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Que letras tan poderosas. Y ¡que dulce voz! Thanks RP
Posted 1 year ago by sergioso    [ Reply ]
Okay, I get the segue. "Dancing in the Flames" by The Weeknd is also about a car crash. Very clever. But Teng has better songs. How about something fun from Aims?
Posted 1 year ago by q4Fry    [ Reply ]
 missionaire wrote:

This is deeply unsettling, and all the more impressive because of it. If this song makes you uncomfortable it's doing it's job.


Yes, it's unsettling and hits home. But how many times can I listen to it and get anything out of it? This is the third or fourth time I've heard this song on RP and listening to it feels like self-flagellation. 
Posted 2 years ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
 Prius wrote:

Horrible. Please stop this.




You must have been having a bad day...  Because 3 years ago you gave this an 8.
Posted 3 years ago by tm    [ Reply ]
I love Vienna... She creates amazing songs and her voice/keys are beautiful. 
Posted 3 years ago by tm    [ Reply ]
And then followed by Death Cab for Cutie ... @Bill, you sir, have a dark, warped sense of humor and we love it! 
Posted 3 years ago by maxvonevil    [ Reply ]
die already…..get over it 
Posted 3 years ago by ckcotton    [ Reply ]
A similar theme (but musically totally different) is "I'm Cold" by the Swedish trip-hop band Whale. It's sung from the perspective of a girl dying in a car wreck.
Posted 3 years ago by Dangerous_Beans    [ Reply ]
Wonderful voice! Haunting!
Posted 3 years ago by BlackBetty    [ Reply ]
Horrible. Please stop this.
Posted 3 years ago by Prius    [ Reply ]
Just wow
Posted 3 years ago by smartn1    [ Reply ]
 DragonslayerJS wrote:

In the end, they went to a tunnel underneath a Nashville bridge and let the tape run.

"We padded down there in our flip-flops and recorded with all this natural ambient reverb, and it was perfect for what we were looking for," she says. The bridge is credited in the liner notes.

Metroactive Music, Vienna Calling, May 26,2004


Wow! Very impressive. I had to move from the convo in the kitchen and into the living room to hear this. Now I understand why the reverb was so uncannily real. I need to hear again without background distraction.
Posted 4 years ago by eyke    [ Reply ]
Wow.  Just wow.  I reading the lyrics almost brought me to tears.  Funny how me recently having a child makes me so much more emotional about storylines like this.
Posted 4 years ago by Relayer    [ Reply ]
What is WITH this song?!?! After the first verse, I started sobbing! :-( Such a sad and honest song! Death is SO weird and unknown!!! I also don't do very well with change...
But I guess this is a perfect song for the season... Day of the dead being just around the corner! <3
Posted 4 years ago by honeybee_harmony    [ Reply ]
 Prius wrote:

Beautiful song (8), but where does this high frequency hiss come from?



traffic noise (!) and a bird in the background (open window in a city)
Posted 4 years ago by KalleB    [ Reply ]
This is a fine song, by a fine writer, and very painful to listen to. Very moving. 9 from the lachrymose Nottingham jury.
Posted 4 years ago by fredriley    [ Reply ]
 missionaire wrote:
This is deeply unsettling, and all the more impressive because of it. If this song makes you uncomfortable it's doing it's job.
 

