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Weekend Listening post!
May. 23rd, 2020 04:07 pmI bought a Greatest Hits compilation of Nathalie Imbruglia tracks last week. It's weird - I owned White Lillies island but not the other two albums covered by the compilation; I'd forgotten a couple of bangers, chiefly 'Wishing I Was There', and then some tracks I would swear I have never heard at all - and this was in the period when I was still listening to the radio!
Here's one I vaguely remember, that I have decided is Actually Pretty Good (but not a patch on 'Torn'. Is anything?)
Here's Torn, because it's very important we all revisit 90s pop:
I did think a bit about the song lyrics that my cusp-adolescent brain was fascinated with, identified as expressive of the Bigness of Sexuality. How many of them are about ... humiliation, abjection. "Cold and I am shamed, lying naked on the floor". Everything about The Verve Pipe's The Freshmen. No Aphrodisiac. I mean... at least I had Live's 'The Dolphin's Cry', which is very melodramatic and so on, but not, like, "here, sexual desire will wreck you".
I mean, I'm still very much into that Aesthetic.
Audio narration wise, I'm behind on podcasts because I devoted a chunk of listening time to the audiobook of Garth Greenwell's 'What Belongs To You'. Still got about four hours to go.
DID get through the first Second Citadel episodes of S3 of the Penumbra; by the second one I had remembered that I actually do like Second Citadel! I especially like the new central character, and was happy to see Sir Mark back. Also listened to the Mick Mercury Christmas Special, which was just... a brilliant piece of stand-alone craft.
Here's one I vaguely remember, that I have decided is Actually Pretty Good (but not a patch on 'Torn'. Is anything?)
Here's Torn, because it's very important we all revisit 90s pop:
I did think a bit about the song lyrics that my cusp-adolescent brain was fascinated with, identified as expressive of the Bigness of Sexuality. How many of them are about ... humiliation, abjection. "Cold and I am shamed, lying naked on the floor". Everything about The Verve Pipe's The Freshmen. No Aphrodisiac. I mean... at least I had Live's 'The Dolphin's Cry', which is very melodramatic and so on, but not, like, "here, sexual desire will wreck you".
I mean, I'm still very much into that Aesthetic.
Audio narration wise, I'm behind on podcasts because I devoted a chunk of listening time to the audiobook of Garth Greenwell's 'What Belongs To You'. Still got about four hours to go.
DID get through the first Second Citadel episodes of S3 of the Penumbra; by the second one I had remembered that I actually do like Second Citadel! I especially like the new central character, and was happy to see Sir Mark back. Also listened to the Mick Mercury Christmas Special, which was just... a brilliant piece of stand-alone craft.