Pretty Little Dead Girl review
Jun. 5th, 2006 11:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
celticdragonflyThe only way I'm going to coherently get through the weekend's backlog of posts I want to make is chronologically, I think.
So, Friday evening. Off I went to meet up with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fordprfct and kattelyn, with plans for shopping for pink presents, pink wrapping paper, pink ribbon, pink plates and napkins and cups, and wai!, the pinkness!, all for a certain little girl's upcoming birthday party.
I got stuck in traffic. Gawdsawful traffic, ended up getting off the fwy as soon as I could and going the long way around. However, fortunately for me, my copy of Pretty Little Dead Girl, Seanan McGuire /cadhla's album from OVFF, had arrived that day, and I'd grabbed it to take with me, as Dwynwyn has a CD player. And suddenly I didn't mind the traffic delays nearly as much. Because the last track of the album finished playing just as I parked my car in front of the house in Euless. There's timing for you.
Well. The first few tracks started off as good music, I was enjoying it, oh that was interesting, sure. But then I hit track 4. And from there on, WOW. I mean, I don't usually like live albums, but this was wonderful.
River Lies - eerie, creepy, GOOD. Fascinating. The kind of song that you want to read the story - but you know you already have heard the soul of it.
Maybe It's Crazy - I'd read the lyrics online (go ahead - I'll wait) and was looking forward to it. It's better with the music, and with hearing her wonderfully smoky sensual voice. However, it was also frustrating. From the laughter of the audience and some description I've read of the performance, I bet it would have been wonderful to have been there and seen it. But as a recording, it suffers a little, at least to me with my hearing issues. I had a hard time understanding the words in a lot of places. I am really hoping that PLEASE Seanan please, she will put it on the upcoming studio album. Please. Because I love it. It's like the sapiosexual Spark-fan anthem!
Vampire Slayer Blues - I love this song. I love love love it. It keeps getting stuck in my head. I want to finish this review so I can go play it again. I want to learn it for filksings, although I dunno if I have the lung capacity - how does she go that long before taking a breath?faxpaladin, if I learn this, will you be my Watcher? (I have to admit I don't get the spoken stuff at the end, but this is probably because I live under a rock and don't know who Christian Slater is. Or possibly it's because I'm only up to season 3 in watching Buffy.)
Modern Mystic - She has a description of various of the songs on her LJ here. She described this one as a RPG song, so I'm thinking right, some song about a character I don't know in a campaign I don't know, this one will bore me, not interested. Not paying much attention. Then the song started. Just the richness of the sound caught me the first time through - again, that sultry voice. And then I was realizing the complexity of the rhyme - the langorous slow feel of it, and the strong use of feminine rhyme scheme. I love that. She is queen of it. Ooh yeah.
Fly Little Bird - okay, wasn't I just praising her for slow langorous feminine rhyme? Now here she is coming at me with quick, dancing, almost choppy (but darn it that sounds like a negative word and it isn't) masculine rhyme and it is fantastic, complex overlying patterns and oh wow. Why don't I just go offer to have her babies now? And this was a LIVE album? OMG. It's not like this is a group - as I understand it, this is just backup singers she roped into singing with her for OVFF. Right? Wow. That's some talented people. (I wanna go to OVFF!)
Sycamore Tree - like Fly Little Bird, in that the arrangement is just amazing. That's what floors me the most about this album - it's not one person writing really good songs, it's that she writes these complicated multivoiced songs that make my brain feel all quivery good listening to them. The song had a lot of impact to me, I can only guess how it must feel for someone who actually grew up in a small town environment.
They just put up a new order page for the album. It's here:
https://www.seananmcguire.com/secure_order.php
Go. Order it. My understanding is that this will not be up indefinitely - she's only selling it this way for a short time. So be quick. You can thank me later.
Me, I'll be off here replaying mine. I've had Vampire Slayer Blues, Fly Little Bird, and Sycamore Tree all competing in my head as earworms. (Sarah Tapper loves Harry Marshall...)
