1996
album by
The Promise Ring on
Jade Tree Records.
This album, despite only listening to it twice, and owning it for just over 3 hours, is very special to me. I'm 16, have a girlfriend for the first time, and just may or may not be in love. The album is filled with sparkling descriptions of places I've never been, but evoke a feeling of nostalgia anyways; people I've never met but could have known for years; and situations that I could have lived a thousand times over. It's not a happy record, but it's not any bullshit doom and gloom crap either. It's real, to me.
"Scenes From France In General." I am the guy this song is about, wishing I was elsewhere, "...to dream of a duel, speaking furious in Latin, the scald scar of water..."
"A Picture Postcard." How many times have I felt unsure about how to act with my girlfriend? This song expresses it for me, wonderfully... "If I put my hands to your stomach, or put my lips to your hand..." Can't you understand?
A full tracklist for those too cheap to go out and buy the album:
- Everywhere In Denver
- Red Paint
- Heart of a Broken Story
- Scenes from France
- Anne You Will Sing
- My Firetower Flame
- Between Pacific Coasts
- A Picture Postcard
- Somebody's Done For
- The Sea of Cortez
- Run Down The Waterfall
- We Don't Like Romance (instrumental)