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Goldfrapp — Annabel
Album: Tales of Us
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Released: 2013
Length: 3:56
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When you dream you only dream your Annabel.
All the secrets there inside you Annabel.

Down beneath an emerald sky sing Annabel.
Nothing that they did will stop you Annabel.

Land of the lines, tangled there in porcelain.
Under the stars you'll begin.

When you dream you only dream your Annabel.
Sleep reminds you takes you there, oh Annabel.

Gentle whisper, endless winters, Annabel.
Why've they could have let you be both Annabel.

Land of the lines, of the years below still lies.
You are the truth they denied.
Run like the sea, tangled there in porcelain.
Under the stars you begin.

Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh ah
(Only a boy under that)

Oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh ah
(Only a boy da da da)
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 unclehud wrote:

Her voice is .... just .... regal.



Hardly sounds like Queen/ Freddie Mercury
Posted 1 month ago by drews    [ Reply ]
 DanielHLloyd wrote:
I so love RP, but it can get awfully depressing sometimes (like this song). I know there is a rock mix but can we have an "upbeat mix" as well where there are more uptempo songs and no trudging doom and gloom songs?
 
I would be in favor of this.  RP does seem to grind down every hour into some depressingly slow dirges, often at a time when I'm trying to lighten my mood or get through a work crunch.  "Eg er framand" has been giving me some trouble in past weeks and I have to go put something on YouTube to pick up the pace.
Posted 2 months ago by timmus    [ Reply ]
wow first time in a minute i heard this song, gave it a 9
Posted 3 months ago by jp33442    [ Reply ]
"I've got a bike, you can ride it if you like It's got a basket",  Annabel, "and things to make it look good"
Posted 5 months ago by springof63    [ Reply ]
I so love RP, but it can get awfully depressing sometimes (like this song). I know there is a rock mix but can we have an "upbeat mix" as well where there are more uptempo songs and no trudging doom and gloom songs?  If I wanted that I would go listen to the last three or four Radiohead albums. The world has enough grimness in it already. 
Posted 5 months ago by DanielHLloyd    [ Reply ]
Posted 1 year ago by cinzia1026    [ Reply ]
this is nice.

i have been waiting to hear Strict Machine on RP, but it hasn't happened yet.
Posted 1 year ago by lily34    [ Reply ]
 Proclivities wrote:

Do you mean that in a good way or a bad way?  I've never had any song ever make me feel that way, though some tunes have made me wish I could throw their composers or performers off a bridge.


I suppose it just depends on whether you are homicidal or suicidal.
Posted 1 year ago by ick    [ Reply ]
 jacopo777 wrote:
It never ceases to amaze me on what people think is a good song and what isn't.
 
I may rant sometimes about shitty music but I'm glad we all have diverse tastes.  If taste was all the same, the music space would constantly be a bland rehash of the same old stuff, and we'd be hearing Bill introducing Adele or Drake for the next song.
Posted 1 year ago by timmus    [ Reply ]
very etheral and hauntingly beautiful song. 
Posted 1 year ago by karlishappy    [ Reply ]
Reminds me of Twin Peaks. 
Posted 2 years ago by acidtwin    [ Reply ]
appreciate this song more each time I hear it. bumped my 8 to a 9.
Posted 2 years ago by mikegrinker    [ Reply ]
It never ceases to amaze me on what people think is a good song and what isn't. 
After reading the negative comments, my thoughts, well perhaps, but it never really occurred to me, until reading it.  

What we think is good or bad, just based on our perception. 
Posted 2 years ago by jacopo777    [ Reply ]
 k-man wrote:

In '71, I couldn't understand what the hype was all about with this group.


Well, Alison was only 5 then, and they hadn't even landed their first gig on Captain Kangaroo, so perhaps the hype was unjustified at that point.
Posted 3 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
In all of Goldfrapp’s catalogue, this tune is so unique and special.
Posted 3 years ago by theirongiant    [ Reply ]
Bill and Rebecca have absolutely the best taste in music…
Posted 3 years ago by tm    [ Reply ]
 1wolfy wrote:

Annabel is a beautiful name...seldom heard these days..lovely song

Annabelle Chvostek of the Wailin' Jennys - lovely music
Posted 3 years ago by xcranky_yankee    [ Reply ]
I prefer "Annabelle",  by Don Henley
Posted 3 years ago by anisbet    [ Reply ]
Lovely effortless voice.
Posted 3 years ago by BBoyes    [ Reply ]
 TimeWaster wrote:


Thanks, I hate it.
 But it's brilliant!!!!   

