If she does, you'll erase this message.

Thanks for your kind offer, I'd be very curious to see it, indeed.

I'll have a look.

Thanks for noticing.

I'll edit the post if need be.

Heather played indeed a dangerous game, presenting Pearl as Oyster II.

Yes, but I had pushed a button by mistake, I "edited" Gerd's post instead of "relpying" it.

I noticed that today, so remove my asnwxer from Gerd's post an pasted my reply in a proper post.

If I am going to see a pub owner, and say "hey, I can come and play gig in your pub" and give him a deo with a lot of midi instruments, the bar owner won't know what it's like to have me playing in his pub : will I come with some other musicians ? Midi background ? Or just my guitar, but what will it sound like ?

If I come with demos like those on Facebook, what he hears is what he gets, which is much better for the pusposes I seek for now.

Yes, I remember midi was very convenient when we did recordings a decade ago.

Now, I need organic demos, in order to show people who might ask me to play in their pubs or so what it's like if I play live.

The word fire ?

Wow. Difficult.

You should use the piano more often. It gives incredible class to the beginning of the song.

The rest is fine as well. Somewhat vintage, but really refreshing ; I like it.

In Paris, probably not, but in Belgium, yes. Can't wait.

For the rest, nevermind. No harm done.

Thanks !

Happy birthday, Gerd !

I like See Yourself as well, at least for its music ; lyrically, I admit I'm not font of the "when you're broken it's alright" thing.

I quite or really like every song you mention, but I think I could easily find 20 HN songs from previous albums that I prefer. Well, I speak for now. I didn't spoil myself by listening to the recording, but I might change my mind after hearing Berit playing Rewild Me.

Ouch.

Indeed.

... she said something like Pearl being like Oyster (same producer, same sound) ut even better because containing better songs.

The explanation is simple : she wrote most of the songs at the beginning of a great relationship, when she was happy as can be, she started arranging the songs with her boyfriend (in the best circumstances possible), she recorded the album with her boyfriend and other people she likes very much. She spent an amazing time, and thus is very enthusiastic.

Personally, I have mixed feelings : I can enjoy listening to the album for its global sound, for its electric guitar, and for being able to listen almost as a whole (I only skip Experts), I like some songs a lot, Rewild Me, Some Things, and I like some others (Over The Fields, All The Rivers), but if I try to make my Heather top 20 songs, there will probably be no Pearl. Unless we classify liver versions, and the tour is so great that we adore live versions, of course.


That is why I still put Pearl higher than my less liked albums (the general sound is fine), but neither in my favorite ones (there are no amazing songs). IMO, of course.

Do you feel it for all of the album, or do you like some songs more than the others ?

Thanks !

The article has a link to Pearl's wikipedia page. On the wikipedia page, Pearl is presented as an kind of Oyster II. I thought about our conversations here.

I like it ! It has something vintage that gets me in good mood.

Quote:

Yes, it's a pity there is no glowstars songs.

Heather Nova said, more or less, that when she did the recent Oyster tour, she enjoyed it a lot, and she realized that rocking had missed her, and that's why she wanted a rock album, an album that would song like oyster = rock and cello, and Youth for producer. OK.

On Oyster tours, there were no (musically) "smooth" songs like Sea Glass or I Wanna Be your Light, nor classic safe-pop songs like London Rain or like Lovers Do (London Rain was taken for music in Dawson, a teenage series, because it fits to the radio pop rock codes).

In Oyster tour, there were loud rock songs and acoustic songs with a cello. So, there's a room for Motherland, for example (and Shaking The Doll, but I doubt Heather will play again), and even for a (very) few Redbird songs : I Miss My Sky and Overturned.

I don't say that jut because London Rain, Like Lovers Do and I Wanna Be Your Light are not my favourite. I Wanna Be Your Light is a song I don't appreciate, but when played on an acoustic or semi-acoustic tour, I can't complain, it fits to the setlist and to the tour. London Rain, on a Redbird tour is just normal. And so on. But when she has a Berit, they can rock ! And when she has a cellist (she will, in autumn), she can pick up songs when the cello has a bigger place !

Well, I'm eager for the autumn tour to start anyway.

In order to let Berit amaze us once again, I'd suggest replacing Like Lovers Do by Just Been Born, London Rain by Make You Mine (or I'm The Girl ?, or even I’m Alive, with its short but powerful break ?), Higher Ground by Do Something That Scares You, See Glass and I Wanna Be Your light by something that leaves the occasions for the musicians to express their talent.
With adding a few very calm songs so we can fully enjoy the cello.

Thanks to our member Cyrille, I saw the video of the only song containing a hard-to-find chord, and I could see what Heather is actually playing.
The bold line is what something that I read on Heather's fingers and I didn't know for sure if it was on purpose or a (nice) mistake, for it's quite strange considering the rest of the song (nice to hear, but strange that she does this at this very only line).

Heather Nova
SOME THINGS JUST COME UNDONE

Am Amsus2 Am Amsus2 x2

Am Amsus2 Am Amsus2
I took my beautiful son down to the ocean,
Am Amsus2 Am Amsus2
Some things just come undone, I said,
Am Amsus2 Am Amsus2
It's all swirling around in me, like I'm an ocean,
Am Amsus2 Am Amsus2
Some things just come undone, I said.

