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― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Friday, 12 November 2004 06:10 (8 years ago) Permalink
The Four Seasons C/D?
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― Formerly Lee G (Formerly Lee G), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:41 (8 years ago) Permalink
can't believe this thread never got bigger. absolutely loving 'opus 17' lately, how it seems to shift up a gear on every verse cycle, getting faster and more manic then on the final verse - when it starts to get really crazy - it goes and fades out halfway through - HUGE anticlimax. i've searched desperately for an extended version of this song, it would be perfect if it were about 7 minutes long and went into some high-octane disco freakout about 2/3 through. does this exist? anyone fancy helping me create it?
― NI, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 14:01 (5 years ago) Permalink
it took me forever but I finally found a shitty rip of Valli's solo album for Motown, which has some incredible stuff on it
― J0hn D., Tuesday, 11 March 2008 15:07 (5 years ago) Permalink
it even fades out during his vocal, just after the verse begins. the worst editing of a song ive ever heard.
― NI, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 19:12 (5 years ago) Permalink
"the night" is pretty much the best song of all time imo
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 01:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
otm
― dayo, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 01:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
holy shit, i've never heard that song
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 27 September 2011 01:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
was that just a chorus? a minute-long chorus?
wow
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 27 September 2011 01:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
mine is a minor key 3 minutes?
― dayo, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 01:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
ok yeah that whole thing wasn't the hook i guess, when frankie busts out at first he jumps straight into the middle eight
still wow, i love this
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 27 September 2011 01:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
i, um, have to 'find' that motown album, ahem
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 27 September 2011 02:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
i just texted my dad about this song lol
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 27 September 2011 02:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
I grew up listening to "Swearin' to God" without knowing it was Frankie.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 02:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
it was a big northern soul track in England. the whole motown years disc is really really worth getting, so many good tunes. and yeah his vocal entry in "the night," the whole construction of the track - backing vox take the first verse and then valli lands like a fucking raptor, what a track
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 02:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
I love how veiled and circumspect the lyrics are, actually not just for that song, but for every song from that time period
― dayo, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 02:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Newish Motown west comp on light in the attic is a must
― blank, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 03:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
gaudio wrote this, allmusic sez! he really was amazing
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 27 September 2011 03:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, that is just outstanding songwriting. Interesting parallels with R. Dean Taylor, who was also an unorthodox writer.
― timellison, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 04:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
Valli's vocal is so fresh here, too - it's like he can feel that this is a choice bit from a guy whose moves he knows - really digs in at just the right pitch
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 04:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
i heard this song on a tape from somewhere or other that was in heavy rotation, paired like a one-two-punch with the snake by al wilson (i forget which came first); my brother bought the seven inches for both & would spin them all the time. i think we also got a pretty bad al wilson LP; the same kind of mis-guided extrapolation from one song meant lead me to picking up a bunch of johnny guitar watson records after hearing 'too late'. the two songs, the night & the snake are just canonical & super fun to dance to. both are so forceful and sharp-edged, have such impact. this wasn't motown though was it??, or is 'motown years' just other contemporaneous stuff?
― mr. vertical (schlump), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 12:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
too late is a jam also
sorta almost a competitive duet replete with so many archetypally awesome dressings of the period - the backbeats on the guitar, the concise strings-solo, obligatory deployment of 'keep on keepin' on' &c
― mr. vertical (schlump), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 12:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
Bassline ftw. Which reminds me that Pete Hook picked it as one of his favourite tracks of all time in an interview I read with him once.
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 12:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
schlump, the parent album (and presumably the single itself), 'inside you', was released on motown in 1975
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 27 September 2011 12:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
ah thank you, i couldn't remember & it didn't seem right somehow
― mr. vertical (schlump), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 12:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
the writing on "the night" with its repetitive circularity plays to one of my biggest weaknesses as a reader, i just love that shit
my favorite example: http://www.bartleby.com/100/173.112.html
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 5 September 2012 02:42 (9 months ago) Permalink
"the night" is one of the greatest singles of all time
― we don't wanna miss a THING!!! (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 02:45 (9 months ago) Permalink
I appear to have downgraded it from "greatest of all time" since last time this thread was around. in my defense...I have no defense, "the night" is the shit
― we don't wanna miss a THING!!! (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 02:46 (9 months ago) Permalink
it really is
sometimes i think the 4 seasons anthology LP i have is my favorite album ever. an entire life lived in 26 songs
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 5 September 2012 02:57 (9 months ago) Permalink
The Night is one of my top five songs of all time.
Only discovered this song last year, also pretty amazing.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 03:35 (9 months ago) Permalink
uncanny, valli
― Intent to Distribute (buzza), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 03:38 (9 months ago) Permalink