What are your favorite songs in 3/4? (Meaning waltz type beat: one-two-three, one-two-three...) Spotify or YouTube links pls.
Tom Waits — Widow’s Grove. No idea what it’s about but so pretty. I think the music itself sounds like a riff on some traditional folk melody but don’t know the lineage.
БГ — Елизавета. This one is in Russian. It gives me a similar feeling as Widow’s Grove that despite the lyrics being abstract and obscure, I feel exactly what it says.
Leonard Cohen — Take This Waltz. (Adapted from a Federico García Lorca poem.) Classic.
There’s a concert hall in Vienna
Where your mouth had a thousand reviews
There’s a bar where the boys have stopped talking
They’ve been sentenced to death by the blues
There’s a concert hall in Vienna
Where your mouth had a thousand reviews
There’s a bar where the boys have stopped talking
They’ve been sentenced to death by the blues
Frank Ocean — Pink + White. Okay maybe this is technically 6/8 but let’s say we count that as well.
Sparklehorse — It’s A Wonderful Life.
I’m the dog that ate
Your birthday cake
It’s a wonderful life
I’m the dog that ate
Your birthday cake
It’s a wonderful life
Caledonia by Dougie MacLean. But I like this version by @RuthNotman in particular, what a voice.
Mitski — Geyser.
Though I’m a geyser
Feel it bubbling from below
Hear it call, hear it call
Hear it call to me constantly
Though I’m a geyser
Feel it bubbling from below
Hear it call, hear it call
Hear it call to me constantly
Shirley Ann Lee — Someday. I first heard it sampled on Ghost Town on ye but the original recording is quite something. After the intro, it decomposes into a discussion of the song structure, so meta. Even tells a kid to be quiet.
Elliott Smith — Between The Bars
Tyler, The Creator — Garden Shed
You don’t have to hide
I can smell it in your eyes
That there’s something more to say
You don’t have to hide
I can smell it in your eyes
That there’s something more to say
Radiohead — Nude
You’ll go to Hell
For what your dirty mind
Is thinking
You’ll go to Hell
For what your dirty mind
Is thinking
Sharon Van Etten — Afraid of Nothing
This is my airplane takeoff song (remember airplanes?) I always sweat and freak out a bit during liftoff so in the past few years I’ve been putting this on repeat to calm me down until we’re high enough.
This is my airplane takeoff song (remember airplanes?) I always sweat and freak out a bit during liftoff so in the past few years I’ve been putting this on repeat to calm me down until we’re high enough.
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