#Constant craving

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k.d. lang — "Constant Craving" | requested by @deathswaywardson

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k.d. lang

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🖤💚And constant craving has always been💚🖤

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[skin-slave]

[teathattast]

Even through the darkest phase

Be it thick or thin

Always someone marches brave

Here beneath my skin

Constant craving

Has always been

Maybe a great magnet pulls

All souls towards truth

[anxietyriddenhuman]

Put your music library on shuffle, then list the first five songs that come up in a poll to let people vote for which one they like the most. I blame @thelastevilregal for this. 🤣

I have a wide selection of music I listen to. 🤣🤣

[my-chaos-radio]

Release: April 27, 1992

Lyrics:

Even through the darkest phase

Be it thick or thin

Always someone marches brave

Here beneath my skin

And constant (constant)

Craving (craving)

Has always been (always been)

Maybe a great magnet pulls

All souls towards truth

Or maybe it is life itself

That feeds wisdom to it's youth

Constant (constant)

Craving (craving)

Has always been (always been)

Craving, ah, ha

Constant craving, has always been

Has always been

Constant (constant)

Craving (craving)

Has always been (always been)

Constant (constant)

Craving (craving)

Has always been (always been)

Songwriter:

Craving, ah, ha

Constant craving, has always been

Has always been

Has always been

Has always been

Has always been

Has always been

K. D. Lang / Benjamin Mink

SongFacts:

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k.d. lang

[retropinkminstrel]

A song a lot of us can relate to, sadly.

[panda-music-1982]

k.d. lang, "Constant Craving"

Ingénue (1992)

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european single art for reissue of constant craving by k.d. lang, february 1993

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Constant Craving - k.d. lang - 1992

[nonesuchrecords]

Congratulations to k.d. lang, who received the 2023 Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Canada’s highest honor in the performing arts, from Governor General Mary Simon this weekend. The award recognizes artists for having made an indelible contribution to cultural life in Canada and around the world. The six 2023 laureates were honored at two events in Ottawa, culminating in an Awards Gala at the National Arts Centre last night. "I can’t even actually fathom being placed in the same company as the people, the artists who have influenced me so tremendously,” lang said. "Canada has such an embarrassment of riches, so many tremendous artists, and to be bestowed with this honor is unthinkable really ... So, thank you."

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K.D Lang - Constant Craving (MTV Unplugged) Beautiful :)

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And constant craving has always been

[weaversweek]

2 "Constant craving" - k d lang

writers k d lang, Ben Mink

"Here's a medley of my hit."

"A versatile weapon of mass seduction." - The Times

Part of the UncoolTwo50 project, marking the best singles from 1977-99.

ELF POINTS (11 points)

Every queer of a certain age has a copy of Ingénue on their shelf. Combining queer lyrics with a middle-of-the-road sound, lang fills an album with heartbreak and yearning, the love that dare not be spoken. "Constant craving" ends the album, drawing together the threads, melding the internal and external conflict into something she can live with.

k d lang released her first country album in 1987, with The Reclines. It boggled the minds of country music fans in Alberta and Saskatchewan. "This lass looks like a lad, makes music with bits of rock and roll (hawk,spit), and generally doesn't look like us rednecks would you pass another beer." Nobody could fault lang's voice, clear and packed with emotion, with a great vocal range.

Nashville wasn't sure about her, but the voice and work with Roy Orbison on "Crying" (qv) ensured she'd get an audience. The albums Shadowland and Absolute Torch and Twang earned a NARAS award, and enough minor celebrity that "k d lang comes out against eating meat" caused a stir. This side of the pond, we ignored it all - something about John Drittsek Gummer, a burger, and a crying child.

We'd also ignored lang, until 1992's Ingénue album. Johnnie Walker was a big fan, played "Constant craving" and "Miss Chatelaine" on his Radio 1 and Radio 5 shows. Released in late spring 1992, the single stalled just short of the top 40, and made the top 20 when re-promoted early in 1993.

Young k d lang had come out as a lesbian during the promo cycle for Ingénue, and was adopted as the poster child by every young dyke around. With a short, brown coif highlighting her cut jawline, and a penchant for blazers and men’s button-downs, k d's unapologetic masculine demeanor was something new to many homes. She palled around with Madonna, who said Elvis is alive - and she is beautiful! lang made it possible to be an out lesbian, and a handsome woman. Others will assess how much of an influence lang has had on queer culture; for me, she's still a style icon.

Later, lang would reflect on how recording Ingénue was "a very important time for me because I was changing my musical vernacular from the very strong influences to a more personal one and creating a language that resonated with me on a deeply personal level rather than using outer imagery. It was a very introverted time. It was meditative”.

There were also external influences: “AIDS was full-blown in a social context, there was a lot of pressure on me to come out. So I think the record maintains a kind of relativity because the record’s vulnerability and honesty resonated with the gay community at the time. I think it resembles a type of watermark for the LGBTQ community.”

Contemporary reviews were positive. Betty Page in the New Musical Express (Incorporating Accordian Times) said,

The secret diary of k.d. lang shows she's not lost sight of those precious torch values; her voice is honed to perfection, full of the subtle tones of expression and phrasing so beloved of her heroines, Peggy Lee, Patsy Cline and Julie London. These are open, vulnerable songs – honest, naked, and dripping with achingly lovely melodies that send you softly sliding down the wall into a contented, foetal heap – and not a 'New Country' tag in sight.

Max Bell in Vox added,

Lang (sic) manages to sound like Peggy Lee's heiress and is on the verge of becoming the first lady of Country jazz. Compared to many rock LPs, Ingénue's still-life sophistication might seem almost relentless, but there is no premium on good taste, nor on the quality of writing at hand here. The fact that Ingénue is an album for masochists only adds to its appeal. It will become a constant craving, and those who love it are doomed to return, like the vampire after dark, for one last fix. (10/10)

This song got me a summer job at a record shop. During the interview, the manager asked me to sell him a recent song I was passionate about.

It’s a song about the universal human experience – we have dark days, we’re nervous, feel a bit rubbish. We hope for something better, constantly crave for a connection, some relief, someone to understand us.

Or, if you prefer, it’s a very physical love song.

Or, if you prefer, it’s a clever musical composition, subverts the usual major-key DESH descending scale (which we’d later hear on Oasis’s "Whatever") with a minor-key DEES. Builds up a whole lot of tension, then resolves it with a DEESEED reversal on “A-ha! Constant craving!”.

That, and an attention to detail, and not objecting to doing difficult and boring tasks. Kept me going three summers, two Christmases, and my student loan manageable. It's one I remember with great affection, and events in the past couple of years make it more important.

Also… "Constant craving" was subsequently ripped off by The Rolling Stones for "Anybody seen my baby". No song by Mick Jagger's group entered the longlist; maybe they'll have better luck in #Uncool25 for songs released before 1954.