So Sarah McLachlan is touring to celebrate her best album's 30th anniversary but...

[Mendalla]

She is only making two stops in Canada. WTF? I hope this is just the start and more dates will be coming. One of my few pop/rock concerts was on the tour for that album in Hamilton Place. Not even any Western dates (the Canadian dates are Toronto and Montreal) even though that's where she lives and where her music promotion and education program, which is being supported by the tour, is based.

MSN

Live performances of two songs from Fumbling... from her live album Afterglow.

 

[Mendalla]

I was already a Sarah McLachlan fan when Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, her third studio LP, dropped in the Fall of 1993 (US release came in 1994 which is, I guess, why this tour is focussing on the US). It is an amazing achievement in both songwriting and performing, marking a climax to the brilliance that had been building through her first two releases and blew me away fromthe first notes of Possession, the opening track. Surfacing, the next album, kept that standard but then I found she kind of went on cruise control and none of her subsequent albums really nailed it, IMHO. Not bad by any means, but just not in the same league as Fumbling... and Surfacing.

 

[ninj]

I wore this album out. The best dancy mixes too.
Ready?

 

[Delightful Life]

there is something special about her music

some numinous quality

an indescribable whatnot

from when I heard the beginning of Sweet Surrender dopplering and reflecting off of the trees at a Lilith Fair concert

To the worldbuilding contained in her Building a Mystery (Rumi's Mysteries are not to be solved)

To the trancendent awe of her Angel

I have been changed by her music

Enriched

Enlivened and enhumaned

Amen

 

[Delightful Life]

I wore this album out. The best dancy mixes too.
Ready?

you sound just like her :3

that is a neat version
rockin

 

[Mendalla]

I wore this album out. The best dancy mixes too.
Ready?

Not to be pedantic, but "Into the Fire" is from Solace, the album before the one I am talking about. But it's an amazing album, too, and part of my love of Fumbling... is that the last thing I expected was for her to get that much better again than she had on Solace. But she did.

And there's lots of interesting mixes and remixes of her songs out there. She's always been pretty good about letting producers and DJs have at them.

 

[Mendalla]

Giving this a bump because last night, Sarah was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters' Hall of Fame. Well-deserved for a woman who has given us so many great songs over the past 30-odd years. Here's singer-songwriter Lights (who I just heard for the first time in a while recently) talking about the importance of Sarah's music for her and then covering "Building a Mystery" from Surfacing (1997).

And Nelly Furtado, on a bit of a comeback herself, joining Sarah for "Angel" from the same album.