{"id":778,"date":"2008-12-10T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larelle.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/10\/evocative-songs"},"modified":"2008-12-10T22:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T22:24:00","slug":"evocative-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/?p=778","title":{"rendered":"Evocative Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    You know me. I do like to talk about things sexual. But I&#8217;m worried that I come across as sex obsessed. Which I&#8217;m not! It&#8217;s just I want to talk to about things that are on my mind.<\/p>\n<p \/>In coming up with post topics, I&#8217;ve been wanting to write this post for a few days now, and was tossing up whether to put it out on this blog, or just put it up as a private blog post. It feels quite personal, but after the work I put into it, I decided to post it here.<\/p>\n<p \/>Songs stir up so many emotions in us. They can transport me, very often, to a direct place and time. Like for example, when I hear ELO&#8217;s &#8220;Hold On Tight&#8221;, I get transported to being in Roy&#8217;s car, with his (now ex) wife Carole and Cheryl, and it playing on the radio as we were driving back from from seeing his and Cheryl&#8217;s grandparents (paternal grandparents &#8211; my siblings all share the same father, but I have a different dad). So when I&#8217;m listening to the song, I&#8217;m in a old Holden car, at dusk, travelling the Hume Highway towards Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p \/>Other songs take me to my brother Quince&#8217;s bedroom, with his big pioneer hi-fi system &#8211; listening to songs in the dark, with maybe a red light bulb on (that is SO 70&#8217;s!), looking at all the 70&#8217;s posters on the wall, held up by a nail with those long black clips that you&#8217;d feed the top and bottom of the poster into.<\/p>\n<p \/>Sometimes I see the room during that day. And sometimes I&#8217;m outside on my swing. Sometimes the images are older shots of me in the lounge room listening on our old crappy hi-fi, or me in my own room as an adult, with my 3 disc CD playing hi-fi on a hot day.<\/p>\n<p \/>When I hear the INXS song &#8220;Disappear&#8221; I&#8217;m at a Christmas party in 1990 at a relatives house of my then boyfreind Roger. We&#8217;re playing pool on his relatives huge billiards table.<\/p>\n<p \/>This post though is really about what I think of as evocative songs, to me. Songs that spark off maybe a sensual emotion. They don&#8217;t exactly spark off sexual arousal, but they spark off feelings of intimacy or sensuality. It might be just a line a singer delivers in a certain way, or the song might just conjure up thoughts of intimacy or longing. Some just have sexy or quirky lines.<\/p>\n<p \/>Sexy Quirky ones for me that conjure up sensual images or feelings:<\/p>\n<p \/>U2 &#8211; Do You Feel Loved? (<span style=\"font-style:italic;\">it&#8217;s especially the lines &#8220;Take my shirt, go on take it off me, you can tear it up if you can tie me down&#8221; and &#8220;With my fingers as you want them, with my nails under your hide. With My teeth at your back and my tongue to tell you the sweetest lies&#8221;<\/span>), Mysterious Ways, An Cat Dubh, Trip Through Your Wires, Babyface<br \/>Cars &#8211; Let&#8217;s Go (<span style=\"font-style:italic;\">I just love the singers voice &#8211; very sensuous. Oh and he says the line &#8220;She&#8217;s got wonderful eyes and a risky mouth&#8221; &#8211; love that!<\/span>)<br \/>Bjork &#8211; Possibly Maybe (<span style=\"font-style:italic;\">it&#8217;s in particular the line &#8220;Since we broke up I&#8217;m using lipstick again. I suck my tongue in remembrance of you&#8221;<\/span>), Enjoy<br \/>Franz Ferdinand &#8211; Well That Was Easy (<span style=\"font-style:italic;\">the lines &#8220;So come on kill me, kill me now, kill me now &#8216;cos I&#8217;m leaving you now&#8221; &#8211; it&#8217;s just the way Alex delivers it, also the line &#8220;I watched you clean the filth off your phone dial, swalling the things your finger picked up. Tongue, your tongue, I watched your tongue licking on&#8221;<\/span>), Darts of Pleasure (<span