sarah harmer

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i bought her cd three years after it came out because i loved her and they stopped playing basement apartment on richardson's roundup and the don't get your back up video was new and i loved the song and the video, with the bathtub and long skirts and suitcases and all the washed out soft colours, and the cd was very, very good and had lots of fast, strummy songs like her hits but also nice, very slow ones, after i saw a commercial for her new cd today i looked for it and couldn't find it anywhere. she's beautiful and narrow and modest. i like her a lot. is her new cd good? i can't remember what it's called now.

― William Wiggins, Saturday, 27 March 2004 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

the keyboardist from a group I was in stole his keyboard stand from the back of her truck just in time for us to use it at our only show. Haven't actually heard her music though.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 27 March 2004 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

before that we were gonna use an ironing board.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 27 March 2004 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

as someone who loved "you were here," i'm finding the new one very plain, unremarkable. none of the raw brilliance of "lodestar," none of the hooks of "basement apartment" etc. Unfortunately.

― Sean M (Sean M), Saturday, 27 March 2004 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

'basement apartment' was definitely in my top ten the year it came out. The new one is not quite that brilliant but still pleasant and likeable. I like the sailor analogy in the song "Almost"--it seems like nobody writes great sailor songs anymore.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 27 March 2004 23:50 (twenty-two years ago)

oh and the album is called All Of Our Names.

also, miccio, wtf?

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 28 March 2004 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)

although I like 'You Were Here' quite a bit, I'm still a bigger fan of her Weeping Tile albums. I think that's just my left nationalism though; they sound *so* canadian. I'm sure I heard half the songs subconsciously on the CBC in the mid-90's, and they're just ingrained now.

I finally found a few of the new songs on slsk, and they seem to be boobytrapped. 'Silver Road' and 'Greeting Card Aisle' have these crazy backwards sections spliced into the middle. It's actually quite listenable; I was tempted to think Sarah'd gone all psychedelic, but i doubt, sadly, that that's the case.

What I can make out clearly sounds lovely, esp. 'Greeting Card Aisle'

― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 28 March 2004 01:01 (twenty-two years ago)

She was rude to me once. And for that, I don't like her.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Sunday, 28 March 2004 01:10 (twenty-two years ago)

silver road is the song with gordon downie, right? i like that one a lot.

― William Wiggins, Sunday, 28 March 2004 01:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Teeny, the theft was back in 2001. I wasn't there for it but evidently she was doing a show at a local bar and he saw the band's keyboard stand in the back of their open van. He took it. At practice he just played the keyboard on the floor, so arguably he needed it.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 28 March 2004 01:16 (twenty-two years ago)

And evidently, this other dude did NOT need the keyboard stand, because, if he needed it, he would have, like, taken steps to proctect it. His dad probably owned a keyboard stand factory, that spoiled asshole.

Incidentally, while this comment does not answer the thread's original question at all, Basement Apartment and Don't Get Your Back up are both Classic.

Cuh-Lassic.

― Scott CE, Sunday, 28 March 2004 01:43 (twenty-two years ago)

The first single is probably the best song on there, and it's really good. Is it called "Almost"? I think it is. Anyway, I really like that song, and am somewhat disappointed it's the single because that means it'll get CanConCaned out by overexposure.
Probably won't sell as much as YWH, but there's nothing wrong with it. Plus I think her fans are pretty freakin' loyal and will enjoy the softness of it.

― Huck, Sunday, 28 March 2004 04:05 (twenty-two years ago)

We got tickets to see her at the Commodore today. I hope to hear 'Don't let it Bring You Down'.

also, tickets for Air are $40. i'm massively disappointed.

― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 28 March 2004 06:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Just got the album; it's lovely, and in accordance with earlier comments. I like the production a lot more than You Were Here.

― derrick (derrick), Monday, 29 March 2004 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)

sixteen years pass...

i still sometimes get drunk like right now and play that sarah harmer and gord downie song

― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Monday, 6 July 2020 19:30 (five years ago)

two years pass...

I was way into “Lodestar” for a while several years ago. I finally listened to You Were Here in its entirety last month and now some of the tracks are appearing through the algorithm and sticking with me.

― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 January 2023 16:40 (three years ago)

i started listening a lot recently to the first weeping tile album. it's partially nostalgia for 1996 sound, i guess, and also affection for the voice. the song about the westray mine disaster is ridiculous.

― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Sunday, 1 January 2023 16:54 (three years ago)

Kind of hope even just a few fans of Folklore and Evermore would discover “Lodestar.”

― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Sunday, 1 January 2023 16:58 (three years ago)

I associate “Lodestar” with a song called “Ladybug” by Sera Cahoone that I discovered around the same time.

― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 January 2023 19:07 (three years ago)

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