Talk:Devendra Banhart

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Bob Stanley of Saint Etienne was raving about Vashti Bunyan when Devendra was in diapers so that should be re-rediscovered.

1 Image status
2 Lyrics
- 2.1 The Bridge
- 2.2 A Cite For Musical Comparisons

[edit] Image status

This image appears to be copyrighted, per the caption: © Laurent Orseau . It needs to be attributed on the image description page. I found a link to where it comes from that the uploader must have found: http://lorseau.hinah.com/gallery.php?c=pzic&s=concert&g=devendrabanhartgp&p=1&im=10 --149.169.60.160 04:51, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lyrics

The article says "his lyrics are often surreal and naturalistic." Perhaps one or two illustrations would be in order, especially since many people will find surrealism and naturalism to be odd companions. Also, might this not be an overly broad use of "surrealism"? Perhaps it would be better simply to say his lyrics are "obscure," "metaphorical" or "enigmatic"? I just read the lyrics for some randomly selected songs. In "Be Kind," "Gentle Soul," "Inaniel," "korean Dogwood," "Ones," "Miss Cain," "Queen Bee" I saw nothing that was surreal. "Legless Love" and "Surgery I Stole" do have lyrics that might be considered surreal.Interlingua 13:44, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

The term surreal is not a derivative or surrealism, but rather vice versa. The term surreal is much more fitting than obscure, for example, which is a bit more vague and general than surreal. Surreal, when describing lyrics, gives the implication of obscurity with a sort of mentally destabilizing motive behind it. For instance, if i were to claim that there were eyes in the back of my hands to better see the oranges growing from my face, that would be surreal. Not simply obscure, and definitely not metaphorical. Now, whether it's unncecessary or trite or whatever, is all up to the individual to presume.69.149.82.95 02:10, 16 August 2006 (UTC)blueddha

[edit] The Bridge

He performed at the bridge concert at the shoreline ampitheater in mountain view on sat oct 21, 2006 with a band. The emcee noted that an hour before the concert they didn't have a name, so the emcee recommended "The Bridge" and introduced them as such.