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
― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 05:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 05:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 05:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 05:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 12:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 14:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link
Could he actually be seen as a forerunner of Scott Walker, in some ways; not in the actual vocal timbre, but more in the heartbreaking nature, and an 'existential crooner' effect, perhaps.
― Tom May (Tom May), Saturday, 15 January 2005 03:03 (nineteen years ago) link
Roy Orbison was the first American musician to use Marshall guitar amps. Orbison got an early one on a UK tour and liked it enough to make it his amp when he went back to the USA.
― earlnash, Saturday, 15 January 2005 05:12 (nineteen years ago) link
"Blue Bayou" is a force of nature.
― noodle vague (noodle vague), Saturday, 15 January 2005 05:16 (nineteen years ago) link
Well...how do I say this...I find him kind of overrated in a way. I like him, I stupidly let go of this great Monument 2-LP set of his hits a while back and now I wish I had not. But my taste does not run to that particular style of singing and record-making. I like "Uptown" and "Running Scared" fine, "Pretty Woman" is one of the all-time riffs, etc. The thing I find interesting is that he really wasn't all that popular in his heyday, he was rediscovered later on. For whatever reason he doesn't move me; he sings great but it's not something I put on, you know. One of my literature teachers at the U. of Tenn. in Knoxville, Dick Penner, co-wrote "Ooby Dooby" and after I mentioned this to him I got even better grades. The Big O is someone I probably need to go back to and re-assess, he's one of the few Founding Rock Daddies I just don't quite get.
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Saturday, 15 January 2005 18:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Saturday, 15 January 2005 18:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Why does the birds always shitting on me? (noodle vague), Sunday, 26 March 2006 13:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 26 March 2006 14:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 26 March 2006 14:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 26 March 2006 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Why does the birds always shitting on me? (noodle vague), Sunday, 26 March 2006 14:18 (eighteen years ago) link
Yeah, I'm with that. I always thought "You Got It" was striking for being on a continuum with the earlier hits that worked just fine on radio and elsewhere. Still does.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 26 March 2006 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Sunday, 26 March 2006 14:45 (eighteen years ago) link
Search: "Life Fades Away," from the 'Less Than Zero' soundtrack. He cowrote it with Danzig. Great one.
George Harrison said that Roy was deeply conversant with the work of Monty Python. I love that.
Two of my favorite things about Roy, these. ("Life Fades Away" is really great and I'm wondering if it was ever anthologized properly, as otherwise I guess it would be missed.)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 26 March 2006 14:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 26 March 2006 14:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 26 March 2006 14:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 26 March 2006 15:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 26 March 2006 15:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 26 March 2006 15:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 26 March 2006 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 26 March 2006 16:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 26 March 2006 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link
now that's bizarre. {insert dan perry-esque quip here}
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 26 March 2006 16:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― O-Keigh (O-Keigh), Sunday, 26 March 2006 17:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― O-Keigh (O-Keigh), Sunday, 26 March 2006 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Sunday, 26 March 2006 17:38 (eighteen years ago) link
Same here. Still.
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 27 March 2006 08:04 (eighteen years ago) link
"THE DARK ELVIS!!"
...........Chuck E. don't like him much though.
― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Monday, 27 March 2006 08:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Monday, 27 March 2006 11:20 (eighteen years ago) link
I think I'm right in saying he was much more popular in the UK than the USA? Or he had hits for a longer period in the UK?
― Dadaismus sinks his soul in Mother Nature's bower (Dada), Monday, 27 March 2006 11:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 27 March 2006 11:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Why does the birds always shitting on me? (noodle vague), Monday, 27 March 2006 12:04 (eighteen years ago) link
Anyway, y'all should rent this unexpectedly terrific documentary called Roy Orbison: In Dreams, released in 2003, featuring rather good interviews with Robert Plant, Jeff Lynne, Emmylou Harris, and a surprisingly un-twat-ish Bono, among others. The last 15 minutes, as the Mystery Girl-Traveling Wilburys triumphs approach, is so wonderful and sad that I had to pause the DVD. I forgot how much great stuff he recorded before he died: the k.d. lang remake of "Crying," the Danzig collab, "You Got It."
Fuck Johnny Cash -- he was the only artist who could have made one of those Rick Rubin album-length collabs work.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 11 January 2007 00:40 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah, I really enjoyed the fact that half the music business seemed to be behind him, determined to give him a hit.
― A Radio Picture (Rrrickey), Thursday, 11 January 2007 06:59 (seventeen years ago) link
-- scott seward (skotro...), March 26th, 2006. (scott seward)
That is interesting though - just by sheer odds it seems impossible.
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 11 January 2007 07:06 (seventeen years ago) link
He's part of the best anagram ever :
The Traveling Wilburys: Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Roy Orbison
An angry jew, the Beatle, blond boy, sorry prat in ELO, stiff guy, in short: very boring old men
― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 11 January 2007 07:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 11:17 (seventeen years ago) link