― Burr (Burr), Sunday, 9 November 2003 22:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Sunday, 9 November 2003 23:29 (twenty years ago) link
This may not really be classified as "interesting" though.
― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 9 November 2003 23:35 (twenty years ago) link
I'm sure that Nick Cave can find a mid-'50s equivalent, easy, But I'm unsure who? Elvis?
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Sunday, 9 November 2003 23:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 02:54 (twenty years ago) link
― keith (keithmcl), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 03:47 (twenty years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 7 November 2004 11:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 7 November 2004 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 November 2004 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 7 November 2004 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link
The revival of this thread led me to listen to Orbisongs and In Dreams (the album) again this this afternoon. I'd never properly appreciated 'House Without Windows' and '(Say) You're My Girl)' before. Just thinking about Roy Orbison makes me sad.
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 November 2004 19:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 7 November 2004 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link
'Mind you, people do not realize how much is on each roll. I bet that with a single roll alone I could wrap you up entirely.'
Roy Orbison sits impassively like a monochrome Buddha. My palms are sweaty.
'I will take that bet,' says Roy. 'If you succeed I will give you tickets to my new concert. If you fail I will take Jetta, as a lesson to you not to speak boastfully.'
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 7 November 2004 19:53 (nineteen years ago) link
-- cºzen (skiplevel...), November 7th, 2004.
his best songs deserve to be a lot longer. as it is they often feel like they're over before they've begun. "it's over" is the classic example, but i guess that works on a thematic level.
i find chris isaak really sympathetic, although i haven't listened to his records in ages.
― amateur!!st, Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:12 (nineteen years ago) link
chris isaak is a lot hotter than roy orbison ever was, but roy made better records.
― amateur!!st, Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:23 (nineteen years ago) link
'You are completely wrapped in cling-film,' I say.
'You win the bet,' says Roy, muffled. 'Now unwrap me.'
'Not for several hours.'
'Ah.'
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 7 November 2004 23:13 (nineteen years ago) link
Another great song on that album to bury your head in the pillow to: 'Summersong'
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 November 2004 23:18 (nineteen years ago) link
George Harrison said that Roy was deeply conversant with the work of Monty Python. I love that.
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 7 November 2004 23:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 November 2004 23:36 (nineteen years ago) link
The parenthesized disclaimer however doesn't necessarily mean that they could not be, correspondingly, the Roy'O of lesbos pop and the Roy'O of copycatsdom.
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 7 November 2004 23:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Sunday, 7 November 2004 23:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 8 November 2004 00:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― daavid (daavid), Monday, 8 November 2004 01:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 8 November 2004 01:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 8 November 2004 04:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Monday, 8 November 2004 05:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 8 November 2004 05:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― xx, Monday, 8 November 2004 09:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam... (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 04:20 (nineteen years ago) link
just get one of the greatest hits things with the original monument versions on it.
― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 04:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam... (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 04:32 (nineteen years ago) link
LONELY AND BLUE
Only The Lonely (Know The Way I Feel) Bye-Bye Love Cry Blue Avenue I Can't Stop Loving You Come Back To Me (My Love) Blue Angel Raindrops (I'd Be A) Legend In My Time I'm Hurtin' Twenty Two Days I'll Say It's My Fault
IN DREAMS
In Dreams Lonely Wine Shahdaroba No One Will Ever Know Sunset House Without Windows Dream Blue Bayou (They Call You) Gigolette All I Have To Do Is Dream Beautiful Dreamer My Prayer
Take either.
― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 04:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 04:45 (nineteen years ago) link
Only The Lonely Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream) Blue Bayou The Comedians Ooby Dooby Leah Running Scared Uptown In Dreams Crying Candy Man Go, Go, Go (Down The Line) Mean Woman Blues (All I Can Do Is) Dream You Claudette It's Over Oh, Pretty Woman
I havn't heard this one, but it's got quite the playlist.
― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 05:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Magic City (ano ano), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 05:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 05:20 (nineteen years ago) link
Sorry, meant to say “Mercy!”
― Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 14 November 2022 21:22 (one year ago) link
Here's something interesting about Roy Orbison that doesn't seem to have been mentioned yet - he starred in a feature film.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fastest_Guitar_Alive
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK9JwuqZXWM
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 07:53 (one year ago) link
Roy Orbison: “In Dreams”“Just before he made his comeback with The Traveling Wilburys, before he died, I saw him at the Mean Fiddler. It was just him, his guitar and voice, so beautiful, so moving—what a fucking guy. And I was waiting out back to meet him and I did. Y’know what he said to me? “Get out of the way, son,’ as he pushed past me on the way to his limousine.”
https://cocteautwins.com/robin-guthrie-my-favourite-records-melody-maker.html
lol
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
Mercy
― Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 16:45 (one year ago) link
At least he added "son." Respectful if patronizing.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
Don't criticize what you don't understand, son, you've never walked in that man's shoes.
― Me and the Major on the Moon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 17:30 (one year ago) link
Pretty shoes too
http://www.rebeccapromitzer.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/booties.jpeg
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 17:52 (one year ago) link
Well that didn't work. Here's a link.
― birdistheword, Tuesday, 15 November 2022 17:53 (one year ago) link
it worked (I see the pretty shoes)
― Reese's Pisces Iscariot (morrisp), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 17:58 (one year ago) link
The book includes an account of how the Big O accidentally developed his sunglasses image while on a U.K. tour with the Beatles in 1963. “He had left his regular glasses on a plane, right before the tour," Roy Jr. told Rolling Stone. "He had the dark glasses with him and decided to keep wearing them. Dad wasn't able to see without glasses. When he got off the plane in England, people were taking pictures and that's what they saw, Dad with the dark glasses."
Read More: Roy Orbison's Son Reveals Why He Started Wearing Dark Glasses | https://ultimateclassicrock.com/roy-orbison-dark-glasses/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 19:23 (one year ago) link
"Running Scared" never stops amazing me
the lyric constructed in such a way that you don't exactly know whether it's tragedy or celebration until the very last word
(ok the rhyme structure clues you in 1 line earlier but ffs)
― partez Maroc anthem (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 December 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
also the only singer whose voice i love more than Roy's is Al Green
the only singer
Is this really the only time he ever performed this song live?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvR1YgT7QYs
― Cry for a Shadowgraph (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 28 January 2023 01:41 (one year ago) link
HI DERE#onethread
― The Big Candy-O (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 28 January 2023 02:28 (one year ago) link