Imogen Heap
 

I looked and didn't find a thread about Imogen.

is there anyone else obsessed with her and her album, Speak for Yourself?

I love Imi. Saw her in Boston last November, and she was AMAZING. Her album is a favorite of mine as well. :nod:

I would love to see her live...especially in an Apple store.

I spent one Saturday watching her live performances on YouTube...the woman is amazing. I read her blog too and she seems to be really creative and attentive in everything she does. her myspace says she's working on album #3. I think Gregg's gonna get me her debut and her Frou Frou work too.

Her show is really great. And she's so funny too. :p :nod:

um YES. "daylight robbery" is the wakeup song i set my alarm to. :laugh:

i absolutely adore her; she is a modern day genius as far as i am concerned. :nod: love her voice, love her lyrics, love her music. . .love everything about her.

you should totally get her frou frou album ("details"), there are some great tracks on it. not quite as brilliant as "speak for yourself", but still worth it. "i megaphone" is also good.

sweet. I can't wait to get them.

oh, honey - there's an immy thread here somewhere... because i started it! :)

i love imogen - "speak for yourself" is one of my rare albums i can listen to from start to finish without skipping a song. my love started with hide and seek but i just adore both her solo albums, as well as her work with frou frou. i've seen her in concert twice now - she loves toronto! - and she is one of the few artists (along with FM and stevie) that i will pay to see live over and over and over.

oh, and if you haven't heard glittering clouds go find it! it's on itunes

I just got it, her debut and her album with Frou Frou. I'm saving to listen tomorrow at work.

thanks Greggy!!! :xoxo:

There's a bunch of really great remixes of Hide and Seek. You know, if someone does an accapella song everyone and their mother has to remix it. But some of them I've heard are amazing. They sound like something Frou Frou would have done, like the vocals and the music were meant to go together. But the ones that don't work are really bad. It's a hard vocal to adapt beats to.

I really want to be able to distort my vocals like she does.

I'd love to hear some of those remixes. I'll have to track em down.

"Hide and Seek" is a very cool song! I am now on the hust for remixes! THanks!

ok, now I'm obsessed with Frou Frou's album Details. Shh is my favorite. I listened to the whole album on repeat while at work yesterday. there are some pretty cool vids on YouTube too.

Imogen has an awesome blog. she talks about the songs she's writing and her travels. of course, I've lost the weblink...I'll have to find it.

who in the hell didn't Fleetwood Mac make an impression on?! this totally made my day when I read this.

btw, it's the first question/answer. if you can't read it, she basically says her brother would play FMac's TITN over and over and over until she made him stop so she could buy something else to listen to.

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w...fonhead/26.jpg

damn. I must live in the anti-music belt. I have never heard of this person :o


or half of the people usually mentioned on here :(

damn! on top of all the awesomeness she has to offer, imogen pulls this one out of her hat. i LOVE her.

p.s. shh is my favourite track on details. it gives me shivers everytime i listen to it. . .when i first got that album, i was with someone i uh, probably shouldn't have been with and that song so perfectly described everything i felt when we were together. to me, she is emotion personified.

<3. I'm glad you like it! Imogen rules.

just noticed this thread and had to post. i absolutely adore her [frou frou and solo]. one of my favorite songs is just for now and this video of her performing the song is amazing...

So basically she hates FM. :laugh:

o. the memes. <3333

My fav concert ever.

^^ i have seen her twice - the first time she was sooo nervous. but her performances are incredible.

my imogen song of the moment is glittering clouds.

really? Shh is my favorite too. I am literally obsessed with Imogen and Frou Frou...it's bordering on unhealthy. :D

yep, i think that album is the perfect soundtrack to the beginning of a relationship, when you're obsessed and excited about every single detail (no pun intended) of the other person. there's always 1 or 2 lines in each imogen song that really get me, i think it's the way she says them. . . in "shh", everytime i hear her say "give me an hour and i'll give you your dream", i feel like i'm about to have a nervous breakdown (in a good, yet weird way if that makes sense)! other favourites on this album for me are "must be dreaming" and "hear me out".

^^^
shut up! that's my favorite line from that song...the way she says "dream" makes me so happy. I like "Hear Me Out" too. "The Dumbing Down of Love" and "Only Got One" are my other favorites...

