Dave
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Post by Dave on Mar 7, 2007 15:41:14 GMT
After a week of agonizing, trying to choose between seven songs, I have voted for Melancholy Interlude.
This may be one of the the shortest songs on any album in my collection but it is outstanding for its beauty and simplicity. It captures perfectly the mood it tries to portray and the words - 100% Hayley's words - are the perfect compliment to the original music by English late Renaissance composer (16th/17th Century) John Dowland.
Hayley's lyrics are an essential part of what makes this song so gorgeous and by painting a broad picture, leaving the details to the listeners' imagination, for me it just works. I absolutely love it to bits. Wow.
Dave
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Post by david on Mar 9, 2007 23:48:04 GMT
Hi everyone!  Hard to pick between "Abide with me" and "Le Notte Del Silenzio", as they're both such wonderful songs, but have settled on "Le Notte Del Silenzio" as my favourite. For me it's just a beautiful & moving melody which Hayley sings to perfection, both solo and in the duet.  David  |
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Post by Oksana on Mar 13, 2007 20:09:18 GMT
Hi everyone! Before getting the album, I thought 'Sonny' would be the winner... now, having heard 'Let Me Lie,' 'Summer Rain,' 'Danny Boy,' and 'E Pari Ra,' I'm not so sure! Give me a few days! |
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Post by 1littlegirl on Mar 13, 2007 20:38:44 GMT
I had the same problem, Oksana.  I think I have finally decided. I have settled on 'Summer Rain' because I think it's brilliant, not to mention gorgeous. I love the 'and I know, and I know, and I know' part. Hayley's songwriting is exceptional! But it was tough choosing between 'Summer Rain', 'Let Me Lie', 'Sonny', and 'Abide with Me'. |
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Post by Stephany on Mar 13, 2007 20:53:58 GMT
If you watch closely the poll's current results, almost each song got at least one vote. It clearly shows how complete this album is. Yet, if I could vote twice, I would definitely give my support to "Sonny".
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Post by Oksana on Aug 26, 2007 3:30:36 GMT
Hi everyone! Before getting the album, I thought 'Sonny' would be the winner... now, having heard 'Let Me Lie,' 'Summer Rain,' 'Danny Boy,' and 'E Pari Ra,' I'm not so sure! Give me a few days! Well, it's been more like a few months, but I've finally reached my decision: Abide With Me Hayley sings it so angelically and unpretentiously. 'Angelically' because it sounds like heaven on earth -- it's full of hope in God which is what faith is all about. 'Unpretentiously' because it's so real ... for example, Hayley could have held that last note for several seconds ("meeeeee..."), but instead she kept it simple and short, and it sounds like a real prayer and not just a perfectly timed and rehearsed song. It's so full of soul. I don't know if I'm making sense, it's half past eleven and I need to go to bed. But I just thought it was finally time to vote! Oksy P.S. I agree 100% with everyone else's choices too! |
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Post by the28sky on Feb 18, 2008 0:35:57 GMT
Hi everyone, I voted Sonny but i also love the same way Le Note del Silenzio... By the way, I think the correct title may be "Le Note del Silenzio".. I read everywhere in the web except the official site Le Notte, but it doesn't mean everything.. "Le notti" in italian is "the nights", but le notte is.. only wrong  Greetings, Emil |
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Post by celticladies on Feb 19, 2008 13:10:05 GMT
I like the Mummers Dance which isn't on many versions but I still like it. I guess I also like Summer Rain...
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Post by Nordly on Feb 19, 2008 15:10:04 GMT
too hard to choose- but my faves are on the Walmart version and the version with Nada SouSou
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Post by stevemacdonald on Jul 24, 2008 18:41:50 GMT
I can't understand why "Bist Du Bei Mir" got only two votes (one of them was mine)!
This song is sheer Hayley-perfection: Her voice is at its purest and her musicality is refined beyond compare. I defy you to find as glorious a vocal performance as what she produced here.
The other songs are great, too, but "Bist Du Bei Mir" is, without question, in a league of its own.
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Post by roger on Jul 24, 2008 18:52:22 GMT
What surprises me is that 'Danny Boy', always immensely popular live, is the only song not to have received any votes.  Roger |
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jordi
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Post by jordi on Jul 24, 2008 20:58:16 GMT
Well, Hayley's albums are so good from head to toe, that it is very difficult for me to choose one specific song.
I have chosen E pari ra, perhaps because all maori songs by Hayley bring me a sort of naïveness, simplicity, that I appreciate.
On the other hand, Bist du bei mir would be my second choice. It is perfect. Olga is rehearsing this song at the choir, and is using Hayley's version as reference, as what it should be the perfect perfomance, and it is helping her very much.
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Post by larryhauck on Jul 24, 2008 22:57:28 GMT
Jordi,
No contest! Danny Boy.
Larry
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Post by Jenny A on Jul 24, 2008 23:12:57 GMT
I Chose Let Me Lie.
the whole "Mother Nature" thing is against my religion but I adore the music.
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Post by milewalker on Jul 24, 2008 23:39:07 GMT
I still smile every time I think about the first time I heard that song (Let Me Lie). I had picked up the CD when with a friend, and we went to his house afterwords, so I put it into his somewhat less than ideal stereo....I have always had some issues interpreting Hayley's accent - at least until I have heard a song a couple of times. She seems to clip the word "earth" a bit, so it kinda runs into mother on an inferior system.... Anyway, the first time I heard this song, I could have sworn that the opening line was: "Let me lie on grasses green, on my motherth Eileen" I knew that couldnt be right Jon |
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