Thursday 22 April, 2004
Patience
When we were browsing HMV with Chu on Heathrow couple of months back waiting for the flight to Helsinki to leave, I made an impulse buy and got George Michael's new CD Patience. I've always liked his stuff - especially Faith - but Listen without Prejudice was a bit of a disappointment and has been the last CD I've actually bought. At HMV they were playing Freeek and I just decided to get it.
I've been now listening Patience at work for quite a while. At first they were only couple of tracks that really jumped out, but I find that this is a CD that I can listen to on repeat for several hours, and this is sometimes at work quite useful - and it's rare to find a CD like that.
After about a months listen I had come to the conclusion that I liked pretty much all the fast tracks - especially Amazing, Cars and Trains, Round Here, Flawless and Freeek, but that the ballads were pretty much all the same. But after even more Patience on repeat, I've grown to love this album including the ballads.
In fact, I'd probably go as far as saying that it could be the best CD I've bought in ages. Lot of CDs I've liked lately haven't been as durable as this one - other ones on my playlist include Evanescence, Coldplay, Drowning Pool, Trio Niskalaukaus, Creed, Pink, Tom Jones, and some soundtracks: mainly Kill Bill vol. 1 and Donnie Darko. (And of course Rammstein for when I need to concentrate, but that's another story.) But I find that when I need music to block out other noises, it's Patience I seem to be choosing from the list time after time.
So there must be something in this.
Most of the songs have actually quite clever lyrics and opposed to what I normally do I've really only read them afterwards so my perceptions of the songs are much based on how they sound, pretty strange. I've tried to pick just couple of lines from a song that would in some way capture this album, but it seems pretty much impossible. Most of the songs seem to contain stories, most of them sound like biographical - there is a song about George Michaels previous partner, Anselmo (Anselmo's Song), and a story about his uncle who killed himself (My Mother Had A Brother), but I've chosen something from a one of the weirdest ballads:
"But the words that made me cry
‘Cos I knew just what they meant
He turned to me and said
“Hey boy, if Jesus Christ is alive and well
Then how come John & Elvis are dead?"
What about the Nylon Beat album I gave you? :)
# 2 - Kolibri (on April 23, 2004 06:27 AM):
Yes, ladies and gentlemen - I own a Nylon Beat CD.
I'd like to point out at this point that I asked for the new Trio Niskalaukaus CD, but what did I get? Double CD of Nylon Beat. (For my non-Finnish readers: that's like asking for Metallica and getting Boyzone.)
It's all very interesting, my dear ;) Now that you reminded me, I'll take it to work so I can listen to it properly. Don't worry, we'll come back to it ;)
# 3 - Anonymous (on April 23, 2004 11:41 AM):
Darling, you make it sound like you don't like Boyzone.
There is no shame in liking well-produced pop!
# 4 - Kolibri (on April 23, 2004 12:03 PM):
Honeypup, I'm not saying that at all :)
There's a time and a place for everything. Even for teen-pop.
# 5 - J-Ko (on April 23, 2004 01:50 PM):
I challenge you to listen to Bodies Without Organs new song Living in the Fantasy on repeat for an hour. I've just done that and now I'm in the perfect mood for the weekend.
Ok. Fine. At the very least, give it 20 minutes.
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