What UW track "gets to you"?

holden · #1 08-22-2006, 11:18 AM

...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 · #2 08-22-2006, 11:57 AM

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 · #3 08-22-2006, 12:36 PM

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 · #4 08-22-2006, 12:52 PM

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

BrotherLovesDub · #5 08-22-2006, 01:20 PM

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 · #6 08-22-2006, 01:40 PM

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Originally Posted by BrotherLovesDub

8 BALL.

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

crazysugarboy · #7 08-22-2006, 01:48 PM

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

beh · #8 08-22-2006, 09:42 PM

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Originally Posted by BrotherLovesDub

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

I always thought it was "silence is preserving a voice".

<~five minutes elapsed>

upon a few listens of the version in "Second...", I'm still not sure. hmm...?

bh

Bargo · #9 08-23-2006, 12:17 AM

For me, it absolutely, positively has to be "Ansum".

#10 08-23-2006, 01:31 AM

[COLOR=DarkSlateGray]Several songs make me melancholic, first one that comes to mind is Born Slippy Nuxx, when they play it live and every one is jumping and yelling, i always find myself wondering how many people around me really know what the song is about?
Then there's Rubber Ball, Karl sounds so sad and lostand drunk and i don't know, it really gets to me.
But the one that really touches my heart and makes me cry almost everytime, especially live, is Moaner.. "you left me alone".. (now you are looking into one of the dark corner of my soul

)ooowwwwwwww makes me wanna howl

And Rez, it is so beautiful again and again, and last time they played it during the broadcast, it was for all of us, tears in my eyes

, but that's not down, just very emotional

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