― fact checking cuz (fcc), Saturday, 4 November 2006 01:43 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 4 November 2006 01:49 (seventeen years ago) link
California Mafia Faux PunkWave= Adorable
Understanding it's about rock and roll revival and not synths and safety pins = admirable
Ultrathick prog moog in a new wave context classic
― Adam S S (Zephery), Saturday, 4 November 2006 02:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― An evening of fun in the metropolis of your dream (Bimble...), Saturday, 4 November 2006 03:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Adam S S (Zephery), Saturday, 4 November 2006 03:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 4 November 2006 04:54 (seventeen years ago) link
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― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 4 November 2006 06:38 (seventeen years ago) link
I don't think I'd call her a rock singer, even if she sang rock at times. Way too AM radio, no apparent attitude other than challenging her own vocal cords. Much more a pop artist, moving through genres and styles.
― bendy (bendy), Saturday, 4 November 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― An evening of fun in the metropolis of your dream (Bimble...), Saturday, 4 November 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― An evening of fun in the metropolis of your dream (Bimble...), Saturday, 4 November 2006 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.vanguardrecords.com/listen.asp?idArtist=30
i love the harmonies. so beautiful to me. but it might not be for everyone. i've always loved her voice. it's a really pretty album.
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 4 November 2006 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Revive!
Re-discovery for me. My dad used to listen to her back in the early 70s so I have heard all the songs. But I didn't remember how great her voice is. Classic.
YouTube has some killer material up:
Long long time
You're no good
Love has no pride
― that's not my post, Monday, 5 November 2007 06:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Couldn't resist another. Damn, that voice is good.
I guess it doesn't matter anymore
― that's not my post, Monday, 5 November 2007 06:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I always thought of Mad Love as a response to the first two Pat Benetar albums, although its cover art was quaintly New Wave. If nothing else, it made Elvis Costello some cash at the beginning of his career.
Apparently she and Linda Thompson were drinking buddies on the Shoot Out The Lights tour as well.
― mike a, Monday, 5 November 2007 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link
I did get Simple Dreams at the beginning of the year and was surprised by much it rocked, in a stiff-jointed way.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 5 November 2007 15:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Linda Ronstadt was generous in covering rock standards and budding songwriters. But then you hear the original "Blue Bayou," the original "When Will I Be Loved" and "Tumbling Dice," the Dave Edmunds cover of "Girls Talk," and especially the original "You're No Good," and you realize you've been cheated. It's like thinking you hate "Up On The Roof" and "What A Wonderful World" because you're sick of James Taylor's mellow brand of folk-rock, until you finally hear Sam Cooke doing them right. Like it or not, this is the way we '70s kids first heard these songs.
― mike a, Monday, 5 November 2007 15:53 (sixteen years ago) link
At the end of the early 90's movie version of The Secret Garden they play her "Winter Light" and it's awesome.
― dad a, Monday, 5 November 2007 16:09 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm listening to After The Gold Rush, and liking it
― Surmounter, Saturday, 12 April 2008 22:13 (sixteen years ago) link
"hand full of thorns and you know you've missed it/lose your love when you say the word 'mine'"
COME ON SHE IS CLASSICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, 28 June 2008 07:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't care who wrote the song, okay?
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, 28 June 2008 07:40 (fifteen years ago) link
IT'S SO EASY TO FALL IN LOVE
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, 28 June 2008 07:41 (fifteen years ago) link
TUMBLING DICE
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, 28 June 2008 07:44 (fifteen years ago) link
the love for mad love upthread is otm. i tracked it down and downloaded it a while ago because i remember my dad had it and it was one of my favorite records when i was about 10. she did faux-new-wave really well. (and ditto faux-country-rock, hand sown ... home grown is great.)
i also like this stone ponys clip.
― tipsy mothra, Saturday, 28 June 2008 13:35 (fifteen years ago) link
"Hurt So Bad" is so classic - reminds me of some old Dusty Springfield gem. Nice screaming guitar solo too.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 2 January 2009 19:09 (fifteen years ago) link
never heard her version of this until today. nice!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0Sr2KK1oqs
― buzza, Thursday, 14 October 2010 20:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I tell you, Evergreen Vol 2 by the Stone Poneys is utterly brilliant. So for that alone, I'd give her classic status.
― Officer Pupp, Friday, 15 October 2010 15:00 (thirteen years ago) link
t A Wonderful World" because you're sick of James Taylor's mellow brand of folk-rock, until you finally hear Sam Cooke doing them right. Like it or not, this is the way we '70s kids first heard these songs.
Really interested in someone expanding on this – her position as gateway drug.
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 October 2010 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link
There's an original "You're No Good?" I guess I fall into the category of a 70s kid who heard all those songs via Ronstadt (and apparently has yet to hear all the originals). Anyway, I like her but somehow have nothing by her (true of lots of 70s music I like a great deal).
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 15 October 2010 15:19 (thirteen years ago) link
can't follow the Nelson Riddle bashing.theres a time where you need this ('Lush Life' & 'Whats New')
http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/5e/de/87b4e03ae7a046124e67b110.L.jpg
― meisenfek, Friday, 15 October 2010 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
never heard her version of this until yesterday:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e08siRDkfQ
holy cow!Heart Like a Wheel is a complete classic and should be in every home
― KC & the sunshine banned (outdoor_miner), Friday, 15 October 2010 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
There's an original "You're No Good?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S1VmqyTUBk
Yeah, there's definitely something to be said for the "gateway drug" thing. Ronstadt's covers exposed me to a bunch of things I wasn't really listening to otherwise at the time: Motown, Everly Brothers, Hank Williams and Dolly Parton for starters, as well as 70s songwriters (Eric Kaz, Karla Bonoff, Warren Zevon.)
