Stacey (not verified) said: March 15th, 2009 at 11:33 am
I love the new album so much! I tell everyone I come in contact with about it. I can't wait to get the CD in the mail. I surely hope Wendy & Lisa do not wait another 10 years until their next release. They're too talented not to not share their gift with the world!!
loveletter (not verified) said: March 15th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
my favorite song by You is Song About... its so beautiful.... i haven't herd it in years but i find myself singing it now and then. that whole album is just amazing.. I got a chance to check out you new album. its the perfect music to listen to when i am at home after work.... and just coming down from the rush. Lisa and Wendy you are at the top of my most favorite musical heros ever list.
Stephen Grayce (not verified) said: March 26th, 2009 at 2:00 am
The new album floors me. It's so nice to hear music that's so nuanced and complex and gorgeous that you HAVE to listen to it. There's been far too much background music out there for the last, oh, decade or so.
I've also always been partial to Lisa's piano impovisations that were on the bonus mini-CD that came with the special edition of the Eroica CD. "Sweet Suite" on the new disc took me right back to them. Absolutely beautiful.
Favorites on the other albums? "The Life", "Everything But You", "Lolly Lolly", "Strung Out", "Skeleton Key" (what a whirling dervish that is!), "Reaching One", "Uh-Oh, Don't Look Down"...and "Jonathan" breaks my heart again every time I hear it, cross-referencing friends and loves I've lost. I think everyone has a Jonathan somewhere.
How amazing that this Internet thing sometimes facilitates thanking someone for such beauty directly, without interrupting their day. Play on, ladies.
For me the song "stay" describes my first experience with love. The music and lyrics are wonderful. I'm sleep deprived from "sweet suite". I just had to hear it 1 more time and then1 more. Gorgeous yet heart breaking...
You know, I've wanted to thank Wendy and Lisa for a long time and this seems like the place to do it! :) I had the great pleasure of interviewing them around 2000 for a tiny (but awesome) mag called ROCKRGRL. I did rock interviews for about six or seven years and talked to a lot of cool people, but, god, I nearly passed out when I found out I was going to interview W&L. I'd been a fan since I was 13. It's not often that people you admire live up to the billing you've given them in your head, but W&L sure did. They were open, funny, gave great quotes and offered a full hour of their time. Lisa even re-answered a couple of my questions via email when I found to my horror that part of the tape I recorded the interview on was garbled. This interview is the highlight from a career I've mostly let go (I'm now supposed to be working on a novel...we'll see!!!).
But this isn't why I want to say thank you. You see, during the interview we talked about the death of Wendy's brother Jonathan and its influence on the Girl Bros. record. Afterward, I said it must be a difficult subject to talk about. Then Wendy asked me (remembering and using my name--that doesn't happen often on a phoner!), "Amy, have you ever lost someone close to you?" I said, no. "Well, talking about them isn't hard, it...." she paused searching for the right words. "It gives them life again." This sounded important to Wendy, but I had no experience on the subject, so the simple truth of her words was lost on me. We moved on with the interview.
Well, just months later, my dear mother--the center of my family--was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease). Over the next 18 months, she went from a fiercely independent, active woman, to someone whose muscles would no longer let her walk, stand, speak or, finally, breathe. She died in 2002 at the age of 59. The pain of watching her suffer challenged every coping mechanism I had. My grief was total. I could not eat. I could not write. I could not think. I could not even stand to be touched. I could only breathe (an ability that filled me with guilt given the circumstances) and listen to music.
The record that comforted me most was Girl Bros. It made sense to me in a way that it could not before. "Reaching One" summed up my new daily experience. Every day was filled with questions, loneliness, anger and guilt that went round and round and somehow always ended where it had started: me alone, grieving with no answers. So, I'd start again and get nowhere. Hell, I still haven't reached one seven years later.
And maybe it wasn't meant that way, but I found the line "What if I laid right down beside you/would it comfort me?" from "Bring You Back to Me" to be the most blunt and naked expression of grief on the record. It made me think of the way I held onto my mother's sleeve at her wake, desperate for the connection, but the cool of her skin making our seperation more acute. It made me think of the panic that crossed my father's face when the funeral director closed my mother's casket the last time, making her death final. People don't talk about such things much, but here they were on this deeply personal record.
Then there was "I've Got A Big Bowl of Cherries," touching on the bruised gratitude that comes from pain and beauty and confusion living together. It was more moving and hopeful to me than ever before. Girl Bros. became a dear friend, a wise guide through things I'd previously been spared, and, yes, I was thankful.
Later, when I began to function again, there were still times when my friends and even my darling, patient, supportive partner didn't quite know what to say to me or do for me. It was then that I remembered what Wendy told me in that interview, and I would break the tension by telling a story about my mother. And it brought her -- and me -- back to life.
Thank you Wendy and Lisa. Your music (and kindness) heals.
March 15th, 2009 at 11:33 am
I love the new album so much! I tell everyone I come in contact with about it. I can't wait to get the CD in the mail. I surely hope Wendy & Lisa do not wait another 10 years until their next release. They're too talented not to not share their gift with the world!!
March 18th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
I received the CD by mail today! I love the packaging and the sticker! Very cool.
March 21st, 2009 at 4:31 pm
stacy.
THank you for telling people.
Its the only way we get heard .
No lables to push..
