longing for time and place unobtainable

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I'm listening to Aphex Twin's remix of Journey by The Gentle People for about the tenth time and, for the tenth time, it's flooring me.

I mean, I know it's in a kind of similar vein to Boards of Canada and other stuff but Journey just has something extra... it touches that elusive sense of longing for time and place unobtainable (there's a word for it, but I forget). It doesn't make you cry but it feels like it ought to.

Others?

― damian_nz (damian_nz), Friday, 14 November 2003 04:19 (twenty-two years ago)

The Cocteau Twins do that for me.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 14 November 2003 04:20 (twenty-two years ago)

it touches that elusive sense of longing for time and place unobtainable

Nicely put, by the way.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 14 November 2003 04:21 (twenty-two years ago)

perfectly describes the pieces of music I like the most

― oops (Oops), Friday, 14 November 2003 04:52 (twenty-two years ago)

there's a word for it, but I forget

Escapism

― nestmanso (nestmanso), Friday, 14 November 2003 06:11 (twenty-two years ago)

that's only part of it

― oops (Oops), Friday, 14 November 2003 06:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Delusion?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 14 November 2003 06:19 (twenty-two years ago)

john zorn film works 'in the mirror of maya'
dead c 'tusk'
bardo pond live

― Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 14 November 2003 06:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Bowie's "Heroes" and Radiohead's "Airbag" give me this feeling.

― Jeremy (Jeremy), Friday, 14 November 2003 06:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Like I said, there are definetely songs by the Cocteau Twins that conjure this sensation for me....images of a sepia-toned, lush, familiar place, yet impossible to pinpoint, seemingly from distant childhood. "Hitherto" and "The Spangle Maker" especially.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 14 November 2003 06:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to get something like this off Motorhead and Royal Trux and stuff, like somewhere there was a dangerous land of drugs and fucking and violence that seemed pretty exciting and so on, then I kind of found that place and most of the people there were boring dicks so I went home.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 14 November 2003 06:50 (twenty-two years ago)

die Sehnsucht..

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Friday, 14 November 2003 08:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Very true, andrew thames, very true...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 14 November 2003 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

john fahey - "on the sunny side of the ocean", followed by "tell her to come back home", then "my station shall be changed after while" - this stretch of songs on "the transfiguration of blind joe death" just makes me wanna pack up my things and hobo it around till i find the land of the promise of the saints or whatever (possibly the first reference to "the voyage of st brendan" on ilx i think, hooray)

― Bob Shaw (Bob Shaw), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I *think* I know what you mean by that sense of longing, it's sort of like a nostalgia for somewhere that you've never been. Is ennui the correct word? I get that from a few things (Bob, you're bang on w/ Fahey), like uh:
John Fahey - Sligo River Blues
Sun City Girls - Space Prophet Dogon
Hood - Houses Tilting Towards The Sea
Balinese Gamelan

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 14 November 2003 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Lots of "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" especially the title track and "Two-Headed Boy."
Also "Magic in the Air"- Badly Drawn Boy
"Lay Lady Lay" and probably lots more Dylan

― Colin O, Friday, 14 November 2003 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Hood seconded.
Cocteau Twins seconded.

Of my own:
Brian Eno "On Some Faraway Beach"
Low "Over The Ocean"
Martin Gore "Motherless Child"
Roberta Flack "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"
And just about all of Lucky Pierre's "Hypnogogia"

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 14 November 2003 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

'ennui' definitely isn't the correct word, it means 'boredom'.

Bits and pieces of Piano Magic do this for me, and the end of Britten's "A Boy was Born", and A Silver Mt Zion's latest.

― cis (cis), Friday, 14 November 2003 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

No 'ennui' ain't right is it? I always think of the melancholic undertones of that word. Sorry.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 14 November 2003 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

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