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redjetson i want to cry

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redjetson make me...want to cry. I love the album, especially this city moans. I can't stop listening to the track. But I am getting scared by how sometimes I hear traces of Chirs Martin and the guy from Starsailor (if that is the band that did the song 'alcoholic') in the vocals. This must be some kind of peverse love, but then thats love isn't it??????????/

I need more tracks to make me cry...because thats what brings my faith in music back to me. Other tracks making me all emotional at the moment are: -

Gomez - 78 Stone Wobble
80s Matchbox - new album track 12

Please provide me with more 'unconventional' weepies. Otherwise I will keep postin such rubbish.

Seriously though, thoughts on redjetson...what are they like live etc?
silence-r | 16 Mar '05, 01:16 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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A couple of weeks ago pretty much everything on my list of bands that i like was making me cry. But thats more to do with circumstance than the music itself. Every song reminded me of a certain someone, it was not good.

I also made the mistake of buying fevers and mirrors under the misguided belief that new albums wouldnt have that association. Unfortunatley i went and brought a bright eyes album, not smart (and also not my first i knew what i was getting myself into)
thedaythatthatcherdies | 16 Mar '05, 01:23 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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yeah, i can really agree with that - circumstance>music itself. Catacombs (atd-i) always tips me over the edge because of memories rather than the music/lyrics etc. but s'pose thats down to fact that you can't ever get behind the truth of a piece of art, even when its blatant, as you interpret it according to your world view. also nicer to choke up over something random than something very obvious with lyrics along the lines of 'i love you, i lost you and now i'm swallowing the suicide pills'
silence-r | 16 Mar '05, 01:29 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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was in a way quite annoying though, i couldnt listen to anything for a while without chocking up. the first time in a club was an interesting experience to say the least.

But yeah, i agree art is always going to be interpreted in terms of individual experience and frame of reference. And furthermore its quite cool when you find the opposite, music with very depressive lyrics that actually cheers you up through its association.

Although there is a danger with that if things go sour and the song gets a bad link then it can be twice as bad. Love will tear us apart as 'our' song was a bit of a mistake i think.
thedaythatthatcherdies | 16 Mar '05, 01:40 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Songs which will make you cry? Okay, you asked for it.

Dismemberment Plan - The City
The Wrens - Thirteen Grand
Bright Eyes - Something Vague
Built To Spill - Car
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Wilco - Jesus Etc/Ashes Of American Flags/Heavy Metal Drummer (three-track run in the middle of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - simply devestating)
OceanStorm | 16 Mar '05, 01:25 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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In a slightly more conventional response to the question,

'pull the wires from the wall' the original by the delgados is good, but the six by seven cover is even better, and for some reason makes me emotional
thedaythatthatcherdies | 16 Mar '05, 01:29 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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haven't heard the original but will check it out. six by seven always make me want to cry though, maybe thats why i love them so much...that and the fact that they seem to be getting less and less successful as their music gets better and better. in a very conventional sense, to follow you , 88-92-96 breaks me down, in the best possible way, as well
silence-r | 16 Mar '05, 01:33 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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88-92-96 is good.

It is a shame with six by seven, they seem to be really progressing but no ones giving them a chance, then again look at embrace (in a comeback sense), dont like them and like the new direction even less, but they did make it back and have ended up far larger than they were.

Oh, you can get the six by seven version of pull the wires on cheffing and blinding (i think, i left it at home) which is a fierce panda compilation that came out 3-4 years ago. Its not typical six by seven, as they stay sort of faithful to the original but it is good and you can tell its them if you see what i mean
thedaythatthatcherdies | 16 Mar '05, 01:50 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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6x7's one easy ship away - actually the most miserable song ever. "it just looks bad, dragging a blade through my neck......i feel good now putting a gun to my head, etc". blimey. cry it all out fella, that's right. there there. have a chocolate digestive.

xxx
-gen- | 16 Mar '05, 02:24 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Tom Waits - 'house where nobody lives' gets me everytime.
It's weird the things people associate Clives vocals with. Glad you're loving the record.
sean | 16 Mar '05, 03:52 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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the saddest songs are the simplest. neil young, fiona apple, low.

look_a_dawson | 16 Mar '05, 11:23 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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They were really impressive live last week - alot more powerful than I expected, and really managed to get the songs across well. Thunderingly loud too...
robin_ac30 | 16 Mar '05, 11:30 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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redjetson are simply overwhelming live. if you cry hearing the record, you will be a blubbering mess after seeing them live...
rossiterandy | 16 Mar '05, 11:48 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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A fine, fine, fine band.

The majestic sadness of Low, the beauty of Explosions In The Sky and the loudness of Krakatoa erupting.
dave_rio | 16 Mar '05, 12:24 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Red House Painters
FrancisRossi | 16 Mar '05, 12:29 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Red House Painters are massively depressing! Yay! Codeine are too, and the soaring, upllifting sections only serve to heighten the pathos when everything goes grim again.

Apologies for this shameless plug: Redjetson fans should come to 'Don't Piss on the Fish' at The Marquee, Leicester Square on April 11th. Email theband@twentysixfeet.net with names for inclusion on the freee guestlist.
carrot_ram | 16 Mar '05, 13:22 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: redjetson i want to cry

Sophia, Arco, Savoy Grand are depressing too.
lyle | 16 Mar '05, 13:29 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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