Posted 3 years ago by Jelani    [ Reply ]
 NeilBlanchard wrote:
This is the best Goldfrapp song I have heard ... a 4.
 
Too High.....
Posted 3 years ago by ckcotton    [ Reply ]
 Dj_Yonke wrote:
 

Thanks, I hate it.
Posted 3 years ago by TimeWaster    [ Reply ]
 k-man wrote:
In '71, I couldn't understand what the hype was all about with this group.
Now, I must say, pretty damn cool...

I understand though, it ain't got a hook like a Stones tune... 
Well, she was much younger then.

Posted 4 years ago by kazoo    [ Reply ]
kill this song   kill it with fire
Posted 4 years ago by baylees    [ Reply ]
When you dream you're Hannibal :o)
Posted 4 years ago by fredriley    [ Reply ]
An acquired taste for sure, but I'm liking Goldfrapp more and more....this piece is haunting. 
Posted 4 years ago by neptunejeff    [ Reply ]
To me, she kinda sounds like she's humming a variation of the Doctor Who theme
Posted 4 years ago by Chewie    [ Reply ]
Posted 4 years ago by Dj_Yonke    [ Reply ]
 scraig wrote:
This segue proves that Goldfrapp is no Laura Marling.
 
Thank God.  Laura Marling is whiny and pointless.  Goldfrapp are proper.
Posted 4 years ago by Edweirdo    [ Reply ]
Never heard of Goldfrapp before until about 2008. Her music is either lame as hell or sublime, nothing much in between. This song is sublime. I first heard Lovely Head on an ethereal/darkwave fan playlist 20 years ago.
Posted 5 years ago by Paisley1954    [ Reply ]
 cob427uk1 wrote:
Bumping up to a 9, I'm in a good mood and this fits right in. Beautiful.
 
I was thinking the same thing so I also went +1 to a 9...and find that of all the Goldfrapp tracks BnR play this is my favorite.  And having heard this and other tunes on Netflix show soundtracks, here's a big THANK YOU to BnR for turning me on to her music....LLRP!!
Posted 5 years ago by lizardking    [ Reply ]
Bumping up to a 9, I'm in a good mood and this fits right in. Beautiful.
Posted 5 years ago by cob427uk1    [ Reply ]
1st time I've heard this.  So beautiful.  So different from the few tracks I've heard by them.
Posted 5 years ago by sonicsurfer    [ Reply ]
Great song
Posted 5 years ago by jp33442    [ Reply ]
Haunting
Posted 6 years ago by danielh    [ Reply ]
Anna........   wait for it......... Bel
Posted 6 years ago by cptbuz    [ Reply ]
No problem with the lyrics, but the way she says "Anna.... Bell" just really grates. Almost like the full name is too much of an effort, or doesn't belong with the first half of the name.

When you dream you only dream your Anna... bel. 
All the secrets there inside you Anna... bel. 

Posted 6 years ago by nmcvaugh    [ Reply ]
 Proclivities wrote:

huh?

 Hahahahaha!
 


Posted 6 years ago by Jelani    [ Reply ]
Thank you for this link to the video, or should I say cinematography? Wonderful portrayal of a "boy" being accepted by his mother as a "girl". I have a niece/nephew currently grappling with trans-gender.
 
tutakea wrote:
simply wonderful.
accompanied by one of the most beautiful and queer music videos since decades:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vnk_j1iKMA

 


Posted 6 years ago by Dundas1965    [ Reply ]
 Yes indeed...'Drew' is an intriguing piece by them  ziggytrix wrote:

None as of yet, but it might be too disco for Bill's taste. Goldfrapp puts out very diverse sounds.

