― Mike Taylor (mjt), Saturday, 13 September 2003 22:51 (9 years ago) Permalink
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 13 September 2003 22:54 (9 years ago) Permalink
I saw her sing "God Bless America" in person here in Chicago during the 7th inning stretch at the MLB All-Star game. She looked kind of trashy and strung out.
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 13 September 2003 23:07 (9 years ago) Permalink
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 13 September 2003 23:17 (9 years ago) Permalink
― scott seward, Saturday, 13 September 2003 23:18 (9 years ago) Permalink
BEST DEFENSE EVER
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 13 September 2003 23:18 (9 years ago) Permalink
― Andrew Frye (paul cox), Sunday, 14 September 2003 05:24 (9 years ago) Permalink
― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 14 September 2003 08:30 (9 years ago) Permalink
― dave q, Sunday, 14 September 2003 10:44 (9 years ago) Permalink
― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 14 September 2003 16:18 (9 years ago) Permalink
I have a new identity should I wish to claim it.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 14 September 2003 16:24 (9 years ago) Permalink
-- dave q (scrape10...), September 14th, 2003.
do u mean Bye Bye Baby?
― Vic (Vic), Sunday, 14 September 2003 23:12 (9 years ago) Permalink
I've come to the point where I'd actually rather listen to Next Time I Fall over Love Song, god what a waste of space that was. It's like a little preview of how crap Prince and Madonna would both eventually become in a nice little three minute tune.
― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 15 September 2003 13:17 (9 years ago) Permalink
― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 15 September 2003 13:20 (9 years ago) Permalink
― pauls00, Monday, 15 September 2003 13:50 (9 years ago) Permalink
― Vic (Vic), Monday, 15 September 2003 14:21 (9 years ago) Permalink
― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 15 September 2003 14:24 (9 years ago) Permalink
thanks to HAKGTWC i have newfound appreciation for 'Baby Baby'
― blueski, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 16:22 (5 years ago) Permalink
yes! baby baby is incredible, gotta love her voice on that.
no homo irony.
― max r, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 16:24 (5 years ago) Permalink
damn
― blueski, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 17:22 (5 years ago) Permalink
All I know about her, really, is that her ex-husband beat the shit out of her (and then came to a class and gave a lecture on independent music that was terrible).
― I eat cannibals, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 17:23 (5 years ago) Permalink
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 17:25 (5 years ago) Permalink
(and then came to a class and gave a lecture on independent music that was terrible)
the music or the lecture?
― blueski, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 17:35 (5 years ago) Permalink
(both, i pre-ass-ume)
― t**t, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 17:46 (5 years ago) Permalink
baby fucking baby
― strgn, Saturday, 26 April 2008 07:04 (5 years ago) Permalink
always and forever.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 26 April 2008 12:19 (5 years ago) Permalink
I said it on another thread: her boxed set from last year reveals a fantastic, brave artist who has never stopped making great stuff. Her recent Legacy: Hymns and Faith is just fantastic, as are some of the songs on her divorce album, Simple Things (unfortunate use of fake turntable-scratches on the title track though).
One of my favorite artists anywhere and far, far from indefensible.
― J0hn D., Saturday, 26 April 2008 13:21 (5 years ago) Permalink
songs to hear from Simple Things: "Out in the Open" and "Beautiful," both of which are devastating
― J0hn D., Saturday, 26 April 2008 13:22 (5 years ago) Permalink
i have the remix version of baby baby on a 12 inch somewhere and i don't think i've played it yet. i think today is the day.
― scott seward, Saturday, 26 April 2008 14:55 (5 years ago) Permalink
AMY WHY ARE YOU TOURING AT THE SAME TIME AS ME BUT GOING UP THE COAST WHILE I'M GOING THE OTHER WAY
DO I GOTTA FLY TO ESCONDIDO ON MY DAY OFF JUST TO SEE YOU SING "SING YOUR PRAISE TO THE LORD"
DON'T EVEN TEMPT ME
― J0hn D., Tuesday, 22 July 2008 03:17 (4 years ago) Permalink
she was the all-time favorite of my freshman-year roommate. he was a 2nd-gen korean-american lacrosse player, super christian. his family would come visit on weekends and i'd wake up hungover in my underwear to a room full of immaculately dressed, extremely polite koreans getting ready for church. yoo-sang brought like 10 cassettes to college with him, and half of them were amy grant. i guess they were ok, i don't know. i only let him use my stereo when i wasn't there.
― tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 06:08 (4 years ago) Permalink
the Gary Lutz story of my dreams
― J0hn D., Tuesday, 22 July 2008 06:11 (4 years ago) Permalink
I want to read what Scott thought of the "Baby Baby" 12".
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:31 (4 years ago) Permalink
baby baby will forever make her worthwile
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 14:04 (4 years ago) Permalink
Her last pre-crossover album, "Lead Me On," is really, really good.
― Pancakes Hackman, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 15:23 (4 years ago) Permalink
some of the touring she's doing right now is in celebration of the anniversary of this outstanding album
tons of the crossover stuff is great too tho & "Legacy: Hymns & Faith" is just awesome
― J0hn D., Tuesday, 22 July 2008 16:52 (4 years ago) Permalink
would blap
― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 16:55 (4 years ago) Permalink
Holy cow that album is 20 years old = I am old. :(
It's long past time for one of our contemporary R&B chanteuses to cover "Every Heartbeat." That song is positively Motown-esque.
― Pancakes Hackman, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 17:56 (4 years ago) Permalink
― velko, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 03:35 (4 years ago) Permalink
best website ever? http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20America/CCM/amy_grant-exposed.htm
― velko, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 03:36 (4 years ago) Permalink
Amy’s album House of Love includes the environmental-mother-earth song, “Big Yellow Taxi,” by new-age-priestess Joni Mitchell (Ibid.). Mitchell is infamous for her open relationship with a spirit she calls “Art.” Obviously she is communing with demons, and it is unconscionable for Amy Grant to be promoting Mitchell’s music to Christian young people.
― Pillbox, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 04:55 (4 years ago) Permalink
Lead Me On really is the most wonderful record. but recently made available digitally & missing from the box set, who knows why, is Never Alone, her third album -- which is outstanding. it's in the earlier style (before the grain got into her voice, v. young-sounding A.G. as on My Father's Eyes & Age to Age), which is so light & hopeful & wonderful - so much warmth in it. The arrangements do a neat eliding of 70s production styles (which I view as "narrative" but that's a whole thing) and the oncoming 80s bells-and-whistles style -- you can sort of hear how people who'd learned to engineer in a 70s environment were thinking things would go. Which, in CCM, they did - this stuff makes a huge impact on a whole genre, really sets a tone (along with Michael W. Smith records, obviously).
Important also, individual song on a Rich Mullins tribute: AG's version of "Nothing is Beyond You" is A+++ all-time top-ten.
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 25 February 2010 14:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
I love this one:
― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 February 2010 14:52 (3 years ago) Permalink
oh man that is my deal right there
that first big chord change in the first verse...sublime. and when she gets to "I'll be your champion, and you will be mine"...she is so so great I will never get enough she should make a new album every other month.
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 25 February 2010 15:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
coworker on 'baby baby' just now: "that big hit she had in the 90s ... kind of a new jack swing kind of a thing"
i dunno. i can hear that there's value here but i feel kind of awkward listening to it. like i haven't put enough distance between myself and my (RC) upbringing to manage to critically listen to CCM stuff at all. so er back to listening to spoon i guess /:
― thomp, Thursday, 25 February 2010 15:52 (3 years ago) Permalink
Crappy audio but great song:
― El Poopo Loco (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 25 February 2010 16:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
this was the tour I saw her on!
she has a new song btw, song of the year easy, it autoloads here:
http://www.amygrant.com/newsite.html
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 25 February 2010 16:51 (3 years ago) Permalink
ok, i'm making my way through this stuff. i see the appeal, though i find myself liking the pre-crossover stuff better than the big-time early-90s stuff. although the more dunderhead fundie lyrics really defeat me.
she has a gorgeous reading of jim webb's "if these walls could speak."
that song is indestructible. i can imagine a version erring on the side of the gloppy, but even glen campbell's late-'80s version is pretty solid. why hasn't more been written about this phenomenal song? why haven't more covered it?