I took my beautiful boy down to the ocean,
Sometimes a change will come, I said,
His cheeks all rosy red and full of elation,
Sometimes a change will come, I said.
F Am Amsus2 Am Amsus2 Am Amsus2 Am Amsus2
I'm gonna make everythign okay.

I took my beautiful child down to the ocean,
Look up, up at the sky, I said,
His eyes reflecting light, all full of emotion,
I'm never gonna let you down, I said.
I'm gonna make everything okay.

My child, my beautiful son, I said, some things just come undone, I said,
Am Amsus2
Look up, up at the sky, I said, two homes better than one, I said.
My boy, my beautiful son, I said, my boy, my beautiful son,
Should I cry or hold my emotion ? Should I cry or hold my emotion?
Which one is his salvation? Oh -

Am Amsus2 Am Amsus2

Oh, my mother inside, Oh, my mother inside,
Oh, my mother inside,
I'm gonna make everything okay.

Am Amsus2 Am Amsus2 x2

Some things just come undone, I said, Two homes are better than one, I said,
Oh, my beautiful son, I said, Some things just come undone, yeah.
Two homes are better than one, I said, Oh, my beautiful son,
Some things just come undone, Some things just come undone, I said.
Some things just come undone, yeah, Oh, my beautiful son,
Some things just come undone, Some things just come undone,
Some things just come undone.

Amsus2 or Emsus4/64 : 020210


Nice tune, nice chords ; it was a brilliant idea from Heather.

Thank you ! Great job cyrille and moerie !

Enjoy the show, everyone !

Danke schön !

Google trad particularly sucked for this interveiw. Tried to have in translated in French, but it's absolute nonsense.

The first time I saw Heather live, it was on Redbird tour ; the show was good, but absolutely not the best I saw since then.

If you find chord typos, let me know.

I have ordered on Amazon and the album hasn't arrived either, strangely. I should have received it sooner, but as son as Pearl came out, I got a message to say the order would arrive later than expected.

Is it me, or is there really much more promo for Pearl than for the last albums ?

Thank you Bernd !

Well, it's always a bit risky to tease something like "my new album will be like Oyster-you-very-favourite-one, with similar production, but with songse ven better".
She took the risk (she asked the wind to dance).

I see what she means, though : cello, electric guitar, same producer... but as for songs, they're not as good. Oh, I'm not complaining, i like the sound of the album, I really like some songs, and tDon't Worry What The Experts Say it the only song I dislike, which is few. But I don't think my topten HN songs will contain Pearl songs.

That's why I wrote "personnally", and "for me", and "my taste".

I notice that I usually prefer dark Heather songs. At some point, I mustn't be the only one, and the fact that Rewild Me and STJCU being among the favourites of almost everyone on the next album is noticeable, but the principle doesn't necessarily apply to the rest of Heather's discography...

I guess the different opinion we hold on oyster can explain a lot, too ; if you don't put Oyster very high, you are probably more attached to it via what you mentioned tonight : memories, youth, etc.

Oyster is still my favourite album, though it isn't linked to anything sentimental for me : I bought the album, it stayed on my shelve for a while, with years I appreciated it more and more, when my tastes grew less mainstream, when I had improved in English, etc. And I guess Oyster tour 2 years ago was the best HN show I attended, to my mind, though clearly (and unfortunately) softened compared to recordings from the real Oyster tour 25 years ago. I think it's the strongest album Heather ever wrote, but well, that's just my opinion.

I agree for the first part of your message : there will never be an Oyster II because Heather Nova has changed, because 25 years have passed, because she's older now (and because, as far as we known, noone abused her like the Island guy did, precisely since the Island guys did it, decades ago, which is good news ).

But I didn't discover Heather with Oyster, but with South. I quickly bought all of her albums, and at first, Oyster wasn't my favourite, at all. Maybe I was too young to appreciate it. Maybe songs like Blue Black, Island or Light Years weren't as radio-friendly for me back then (I was young...) . I'm no Angel and London Rain were more of my taste at that time.

So, for me, another Oyster wouldn't be at all my youth back or the first kiss or anything like this : another Oyster would be an album with lyrics and music as powerful as what Heather expressed in this album.
An album as strong as Oyster is.

But Oyster and Glow Stars are full of hard and intense experiences shared by Heather, with the Island-Sugar guy concerning the dark songs, and full of the enormous relief she felt after that for the lighter ones. Same for Glow Stars, my second favourite album.

My third favourite album is The Way It Feels, written by Heather when she was going through very difficult times of her life. Well, it's quite logical, and many people pointed out that fact, among them, Tolstoy at the beginning of Anna Karenine.

I guess that personally, I find more strength and intensity in songs Heather wrote about very intense and hard times, though I am also very fond of happier songs like Everytime or Make You mine.

I a probably not the only one to think this way, and we can notice that almost everyone on this topic quoted Rewild Me and Some Things Just Come Undone as their favourite songs on Peralr, i-e the least zen songs on the whole album.

