On the Other Side - Janis Ian
I saw Janis Ian play at the World Trade Center after work in August 2001 with a friend. She was wonderful, and I ran out and bought her CD "God and the FBI," which is amazing. I listened to it after 9/11, and the second track is eerily beautiful, about saving people from a burning building. with a beautiful chorus of "Kyrie." That song, and my friend's photograph of Janis grinning between the towers during the concert are sweet memories.
Susan
The Flaming Lips, "A Spoonful Weighs a Ton"
I was the Studio Manager for Joel Meyerowitz at the time of the attacks and we spent a year involved with the various Aftermath projects. During this time I was also going down to the site and interviewing construction workers on the job in the pit about their experiences for a radio piece that eventually aired on this station. I pulled out "The Soft Bulletin" album one day and when this came on it so aptly spoke to my experience of being down there as these guys were clearing the debris and sifting remains. I thought about using it for the piece I was working on but it took a different direction and did not use music.
Susan Jenkins
norah Jones - come away with me
Heard this for the first time the morning after 9/11 which my husband very narrowly escaped. The shock was only beinning to wear off and the sadness was overwhelming. This song resonated that feeling that we just wanted to escape all of the madness and sadness
Ellen H
'Shout' by 'Tears for Fears'
In contrast to 'The Sounds of Silence' I prefer to
...'Shout...Let it all out...These are the Things I can do without...'
nancyk
The Felice Brothers- Penn Station
This song so accurately captures the angst of many New Yorkers, but in an upbeat and positive way.
eberle schultz
Something Beautiful Remains - Tina Turner
It reminds me that life goes on; that there is hope. That memories plant beautiful seeds that reach far into the future. That no life is in vain.
It's a very positive message and offers comfort to me.
Debbie Markley
Wilco. Ashes of American Flags.
For me this song captures so beautifully the deep waters of loss and confusion we all felt that day. But on top of the brokenness there's an echo of remembrance, and a force of will to honor and rebuild.
Eric F
Brazilian music
I am not Brazilian, but for me Brazilian music will always be part of the soundtrack of 9/11. That September was supposed to be Brazil month in New York. There were many big cultural events planned that were sadly overshadowed by the tragedy. In late September, I saw that there was a concert of Brazilian popular music at Carnegie Hall. I bought a ticket on impulse, sat in the nosebleed section. And in the dark hall, as the music washed over me, for the first time in three weeks, the heaviness in my heart began to loosen its grip. I will always be grateful to Brazilian music and the generosity of the musicians--Romero Lubamba among them--who played their hearts out that night for New Yorkers.
Lourdes
ultimately the list of today's offerings
Each of the pieces you are playing has such significance. Will you be compiling the citations for the music you've played as part of the 9/11 listener requests?
Christina Zarcadoolas
something from the Convivencia
if it is not too late, this was the golden period in Spanish history where all 3 religions - Christianity, Islam and Judaism - got along famously
Gerard Edery and his group have made a specialty of this beautiful music and Salon Sanctuary is putting on a concert of music from this period next Saturday night at the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue
music from this period would certainly seem an appropriate choice on this anniversary which should remind us how much we need to learn tolerance and understanding of others
Francisca Sabadie
Tom Waits from THE BLACK RIDER, "The Black Rider"
So, we've given up. & In this, Brave New World, we will all be kept safe & willing to toil, & without ever asking why... ( ) ...
"Holy smoke", Where are Rocky & Bullwinkle when we need them ?
In soma ~> -) Life is not so bad, no?
THE BLACK RIDER -
"Come on a long with the Black Rider
We'll have a gay old time
Lay down in the web of the black spider
I'll drink your blood like wine
So come on in
It ain't no sin
Take off your skin
And dance around your bones
So come along with the Black Rider
We'll have a gay old time
Anchors away with the Black Rider
I'll drink your blood like wine
I'll drop you off in Harlem with the Black Rider
Out where the bullets shine
And when you're done
You cock your gun
The blood will run
Like ribbons in your hair
So come along wit hthe Black Rider
We'll have a gay old time
Come on along with the Black Rider
I've got just the thing for thee
Come on along with the Black Rider
I want your company
I'll have the veal
A lovely meal
That's how I feel
May I use your skull for a bowl
Come on along with the Black Rider
We'll have a gay old time
Vic
The Beach Boys (Brian Wilson) from PET SOUNDS, "Let's Go Away For A While"
~Let's Go Away For A While ~>
Vic
Tom Waits from FRANKS WILD YEARS, "Telephone Call From Istanbul"
What a bloody sham!
In this moment of silence...
We morn our personal loss, the victims on this day, but never seek to expose the real culprits in this horror of The New World Order.
What about the, 9/11 MYSTERIES - The Demolitions.....___> >_| |_... ( ? )
Vic
Strauss Metamorphosen
Thanks for playing the Metamorphosen, which has really set the tone for my day. It is such an uncannily beautiful piece of music--so full of anguish and intense emotionality, yet somehow also arriving at some flittering moments of peace.
Bruce
Rhaspody in Blue Leonard Bernstein
It depicts the glory..heroism..strenth and honor of NYC and especially a remembrance of those brave men & women who lost their lives tragically on 9/11...
Lauren O'Brien
Ashokan Farewell
I went to a flute lesson on Sept 11 after work had let us go and attending a mass at St. Paul's Cathedral and singing next to a Met Opera chorus member in the pew. At the flute lesson was a young talented flutist who couldn't play her lesson. I was an adult beginner and I told her about the song I was working on and asked her to play it with me. I told her music was needed more now than ever and if we gave it up, we would have let the ones who had wounded our city win. In times of tragedy music brings comfort like few things can. Ashokan Farewell was a farewell to those who had died in another war but still reminds me of Sept 11's heroes and victims and families anytime I hear or play it.
Dorothea Brady
Fields of Gold - Eva Cassidy
On September 11, 2001, I lived in Washington DC, and sat paralyzed in my office hear the White House as I watched the Twin Towers come down. I looked out the office window, and saw hundreds of people streaming out onto the street, with false reports of bombs in the metro system, on 14th St, everywhere. My division, which dealt with international relief and reconstruction, did not leave the office until 1:00. No reason, it just felt like we needed to do something. STand vigil in case we needed to respond.
When I finally walked home, I turned on WAMU, and heard Eva Cassidy's version of Fields of Gold. IT was so poignant, as WAMU never played music, but it was one of my favorite songs. I don't remember their playing anything else. I would love to hear that on WNYC on the 10th anniversary of an event that still brings tears to my eyes. The world has changed so much over the last 10 years, and I have stayed busy in my job of international relief, but NPR remains a constant in my life.
Lisa Doughten
If I Die Young by Band Perry
This Song is for all the young people who died that terrible day and had their lives cut much too short.
Josie
Rick Ashley -Never Gonna Give You Up
The world.
chester
Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up"
For me this song captures the changes in America's cultural environment that have come about in the decade following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. It serves as a reminder to me of where we've gone in the many years after that dreadful day.
Walter Stretswick
