Nilsson - C or D?

how is Son of Schmilsson? seen that LP the other day, looked so cool. dunno why i didnt pick it up

its good. has the fuck you song.

And Without You, of course.

thats on nilsson schmilsson

Knnillssonn is very underrated. He definitely got his voice back after Pussy Cats.

just to say a little more it has a very ethereal, angelic quality to it. a bit Spector-esque with beautiful string arrangements and heavy reverb throughout. not much guitar except for wonderful acoustic playing and lots of Beach Boys style percussion. some of his best vocals and melodies of his career for sure. even the cover is heaven.

http://www.jefito.com/nilsson_knnillssonn.jpg

actually, knnillssonn kind of depresses me. he doesn't sound blown out, but he does a little desensitized to me

haha im liking it tons and tons today. btw i posted a song from it on askchaki! board last week and it still seems to be an active link of anyone wants.

+ i'll ask again: where in sf??

just with friends for now! ill hit you up on webmail.

actually, knnillssonn kind of depresses me. he doesn't sound blown out, but he does a little desensitized to me

I sort of know what you mean, it's still beautiful though

!!!! I just bought Knnillssonn the other day and was going to post about it. It's good. Not quite up there with the best of them, but certainly better than the snoozier albums of his I've heard, eg A Touch of Schmilsson. Just enough weirdness to stay alive. Love all the plucky-plucky strings (real? fake?) and the crazy song about being in an Agatha Christie story.

what is "Beach Boys-style percussion"?

are you serious? you of anyone knows that wrcking crew percussion sound.

dr c: yes real strings.

ah okay gotcha

I heart Hal Blaine

the most beautiful world in the world
and though there are times when i doubt you
i just couldn't stay here without you

i want to party with him

You're not the only cuddly toy that was ever enjoyed by any boy

You're not the only choo-choo train that was left out in the rain

i want to party with him

That Knnillssonn cover is triggering tavern-toilet bowl flashbacks

you're breakin my heart
you're tearin it apart
so fuck you

Love all the plucky-plucky strings (real? fake?) and the crazy song about being in an Agatha Christie story

that used to annoy me as a kid because i'm sure it didn't add up properly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrQ8NHz6T4Q

Harry Nilsson wrote the series' theme song, which Candy sang.

wau

its such a harry nilsson song!!

You're totally fucking with me! I remember liking the song and having next to no interest in the show. Wow. That's hilarious. It's as Nilsson a theme song as you could imagine - loping, drunken, absolutely not the kind of go-getter tune a kids' cartoon theme song of the day called for. Sadly John Candy didn't have quite Nilsson's set of pipes.

"Jump Into The Fire" was so integral to that great coked-out sequence in "GoodFellas"

If anyone wants the Popeye demos, I've got them. Email me and I'll figure out how to share 'em. I don't think there's a copyright on the demos.

Seems like I got them off of a direct link on a site, though...I'll try to track it down.

Currently I'm trying to find a few of the tracks off of Nilsson's unreleased last album, anybody hear them yet?

...and my insignificant vote for most underrated Nilsson album is Sandman. Classic stuff. All his early stuff was fantastic, too, up until Pussycats.

fortheloveofharry.blogspot.com/

chaki otm re Knnillssonn. tho he never really did get his voice back all the way. that's just aging and cigarettes as much as damage tho.

ghost rider, thanks much for the link. I've been waiting to hear those tracks.

Harry said toward the end that his voice would feel like it was coming back sometimes after a hot shower. If you do a youtube search you can catch some live performances from later on in his life, and he doesn't sound so great...still, his last album and some tracks he recorded for a Yoko Ono tribute album sound pretty good, his voice was tarnished but it was still amazing.

fortheloveofharry.blogspot.com/

Holy sh*t!

been rinsing 'jump into the fire' thx to goodfellas thread madeleine-effect.

we can make each other happy

Nilsson Schmilsson and The Point! rule!

Gotta Get Up.

WE COULD MAKE EACH OTHER HAPPY!

Sit beside the breakfast table,
Talk about your troubles...

Perfect Day as used in the movie All That Jazz is pretty fucking awesome.

11:20am saturday... 2 hours sleep... last night total debauch... going to a funeral in an hour... "gotta get up" just about the perfect song right now.

Quick question: Did the vinyl issue ofThat's The Way It Is have a special innersleeve? I picked up a copy sans innersleeve this weekend and am curious, since some of the later Nilsson lps had sleeves w/in-jokes on them.

It would seem not: Skimmed my usual places of info for this, and havent found one.

Why is the "Who is Harry Nilsson?" documentary still not out on dvd?!! Blurg.

Just about the best thing ever:

nilsson/nilsson/nilsson...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOwUvGgAL0k

it has dawned on me this past week that "don't forget me" is an astonishingly beautiful song.

yes! it's a highlight of Pussy Cats. He's learned from the old masters on A Little Touch and written a subtle lyric, but not without a cheap laugh or two (I'm thinking esp. of the alimony line). But the vocal is heartbreaking, esp. in light of what's to come in his career. I love this album so much.

the whole song is pretty brutal, though.

I'll Never Leave You is so lovely <3

After living with two different greatest hits comps for years and years, I've slowly been picking up the actual albums in the last year. Bought Nilsson Schmilsson first, which in a way was a let-down because I already knew all the best songs and wasn't that into the others. Then I happened across A Touch of Schmilsson in the Night and was pretty bored by that one. Finally two weeks ago I got Pandemonium Shadow Show and that one is stellar, front to back. Next up for me will be Aerial Ballet, I think.

For me a moment that handily sums up the dude is the first verse of "Moonbeam." He's singing, with his gorgeous, free-floating voice, a rhyming list of places you may have seen a moonbeam, just some great imagery:

Have you ever watched a moonbeam
As it slid across your windowpane
Or struggled with a bit of rain
Or danced about the weathervane
Or sat along a moving train
And wondered where the train has been?

And that last line breaks the rhyme and forces some more syllables in and interest is heightened a bit, so then he drops:

Or on a fence with bits of crap around its bottom
Blown there by a windbeam?

Casually dropping the word "crap" in there, which isn't a totally crass or disgusting word but is really silly – man, it just tickles me every time. Such a Harry thing to do.

just reveling in Aerial Pandemonium Ballet and wondering what other acts pursued the possibilities of this side of the Beatles: elegant but playful, tunes over conceptual depth, gorgeous but always aching.