REALLY GOOD MUSIC, MAN.

So what if I don’t understand anything they’re saying. Who cares. You can enjoy something without understanding it. Yes. I like that explanation.

Ivy making home at your feet and in your heart

You can tell it mends the twisted thoughts, the broken parts

With your back in the roots and your face to sunsets

All you have is nothing more than a concept of no more starts

Envision all that’s never to come

and with a lively hum and dying regret

let go of all that’s gone, to come

all dreams with chances unmet; all – not just some.

I have never been a fan of hiphop, because that genre reached my ears at the stage when it was already mostly shit. So when I first heard Digable Planets in… um… 2005, I had no idea that it’s hiphop, I thought it was some cool modern jazz or whatever.

Now I am listening to them and loving them again.

Just because.

Now that is just… amazing.

Olav Ehala is an Estonian singer/songwriter/musical genius. He has written some of the most beautiful songs in the history of Estonian music. In my opinion. But I know there are those who share my love for his beautiful songs.

He has a very unique (and, consequently, widely mimicked) style. His solutions to musical phrases are unexpected but really really beautiful.

He has written a lot of songs for old Estonian movies and the Mermaid Song is from one, too. It’s from 1984 Karoliine Hõbelõng (Caroline Silveryarn, if you will, although that sounds so totally alien for me).

I tried translating the lyrics, but they sound so much more luring and enchanting in the original. (The video is bs, but that’s not important anyway.)

On land a lot of exciting things are frowned upon,
life on land is stiff and boring!
Have you ever been enchanted by the water

and seen how scales and fins glisten here?

Do you have any idea of the wonders of the sea?
Do you know that a moment is the same as a month?
Those on land only care about money and names
but in the water different things matter

Power and debt are weightless in water
no difference in what is behind or to come
Feel the wings growing on your back
cool and mellow in the flowing water…
cool and mellow in the flowing water…

You realize that tenderness on land is not enough
grasp at the charm of the flowing water
come closer to the water, closer yet, closer
little more to go from land to water
little more to go from land to water

Watched Cry Baby again and this song just got stuck in my head. I can’t escape it. I am constantly humming/singing/annoying the hell out of Al.

I think Susanna’s version of this Joy Division song has more emotions. Sometimes the covers are better than the originals (take Hanne Hukkelberg’s version of the Pixies’ Break My Body for example) and I think this is true in this case as well.

… is hot. As hell. Although he is old enough to have seen the dinosaurs, he is still badass and ripped. And he makes awesome music. Listening to him right now with cheap wine on the side. Perfect combo in my book.