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ladytheatre
Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 7:14 am Reply with quote
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the whole thing with iMegaphone actually kinda surprises me. in most of the threads that i have read, people say they were introduced to immi through frou frou or speak for yourself. they only heard iMegaphone after they had been introduced to her and then had to get used to it cause it was so different from what they were used to. i'm actually the complete opposite. i was introduced to immi through iMegaphone. it was the uniqueness and individuality of iMegaphone that made me fall in love with immi. if it wasn't for me randomly coming across the CD on my friend's itunes, listening to come here boy and whatever, being completely entranced and listening to the rest of the album on the spot, the phenomenon that is immi would not be a part of my life. so all of my thanks goes to iMegaphone. so i guess my question is....is there anyone else out there who fell in love with immi because of iMegaphone?

don't get me wrong. i love details and speak for yourself just as much as everyone else. some of my favorite immi songs are on those albums. i'm just curious. Very Happy
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colreee
Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 2:33 pm Reply with quote
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lady--you're not the only one. I was lucky enough to discover her back in 98 when iMeg first came out, via my ex boyfriend. He worked for a cd distributor and was given the cd as a promo. I stole it and never gave it back.... I was hooked instantly. It's such an amazing cd. I know that there are a bunch of others here who know her from her iMeg days too.

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colreee wrote:
lady--you're not the only one. I was lucky enough to discover her back in 98 when iMeg first came out, via my ex boyfriend. He worked for a cd distributor and was given the cd as a promo. I stole it and never gave it back.... I was hooked instantly. It's such an amazing cd. I know that there are a bunch of others here who know her from her iMeg days too.


I can certainly see how one could get hooked on Immi via the iMegaphone
route. I didn't get into that album until later in the infactuation, but now that I have familiarized myself with it, I find IMeg to be wonderful work.
You're right "colreee" , it is an amazing CD and I like how you acquired
your copy Wink Laughing

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ladytheatre
Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 8:01 pm Reply with quote
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colreee: oh awesome! i knew there was someone else out there. i should have just figured there were others, but i wanted to see who they were. Very Happy that's a great story of how you got your copy. gotta love those friends who help us out Wink Smile
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SweetMegara
Posted: Sat Jun 10, 2006 8:38 pm Reply with quote
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Hear my story about Imeg here I too have been a fan for a very long time. I got into immi in 2000

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Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 12:09 am Reply with quote
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i sure wish i had found her in 98... my whole taste of music woul've formed there and then... instead of years later

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colreee
Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 5:44 am Reply with quote
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ladytheatre wrote:
colreee: oh awesome! i knew there was someone else out there. i should have just figured there were others, but i wanted to see who they were. Very Happy that's a great story of how you got your copy. gotta love those friends who help us out Wink Smile

Yep... too bad he turned out to be a real @$$hole! I guess I can't consider him 100% @$$hole, since he was the reason I got into Immi, but it's close enough! Laughing Laughing Funny thing is that I have 3 copies; the one I stole from him, another one I bought on my own, and the 3rd one..... well if you look at my profile picture, I think you know which copy is my favorite! Wink

Mike--I think it's definitely a different sound for those who didn't hear of her until later on, but I've always thought how cool it is to hear her than and now and hear the changes that she's made.

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ladytheatre
Posted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 9:11 am Reply with quote
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i'm hoping to have her sign a couple of my CDs the next time i see her in concert. that would be the greatest thing ever. i actually have two copies which will soon be three: my friend's copy of the album (hehe you weren't the only one who stole it, colreee), the japanese re-release of iMeg, and an original release (that one is in the mail). i wanted all the versions of the album that brought immi into my life. Very Happy

p.s. sweetmegara-come here boy was the first song of hers i ever heard too. and it's still my all time favorite. always will be Smile

Edit: this is hilarious! i just got an email from my friend saying he wants his iMeg CD back! he said he heard a song on the radio the other day (it ended up being G&G), found out it was immi, went to look for iMeg, and realized i had it. he said he just bought Speak for Yourself and now he wants his iMeg back cause he really likes her. that's so awesome! so back to two copies Very Happy
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 3:11 am Reply with quote
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Feb 1999 i just happened to take a radio to work one day to try and fix it, and i just happened to fix it just in time so that i just happened to be listening to some random station that just happened to be playing "shine" Very Happy

what scares me is how easily i could have missed iMEG completely if i hadn't heard that song on that day. Shocked

