{"id":51,"date":"2007-01-25T02:28:28","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T02:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2017-02-20T22:10:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T22:10:49","slug":"just-breathe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/25\/just-breathe\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Breathe"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Reposted with editing from my SFF Net newsgroup<\/a>]<\/p>\n

So a few days ago, being momentarily caught up on lots of stuff, and with a mix CD Karen Taylor had given me years ago playing in the background, I decided I could take a moment to listen to the music.<\/p>\n

And the music was “Breathe,” by Maria McKee, which is heartbreakingly beautiful, and I decided I needed to add the album where it originally appeared to my collection.<\/p>\n

So I went to CD Universe<\/a> (my preferred music source, and if anyone ever wins the lottery by playing the ISBN number off one of my books and decides to reward me for it, I have a public wish list there) and looked up Maria McKee…<\/p>\n

Well, first, actually, I searched on the song lyrics, to get title and artist, because I wasn’t sure I remembered them. Found it easily (very memorable lyrics), then<\/em> went to CD Universe and looked up Maria McKee.<\/p>\n

They didn’t list a lot of albums for her; in fact, they don’t list the only one I already have. I looked through the listings, and only found “Breathe” on live albums and “best of” collections.<\/p>\n

I thought I must have missed something, or maybe she’d recorded it when she was still with Lone Justice, so I chose “song” and searched on “Breathe.”<\/p>\n

Oh my gods!<\/p>\n

There are 326 listings for songs entitled “Breathe.” I knew there were others, but 326? Yes, there are multiple versions of lots of songs, but still, 326 listings!<\/p>\n

There’s Pink Floyd’s and Collective Soul’s and Depeche Mode’s and Melissa Etheridge’s and Kylie Minogue’s, all of which, I realized, I knew. Not to mention Kate Bush’s “Breathing,” which did not<\/em> come up.<\/p>\n

And McKee’s first version still isn’t there, except as an import; it must be out of print. Sigh.<\/p>\n

So I’ve added her “best of” album to my wish list, and I went to check out the sample of “Breathe” from her “Live in Hamburg” album, and…<\/p>\n

Again, my gods!<\/p>\n

It’s the same song, the same voice, but very different and equally powerful. So now “Live in Hamburg” is on my list, too.<\/p>\n

It’s interesting not only that there are so many songs called “Breathe,” but how many of them are good<\/em>…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Reposted with editing from my SFF Net newsgroup] So a few days ago, being momentarily caught up on lots of stuff, and with a mix CD Karen Taylor had given me years ago playing in the background, I decided I could take a moment to listen to the music. And the music was “Breathe,” by… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-generalities-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":788,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.watt-evans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}