Me neither.

But I enjoyed the video and want to hear some more.....

ooooooo, "the dumbing down of love" is great too. forgot about that one. also "psychobabble", altho i'm probably the psycho she's referring to in the song. :lol: WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T LOVE ME ANYMORE!?

there's another line in "shh" that i really like too, "don't care, what do they know? i've seen it baby and i know it's real".

aaaaaggh she's so damn good. imogen heap, why do you know all of my feelings and why have you put them into amazing songs!?

lmao...it's so true. I love "Psychobabble" -

I think you'd really like her...and appreciate how talented she is. there are a TON of videos on YouTube. and if you decide you want, I'll be glad to send you some of her stuff to sample...

this is true. you honestly can't go wrong with her, she's one of those artists that has yet to produce a bad song. i can't think of one track of hers that i don't love.

by the way, what's everyone's favourite from "speak for yourself"? i love "the walk", "hide & seek", "the moment i said it", "daylight robbery" and "headlock".

get out of my head!! that's exactly what gets me about her songs, too. :wavey:

in hide and seek: oily marks appear on walls where pleasure moments hung before

glittering clouds: the artist's impression looks just like me. only... better.

goodnight and go: and you're following the same routine, flicking through the tv.. relaxed and reclining... and you think you're alone...

loose ends: just that crazy, kick ass screaming she does.

I love "The Walk" and "Daylight Robbery" - my favorites are "Have You Got It In You", "Loose Ends", "Clear the Area" and "I Am In Love with You" ~

that whole song rocks...but especially that lyric. :nod:

as if anyone needs another forum to join...I know I sure as hell don't, but here's Immi's

http://www.imogenheap.com/forum/

holy crap, those are my favourite lines from those songs too! the "hide & seek" line actually makes me cry sometimes! although i have to say with "glittering clouds" i do like "domino motion jump starts when we touch" a little better. but the "artist's impression" part is definitely amazing too.

also, does anyone else think it's strange that imogen heap isn't really that big in the states? it seems like she's an amazing phenomenon on the internet, and i know tons of people who love her here. . .but yet she never gets any airplay? why is that?

she's too progressive I think. she's not hip hop or Top 40 so she won't get much radio play. I can't wait to see how big she gets when she releases her new album and actually gets some promotion. and I can't wait to see her live!

ok. when i was writing the line "the artist's impression," i was thinking, oh but i love the "domino motion" line, too! :laugh: that one is brilliant for its rhythm. "do-mi-no-mo." exactly how dominoes falling would sound.

i would totally agree with that. and i'm glad. i'd hate to see her go all commercial. she is pretty popular here in canada - she played toronto and montreal twice in the past year. sold out in minutes both times.

all the cool kids know and love her. ;)

^^^
me too. I want her to stay just as she is...lots of artists make it without being commercial and staying true to their own art.

she sold out in New Orleans quick too, but, at the time, I wasn't a fan. :rolleyes:

I'm the only one who wants my favorite artists to be my own little best kept secret? I was a little disappointed when I saw all these people fawning over her in this thread because I thought she was mine! Totally selfish and horrible for wishing unpopularity upon Imogen Heap, but I'm horrible. And selfish.

SYS - Hide & Seek, Headlock, Have You Got it In You, The Walk

iM - Sweet Religion, Angry Angel, Come Here Boy

Details - Let Go, Breathe In (sorry to be so obvious, but they're great)

Other - Speeding Cars, Glittering Cloud, Embers Of Love

Favorite Immi lines. Hm.
"I know that my face is only too familiar to your sleep/ I can see it in your eyes and I can tell by your body heat." (Come Here Boy)

"No response on any level/ Red alert this vessels under siege/ Total overload, systems down, they've got control/ There's no way out, we are surrounded/ Give in, give in and relish every minute of it" (The Walk -- mainly for the way she sings it, but I also like the lyrics)

"Bite tongue/ Deep breaths/ Count to ten/ Nod your head" (Just For Now)

"There, there, baby/ It's just textbook stuff/ It's in the ABCs of growing up" (Speeding Cars)

"Domino motion jump starts when we touch/ The blackout approaching/ Here it comes now, wish me luck/ It's all over, it's all over, it's all over in a flash" (Glittering Cloud)

ilu immi