Sunday, April 4, 2010

A Silver Mt. Zion

Of the bands that I admire, A Silver Mt. Zion is at least as removed from the masses as any. Among their gifts is a propensity for awesome song titles. I often feel that it would be possible to relate entire travails using nothing but one or more song titles. For instance, how was my week? Well, it was this:

This Gentle Heart Like Shot Birds Fallen
Hang On To Each Other
Stumble Then Rise On Some Awkward Morning

Conversely, the year 2000 for me could be described as:

Tho You Are Gone, I Still Often Walk With You
Broken Chord Can Sing A Little
I Fed My Metal Bird The Wings Of Other Metal Birds

I have constant, timeless dreams that my future will be thus:

Sow Some Lonesome Corner So Many Flowers Bloom
C'mon C'mon (Loose An Endless Longing)
Collapse Tradicional (For Darling)
13 Angels Standing Guard 'round The Side Of Your Bed

Did I mention that I recommend them? I am not uniformly in love with their music; actually, I probably like a mere minority of it. But I couldn't live without such songs as "Movie (Never Made)", or "Horses in the Sky".

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