The haunting and beautiful counterpoint to BNL's "Tonight Is The Night I Fell Asleep At The Wheel", which I love as well
Posted 5 years ago by NeuroJoe    [ Reply ]
thoughtful lyrics...makes one wonder what the dead would really say..the grave is oh so silent
Nobody was really sure if he was from the house of lords
Posted 7 years ago by 1wolfy    [ Reply ]
Beautiful song (8), but where does this high frequency hiss come from?
Posted 7 years ago by Prius    [ Reply ]
This is deeply unsettling, and all the more impressive because of it. If this song makes you uncomfortable it's doing it's job.
Posted 7 years ago by missionaire    [ Reply ]
Chilling and captivating by turns. One of my few 10s.
Posted 7 years ago by poetdancer    [ Reply ]
I absolutely LOVE Vienna Teng, but I find myself looking for the P(T)SD button...
Posted 7 years ago by mbolch30307    [ Reply ]
Interesting! 
Posted 7 years ago by Azrica    [ Reply ]
Interesting range of comments.  For my part, utterly captivating.  This is why I listen to RP. Thanks Bill.
Posted 7 years ago by Eric_Denison    [ Reply ]
This song creeps me out and captivated me in almost equal measure. In almost 17 years of listening to this station, on a daily basis, it’s the only song I have no idea how to rate!?!
Posted 7 years ago by ScottishWillie    [ Reply ]
It's ok to play this once a year, maybe November? Doesn't need to be in rotation though.
Posted 7 years ago by Broken_Ear    [ Reply ]
What a horrible way to break a groove.
Posted 7 years ago by percheron    [ Reply ]
Wonderful. I thank RP for surprising me, every now and then, with songs like this one. The Song Comments remind me a bit of the HBO series "The Leftovers"; it seems that RP folks have vastly different views of mortality!
Posted 8 years ago by ri_shelton    [ Reply ]
Hit PSD because I couldn't take the lyrics. Got King Crimson - Epitaph instead. Woho, scary!
Posted 8 years ago by Sun_n_Fish    [ Reply ]
 staygood wrote:
Oy, indeed.  Very powerful & very unsettling.  It's beautiful, but I still want to PSD.

 
I did PSD, I have to be in a good mood to be able to listen to it... otherwise it shatters me
Posted 8 years ago by ShamanManu    [ Reply ]
Moody, but what a great voice. It kept me listening. Thanks for the find.
Posted 8 years ago by dris    [ Reply ]
Oy, indeed.  Very powerful & very unsettling.  It's beautiful, but I still want to PSD.
Posted 8 years ago by staygood    [ Reply ]
I think it's the best thing she's done. Most of her other stuff sounds like a screechy Norah Jones. 
Posted 8 years ago by GeorgeMWoods    [ Reply ]
Oy.
Posted 8 years ago by nutrod42    [ Reply ]
This is rock bottom sucko barfo.  Play something else.
Posted 8 years ago by bcolmer    [ Reply ]
 daniel_rusk wrote:
Sucks! No one needs shit like this. 

 
Do you speak for everyone or no one?
Posted 8 years ago by Webfoot    [ Reply ]
This is SOOOOOO ANNOYING
Posted 8 years ago by ckcotton    [ Reply ]
She is so amazing!
Posted 8 years ago by MojoJojo    [ Reply ]
 wibadger wrote:
jhorton wrote:
This is just a beautiful thing. Shallow minds need not apply.
I agree completely. So, since my shallow mind cannot take it, I changed the station. This is the THE ONLY SONG played on RP that causes this reaction.

 
Nine years later it's still in the rotation, but at least the Skip feature was added.
Posted 8 years ago by wibadger    [ Reply ]
beautiful but at the same time the most depressing song I ever heard....
Posted 8 years ago by ShamanManu    [ Reply ]
Wow!
Posted 9 years ago by bartverheijen    [ Reply ]
One of the most powerful songs I've ever heard.  Very moving.
Posted 9 years ago by FluorideFreeMN    [ Reply ]
SO POWERFUL!
Posted 9 years ago by raewah    [ Reply ]
 On_The_Beach wrote:

Thank you for those deep and insightful musings.
Probably best to rest your brain now.

 
NICE!!!!
Posted 9 years ago by raewah    [ Reply ]
 daniel_rusk wrote:
Sucks! No one needs shit like this.
 
Thank you for those deep and insightful musings.
Probably best to rest your brain now.
Posted 9 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
Sucks! No one needs shit like this. 
Posted 9 years ago by daniel_rusk    [ Reply ]
  MrsTom wrote:
There is either a hiss or she is recording this in the rain 

 DragonslayerJS wrote:

For Warm Strangers, Vienna traveled to Nashville to record again with David Henry. Financial constraints forced Vienna and her recording team to be creative. On the a cappella "Passage," they couldn't decide whether to use weird sound effects or chopped-up field recordings. In the end, they went to a tunnel underneath a Nashville bridge and let the tape run.

"We padded down there in our flip-flops and recorded with all this natural ambient reverb, and it was perfect for what we were looking for," she says. The bridge is credited in the liner notes.