I corrected some typos.

I think we got everything now, except STJCU, which I promise to have a look tonight.

Heather Nova
VINCENT

Dm G C F A
Vincent, yours is the first name I've ever sung
Dm G C F A
Sometimes life is a movie and it's only just begun.

Waves are crashing through my veins, I'm overcome
Sometimes, life is a movie and it's just begun.

Dm G
And the stars will make us wild,
C F A
And the dark will make us hesitate, but that's our fate,
Dm G
The stars will make us wild
C F A
It's not too late for us.

I want to laugh, sing Autumn Leaves, and whistle grass with you
I want to lie under any kind of sky.

Chorus

Dm G C F A x2

Les vagues viennent s'écraser dans mes veines et je m'enivre,
Vincent, je veux only to be with you.

Chorus

The stars will make us wild
It's not too late for us.

Dm G C F A

Dm G C F Dm
It's not too late for us.

Heather Nova
YOUR WORDS

D

D Bm
I keep every word you said
D F#m
Wildflowers growing up around my bed
G A D
All those words blooming in my head

I don't need much only truth
Just the thoughts that come to you
You make poetry, no one reaches me like you do

Bm F#m Bm F#m
And it's all, only syllables
G A D
But your words, they will make or break me

D
Sticks and stones
A
Bruise my bones
Bm G
But your words will save me
D
Sticks and stones
A
Bruise my bones
Bm G
But I need your words
D A
I don't want to live without you
Bm G D A Bm G
Don't want to live without you
D A Bm G
Your words, your words, your words

D Bm
I keep every word you said
D F#m
String them all on invisible thread
G A D
All those little pearls shining round my neck
Blooming in my head
Shining round my neck
Blooming in my head

Heather Nova
OVER THE FIELDS

C

C G Am
Heard you slipped into the light we cannot see,
C G Am
Behind the veil and the songs,
C G Am
Reaching out to those who came to you in dreams -

F Em
Over the fields you go,
F Em
Over the wreckage in slow motion,
F Em
Everything that you used to know,
Am G
All the weight, all the weight you can let go.

And you remember making angels in the snow,
A flash of who you could have been.
Begin the journey you that started long ago -

Chorus

Em Am F Em
Am F Em Em

And all apologies and all the damage done,
Somehow you never found the key,
It's coming to you now as you head into the sun -

Over the fields you go,
Over the wreckage in slow motion,
Over the fields you go,
Over the wreckage in slow motion,
Everything that you used to know,
All the weight, all the weight that you can let go,
All the weight, all the weight you can let go,
Am G
All the weight, all the weight,
Am G
All the weight.
Am ~
All the weight.

Playing this one is very pleasant :
Heather Nova
ALL THE RIVERS

Em

Em
It's a fire
Am6 Am7 Am6 Am7
It's the way it grows when you feed it
Em
It's a fire
Am6 Am7 Am6 Am7
Love the way you love me and the way I need it

C Bm
I can feel it moving on the astral plane
C Bm
All the rivers rushing down the valley again
C D Em
Oh my love

Ships were passing
In the night so dark that you could hardly see
Stolen kisses
Nothing ever reached me 'til you got to me

I can feel it moving on the astral plane
All the rivers rushing down the valley again
Oh my love

G Bm C Eb
I just want time to stand still
G Bm C Eb
I want time to bring you closer to me
G Bm C Eb
I want time to lock with mine
G Bm C Eb Em
I want time with you

It's the beauty
It's the way you capture it frame by frame
It's the beauty
It's the way we manifest the every day dream

I can feel it moving on the astral plane
All the rivers rushing down the valley again
Moving on the astral plane
C Bm C Eb G ~
All the rivers, all the rivers, all the rivers, oh my love

After All This Time changed a little bit on the album. Producer's idea, probably. On the last album, the Archaeologist had some minor hanges beteen the acoustic version by Heaher before the recording, and the album version.


Heather Nova
AFTER ALL THIS TIME

C

C G/B Am
When you find him, when you find the one
C G/B Am
When you find it’s, where your soul belongs
C G/B Am
Put your hands out, nothing breaks your fall
C G/B Am
Take a leave now, gonna risk it all

Years of stillness, like a winter’s frost
Never really knew how much I’d lost
Every cell now coming back to life
Every breath now in a different light


F G Am
I don’t wanna shut my eyes
F G Em E7
I’m open to the pain that might be coming
Dm Em F
This is what I never thought I find
Fm Am C
Real love after all this time

When it finds you, everything is clear
All the roads you took have brought you here
Looking up now to an endless sky
Tears are coming and you don’t know why

C Em C Em E Dm G G

I don’t wanna shut my eyes E7
I’m open to the joy that might be coming, yeah
This is what I never thought I find
Real love after all this time

I don’t wanna shut my eyes E7
I’m open to the joy that might be coming
This is what I never thought I find
Real love after all this time
Fm Am C
Real love after all this time

Some Things Just Come Undone, I have to check once I'm back home with better sound than my computer before putting it here.