I still have a vivid memory of being in the back seat of my parents' car as a youngster on a rainy day, and hearing the radio play Frank's version of "Cottage For Sale." Being a rock and roll loving youth, I thought this was the most lugubrious, horrible song ever, and it pretty much summed up what I thought of Sinatra in general. It took me another decade or so to come around to the swingier stuff, and even longer to "get" this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_hVwk3CXzk
― Glorified Lolcat (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 19:25 (thirteen years ago) link
yipee! i'm not alone. FS couldn't sing! the songwriting is terrible too, though i'm not sure if that's his fault. ― xenografia, Wednesday, February 2, 2005 4:20 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark
can we look into retroactive SBs?
― door to door legume salesman (San Te), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 01:13 (thirteen years ago) link
also re: My Way, Frankie himself hated that song for many of the reasons listed ITT. He hated the lyrical content.
Jesus fuck, this thread is a monument to tin-eared idiocy.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 01:46 (thirteen years ago) link
You just need to get him under your skin to appreciate him.
― Jim, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 13:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Man, fuck Frank Sinatra; I can't go out for Italian, go to a mall, go to the fucking dentist without hearing this shit nonstop!
― Dan I., Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:41 (six years ago) link
"music for people who don't really like music," is right
― Dan I., Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:44 (six years ago) link
I could listen to the sad-bastard ballad albums forever tbh, but fuck ever listening to the upbeat stuff
― Simon H., Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:46 (six years ago) link
So you haven't got the world on a swing?
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 20:59 (six years ago) link
geez Dan I, an awful lotta musicians like Sinatra.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:00 (six years ago) link
― that's not funny. (unperson), Wednesday, February 9, 2011 1:46 AM (six years ago)
yeah, what he said.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:04 (six years ago) link
I'd rather listen to racists, homophobes, misogynists -- hell, even rockists -- than hear little boys crying wolf about it.― Heidy- Ho, Thursday, February 3, 2005 5:02 PM (thirteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha this is classic old skool ilm - rockism as being perhaps worse than racism, homophobia, and misogyny
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:17 (six years ago) link
― Simon H., Tuesday, February 6, 2018 1:46 PM (thirty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
idk man i feel like you need both sides
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:20 (six years ago) link
It took me forever to realize that Sinatra's style reminds me post of spoken word poets. You either buy into how he's using rhythm and emoting across the sung lines and it gels when the material is good or it just seems incredibly indulgent and induces terminal eye-rolling
― mh, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:42 (six years ago) link
are there any Sinatra songs with falsetto?
― Dominique, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:45 (six years ago) link
just not his "Both Sides Now"
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:45 (six years ago) link
lol i set it up, you knocked it down morbs
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 21:52 (six years ago) link
stick around, jack, it may show
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:12 (six years ago) link
besides disliking his musical output a lot there's something really off-putting about his face
like i try not to judge because people can't help their face shape, but he always makes me think of a sculpture bust that was so badly made it turned cursed and malevolent
― heliogabberlus, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:18 (six years ago) link
― Dan I., Tuesday, February 6, 2018 3:41 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
first thing I picture when I hear his music in my head is the Maggiano's next to the Border's near my parents house blaring Sinatra out front.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:37 (six years ago) link
Man, fuck Frank Sinatra; I can't go out for Italian, go to a mall, go to the fucking dentist without hearing this shit nonstop!― Dan I., Tuesday, February 6, 2018 3:41 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
weird, i don't hear him played as background music anywhere.
― vicious almond beliefs (crüt), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link
Literally everywhere that wants to project "class" or "manliness" or "classy manliness"
― Dan I., Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:02 (six years ago) link
MitchDan I., out!
― Some Dusty in Here (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:03 (six years ago) link
I mean, i don't spend a lot of time in haberdasheries, but I assume it's all sinatra all the time
― Dan I., Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:04 (six years ago) link
Sinatra fucking rules btw
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 04:16 (six years ago) link
fuuuuck frank sinatra right in his smug mouth
― davey, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 04:27 (six years ago) link
Or, IDK, maybe it was excusable in his heyday but being into Sinatra was already atavistic in the 70s, forget about now.
― davey, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 04:29 (six years ago) link
you're atavistic
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 11:18 (six years ago) link
Watertown is one of my favorite albums ever and I'm glad no filmmaker has ever gotten around to making a movie out of it.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 7 February 2018 13:48 (six years ago) link
This ^^^
I was APPALLED to find no Watertown tracks on Alfred's best of list.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 13:54 (six years ago) link
I hadn't heard it! Facebook friends introduced me.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 13:57 (six years ago) link
Tell it to the judge.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 13:58 (six years ago) link
Doobie doobie doo-doo imo
― I'm very active in the pegasus community (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 13:58 (six years ago) link
It's a testament to his talent that you can buy him as a working-class schlub just trying to keep his family together (while in reality he was, on top of everything else, a damned steel magnate)
― Simon H., Wednesday, 7 February 2018 13:59 (six years ago) link
I don't think I've ever listened to Sinatra on purpose. Him and Elvis, I get it but I don't really need it.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 14:22 (six years ago) link
he was an awful person. and most of his most famous (nowadays) music sucks balls, and that badness is magnified a thousand times by the losers making a career off of being fake sinatras.
however, In the Wee Small Hours (and some of Where Are You?) is absolutely god tier amazing and pretty different to his usual swingin' prick persona.
― jamiesummerz, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 14:35 (six years ago) link
challenging opinions
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 14:36 (six years ago) link
What's this about Sinatra's swinging prick?
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 14:38 (six years ago) link
Ava had no problem
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 14:43 (six years ago) link
fake sinatra sounds like the name of a ska band
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trash_Can_Sinatras
― mh, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:04 (six years ago) link
ILM lol
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:09 (six years ago) link
there was a fellow when I was in college who posted to a local music messageboard who was obsessed with that, among other lesser-known bands
certainly out of my realm of expertise
― mh, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:10 (six years ago) link
??? their second album is really great
― brimstead, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:12 (six years ago) link
Their fans call them "the Trashies"
not "Frank Jr"
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:12 (six years ago) link
darraghmac are you into trash can sinatras?
― brimstead, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:13 (six years ago) link
Hum their big hit
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:13 (six years ago) link
My wife is into the TCSs, they're good!
Btw the largest outdoor malls in L.A. play Frank Sinatra all the time. I mean I think it's literally all the time.
― omar little, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 17:17 (six years ago) link
this thread is like if someone started a beach boys thread and just complained about how much they hated "kokomo" and how sick they were of all those stupid guys w/ their dumb surfboards trying to be cool. it's music for ppl who don't really like music, man!
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:12 (six years ago) link
nah man, beach boys is music for people who think they like music but don't
― Dan I., Wednesday, 7 February 2018 18:15 (six years ago) link