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I was never officially a suspect in his death by the way.
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 8 November 2003 06:13 (9 years ago) Permalink
― musicmope (musicmope), Saturday, 8 November 2003 11:40 (9 years ago) Permalink
2. He lost his wife and kids in a house fire.
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His close friends knew that he wasn't blind, and would refer to him jokingly as "The All-Seeing Orb". -- jazz odysseus (nomorespa...), November 8th, 2003.
Those two posts made my entire evening. I did end up hooping tonight with murky results and was nursing quite the frantic comedown until jazz odysseus set me straight. Cheers mon, I'll sleep to your honor.
― DarrensCoq, Sunday, 9 November 2003 15:01 (9 years ago) Permalink
― DarrensCoq, Sunday, 9 November 2003 15:06 (9 years ago) Permalink
Now I'm imagining you in Blue Velvet, N.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 9 November 2003 16:13 (9 years ago) Permalink
if only Roy Orbison hadn't died, b/c a duet w/ Morrissey would have been so cool!
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 9 November 2003 17:07 (9 years ago) Permalink
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― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Sunday, 9 November 2003 23:29 (9 years ago) Permalink
This may not really be classified as "interesting" though.
― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 9 November 2003 23:35 (9 years ago) Permalink
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 (9 years ago) Permalink
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― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 7 November 2004 19:31 (8 years ago) Permalink
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 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Hurting (Hurting), Sunday, 7 November 2004 19:39 (8 years ago) Permalink
'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 (8 years ago) Permalink
-- 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 (8 years ago) Permalink
YOU GOT IT
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 17 January 2008 02:43 (5 years ago) Permalink
Is there any better sounding echo than on Roy Orbison's early 60s hits? I'm not familiar with music terms so I don't know if you would exactly call it "echo", but what I'm talkin about is the sound of his voice specifically on "In Dreams" when he starts singing "I close my eyes and drift away...". God I love that song.
― Belldog, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 02:34 (5 years ago) Permalink
reverb, I imagine
― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 03:50 (5 years ago) Permalink
and yeah, it's pretty much the best reverb
― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 03:51 (5 years ago) Permalink
He wore those big sunnies 'cause he was shy.
― S-, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 04:11 (5 years ago) Permalink
album recommendations?
― Local Garda, Sunday, 14 September 2008 17:26 (4 years ago) Permalink
The original In Dreams if you mean non-compilations.
― Scowly D (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 14 September 2008 17:31 (4 years ago) Permalink
The two-disc comp released a few years ago collects a lot of worthwhile one-off tracks from various eighties soundtracks ("Wild Hearts Run Out of Time," "Life Fades Away"), but the track list is frustratingly out of sequence.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 14 September 2008 17:36 (4 years ago) Permalink
There's a new 4xCD set called The Soul of Rock and Roll. It's out next month and it's very good.
― deusner, Sunday, 14 September 2008 19:24 (4 years ago) Permalink
does Roy Orbison join Al Green as the artist with universal ILE acclaim?
I like him a lot more than I do like Al Green. Al Green is, well, OK, but not at all up there with peers such as Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye. Roy Orbison was one of the very few great pre-Beatles acts.
― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 14 September 2008 23:25 (4 years ago) Permalink
As for original albums, I guess "Crying" may be the most essential. The title track in particular, but also contains "Running Scared" among others.
Generally, original albums by pre-Beatles acts are not really recommended though. They were typical singles acts and should be treated as such. Also the case with Orbison.
― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 14 September 2008 23:27 (4 years ago) Permalink
Thanks for the education.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 14 September 2008 23:28 (4 years ago) Permalink
Had a look at the tracklisting for the box set - no "Southbound Jericho Parkway," no "definitive" I'm afraid.
― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 15 September 2008 09:10 (4 years ago) Permalink
He was a guest on Night Network one night in the late 80s, along with the Voice of the Beehive. They were reviewing new videos and a late Smiths or early solo Morrissey song came on and Roy Orbison said how sad the singer seemed and how he felt bad for him.― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 9 November 2003
― the pinefox, Monday, 15 September 2008 09:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
I picked up a really shabby looking Roy Orbison best of today for a dollar and I'm mighty glad that I did. I've always been envious of people who grew up with families who listened to radio all of the time, and have long been familiar with all the old staples. But then again, sometimes it's really cool to approach this stuff as an adult for the first time. Currently I'm going fucking wild about "Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)", the way the drums get louder and louder during the final minute.
