― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 21 April 2003 00:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
I just heard the sound of 20 ILx0rs being fired.
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 21 April 2003 00:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
put it in the microwave until its bill withers
― del a robbo, Saturday, 17 May 2003 16:39 (twenty years ago) link
― jed (jed_e_3), Thursday, 5 August 2004 16:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― neil tacus (tacit), Thursday, 5 August 2004 18:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 5 August 2004 18:22 (nineteen years ago) link
yeah i was just going to bring this one up, too. i like the version on the live at carnegie hall album best. more/less relevant than ever?
― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 5 August 2004 19:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Thursday, 5 August 2004 19:15 (nineteen years ago) link
Also always loved "Who Is He (And What Is He To You?)," esp. Gladys Knight's spine-chilling version...
-- Douglas (il...), April 19th, 2003.
I don't know where it came from, but I've got a version of it by Fiona Apple that's pretty true to the original.
― JC-L (JC-L), Thursday, 5 August 2004 19:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 5 August 2004 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link
Joe Simon I like too--he recorded for Sound Stage 7 in Nashville. A bit more of a conventionally "good" singer but great.
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 5 August 2004 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link
...and I'd do it again.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 5 August 2004 21:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― splooge (thesplooge), Friday, 6 August 2004 07:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Friday, 6 August 2004 10:19 (nineteen years ago) link
It's always a cool breeze to the earholes when "Soul Shadows" comes on during the drive-time Quiet Storm show.
― briania (briania), Friday, 6 August 2004 11:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― willem (willem), Friday, 6 August 2004 11:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 6 August 2004 13:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― splooge (thesplooge), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:01 (nineteen years ago) link
highlights, as vahid noted above, "I can't write left handed" - more relevant than ever now. the long held note on "she's go-o-o-o-o-o-one" in the track "hope she'll be happier" is probably even more astonishing than the one on "Lovely Day".
if you don't have this album you must buy it.
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 28 June 2006 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link
also seek out the soundtrack to SAVE THE CHILDREN (a 1973 concert movie of a Jesse Jackson/Operation PUSH rally from the year before)...bill starts out his portion of the album by saying something like: "ten years ago, if we saw THIS many black people in one place...even WE woulda been scared!" kinda makes up for the fact that he starts out "lean on me" wildly offkey
― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Thursday, 29 June 2006 03:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 29 June 2006 03:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Thursday, 29 June 2006 03:49 (seventeen years ago) link
(you should also check out the DVD that comes with the recent reissue of JUST AS I AM...my man Bill is just going OFF in the modern-day interview segments!)
― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Thursday, 29 June 2006 03:56 (seventeen years ago) link
JUST AS I AM was actually reissued on Columbia in the eighties featuring an updated photo of a bearded Bill in a suit (my, how far we've come), but the new CD version (again on Columbia) restores the original day-job cover from '71!
― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Thursday, 29 June 2006 04:03 (seventeen years ago) link
http://img.hmv.co.jp/image/jacket/190/14/5/8/355.jpg http://www.comicgenius.com/DiscoFever/disco_profiles/george_mccrae/images/rock.gif
― flëétwøöd måçk (jaxon), Thursday, 29 June 2006 04:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Fastnbulbous (Fastnbulbous), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link
Then he changed labels and got more and more "quiet storm" as the years went on, and that's where I get off the train re: Withers. But damn if JUST AS I AM, STILL BILL, the live LP and JUSTMENTS weren't an incredible four-album run.
― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Monday, 30 October 2006 07:57 (seventeen years ago) link
It's a disco edit/extended mix that sounds like Bill Withers and Quincy Jones being chopped and blunted by Madlib and then fed through the Akufen machine for a futuristic cleaning.
Italo-disco/Cosmic DJs love this track - I have no idea who did this remix - but if it were 3600 minutes long it would still be too short.
― greypejooze (Ryanssssss), Monday, 30 October 2006 12:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 30 October 2006 14:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rodney... (R. J. Greene), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― edde (edde), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 00:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 01:48 (seventeen years ago) link
OMG just bought Carnegie Hall, and it really is beautiful. And as a rule I hate live albums... It's just so charming, and the band are so understated yet wildly funky. Grandma's Hands is genuinely affecting.
I just felt I wanted to share this.
― Daniel Giraffe, Monday, 18 June 2007 10:06 (sixteen years ago) link
his drummer is teh shit! so subtle and funky. unbelievable. must get the carnegie hall.
much much love for horace andy's "ain't no sunshine."
― andrew m., Monday, 18 June 2007 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Live At Carnegie Hall is the greatest soul record there is. James Brown invented more, Otis Redding is the greater singer, Aretha Franklin could do a wider variety of things, Al Green was more magical. None came close to summing up a cultural moment the way Live At Carnegie Hall did. Bill Withers' world is the one we would all want to live in, and the fact that we don't is why soul died and was replaced by funk and then hip hop (which, of course, have their own virtues).
― Kenny, Thursday, 19 July 2007 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I just picked up a two-fer of his first couple, but I need to listen. Which is the story with a lot of music I own. : (
― The Reverend, Thursday, 19 July 2007 18:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Live At Carnegie Hall is the greatest soul record there is
^^^^^^
― El Tomboto, Friday, 12 October 2007 11:43 (sixteen years ago) link
hmmmmmm. I just have a studio effort.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 12 October 2007 15:51 (sixteen years ago) link
No, you need that Carnegie Hall album. Seriously.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 12 October 2007 15:57 (sixteen years ago) link
^
― The Reverend, Friday, 12 October 2007 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link
― Dimension 5ive, Friday, 12 October 2007 16:57 (sixteen years ago) link
more love for Menagerie! it's as good as Still Bill.