So, Friday evening. Off I went to meet up with
fordprfct and kattelyn, with plans for shopping for pink presents, pink wrapping paper, pink ribbon, pink plates and napkins and cups, and wai!, the pinkness!, all for a certain little girl's upcoming birthday party. I got stuck in traffic. Gawdsawful traffic, ended up getting off the fwy as soon as I could and going the long way around. However, fortunately for me, my copy of Pretty Little Dead Girl, Seanan McGuire /
cadhla's album from OVFF, had arrived that day, and I'd grabbed it to take with me, as Dwynwyn has a CD player. And suddenly I didn't mind the traffic delays nearly as much. Because the last track of the album finished playing just as I parked my car in front of the house in Euless. There's timing for you. Well. The first few tracks started off as good music, I was enjoying it, oh that was interesting, sure. But then I hit track 4. And from there on, WOW. I mean, I don't usually like live albums, but this was wonderful.
River Lies - eerie, creepy, GOOD. Fascinating. The kind of song that you want to read the story - but you know you already have heard the soul of it.
Maybe It's Crazy - I'd read the lyrics online (go ahead - I'll wait) and was looking forward to it. It's better with the music, and with hearing her wonderfully smoky sensual voice. However, it was also frustrating. From the laughter of the audience and some description I've read of the performance, I bet it would have been wonderful to have been there and seen it. But as a recording, it suffers a little, at least to me with my hearing issues. I had a hard time understanding the words in a lot of places. I am really hoping that PLEASE Seanan please, she will put it on the upcoming studio album. Please. Because I love it. It's like the sapiosexual Spark-fan anthem!
Vampire Slayer Blues - I love this song. I love love love it. It keeps getting stuck in my head. I want to finish this review so I can go play it again. I want to learn it for filksings, although I dunno if I have the lung capacity - how does she go that long before taking a breath?
faxpaladin, if I learn this, will you be my Watcher? (I have to admit I don't get the spoken stuff at the end, but this is probably because I live under a rock and don't know who Christian Slater is. Or possibly it's because I'm only up to season 3 in watching Buffy.) Modern Mystic - She has a description of various of the songs on her LJ here. She described this one as a RPG song, so I'm thinking right, some song about a character I don't know in a campaign I don't know, this one will bore me, not interested. Not paying much attention. Then the song started. Just the richness of the sound caught me the first time through - again, that sultry voice. And then I was realizing the complexity of the rhyme - the langorous slow feel of it, and the strong use of feminine rhyme scheme. I love that. She is queen of it. Ooh yeah.
Fly Little Bird - okay, wasn't I just praising her for slow langorous feminine rhyme? Now here she is coming at me with quick, dancing, almost choppy (but darn it that sounds like a negative word and it isn't) masculine rhyme and it is fantastic, complex overlying patterns and oh wow. Why don't I just go offer to have her babies now? And this was a LIVE album? OMG. It's not like this is a group - as I understand it, this is just backup singers she roped into singing with her for OVFF. Right? Wow. That's some talented people. (I wanna go to OVFF!)
Sycamore Tree - like Fly Little Bird, in that the arrangement is just amazing. That's what floors me the most about this album - it's not one person writing really good songs, it's that she writes these complicated multivoiced songs that make my brain feel all quivery good listening to them. The song had a lot of impact to me, I can only guess how it must feel for someone who actually grew up in a small town environment.
They just put up a new order page for the album. It's here:
https://www.seananmcguire.com/secure_order.php
Go. Order it. My understanding is that this will not be up indefinitely - she's only selling it this way for a short time. So be quick. You can thank me later.
Me, I'll be off here replaying mine. I've had Vampire Slayer Blues, Fly Little Bird, and Sycamore Tree all competing in my head as earworms. (Sarah Tapper loves Harry Marshall...)
