Cos nobody loves me, it's true, not like you do

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

- Do you listen to miserable music?

- Did you listen to more (or less) miserable music than when you were a teenager? Or is the balance still about the same?

- What do you 'get' out of listening to miserable music?

Definitions of 'miserable' open to interpretation, of course.

(Guess who was listening to the new Portishead album last night!)

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

This is actually totally right! Cuz thinking back to Dummy the bleakness was leavened when she purred or crooned or did ~jazzier~ stuff as opposed to the blues, and all of that has disappeared.

I never thought 'Sour Times' was that depressing, I mean the full lyric is "Nobody loves me, it's true / Not like you do".

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Having another listen now. I've worked out what's bugging me - P3 is way less hip-hop, more random electronica. The beats underneath aren't reeling in the widdley-woo like they should be.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Yeah - I'm impressed that on the first couple of listens they actually convinced me that they hadn't changed at all. I only realised that, like, all the arrangements were completely alien and different later.

[friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com]

I never thought 'Sour Times' was that depressing, I mean the full lyric is "Nobody loves me, it's true / Not like you do".

Seconded. I found it soporific rather than sad.