I wish I could sing like Glen Hansard! (if you are big fan of the film The Commitments - you might remember him as the red hair guitarist). In a few songs his voice is so committed and emotional it’s shocking. This is the kind of music I wanted to make back when I played guitar and considered it as a career (only I envisioned an electric guitar run through a chorus pedal with a violin and a cello – with the occasional acoustic guitar and maybe some keyboards depending on the song).
But I could never be a singer. My memory is horrible and I can never remember the lyrics to any song (oh, and I can’t sing – not really), no matter how much I love it or many times I listen to it. I’ve often thought it would be funny to see a cover band that mumbles it’s way through parts of the song cuz the singer can’t remember the lyrics… maybe as a scene in a movie or something. “Let’s a have a really big welcome for Big Johnny and Mumblers!”
I really enjoy most of the songs on the CD but I am obsessed and addicted to these songs:
* All The Way Down
* When Your Mind’s Made Up
* Leave
* Say It To Me Now
* Lies
* The Hill, and
* Falling Slowly
“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”
- Thomas Carlyle, The Opera
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