Saturday, December 25, 2010

What They Should Have Sung



Some songs have an element of magic. They squeeze your heart and flood your mind. It's far from always clear why, but it can happen in an instant, and it happens again each time you hear the song anew. The mystery of music – but lyrics have a lot to do with it, too.


The essay has been moved to my personal website:

What They Should Have Sung


6 comments:

  1. I very recently found out that you reviewed Meaning Green restuarant under the alias Bong. Although I am a vegetarian myself, I have to agree with you after consuming a few meals at the Stockholm restaurant in the year 2000. The food I got was ice cold, everything was cold food, not preheated or anything and my gf almost broke up with me right there since she found a lot of sand on the salad leaves. But still the guy who started it he was on TV, fascinating guy. He went over to manufacturing juices.

    Could you pehaps please post something about your Meaning Green experience? It was an international chain so why not in English on this blog?

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  2. I did find a Mike d'Abo version which uses the preferred "had to sweat for you to buy" line. It's a live take on an odds & sods album called "Hidden gems & treasured friends", maybe the original recording was somewhat different (I haven't heard that) - but he most surely recorded this version before Stefan created his blog post on the matter. And furthermore, he did write the lyrics. So the point made would seem valid.

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  3. Nisse, welcome to the blogosphere! Great news about the d'Abo version. I'm glad that my views on the poem are shared by the poet himself.

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