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ladytheatre
Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 8:21 am Reply with quote
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skaro: i love it when things fall into place like that. i say that everything happens for a reason. but that was some seriously lucky timing.

i was thinking about it and i'm actually kinda glad that i was introduced to immi through iMeg. i'm glad i found her from her starting point and was able to move through her progression to her current sound. and it sounds like it's an easier transition from iMeg to Speak for Yourself than the other way around.
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skaro
Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 5:40 am Reply with quote
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well, as we were saying in the other thread - the period of your life that you first hear an album can affect its relevance/impact.

i guess i'd love to hear iMEG again for the first time, wow what a rush it was. but i'm not sure it would be the same, so, like you, i'm happy with the way things are. and yeah, the continuity thing too.

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ladytheatre
Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 7:08 am Reply with quote
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i can understand the period of life idea. i was having some trouble with this one guy when i first heard iMeg so several of the songs had a lot of relevance for me. wow...that could definitely have had an impact on what i thought of the album. huh...i never thought of it that way before. good point. but i think i would have loved the album no matter what anyway Very Happy
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SweetMegara
Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 9:16 am Reply with quote
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I have to agree with Skaro- Hearing Imeg for the first time was a fortunate accident. Though I would love to hear more songs with the same style as Imeg and her early work, they gave me a feeling long since lost after the first time of hearing it, or the feeling i got when i was finally able to buy it, or the feeling of first hearing Come Here Boy and falling in love with that song.

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ladytheatre
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 6:11 am Reply with quote
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most definitely a special feeling. a rush is a good way to describe it, skaro. i still get a little chill up my spine when i hear come here boy though. i'm not quite sure what it is about that song that i love so much, besides the fact that it was the song that introduced me to immi. i think it might be what i get from the lyrics and the music itself. whenever i listen to that song, it makes me feel confident and sexy. it just has this quality to it that i can't describe. oh bless you, immi, bless you for making iMeg.
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SweetMegara
Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 8:23 am Reply with quote
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Lady wait till you hear it live, I have this copy of CHB live and you can feel her emotions when she sings it, perfection and total emotion in 3 and a half minutes.

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Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 12:52 pm Reply with quote
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I got into Immi's music when I was 20. It was about six months before iMegaphone when I saw her live, as the opening support act for 'My Life Story'... I have posted my memory of the gig HERE!

Immi's music was amazing live and I managed to keep up-to-date with purchasing all of her iMegaphone promo singles, as at the time I was living in Sheffield where there was a really cool record shop selling lots of promos of indie labels... I brought iMegaphone as a promo too and kept an eye out for new material, finally thinking that perhaps Immi had stopped making music...

Then I discovered Frou Frou in 2003, about a year after the Details album was released... And shortly after I found this Imogen Heap website - Since then I have managed to aquire many of her collaborations and have managed to stay up-to-date with her Megaphonic Records stuff and I am looking forward to seeing Imogen perform live for the third time later this year.

So I'd like to thank Jake Shillingford from My Life Story for getting me into Imogen's music some eight-and-a-half-years ago... And when I met Immi after her recent Brighton Komedia gig I told her I last spoke to her after that gig in 1997 and had been waiting ever since to see her live again and she told me that Jake was actually in the audience too! How cool was that?


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Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 4:28 pm Reply with quote
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I was too young and naive when it first came out to have gotten into her then.

CHB is a true tearjerking song live.
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ladytheatre wrote:
i still get a little chill up my spine when i hear come here boy though. i'm not quite sure what it is about that song that i love so much, besides the fact that it was the song that introduced me to immi. i think it might be what i get from the lyrics and the music itself. whenever i listen to that song, it makes me feel confident and sexy. it just has this quality to it that i can't describe. oh bless you, immi, bless you for making iMeg.


i get that chill, the opening chords of that song get me every time. They're played so gently, suggesting such tenderness, and it sounds to me like like she doesn't play all the notes of the chord at quite the same time, which suggests, to me, vulnerability.

i once played the opening chords to CHB on a $65,000 grand piano - i was overwhelmed - the world receded from me and and my eyes welled up with tears - it was so powerful, and etched into my memory forever.

even the the really old dude in the piano shop looked up and said they were nice chords and i'm like "yeah *sniff* it's an Imogen Heap song *sniff*, damn this hayfever!" Wink

someone once asked me what love was and after thinkin for a day or so i decided "to leave oneself wide open without fear" and it's only just now occurred to me that CHB embodies that. You mentioned confidence - and i feel that Immi is confident in her vulnerability, she's not only baring her soul, she's offering it, and she is not afraid. that song is glorious, just glorious.

and all the more so for being such a stark contrast to some of the other songs on iMEG.