― by another name (amateurist), Monday, 8 March 2010 06:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
I've met Amy Grant in person a couple of times. She's really pretty & very nice.
― lukevalentine, Monday, 8 March 2010 15:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_iE0ZfK3uSUo/SW-vB2qoIkI/AAAAAAAAADE/ux3WH1lG-5w/s320/Amy+Grant+-+Age+to+Age.jpg
wow
― lukevalentine, Monday, 8 March 2010 15:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
― lukevalentine, Monday, 8 March 2010 15:10 (3 years ago) Permalink
Don't know that I'd ever think to describe Amy Grant as "devastating" but that's ILM for you.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 8 March 2010 15:52 (3 years ago) Permalink
― velko, Monday, 8 March 2010 17:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
Sad news -- Will Owsley, Grant's touring guitarist and a solo musician in his own right, took his own life. She's issued a brief statement.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 1 May 2010 21:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
what terrible news.
― brad whitford's impotent rage (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Saturday, 1 May 2010 21:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
A.G. rendition of this was the only standing between me & total despair at one point in my life a couple years back - that whole album is incredible
― brad whitford's impotent rage (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Saturday, 1 May 2010 21:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
I'm listening to Heart in Motion for the first time since maybe age 4. Just hit "Ask Me." Holy shit.
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Monday, 3 May 2010 21:10 (3 years ago) Permalink
From the lyric booklet: "This song is about a girlfriend of mine. If you or someone you love has been a victim of sexual abuse, please don't be afraid to seek help."
This is the hardest time I've ever had getting through an incredibly effective pop song.
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Monday, 3 May 2010 21:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
So, maybe I should go back and read this thread (and other threads, and other things), but what are supposed to be the best of Amy's Christian/pre-Heart In Motion albums? Like, is Lead Me On (which may be considered borderline secular already) any good? Just picked up a cassette of her 1986 best-of The Collection for 25 cents two days ago, and am liking it a lot so far. Does that mean I should pick up the other, non-best-of 25-cent '80s tapes I saw? Or am I basically all set now?
― xhuxk, Monday, 9 August 2010 13:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
Lead Me On is one of my favorite albums of all time, but then again, you and I have been known to have very different tastes. It's the one right before Heart in Motion. "1974" + "Saved By Love" and her cover of Jimmy Webb's "If These Walls Could Speak" and the title track are all A+. Earlier, I'm fond of Age to Age - it's sort of the last of her very-young voice, when her voice had a real clarity to it that gives way to something slightly huskier later on. I'm also super-fond of Never Alone, which she seems to have disowned; it's very early, but it's really, really good. There's a live album from around then that's pretty great, too.
But importantly, have you looked into her later stuff? Because I feel like you might really dig Simple Things and Behind the Eyes.
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Monday, 9 August 2010 15:37 (2 years ago) Permalink
J0hn, how's the new album/comp., Somewhere Down the Road? Noticed the AMG review mentioned "slight traces of Auto-Tune on Amy’s vocals" (really?? O_O) and I kinda stopped there and failed to investigate any further.
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Monday, 9 August 2010 15:55 (2 years ago) Permalink
Thanks a ton, John! And yeah, sounds like I have a lot of catching up to do, in both directions. Stopped paying attention a couple albums after House In Motion (seems like it's been forever since I got any new promos by her in the mail, too, weird), but I'll definitely be on the lookout now. And will definitely go back and pick up any of the 25 cent cassettes you just named. (Think they had Lead Me On with two different album covers, btw! What's up with that?)
― xhuxk, Monday, 9 August 2010 16:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
(Ha, just conflated Heart In Motion and "House Of Love," I think -- oops.)
