![]() « Older Turtles, Snakes, and Spiders | A reason to be excited about the next fifty years. Posted by mrgrimm at 9:33 AM on July 23, 2012 Here I am, Here I am, Waiting to hold you" Hear me sing, "Swim to me, Swim to me, Let me enfold you: O my heart, O my heart shies from the sorrow" ![]() Were you hare when I was fox? ( here/flotsam)įor you sing, "Touch me not, touch me not, come back tomorrow: I've heard it hundreds of times and it still thrills me. Zack Snyders Justice League (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Play album. It's subtle, majestic, haunting and beautiful. I've mentioned this before here, but Elizabeth Fraser's vocal performance on TMC's version is the best singing I've ever heard from a human being. Or 'Futzing around with less than a minute of found footage'. I had an epiphany one time that it's almost as if he's singing as the sailor, and elizabeth fraser's singing as the siren. 'Long afloat on shipless oceans, I did all my best to smile'. Posted by Dee Xtrovert at 6:49 PM on JĪnd I watched half of the linked episode before I realized that "Song to the Siren's irresistible tang" wasn't a dirty Monkee's song about oral sex.Īnd then you watched the rest of the episode. Long afloat in shipless oceans: So begins Song To The Siren whose lyrics were inspired by Homers Odyssey and the story of the Sirens who lured unwitting. Karen Dalton Little Bit Of Rain (Fred Neil cover) Anyone who likes Buckley should like Neil, so try these out: Like Buckley, he drifted into something a bit more odd than what he's best known for, and you have to dig a little to get to the real gems. Bb Ab Eb Bb And you sang 'Sail to me, sail to me Let me enfold you.' Gm F Eb Here I am, here I am waiting to hold you. Neil's influence on everyone from Buckley to Nilsson to Dylan to the Jefferson Airplane to CSNY is well-known, and he has an unusual presence that serves as a spiritual link to all of them (and many more - Karen Dalton, the Band.) But I've long thought he was Buckley's primary role model. (The) Dolphins is a fantastic song, on some level the equal of "Song To The Siren," and Buckley nearly made it his own, similarly to how Nilsson handled "Everybody's Talkin'." But both "Everybody's Talkin'" and "Dolphins" were actually written by notorious recluse Fred Neil, whose self-titled album on Capitol stands as one of the least-known yet most impressive records ever. by a lot of the interviews we did with famous Rugby League players. But didn't find my way to Tim Buckley until Billy Bragg covered his Dolphins. Its a great role and she does it justice.
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