Grace Cathedral Park

[derekbee13]

wrong bad..... fuck this hippie shit.....

[cliffburton333]

@derekbee13 wrong adjective, wrong spelling

[mordenviabank]

@jumeau1 stop it man, try playing some shows or something.

[jumeau1]

@mordenviabank hm. thanks for the honest opinion. I play plenty of shows with other bands and projects, my acoustic stuff is just something I've fucked around with for years and never showed anyone, so I wanted some stranger's opinions before showing it to people who know and like me and will probably be polite and/or lie to me. Strangers have nothing to be polite about. yours is the first flat-out negative opinion. what do you particularly dislike?

[mordenviabank]

@jumeau1 oh no, i didn't actually listen to your stuff, sorry if you got that impression. when i said 'stop it' i meant stop advertising your band in youtube comments, because i don't think it's a productive way to get people interested. not that it's any of my business, but i was trying to help.

sorry if you thought i was insulting your music, i wasn't.

[jumeau1]

@mordenviabank ha, I see. actually, I agree with you and had forgotten that I posted that a few months ago, which is why I just removed it. I was just at a point where I wanted some opinions on the songs but wasn't comfortable showing them to people I know and not ready to play them live so I figured this was a good and anonymous way to do it. it is rather annoying to see people spamming their own stuff on here though, my bad.

[mordenviabank]

@jumeau1 its alright, i see where you're coming from anyway. let's pretend this whole thing never happened.

[jumeau1]

@mordenviabank I've got this great new vacuum cleaner though that you might be interested in.......ha

[mordenviabank]

@jumeau1 NOW you're talking!

[PinkFloydrulez]

Iwould love for this song to be on HIMYM some time

[Akatosh86]

i love that there's 0 dislikes (so far. but i'm sure there will be retards disliking sometime soon). as for stellarconverter's comment - i think it's wonderful. for some people it's about remembering your first love, for others - it's absence ;)) for me - it's the most beautiful song ever made by someone (imo, of course)

[MunkeyPuzzled]

album still chokes me up after all these years..

[NotoriousMannk]

I read The Beach at uni to this song just before summer when I went to live in Greece for a while and it was in my head all summer, weirdly I fell in love with a girl that I knew for sure would never be the one!

[cominginsecond]

Why the harshness toward stellarconverter's comment? Bewildering.

[smithslover1]

We walked down the hill

I feel the coming on

Of the fading sun

And i know for sure

That you'll never be the one

I just wish you are

[juliekstroup]

Why are you like this?  Tell me, why are you like this?

[Kendaskig]

3 minutes and 52 seconds of goosebumps.

[arranarctic]

I'm slowly but surely getting into these guys and Mark Kozelek. Better late than never!

[slyweazal]

This song perfectly captures the feeling of visiting a big city as a kid while it's overcast and raining...

[Swirlcore]

After listening to this song it feels like it was just yesterday that I was with my first girlfriend...hand in hand, staring at the ceiling...... :(

[beneb1]

This is not your average song. This album is a masterpiece, and timeless. I can't even tell you how many cigs have been smoked to this song.. just reflecting.

[rogermelly44]

Have loved this song for so long...and yes, it brings me back to another time & place too.....the bay area in the 90's. Funny, hearing it now, it reminds me of The Sundays, that great british band, I can just hear Harriet Wheeler singing it.

[arachnodenet]

Yes, I have a memory about a girl too.

[juliekstroup]

I fell in love to this song - unfortunately the guy I fell in love with cheated on me. But hey I got to know a great new band out of it!

[ZJProz]

This takes me back....to another life.....

[lordvespatron]

i liste to this and im 19 in a dollis hill laundry, and a 15 years old is asking me to kiss her, and snow's outside, and it's almost april, 1993

[Akatosh86]

this song is about lost love and nostalgia. What I love about it is that the track is upbeat and sunshiny, while the meaning of the song is tragic and heartbreaking. 'Grace Cathedral Park' is about letting go, yet keeping the memory in full extent... Mark Kozelek is a genius and this band is a bliss...

[guitar19904]

@Akatosh86

wow wonderfull comment

[lyonslaforet]

Rollercoaster by Red House Painters is a sensitive, heartfelt album although it's a litle too uniform. Nevertheless, I much prefer it to Everclear (1991) by American Music Club.

[unfailingpromise]

Jealous of this guy's songs. Gotta show love to someone who let's you in on their most emotional outpourings. These songs are from the heart.

[indencity]

wide ranging influence..check the chord progression on Conqueror by Jesu.

[immanentvoiceless]

@indencity There's an interview with Broadrick where he basically says his whole reason for starting Jesu was to do something similar to RHP.

[indencity]

@immanentvoiceless: Yeah I saw that too. Rip-off merchant innit ;-)

[MrDLOC11]

Who can compare the devastating beautiful sadness that Mark acheives? Moz?Hope?Natalie?Juan Gabriel?

[immanentvoiceless]

@MrDLOC11 Natalie who? Juan Gabriel who? I'd say the only person who is similar is Vic Chesnutt.

[EscapeFromBox]

You'll never be the one ;(

[AuthenticCelestial]

'a rare and blistering sun shines down...'

when you consider the whole album, the depths of despair...I like to finish listening through, and then return to the start again to listen to this one more time.

[AutoSuggestions]

tell me why are you like this

are you the same with anyone?

save me from my sickness and tell me

why are you like this

[eatdogs]

"buble" was always my favorite RHP song, but this one comes a close second

[stellarconverter]

god, i hear this and i'm 18 again, sitting on a little bed with a certain girl. she asks me to kiss her again...

[postpunk96]

@stellarconverter fuck you lifer

[solonify]

@stellarconverter Sweet! This songs seems to bring back memories for everyone.

[Cizcan]

@stellarconverter Fuck you.

[synergetic71]

my favorite RHPs song...sad indeed. The singer has seen much pain in his life:(

[synergetic71]

Sad...but, I admit...very beautiful. i can relate to the feeling of unprecedented sentimentality.

[tutani]

This is one of the most beautiful songs ever written, probably.

[jrod1112]

@tutani Makes me rethink killing myself. Songs like this are reason enough to live on...