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absolutely. I can remember hearing CHB for the first time and not only being riveted while it was playing, but also being very affected for quite a while after it was over. I had never heard a song like it before and was absolutely fascinated. And then I got to hear it live a few months later..... all I can say is that it brought me to tears. it was nothing short of stunning. the song brought a noisy crowded bar to the point where you could hear a pin drop. no other artist that I've seen has been able to have that kind of effect on an audience, and that's what's so great about her. she doesn't just perform. she involves you completely in her experience. her pure love of music and her desire to share that with others, famous or not, is what I love about her.

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sweetmeg-i actually have heard it live. i saw her in san diego in january and then again in pomona in may. when i saw her in san diego, it was my first imogen heap concert. when she announced CHB, i thought i was going to pass out. the whole time i was driving down with my friend, i kept saying how the only song i really really wanted her to play was CHB, other than that i didn't care. so when she played it, i was ecstatic. i had tears in my eyes the whole song. it was absolutely amazing! hearing it live only reinforced it as my favorite song and made it that much more powerful for me.

skaro- i definitely agree with what you said in your last post about immi baring her soul in CHB. i think you hit it on the head. i think that is why i relate to the song and why it is so emotional for me. good way to put it.

tavis- that is awesome that you were able to keep so up to date on all that immi was doing. i wish i had known about her for that long. and for Jake to be in the audience?! that is so cool!

aldaboss- tearjerking...i couldn't agree more!

colreee- the amazing power of immi. it still shocks me that someone can write a song that affects so many people so deeply. it is a true talent indeed. and at 19?! i still can't believe she was that young when she did iMeg.
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Immi doing CHB live - *sigh*

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so i was driving home from work in San Francisco tonight and i had iMeg playing in the car. when CHB came on, i turned it up really loud and just let the music take over. it became one of those things where you get lost in your own mind. almost the whole drive home, i just listened to CHB over and over. i kept thinking about the lyrics and how they apply to my own life and about what everyone has said in this thread and how it all relates to the song and how i can relate to what everyone is saying as well. and then i started thinking about a boy. as i listened to the song again while thinking about him, tears started welling up in my eyes. i realized just how much the song meant to me whether i was thinking about a boy or not. and i realized just how much more it means to me when i am thinking about a boy. i have never had a song affect me so much and mean so much to me. CHB is a very rare masterpiece. it takes a special person and a special talent to bring something like this to life. i know i've said it a thousand times, but thank you immi. Smile
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ladytheatre wrote:
so i was driving home from work in San Francisco tonight and i had iMeg playing in the car. when CHB came on, i turned it up really loud and just let the music take over. it became one of those things where you get lost in your own mind. almost the whole drive home, i just listened to CHB over and over. i kept thinking about the lyrics and how they apply to my own life and about what everyone has said in this thread and how it all relates to the song and how i can relate to what everyone is saying as well. and then i started thinking about a boy. as i listened to the song again while thinking about him, tears started welling up in my eyes. i realized just how much the song meant to me whether i was thinking about a boy or not. and i realized just how much more it means to me when i am thinking about a boy. i have never had a song affect me so much and mean so much to me. CHB is a very rare masterpiece. it takes a special person and a special talent to bring something like this to life. i know i've said it a thousand times, but thank you immi. Smile


