Buffy Sainte-Marie - Poppies

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  • Artist: Buffy Sainte-Marie
    Song: Poppies (for Mr Allerton)
    Album: Illuminations
    ...I tippy-toe across your dream each night
    so as not to wake you...
    Asleep in your summer,
    a garland of flowers
    yellow and white around your waist.
    While I walk these paths of ice
    ice my breasts and strings of ice my hair.
    My hands two hooks of steel.
    Ice nose, snow eyes
    frozen open mouth.
    Flakes of snow your bridal veil
    I come down the soft white path
    Garlands of poppies
    spilling from my heart.

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  • @odovicor
    @odovicor 16 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Euphoric, so far ahead of its time is this song. I heard it when I was a teen in the 70s. Buffy Sainte-Marie made life bearable in small town who, as Joan Baez wrote, had ways of being "even smaller yet." Ms. Sainte-Marie, you are "Up Where You Belong." Thank you for everything--thirty years later.

  • @Grawp55
    @Grawp55 14 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So many people owe her for her brilliant experiments on this album. It was mind blowing at the time....and still is.

  • @ushermore
    @ushermore 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fantastic song! Gothic perfection. Creepy ,dreamy....timeless

  • @JorraneRei
    @JorraneRei 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Otherworldly and totally amazing... I can get lost in this...

  • @OldOldBukowski
    @OldOldBukowski 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just discovered this singer. As a big fan of Portishead, I have to say that the entire album THIRD seems based on this haunting track.

  • @SkeeterNYC
    @SkeeterNYC 15 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Buffy did alot of cool experimentation with electronic sounds on 'Illuminations'. This track reminds me of some of Kate Bush, Lisa Gerrard & Bat For Lashes' stuff. Heads up to Buffy fans: Buffy's new album, 'Running For The Drum', is out in the states in August with a subsequent tour.

  • @djsarcastic
    @djsarcastic 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    on the LP the song kind of continues into the first song on the next side "God is Alive, Magic is Afoot" (its on youtube) check that out

  • @TenementFunster.74
    @TenementFunster.74 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    love it people. great on headphones.

  • @nathanb10
    @nathanb10 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    @shaftsbury94 even better in 4.0 surround!!! - The first quadrophonic vocal album ever.

  • @chuckheppner3374
    @chuckheppner3374 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    ✜✜✜✜✜✜✜✜✜✜✜✜✜✜✜✜✜✜✜✜✜✜ ☼ ✜✜✜✜✜✜✜✜✜✜✜✜✜✜✜✜✜✜✜✜✜
    "Poppies" from the album: "Illuminations"
    I tippy-toe across your dream each night
    so as not to wake you...
    Asleep in your summer,
    a garland of flowers
    yellow and white around your waist.
    While I walk these paths of ice
    ice my breasts and strings of ice my hair.
    My hands two hooks of steel.
    Ice nose
    Snow eyes
    Frozen open pout.
    Flakes of snow your bridal veils
    I come down the soft white path
    Bouquets of poppies
    spilling from my heart.
    Lyrics by Buffy Sainte-Marie
    th-cam.com/video/aIjow9Xo6gY/w-d-xo.html
    Buffy Sainte-Marie is an Academy Award-winning Canadian First Nations musician, composer, visual artist, educator and social activist.
    hairtube, you asked when the album was releasedthe album Illuminations was released in 1969, it was the sixth album by Buffy Sainte-Marie. Though most of the tracks did away with the backing she had used on her previous two albums, Illuminations had a completely different sound from anything she had previously done. From a basis of vocals and acoustic guitar, Sainte-Marie and producer Maynard Solomon used electronic synthesisers to create a sound that was much more experimental music than folk. Indeed, Illuminations was the first quadrophonic vocal album ever made, and on songs like the album's only single "Better to Find Out Yourself", her voice is completely altered by a Buchla synthesiser.
    Peter Schickele, however, did provide arrangements to "Mary", "Adam" and "The Angel", whilst the four tracks "Suffer the Little Children", "With You, Honey", "Guess Who I Saw in Paris" and "He's A Keeper of the Fire" were her first work to be not produced by Vanguard boss Maynard Solomon. Instead, they had a stripped-down rock sound and were produced by little known folk-jazz songwriter Mark Roth.
    On its initial release, Illuminations was an utter disaster commercially, failing to get anywhere near the Billboard Top 200 and being deleted and largely disowned[citation needed] by Sainte-Marie within a few years.
    However, in more recent times Illuminations has acquired a fan base quite distinct from that associated with any of Sainte-Marie's other albums. In addition to being cited as a favourite album by a number of famous musicians - notably Steve Hackett of Genesis, a number of critics have seen its twisted, eerie soundscapes as laying the grounds for the evolution of gothic music as well as having an influence on New Weird America.
    In 2000, just before Vanguard re-issued it on CD, Wire magazine listed Illuminations amongst its 100 Albums that Set the World on Fire While No-One was Listening.
    All songs composed by Buffy Sainte-Marie unless otherwise indicated.
    "God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot" (text by Leonard Cohen from his novel Beautiful Losers/music by Buffy Sainte-Marie) - 4:51
    "Mary" - 1:30
    "Better to Find Out Yourself" - 2:12
    "The Vampire" - 2:05
    "Adam" (Richie Havens) - 5:05
    "The Dream Tree" - 2:34
    "Suffer the Little Children" - 2:53
    "The Angel" (Ed Freeman) - 3:41
    "With You, Honey" - 1:48
    "Guess Who I Saw in Paris" - 2:25
    "He's a Keeper of the Fire" - 3:21
    "Poppies" - 3:26

  • @Scitzowicz
    @Scitzowicz 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Please please could your repost the whole of this track in its entirety

  • @Passi0nata
    @Passi0nata  12 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've already uploaded it. ;) I hope you enjoy it!

  • @unclechristo
    @unclechristo 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    lovely track - shame it cuts off at the end...

  • @Richb144
    @Richb144 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    @hairtube 1968 or 69