Regina Spektor

[Nick]

Wow.........I have never heard a more beautiful womans voice in my life.

Check out the song "Boababs" if you care and want to hear a beautiful voice.

I am in love.

She is playing a one off gig in Bristol in England next week and I am not going to be able to go (I am on the verge of crying about this), as I am going to go watch DJ Format in Dublin. Which is a poor secondary choice and I am absolutely gutted. Format is not even music compared to this woman.

[Winnow]

She has a pretty nice voice teeny.

I was only able to find a music video of her song "Us". The song is dominated by her voice and a piano. She did something odd with her voice in the middle of the chorus line when saying "contagious" that made it sound like the music skipped like a broken record. Not sure if I liked that part of it but I'll keep an eye out for "Boababs". I think the video distracted me from the song. I enjoyed it more when I listened to it again without the video showing.

She's Russian and a liberal. No wonder you like her Teeny! She has one of those voices that is identifiable like Bjorks.

If someone else downloads it (84mb) (it was posted on alt.binaries.mpeg.video.music 37 days ago if you don't have supersearch) tell me what you think of the skip sound she does. It reminds me of the lead singer from Missing Persons that used to pause right in the middle of a word and break to a higher octave although Regina takes it the reverse direction to a lower tone.

[Winnow]

Ah hell, here's the video if someone wants to check it out:

Be sure to right click and "save as". This is 84mb file and you don't want to have to redownload it because of needing the codec below.

Regina Spektor - Us ~84mb

it's .m2v extension which is mpeg2.

If it doesn't play on your video player I'd suggest going here:

http://www.inmatrix.com/zplayer/formats/

and downloading/installing the Gabest Universal Open Source MPEG Splitter (free). (click on mpeg2)

Edit:

I just finished listening to her whole album, Soviet Kitsch. IMO "Us" is the best song on it. Here's just the song if you want to save some time and listen:

Regina Spektor - Us ~4.5mb

In my horrible musical opinion, I think she has talent but has some maturing to do with her songs/lyrics. This guy seems to think the same thing.

Here's another song on the album as an example:

Regina Spektor - Your Honor ~2mb

In another song she sings about a guy stepping in someone's spit.

[Nick]

Wow Winnow cheers!

I'm downloading those as we speak while I still can.

I really like the little skipping thing you're talking about, but I do tend to like people with really distinctive odd voices that aren't just the usual boring repeated styles you see, I the originality.

Can't wait for these to finish downloading, hurry up stupid 56k (role on broadband, modem still hasn't arrived grr!)

Btw, how do you upload onto the VV server? I have no idea and I've been meaning to ask.

[Winnow]

Here's another of the songs that's not as crazy as "Your Honor" and more in line with her other work:

The Ghost of Corporate Future ~3mb

(don't tell the mods I uploaded these)

[Nick]

If I can get these downloads to hurry up is there any way of getting them off the site again? We can edit our posts and call it the great liberal conspiracy!

[Winnow]

If I can get these downloads to hurry up is there any way of getting them off the site again? We can edit our posts and call it the great liberal conspiracy!

I'm banking on the mods skipping this forum for a day!

Here's the Missing Persons song, "Words" that Regina's voice skip reminded me of:

Missing Persons - Words ~8mb

I'll take these off in a day but thought it important to associate the "voice skip" I was talking about to the great song I was thinking of : )

[Nick]

God that reviewer is blunt isn't he!

He has a point, I suspect, but I am prepared to forgive him as being overly cynical if not vaguely accurate.

I'll get this other one here too, for shits and giggles, I am on a complete music binge today.

[landertime]

mmmm regina spektor

duely added to my list of excellent female solo artists

ref cat power, bjork, mazzy starr

[Winnow]

New Regina Spektor album out:

http://www.rlslog.net/regina-spektor-far-2009-mtd/

[Fairweather Pure]

Yeah, the new album is really good.

[Gzette]

she annoys me, but many of my friends like her. actually, maybe its just that my friends are always singing along when i hear her. they're pretty bad singers.

[Winnow]

she annoys me, but many of my friends like her. actually, maybe its just that my friends are always singing along when i hear her. they're pretty bad singers.

I'm pretty sure she annoys me too but I really liked the original song I heard of hers. Liberals should love her. She's whiny and sings about lib kinda stuff.

[Gzette]

I keep my politics and music separate. This aint the 60s

[Winnow]

I keep my politics and music separate. This aint the 60s

She's primarily a vocalist so it's hard to avoid it. It's not like the few keys she's banging away on the keyboard do much to enhance things.

[Aslanna]

She's hit and miss with me. While I like some of her stuff I don't think I've ever been able to make it through a single one of her albums in one sitting.

[Sajko]

Love the Begin to Hope album. Haven't listened to her earlier/later stuff though, so I can't comment.
Saw her live a couple of years ago in Stockholm! Was great

[Gzette]

I did see her once actually at Austin City Limits Festival. It was really bad, and I left mid set. I heard later that she no longer does festivals. I can see why. Her music is definitely meant for small-ish venues and not a giant field with shouting drunkards (don't mess with Texas!)