Marissa Nadler "Annabelle Lee" live in Tampere Finland

Marissa Nadler performing her song Annabelle Lee at club Telakka in Tampere Finland april 20th 2007.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• marissa
• nadler
• Annabelle
• Lee
• finland
• telakka
• tampere
• live
• suomi

[stillwaterguy04]

The use of excerpts from this version as a backdrop for the epilogue about the real-life, doomed teenage lovers in ABC's "Final Witness" created an atmosphere that was haunting and otherwordly.

[LesbiaCidonia]

@stillwaterguy04 My only intention was to carry out a critical analysis of these two "works" from an aesthetical point of view... There is nothing to accomplish here, but trying to reach the highest possible degree of "objectivity", by formulating considerations that can be universally shared, since based on matters of fact. I am sorry that this attempt has unvoluntarily bothered you. I will definitely follow your suggestion, since a civilized exchange does not seem to be possible here...

[stillwaterguy04]

@LesbiaCidonia, there's a very elegant solution, you idiot: go listen to Joan Baez's version if you prefer that one and leave us to enjoy this one. Do you think there's going to be a national vote on which of the 2 is better??? What are you hoping to accomplish with your assinine campaigning?

[LesbiaCidonia]

@stillwaterguy04 ...and for what concerns the musical frame, it is a polychromatic caleidoscope which all sorts of "timbers" and "colours" emerge from. As for the singing, Marissa's voice is not "honest" here, but sugary as she was trying to seduce the listener, whereas Joan's interpretation is purely epic, being the natural result of the identification between the artist and the "work of art".

Are you sure we are speaking about the same version of the Baez?

[LesbiaCidonia]

@stillwaterguy04 We should perhaps follow the Roman adage: "De gustibus non disputandum est", anyway I wonder how you can claim that this version is more skillfully elaborated than Joan's one, when the "texture" of Marissa's guitar is very basic (not to talk about the tuning... It almost hurts my eardrums) and her singing breaks the continuity of the "poetic speech" of the original text by E.A.Poe.

On the contrary, the Baez's version is musically faithful to the lines of the Romantic author...

[stillwaterguy04]

@LesbiaCidonia, this version of "Annabel Lee" by Marissa Nadler is better than Joan's. I love Joan Baez, but her version isn't arranged as skillfully as this version is. Maybe her recent 20-foot fall out of her treehouse is just what Joan Baez needed to unmuddle her thinking about this piece.

[LesbiaCidonia]

Dear friends, how may you compare this prolonged miaow accompanied by a depressing off-key instrument to Joan Baez's epic singing, to her "panic" (from the Greek God Pan) magic and charm?

[lemonjuyce]

Lovely :)

[Phantomsbreath]

Quality's a little fuzzy

[ebennich]

any idea where i can find that? i've been lookin for it