Arie vandam

Arie vandam

@chillbot1

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Arie vandam

@chillbot1

This song literally bubbles out of your speakers it sounds amazing and always gets me in a good mood, it almost feels tribal put it on and let it wash over you🄳

Arie vandam

@chillbot1

Contender for my favorite song of all time and in my opinion the most beautiful song ever created. It’s hard to listen to this without tearing up. There is a sort of mysticism to this song and the entire astral weeks album that can’t really be found in music elsewhere, with its swelling strings and pure lyrical perfection. I’m willing to make a bold claim here: No album before or after Astral Weeks has matched it lyrically. Yep you heard that right, this has what I consider to be the most deeply human and poetic words EVER put to music. Listen to those opening lines ā€œif I stepped into the slipstream, between the viaducts of my dreamsā€ and it’s like you’re entering a world that Van Morrison has counjured out of the human language and the beauty of his own voice. Everything about this is spiritual in a way that no other music is for me, and the ending of the song with the repeated phrase ā€œto be born againā€ is almost overwhelming in emotional intensity. Put this on and be taken away.

Arie vandam

@chillbot1

I’ve been obsessed with this song recently and I’m gonna list off a few reasons why I think it’s one of the best songs ever written: 1. The strings and stark guitar as the only instruments give this song such a dark and isolating feel, it truly sounds sinister and breaten. 2. Those opening lines. ā€œI stepped into an avalanche, it covered up my soul.ā€ Now if THAT doesn’t immediately grab your attention and pull you into the song I don’t know what will. 3. The imagery here is in a category all it’s own. It’s very rare I’ve heard a song be this detailed in its writing, with such a venomous and self deprecating tone. When Cohen sings ā€œI myself am the pedastool for this ugly hump at which you stareā€ it gives me goosebumps. Overall the poetic darkness of this song will leave you speechless, and it’s hard to believe it’s 50 years old at this point. Give it a listen if you want your mind blown.😁

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