 


Posted 7 years ago by 1wolfy    [ Reply ]
 chinaski wrote:
At long last after what seemed an eternity Goldfrapp has finally released a brand new album for 2017 titled Silver Eye. I'm sure Bill at RP will soon put its tracks into rotation.

 
None as of yet, but it might be too disco for Bill's taste. Goldfrapp puts out very diverse sounds.
Posted 7 years ago by ziggytrix    [ Reply ]
Her voice is .... just .... regal.
Posted 7 years ago by unclehud    [ Reply ]
At long last after what seemed an eternity Goldfrapp has finally released a brand new album for 2017 titled Silver Eye. I'm sure Bill at RP will soon put its tracks into rotation.
Posted 7 years ago by chinaski    [ Reply ]
 k-man wrote:
In '71, I couldn't understand what the hype was all about with this group.
Now, I must say, pretty damn cool...

I understand though, it ain't got a hook like a Stones tune... 

 
huh?
Posted 7 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
 NeilBlanchard wrote:
This is the best Goldfrapp song I have heard ... a 4.

 
You can't help having no taste
Posted 7 years ago by nick454    [ Reply ]

Posted 7 years ago by VH1    [ Reply ]
Once, so many years ago, there was one youth hostel Annabel in Athens, Greece... ah, what a nice memories to those days... This song reminds me on them:-).
Posted 7 years ago by mojcamojca77    [ Reply ]
Annabel is a beautiful name...seldom heard these days..lovely song
Posted 8 years ago by 1wolfy    [ Reply ]
No new material, no new concerts. She posts new photos from time to time. Resting on her laurels?...done with the music scene? I wish there was another album, another tour stateside though I'd love to be in  a UK concert audience.
Posted 8 years ago by chinaski    [ Reply ]
Hauntingly beautiful...
Posted 8 years ago by gregskrtic    [ Reply ]
 Proclivities wrote:

It is a little late-1960s-sounding.  It seems somewhat influenced by Komeda's soundtrack to "Rosemary's Baby", in a good way.

 
Very good.  I thought that sounded familiar.  I just watched 'Rosemary's Baby' on cable a few weeks ago.
Posted 8 years ago by Jack_Jefferson    [ Reply ]
Anyone else hear the original legend of zelda underworld theme in this?

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7T6ZNgoP5M
Posted 8 years ago by amb599    [ Reply ]
 NeilBlanchard wrote:
This is the best Goldfrapp song I have heard ... a 4.

 
I like your comment ! I contribute a straight 2.
Posted 8 years ago by TianGongZhong    [ Reply ]
This is a really solid album overall.  She did well.
Posted 8 years ago by aspicer    [ Reply ]
So good to hear this, every time. Sounded great when it came out; still blows me away with the arrangement and nuances of her voice!
Posted 8 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
This is just so lovely.........thx Bill   {#Smile}
Posted 9 years ago by dew34    [ Reply ]
This is the best Goldfrapp song I have heard ... a 4.
Posted 9 years ago by NeilBlanchard    [ Reply ]
Earworms
Posted 9 years ago by cmcisaac    [ Reply ]
In '71, I couldn't understand what the hype was all about with this group.
Now, I must say, pretty damn cool...

I understand though, it ain't got a hook like a Stones tune... 
Posted 9 years ago by k-man    [ Reply ]
Wow wow wow . . . have no words.
Posted 9 years ago by Ginetta    [ Reply ]
well said, I love her voice and this song is amazing :) 

STLBubbles wrote:
Touche 
8>9. Haunting, sad, lovely.

 

 


Posted 9 years ago by ChrisVIII    [ Reply ]
 ick wrote:

Go get some therapy already.

 
... download the app...
Posted 9 years ago by drivingunit103    [ Reply ]
 calle01 wrote:

You must live under a rock? Goldcrap is terrible!!!!

 
You're confused.

Your first sentence was intended as a statement.

The second should be a question. 

Please fix. 
Posted 9 years ago by zigzag    [ Reply ]

Posted 9 years ago by Kaisersosay    [ Reply ]
OoooooooooeeeeeeeOooooooooooooOoooooooooooooo
Posted 9 years ago by Kaisersosay    [ Reply ]
Hands down, the best album of 2014. Beck's Mo(u)rning Phase is next.
Posted 9 years ago by passsion8    [ Reply ]

I love it, and, I am not suicidal.

