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Catatonia is my favourite band in the world. I love them so, so much. Meyerlemon made a post about wanting some new music, and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alryssa suggested Catatonia and I just. I felt compelled to make a whole post about how much I love them! I love them so much, I can't even tell you what my favourite song in the whole world is. How dumb is that? Because it's mine, and blogs are about sharing, but I can't share that with you. It's too much.
I AM SO DUMB.
Catatonia was formed in the early nineties, but they didn't really get a lot of airplay or become very well known until the late nineties, when they released 'Mulder and Scully', which was on their second album, International Velvet.
[An aside: It turns out that I have all of Catatonia's albums, including the best of, except I don't have my favourite album, International Velvet, which, incidentally, is an album that would make it onto my "You're stranded on an island. What five albums would you want with you?" list. Seriously.]
Lead singer Cerys has this amazing personality. She's Welsh (as is the whole band), and you know how often, singers will sing with an 'international' or null accent? She never did. There was never any doubt, when listening to her voice, of who she was and what she was singing and where she was from. And I always found that pretty amazing, too.
Cerys' voice aside, I love the tunes. All of them. They're never just riffs off the previous song - each one is so different, and so awesome. I guess you could sort of describe them as 'folk,' but I honestly believe it'd be doing them a bit of a disservice to catagorise them solely as such.
Catatonia split in 2001 and actually, that's okay. I love just about every song they released, and each song means so much to me, that I kind of don't mind that we'll never get anything new.
alryssa has made a similar post here (pee ess, she's wrong when she says those four are the four best from the album).
If you'd like to buy, this is the search for them on Amazon.
From International Velvet:
Mulder and Scully. OH COME ON. Things are getting strange / I'm starting to worry / This could be a case for Mulder and Scully. HOW CAN YOU RESIST THOSE LYRICS?
I am The Mob. This song makes Mob members sound really happy with their jobs.
My Selfish Gene (stolen fromalryssa, as I appear to be missing a copy of International Velvet). This is a sad, terrible song, that happens to incidentally contain the word 'spleen.' You, me, and destiny / Guess that it was never meant to be.
International Velvet (the song, not the album). This song is in Welsh. And I have no idea what it's about, but it's track number seven on an English language album, and I've always thought that was kind of cool. I don't like listening to songs when I don't know what the words mean, so I usually don't listen to this song, but when I do it just sounds so enthusiastic and so proud, and that's awesome.
From Equally Cursed and Blessed:
Shoot the Messenger. This is a really bitter album. Many of the songs on this album sound awesome but are filled with such rage and bitterness, and then by a sort of, okay, I get that this is how it is now understanding, and it's just. Somebody told me you’d found new bonhomie / Going places you’d never go with me / I felt myself became a bitter old shrew / Oh I’d have bitten you in two if you would let me.
Nothing Hurts. This has a soft, lullaby sort of tune, and the words are lovely, but you just get the feeling it's all sarcasm.
From Paper Scissors Rock:
Godspeed. A song about the Internets.
What it Is. This is a song that's less cool for the lyrics and more awesome for the actual tune itself. It's just very quiet and filled with harmonies and awesome.
alryssa suggested Catatonia and I just. I felt compelled to make a whole post about how much I love them! I love them so much, I can't even tell you what my favourite song in the whole world is. How dumb is that? Because it's mine, and blogs are about sharing, but I can't share that with you. It's too much.I AM SO DUMB.
Catatonia was formed in the early nineties, but they didn't really get a lot of airplay or become very well known until the late nineties, when they released 'Mulder and Scully', which was on their second album, International Velvet.
[An aside: It turns out that I have all of Catatonia's albums, including the best of, except I don't have my favourite album, International Velvet, which, incidentally, is an album that would make it onto my "You're stranded on an island. What five albums would you want with you?" list. Seriously.]
Lead singer Cerys has this amazing personality. She's Welsh (as is the whole band), and you know how often, singers will sing with an 'international' or null accent? She never did. There was never any doubt, when listening to her voice, of who she was and what she was singing and where she was from. And I always found that pretty amazing, too.
Cerys' voice aside, I love the tunes. All of them. They're never just riffs off the previous song - each one is so different, and so awesome. I guess you could sort of describe them as 'folk,' but I honestly believe it'd be doing them a bit of a disservice to catagorise them solely as such.
Catatonia split in 2001 and actually, that's okay. I love just about every song they released, and each song means so much to me, that I kind of don't mind that we'll never get anything new.
alryssa has made a similar post here (pee ess, she's wrong when she says those four are the four best from the album).If you'd like to buy, this is the search for them on Amazon.
From International Velvet:
Mulder and Scully. OH COME ON. Things are getting strange / I'm starting to worry / This could be a case for Mulder and Scully. HOW CAN YOU RESIST THOSE LYRICS?
I am The Mob. This song makes Mob members sound really happy with their jobs.
My Selfish Gene (stolen from
alryssa, as I appear to be missing a copy of International Velvet). This is a sad, terrible song, that happens to incidentally contain the word 'spleen.' You, me, and destiny / Guess that it was never meant to be.International Velvet (the song, not the album). This song is in Welsh. And I have no idea what it's about, but it's track number seven on an English language album, and I've always thought that was kind of cool. I don't like listening to songs when I don't know what the words mean, so I usually don't listen to this song, but when I do it just sounds so enthusiastic and so proud, and that's awesome.
From Equally Cursed and Blessed:
Shoot the Messenger. This is a really bitter album. Many of the songs on this album sound awesome but are filled with such rage and bitterness, and then by a sort of, okay, I get that this is how it is now understanding, and it's just. Somebody told me you’d found new bonhomie / Going places you’d never go with me / I felt myself became a bitter old shrew / Oh I’d have bitten you in two if you would let me.
Nothing Hurts. This has a soft, lullaby sort of tune, and the words are lovely, but you just get the feeling it's all sarcasm.
From Paper Scissors Rock:
Godspeed. A song about the Internets.
What it Is. This is a song that's less cool for the lyrics and more awesome for the actual tune itself. It's just very quiet and filled with harmonies and awesome.
