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

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?

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

(*This song is priceless.)

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.

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

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

Never heard of that motherfucker.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Y*s ple*se

Rakim

Sanvean

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

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.

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

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

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