― xhuxk, Monday, 9 August 2010 16:13 (2 years ago) Permalink
The single from Somewhere is fantastic. The rest of the album is patchy. You don't notice the auto-tune without headphones, but you sure do notice it once the headphones are on, and it ruined the album for me. Her pitch is fine; auto-tune is for people who can't really sing in my opinion. Autotune & melodyne sound like shit unless they're done in such a way that you can't notice them. (Super-obvious-call-yr-attention-to-it autotune is so dated & horrible now that it's a little shocking to me anybody can still stand it.) She is ill-served by modern recording trends, and would do well to accept that. I would give heaven & earth for her to do an American Recordings style album; she can play guitar quite well & her voice is great all by itself. I saw her open with a solo "My Father's Eyes" two years ago; it was completely awesome.
Also the new album doesn't have "The Same Thing/Please Don't Make Me Beg" that she played on the Lead Me On 20 tour which was like such an amazing song, so bummed about that.
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Monday, 9 August 2010 17:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
like seriously somebody let me executive produce an Amy Grant record and I will deliver the album of the year
please let me do this
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Monday, 9 August 2010 17:26 (2 years ago) Permalink
Not sure the Sparrow executives are reading ILM, you may want to send them a direct-mailed letter or something. ;-)
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Monday, 9 August 2010 17:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
Grow a big, burly beard and be the Rick Rubin of CCM.
― All I wanted was a Pepsi and she wouldn't giveittome. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 9 August 2010 17:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
an American Recordings style album
Have a feeling I'd avoid this one like the plague, fwiw. (Nothing against Amy, or John; just can't think of any American Recordings style albums I've ever liked, by anybody. I fall asleep just thinking about it. But like John said, we have been known to have different tastes.)
― xhuxk, Monday, 9 August 2010 18:12 (2 years ago) Permalink
The Cash ones were hit and miss, sure, but they definitely had high points.The Neil Diamond one was a mistake, no two ways about it.
― All I wanted was a Pepsi and she wouldn't giveittome. (Johnny Fever), Monday, 9 August 2010 18:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
The Neil Diamond one was a mistake, no two ways about it.
^ Fixed!
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Monday, 9 August 2010 18:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
Neil Diamond gets a lifetime pass for writing "I'm A Believer"
― people are for loving (HI DERE), Monday, 9 August 2010 18:58 (2 years ago) Permalink
Neil Diamond was never in need of a stripped-down, rustic sound. Half of what makes him him is the pomp of it all.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 9 August 2010 19:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
those songs sucked, is the problem. i'd listen to tape of him doing his good tunes with just a guitar on a stool or whatever, but those songs were not that good.
― goole, Monday, 9 August 2010 19:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
goole otm - the record sounded great & so did his voice but the songs were lame. I saw A.G. open with "My Father's Eyes" by herself: she can really play! "my father's eyes" is picked not strummed but here she is strumming away
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 06:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
& oh my God this song...this SONG
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 06:45 (2 years ago) Permalink
― people are for loving (HI DERE), Monday, August 9, 2010 6:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
But that led to this so pass rescinded.
― thanks for the feedback (supra) (Phil D.), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 13:42 (2 years ago) Permalink
interesting point of eschatology: posting that abomination in a lovely amy grant thread will get you such a talking-to on judgement day
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 14:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
― Bali Eiffel Tower Hai (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 15:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
So by far my favorite songs on The Collection (which runs in roughly reverse chronological order) are the relatively slick and sparkly, '80s pop-new-wavey-produced stuff at the beginning -- "Stay For Awhile," "Love Can Do" (both dated 1986 -- previously unreleased before this album I gather -- and written with Michael W. Smith and Wayne Kirkpatrick), "Everywhere I Go," and "Angels" (both dated 1984, from Unguarded). You can definitely hear her already transitioning toward Heart In Motion with those; their lyrics seem to be inching toward the secular, too. The rest is okay, for the most part ("El Shaddai" is one sort of weird standout), but not nearly so engaging or fun to me. Which makes me think I should pick up Unguarded and Lead Me On if I see them cheap, but maybe avoid her earlier, less popwise (and less huskily sung, as John says) stuff.
