The Chills are always good for inducing a tear or two, especially the _Submarine Bells_ album (one of the best of the '90s if you ask me) and the single "The Great Escape." There's an absolutely stunning moment in it: Martin Phillipps has just finished singing about committing suicide, or moving, or in any event leaving a bad situation. He ends up singing "No one can hear me...No one can hear me...no one...no one..." One final soaring guitar line, then a few seconds of silence, and then suddenly *applause* -- understated, as if the crowd is in shock. What sounded like private thoughts turned out to be a live performance. I don't know why, but this moment literally made me misty-eyed (without fail) the first several times I heard it. I find myself frequently getting choked up in moments of hesitation or gaps of silence. The bit in "Stars of Track & Field" before the trumpet part never fails to get me, for instance... Then there's always American Music Club's middle period, which contains some of the very saddest, most beautiful songs ever written. How many listmembers love "Everclear?" mike, trying to delurk as much as I can. ciflux@aol.com http://members.aol.com/ciflux/index.html ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------