#Joan Osborne

[randomtheidiot]

Me when the song has guitar and the singer has a raspy voice.

Examples under cut.

[1990srallthat]

Joan Osborne - One of Us (1995)

[sinful-roxy]

What if God was one of us? Just a slob like one of us Just a stranger on the bus Tryin' to make his way home?

[music-interpretation-review]

Released in 1995, Joan Osborne's song One Of Us postulates about what god would experience if he lived among us as mortal beings. The song was controversial for being sacrilegious at the time, but is considered a classic hit now.

[buddiebeginz]

99X Live III - RAINN Songs (1997)

01 - Tori Amos - Silent All These Years - 00:00 02 - Goo Goo Dolls - Name - 05:31 03 - Dave Matthews Band - Satellite - 10:02 04 - Melissa Etheridge - I Want To Come Over - 15:34 05 - Better Than Ezra - Desperately Wanting - 21:22 06 - Joan Osborne - Ladder - 26:00 07 - Paul Westerberg - Love Untold - 31:48 08 - Tracy Chapman - Fast Car - 36:32 09 - Jars of Clay - Flood - 43:03 10 - Dishwalla - Counting Blue Cars - 46:46 11 - Jewel - You Were Meant For Me - 52:33 12 - Bush - Comedown - 56:08 13 - Barenaked Ladies - The Old Apartment - 01:01:20 14 - Fleming & John - Love Songs - 01:05:05

Includes my fav acoustic version of Tracy Chapman singing Fast Car.

[krispyweiss]

Song Review: Sierra Hull - “Black Muddy River” (Live)

Sierra Hull keeps it heavy when performing “Black Muddy River.”

Slow-rolling like the Grateful Dead’s arrangement, Hull’s features bluegrass instrumentation, plus drums. A plaintive fiddle - more violin in this case - pairs with Hull’s maudlin mandolin strings to keep the song as rueful as ever.

This version comes from high-quality audience video shot at the 2023 Grey Fox Bluegrass festival.

Women - think Susan Tedeschi and Joan Osborne - more often find the sweet spot of Jerry Garcia’s vocals than the men who attempt the feat. Hull continues the trend with a cover that’s both 100 percent hers and authentically Grateful in its presentation.

Grade card: Sierra Hull - “Black Muddy River” (Live) - B

8/4/23

[vveirdvvitch]

14, 28, 29.

14. Current word count of all your main wips?

Meemaw is a little old school and starts in a notebook. I love y’all dearly but I’m not counting that. Probably 300 or do words in there and about 350 that have made it to a word doc. Work injury really slowed me down

28. Favourite songs at the moment?

29. What was your first fandom you were in? Did you make any art/fanfic for it?

Star Wars. I saw the special editions in the theater when was 11 or 12. I was hooked the moment I saw Luke Skywalker come into frame. Immediately began consuming Star Wars media. At one point I owned 50 of the expanded universe novels and had read even more.

I never made any official fanfiction or art. But my best friend and I created an entire AU to put our self inserts in. We probably spent 2 whole years reinforcing this fantasy between us.

[danu2203]

STILL LISTENING TO WOMEN SONG

[agirlnamedbone]

Jason Kyle Howard, "If God Had a Name," (on Joan Osborne's "One of Us") in Oxford American (2020)

[unmutemusic]

Joan Osborne - One Of Us

[sanjerina]

Shuffle your 'on repeat' playlist and post the first ten tracks, then tag ten people

I was tagged by @heresluck!

I don’t really have an “on repeat” playlist, so I threw together my different favorite playlists (mostly sorted by vibe, emotion, or which fandom I associate with which songs) and shuffled them into a giant “list of bangers to belt in the car.” I skipped repeated artists (look, Ani DiFranco’s late 90s-early 00’s run was *formative*)

(1) Because the Night (Live MTV Unplugged) - 10,000 Maniacs

(2) Parachute (Serbian Ghenea mix) - Ingrid Michaelson

(3) Darkness, Darkness - Richard Shindell

(4) Hail Mary Shy of Redemption- Eddie From Ohio

(5) Pick Yer Nose - Ani Difranco

(6) When I Go - Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer

(7) Ladder - Joan Osborne

(8) You Gotta Be - Des’ree

(9) Pilentze Pee (Pilentze Sings) - Bulgarian Women’s Chorus

(10) Scarborough Fair - The King’s Singers ft. Manuel Barrueco

I feel 2000s pop is underrepresented in this sample, so please allow the additions of the first two that shuffled up:

(11) Sober - P!nk

(12) If I Were a Boy - Beyoncé

The most played non-Hamilton musical on my iPhone is either the 2009 Idina Menzel/Josh Groban CHESS or the 1998 OST for THE PRINCE OF EGYPT. That feels representative.

The most played classical piece is the 1955 version of Glenn Gould playing Bach’s Goldberg Variations, which is directly wired to affect my nervous system like Valium.

If you have noticed that I haven’t listened to much new music, well spotted! @heresluck and @kouredios are working on me, as are a couple of other friends, but I have been remiss about putting together new playlists, as I have spent most of the last two years listening to audiobooks (especially the Murderbot Diaries and the Goblin Emperor books).

Tagging @megastoat, @cincoseis, @white-throated-packrat, @fremedon, @agentreynard, @dsudis , @changingthingslikeleaves, @bgoodg and @cereta if they’ve thus far escaped being tagged by someone else and would like to play. But anyone is welcome!

[myimaginaryradio]

One Of Us - Joan Osborne - 1995

[brenna]

outskirts of town is such a great phrase tbh

[musicmags]

[my-chaos-radio]

Release: November 21, 1995

Lyrics:

Yeah-yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

If God had a name, what would it be?

And would you call it to his face?

If you were faced with Him in all His glory

What would you ask, if you had just one question?

And yeah, yeah, God is great

Yeah, yeah, God is good

Yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah

What if God was one of us?

Just a slob like one of us

Just a stranger on the bus

Tryna make his way home?

If God had a face, what would it look like?

And would you want to see

If seeing meant that you would have to believe

In things like heaven and in Jesus and the Saints

And all the prophets?

And yeah, yeah, God is great

Yeah, yeah, God is good

Yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah

What if God was one of us?

Just a slob like one of us

Just a stranger on the bus

Tryna make his way home?

Just tryna make his way home

Back up to heaven all alone

Nobody callin' on the phone

'Cept for the Pope, maybe in Rome

And yeah, yeah, God is great

Yeah, yeah, God is good

Yeah, yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah

What if God was one of us?

Just a slob like one of us

Just a stranger on the bus

Tryna make his way home?

Like a holy rolling stone?

Back up to heaven all alone

Just tryna make his way home

Songwriter: Eric M. Bazilian

Nobody callin' on the phone

'Cept for the Pope maybe in Rome

SongFacts:

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