Re: what Over the Rhine means to me!

[DustyVolume <dustyvolume@yahoo.com>]

--- blite young <emilyold@yahoo.com> wrote:

> i have only relised now how much i rely on otr's music to keep me going

This is timely, for me, as I was just pondering over Over the Rhine today, and
I came to my e-mail tonight to find this subject line in my inbox (again).

I have somewhat varied tastes and sometimes nothing appeals to me musically. 
Today I was pretending to be interviewing Linford in my head.  I asked him a
silly question. I said "Linford, if you weren't 'behind the music' of OtR and
just came upon it blindly, would it be a band you enjoyed listening to, even
considered one of your favorite bands?"  I never imagined his answer, because
even in my head, I recognized how stupid the question was and quickly got
embarrassed for myself.

But the point here is that it made me think about OtR and how the music
satisfies me on so many levels.  Karin's voice is, well, indescribably
beautiful, and this immensely pleases me in the vocal area.  The lyrics hit me
where I live.  I mean, I'm no genius, but when I hear phrases like "Green
Clouded Swallowtail" and "sympathetic vibration" I instantly feel smarter just
for liking the way they sound--throw in something like "Clouds rolled in front
of your face, your tears became the rain I heard wonderful thunder as you
murmured my name" and I'm in pure ecstasy.  Have I ever mentioned that Sea and
Sky is one of my favourites?  And while I'm mentioning it, the musical
diversity of styles always keeps things interesting, so although I have lots of
favourite bands, I can't think of any that satisfy on so many levels, or any
that qualify as my most favourite like over the rhine does.

I know the question of what the band means to you was only rhetorically posed,
but since I was just thinking about it today, I thought I would respond to the
question in my own personal way.  

Mark

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