Ain't no angel gonna greet me
It's just you and I, my friend
And my clothes don't fit me no more
A thousand miles just to slip this skin
The night has fallen, I'm lyin' awake
I can feel myself fading away
So receive me brother with your faithless kiss
Or will we leave each other alone like this
Lecture 19: Here is one of Bruce Springsteen’s most memorable and haunting hits from the 1990s, “Streets of Philadelphia,” from the soundtrack to Jonathan Demme’s 1993 film Philadelphia. Note that Springsteen is actually singing the song as he walks, which is the version of his vocals used in the video. He used his home studio in New Jersey to record the “Streets of Philadelphia,” which is where he made his acclaimed Nebraska album. The song won the Academy Award in 1994 for Best Original Song.
I am fascinated by this, Joshua Redman doing "Streets of Philadelphia."
It's a little bit of an odd duck. Brian Blade is playing this wonderfully limber, very loose, very horizonal part on the drums and when Joe Sanders comes in, he is doing by far the funkiest thing of the five of them, but it's also way more vertical, more bouncing into the beat than Blade, who is just unbelievable smooth.
Aaron Parks, though, is doing something different. The piano is almost all tightly stacked, sometimes cluster-y chords and then he will end his phrases with a bluesy, soulful idea. He never sticks with it, though, and so, even though the arrangement isn't complicated, it's never exactly comfortable. Redman himself does more or less the same thing, where he is often either playing long tones or outlining the main melody, but he doesn't stay there long enough for you to be comfortable.
I am still not sure how I feel about Gabrielle Cavassa's vocals. She's a very good singer and she does lots of things that are stylistically interesting. I do feel a little like she's trying to do pieces of what everyone else is giving her. I am not sure if that adds up to something incoherent or the best part of the arrangement, but I am definitely going to spend more time with it to figure out how I feel.
Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia (Official Video)
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