come on home*
― Peace (peaceful) (The Brainwasher), Sunday, 12 February 2012 20:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
otm. it's funny because it strays so little from rose royce's original, but something about its context on the album and mary's fragile vocals gives it all this added poignance.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 12 February 2012 20:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
just cos i wouldnt necessarily be mad at someone claiming my life was boring; it is sort of torpid in a profound way, i dunno.
― r|t|c, Tuesday, September 8, 2009 5:43 PM Bookmark
torpid, not droning, but yes, this seems otm.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 12 February 2012 20:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
haha lots of great posts in that thread:
imo only a heart of stone wouldn't have had to beat back an instant gleeful impulse for 411 - so many classic jams represented there (sprawled admittedly over 411, 411 remix, the odd 12, and time itself) but not necessarily a great listen-thru album the way it is a great cd or the seminal record of the 90s that it most probably is. and share my world is frequently excellent too, but all the same somehow never quite cumulates in that sense of magnificent abyssal totality that my life ends up leaving you with.
― r|t|c, Tuesday, September 8, 2009 8:07 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oftentimes i tend to find myself imagining chucky thompson having had this huge crush on mary while he was making this album, is that weird? the utterly silent, sadly noble kind where he'd know putting an arm around her shoulder would only ever be an awkward, inadequate kind of gesture.
― r|t|c, Tuesday, September 8, 2009 8:13 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― horseshoe, Sunday, 12 February 2012 20:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
love "i love you" and "i'm goin down"
― some dude, Monday, 13 February 2012 01:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Be Happy" was #1 on my year-end that year. Seems like an odd choice looking back, but I remember it was kind of lousy year for me, and it tapped into something.
― clemenza, Monday, 13 February 2012 03:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
Be Happy. she was supposedly bloody miserable at the time and the yearning in it is just so genuine.
― piscesx, Monday, 13 February 2012 04:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 18 February 2012 00:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
i love this album so much i might as well vote for any track. voted "you gotta believe"
― horseshoe, Saturday, 18 February 2012 01:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
dont know i could pick a track from this. this record is definitely intensity personified
― D-40, Saturday, 18 February 2012 23:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 19 February 2012 00:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
too few voters >:(
― lex pretend, Sunday, 19 February 2012 15:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
i was one of the "i love you" voters
all those pretty memoriesi KNOW you can HEAR me nowfor the recordi love you... i love you...
― nowadays suckers seem to be so fucking naïve (uberweiss), Sunday, 19 February 2012 23:03 (1 year ago) Permalink