My name is Terry and this is my blog. 
04/11/2007: "A Badly Virgin Sigh"
music: Never Stop Living Heremood: oooh aah oooh aah
As an apology for the lack of posts these last few days, here's a song that I've been listening to on repeat - a live version of Badly Drawn Boy's "Silent Sigh" with "Like A Virgin" as an intro. Trust me, it all makes sense at the moment that "When your heart beats next to mine" melds perfectly with the opening piano chords of "Silent Sigh." My favorite song just got better, like a million times over.
Badly Drawn Boy - Like a Virgin/Silent Sigh
This song always brings back a flood of great memories - seeing the video for the song on NME.com and being blown away by it, watching "About a Boy" in the theater with a summer crush, watching it again on DVD with an ex, and seeing BDB twice at the 930 Club in DC with an old friend and said ex.
For good measure I watched "About a Boy" again last night and the the song still gives me goosebumps, despite the overbearing melodrama on screen. The song is edited into a short transition point in the film but it still gets the point across clearly (if I remember correctly, half of the lyrics are cut out). Mind you, the song was written specifically for the film, but luckily it really does stand on it own as a mid-tempo pop masterpiece (how's that for hyperbole, NME!). If the song was slower, it would have been a contender for my wedding song. (Currently it's a tie between Emmylou Harris's cover of Neil Young's "Wrecking Ball" and "All I Need" by Method Man)
Back to BDB - after the About a Boy Soundtrack, I never felt that Damon Gough was able to come anywhere near the brilliance of those songs (and those songs on his Hour of the Bewilderbeast album), which is unfortunate because he's still writing songs and putting out albums.
Thanks to "I Am Fuel, You Are Friends" for posting the live set of BDB's San Francisco show. She's got all the other tracks over there, so head over and check it out.