style=\"font-style:italic;\">&#8220;We&#8217;ll have fantastic passion&#8221;, &#8220;You can see my lips undress your eyes&#8221;<\/span>), Michael, I&#8217;m Your Villain<br \/>David Bowie &#8211; Cactus (<span style=\"font-style:italic;\">all about a guy in jail that wants his girlfriend to send him a sweat-stained, blood-stained dress of hers to him<\/span>), I&#8217;ve been Waiting For You, Wishful Beginnings, Stay, Dead Against It, She Shook Me Cold, Star<br \/>Eurythmics &#8211; It&#8217;s Alright, Cool Blue<br \/>Frankie Goes To Hollywood &#8211; The Power of Love (<span style=\"font-style:italic;\">could be in both lists really<\/span>)<br \/>George Michael &#8211; Faith, Father Figure (<span style=\"font-style:italic;\">could be in both<\/span>), Flawless (Go To The City) (&#8220;<span style=\"font-style:italic;\">&#8216;Cos you&#8217;re beautiful, like no other<\/span>&#8220;)<br \/>Grace Jones &#8211; Pull Up To The Bumper, My Jamaican Guy, Warm Leatherette (<span style=\"font-style:italic;\">best line is &#8220;A tear of petrol is in your eye, the handbrake penetrates your thigh. A tear of petrol is in your eye, quick, let&#8217;s make love before we die&#8221;<\/span>)<br \/>Hoodoo Gurus &#8211; Like Wow &#8211; Wipeout<br \/>Icehouse &#8211; We Can Get Together, Can&#8217;t Help Myslef, Love In Motion<br \/>Kylie Minogue &#8211; Love At First Sight, Slow, Chocolate, Two Hearts<br \/>Madonna &#8211; Candy Perfume Girl, Burning Up, Hanky Panky, Erotica, Deeper and Deeper<br \/>Mondo Rock &#8211; Come Said The Boy (<span style=\"font-style:italic;\">just reminds me of teenage &#8220;first time&#8221; experiences<\/span>)<br \/>Split Enz &#8211; One Step Ahead, I Got You<br \/>The Killers &#8211; Andy You&#8217;re A Star, On Top<\/p>\n<p \/>Emotive Sensual ones &#8211; sparking feelings of love and sensuality or strong emotions of loss, regret, sadness:<\/p>\n<p \/>KD Lang &#8211; Wash Me Clean and Save Me<br \/>Bjork &#8211; Hyperballad, Unravel, Come To Me, One Day, and Joga<br \/>Crowded House &#8211; When You Come, Fall At Your Feet, Better Be Home Soon<br \/>David Bowie &#8211; I Would Be Your Slave, Wild Is The Wind,<br \/>Eurythmics &#8211; The Miracle of Love<br \/>Foreigner &#8211; Waiting For A Girl Like You<br \/>George Michael &#8211; Amazing, Another Corner<br \/>Grace Jones &#8211; La Vie En Rose<br \/>The Honeydrippers &#8211; The Sea of Love<br \/>Hunters and Collectors &#8211; Throw Your Arms Around Me<br \/>Kylie Minogue &#8211; Come Into My World, I Believe In You<br \/>Madonna &#8211; To Have And Not To Hold, Skin, True Blue, Jimmy Jimmy, Causing A Commotion, Oh Father, Rain, You&#8217;ll See, What It Feels Like For A Girl<br \/>Mondo Rock &#8211; State Of The Heart<br \/>Paul Young &#8211; Wherever I Lay My Hat, Every Time You Go Away<br \/>Roxy Music &#8211; More Than This<br \/>Snow Patrol &#8211; Run, Chasing Cars<br \/>Split Enz &#8211; I Hope I Never<br \/>The Smiths &#8211; There&#8217;s A Light That Never Goes Out<br \/>U2 &#8211; So Cruel, Love Is Blindness, Into The Heart, Gone, Stay (Far Away, So Close)<\/p>\n<p \/>There are probably others, but I conpiled this mostly with what I have listed in my Zen. All of these songs evoke something strong within me anyway. This post has been a labour of love and has taken me approximately 3 hours to compile!<\/p>\n<p \/>I&#8217;m done xx<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"posterous_download_image\" src=\"\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know me. I do like to talk about things sexual. But I&#8217;m worried that I come across as sex obsessed. Which I&#8217;m not! It&#8217;s just I want to talk to about things that are on my mind. In coming up with post topics, I&#8217;ve been wanting to write this post for a few days &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/?p=778\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Evocative Songs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[136,201,221,294,316],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-general-interest","tag-music","tag-nostalgia","tag-songs","tag-thoughts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larelleread.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}