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
Funny how they never managed to make a decent song after Big Roy's passing though.
― Brede TrollsÃ¥s (FunkDirt), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 12:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan Heilman (The Deacon), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link
YOU GOT IT
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 17 January 2008 02:43 (sixteen years ago) link