well yes, someone who can't hold a tune to save his life can push his voice into all kinds of unpleasant zones. that's easy. What's harder is to make your voice unpleasant when your voice isn't a flat monotone to begin with.
Canonic Albums by Artists Who You Love and Revere But For Some Reason This One Bypasses You Almost Completely
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well yes, someone who can't hold a tune to save his life can push his voice into all kinds of unpleasant zones. that's easy. What's harder is to make your voice unpleasant when your voice isn't a flat monotone to begin with.
william_kent
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I've said it before but I'll say it again, Bowie's whole shtick is totally copped from this guy...
Anthony Newley - The Man Who Makes You Laugh
Anthony Newley - The Man Who Makes You Laugh
version
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I had this with The Smiths. My introduction was that best of with Charles Hawtrey on the cover.
william_kent
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I'm an opinionated git, so as far as I'm concerned The Smiths have one good intro, I'll concede that the first few bars of "How Soon Is Now" are promising, but then the vocals ruin it
linebaugh
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I probably like it more than Iet on but for the purpose of the thread...
the riffs/grooves are so dull to me, particularly TV Eye, that ones almost embarrassing. if Im not in the right mood it doesnt sound like the maximum id, maximum attitude no holds barred session that its 'supposed' to be and rather sounds like minute 45 of a low energy jam sesh where no one wants to break jam session decorum and call it abruptly so they instead start droning on uninspired riffs in hopes that the other members get the idea
It's true though. This is like how Simon was horrified at Matt for being into jazz funk at uni. This is like the Turkish version of that.
Funnily enough, Muslum gurses did some David Bowie covers, and they are miles better, despite him being paralysed and almost deaf in one ear!
Funnily enough, Muslum gurses did some David Bowie covers, and they are miles better, despite him being paralysed and almost deaf in one ear!
bassbeyondreason
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Agree with Funhouse as the best rock album ever, but Side 2 is better, sounds like the end of rock.
For me I reckon Damaged by Black Flag, aside from the "hits" (which I don't really need to hear again) and the cool dirges at the end.
For me I reckon Damaged by Black Flag, aside from the "hits" (which I don't really need to hear again) and the cool dirges at the end.
Benny Bunter
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Racked my brains for about ten minutes but I can't think of a single one.
utter utter madness, ‘1970’ being one of the most incendiary and thrilling rock songs ever and by far the greatest thing they did! the bit when the sax hits with iggy screaming ifeelawight over and over in an eternally-recurring loop, yeah a sort of infernal Nietzschean affirmation that knows it has to break the world in order to speak itself, is the ur-moment in rock full stop mate. (but not so fated then, fated to derange perhaps).
Lodger > Heroes fo’sure, but for the fab album tracks ‘African Night Flight’, ‘Red Sails’,‘Look Back in Anger’ esp’y, rather than the so-so singles.
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yeah whwh is a bore, but for the v great ‘I heard her call my name‘, velvets are totally over-rated nyc hipsters but I dig the s/t third v much.
you like the band s/t with the brown cover then? didn’t think they were a ‘you’ kinda band at all.
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hate to say it but ‘Solid Air’, I got totally stuck on ‘Sunday’s Child’, and then moved on to ‘Bless the Weather’, bits of ‘Inside Out’, ‘One World’, and then moved out of JM orbit (at least for now).
others would be:
Surrealistic Pillow (GET THEE TO BAXTER’S!)
Sign O’ The Times (never heard it as an album as such: already knew singles too well, then skipped thru for quirky album tracks like ‘ballad of dorothy parker’ and ‘starfish and coffee’, & think the party-up funk workouts make a lot more sense on the film version)
Working Man’s Dead / American Beauty (GET THEE TO THE LIVE!)
Enter the Wu-Tang. (couldn’t really get into it working back from the first wave solo-Wu classics. I mean I like it well enough now, but had far more fun properly delving into ‘wu-tang forever’ more recently)
The GoBetween’s back cat got punched full of holes of over-familiarity cos I got into excellent comp Bellavista Terrace in late 90s.
Blonde on Blonde (the boomers own that one to such an extend I can’t get anywhere near it, there’s a sort of psychic forcefield around it repelling even the more intrepid x-ers. developing my own relat with the mighty Bawb via the post-motorcycle crash stuff tho)
Ziggy Stardust (a true bypass, have no opinion on it musically whatsoever, I think it’s for other kids, other scenes, other threads, other stuffy brightly lit pavilions. there’s just such a strong sense of communion between star and fans with that one that I feel I can’t break in. I’m left outside the big top only catching shadows, but maybe that’s ok.)
others would be:
Surrealistic Pillow (GET THEE TO BAXTER’S!)
Sign O’ The Times (never heard it as an album as such: already knew singles too well, then skipped thru for quirky album tracks like ‘ballad of dorothy parker’ and ‘starfish and coffee’, & think the party-up funk workouts make a lot more sense on the film version)
Working Man’s Dead / American Beauty (GET THEE TO THE LIVE!)
Enter the Wu-Tang. (couldn’t really get into it working back from the first wave solo-Wu classics. I mean I like it well enough now, but had far more fun properly delving into ‘wu-tang forever’ more recently)
The GoBetween’s back cat got punched full of holes of over-familiarity cos I got into excellent comp Bellavista Terrace in late 90s.
Blonde on Blonde (the boomers own that one to such an extend I can’t get anywhere near it, there’s a sort of psychic forcefield around it repelling even the more intrepid x-ers. developing my own relat with the mighty Bawb via the post-motorcycle crash stuff tho)
Ziggy Stardust (a true bypass, have no opinion on it musically whatsoever, I think it’s for other kids, other scenes, other threads, other stuffy brightly lit pavilions. there’s just such a strong sense of communion between star and fans with that one that I feel I can’t break in. I’m left outside the big top only catching shadows, but maybe that’s ok.)
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blissblogger
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is that one canonic? (if that is the right word). i think it's considered a bit of an outlier in his discog, an odd little side foray
i think it's one of those Prince albums of which they are many (most in fact) where there's the single or singles, and then one other fab track, and then it's "huh?". In the case of Around the World, it's redeemed by "Pop Life" which is wonderful but every else is either Bangles-ish (Beret, the other single) or filler.
But i think similar thoughts about 1999, Controversy, Parade, Lovesexy....
The killer Prince ones for me are Dirty Mind, Purple, Sign...
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blissblogger
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yeah "1970" is great, and "Fun House" itself - oddly i never have a desire play the rest of the record after "Dirt", perhaps it's knowing that it's all heading towards "LA Blues" which is one of those "you only need to hear it once" jobs.
blissblogger
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Yeah I suppose rather than saying I'm oddly unaffected by Music From Big Pink, it's more the truth that the only thing that affects me is the self-titled 'brown' one - everything else seems unmemorable and dispensable.
Love the self-titled, esp. the tune "Whispering Pines". Also "King Harvest". But all of it really.
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