Let's talk about Annabelle Lee-Like/Dislike/Neverheard?

eclipse · #1 08-11-2005, 02:39 PM

I LOVE this tune. It is a demo from the TISL era, (Although I could swear I remember her doing this as a demo with FM, but I can't find it anywhere) So I have had to listen to the other one with Shery Crowe?

I, being the always curious one wonder what everyone else thinks about this song.

Can I have some opinions? Thanks
~~eclipse~~

strandinthewind · #2 08-11-2005, 02:41 PM

I think it is an acquired taste. I like it though and even in its rough demo form

I always thought LB could have worked wonders with this one and with the sublime Space Needle.

GateandGarden · #3 08-11-2005, 02:41 PM

I looked for it for forever and then someone finally posted it on some site (I have such great memory) and I LOVE it!!! The thing is, I already loved the poem so I was probably destined to love it.

dissention · #4 08-11-2005, 02:46 PM

Not a big fan of it. She doesn't do anything interesting or original with it and as an interpretation of a Poe poem, it falls short. If you want to hear some great, off-the-wall Poe, get Closed On Account of Rabies, an album of musical interpretations of his work.

skcin · #5 08-11-2005, 02:49 PM

Like it, don't love it.

GateandGarden · #6 08-11-2005, 02:52 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

Not a big fan of it. She doesn't do anything interesting or original with it and as an interpretation of a Poe poem, it falls short.

Well, yeah, if she were to actually release it, she would need to polish it, I think. It needs better music and it needs to be, uh, less rambling. But I love it 'cause it's Stevie and "Annabelle Lee" and I love them together. Sometimes I'm easy to please.

Neal · #7 08-11-2005, 02:52 PM

I just heard this for the first time a week or so ago, and really like it.

eclipse · #8 08-11-2005, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

Not a big fan of it. She doesn't do anything interesting or original with it and as an interpretation of a Poe poem, it falls short. If you want to hear some great, off-the-wall Poe, get Closed On Account of Rabies, an album of musical interpretations of his work.

REALLY< never heard of it- You are giving me lots of tips today

I just think she put music to Poe's words, really, She didn't write any of it, except to change a few tenses and left out whole verses, but I dunno, I think Poe would have liked it-or hated it

dissention · #9 08-11-2005, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by eclipse

REALLY< never heard of it- You are giving me lots of tips today

I just think she put music to Poe's words, really, She didn't write any of it, except to change a few tenses and left out whole verses, but I dunno, I think Poe would have liked it-or hated it

Marianne Faithfull does "Annabel Lee" on Closed On Account of Rabies and it's really fab.

It's one of my favorite CDs, very weird and it captures the darkness of his work. Jeff Buckley, Iggy Pop, Deborah Harry, Diamanda Galás, Gabriel Byrne, Christopher Walken, and a bunch of others are on it.

no_spoken_word · #10 08-11-2005, 02:59 PM

I love Poe, and I LOOOOVE Stevie, so anytime those two worlds meet works for me!

NoSpeedLimit8 · #11 08-11-2005, 02:59 PM

I like it. It took me a few times listening to it to get the feel for it but now I think its a great demo.

CrystalVisions · #12 08-11-2005, 03:04 PM

I love it. I think Stevie's voice is incredible on it, and it's just hauntingly beautiful...

GypsySorcerer · #13 08-11-2005, 03:32 PM

I am a fan of Poe's, and Annabelle Lee is one of my favorite poems of his, but I don't like the demo.

Dreammms · #14 08-11-2005, 04:29 PM

It's okay. Glad we all got to hear it. Not disappointed it didn't make it on TISL.

SapphireSister · #15 08-11-2005, 04:49 PM

I liked it a lot at first. Now, not so much. Pretty much the oppisite of "it's grown on me". So I guess "It's grown off of me". The very beginning sounds just like the Thrown Down demo. It could probably be better with some production. It so hard to tell with these rough demos sometimes. A song could be so watered down and then with some expert production and mixing become a masterpiece (or the oppiste could happen).