I am in love... I am a fool...

[heidi]

Further to my last post, I decided when I got in the car to go to the bank that I should bite the bullet and listen to my newly downloaded from itunes Finn Bros songs from the Everyone Is Here EP...

I've had then for a bit of time, now, but I haven't played them because I've been terrified. I've lost faith in bands before - everything but the girl broke my heart in 1998 when they went techno and abandoned the acousitcs and orchestrals I fell in love with, and I admit that I did not love Neil Finn's last album, One Nil.

But I am in love, again. In love with it all and crying stupidly and desperately with love for their voices and their music and their wonderfulness, and my God it's been 22 years since I fell for Neil Finn and he still makes my head spin.

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So that's the question of the moment. Has a band ever broken your heart by not living up to their prior brilliance? Have you fallen out of love with a musician or even been too afraid to listen to something new? What did you do? And when you listened, did you swoon? Did you cry out of love or misery?

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[lore]

It took forever for Try Whistling This to grow on me. Now, it hardly ever strays far from the player. I think we have the same love affair going on, Heidi. Am I going to have to duel you for them? ;)

So that's the question of the moment. Has a band ever broken your heart by not living up to their prior brilliance?

All the time. But the bands that last...they usually come back around again, which is probably why they last. Sometimes, I wonder if it's me and lack of time to pour over albums the way I used to, but I don't think it's entirely true, because truly brilliant albums find a market and crap just doesn't no matter how badly long-time fans want it to be.

You know who bothers me? Chris Whitley. Living with the Law is one of the most brilliant, most sexy albums ever made. I keep buying his new stuff, and it never seems to get there, to that level of LwtL. HE breaks my heart.

Have you fallen out of love with a musician or even been too afraid to listen to something new?

Duran Duran. Rush. I am literally afraid to hear Paula Cole's next album after Amen.

What did you do? And when you listened, did you swoon? Did you cry out of love or misery?

I just felt sad. Bad music from good musicians make me sad. But it's the same for bad movies and bad books...bad TV shows. It's always sad when someone isn't living up to their potential.

love, lore

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

I won't duel for him; he and Sharon are so cute I'm happy to see them happily ever after. Plus, if they did ever break up, anyone who snagged him next would have to know that he wrote Message to My Girl for her.

I loved King Tide, last One Standing and Faster Than Light from the first, but I've never loved other songs on that album, so it's a mixed one for me - but the songs I love, I just breathe them. Sighswoon.