My Top 1000 Songs #704: Halah
[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.]
While Mazzy Star's second LP, 1993's So Tonight That I May See, was the band's masterpiece, their 1990 debut, She Hangs Brightly, was no slouch. The band announce themselves on opening track "Halah," a pretty little morsel that serves as a fine declaration of purpose--wedding the retro-psychedelic tapestries of the late great former Rain Parade guitarist David Roback with the child-like but world-weary lullabies of Hope Sandoval. The song has no grand ambition, Roback particularly restrained as he vamps on a basic chord progression with a touch of reverb; just a wispy, gentle ballad that you wish would go on forever, Sandoval's voice all you need to want to follow her to the ends of the Earth.
Live unplugged 1994:Live (not unplugged), also 1994:
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