Ireland has certainly made a huge contribution to music!!! Damien Rice and Neil Hannon are the first that come in my mind.....so authentic, emotional, humane and pure...luv their work..!
shows real quality that this man can write this beutiful landscape of a chronicle of a life, and the classic that is my lovely horse ( if anyone reading this doesn't know my lovely horse, check it out)
Não se pergunta a idade a uma senhora. Porquê? Porque nunca terá. Como a boa Música, a senhora ficará para sempre em nós com a mesma idade. Quando se faz as coisas com tanta simplicidade, quase que não acreditamos no tão belo que estamos a receber. Assim é este Tema!
Gorgeous, even without the emotive violin treatment. I clean forgot Neil Hannon after the National Express...just discovering again and buying the back catalogue..what a treasure trove of songs! The DC new album release date is 7 June; they are touring the UK in October and European dates to be announced...
@hairpinpackie Fortunately, Neil has lots of fans all over the world and all of us who love his music think of him as a genius and nothing less. Not even the so called music industry can take down a genius´s art.
Gorgeous. Amazing; not just the song, but also, a song without detractors; the lack of vitriol in the comments, or torrents of abuse over people's taste. Lovely; for all these reasons. Lovely, but irreconcilably sad.
Love Neil's music..absolutely brilliant song! Listen to it most days. When will Neil be knighted? It's well overdue. Mick Jagger can't compare, nor can all those other "sirs".
Just gobsmacking. Heard Neil play it live with a full band in 2006 prior to the album's release and again solo acoustic on his solo/acoustic tour. Just wow :)
This may well be the best thing I've heard since Bob Dylan. (I don't mean Bob Dylan's latest, The Tempest, which came out just a couple of months ago, and which is great by the way, I mean you know the Great Bob Dylan of the 1960s and 1970s)
love the devine comedy, another classic song, kind of cross between "windmills of your mind" and "where do you go to my lovely" but better than both of those! T
@LimeeMiniDress Yeah, haha. I have since acquainted myself much more with him and the Divine Comedy (I'd definitely heard "National Express" a long time before discovering Tiersen) and he doesn't sound remotely French anymore, just a unique style of voice (which is no bad thing either!)
chart music is music for ''listning to in the car'' or getting drunk to, he doesnt get into the charts because his music is above all that, its ok though because looking at his videos he clearley has recignition for his efforts & natural talent
I really found Hannon through Tiersen...and due to this, I've always assumed that his accent was French. Just read he's Northern Irish, yet, still sounds a bit French to me...I'm just an arsehole, I guess.
It's not so hard to figure out the chord changes from this video. Time and perseverance. Capo on 3rd fret, thumb shuttles between first and third frets (relative to the capo, of course) of the E string. Chords are mostly C, Am, G7,C/G, F and minor variations of these. Watch the vid for approximate position and let your ear and fingers do the rest :)