Thanks for sharing your thoughts on CHB "ladytheatre" Wink
It certainly is one hell of a beautiful song (esp. Live)
When I hear songs like this , I sit in awe wondering how an artist like Immi can sit down and turn melodies and lyrics into a masterpiece like:
"Come Here Boy" and how that song can have such a profound effect on me, yourself and many many others.
It just blows my mind how talented she is. Smile
Very Happy
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SweetMegara
Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 4:29 am Reply with quote
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Here is a question i ask myself, would i be into immi if i heard sfy or details first? I don't know, but i wonder if some immi fans who heard of her through sfy or details would be into her if they heard imeg first? My initial reaction of Hide and Seek was the exact opposite of CHB or what i feel about that song now, honestly the first time i heard it, i didn't like it, now i love it. But i still wonder if i would be a big fan of hers now if i had heard sfy or details first. anyone else wonder about this? Froufrou_flicks can verify this, i was worried about sfy, because i love imeg so much i was worried that i wasn't going to like sfy.

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i have wondered if things would be different if i hadn't listened to iMeg first. i was so into the rawness and uniqueness that is iMeg, that when i heard there was another album, i wondered if it would be similar or totally different. i was worried because i know that some artists lose their touch after their first album or two and i didn't want anything to ruin immi and iMeg. as other people have said before, Speak for Yourself is an earful the first time through. i had to listen to the whole album two or three times before i could really decide how i felt about it. on the first few listens, i didn't like some of the songs as much, but the more i listened to it, the more i fell in love with it. now i can't stop listening to it. i rotate between iMeg, SFY, and Details on a regular basis. i now love all the songs on SFY, but i'm not sure how i would have felt if i had heard that album first. i think there were enough songs that grabbed me so that i would have been interested enough to give it a chance. but in comparison, when i heard iMeg that first time, i fell in love with it right then and there. so i think i would have still been a big immi fan, but it might have taken longer for the love to develop than it did being introduced through iMeg.

i hope that answer makes sense. it's 2 in the morning here and i should be sleeping. Wink
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SweetMegara wrote:
Here is a question i ask myself, would i be into immi if i heard sfy or details first? I don't know, but i wonder if some immi fans who heard of her through sfy or details would be into her if they heard imeg first? My initial reaction of Hide and Seek was the exact opposite of CHB or what i feel about that song now, honestly the first time i heard it, i didn't like it, now i love it. But i still wonder if i would be a big fan of hers now if i had heard sfy or details first. anyone else wonder about this? Froufrou_flicks can verify this, i was worried about sfy, because i love imeg so much i was worried that i wasn't going to like sfy.


"SweetMegara" - You know , I ask myself those questions frequently.
Very interesting point. Having heard "Let Go" first got me hooked, but I wonder if SFY would have grabbed me. I believe "Details" would have for sure. At first I always skipped by "Hide and Seek", but since have grown to love it. It's like finding that first "Grabber Song or album" and exploring Immi's work from that point. I thought i'd answer your query by saying that I often wonder about such things and I am pleased that I find all Immi's work to be quite wonderful. It is interesting to see how she has evolved and diversified since her early days Wink
Thanks for bringing that observation to light.
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i think that once you become accustomed to immi's sound, it's easier to fall in love with new songs she releases. i know that after i heard iMeg and got used to her sound, it made it easier to listen to SFY. but since SFY was so different from iMeg, it took it's own getting used to. but ever since i have become accustomed to the sounds of SFY and iMeg, new immi songs have immediately found a place in my heart, usually on the first listen.
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first song i heard from details was "breathe in", and it was a bit of a surprise, after iMEG and the Bsides. Surprised

Hide and Seek grabbed me by the ears in the first 10 seconds - so much so that i turned it off immediately - and saved it for later in the day. I wanted to set aside some dedicated time, on my best sound system, for that special "first listen" of what i knew was going to be a truly magical song.

and i wasn't disappointed. Very Happy

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i had already heard - and fallen in love with - a few songs from sfy, when i found a copy of i megaphone in the discount section of a cd store for $3! i decided to give it a go and i was definitely not disappointed. ive since discovered how hard it i to get your hands on a copy of imeg and just how lucky i was!
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EmmaSFY wrote:
i had already heard - and fallen in love with - a few songs from sfy, when i found a copy of i megaphone in the discount section of a cd store for $3! i decided to give it a go and i was definitely not disappointed. ive since discovered how hard it i to get your hands on a copy of imeg and just how lucky i was!


wow! i wish it had been that easy for me to get my copy. you were definitely very lucky.
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