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| Laurie Anderson has a version of New York Conversation, I think called New York Telephone Conversation, which is really good. Two of my favourite sad songs are also about phone conversations (I suspect some of this comes from having been on a different continent from my family between the ages of 16 and 22, and only getting one phone call a week and not really wanting to cry down the phone because, you know, they were really far away and it would just upset them): REM's The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight ("This here is the place where I will stand: there isn't a number, you can call the payphone, let it ring a long, long, long, long time. If I don't pick up, hang up, call back, let it ring some more... I can always sleep standing up") and Rah Band's Clouds Across the Moon ("Hey baby, how you doing? Hey darling, is that cold better now? Oh, I'm sorry, is there someone there with you?" and the killer sting-in-the-tail at the end of the song...) |
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