anything on their relationship and how he helped her out on this album or anything else?

Apparently Will "discovered" her. He heard her demo and took her on tour with him.

Oh ok thanks Stocky, I had always wondered that.

Does anyone else have a weird relationship with this album, in the sense that sometimes it's exactly and the only thing you could possibly want to listen to....yet this occurs very rarely, like less than once a month. I still love it of course, but I acutally hope the follow up to this returns to 'Milkeyed-Mender' in terms of song lengths. She should continue to experiment with song structure by all means, but maybe just trim the fat a bit.

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Originally posted by The Ninth Wave:
Does anyone else have a weird relationship with this album, in the sense that sometimes it's exactly and the only thing you could possibly want to listen to....yet this occurs very rarely, like less than once a month. I still love it of course, but I acutally hope the follow up to this returns to 'Milkeyed-Mender' in terms of song lengths. She should continue to experiment with song structure by all means, but maybe just trim the fat a bit.

I think she's mentioned in an interview somewhere that the song length/album structure wasn't really planned - it just came about that way. However, I don't think there was a whole lot of fat to be cut from Ys. I mean, the whole thing was 55 minutes or so - still under and hour.

I have an odd relationship with this album as well. I can't really listen to it all that often because every time I do it's an emotionally draining experience. I'm not sure how else to put it.