Metroactive Music, Vienna Calling, May 26,2004



 

Oooohh!  Cool info, thank you DragonslayerJS  


Posted 9 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
{#No}   nope.  can't handle this one ... 
Posted 9 years ago by pontfarrer    [ Reply ]
 DaidyBoy wrote:
Astonishing  ↑ 10

 
Yes. Same here. 
Posted 9 years ago by poetdancer    [ Reply ]
Beautiful. In every way.

How someone can come up with this is truly beyond me. 
Posted 9 years ago by SECA_Alan    [ Reply ]
She sang this at One Longfellow Square, Portland, ME a year ago, and I bawled my eyes out.
Posted 9 years ago by blackdogsailing    [ Reply ]

What a lyrical and creative song. A capella too. I've always thought that harder to work with. I downloaded  some Vienna Teng. Good to walk the dog with, discordant to exercise by. I like her, and now I want to pay closer attention, explore the layers.
Posted 9 years ago by LizK    [ Reply ]
I think the only way the lyrics could move me it to mockery.
Posted 9 years ago by haresfur    [ Reply ]
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus send a message to one of his students last night. I can hope I got her attention.
Posted 9 years ago by twoplain2sea    [ Reply ]
huh.. her voice drew my attention, then read the lyrics - what a powerful and beautiful poem. Very haunting though..

I concur on the previous comments that this is not a work-soundtrack  {#Think}
Posted 9 years ago by lososs    [ Reply ]
 mgkiwi wrote:
Was she driving with Morrissey!

 
LOL,...
the cars in background kinda kill the mood
but the tunnel recording was a good idea though 
Posted 9 years ago by Skydog    [ Reply ]
YOWZER!!!  Got Good Times, Bad Times on PSD>>.  It's a great day, Bill!
Posted 9 years ago by mgtom    [ Reply ]
Was she driving with Morrissey!
Posted 9 years ago by mgkiwi    [ Reply ]
 MrsTom wrote:
There is either a hiss or she is recording this in the rain 

 

For Warm Strangers, Vienna traveled to Nashville to record again with David Henry. Financial constraints forced Vienna and her recording team to be creative. On the a cappella "Passage," they couldn't decide whether to use weird sound effects or chopped-up field recordings. In the end, they went to a tunnel underneath a Nashville bridge and let the tape run.

"We padded down there in our flip-flops and recorded with all this natural ambient reverb, and it was perfect for what we were looking for," she says. The bridge is credited in the liner notes.

Metroactive Music, Vienna Calling, May 26,2004


Posted 10 years ago by DragonslayerJS    [ Reply ]
 Chumbawamba-1984 wrote:
Nice vocal performance a capella on nice lyrics. Maybe a little too much hall effect to my taste. 

 
I couldn't've said it better myself.
I think I hear the sound of distant, outside traffic at certain points, especially within the last 30 seconds.
I wonder if she recorded this in an abandoned inner-city building. 
Posted 10 years ago by stegokitty    [ Reply ]
Would like to hear this back to back with BNL's "Tonight is the Night I Fell Asleep At The Wheel". Would be an interesting musical juxtaposition, similar theme but totally different approach. 
Posted 10 years ago by NeuroJoe    [ Reply ]
There is either a hiss or she is recording this in the rain 
Posted 10 years ago by MrsTom    [ Reply ]
Music to be clinically depressed by
Posted 10 years ago by joelbb    [ Reply ]
Nice vocal performance a capella on nice lyrics. Maybe a little too much hall effect to my taste. 
Posted 10 years ago by Chumbawamba-1984    [ Reply ]
I would love to hear June Tabor in her prime sing this song.
Posted 10 years ago by Philo    [ Reply ]
It's a very beautiful, sentimental, a capella song.  It has more than enough melancholy to split open heaven and flood my hometown in a deluge one mile deep. It made me stop, and take notice.  Thank you for playing it, RP. 
Posted 10 years ago by MadTom77    [ Reply ]
Amazing song but an oddly matter-of-fact presentation. Maybe that's by design but would like to hear someone else interpret it.
Posted 10 years ago by wgsu_1978    [ Reply ]
So upbeat, gee a little gin and some razor blades is all I need.
Posted 10 years ago by michaelc    [ Reply ]
 fredriley wrote:
This is a painful listen, enough to bring tears to the eyes. 9 from the brimming Nottingham jury.