 


Posted 10 years ago by lorenm4    [ Reply ]
 calle01 wrote:
PLEASE STOP !!! PLEASE! Im heading to the knife drawer now..
 
Promises, promises.
Posted 10 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
The Evil Doll
Posted 10 years ago by ick    [ Reply ]
This song would be a great soundtrack for a film noir.
Posted 10 years ago by Krakus    [ Reply ]

please stop it with this song already.


Posted 10 years ago by annoffalese    [ Reply ]
This segue proves that Goldfrapp is no Laura Marling.
Posted 10 years ago by scraig    [ Reply ]
 leafmold wrote:
I had to check to see when this was released—my thought was the sixties....

 
It is a little late-1960s-sounding.  It seems somewhat influenced by Komeda's soundtrack to "Rosemary's Baby", in a good way.
Posted 10 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
 calle01 wrote:
PLEASE STOP !!! PLEASE! Im heading to the knife drawer now.. It will all be over soon. Thanks GoldCrap :(
.

 
Go get some therapy already.
Posted 10 years ago by ick    [ Reply ]
 Stingray wrote:
GOLDFRACKING!

 
They tried that in 1849 I believe.
Posted 10 years ago by rdo    [ Reply ]
 shellbella wrote:
Ya I wouldn't want to hear this at night, all alone. 

 
But I do like it....
Posted 10 years ago by shellbella    [ Reply ]
Ya I wouldn't want to hear this at night, all alone. 
Posted 10 years ago by shellbella    [ Reply ]
Touche 
8>9. Haunting, sad, lovely.

 


Posted 10 years ago by STLBubbles    [ Reply ]
{#Guitarist}First time hearing; I love her voice; another gem from Radio Paradise!
Posted 10 years ago by nikki54    [ Reply ]
Elegant and haunting.
Posted 10 years ago by Bosami    [ Reply ]
This kind of crap makes me want to curb my radio paradise appetite.  
Posted 10 years ago by WannabeBanned    [ Reply ]
8>9. Haunting, sad, lovely.
Posted 10 years ago by olivertwist    [ Reply ]
Lovely and Dreamy {#Meditate}
Posted 10 years ago by ShloEmi    [ Reply ]
GOLDFRACKING!
Posted 10 years ago by Stingray    [ Reply ]
Just lovely.
Posted 10 years ago by John_Mac    [ Reply ]
All the tracks I keep hearing make this a must buy album at this point.
Posted 10 years ago by aspicer    [ Reply ]
 curtkare wrote:
Feels haunting and a little creepy - like the soundtrack from one of the good 70's horror flicks

 
Bump  


Posted 10 years ago by olivertwist    [ Reply ]
 tutakea wrote:
simply wonderful.
accompanied by one of the most beautiful and queer music videos since decades:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vnk_j1iKMA

 
thanks for the link, its a beautiful video to accompany a lovely song
Posted 10 years ago by philinnz    [ Reply ]
Sounds like it's going to burst into a full-blown James Bond theme . . . but doesn't.
Posted 10 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
"Felt mountain" is an album I will never recover from, deep impact for a lifetime. Soundtrack written for a movie that is happening inside me. ...words fail, sorry for the rant.

I consider myself pretty eclectic when it comes to music of all styles, but I was completely thrown off by "Black Cherry" and just never re-connected with the band the way I had with their debut album.

Thanks to Bill, I've heard a couple of cuts of this last effort. They sound good, really good... But good like the second time you take a bite of something that tasted like alien yet totally familiar the first time...

