Goldfrapp — Annabel
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When you dream you only dream your Annabel.
All the secrets there inside you Annabel.
Down beneath an emerald sky sing Annabel.
Nothing that they did will stop you Annabel.
Land of the lines, tangled there in porcelain.
Under the stars you'll begin.
When you dream you only dream your Annabel.
Sleep reminds you takes you there, oh Annabel.
Gentle whisper, endless winters, Annabel.
Why've they could have let you be both Annabel.
Land of the lines, of the years below still lies.
You are the truth they denied.
Run like the sea, tangled there in porcelain.
Under the stars you begin.
Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh ah
(Only a boy under that)
Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh ah
(Only a boy da da da)
All the secrets there inside you Annabel.
Down beneath an emerald sky sing Annabel.
Nothing that they did will stop you Annabel.
Land of the lines, tangled there in porcelain.
Under the stars you'll begin.
When you dream you only dream your Annabel.
Sleep reminds you takes you there, oh Annabel.
Gentle whisper, endless winters, Annabel.
Why've they could have let you be both Annabel.
Land of the lines, of the years below still lies.
You are the truth they denied.
Run like the sea, tangled there in porcelain.
Under the stars you begin.
Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh ah
(Only a boy under that)
Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh ah
(Only a boy da da da)
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wow first time in a minute i heard this song, gave it a 9
"I've got a bike, you can ride it if you like
It's got a basket", Annabel, "and things to make it look good"
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I so love RP, but it can get awfully depressing sometimes (like this song). I know there is a rock mix but can we have an "upbeat mix" as well where there are more uptempo songs and no trudging doom and gloom songs? If I wanted that I would go listen to the last three or four Radiohead albums. The world has enough grimness in it already.
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this is nice.
i have been waiting to hear Strict Machine on RP, but it hasn't happened yet.
i have been waiting to hear Strict Machine on RP, but it hasn't happened yet.
Proclivities wrote:
Do you mean that in a good way or a bad way? I've never had any song ever make me feel that way, though some tunes have made me wish I could throw their composers or performers off a bridge.
I suppose it just depends on whether you are homicidal or suicidal.
Do you mean that in a good way or a bad way? I've never had any song ever make me feel that way, though some tunes have made me wish I could throw their composers or performers off a bridge.
I suppose it just depends on whether you are homicidal or suicidal.
jacopo777 wrote:
It never ceases to amaze me on what people think is a good song and what isn't.
I may rant sometimes about shitty music but I'm glad we all have diverse tastes. If taste was all the same, the music space would constantly be a bland rehash of the same old stuff, and we'd be hearing Bill introducing Adele or Drake for the next song.
very etheral and hauntingly beautiful song.
Reminds me of Twin Peaks.
appreciate this song more each time I hear it. bumped my 8 to a 9.
It never ceases to amaze me on what people think is a good song and what isn't.
After reading the negative comments, my thoughts, well perhaps, but it never really occurred to me, until reading it.
What we think is good or bad, just based on our perception.
After reading the negative comments, my thoughts, well perhaps, but it never really occurred to me, until reading it.
What we think is good or bad, just based on our perception.
k-man wrote:
Well, Alison was only 5 then, and they hadn't even landed their first gig on Captain Kangaroo, so perhaps the hype was unjustified at that point.
In '71, I couldn't understand what the hype was all about with this group.
Well, Alison was only 5 then, and they hadn't even landed their first gig on Captain Kangaroo, so perhaps the hype was unjustified at that point.
In all of Goldfrapp’s catalogue, this tune is so unique and special.
Bill and Rebecca have absolutely the best taste in music…
1wolfy wrote:
Annabelle Chvostek of the Wailin' Jennys - lovely music
Annabel is a beautiful name...seldom heard these days..lovely song
I prefer "Annabelle", by Don Henley
Lovely effortless voice.
TimeWaster wrote:
Thanks, I hate it.
But it's brilliant!!!! ![eek](https://img.radioparadise.com/emoji/icon_eek.gif)
Thanks, I hate it.
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NeilBlanchard wrote:
Too High.....
This is the best Goldfrapp song I have heard ... a 4.
Too High.....
Dj_Yonke wrote:
Thanks, I hate it.
![](https://gifimage.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/annabelle-gif-11.gif)
Thanks, I hate it.
k-man wrote:
In '71, I couldn't understand what the hype was all about with this group.
Now, I must say, pretty damn cool...
I understand though, it ain't got a hook like a Stones tune...
Well, she was much younger then.Now, I must say, pretty damn cool...
I understand though, it ain't got a hook like a Stones tune...
kill this song kill it with fire
When you dream you're Hannibal :o)
An acquired taste for sure, but I'm liking Goldfrapp more and more....this piece is haunting.
