TS: "Desperado" vs. "New York State of Mind"

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both are pantomime Ray Charles…but which is better as such? alternatively, which do you dig more?

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link

"New York State of Mind" as sung by Rowlf the Dog.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 14:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Desperado by the little girl on the Langey School Music Project CD.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Hm, that's a good challenge we've made. Can someone YSI both those for immediate comparison? (Do not send the originals at all, plz.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 15:04 (eighteen years ago) link

"NY State of Mind", easily. I can't abide the other one (though I haven't heardt he Langley School version - that might be okay).

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 15:12 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.hiphopchains.com/pendants/nas.jpg

― deej.., Wednesday, 15 June 2005 15:46 (eighteen years ago) link

What did they call it before bling anyway?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 15:52 (eighteen years ago) link

As much as I wish heaps of thorny, bloodthirsty misfortune upon Billy Joel, I feel somewhat obligated to choose "New York State of Mind," if only out of civic pride. Also, the Eagles make me want to cough up my lower intestines and strangle puppies with it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 16:05 (eighteen years ago) link

three years pass...

<3 new york state of mind

― Surmounter, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link

four years pass...

two very good, very different, capital-A american songs. as pantomime ray charles, billy joel in a walk 'cause don henley's voice is a good voice but not in that particular way. as a song, "new york state of mind" in a ~~walk~~ taxi, the grounded east coast fantasy easily trumping the hollywood cowboy fantasy for me. i think i'd rather have heard ray charles himself sing "desperado," though, 'cause i think there's more room for him to work in that one. i can't imagine what he would have done with "ny state of mind" beyond imitating his own imitator.

― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 5 September 2013 04:48 (ten years ago) link

A+ Alex In NYC post upthread.

― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 5 September 2013 05:01 (ten years ago) link

Someone should compile Alex's greatest hits someday!

― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 5 September 2013 06:52 (ten years ago) link

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