― Z S, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 04:42 (4 years ago) Permalink
He's really somethin' else. Runnin' Scared is my jam.
― ian, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 05:25 (4 years ago) Permalink
I was flipping through channels on Thanksgiving during post-eating and some kind of all-star concert was shown on PBS.. It was filmed in B&W, and I remember hearing "It's Over" and "Pretty Woman.."
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 05:36 (4 years ago) Permalink
wow ZS, I'm not sure if I envy you or pity you.
Dream Baby, Crying, Dream Baby, Pretty Woman: these songs are the sdtk to my life.
hard to imagine what could've replaced them, but the thought of approaching with fresh ears is appetizing
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billstevejim, that special is the greatest dream like music thing i've ever seen. kinda lynchian
― STILL GEETIKA IN 2009 (PappaWheelie V), Tuesday, 9 December 2008 05:37 (4 years ago) Permalink
Yeah I loved it.. I'm pretty sure most, if not all, of my family was into it, but there were people running in and out of the room a lot, so it's hard to tell.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 05:39 (4 years ago) Permalink
Okay, I'm reading on wikipedia that he recorded a disco album called Laminar Flow in 1979. This sounds intriguing.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 05:52 (4 years ago) Permalink
LIFE FADES AWAY
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 14 December 2008 19:48 (4 years ago) Permalink
a friend of mine recently picked up a tape at a carboot sale with "boy or bison" written on the inlay card. he thought it was a great bandname and bought it for that reason. he got home and it was, of course, a roy orbison compliation.
― NI, Sunday, 14 December 2008 20:56 (4 years ago) Permalink
His late Sixties/Early Seventies Jimmy Webb-style Überpop-opera recordings for MGM-Monument are totally slept on.― musicmope (musicmope), Saturday, November 8, 2003 11:40 AM (5 years ago)
On the basis of the copy of 'Memphis' (1972) I just picked up, this would appear to be true - amazing song called 'Run the Engine High' by jerry McBee, that sounds like it could be the Box Tops, a bonkers, phased I fought the Law, and an even more Bonkers 'Danny Boy'
― sonofstan, Saturday, 16 May 2009 11:45 (4 years ago) Permalink
"She's a Mystery to Me" is an obvious standout on Mystery Girl but this is a really strong album. The second half is particularly strong: "The Comedians" is excellent as is said above, as is "Windsurfer" and "Careless Heart" (the latter a Diane Warren co-write but let's not hold that against it).
Why do we always go for something we can't reach? Nobody ever really understands.
― Euler, Saturday, 13 June 2009 16:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
roy orbison sing it for the lonely
― Lamp, Saturday, 13 June 2009 19:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, I really enjoyed the fact that half the music business seemed to be behind him, determined to give him a hit.
So true.
― Bud Huxtable (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 June 2009 02:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
You know someone who said something interesting about Roy Orbison is Alan Sparhawk in that NPR Fresh Aire interview linked from the Low thread.
― bamcquern, Saturday, 20 June 2009 02:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
christ, but Mystery Girl is a TREMENDOUS album. obviously I always loved "You Got It", but never heard the entire lp until I picked up a sealed copy for three bucks last weekend. so wonderful in every way. how sad that he wasn't around to bask in its glow.
― Stormy Davis, Friday, 16 April 2010 03:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
i love roy orbison more than life
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Thursday, 20 May 2010 20:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
Something interesting. Hmmm...
I think I read somewhere that Elvis Presley got a phone call from somebody praising his new song, but it turned out to be one of Roy's singles.
Someone's face was red.
― ImprovSpirit, Thursday, 20 May 2010 21:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
Roy Orbison was the first American rock musician to start using Marshall amps and bring them back to the USA after a UK tour.
― earlnash, Friday, 21 May 2010 02:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
always listen to roy orbison at christmas
― jabba hands, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 23:19 (2 years ago) Permalink
No proper C/D thread, so...
