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Just bought Speak For Yourself, and I'm blown away. It's likely she'll be my favorite artist for the next few weeks, and there's definitely going to be some sort of influence in my music from this.

ps - I'm really surprised that it took me this long to find out about IH. Does she already have some SF fans?

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Hide And Seek

I remember her because of that name. Not a fan, but I like what I've heard. The first time I ever heard of her was a couple of years ago on Letterman. She impressed the hell out of me. She flawlessly stood in front of her keyboards playing, singing, activating sounds and beats and when she switched to the other piano, she had a second mic there that she used without missing a single breath. I've noticed that her breathing is a part of her sound.

Loved the one song I heard (the one with all the vox), bought the album, listened to it a couple of times, realized it has quite possibly the worst lyrics ever written, stopped listening.

That was my time with Imogen Heap.

Well, Mr. Reist. I thought that with your prog-rock leanings you'd be more inclined to listen to Uriah Heep!

To be honest, my obsession with prog has diminished a bit as of late. It's mostly been weezer and the radio, and I've come to find that (for me) writing pop-rock is much more fulfilling than writing prog. I'm sure this'll change sometime soon though ... I never sit in one place for too long when it comes to music.

Hey Andrew, I just checked to see if I could find a vid clip of her on Letterman and I found it. This is what I was talking about up tharrr ^^^^. Pretty cool. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_FCdOacpeA

Cool video. I got the album that song is on from Erin. I think the lyrics are definitely cheesy, or at least too girly for me personally, but I think "worst lyrics ever written" might be a bit hyperbolic... I really like the music, though. I think she has interesting arrangements and instrumentation. I'm impressed seeing her perform that song like that, too. I think I like it kind of paired down and more sparse like that better than on the album.

I wasn't sure what I thought of the Letterman vid, but her vocals pick up as it goes along, which is good to hear. I think it might be a shyness issue more than anything.

And yeah, the lyrics in the chorus are pretty bad. I think the verse lyrics are much more bearable though. And it's worth it for the music, I think.

I did noticed the slight pitch issue in the vocals on the Letterman clip, but that's ok. She is really singing, hitting buttons, playing keys, switching mics, pulling up her sleeves, etc. No lip syncing, no band, just her. That is talent that takes a lot of practice to perfect.

....by the way, is it just me, or does she look like a non cracked out Amy Winehouse?

oh, i didn't realize that was the woman from frou frou. that's a good album, except my copy is scratched all to hell from getting stuck in my old car's cd player.
-bill

Not only does her music blow me away, she used a frying pan to record Hide And Seek. And she has the coolest accent. And she was featured on the Hi My Name Is Mark Podcast. Very cool.

By the way Andrew, I noticed that she did influence you on this weeks Paper Thin. That's a new side of you. Gay as hell, but not bad at all, plus it will get you laid. You have a good voice starting to emerge. Sometimes it takes someone like her to make you try new things that will later help to develop your own thing. The percussions were a little odd, but the song was pretty good.

Billy's Little Trip wrote:By the way Andrew, I noticed that she did influence you on this weeks Paper Thin. That's a new side of you. Gay as hell, but not bad at all, plus it will get you laid. You have a good voice starting to emerge. Sometimes it takes someone like her to make you try new things that will later help to develop your own thing. The percussions were a little odd, but the song was pretty good.

Ha, funny you mention it. I wrote and recorded Paper Thin before I had ever heard of Imogen Heap. It was a few days later when I found her on Youtube and bought the album. I guess it was just the music that I needed to hear at this point in my life/music career.

And um, knowing me, it probably won't get me laid.

So what made you go for that style. It really is an old school style of pop rock and I'm sure you will connect with the older rockers here at SF. Maybe Foreigner, I want to know what love is? Girls loved that stuff and guys did too, because it got us the secks. I loved me some Foreigner.

Billy's Little Trip wrote:So what made you go for that style. It really is an old school style of pop rock and I'm sure you will connect with the older rockers here at SF. Maybe Foreigner, I want to know what love is? Girls loved that stuff and guys did too, because it got us the secks. I loved me some Foreigner.

I don't know what made me do that style. It's just an honest, kind of moody keyboard song. Like all my other songs, it's just another attempt at expressing my emotions. And I'm a moody/sometimes depressing guy, so I guess those emotions were bound to pop up in my music at some point.

I've wanted to pick up a foreigner cd for a while (I heard hot blooded on the radio, and I love that kind of stuff), but all I can find are greatest hits albums, and I hate those.

Can you believe that they called Foreigner new wave, the same that they called Pearl Jam alternative. It's all rock n roll and we love it. Two fantastic bands of our history, by the way.

Billy's Little Trip wrote:Can you believe that they called Foreigner new wave, the same that they called Pearl Jam alternative. It's all rock n roll and we love it. Two fantastic bands of our history, by the way.

That's pretty weird, but I guess at the time it must have seemed weird for bands to be making music the way they did.

I checked into a bit of Pearl Jam about a year ago ... not entirely impressed. I definitely don't dislike them, but I'm starting to think I must be too young to get it.

Reïst wrote:I definitely don't dislike them, but I'm starting to think I must be too young to get it.

Wow, becoming quite the politician, lol.
Pearl Jam was really more about the lyrical content and message, but they just so happen to have an awesome guitar player, drummer and bass player, plus the guy singing did it with "true" emotion. That's all that Pearl Jam was. Other than that, they pretty much were a song fight band.....cept for the awesome production and kajilianz of bux.

Billy's Little Trip wrote:Can you believe that they called Foreigner new wave, the same that they called Pearl Jam alternative.

Some guy at the record store called Genesis indie once. Maybe he works for "them".

Reïst wrote:I'm starting to think I must be too young to get it.

Not necessarily. I'm a big fan of Pearl Jam. Maybe it just depends on your mood.

HeuristicsInc wrote:oh, i didn't realize that was the woman from frou frou. that's a good album, except my copy is scratched all to hell from getting stuck in my old car's cd player.
-bill

I did not know this either! I like them a lot.

Billy's Little Trip wrote: I loved me some Foreigner.

Gay as hell.

himynameisntmark wrote:

Billy's Little Trip wrote:Can you believe that they called Foreigner new wave, the same that they called Pearl Jam alternative.

Some guy at the record store called Genesis indie once. Maybe he works for "them".

Ha! Now that's clueless.
Also, Foreigner is totally not new wave. Pearl Jam *could* be alternative!
But that's not all that important.
-bill