 
Beautiful, but yes...
Posted 10 years ago by jmkate    [ Reply ]
Ugh!
Posted 10 years ago by jagdriver    [ Reply ]
{#Cry}

How damn touching...first confusing, then straight through the heart...
Posted 10 years ago by eno    [ Reply ]
Sooo annoying.... should have know it was her.....

 
Posted 10 years ago by ckcotton    [ Reply ]
 Jeff-in-TO wrote:
This is a really good poem.  Not what I want to hear while I'm working.  It's more of a late evening, sitting down with a scotch, deep thinking moment kind of poem.

 
I concur.
And I am at work now... 
Posted 10 years ago by ShamanManu    [ Reply ]
Voice. Voice. Voice. It's elegant, it shimmers and elevates even such sad material. 
Posted 10 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
Astonishing  ↑ 10
Posted 10 years ago by DaidyBoy    [ Reply ]
 EdEastridge wrote:
Wow… amazingly, beautifully haunting. Thank you.
 
What Ed said.  Although I especially enjoyed the last line.
Posted 11 years ago by unclehud    [ Reply ]
 Easyrider wrote:
Somebody speak to this woman and cheer her up.Down right depressing,awful.
 

What? You think life has to be all sparkles and happy clappy cheeriness? Nasty shit happens, and people write songs about all aspects of the human experience. How can you be so shallow?
Posted 11 years ago by GwentRabbit    [ Reply ]
10 for this wonderful voice
Posted 11 years ago by Der_Hamburger    [ Reply ]
This is a really good poem.  Not what I want to hear while I'm working.  It's more of a late evening, sitting down with a scotch, deep thinking moment kind of poem.
Posted 11 years ago by Jeff-in-TO    [ Reply ]
One of those songs where I  can acknowledge the talent behind it, but also realize that it is just not my cup of tea.
Posted 11 years ago by steeler    [ Reply ]
Wow… amazingly, beautifully haunting. Thank you.
Posted 11 years ago by eeastridge    [ Reply ]
 ScottN wrote:
Got here by PSD. Thank you for that BG.
This song is marvelous.

 
It can happen, thankful for its absence!
Posted 11 years ago by fitmartin    [ Reply ]
 ScottN wrote:
Got here by PSD. Thank you for that BG.
This song is marvelous.

 
Leaving here by PSD.  This song is a bummer.  Not what I want to hear early Friday morning.
Posted 11 years ago by ick    [ Reply ]
Got here by PSD. Thank you for that BG.
This song is marvelous.
Posted 11 years ago by ScottN    [ Reply ]
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No words to describe...
Posted 12 years ago by spiggy    [ Reply ]
This is a painful listen, enough to bring tears to the eyes. 9 from the brimming Nottingham jury.
Posted 13 years ago by fredriley    [ Reply ]
Very haunting and moving. It requires actual listening and feeling, apparently a problem for some...
Posted 13 years ago by meloman    [ Reply ]
Somebody speak to this woman and cheer her up.Down right depressing,awful.
Posted 13 years ago by Easyrider    [ Reply ]
A beautiful and moving poem about the far-reaching consequences of a single accidental death.
Posted 13 years ago by fredriley    [ Reply ]
 rubincw wrote:
boring
 
A poem, a song, time heals everything but death...She sings of how, as time moves along, people get used to those that died being gone. That it becomes normal after a time...I can't recall ever hearing a song that was this existential.

Yeah, that was boring, but only if you are not listening. 
Posted 13 years ago by oldsaxon    [ Reply ]
 Loonytunas wrote:
Please stop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 Loonytunas wrote:
does it ever stop.............this is the first time I've turn off radio paradise in a long time

depressing{#Wall}

 rubincw wrote:
boring
 

 
 
Except that some of us thought it was beautiful, moving. Have you seen the PSD button? I for one am glad Bill plays this.
Posted 13 years ago by GwentRabbit    [ Reply ]
Please stop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 Loonytunas wrote:
does it ever stop.............this is the first time I've turn off radio paradise in a long time

depressing{#Wall}

 rubincw wrote:
boring
 

 


Posted 13 years ago by Loonytunas    [ Reply ]
 kyuzo wrote:
I was stunned!
 
me, too...stopped what I was doing and just let it flow over me. How insightful, how sad, how well sung, how deeply touching. 
Posted 13 years ago by oldsaxon    [ Reply ]
some throw dog shit against a wall and call themselves artist{#Devil_pimp}
Posted 13 years ago by neotrogg    [ Reply ]
 oooresultooo wrote:
its sooo annoying....crickets in the background....singing here and there......blah blah blah...not music!
 
