My dictionary defines
wistful as
"having or showing a feeling of vague or regretful longing".
A year ago I received a
Capitol Records
sampler which had a song,
Waves,
by the band
Marjorie Fair
and
wistful is the first word that came to my mind.
I wanted to write that I am a sucker for wistful songs but I tried
to think of some but didn't come up with many.
Baker Street
for sure.
Diamonds and Rust
probably.
Saturnine
and
In the End
perhaps.
After that, things get less vague as we leave wistful and go right into
sad songs.
Wistful songs make me want to take a drive down streets with
someone special (or even better: just thinking about them) and keep going.
I did that last week with
Waves
playing over and over again.
I'm weird that way, I suppose.
So Marjorie Fair have recorded this five-star song
(see the video here)
on their debut album,
Self Help Serenade,
and it is released only overseas for a year
(and it was recorded in 2002).
It is coming out in July here in the states but what a drag
for a band living in Los Angeles to not have their debut album
available in their own country.
Well, we have reached a point where you don't have to wait for
the U.S. debut next month because the album is showing up
reasonably priced
at Amazon
and
on eBay.
Okay but what's the album like, right?
I'd classify it as a mellow rock album.
Stare,
sounds pretty mellow to you, doesn't it?
I wish the band success.
They have waited a long time for it.
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