This one song, though, is oh so close to the Goldfrapp that haunted me for years... maybe I'll end up really liking "Tales of us" after all...
Posted 10 years ago by fedtho    [ Reply ]
 tutakea wrote:
accompanied by one of the most beautiful and queer music videos since decades
 

The bicycle in the video is incorrect, anatomically-speaking. See 1:40 and onwards, in particular, noting the position of the bell on the handlebars. The bell is on the same side much later, at 6:20...
Posted 10 years ago by gmichaelt    [ Reply ]
ethereal
Posted 10 years ago by TheKing2    [ Reply ]
simply wonderful.
accompanied by one of the most beautiful and queer music videos since decades:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vnk_j1iKMA
Posted 10 years ago by tutakea    [ Reply ]
{#Yes} ...... her best album to date by a big margin  "Outstanding"
Posted 10 years ago by Peter_Bradshaw    [ Reply ]
Check Ride a White Horse video.
Posted 10 years ago by Piranga    [ Reply ]
 Pedro1874 wrote:
So impresssed Bill & Rebecca.  This has only just come out in UK and Allison has been doing the rounds of the radio stations promoting this album.  She has only just appeared on our premier live TV music show "Later" with Jools Holland (ex Squeeze) this week singing this haunting and beautiful song.  The live arrangement was superb and captivating.  What a talent this gorgeous young woman and her partner Will Gregory really are. {#Notworthy}{#Sunny}{#Good-vibes}

 
We get that show here, Jools Holland, on cable if you are lucky...this is a very good show which I highly recommend.  Unfortunately we do not have a US equivalent...SNL is closest thing
Posted 10 years ago by rdo    [ Reply ]
I agree re. Francoise Hardy - is all Goldfrapp's material this mellow?
Posted 11 years ago by Terranathan    [ Reply ]
Lovely!  Reminds me very much of Françoise Hardy's 1971 album "La Question" (which I have on cd and love)  {#Wink}
Posted 11 years ago by socalhol    [ Reply ]
 Proclivities wrote:

Do you mean that in a good way or a bad way?  I've never had any song make me feel that way, though some tunes have made me wish I could throw their composers or performers off a bridge.

 
You've never heard Porcupine Tree?
Posted 11 years ago by Red_Dragon    [ Reply ]
Really like this one.....nice for a semi-after the rain Sunday morning
Posted 11 years ago by Shesdifferent    [ Reply ]
 curtkare wrote:
Feels haunting and a little creepy - like the soundtrack from one of the good 70's horror flicks

 

I had to check to see when this was released--my thought was the sixties....
Posted 11 years ago by leafmold    [ Reply ]
 DavidS_UK wrote:
Nice clean and well produced sound makes teh most of her most excellent voice. It's an 8 from the East German judge

 
Wales agrees....ok, not all of Wales, but this person in this cottage in this little Welsh valley...
Posted 11 years ago by oldsaxon    [ Reply ]
 Trog wrote:
Makes me want to throw myself off a bridge

 
Do you mean that in a good way or a bad way?  I've never had any song ever make me feel that way, though some tunes have made me wish I could throw their composers or performers off a bridge.
Posted 11 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
Nice clean and well produced sound makes teh most of her most excellent voice. It's an 8 from the East German judge
Posted 11 years ago by DavidS_UK    [ Reply ]
...i've been wanting to hear this album:  supposedly a return-to-form for their felt mountain days, which excites me, but i don't hear much synthesis nor production experimentation in this track...
Posted 11 years ago by mandolin    [ Reply ]
Makes me want to throw myself off a bridge
Posted 11 years ago by Trog    [ Reply ]
 oldfart48 wrote:
NOT MUCH MEAT ON THIS BONE, THEN AGAIN IT AIN'T RAP/CRAP......{#Dance}

 
caps lock, mate.....
Posted 11 years ago by oldsaxon    [ Reply ]
Feels haunting and a little creepy - like the soundtrack from one of the good 70's horror flicks
Posted 11 years ago by curtkare    [ Reply ]
So impresssed Bill & Rebecca.  This has only just come out in UK and Allison has been doing the rounds of the radio stations promoting this album.  She has only just appeared on our premier live TV music show "Later" with Jools Holland (ex Squeeze) this week singing this haunting and beautiful song.  The live arrangement was superb and captivating.  What a talent this gorgeous young woman and her partner Will Gregory really are. {#Notworthy}{#Sunny}{#Good-vibes}
Posted 11 years ago by Pedro1874    [ Reply ]
Mellow, touching.  Could listen all day to this.
Posted 11 years ago by MirageRF    [ Reply ]