― xhuxk, Sunday, 15 August 2010 18:00 (2 years ago) Permalink
I never realized Unguarded was released with 4 covers. Take that, Arcade Fire!
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 15 August 2010 18:22 (2 years ago) Permalink
But Led Zeppelin's In Through The Out Door did it first, right?
Anyway, I guess Unguarded is the album I meant above when I mistakingly said Lead Me On was in that store with two different covered cassettes.
― xhuxk, Sunday, 15 August 2010 18:25 (2 years ago) Permalink
There's a song from her very first album called "Old Man's Rubble" that, for whatever reason, wasn't featured on The Collection. You should obtain it one way or another, even if the rest of the debut is kind of blah.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 15 August 2010 18:30 (2 years ago) Permalink
This really should be posted, despite the brief mentions years ago
― PappaWheelie V, Sunday, 15 August 2010 21:16 (2 years ago) Permalink
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I have to say, I peaked here
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Sunday, 15 August 2010 21:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
man though I'm listening to "Baby Baby" right now - who knows whether this is a single performance or a lot of punch-in & tape edits but wow, what a performance it is in the final mix - she occasionally does a sort of too-lost-in-the-song-to-enunciate-fully move (esp. @ "baby baby in any kind of weather" et seq.) which is pretty uncharacteristic of both her genre & her usual style, and consequently when she does put it into play it's incredibly effective; she communicates ecstasy, abandon, the conflation of the spiritual and the physical. I still prefer "Every Heartbeat" as a song, but "Baby Baby" is something of a master class in pop single-making.
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Sunday, 15 August 2010 21:39 (2 years ago) Permalink
ok yup it's AG listening party in the hotel now
SING YOUR PRAISE TO THE LORD COME ON EVERYBODY STAND UP AND SING ONE MORE HALLELUJAH
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Sunday, 15 August 2010 21:51 (2 years ago) Permalink
oh am I gonna go with "Doubly Good to You" next? you had better believe it
remembering you tonight Rich Mullins, one of the best who ever lived
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Sunday, 15 August 2010 21:53 (2 years ago) Permalink
ok this is my last post on the amy grant thread til dinner all right
there's a video for "better than a hallelujah" now and here it is. it's great but 1) why do country videos gotta always be making the old people in 'em suffer? like, really suffer? weird emotional porn impulse 2) if any track on that song ever existed on actual tape, as the video suggest, I would be extremely surprised
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Sunday, 15 August 2010 22:14 (2 years ago) Permalink
I still prefer "Every Heartbeat" as a song, but "Baby Baby" is something of a master class in pop single-making.
Yeah, there's every reason for me to hate its emphatic synth hook but her performance and lyric are charming instead of gormless.
Besides the fat synth bass (which was wiped from the single remix), "Every Heartbeat" boasts the great couplet, "No exception to the rule/I'm simple but I'm no fool."
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 15 August 2010 22:18 (2 years ago) Permalink
THYYYY WORD IS A LAMP UNTO MY FEET AND A LIIIIIGHT UNTO MY PATH
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 21:50 (2 years ago) Permalink
You know she's doing a bunch of dates this year w/Michael W. Smith, right?
― Du Musst Calamari Werden (Phil D.), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 21:59 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah I do!
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 22:02 (2 years ago) Permalink
i've listened to "1974" about ten times today
― moesha my reflection (donna rouge), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 20:29 (9 months ago) Permalink
i've listened to "baby baby" about ten times today
― gwenguthrie gwen ross (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 04:57 (8 months ago) Permalink
i love this thread
― NASCAR, surfing, raising chickens, owning land (zachlyon), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 07:23 (8 months ago) Permalink
Every Heartbeat is a jam
― Broney, Pt. 1 (Pillbox), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 09:59 (8 months ago) Permalink
that album, man
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 11:04 (8 months ago) Permalink
I love Amy Grant. I went to a Christmas concert by her and Vince Gill last year that was pretty awesome.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 12:59 (8 months ago) Permalink