Author Topic: Vanessa's Digital Holiday EP 'Hear The Bells' IS HERE!!!  (Read 31090 times)

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Re: Vanessa's Holiday EP 'Hear The Bells' (Nov. 21st)
« Reply #30 on: November 11, 2011, 05:14:31 am »
I like the cover too. I can't quite make out all the details but it looks cool

I think the cover is how the sound of a bell would be pictured if you were under one.

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Re: Vanessa's Holiday EP 'Hear The Bells' (Nov. 21st)
« Reply #31 on: November 11, 2011, 07:09:16 am »
Samples on Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0064Y4Y08/

Thanks for this!

"Hear the Bells" sounds amazing, "Do You Hear What I Hear" sounds like it's going to be lovely, and "A Thousand Miles" sounds...different. Good different, though. No piano? Interesting!

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« Reply #32 on: November 11, 2011, 07:09:31 am »
Samples on Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0064Y4Y08/

Oh my goodness, I love these. The next ten days are going to be years for me.

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Re: Vanessa's Holiday EP 'Hear The Bells' (Nov. 21st)
« Reply #33 on: November 11, 2011, 09:55:54 am »
A Thousand Miles....needs to go somewhere. Definitely not on her 2011 EP.
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Re: Vanessa's Holiday EP 'Hear The Bells' (Nov. 21st)
« Reply #34 on: November 11, 2011, 10:57:12 am »
love the samples!

i've learned to love "a thousand miles" in a new way as the performance of that song has evolved over the years. a little disappointed to lose that iconic piano line on the ep though.
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Re: Vanessa's Holiday EP 'Hear The Bells' (Nov. 21st)
« Reply #35 on: November 11, 2011, 03:19:59 pm »
love the samples!

i've learned to love "a thousand miles" in a new way as the performance of that song has evolved over the years. a little disappointed to lose that iconic piano line on the ep though.

I think that's what I like best about it.  Give those "fans" of Vanessa who only know that song, a taste of what she is about now, not nine years ago.
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Re: Vanessa's Holiday EP 'Hear The Bells' (Nov. 21st)
« Reply #36 on: November 12, 2011, 12:28:35 am »
one of v's brightest talents is that melodic sensibility that delivered the iconic "a thousand miles" line, though.

unlike a lot of popular music, the majority of her songs have a special little melody to them that make them instantly recognizable. i'm thinking how one knows immediately "more than this" and "carousel" and almost all of her songs, really. most of her songs have a unique piano line, and i feel that "a thousand miles" without that riff becomes a much less remarkable song.

it's still lovely of course, and i still think that the chorus is a little lyrically unorthodox (just the way she articulates things, even then!), but it's just not the same and i'm not quite sure it better represents v as the artist she is now, because she still has the sensibility that produced the legendary duh-na-na-na-na-na-na. she still delivers gorgeous piano melodies. guess i just don't want to lose sense of that in the name of reinvention.

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Re: Vanessa's Holiday EP 'Hear The Bells' (Nov. 21st)
« Reply #37 on: November 12, 2011, 04:46:46 am »
I like the cover too. I can't quite make out all the details but it looks cool

I think the cover is how the sound of a bell would be pictured if you were under one.

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Re: Vanessa's Holiday EP 'Hear The Bells' (Nov. 21st)
« Reply #38 on: November 12, 2011, 07:34:16 am »
Samples on Amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0064Y4Y08/

Thank you! I am going to share this with my friends :-)
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« Reply #39 on: November 12, 2011, 11:08:24 am »
I'm not that crazy about a christmas EP to be honest, im not very fond of christmas songs... but its still new stuff even tho they are covers. The new version of Hear The Bells sounds fucking awesome!!

I remember when she said that stevie wanter her to play a christmas song and she didn't knew any cause she was jew? lol. Whatevs :)
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Re: Vanessa's Holiday EP 'Hear The Bells' (Nov. 21st)
« Reply #40 on: November 12, 2011, 12:11:11 pm »
I'm not that crazy about a christmas EP to be honest, im not very fond of christmas songs... but its still new stuff even tho they are covers. The new version of Hear The Bells sounds fucking awesome!!

I remember when she said that stevie wanter her to play a christmas song and she didn't knew any cause she was jew? lol. Whatevs :)

that's why she needed sheet music!
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Re: Vanessa's Holiday EP 'Hear The Bells' (Nov. 21st)
« Reply #41 on: November 12, 2011, 12:17:53 pm »
::) Its only a digital release and it sucks!!!

Damn... there's not even a CD?

Nice to hear more from her... but this is the first Vanessa Carlton release that I won't even be able to put on my shelf  :( Hopefully it's just since it's an EP and we won't have to put up with "virtual" releases of her next albums, whenever they come.

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Re: Vanessa's Holiday EP 'Hear The Bells' (Nov. 21st)
« Reply #42 on: November 12, 2011, 05:08:29 pm »
::) Its only a digital release and it sucks!!!

Damn... there's not even a CD?

Nice to hear more from her... but this is the first Vanessa Carlton release that I won't even be able to put on my shelf  :( Hopefully it's just since it's an EP and we won't have to put up with "virtual" releases of her next albums, whenever they come.

you could always burn it and print out the cover and create your own! I knot it's not official but at least it would be physical!
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Re: Vanessa's Holiday EP 'Hear The Bells' (Nov. 21st)
« Reply #43 on: November 12, 2011, 07:55:19 pm »
::) Its only a digital release and it sucks!!!

Damn... there's not even a CD?

Nice to hear more from her... but this is the first Vanessa Carlton release that I won't even be able to put on my shelf  :( Hopefully it's just since it's an EP and we won't have to put up with "virtual" releases of her next albums, whenever they come.

I'm pretty sad about the lack of a CD as well; however, I feel quite certain that her future albums will have physical releases. :) Based on interviews and the ROTR packaging itself, V values them as well. I think this EP is only digital because it's something quite small, and not a large, complete project, like an album. If the EP were longer and an entity of its own, I feel there would be a physical copy.

On another note, this EP is getting my hopes up that V will release material more regularly. Though I've given up hope on some of her older songs being recorded (which I can understand--looking back at a piece of work you did years ago can be...unpleasant :D) , newer songs that don't make it onto albums might get studio recordings.

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Re: Vanessa's Holiday EP 'Hear The Bells' (Nov. 21st)
« Reply #44 on: November 13, 2011, 07:48:38 am »
I was thinking the same thing! Bring on Moneymaker!..please? haha