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[Musings]

God, I love the living room  =)

I can't decide what I feel about it yet.  Lyrically, some of the best Amanda has written, especially when I read it off the page.  But the actual song -- it's the first possible on WKAP that hasn't stuck, yet.

[BATTEREDxBRIDExLUVR!]

God, I love the living room  =)

I can't decide what I feel about it yet.  Lyrically, some of the best Amanda has written, especially when I read it off the page.  But the actual song -- it's the first possible on WKAP that hasn't stuck, yet.

The Living Room is definitely not my favorite and I hope it doesn't make it on the album, only because I would rather have something else.

[Benny J M]

God, I love the living room =)

I can't decide what I feel about it yet.  Lyrically, some of the best Amanda has written, especially when I read it off the page.  But the actual song -- it's the first possible on WKAP that hasn't stuck, yet.

I love the simplicity of the song and the fact that you can really hear the lyrics, voice and emotion
and the build up into the "But its the wrong way out..."
Musically i love it,i just think it flows so nice
When it was first released as the video
 i couldn't stop watching it.
I just find it so captivating.
I don't think it will make it on to 'WKAP' though....
and in a way i hope it doesn't as i think it is perfect the way it is
and the way it makes me feel mite change if it was done in the studio with lots of
other instruments, the beauty of the simplicity would disappear for me...
i think

[Musings]

The lines are great.  I read it and I think: poetry. 

The music hasn't connected.  It happens.

More instrumentation might help, for me.  We shall see, if it comes out.

God, I love the living room =)

I can't decide what I feel about it yet.  Lyrically, some of the best Amanda has written, especially when I read it off the page.  But the actual song -- it's the first possible on WKAP that hasn't stuck, yet.

I love the simplicity of the song and the fact that you can really hear the lyrics, voice and emotion
and the build up into the "But its the wrong way out..."
Musically i love it,i just think it flows so nice
When it was first released as the video
 i couldn't stop watching it.
I just find it so captivating.
I don't think it will make it on to 'WKAP' though....
and in a way i hope it doesn't as i think it is perfect the way it is
and the way it makes me feel mite change if it was done in the studio with lots of
other instruments, the beauty of the simplicity would disappear for me...
i think

[matt james]

The best thing about the living room is that I can hear the emotion Amanda puts in it more than any of her other songs.
I love it and hope it makes it to the solo album.

[doritojoe89]

so... (i derive from the replies on this post)   is every song on WKAP going to be "reworked" "muddled with instruments" or involve "hand-clapping" with Ben folds?? 


I'm not saying that any of the above mentioned would be a bad thing...


i do realize that this question may be left unanswered until march...

[Goodbye-Umbrella]

i hope the album uses a full band ect. for the album. cause that will make it very different to a lot of the live versions of the songs that are shared and weve already heard

[BATTEREDxBRIDExLUVR!]

I hope there are a few just-Amanda songs, meaning only Amanda and a piano; nothing else. I think Straight, Ampersand, PoiA, and Another Year are good candidates; though I can imagine & and PoiA with maybe a tiny bit of something more.

[matt james]

I hope there are a few just-Amanda songs, meaning only Amanda and a piano; nothing else. I think Straight, Ampersand, PoiA, and Another Year are good candidates; though I can imagine & and PoiA with maybe a tiny bit of something more.

Am I imagining things, or have I read somewhere that there was strings arranged for Ampersand?

She seems to be putting a lot of strings on the album, but I think songs like that will sound quite nice with a little variety of instruments.

Plus, IMO Amanda seems to be going for a different sound for this record so its not so Dresden Dollsish.

[Goodbye-Umbrella]

thats true, id say there'd still be an only piano song in there somewhere. im not sure what exact songs will be on the album, but i think ampersand and point of it all would do well with some other instruments... anyone now if theres gunna be any ukulele songs on there?

[Holmes]

i think she should do a hidden track, maybe the ukulele umbrella version.
For all the die-hards to find and marvel over.

[Benny J M]

i think she should do a hidden track, maybe the ukulele umbrella version.
For all the die-hards to find and marvel over.

i agree. or Creep or a new one.
or all of them tehehe.
I love secret and hidden things.

[Musings]

So I fell asleep to The Living Room on the plane yesterday, and woke up to it again, which means it is fully ingrained my subconscious.  I don't mind it, as much, anymore.

However, I was thinking that a completely a cappela version of The Living Room would be pretty awesome.  The repetitive piano has gotten kind of soothing, but it seems intrusive at parts as well.  It's obvious to me that this was a song written for Amanda herself, and I think an a cappela version would do interesting things in terms of making things more raw and intimate.

[doritojoe89]

i think she should do a hidden track, maybe the ukulele umbrella version.
For all the die-hards to find and marvel over.

I GOT IT!   a hidden track that plays only once you've played tracks 6, 7, and 2 in that order..(672...). then the CD beeps and plays the super/hidden/bonus/secret song, Creep/Umbrella....ext!

[Holmes]

i think she should do a hidden track, maybe the ukulele umbrella version.
For all the die-hards to find and marvel over.

I GOT IT!   a hidden track that plays only once you've played tracks 6, 7, and 2 in that order..(672...). then the CD beeps and plays the super/hidden/bonus/secret song, Creep/Umbrella....ext!

that's a stroke of genius! i like it!