Hmm, I don’t think there’s any particular reason… other than the piano only has so many keys and only so many musical patterns are possible. The more you listen, the more you realize how some of the piano on her songs sound very similar… for example, “AB” has the same exact left hand bass notes as “Dusseldorf”. And “All the Rowboats” reminds me of “Another Town” because of the almost-the-same left hand pattern (although that comparison is less obvious because the speeds of both songs and the right hand of both songs are very different). I don’t think it’s a criticism, again, the girl’s written like 700 songs so a few of them are going to have similar, recurring motifs, whether intentional or not.
I kind of like it - I imagine the songs having some sort of “link” to eachother or like each is a part of a whole “story”. It’s kind of like with lyrics to me - I love how all her songs have similar “themes” that always pop up - like the “city”, “Mary Ann”, “gravediggers” etc. :)
Sure… the ones off the top of my head (besides “***/Whisper”) are:
Pavlov’s Daughter: “The gravediggers getting’ stuck in the machine, picking getting’ slim, slimmer… I hear them say my name… Regin-uh, Regina-UH, Regin-UH-uh-uh…”
Begin to Hope:“I grab my sharpie and wrote my message on the wall:
‘Yeah, Regina was here.’”
The Flowers: “The papers around me are piling and twisting Regina, the paperback mummy, what then… ?”
And then OF COURSE there’s… Reginasaurus. Just listen to the whole song :p. (Btw, did the Barfly recording get deleted off YouTube?! :O)
There’s probably more I missed, those are just the ones I remembered right away. Hope this helps!!
EDIT: Oh, I remember two more (silly me):
One-String Blues: “So, me and Poseidon, we been hanging around the water hole, and he says to me, he says “Regina… Regina, I got no authority no more…”
No one waits to hear the sound of my flip-flops by the door…”
Soho: “Oh, oh, Regina…”
