Desire Avenue

Alright,here's my subversive Stina Compilation list for MINIMUM commercial potential so that Stina doesn't become exploited -to frighten off all right thinking types
...in no partic.order..
1) A walk in the park (car crashes,gloom)
2) Viewed from the spire(terrorism)
3) Crime (crime)
4) Murder in Mairyland Park (murder)
5) Under your command (sadism??)
6) Dynamite (terrorism again)
7) Mary Bell (enough said)
This time John (more murders)
9) Now that you're leaving (to kill you in the dark)
10) Come to me (plain weird,danger lurking)
11) First day in Spring (til the body was identified)
12) The thing about fire (is it can cause a lot of DAMAGE)

I could go on.....

Good wholesome stuff,eh?? Parental advisory stickers,I should think

I must make another Stina compilation, now I have all the albums again. It'll probably go something like:

1. The World Is Saved

2. A Walk In The Park

3. Almost A Smile

4. Stations

5. Crime

6. Parliament Square

7. People Are Strange

8. Clothe Yourself For The Wind

9. Alone at Night

10. Fireworks


Crikey, it's not looking very jolly so far, is it?

On the face of it (The World is Saved! Fireworks! Smile!) it looks quite perky,at least as far as the titles go.
But we know better,eh


I'm looking forward to Stina's next CD to see if I can make a complete compilation of murder/suicide/horror/the heebyjeebies numbers.
It could be called 'This WAS Stina Nordenstam',or 'Stina Nordenstam-Dead' or something equally tasteless.

Hmmm, it sounds a bit creepy indeed Dave. But well, fair enough. Our Stina isn't exactly the sunshine in our lives, now is she?

Oh no,definitely more like the rain...like at the end of ASCHE.
I like rain.
Talking of whom,where the devil are you,Michael?

i think victims (we) must have been killed in travelling or transporting areas... close to, and away from other people.

here are some clues:

Plane:

CQD (A night for planets, planes and souls to collide)
Keen yellow planet (I hear the planes start and land)

Airport:

Keen yellow planet (At a hotel near the airport)
Fireworks (I'm at the airport waiting)
Almost a smile (Like the lover at the airport)
CQD (Circling over the airport)
Stations (That's what airports and stations are there for)
Lori Glory (You met me at the airport)

Train:

Fireworks (The train just stopped)
İ see you again (In a window on a train)
Now that you're leaving (I'm running backwards on a train)
Trainsurfing (We took turns at laying an ear at the rail)

Station:

Stations(That's what airports and stations are there for)
Alone at night (There is a house next to the station)
I see you Again (Very brief in the night, Between the stations)

Car:

A walk in the park (Please let me take your car)
When Debbie's back from Texas(Cars go by and life)
Murder in the Mairyland Park (cars come and go)
Almost a smile (Passing cars, surprising comfort)
Until (Stop the car, turn off the engine)
I Could Still be an actor (Crash a car and survive)

Hmm,nice research Lori.Odd that your list has nothing from TWIS on it (mine neither!)-which is full of travel references...?
Lives in transit,dislocation,separation.
I get that feeling from a lot of the 'This Is' videos...
Interesting what crops up a lot in Stina lyrics,someone-you?-could almost work up a research paper on it

Mind you this'll get RobB going on his 'eyes' obsession-thing :

sound world wrote:Mind you this'll get RobB going on his 'eyes' obsession-thing :

Yes,about those 'eyes'......and other body parts !

Oh yes,the 'He watches her behind' tendency

sound world wrote:Oh yes,the 'He watches her behind' tendency

That's the part.

How many songs has Stina written in which the protagonist cries or considers crying?
A fair few, methinks.

That comp could be called 'Cheer Up Love, It Might Never Happen'

And how many has she written where the listener considers crying??

trainsurfer wrote:
That comp could be called 'Cheer Up Love, It Might Never Happen'

Don't somehow think that'd work with Stina

Hmmm, I think it would work Dave.
Remember the irony in the lyrics of Get On With Your Life or From Cayman Islands With Love.