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Post by Clare on Mar 21, 2007 21:14:25 GMT
Pigeon Song is, for sure, one of my favourite songs on Lycanthropy. Nine times out of ten, it makes me cry, actually. It currently makes me think a lot about my own life - especially the first few lines. London, did you have to take my child away? You buried him under rent and low pay.^ My brother has just found himself homeless because he's been evicted from his flat and has nowhere else to go. Rent, at £200 per month, was eating up the majority of his £250 per month pay check - he's working just on the minimum wage, I think. I've been going alone to the cinema, I've been stealing all my food from the electric avenue.^ This totally reflects the sort of loneliness I think we all feel at one time or another - this deep melancholy sort of isolation that permeates everything we do. Also, I find it really cute how Patrick sorta pronounces it "cine-mar." The sweet accordian at the start just breaks my heart; although I've not quite been able to identify the instrument that plays the first few opening bars? I feel like such a fool for asking. It sounds like guitar, but I thought Patrick never learned to play guitar? The strings parts are just so beautiful. I can't even express how poignant and just... Beautiful they are!
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Post by Sorrow By Nature on Mar 27, 2007 3:27:22 GMT
The booklet from the cd reads: "Pigeon Song: Accordion, Viola and Guitar!! by Patrick. Double bass by Prince April" (there's also guitar on London) /t
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Post by Clare on Mar 27, 2007 20:41:32 GMT
I lost my booklet. I was completely gutted.
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Post by plastikapples on May 17, 2007 12:29:49 GMT
the first line says it all! x i love it dearly too
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Post by cheshire on May 28, 2007 16:09:29 GMT
I think Pigeon Song is one of the best songs on the album- it's the only patrick wolf song that makes me cry for no apparent reason.
It sort of makes me think of a homeless boy, in London. Like oliver twist or something living on the streets and feeding pigeons.
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Post by sanssouci on May 30, 2007 2:06:55 GMT
that and Mary Poppins.
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Post by lastgoodbye on May 31, 2007 18:37:44 GMT
Pigeon Song was one of the very first Patrick songs I ever heard... I love all the imagery in it, the 'searching in the pouring rain' and the idea of him talking to the pigeons till the evening fades really captured me. Basically, it cemented my love for his music forever.
Oh, and I too love the way he pronounces "cine-mar." ;D That and the way he pronounces 'aviary' in WITW, makes me smile.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2007 22:51:20 GMT
When he sings 'now I feed the birds' I expect him to follow with 'tuppence a bag'.
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Post by Rhiflect on Jul 12, 2007 18:45:48 GMT
I always thought he said "Cinema-aisles' like, really quickly. Then like, 3 weeks ago i realised it was just Cinema. Baha.
It's the 'HOME' bit that gets me..
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Post by Lanuit on Jul 20, 2007 16:48:52 GMT
Somtimes when i'm a bit upset or whatever i just go for a walk and for some reason i always end up turning Pigeon song on. It's such a great song and is also one of the first Patrick ones i heard too
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Post by coco on Aug 6, 2007 21:17:17 GMT
I love this song, it's beautiful in bold type.
And well, random thing, but my real name, Paloma, means "pigeon" or "dove" in Spanish...
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Post by Roxy on Aug 11, 2007 1:35:48 GMT
For some reason I like the 4-track demo of pigeon song more than the album version. It's a beautiful song indeed. A video of his performance of it at that recent show in Portland made me cry my eyes out. I want to see him at a show like that..
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Post by milindris on Aug 11, 2007 18:38:04 GMT
Yes, I like the 4-track demo more than the album one too. It's a beautiful song anyway. He sang it in Malaga and I didn't know which song was it, but I loved it!
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Post by the kalashnikov kid on Aug 20, 2007 19:53:09 GMT
One of the first things I learnt to play on the accordion.
True dat.
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Post by lazy poet on Aug 20, 2007 21:12:32 GMT
One of the first things I learnt to play on the accordion. True dat. if it doesn't cause you too much hassle, you wouldn't mind putting up the sheet music for it or something would you ? i'd love to learn it on my accordion
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Post by the kalashnikov kid on Aug 20, 2007 21:22:22 GMT
I can't write the sheet music,
but let me see if I can work it out without playing my accordion,
because it's too late and I don't want to wake everyone up.
He doesn't play it with the bass chords,
so just on the keyboard it's just...
(Bare with me, I'm listening to Prince's new album and it's not helping, even though it's good)
A# D F G F D# D D# D D# D (or however many times you play that bit.)
That's as much as I can work out at the moment,
I'll replay it on my accordion tomorrow.
The accordion's too loud, do you agree?
*edit
that's just the intro
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Post by lazy poet on Aug 20, 2007 21:26:57 GMT
aha thank you very much i'll see if it works tommorrow yes accordion is far too loud late at night i do wish quite a lot that it had a volume button although when i can play it, i love how loud it is so i'm kind of glad it stays that way
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Post by the kalashnikov kid on Aug 20, 2007 21:33:47 GMT
Also,
if it would care to interest you I worked out the Magic Position earlier today.
It's the strings bit,
the scale he does is just B major.
So that's B C# D# E F# G# A# B
And then
B B B G#, F#, G# repeated a lot of times A# A# A# F# C# F# repeated a few times
then this A# A# A# F# G# B G# F# G# for another bit.
I just don't remember which bits go where ;D
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Post by lazy poet on Aug 20, 2007 21:42:36 GMT
wow thank you very much i exalt thee for all of that (i will soon, i can't change karma right now)
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Post by the kalashnikov kid on Aug 20, 2007 21:43:33 GMT
I'm confused about what karma even does!
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