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Songs With The Same Feeling

  
 
deja_vroom
13:19 / 11.04.03
Ok, I had an idea, but I don't know if it's gonna work.

Usually, when I'm listening to a song that I like a lot, I find myself thinking: "I wish I knew one or two more songs that had the same spirit, the same... undescribable feeling that this one does - or similar arrangements..." You know what I'm talking about. Songs that sound like if they belong to the same "family".

For instance, you download this song, listen to it, and associations would immediately pop in your mind: "Yeah, this crooning style, this ambience, reminds me of x, y and z". The you would tell us, and we happily would try to find the songs you mention.

So that's the purpose of this thread: You name a song 9or make it available to download, if possible), we'll tell you of other songs that you might like based on the one you mentioned. I'd be happy if some of you listened to the one I posted already. It's from the Blade Runner soundtrack, it's called "One More Kiss, Dear".
 
 
Jack Fear
13:51 / 11.04.03
To go with "One More Kiss, Dear," which is very much in the 1920s Tin Pan Alley tradition, two songs that approach the same destination from different angles:

"I'm Sorry," by Brenda Lee—long, arcing melody, ooh-ahh backing vocals, spoken bridge: from the 1950s, and with lush Nashville strings instead of the metronomic dance-band plink-plunk—and/or "Taking My Business Elsewhere," by Richard Thompson, an eerie and downbeat jazz ballad—the creepiness of "One More Kiss" (as used in the film) made a little more explicit, the promise of its lyric sadly betrayed, as the singer waits for a rendezvous with a lover who never shows up...

If she's not here by now, then I guess she's not coming
If she's not here by now, then I guess she don't care
Oh waiter, I won't waste your time anymore
You've already started to sweep down the floor
And I guess she's not coming, so I'll head for the door
I'll be taking my business elsewhere...

That's off the top of my head. The original model for this kind of stuff—ironic use of sentimental songs of the 20s—is all over the film and TV works of Dennis Potter, especially Pennies From Heaven.
 
  
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