The Mystic Revealers: Space & Time – the whole groove is great, but it's little synth flute riffs that catch the ear. Shoukichi Kina & Champloose: Eternally Ecstasy – I loved the way the melody of this weaved around, skipped beats and generally went where it wanted. New Order - Dreams Never End – a band that were masters of giving a song drive and propulsion (megadom) Linda Lewis: Sideway Shuffle – killer groove, lovely little instrumental fills throughout, and of course her voice. Sometimes a seven note monotonal bass riff is all you need. Half Japanese: It Never Stops – grabbed me my by the throat and held my attention. Moloko: Forever More – great song, great vocals, but hooked me with the synth bass line (swawilg) Paul Simon: Love Is Eternal Sacred Light – peerless lyrics, he can flip from the eternal to the everyday in an instant. Roy Wood: Forever – Such an infectiously exuberant track. "Inside out, outside in", an unintentional lyrical mobius strip? (amylee) Aeons A-List Playlist: Returning to the oblique, the lyrics of Jon Anderson And Yes are one way of confronting the endless permutations of eternity in Perpetual Change. Released under the aegis of producer Emily Hall, the (translated) words of poet Arthur Rimbaud, sung by Olivia Chaney, linger in the air for longer than we expect. While we cannot capture the infinite and the eternal, we can represent it for at least a thousand years the cavernous spaces of large churches and cathedrals, and their long drawn-out reverberations, have suggested Eternity. Similarly Björk maintains that while "we're just momentary vessels," there is a Future Forever, permeated with love and empathy. for Wilco in Everlasting Everything, "everlasting love is all you have." However, the song hides its thoughts on what exactly that love might be. But hope springs eternal that love may spring eternal. Human lives are finite: the average mammalian heart is good for typically two billion beats. Modern technology can slow atoms to a crawl, but there is still no way to store Time In A Bottle. Maybe a desire all of sometimes have in those moments when we feel we worked out life a little too late. In Jim Croce's classic song, he dreams that the eternal might be reduced to the contained. Is heaven just a place on earth? Or a metaphor for a place we can only ever dream of reaching? For the Divine Comedy, they have the melancholy hope that, if only they keep sailing, they might find Foreverland. Even – especially? – royalty thinks it's worth looking up to the sky and asking your deity of choice, in this case addressed as Eternal Source of the Light Divine, to be nice to you. Handel landed himself a 200-pound-a-year pension by writing a secular cantata to celebrate the birthday of Queen Anne, part of which is excerpted here (the piece, not Queen Anne). Historically, one of the best (if not readily available) ways of getting ahead was to suck up to royalty. It's always been tough for musicians to make a living. It can be disconcerting and maybe even dispiriting being an infinitesimal speck in the eternity of space and time, but Bill is thankful just to witness his small corner of the universe. (Traktor Albatrost)īill Fay, on the other hand, is lyrically open hearted in Never Ending Happening. (megadom)įor the Penguin Cafe Orchestra, the music is definitely the message in Perpetuum Mobile, one of those pieces people either know or don't know that they know. The message is as much in the music as the words. "All the things you leave behind without end, without beginning." These New Puritans have decided lyrical obliqueness in Organ Eternal is one way of confronting eternity. I am an oak, no more no less." (Alaricmc) My reason for choosing this (apart from "I loved it") was somewhat oblique: it reminded me of the short story Direction of the Road, by Ursula le Guin, told from the perspective of a tree: "Eternity is none of my business. The Rheinigans Sisters sing of The Yellow of the Flowers sitting on a window sill, looking out at the world, a silent reminder of a world removed from the imposed rhythms of modern life.
My modus: A-list for the mind, B-list for the car. The B-list was chosen from a (largely overlapping) longlist of songs that gave me a buzz from listening to them. The A-list was chosen from a longlist of songs that moved or provoked me. Stallinger recites poetry because he is afraid of death." – Hansjorg Schneider, Hunkeler macht Sachen, (translated as The Basel Killings)Ī lot of music nominated this week, and a lot of poetry in the lyrics. "Question ten: Why does Stallinger recite poetry all the time? Answer: Because a poem is language given form that lives on in time.
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