I picked up the Bear Family "Roy Rocks" comp of his rockabilly and up-tempo material and it's just strength to strength. While I enjoy Roy's ballads more than most of his contemporaries I really appreciate this Rocks series approach, it concentrates on the stuff I like best.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 5 September 2011 01:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
My favourite is Running Scared, an extraordinarily tense song. One of the live albums I have, he ends it on that huge "...with MEEEEEE!!!" and the audience goes wild, and then he just sings the last couple of lines another half dozen times, putting more into it each time. It's fantastic.― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, November 7, 2004 11:13 PM (6 years ago)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, November 7, 2004 11:13 PM (6 years ago)
martin OTM. this has been one of my favorite performances (on the record, haven't heard the live version) for ever and ever.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 5 September 2011 01:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
Despite boasting an "anodyne" production (as I heard someone call Jeff Lynne's job last month), "You Got It" is such a remarkable piece of craft.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 September 2011 03:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
Back in around 2006 or 2007 the RnR Hall of Fame had an Orbison exhibit. Among the artifacts was a hand-scrawled memo to himself essentially telling him to pull his shit together, from the mid-80s or so. It was in list form, kind of like "1) Fire manager; 2) Get new band" etc.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 5 September 2011 18:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
that's interesting - i'd always chalked orbison's comeback to a confluence of factors: blue velvet, the showtime 'black and white night' special (this was a pretty big deal at the time), the 'crying' remake w/ kd lang and then the watershed w/ traveling wilburys and mystery girl. i'd never even considered that he might've been the active catalyst behind it.
― balls, Monday, 5 September 2011 20:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
Was the subject of a bizarro early attempt to create stereo LPs from old mono recordings when stereo became big in the mid-60s, which budget label Design Records did by putting the original recording on the left channel, and overdubbing new instruments on the right channel. Unfortunately, someone thought that a tambourine and harmonica were the ticket to modernizing O's early recordings. Here's the sorry result. LOLling at description "Design Records vs. Roy Orbison", like it was an intended mash-up.....
― Lee547 (Lee626), Monday, 5 September 2011 22:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
xp The memo definitely predated "A Black & White Night," the Wilburys, and the kd lang collaboration. It was pretty fascinating, like he was taking stock: where have I been, where am I now, and where do I want to be?
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 5 September 2011 22:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
How could Orbison be a passive agent in his own comeback?
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 September 2011 22:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
had one of his songs featured in popular British sitcom "Only Fools And Horses". It was sung by a character in the show that was an ageing binman dressed up to look roughly like Tom Jones, who couldn't pronounce his R's properly. Thus, the song in question became 'Cwying'.
― Turrican, Monday, 5 September 2011 22:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
He should be swtiched off immediately if in the vicinity of Dennis Hopper with an oxygen cylinder
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 18:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's 1976 and the Big O has the number one album in the UK. How did that happen? I try to find out why.
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Sunday, 8 April 2012 00:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
his hair could do the work of ten men.― scott seward, Saturday, 8 November 2003 04:07 (8 years ago) Bookmark
― I'm not going leftfield on you... (hypehat), Sunday, 8 April 2012 00:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
My buddy in junior high got dressed up like roy orbison, and I photographed him eating from a bowl of banana pudding.
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Maybe I should've posted that in the seran wrap thread.
― pplains, Sunday, 8 April 2012 01:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
Well basically my prime dread re: hooping kind of happened and for the first twenty minutes the pill burned in my ass in that nagging, infuriating way like when your belly-button ring accidentally gets yanked too hard. Would you believe it though, one of my friends took it upon herself to put a condom over her finger and re-orient the thing -- I hadn't the money for a second attempt -- after which I had a pretty good time. Not all it's cracked up to be, however, though it may be different for girls. I guess it's on you to find out for yourselves.
― DarrensCoq, Sunday, November 9, 2003 9:06 AM (8 years ago)
― tanuki, Sunday, 8 April 2012 01:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
During recent Louvin Brothers jag discovered this pretty good Live From Batley Variety Club album: http://open.spotify.com/album/4LFrznrFAkcoprQqaWrCAc
― ratso piazzolla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 June 2012 17:34 (10 months ago) Permalink
Wait there's also Live from Birmingham, Live from Queen's Theatre, and Live from The Fiesta Club. Set Lists vary slightly. This one is the only one without "Leah," which is one of my favorites, although it is the only one with a cover of "When I Stop Dreaming," which is how I found it.
― ratso piazzolla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 June 2012 17:45 (10 months ago) Permalink
my god this concert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YG__LBJVZ0&feature=relmfu
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 21 October 2012 03:19 (7 months ago) Permalink
'in dreams' is about the best song anyone ever wrote.― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, November 7, 2004 7:45 AM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Worth repeating.
― This Is Not An ILX Username (LaMonte), Sunday, 21 October 2012 22:57 (7 months ago) Permalink