From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V10 #100 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 Wednesday, May 20 2009 Volume 10 : Number 100 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [RS] Not Far Now. [bronxbrody@yahoo.com] [RS] I Saw My Youth Today ["Bill Chmelir" ] Re: [RS] I Saw My Youth Today [] [RS] Speaking of You Again ["Matthew Bullis" ] Re: [RS] I Saw My Youth Today [Carol Love ] Re: [RS] Not Far Now. [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 06:44:24 -0700 (PDT) From: bronxbrody@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [RS] Not Far Now. I have to say that this album is fast becoming my favorite. There isn't a 'skip-over' in the bunch. Get up Clara is not my favorite but I haven't grown tired of it yet. It took me a few listens but I really have come to love his cover of the Mountain. I like the version of Mariana's Table on the ep better, to me the song doesn't get so lost in the production like it does on the album and I like the guitar in that version. If I was going to skip-over a song, it would probably be Bye, Bye but only because it reminds me of when he played it at Falcon Ridge. Sometimes I think Balloon Man is my favorite, then it's Parasol Ants but then no, I start liking Gethesemani Goodbye more. I became curious about Merton and read one of his books. It was very interesting but he's just too 'pre-Vatican 2' for me. I wanted him to put Street Juggler on because I really loved that song after just one listen, I was happy he did and sometimes that's my favorite! As I said, not a dud in the bunch. Hey Ron, maybe we should start up the song of the week again but only songs from Not Far Now. Janet - --- On Mon, 5/18/09, rongrittz@cox.net wrote: > From: rongrittz@cox.net > Subject: [RS] Not Far Now. > To: shindell-list@smoe.org > Date: Monday, May 18, 2009, 2:51 PM > OK, the new CD's been out for a > while. After these first couple of months, any > thoughts? What songs are working for you? Which > aren't? Where does this record sit on your "Shindell > favorites" ranking? You happy with the writing, the > performances, the production? > > Hope to get some interesting conversation rolling here . . > . > > RG ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 10:04:33 -0700 From: "Bill Chmelir" Subject: [RS] I Saw My Youth Today Hey all, Some of you wrote about Richard's first wife and his oldest son Sam. Does anyone know if I Saw My Youth Today is about Sam? If so then that is a totally different meaning than I had always thought of it. I thought it was about seeing someone, maybe a child, that reminded you of how you were once upon a time, someone you are not anymore. If it is about his son, then the song breaks my heart for Richard and Sam. Bill ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 11:19:59 -0700 From: Subject: Re: [RS] I Saw My Youth Today I've always seen it as a song about seeing one's own youth -- someone who, as you said, you are not anymore -- when things were more innocent. The "He had a kinder face, the kind I've learned to hide" is what makes me think so, but the "I'm the one who taught you you should never talk to strangers" line maybe puts a dent in that argument. In any case, I think it may be one of Richard's top five saddest songs, along with "Abuelita," "Wisteria," "You Again" and "Reunion Hill." RG ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 13:20:30 -0700 From: "Matthew Bullis" Subject: [RS] Speaking of You Again Hello, since Ron mentioned this song as possibly one of Richard's top five saddest songs, I thought I'd comment on it. First of all, I can't play it well enough on the guitar, so that goes into the "still practicing" file. When I first heard the song, I thought it was a song written to someone who had died, but Richard explained in a WUMB members concert that it was written for his wife, his second wife that would be, before they were married. However, since they then got married, the line about always missing you wouldn't any longer apply, since they were together. Matthew ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 17:21:47 -0400 From: Carol Love Subject: Re: [RS] I Saw My Youth Today I don't think it is autobiographical, but I do think it may be deliberately ambiguous. I think it can be literal or a view of one's own youth. ** *A moment please my boy Don't you know my name? Do you remember when We used to play a hundred games? And is your mother well? Kiss her once for me And if she should ask you why You could say Just for no reason * Asking after the health of the mother, gives it a literal meaning, not to mention asking if "my boy" remembers him. But then the song is called "I Saw MY YOUTH Today" -- not a typical way to refer to one's child and he is walking by on *dreaming feet....* I think this is a Rorschach song. Actually, I think most of RS's songs are Rorschach tests. What the heck IS "A Sea of Fleur de lis" about?? If I read that one right, it's a lot more blasphemous that singing "G-damn" in a church..... ....Carol On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 2:19 PM, wrote: > I've always seen it as a song about seeing one's own youth -- someone who, > as you said, you are not anymore -- when things were more innocent. The "He > had a kinder face, the kind I've learned to hide" is what makes me think so, > but the "I'm the one who taught you you should never talk to strangers" line > maybe puts a dent in that argument. In any case, I think it may be one of > Richard's top five saddest songs, along with "Abuelita," "Wisteria," "You > Again" and "Reunion Hill." > > RG ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 18:38:21 -0400 From: Subject: Re: [RS] Not Far Now. By the way, for anyone who doesn't have the new CD yet, tomorrow is the last day of the Signature Sounds $9.99 sale. RG ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V10 #100 ************************************