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Vanessa Songs / Lyrics / Sheet Music / Favourite Music Video?

« on: December 18, 2007, 02:27:55 pm »

What is, in your opinion, Vanessa's best music video?

I think the best one is Ordinary Day. It's just great. It reminds of the best summer you could imagine, and Vanessa has never been more beautiful than in that video. To me, it's like the best music video ever. Plus, the song's great - but that goes without saying

Does anyone have high-definition screenshots of the "Ordinary Day" video? I always would have loved to have some, but I could never find anything...

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Vanessa Songs / Lyrics / Sheet Music / C'est La Vie

« on: December 04, 2007, 03:06:13 pm »

I don't love the song, but it's okay.

However, there are 2 songs I skip on Harmonium (She Floats & The Wreckage). On both BNB and H&T the end is the best part of the album, but not on Harmonium.

She Floats & The Wreckage are both kind of boring to me... not bad, but too slow and not grabbing enough. That's a shame because normally I like piano-and-vocals-only-songs, but only if they are as great as "Half A Week Before The Winter", "Papa" or "Wanted".

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Introduce Yourself / hi

« on: November 30, 2007, 09:58:03 am »

Hi, I'm from Germany and have always been a big fan of Vanessa's ever since I heard ATM for the very first time on MTV. Needless to say, I own her every album.

It was by pure coincidence that I noticed she had released another album in October 2007. On some German board, someone started a sort of poll, asking which album you would think appropriate to be called "album of the year".  You can hardly imagine how astonished I was, reading "Vanessa Carlton - Heroes & Thieves" posted by some guy in that very thread. Without hesitating any further, I ordered the album - without ever having heard a single song of it before. Well, it just makes the surprise bigger, doesn't it? :lol:

Though, I naturally couldn't wait for the CD to finally be in my hands. I had to listen to at least one song. That one song was Nolita Fairytale, which I immediately loved. My plan of listening to just one song had to be slightly modified, given that there were samples of 4 of the album's songs to be listened to on Vanessa's official homepage. Still, my anticipation rather increased than dropped.

When I finally got the CD, I listened to it all day. And it's just great! I loved BNB, didn't equally love Harmonium (but still liked it, of course) and H&T is - to me - the best album she released so far.

As I have already pointed out in the general discussion thread, I consider "More Than This" to be her best song so far, but basically every single track on the album does her talents justice, except "The One" and "This Time", both of which have not yet started to grow on me.

Last but certainly not least, I would like to point out that there are quite a lot of fans in Europe, just in case you didn't know. It's not like Vanessa is very well-known here, but still, you know what I mean.
Besides, our local radio station plays "A Thousand Miles" at least once or twice a year :lol:

I tried not to produce any mistakes as far as my English is concerned ... I hope that worked out.   :razz:

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Vanessa Songs / Lyrics / Sheet Music / Heroes and Thieves (album)

« on: November 30, 2007, 09:26:09 am »

I've always loved Heroes and Thieves, and I do have to admit that I didn't really like This Time until I could play it on the piano. I'm sort of like that sometimes.

Well, that's absolutely comprehensible. I wish I could play the piano. But well, too late for that. Nevermind, I can still enjoy the beautiful melodies Vanessa has created.

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Vanessa Songs / Lyrics / Sheet Music / Heroes and Thieves (album)

« on: November 30, 2007, 05:52:51 am »

I agree, I love the vocals on both "My Best" and "More Than This". Vanessa's voice at its peak! But her singing in "H&T" is great, too.

My Best has really grown on me, I didn't like it a lot when I heard it for the first time, but especially the end is just great.

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Vanessa Songs / Lyrics / Sheet Music / Heroes and Thieves (album)

« on: November 29, 2007, 02:38:17 pm »

Hi everyone, I'm from Germany and would like to tell you all that there are some fans in Europe, especially in Germany! Well, not a lot, you know, VC is not "mainstream" in the US anymore, and she's even much less well-known here, but still... I mean the album got released and can be bought here, that's already a good thing, right?

I purchased the album this morning and I've been listening to it all day ! To me it's the best record Vanessa has released so far.

"More than this" is like the best song she ever wrote, everything's perfect and couldn't be better!

Least favorite songs as for now:

- The One (which would currently get 6/10 from me)
- This Time (7/10)

Favorite Songs:

- More Than This (11/10)
- Heroes and Thieves (10/10)
- Home (10/10)

Every other song gets 9/10 except "Spring Street" (8/10) !

I'm simply glad to finally have the album in my CD player. It was out of pure coincidence that I noticed VC had released something new, as I hadn't dealt with her any longer ever since she lost her record deal. Well, besides listening to her songs, which I naturally still did.