Robert Graves - The Foreboding

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@seagreentangerine2065 7 жыл бұрын

Robert Graves' voice is spine chilling set to his own poem... I crumble every time when he says "Why never a warning, either by speech or look, that the love you cruelly gave me could not last"... His intonation, at that point, is searing with restrained passion... David Sylvian understood this very deeply, for the music he created for Graves' words is a painting of powerful sorrow with glimmers of nostalgic wistfulness...

@JohnMcF1967 3 жыл бұрын

Perfectly written, beautifully spoken.

@markkeogh18 9 жыл бұрын

For a long time I assumed this was Sylvian himself on the recording. Strange there's no credit to Graves on the album cover.

@HunterSkowronPDX 8 жыл бұрын

+markkeogh18 no there is, ive seen it on the album!

@seagreentangerine2065 6 жыл бұрын

There are lots of references with the CD credits and on David's website. Joseph Beuys also appears in Gone To Earth.

@ianring 5 жыл бұрын

I also must have had one of those editions with no credit to Graves for this sample. I just accidentally discovered the poem today (2019) and was surprised (pleasantly) to hear that the voice on Upon This Earth is Graves' own. This is after 30+ years of loving this album. I owned Gone To Earth on vinyl (1986, an import), and included in Weatherbox (1989). I know that in 1986 the legality of sampling was still vague, so perhaps the attribution didn't make it onto packaging until later re-releases. Not that it matters much, but it's nice that more recent releases attribute the lyrics. Back when this album was released there was no way I would have been able to attribute those verses to Graves; I took the recording at face value and imagined that the voice was David's, and have always misheard the phrase "bemusedly to pore". Today, it's a few keystrokes and voila, the lyrics are a mystery no longer.