What UW track "gets to you"?

[holden]

...and by that i mean, makes you just a lil bit melancholy? So many of their tracks are uplifting, life-affirming, and it's easy to say, "oh, King of Snake always makes me dance", or "when i hear Cowgirl, i go mental!"
Any that hit you a lil deeper?

Reason i ask is, i just played "Most 'Ospitable" and i'm about ready to lose it into a sobbing mess. It's so lovely and sounds like yearning.

Others? Your deep thoughts included?

holden

[sloff]

Skym. I was, in fact, just listening to it right before I read this. I used to skip it back when BF first came out but now... I like revel in its sadness. I don't know if I get exactly what Karl's saying but for me its a song about having known how you're going to fuck up and doing it anyway.

Of course there's Dirty Epic too. Gives me sad chills everytime I hear it. So I was having a conundrum when I heard it live at my last UW show. Joyous day to hear it, but it gets to me.

[Jan]

Please Help Me from the Blue Mountain gig is my favourite. Karl's lyrics are wonderful here. Always reminds me of... umm, a sunrise? Or holidays...
Twist always puts me in this special mood, too.

[the mongoose]

the Winjer/Skym combo is about as close I get to feeling down while listening to UW....Dirty Epic maybe as well.

[BrotherLovesDub]

8 BALL.

Mother Earth.

To Dream To Love (i hear your voice on the other side of this glass...silence is preserved in a void)

[TheBang]

Originally Posted by BrotherLovesDub

8 BALL.

You sure? That stuff makes me feel . . . feel . . . happy.

[crazysugarboy]

It has to be Jumbo. Altho Steve Lamacq was playing King of Snake prior to the release of BF, which got me programmed into u/w, it was hearing Jumbo on the hmv pa in oxford which made me check out the whole album - the evening after work when I listened to Jumbo on the Virgin Records listening post was recorded in my diary Monday 1st March 1999. At that point my life changed forever - thank you rick, karl, and the 2 darrens

[BrotherLovesDub]

Originally Posted by TheBang

You sure? That stuff makes me feel . . . feel . . . happy.

yes, this song does both for me. it's uplifting and sad, at the same time. i find the world the narrator/vocalist is commenting on is cold, harsh and unforgiving yet even though the deck is stacked and the outcome determined, these misfortunes and daily struggles are what truly make us feel alive and that feeling of being alive, being in touch with your emotions through hardships is the elation the narrator/vocalist is expressing...at least that's how i interpret the song. i love 8 Ball but it's not one i'll put on to get hyped to go out.

[holden]

Originally Posted by BrotherLovesDub

yes, this song does both for me. it's uplifting and sad, at the same time. i find the world the narrator/vocalist is commenting on is cold, harsh and unforgiving yet even though the deck is stacked and the outcome determined, these misfortunes and daily struggles are what truly make us feel alive and that feeling of being alive, being in touch with your emotions through hardships is the elation the narrator/vocalist is expressing...at least that's how i interpret the song. i love 8 Ball but it's not one i'll put on to get hyped to go out.

totally agree with your sentiments. in fact, a while back, i did a lil remix of 8 Ball called "AViD's dark and happy mix". You can be both.

i get really affected around the end when Karl's singing "today! Today!" and the melody is rising. "That bright stuff makes me feel feeeel HAPPY!"
i get so happy there i can't stop crying. Like Holden Caulfield did.

[Icke]

It's Skym for me too.