To me, she kinda sounds like she's humming a variation of the Doctor Who theme
![](https://gifimage.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/annabelle-gif-11.gif)
scraig wrote:
Thank God. Laura Marling is whiny and pointless. Goldfrapp are proper.
This segue proves that Goldfrapp is no Laura Marling.
Thank God. Laura Marling is whiny and pointless. Goldfrapp are proper.
Never heard of Goldfrapp before until about 2008. Her music is either lame as hell or sublime, nothing much in between. This song is sublime. I first heard Lovely Head on an ethereal/darkwave fan playlist 20 years ago.
cob427uk1 wrote:
I was thinking the same thing so I also went +1 to a 9...and find that of all the Goldfrapp tracks BnR play this is my favorite. And having heard this and other tunes on Netflix show soundtracks, here's a big THANK YOU to BnR for turning me on to her music....LLRP!!
Bumping up to a 9, I'm in a good mood and this fits right in. Beautiful.
I was thinking the same thing so I also went +1 to a 9...and find that of all the Goldfrapp tracks BnR play this is my favorite. And having heard this and other tunes on Netflix show soundtracks, here's a big THANK YOU to BnR for turning me on to her music....LLRP!!
Bumping up to a 9, I'm in a good mood and this fits right in. Beautiful.
1st time I've heard this. So beautiful. So different from the few tracks I've heard by them.
Great song
Haunting
Anna........ wait for it......... Bel
No problem with the lyrics, but the way she says "Anna.... Bell" just really grates. Almost like the full name is too much of an effort, or doesn't belong with the first half of the name.
When you dream you only dream your Anna... bel.
All the secrets there inside you Anna... bel.
When you dream you only dream your Anna... bel.
All the secrets there inside you Anna... bel.
Proclivities wrote:
![huh?](https://68.media.tumblr.com/421f9ccd83607a3c35da1acd7483e0dc/tumblr_nv36m6Eu6a1rp9z6eo1_250.jpg)
Hahahahaha!
![huh?](https://68.media.tumblr.com/421f9ccd83607a3c35da1acd7483e0dc/tumblr_nv36m6Eu6a1rp9z6eo1_250.jpg)
Thank you for this link to the video, or should I say cinematography? Wonderful portrayal of a "boy" being accepted by his mother as a "girl". I have a niece/nephew currently grappling with trans-gender.
tutakea wrote:
tutakea wrote:
simply wonderful.
accompanied by one of the most beautiful and queer music videos since decades:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vnk_j1iKMA
accompanied by one of the most beautiful and queer music videos since decades:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vnk_j1iKMA
Yes indeed...'Drew' is an intriguing piece by them ziggytrix wrote:
None as of yet, but it might be too disco for Bill's taste. Goldfrapp puts out very diverse sounds.
None as of yet, but it might be too disco for Bill's taste. Goldfrapp puts out very diverse sounds.
chinaski wrote:
None as of yet, but it might be too disco for Bill's taste. Goldfrapp puts out very diverse sounds.
At long last after what seemed an eternity Goldfrapp has finally released a brand new album for 2017 titled Silver Eye. I'm sure Bill at RP will soon put its tracks into rotation.
None as of yet, but it might be too disco for Bill's taste. Goldfrapp puts out very diverse sounds.
Her voice is .... just .... regal.
At long last after what seemed an eternity Goldfrapp has finally released a brand new album for 2017 titled Silver Eye. I'm sure Bill at RP will soon put its tracks into rotation.
k-man wrote:
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In '71, I couldn't understand what the hype was all about with this group.
Now, I must say, pretty damn cool...
I understand though, it ain't got a hook like a Stones tune...
Now, I must say, pretty damn cool...
I understand though, it ain't got a hook like a Stones tune...
![huh?](https://68.media.tumblr.com/421f9ccd83607a3c35da1acd7483e0dc/tumblr_nv36m6Eu6a1rp9z6eo1_250.jpg)
NeilBlanchard wrote:
You can't help having no taste
This is the best Goldfrapp song I have heard ... a 4.
You can't help having no taste
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Once, so many years ago, there was one youth hostel Annabel in Athens, Greece... ah, what a nice memories to those days... This song reminds me on them:-).
Annabel is a beautiful name...seldom heard these days..lovely song
No new material, no new concerts. She posts new photos from time to time. Resting on her laurels?...done with the music scene? I wish there was another album, another tour stateside though I'd love to be in a UK concert audience.
Hauntingly beautiful...
Proclivities wrote:
It is a little late-1960s-sounding. It seems somewhat influenced by Komeda's soundtrack to "Rosemary's Baby", in a good way.
Very good. I thought that sounded familiar. I just watched 'Rosemary's Baby' on cable a few weeks ago.
It is a little late-1960s-sounding. It seems somewhat influenced by Komeda's soundtrack to "Rosemary's Baby", in a good way.
