dead can dance - "sanvean"

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jesus FUCKING christ, this song.

― jo ga11ucci electrix (joseph), Saturday, 17 February 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygHBv2CZ3PY

― Bimbler (Sourkraut), Saturday, 17 February 2007 23:29 (seventeen years ago) link

i was doing okay when i listened to it this morning and then about two minutes in i just completely lost my shit.

apparently it was used on an episode of west wing, too?

― jo ga11ucci electrix (joseph), Saturday, 17 February 2007 23:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Bimble, that link is priceless*. Sometimes I think you're me.

(*This song is priceless.)

― Lostandfound (David A.), Sunday, 18 February 2007 08:24 (seventeen years ago) link

thank you, bimble.

thank you too, joseph, for starting this thread; i sometimes forget about this song, its sempiternal wonder, and it's good to be reminded.

about 10 years ago i presented a 4am radio show that nobody in their right mind would have listened to. (seriously: i imagine it had precisely 0 listeners.) i played this one night after "you've lost that loving feeling" by the human league and got so choked up i couldn't do the link after it.

happy days. i think.

beautiful.

― grimly fiendish (simon), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 00:57 (seventeen years ago) link

That entire DVD is the dog's bollox. (Rakim)

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 07:28 (seventeen years ago) link

(wow, this reviewer dude agrees about Rakim and Sanvean!)

― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 07:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Never heard of that motherfucker.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 07:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I've grown sick of Sanvean after hearing it in countless perfume ads, but Rakim is the real deal.

― baaderonixx (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 08:57 (seventeen years ago) link

there are only live versions of this by DCD, correct? how is the lisa gerrard mirror pool version?

― akm (akmonday), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

beautiful, too. i prefer it, i think. (that'd be the one i mention above, actually, come to think of it.)

i'm sure i had a DCD studio version, but my DCD albums are all on copied tape and i've no idea where ... i really must replace them.

― grimly fiendish (simon), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

i have what sounds like a studio version on the best-of collection "wake" but for all i know it's live and/or the same version from mirror pool

― max (maxreax), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link

How about a studio version of Rakim? And if no such exists, why the hell did they not record those 'Towards the Within' tunes?

― baaderonixx (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 20 February 2007 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link

i have, on "wake," what sounds like a live version of rakim... should i Y*I?

― max (maxreax), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 03:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Y*s ple*se

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 05:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Rakim

Sanvean

pls note: i don't know that these are studio versions, necessarily, so dont get yr hopes up!

― max (maxreax), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 06:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks! I'm pretty certain those are the live versions from the Toward The Within live CD/DVD, faded out just before the applause starts.

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 08:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, that's also what I think. The vocals are just too similar.

― baaderonixx (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 10:06 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, ok--i just have the best-of w/ no liner notes (promo copy) so i couldn't tell

― max (maxreax), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Those versions are perfect anyway, I'm glad there's no other version to get used to.

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 21 February 2007 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link

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