you'll like...
any suggestions of softly spoken [rather than sung] stories in pop music?
― Daniel Giraffe, Monday, 28 January 2008 15:29 (eighteen years ago)
"My Sister" by Tindersticks, although it's not the cheeriest.
― Neil S, Monday, 28 January 2008 15:31 (eighteen years ago)
I'm looking to what comes out of this thread...
Lee Hazlewood did a number of songs in his speak-sing voice, like "After Six" and "For One Moment"...also, Spaceman 3, "Ode To Street Hassle"...(and for that matter, Lou Reed, "Romeo Had Juliet")...
― henry s, Monday, 28 January 2008 15:43 (eighteen years ago)
just stick with belle and sebastian maybe!
― 69, Monday, 28 January 2008 15:47 (eighteen years ago)
Arab Strap in general.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 28 January 2008 15:53 (eighteen years ago)
Lambchop in general, too...
Smog, "The Well" (mostly spoken) John Cooper Clarke, "Beasley Street" (ditto)
― henry s, Monday, 28 January 2008 15:55 (eighteen years ago)
Eden Abbez!
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 28 January 2008 16:03 (eighteen years ago)
Thanks, people, keep 'em coming. I'm interested in that downbeat, hushed delivery, and in the story-telling element.
Closer To You by Momus springs to mind.
Female voices?
― Daniel Giraffe, Monday, 28 January 2008 16:03 (eighteen years ago)
Euphoria by Insides for the female perspective. Also anything by Meanwhile, Back In Communist Russia...
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 28 January 2008 16:07 (eighteen years ago)
And there are many Sarah Cracknell-voiced hushed narratives throughout the Saint Etienne oeuvre.
... e.g. the heartbreaking Teenage Winter from their last album.
― ledge, Monday, 28 January 2008 16:11 (eighteen years ago)
The Wolfgang Press do this a lot too, like on "Louis XIV" from the Queer LP...
― henry s, Monday, 28 January 2008 16:16 (eighteen years ago)
"The Gift" by the Velvet Underground.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 28 January 2008 16:18 (eighteen years ago)
Arab Strap is a good call above- "The First Big Weekend" was the original and best when it came to that storytelling thing, IMO.
― Neil S, Monday, 28 January 2008 16:52 (eighteen years ago)
For Arab Strap, that is!
Thanks for the tips.
Henry, I'm playing Louis XIV now - haven't listened to this album for centuries...
Sarah Nixey of Black Box Recorder also does a nice line in glacial vocals
― Daniel Giraffe, Monday, 28 January 2008 22:33 (eighteen years ago)
That guy from 'The National' has similar vocal delivery I think ...
― BlackIronPrison, Monday, 28 January 2008 22:42 (eighteen years ago)
losing haringey by the clientele teenage winter by saint etienne
― electricsound, Monday, 28 January 2008 22:50 (eighteen years ago)
'Melody' by Serge Gainsbourg
― Michael White, Monday, 28 January 2008 23:43 (eighteen years ago)
Gainsbourg, of course!
― Daniel Giraffe, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 10:36 (eighteen years ago)
"Bad Patient" by Piano Magic
― Tim F, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 13:18 (eighteen years ago)
"I Am The Greatest", by A House
― henry s, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 13:54 (eighteen years ago)
Kirk Lake, Animals That Swim, Quigley
― Mr. Hal Jam, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 14:25 (eighteen years ago)
^^^^^^^^this.[oh, well i meant A House, but Animals That Swim have loads too - 'New Boots' is ace]
there's a great female-vox one on barry adamson's oedipus schmoedipus.
― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 14:26 (eighteen years ago)
Just discovered Woozy With Cider by James Yorkston. Gorgeous record
― Daniel Giraffe, Saturday, 16 February 2008 19:19 (eighteen years ago)