From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V4 #261 Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk shindell-list-digest Thursday, September 5 2002 Volume 04 : Number 261 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] emotions and imagery and whatnot [Jimcolbert@aol.com] [RS] How are you [Gail ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 09:42:48 EDT From: Jimcolbert@aol.com Subject: [RS] emotions and imagery and whatnot In a message dated 9/3/02 4:55:53 AM Eastern Daylight Time, owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org writes: > I've mentioned before (though I don't know if I've done it here), that David > Wilcox's music was ruined for me during a concert he gave in San Francisco > in about 1996. I'd been listening to him from the beginning and had seen > him live before. During this show, it became evident from the introductions > and stories between songs that all the songs I heard as love songs between > two people were really songs about loving Jesus. I couldn't hear those > songs in the same way I had - I kept hearing David's intent. It's fine for > David to love Jesus but I'm still mad at him for introducing the songs in a > way that made it impossible for me to keep my interpretations. In my eyes, then, David didn't do his job that night. For me, when a song really moves me or touches me, it often transcends the specifics of who it might have been written for and makes me feel the same emotions the singer does, whether the song is written from a girl to girl, guy to guy, father to son, widow to ghost, guy to God, etc. I listen to a female friend of mine here sing a song of heartache, and I might know it's about the failed relationship with a woman she left a few months back, but what I relate to is the pain of having been there myself. Another thing I've found is, sometimes songs retelling specific stories often get me to re-read the source the images or story came from... and that's been true both with the bible and with "songs inspired by literature..." most recent example I can think of is Diane Zeigler singing about Enoch Arden. But that's just me, your mileage may vary. Jim Colbert (who does quite enjoy wilcox, btw.) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 11:38:45 -0400 From: Gail Subject: [RS] How are you ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V4 #261 ***********************************