Search 'It ain't because of me baby'
― poortheatre, Friday, 12 October 2007 18:27 (sixteen years ago) link
-- El Tomboto, Friday, October 12, 2007 11:43 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Link
― jed_, Friday, 12 October 2007 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link
http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:CK8DlNIOUwuJPM:http://www.80stees.com/images/products/Peanuts_Charlie_Brown_Yellow_Shirt-T.jpg
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Friday, 12 October 2007 18:38 (sixteen years ago) link
this is true
― tremendoid, Friday, 12 October 2007 21:55 (sixteen years ago) link
got the Live at Carnegie Hall record at the behest of this thread - good shit! thx for the rec everybody
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 19 November 2007 23:32 (sixteen years ago) link
I Can't Write Lefthanded kills - weird version of Ain't No Sunshine tho (I like it but the drummer has an odd take on the rhythm)
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 19 November 2007 23:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I saw a dvd at a friend's house, can't remember now if it was an "Old Grey Whistle Test" or some American thing, but anyhow, Bill Withers doing "Ain't No Sunshine" moved me to tears. Soooo beautiful. I also love the story about how he couldn't come up w/lyrics for a bridge, so he just kept the "I know, I know, I know..." part.
― dell, Tuesday, 20 November 2007 00:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I can feel my heart just athumpinanaskippin
― sprinkle me mayne (The Reverend), Sunday, 21 September 2008 05:25 (fifteen years ago) link
In a room with soft satin pillowsCrackling fireplace keeps us warmWhispering wind through weeping willowsSweet Wanomi resting in my arms
In a soft light her eyes are gleamingPretty little hand covers up her mouth when she yawnsWake me up, I must be dreaming thatSweet Wanomi resting in my arms
Sleepy kisses warm me softlyGet much warmer later onI reach for the light and turn it offSweet Wanomi resting in my arms
― mr. mayan end times guy (The Reverend), Thursday, 13 November 2008 04:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Hope She's Happier With Him off Carnegie Hall is devastating. Such a beautiful, sad, dark lyric, so perfectly delivered.
― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Friday, April 3, 2020 12:05 PM (thirty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
yes
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Friday, 3 April 2020 20:00 (four years ago) link
on percussion, we got a lady
― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Friday, 3 April 2020 21:30 (four years ago) link
very happy to learn Still Bill is on youtube
― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Friday, 3 April 2020 23:06 (four years ago) link
Carmen McRae’s version of “Paint your pretty picture” is the only cover I know of that improves on Bill’s takehttps://youtu.be/RknfFt06Uzs
― Heez, Saturday, 4 April 2020 00:52 (four years ago) link
Withers got a real royalty juice when S.O.U.L S.Y.S.T.E.M'S pop house cover on The Bodyguard soundtrack got some play
i legitimately love that record
r.i.p. to this great artist
― dyl, Saturday, 4 April 2020 05:35 (four years ago) link
xpost There's something else (very tangentially) cool about that Carmen McRae live album: it might be the first recorded appearance of Joey Baron on drums!
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 4 April 2020 14:04 (four years ago) link
Even chilly darkness has the brightest POLL: Bill Withers' STILL BILL
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Sunday, 5 April 2020 21:50 (four years ago) link
i moved in to a cozy little trailer with someone i'm in love with a few months ago. we're both jobless since covid but we're lucky to have some savings so in between bouts of anxiety about income we've both slowed down a little bit - not much to do but care for each other.
anyway i played menagerie the morning i heard he'd died and we had coffee and listened to it. the second "lovely day" started i was giving j. meaningful glances and trying to keep from outright bawling. i hadn't actually listened to menagerie before so it was quite a treat -- even the two disco tracks are good. we got to "tender things" and i told j. that bill withers had died and i cried and j. told me that the song's spirit matched mine. a compliment i'll always remember.
― i am a horse girl (map), Monday, 6 April 2020 02:37 (four years ago) link
i wish i could really say what it is about bill withers that's so special. the familiarity with depression is a part of it. the ability to articulate so clearly what it is about sharing your life with another person that's so fulfilling is another part. and also a healthy, earth-bound sense of ones self in relation to another. a humility, a familiarity with limits. and just the crazy perfect songs, like they're natural fixtures in the world, like the world would be an absurd place by definition if they didn't exist.
― i am a horse girl (map), Monday, 6 April 2020 02:51 (four years ago) link
My brass band finally finished the tribute that we recorded after he passed, it took awhile to figure out recording in our separate homes and putting a video together:https://www.facebook.com/mamadigdown/videos/3043741569039500/
All proceeds go to the New Orleans Brass Band Musicians Relief Fund:https://digdown.bandcamp.com/track/just-the-two-of-us-2
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 16:43 (four years ago) link
this is solid man, thanks!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 17:24 (four years ago) link
thanks u!
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 19:09 (four years ago) link
The second side of Justments is the best of chill withers
― Heez, Sunday, 5 November 2023 20:38 (six months ago) link
Such a fantastic record. Would like to play Railroad Man out somewhere people might dance to it.
― Yngwie Azalea (stevie), Sunday, 5 November 2023 21:01 (six months ago) link
i def would.
also 'justments is his best album.
― "another slice of death, please." (Austin), Sunday, 5 November 2023 21:25 (six months ago) link