A year or so ago, a great treat of mine was watching the movie "Once." I almost reluctantly gave it a chance one night when my wife and I had nothing to watch, and we both ended up loving it. It's a love story of sorts about two musicians whose songs make up the soundtrack. The performances of the leads Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova are just wonderful... sincere, passionate, and heartfelt. Even without the great music it would still make an excellent movie. Check it out some time.Most of the tunes on the soundtrack are from Hansard and Irglova, but there's one song on it from an Irish band named Interference. The song come at a part in the movie when the main character sadly walks into a local pub, all confused and forlorn over love. Interference just play a bunch of local musicians who offer their advice to Hansard through the song "Gold." It's absolutely beautiful.
"Gold" is built around the simple lines "And I love her so... wouldn't trade her for gold." It's nothing fancy but I just love it. What's also killer is the incredible violin that plays throughout the song. A violin has to be one of the most emotional instruments in the world. Played right, it can absolutely break your heart. I love its inclusion here. There's also a lot of good twelve string guitar and mandolin. Just a beautiful tune, but ironically enough as much as my wife also loves this film and soundtrack, this is the only song from it that she doesn't like!?! Funny how that works some time.
"Gold" is from the "Once" soundtrack. To hear the song, click on the icon in the widget jukebox along the side of the blog.
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