Or maybe it made it eerie and atmospheric. You can't have been listening to those lyrics. I found it incredibly moving.
 
Posted 13 years ago by GwentRabbit    [ Reply ]
does it ever stop.............this is the first time I've turn off radio paradise in a long time

depressing{#Wall}

 rubincw wrote:
boring
 

Posted 13 years ago by Loonytunas    [ Reply ]
freakin horrible please never play again god dammit !!!!!
Posted 13 years ago by neotrogg    [ Reply ]
its sooo annoying....crickets in the background....singing here and there......blah blah blah...not music!
Posted 13 years ago by oooresultooo    [ Reply ]
Beautiful in its own right, but certainly not making this Monday any brighter or easier.
Posted 13 years ago by d-don    [ Reply ]
boring
Posted 13 years ago by rubincw    [ Reply ]
keep it together man! gulp.
Posted 13 years ago by sajitjacob    [ Reply ]
The girl as instrument= Pure awesomeness.
Posted 13 years ago by jhorton    [ Reply ]
I was stunned!
Posted 13 years ago by kyuzo    [ Reply ]
Vraiment superbe !!!! really {#Clap}
Posted 13 years ago by Pierrot34    [ Reply ]
When Bill announced this song and suggested it was worth a thoughtful listen, I plugged in the headphones and took him at his word. Wow. He was right. Powerful, haunting and beautiful.  The follow-up with Moonlight Sonata was masterful.

Posted 14 years ago by MojoJojo    [ Reply ]
There's a chillingly beautiful song in there somewhere. This just isn't it.
Posted 14 years ago by handyrae    [ Reply ]
Lots of folks who comment are having a difficult time with their own mortality.  You too will die.
Enjoy the time that you have. 
Posted 14 years ago by Decoy    [ Reply ]
Trying to make me jump out my window (I'm on the first floor, but the drama of it would still be seen).  :( - Into Moonlight Sonata :(....
Posted 14 years ago by pelucid    [ Reply ]
Wow.
Posted 14 years ago by Grammarcop    [ Reply ]
Very Powerful,  Thanks Bill! 
Posted 14 years ago by KevH    [ Reply ]
Highly distracting when at work. I'll have to remove my earplugs for a while next time.
Posted 14 years ago by Burg    [ Reply ]
Train wreck. But I am compelled to listen. Like it or not, you have to give some kudos to an expression of art that makes you pause. 
Posted 14 years ago by KaiT    [ Reply ]
I don't feel like hearing this first thing in the morning. Maybe not any other time, either.
Posted 14 years ago by linden    [ Reply ]
Damn...this song never fails to make me hesitate and reflect on modern life.  And I think of some friends who always seem to be running away from her reflections.  Now I read some of the comments here, and wonder the same thing: How "good" are we with our silly existence here?


Posted 17 years ago by ri_shelton    [ Reply ]
What a hauntingly sweet voice.
Posted 17 years ago by frednic    [ Reply ]
It would be easier to quit smoking than listen to this song! {#Lol}
Posted 17 years ago by MayBaby    [ Reply ]
First time I've heard this, and it feels .... interesting.  For some reason, it puts me in mind of Baz Luhrmann, no real idea why....   Not sure how many times I could hear a song like this before I started finding it boring , but first impressions are 8 Most Excellent.
Posted 17 years ago by ercasul    [ Reply ]
It's very boring!
Posted 17 years ago by pvcnote    [ Reply ]
Not so good...it was interfering with my coding mojo something fierce.  Causing parity errors between my brain and fingers.

Good for the "Atonal/Arythmic Poetry Hour" though....
Posted 17 years ago by Zamoeba    [ Reply ]
It's not deep, but it's getting thick. 
Posted 17 years ago by iggam    [ Reply ]