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Burning a new CD of Songs that remind me of Brokeback Mountain
DeeDee:
I'm thinking:
Inside your heaven..Carrie Underwood
Can't cry hard enough....Williams Brothers
JCinNYC2006:
Hey all, Juan from NY here. I love threads like these on music because I am such a huge music fan and I'm always trying to find more stuff that reminds me of Brokeback. When I read the suggestion by Shakespear's Sister, I thought, didn't they sing that cheesy song "Break Out"? Then I remembered that was Swing Out Sister. Whew!
I do find myself listening to more country now, even took some 2 stepping classes but haven't actually tried it out yet. Oh, on another thread I posted some suggestions for Phillip's Brokeback radio, so I thought I'd repost here to give you more ideas/suggestions:
OK, here are a few songs off the top of my head.
* Crowded House - How Will You Go. Great harmonies, very melancholy.
* k.d. lang - So It Shall Be. The whole Ingenue record was about an unrequited love, and this one's my favorite song. Close second is Outside Myself.
* Billy Bragg - The Only One. Pretty, acoustic love song, he's an awesome songwriter and romantic in a complicated way.
* Coldplay - I Bloom Blaum. Very short B-side, but has a beautiful guitar line.
* Joan Osborne - Do I Ever Cross Your Mind. Fantastic cover of a Dolly Parton tune; Joan is such an underrated singer.
* The Aluminum Group - Sweet Child O' Mine. This is the best version of this song that I know. I love it when he gets to the part about breaking down and crying.
* Rufus Wainwright - Waiting For A Dream. He's got so many gorgeous songs, but this one from his last record to me fits in so well with the BBM soundtrack.
* Vladimir Cosma - Sentimental Walk (second version). This is from the soundtrack to Diva, an 80s French film. It's a perfect walking-in-the-rain number, and this version is a little longer than the first.
* Amy Winehouse - (There Is) No Greater Love. Sweet, short acoustic song from a new English singer.
* Joni Mitchell - Paprika Plains (Remix). Beautiful new version of a classic opus. Another great song from her later period is Two Grey Rooms. From her earlier period, I would also say Down To You from Court & Spark.
* Phoebe Snow - Two Fisted Love. Great song, great voice. The line "My baby's out there..." makes me think of the movie.
* Ray LaMontagne - All The Wild Horses. I remember a post on some board saying this was in an early version of the BBM preview. Whether it's true or not, I've grown to love it.Man you Tremblayers rock!
Juan
ednbarby:
Every Breath You Take ("since you've gone I've been lost without a trace, I dream at night, I can only see your face, I look around, but it's you I can't replace, I feel so cold and I long for your embrace, ..." makes me think of both of them at the same time) - The Police
Come Away With Me - Norah Jones
(corny as hell, but I'm just gonna say it) Time in a Bottle - Jim Croce
I'll Have to Say 'I Love You' in a Song - Jim Croce
If You Could Read My Mind - Gordon Lightfoot
Annie's Song - John Denver
Victoria, I love that you have "In Your Eyes." This line in particular gets me every time: "I see the doorway of a thousand churches, the resolution of all the fruitless searches...")
Another Peter Gabriel song that makes me cry thinking of Ennis and Jack lately is "Here Comes The Flood."
When the night shows, the signals grow on radios
All the strange things that come and go as early warnings
Stranded starfish have no place to hide
Still waiting for that swollen Easter' tide
There's no point in direction, we cannot even choose a side.
Took the old track, the hollow shoulder across the waters
On the tall cliffs, they were getting older, sons and daughters
The jaded Underworld was riding high
Waves of steel held metal at the sky
And as the nail sunk in the cloud, the rain was warm and soaked the crowd.
Lord, here comes The Flood.
We will say good-bye to flesh and blood.
If again, the seas are silent and any still alive
It'll be those who gave their island to survive.
Drink up, dreamers. You're running dry.
When The Flood calls, you have no home, you have no walls
In that thunder crash you're a thousand miles within a flash
Don't be afraid to cry at what you see
The actor's gone - there's only you and me
And if we break before the dawn, they'll use up what we used to be.
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Don't know if I'm crying more for them or for me, come to think of it.
dmmb_Mandy:
Paul - I have all of Holly M.'s CDs, she's friggin' awesome.
"I Cry" by Holly M. is a great song. "Cry or Cum" by her is great too, but always makes me cry.. They aren't really related to BBM, but nice nonetheless. When I first pierced my lip like 8 years ago (before it was 'cool' and trendy to have a pierced lip, haha) a few people said to me "Hey, you look like Holly McNarland", but we really had very little in common: Female, dark hair, tattoos, pierced lip, and musical. But hey, I took it as a compliment.
Vic - a song you might want to consider adding to your list: "Always on Your Side" - Sheryl Crow & Sting
Sheyne:
I gotta add this one - I meant to put it on my earlier list, can't believe I forgot it, but here I am listening to my iTunes list and it came on (don't ask me why this reminds me of Jack and Ennis but it does): I Hope You Dance by Leann Womack. This is about as country as you can get and while its really nothing to do with gay cowboys or cowboys at all, its about taking your one chance at life and making something incredible out of it and not being afraid to go for it.
I think that's why.. I would love to have played Ennis this song, just once.
*sniff* Alas...
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