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Songs that wash over you for years, and then just click

William Sack

12:12 / 22.04.05

Jack Fear remarked in another thread that he thinks Getz/Gilbertos' "Girl from Ipanema" is a terrific song. It is indeed, but I wouldn't like to guess how many times I heard this song before I realised how good it was. I always thought of it as a tacky finger-buffet of a song, with chunks of cheese and pineapple on a cocktail stick. But a couple of years ago I borrowed a Stan Getz CD and actually listened to the song. It's marvelous; beautifully arranged, huskily sung, and the tone of the music perfectly matches the simple lyrics about being tongue-tied in the presence of beauty that doesn't even acknowledge your existence. Beauty that probably has a boyfriend who doesn't love her; not the way you do. Wonderful.

Anyone else?

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12:35 / 22.04.05

Wonderwall.

It's such a huge massive epoch of a song, its so ingrained in a specific time for most people, and so 'anthemic' and stuck with the whole Gallgher Brothers Nonsense, it's easy to ignore just what a fucking great song it really is. I mean, it makes no sense. But everyone knows all the words. And they make Sense.

My mate busks for a living, and it is a legendary buskers number...performing it that way, everyday, you start to actually appreciate what it is that makes it great. He went from loathing it, to worshipping it in about 3 months.

Brigade du jour

22:47 / 23.04.05

The Beach Boys' God Only Knows. It's been a part of the musical furniture since way before I was born, and yet I heard it once on a radio programme about Newman & Baddiel (this was about 1993, you understand, when there was still a Newman & Baddiel) and it just, as you say, clicked. Ever since then I want to cry with joy every time I hear the song.

matthew.

01:10 / 24.04.05

Days Of the New's Shelf in the Room. I was never a huge fan of grunge, or post-grunge, or anything like that. Sure, I enjoyed Alice in Chains and earlier Soundgarden, but I wasn't a fan of Nirvana or anything. Days of The New came out in 1997 with Shelf in the Room, and I never bothered to hear until just this month. It makes me shiver near the end....