Very good. I thought that sounded familiar. I just watched 'Rosemary's Baby' on cable a few weeks ago.
Anyone else hear the original legend of zelda underworld theme in this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7T6ZNgoP5M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7T6ZNgoP5M
NeilBlanchard wrote:
I like your comment ! I contribute a straight 2.
This is the best Goldfrapp song I have heard ... a 4.
I like your comment ! I contribute a straight 2.
This is a really solid album overall. She did well.
So good to hear this, every time. Sounded great when it came out; still blows me away with the arrangement and nuances of her voice!
This is just so lovely.........thx Bill ![{#Smile} {#Smile}](https://img.radioparadise.com/emoji/smiley-smile.gif)
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This is the best Goldfrapp song I have heard ... a 4.
Earworms
In '71, I couldn't understand what the hype was all about with this group.
Now, I must say, pretty damn cool...
I understand though, it ain't got a hook like a Stones tune...
Now, I must say, pretty damn cool...
I understand though, it ain't got a hook like a Stones tune...
Wow wow wow . . . have no words.
well said, I love her voice and this song is amazing :)
STLBubbles wrote:
STLBubbles wrote:
Touche
8>9. Haunting, sad, lovely.
ick wrote:
Go get some therapy already.
... download the app...
Go get some therapy already.
... download the app...
calle01 wrote:
You must live under a rock? Goldcrap is terrible!!!!
You're confused.
Your first sentence was intended as a statement.
The second should be a question.
Please fix.
You must live under a rock? Goldcrap is terrible!!!!
You're confused.
Your first sentence was intended as a statement.
The second should be a question.
Please fix.
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OoooooooooeeeeeeeOooooooooooooOoooooooooooooo
Hands down, the best album of 2014. Beck's Mo(u)rning Phase is next.
I love it, and, I am not suicidal.
calle01 wrote:
Promises, promises.
PLEASE STOP !!! PLEASE! Im heading to the knife drawer now..
Promises, promises.
![The Evil Doll](https://horrorboom.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/screen-shot-2013-07-09-at-11-21-02-pm.png?w=560&h=249)
This song would be a great soundtrack for a film noir.
please stop it with this song already.
This segue proves that Goldfrapp is no Laura Marling.
leafmold wrote:
It is a little late-1960s-sounding. It seems somewhat influenced by Komeda's soundtrack to "Rosemary's Baby", in a good way.
I had to check to see when this was released—my thought was the sixties....
It is a little late-1960s-sounding. It seems somewhat influenced by Komeda's soundtrack to "Rosemary's Baby", in a good way.
calle01 wrote:
Go get some therapy already.
PLEASE STOP !!! PLEASE! Im heading to the knife drawer now.. It will all be over soon. Thanks GoldCrap :(
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Go get some therapy already.
Stingray wrote:
They tried that in 1849 I believe.
GOLDFRACKING!
They tried that in 1849 I believe.
shellbella wrote:
But I do like it....
Ya I wouldn't want to hear this at night, all alone.
But I do like it....
Ya I wouldn't want to hear this at night, all alone.
Touche
8>9. Haunting, sad, lovely.
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Elegant and haunting.
This kind of crap makes me want to curb my radio paradise appetite.
8>9. Haunting, sad, lovely.
Lovely and Dreamy ![{#Meditate} {#Meditate}](https://img.radioparadise.com/emoji/meditate.gif)
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GOLDFRACKING!
Just lovely.
All the tracks I keep hearing make this a must buy album at this point.
curtkare wrote:
Bump
Feels haunting and a little creepy - like the soundtrack from one of the good 70's horror flicks
Bump
tutakea wrote:
thanks for the link, its a beautiful video to accompany a lovely song
simply wonderful.
accompanied by one of the most beautiful and queer music videos since decades:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vnk_j1iKMA
accompanied by one of the most beautiful and queer music videos since decades:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vnk_j1iKMA
thanks for the link, its a beautiful video to accompany a lovely song
Sounds like it's going to burst into a full-blown James Bond theme . . . but doesn't.
"Felt mountain" is an album I will never recover from, deep impact for a lifetime. Soundtrack written for a movie that is happening inside me. ...words fail, sorry for the rant.
I consider myself pretty eclectic when it comes to music of all styles, but I was completely thrown off by "Black Cherry" and just never re-connected with the band the way I had with their debut album.
Thanks to Bill, I've heard a couple of cuts of this last effort. They sound good, really good... But good like the second time you take a bite of something that tasted like alien yet totally familiar the first time...
This one song, though, is oh so close to the Goldfrapp that haunted me for years... maybe I'll end up really liking "Tales of us" after all...
I consider myself pretty eclectic when it comes to music of all styles, but I was completely thrown off by "Black Cherry" and just never re-connected with the band the way I had with their debut album.