BUt, we are better off.
wendy
March 15th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
my favorite song by You is Song About... its so beautiful.... i haven't herd it in years but i find myself singing it now and then. that whole album is just amazing.. I got a chance to check out you new album. its the perfect music to listen to when i am at home after work.... and just coming down from the rush. Lisa and Wendy you are at the top of my most favorite musical heros ever list.
March 21st, 2009 at 4:27 pm
THANK YOU FOR THE LOVE LETTER!
wendy
March 20th, 2009 at 4:28 am
I think the new album is great. It's an easy but superb listen, every song has its own little world to plunge into.
I really wish to hear and see U live soon in Europe.
Lots of love,
Alex
March 26th, 2009 at 2:00 am
The new album floors me. It's so nice to hear music that's so nuanced and complex and gorgeous that you HAVE to listen to it. There's been far too much background music out there for the last, oh, decade or so.
I've also always been partial to Lisa's piano impovisations that were on the bonus mini-CD that came with the special edition of the Eroica CD. "Sweet Suite" on the new disc took me right back to them. Absolutely beautiful.
Favorites on the other albums? "The Life", "Everything But You", "Lolly Lolly", "Strung Out", "Skeleton Key" (what a whirling dervish that is!), "Reaching One", "Uh-Oh, Don't Look Down"...and "Jonathan" breaks my heart again every time I hear it, cross-referencing friends and loves I've lost. I think everyone has a Jonathan somewhere.
How amazing that this Internet thing sometimes facilitates thanking someone for such beauty directly, without interrupting their day. Play on, ladies.
April 17th, 2009 at 9:01 am
For me the song "stay" describes my first experience with love. The music and lyrics are wonderful. I'm sleep deprived from "sweet suite". I just had to hear it 1 more time and then1 more. Gorgeous yet heart breaking...
May 23rd, 2009 at 11:05 pm
I play the new album in the car with the windows down blasting. Besides the new album, "The Life" is one of my favorites. It's so universal.
June 14th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
I 'discovered' 'All I Wonder' yesterday and haven't stopped listening to it since. 90 seconds of beautiful musical bliss.
June 15th, 2009 at 1:01 am
Thank you!
we like it too......... tried to remember the tuning the other day so we could play it. Still working on it. haha
;)
x
June 15th, 2009 at 1:02 am
what a gift and terrible JOY it is to read this chain. Thank you...........x
June 15th, 2009 at 9:31 am
Aside from the lyrics on "All I Wonder" I absolutely love the haunting underlying vocals of Wendy...
June 17th, 2009 at 3:02 am
You know, I've wanted to thank Wendy and Lisa for a long time and this seems like the place to do it! :) I had the great pleasure of interviewing them around 2000 for a tiny (but awesome) mag called ROCKRGRL. I did rock interviews for about six or seven years and talked to a lot of cool people, but, god, I nearly passed out when I found out I was going to interview W&L. I'd been a fan since I was 13. It's not often that people you admire live up to the billing you've given them in your head, but W&L sure did. They were open, funny, gave great quotes and offered a full hour of their time. Lisa even re-answered a couple of my questions via email when I found to my horror that part of the tape I recorded the interview on was garbled. This interview is the highlight from a career I've mostly let go (I'm now supposed to be working on a novel...we'll see!!!).
But this isn't why I want to say thank you. You see, during the interview we talked about the death of Wendy's brother Jonathan and its influence on the Girl Bros. record. Afterward, I said it must be a difficult subject to talk about. Then Wendy asked me (remembering and using my name--that doesn't happen often on a phoner!), "Amy, have you ever lost someone close to you?" I said, no. "Well, talking about them isn't hard, it...." she paused searching for the right words. "It gives them life again." This sounded important to Wendy, but I had no experience on the subject, so the simple truth of her words was lost on me. We moved on with the interview.
Well, just months later, my dear mother--the center of my family--was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease). Over the next 18 months, she went from a fiercely independent, active woman, to someone whose muscles would no longer let her walk, stand, speak or, finally, breathe. She died in 2002 at the age of 59. The pain of watching her suffer challenged every coping mechanism I had. My grief was total. I could not eat. I could not write. I could not think. I could not even stand to be touched. I could only breathe (an ability that filled me with guilt given the circumstances) and listen to music.
The record that comforted me most was Girl Bros. It made sense to me in a way that it could not before. "Reaching One" summed up my new daily experience. Every day was filled with questions, loneliness, anger and guilt that went round and round and somehow always ended where it had started: me alone, grieving with no answers. So, I'd start again and get nowhere. Hell, I still haven't reached one seven years later.
And maybe it wasn't meant that way, but I found the line "What if I laid right down beside you/would it comfort me?" from "Bring You Back to Me" to be the most blunt and naked expression of grief on the record. It made me think of the way I held onto my mother's sleeve at her wake, desperate for the connection, but the cool of her skin making our seperation more acute. It made me think of the panic that crossed my father's face when the funeral director closed my mother's casket the last time, making her death final. People don't talk about such things much, but here they were on this deeply personal record.
Then there was "I've Got A Big Bowl of Cherries," touching on the bruised gratitude that comes from pain and beauty and confusion living together. It was more moving and hopeful to me than ever before. Girl Bros. became a dear friend, a wise guide through things I'd previously been spared, and, yes, I was thankful.
Later, when I began to function again, there were still times when my friends and even my darling, patient, supportive partner didn't quite know what to say to me or do for me. It was then that I remembered what Wendy told me in that interview, and I would break the tension by telling a story about my mother. And it brought her -- and me -- back to life.
Thank you Wendy and Lisa. Your music (and kindness) heals.
Amy