I've mentioned before my fondness for this song. When both of my children were born, it was the first song I sang to them. I think it's about as beautiful a song as there is.
Nice. As long as we're talking wedding songs, while mine was pretty standard, it is one of my favorite songs of all time. It was played live for us, not by the Beach Boys though. Bummer:
My wife came down the aisle to a wedding march I penned, played live by a violin, and two guitars. Wish I had it on video.
We had some live music too. The latter half of the evening was basically 100% 80's pop and new wave off an iPod because we hate standard wedding dance music (best decision EVER btw). The first half though, we had a Kanun player, which was fucking awesome. He basically jammed out crazy psychedelic Arabic dance music and pretty much raised the roof. He threw in some sick Stones and Beatles interpretations in there as well.
Well, to be honest Bruce Johnston and John Stamos said they'd play it for $50 but I thought that was a bit steep.
that is legitimately the ugliest video I have seen in a LONG time. love it.John Coltrane - Love Supreme
Think back to the time you felt most loving and most loved. Then read the last quatrain of this poem. Would you trade that memory for food? Love is Not All (Sonnet XXX) Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1892 - 1950
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again; Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone. It well may be that in a difficult hour,
Pinned down by pain and moaning for release,
Or nagged by want past resolution’s power,
I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
Or trade the memory of this night for food.
It well may be. I do not think I would.
God, I love Chet Baker. Getting kind of a thenewgreen vibe from that second one, no?
A complicated figure, like most jazz musicians. I love him too. I was hoping to find the version of this song that I first remember hearing - It was with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet. Unfortunately, they recorded it several times, and none of the ones I could find were the ones that I remember. I don't even have the CD anymore - some sort of collected, "various artists" jazz cd that i think my mom picked up either at Costco or the LCBO. I was playing the Bari sax at the time, and the countermelodic interjections by Gerry Mulligan were amazing. They started almost immediately too - one of the reasons I can easily tell that the recordings I've heard are not the one I know. re: the second one - I think it's definitely something TNG would like, if he hasn't heard it already.
Walked into a random organic foods style grocery thing the other day and they were playing Nujabes of all things and I turned to the cashier and said quote 'woah man you are playing Nujabes' and he said yes it's the anniversary of his death. So fuck that.
Love Song (Break-Up Song, Really, But So Good): Love Poems: - For You - Adam Zagajewski: FOR YOU It's not the only poem-are you asleep now
in a cloud of woolen dreams-I've written for you.
For you, triumphant, smiling, lovely,
but also for you, conquered and subdued,
(although I've never understood who could defeat you!),
for you, mistrustful and uneasy, I've written poem after poem,
as if hoping one day-like the tortoise
-to reach, by way of faulty words
and images, the place where you have been so long,
where life's lightning carried you.
Not exactly a love song, I don't know that Springsteen has written a proper saccharine love song, but I do love me some tracks off of Tunnel of Love, particularly Tougher Than the Rest: There's also Leap of Faith which I think he wrote about his wife. I like it but it has cringeworthy lines like: The Boss does not write ballads. Leap of Faith is good but his wife has red hair so there's not a lot of subtle artistry going on there. I think it has another really bad line so I'm not linking to the song.Now you were the Red Sea I was Moses
I kissed you and slipped into a bed of roses
The waters parted and love rushed inside
Song for Zula by Phosphorescent is amazing. All of Muchacho is a love and life album, it's incredible. But this song...this song gets it. There's probably better examples but that was the first thing that came to my mind.