Thanks to Bill, I've heard a couple of cuts of this last effort. They sound good, really good... But good like the second time you take a bite of something that tasted like alien yet totally familiar the first time...
This one song, though, is oh so close to the Goldfrapp that haunted me for years... maybe I'll end up really liking "Tales of us" after all...
tutakea wrote:
The bicycle in the video is incorrect, anatomically-speaking. See 1:40 and onwards, in particular, noting the position of the bell on the handlebars. The bell is on the same side much later, at 6:20...
accompanied by one of the most beautiful and queer music videos since decades
The bicycle in the video is incorrect, anatomically-speaking. See 1:40 and onwards, in particular, noting the position of the bell on the handlebars. The bell is on the same side much later, at 6:20...
ethereal
simply wonderful.
accompanied by one of the most beautiful and queer music videos since decades:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vnk_j1iKMA
accompanied by one of the most beautiful and queer music videos since decades:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vnk_j1iKMA
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Check Ride a White Horse video.
Pedro1874 wrote:
We get that show here, Jools Holland, on cable if you are lucky...this is a very good show which I highly recommend. Unfortunately we do not have a US equivalent...SNL is closest thing
So impresssed Bill & Rebecca. This has only just come out in UK and Allison has been doing the rounds of the radio stations promoting this album. She has only just appeared on our premier live TV music show "Later" with Jools Holland (ex Squeeze) this week singing this haunting and beautiful song. The live arrangement was superb and captivating. What a talent this gorgeous young woman and her partner Will Gregory really are. ![{#Notworthy} {#Notworthy}](https://img.radioparadise.com/emoji/icon_notworthy.gif)
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We get that show here, Jools Holland, on cable if you are lucky...this is a very good show which I highly recommend. Unfortunately we do not have a US equivalent...SNL is closest thing
I agree re. Francoise Hardy - is all Goldfrapp's material this mellow?
Lovely! Reminds me very much of Françoise Hardy's 1971 album "La Question" (which I have on cd and love) ![{#Wink} {#Wink}](https://img.radioparadise.com/emoji/icon_wink.gif)
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Proclivities wrote:
Do you mean that in a good way or a bad way? I've never had any song make me feel that way, though some tunes have made me wish I could throw their composers or performers off a bridge.
You've never heard Porcupine Tree?
Do you mean that in a good way or a bad way? I've never had any song make me feel that way, though some tunes have made me wish I could throw their composers or performers off a bridge.
You've never heard Porcupine Tree?
Really like this one.....nice for a semi-after the rain Sunday morning
curtkare wrote:
I had to check to see when this was released--my thought was the sixties....
Feels haunting and a little creepy - like the soundtrack from one of the good 70's horror flicks
I had to check to see when this was released--my thought was the sixties....
DavidS_UK wrote:
Wales agrees....ok, not all of Wales, but this person in this cottage in this little Welsh valley...
Nice clean and well produced sound makes teh most of her most excellent voice. It's an 8 from the East German judge
Wales agrees....ok, not all of Wales, but this person in this cottage in this little Welsh valley...
Trog wrote:
Do you mean that in a good way or a bad way? I've never had any song ever make me feel that way, though some tunes have made me wish I could throw their composers or performers off a bridge.
Makes me want to throw myself off a bridge
Do you mean that in a good way or a bad way? I've never had any song ever make me feel that way, though some tunes have made me wish I could throw their composers or performers off a bridge.
Nice clean and well produced sound makes teh most of her most excellent voice. It's an 8 from the East German judge
...i've been wanting to hear this album: supposedly a return-to-form for their felt mountain days, which excites me, but i don't hear much synthesis nor production experimentation in this track...
Makes me want to throw myself off a bridge
oldfart48 wrote:
caps lock, mate.....
NOT MUCH MEAT ON THIS BONE, THEN AGAIN IT AIN'T RAP/CRAP......![{#Dance} {#Dance}](https://img.radioparadise.com/emoji/eusa_dance.gif)
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caps lock, mate.....
Feels haunting and a little creepy - like the soundtrack from one of the good 70's horror flicks
So impresssed Bill & Rebecca. This has only just come out in UK and Allison has been doing the rounds of the radio stations promoting this album. She has only just appeared on our premier live TV music show "Later" with Jools Holland (ex Squeeze) this week singing this haunting and beautiful song. The live arrangement was superb and captivating. What a talent this gorgeous young woman and her partner Will Gregory really are. ![{#Notworthy} {#Notworthy}](https://img.radioparadise.com/emoji/icon_notworthy.gif)
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Mellow, touching. Could listen all day to this.
I would be in favor of this. RP does seem to grind down every hour into some depressingly slow dirges, often at a time when I'm trying to lighten my mood or get through a work crunch. "Eg er framand" has been giving me some trouble in past weeks and I have to go put something on YouTube to pick up the pace.