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A song that makes me think of Brokeback Mountain
Toast:
--- Quote from: Mikaela on May 22, 2006, 01:32:19 pm ---I found myself often humming this one, and then all of a sudden I realized why: The rodeo announcer's "Send in the clowns!"
Isn't it rich?
Isn't it queer,
Losing my timing this late
In my career?
And where are the clowns?
There ought to be clowns.
Well, maybe next year.[/i]
--- End quote ---
Oh Mikaela thanks for reminding me.
I have that somewhere with Judy Collins doing it. Perfect.
and Front-Ranger thanks for reminding me of the Neil Young song "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" (from After the Goldrush)
Think of Ennis when you read this verse:
HUMAN HIGHWAY
- opening and closing verse -
I come down from the misty mountain
I got lost on the human highway
Take my head refreshing fountain
Take my eyes from what they've seen.
Take my head and change my mind
How could people get so unkind.
from the Neil Young album Comes A Time.1978
I wold love to tag along and camp out near the Red Rocks Concert, but that isnt to be.
JCinNYC2006:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on May 21, 2006, 01:42:21 pm ---Your Neil Young post drove me to my phonograph, Toast, where I discovered that my partner and I have collected a huge number of Neil Young albums over the years! I listened to Neil Young from 1969, where the first song is "Emperor of Wyoming" but it's an instrumental. I listened to it, thinking of the Pope of Wyoming. Then there is The Loner and several other songs that remind me of BBM. But here's one from another 1969 album of his:
"Only Love Can Break Your Heart"
When you were young
and on your own
How did it feel
to be alone?
I was always thinking
of games that I was playing.
Trying to make
the best of my time.
But only love
can break your heart
Try to be sure
right from the start
Yes only love
can break your heart
What if your world
should fall apart?
I have a friend
I've never seen
He hides his head
inside a dream
Someone should call him
and see if he can come out.
Try to lose
the down that he's found.
But only love
can break your heart
Try to be sure
right from the start
Yes only love
can break your heart
What if your world
should fall apart?
I have a friend
I've never seen
He hides his head
inside a dream
Yes, only love
can break your heart
Yes, only love
can break your heart
--- End quote ---
This is a great song...but the funny thing is for years the only version I knew was by a group called Saint Etienne. It's a dance version, kind of like something Everything But The Girl does. I only recently heard his version.
Juan
Front-Ranger:
Actually in 1969 I was a Beatlemaniac. I should have clarified that earlier post and said "I listened to Neil Young (name of Album) from 1969 (date of album issue). Don't know when I or my pardner bought the album, but it was after 1969. I'll try to do a podcast of the evening for you Toast and other friends.
kirkmusic:
--- Quote from: JCinNYC2006 on May 23, 2006, 07:08:57 pm ---This is a great song...but the funny thing is for years the only version I knew was by a group called Saint Etienne. It's a dance version, kind of like something Everything But The Girl does. I only recently heard his version.
Juan
--- End quote ---
Hey Juan, I know that version too. I noticed back when I got the single in, what, 1991?, that Neil Young was the songwriter. I think I still have their version and not Neil's.
serious crayons:
Well, speaking of covers, and speaking (on another thread) of Pink Floyd. Lately, I've been listening a lot to the soundtrack of The Lords of Dogtown (which of course Heath is in). Generally I'm not a huge Pink Floyd fan, but I really love the song "Wish You Were Here," which on the soundtrack is covered by Sparklehorse. For some reason it has vaguely reminded me of Brokeback Mountain. So today I was paying more attention than usual to the lyrics. And suddenly it sounded so much like Jack speaking to Ennis that it gave me chills.
So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell,
blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found? The same old fears.
Wish you were here.
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