Nice to see that Pipa on the pop forum has included Journeys end amongst her most emotional songs.

:cheer: ...and she's not wrong....has me in tears nearly everytime :cry:

 

But I just love it so much :wub:

so do I, it is just so personal.

 

 

It's pretty sad as an ordinary love ballad as most people will hear it but when I hear that heartbeat and remember the true significance of the lyrics and to whom they are addressed and in what terrible circumstances, it's heartbreaking.

 

I always have to remind myself that there's a happy outcome.

With me, it has to be 'Live Twice'

With me, it has to be 'Live Twice'

LT really got to me when I first heard it, before it was released :cry: Even before I found out what it was about and who it was written for. But I have become somewhat desensitized to it now, because I have heard it so many times. I do however still love it, and it is my favourite D song :)

I first heard Live Twice off the net when Sonnet recorded it off GWRfm the same day D was playing at the Bristol Balloon Fiesta. I nearly fell to pieces in my own front room. It was so close to my own experience with losing my Paul.

 

Darius could have written it for me

 

But then I heard Journey's End. If I had asked Darius to write a song for me, that is the one I would have asked for. The emotion behind the line

 

"This can't be the way it ends ... this cant be your journey's end ..." rips into my soul every time I hear it and that is why i dont listen to it often.

 

When that norty Zoolander (now there is someone who would enjoy this forum!!) texted me from the Belfast signing of the Kinda Love singles, and I rang him back to say NERRRRRRRRRR (as you do ...) he only yelled out "Hey Darius .. Trishiboo's on the phone" .... and I ended up speaking to him D asked me what did I think of the album and I had to tell him how I thought LT was my song until I heard JE .... He was very surprised.

 

I think its the heartbeat that just makes the whole thing just .... indescribable *feels a chill down her back*

I think I got her to listen to that one ^_^

 

I remember her being very surprised at how good it was.

 

I sometimes think Darius should release a white label song.

too true, I am so fed up with people who diss him and yet have no idea of the songs he writes. people I know without exception have been positively suprised by tracks I have played to them.

Don't want to be ignorant, Penny, and I know I should know because I have heard of it before...........what is a white label song?

 

Personally I think Darius should get his own site, not one controlled by his management.

 

There must be loads of songs that Darius has written and discounted.

 

We know he scrapped almost a whole album in 2003. If the songs are self written and he backs himself on guitar or piano, there shouldn't be any problems with copyright. Contracts with 19 may however be a different story because they are more than just management, they control his recordings too, don't they?

 

Right Girl Wrong Time would presumably have been one of the tracks on the missing album. I'm glad that constant persuasion has made Darius promise to sing it live at a future gig. I hope I'm there when he does.

 

I assume Love To Love was one of the songs from there that did make Live Twice because there was news on a backing vocalist's site that she had worked on it and there was also news that he made a video for it. That was late 2003. Presumably it would have come out in Spring 2004, if his father hadn't fallen ill.

 

He should be enabling access to his music and then people would have a broader base on which to judge him as a songwriter.

 

Also, what happened to all the work he did with Christina's and Enrique's producer, Steven Morales? Are those songs among the ones scrapped?

I thought white label was the artists own label, finnaced and released by the artist on his own, I still maintain that never have I known an artist be so underexposed when it comes to original material and presenting the very works that would testify that.

 

I dread that Darius has signed away the rights to his work.

Edited April 25, 200619 yr by prettyinpink

I thought white label was when someone goes underground, releases something under a different name. I remember Dannii Minogue did that a while ago with one track and everyone said how good it was, not knowing who it was. That was what I meant. Not one person I've played a Darius song to has said it was bad.

I thought it was just not belonging to a record company.

oh, is that what it is! like megham I thought it meant going it alone

Yes I have always said this myself. It never ceases to amaze me how GBP buy into the image and not the substance

It would be a very interesting experiment, especially if perhaps tracks were thought to be by "credible" "In vogue" artists...

Edited April 25, 200619 yr by prettyinpink

Was Dannii under contract at the time she did that, Penny?

 

Darius is in an odd position because he's still under contract to 19 Recordings. A lot would depend on the fine print of that contract. It may not be an option for him. His hands may be tied.

 

My fear is that we only get the Darius songs that 19 want us to get - the tip of a much deeper iceberg.

 

 

Was Dannii under contract at the time she did that, Penny?

 

I don't think she was, no.

quote baytree My fear is that we only get the Darius songs that 19 want us to get - the tip of a much deeper iceberg.

 

Thinking more along those lines, like trishaboo mentioned in another thread why did mercury release kindalove when faith in me or another would have been a better bet especially in a climate of pop fading from popularity and groups coming very much into vogue at the time. Seems very odd .

I always thought 'Son't Forget to Breathe' to be emotional as well. I always think of what he had to go through in his late teens and when he was 20, the lyrics seem to reflect that.

 

It's a shame that there's still an echo of it in his life,

That kind of experience never goes away. There are people in their 70s like my mother who still cannot forget being bullied at school.

 

Strange to say but Pretty Flamingo always gets to me. Its not the song but the way he sings it. Its the sound that my Paul and I were going to go for in the band we were intending to get together in 1983. Great plans never fulfilled. If you have a plan, go for it You nevr know what tomorrow brings

I always find 'Right Girl Wrong Time' heart rending to listen to- it's the desperation in his voice that does it :(