― Taller than the president (Dan Peterson), Friday, 15 October 2010 22:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Holy cow indeed at that Playboy After Dark clip; they start soul-clapping about the 1 1/2 minute mark!
― Taller than the president (Dan Peterson), Friday, 15 October 2010 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link
one great thing about linda is that you can go to most used record stores and get ten of her records for about $10.
― tylerw, Friday, 15 October 2010 22:17 (thirteen years ago) link
even more original "you're no good"
<object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9054360&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9054360&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/9054360">Dee Dee Warwick - you're no good</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user3023043">Romagnolo</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 15 October 2010 23:56 (thirteen years ago) link
oops.
even more original "you're no good":
http://vimeo.com/9054360
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 15 October 2010 23:57 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRTplUpErRM&feature=player_embedded#!
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 10 January 2011 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
This absolutely fucking kills me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD1LSxA24aU
― Mule, Sunday, 5 February 2012 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
She's 37 in this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKQss1HhYl8
― La Lechera, Sunday, 5 February 2012 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
I just heard Blue Bayou today...damn if there was ever a timemachine back to my childhood, it's her voice.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
I LOVE that song.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
Ned mentioned this upthread - worth posting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbjsMGyZVDw
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
I heard "Hurts So Bad" on Sunday. Her voice cracks!
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
when her voice gets loud on Bayou I get all teary and goosebumpy
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 23:07 (eleven years ago) link
me too
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 23:48 (eleven years ago) link
Same for me on "Long, Long Time." That one just absolutely slays me.
― Marco YOLO (Phil D.), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 01:11 (eleven years ago) link
Love her version of Love Has No Pride, just an incredible vocal (http://youtu.be/rN8YVVKPNC0). Bonnie Raitt also recorded a great version in the early 70s (http://youtu.be/S2QTdxXmd0k). I love me some Bonnie Raitt but I give the nod to Linda.
― that's not my post, Wednesday, 8 August 2012 06:50 (eleven years ago) link
lollin @ some of the comments on these vids:
Wow! That black dress, black hair, sultry lips, tight little body, and those trade-mark mesmerizing eyes. Word cannot describe how sexy she was during the early-mid 80's I would have worshiped her back then.... gladly been her slave.....Lindawatcher 3 weeks ago
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 8 August 2012 16:10 (eleven years ago) link
If this is her show w Byron Berline and Country Gazette I heard (could have sworn it was a live broadcast from a studio), it's amazing---she mentions how much better this is than her tour (the early one w Neil Young, I think), where the audiences were more interested in tossing beach balls around. Digs deep into the olde roots and lets fire----scroll down for link to original post of whole show (variously labelled '72, '74, maybe others, on YouTube posts, as you can tell by their having the same setlists). Also see links to songs from a '75 set w Byron & CG, which poster says has better sound than the first show---haven't listened to much of it yet, but most of the links still work: https://ronstadt.proboards.com/thread/1431/ronstadts-bluegrass-country
― dow, Monday, 18 October 2021 16:55 (two years ago) link
On the Midnight Special, with a very special band:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3SOosWH6_M
― Askeladd v. BMI (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 October 2022 13:33 (one year ago) link
And then again, later that Rockin’ Eve, after midnight:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c41embg2Bfg
― Askeladd v. BMI (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 October 2022 13:41 (one year ago) link
https://www.billboard.com/pro/linda-ronstadt-last-of-us-sync-wont-make-money-very-glad/
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 3 February 2023 02:04 (one year ago) link
Oh, I fuckin hope this does a Kate Bush for her. I have so many Ronstadt albums I can’t even sell for a buck.
― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Friday, 3 February 2023 03:58 (one year ago) link
Outside of Heart Like a Wheel, there's only a few singles that I like, and that's definitely one of them.
When Capitol released that two-disc anthology of her complete recordings for them, they included a live recording from the Troubadour as a bonus - it's even better than the single IMHO. (More intimate, it isn't overpowered by an orchestral arrangement.)
https://open.spotify.com/track/6BNYxL2ss2yXfaq549uLD1?si=0cf4cf3a0f3844a7
― birdistheword, Friday, 3 February 2023 04:13 (one year ago) link
She's only on four tracks of 2022's Putamayo Presents----Songs from The Sonoran Borderland---Feels Like Home: Linda Ronstadt's Musical Odyssey. which goes with her book of almost the same name, but they're the best on first listening, along with one I just linked on the main Los Lobos thread): "El Sueño," with blurry, unsettling, somewhat VU-ish acoustic guitar, has her waking up alert and foreboding---Springsteen's "Across The Border" (tune not as faux-Mexicali-solemn as I feared, though maybe she's keeping a lid on it) incl. Emmylou's maybe double-tracked, still thin intrusions on chorus, but LR always restores the vibe of verses---also good, if maybe a little too-drawn-out, on the thoughtful "I Never Will Marry" (Dolly v. effective on choruses)--then this one gets me right off, with the only piano (and it's a good piano) on the whole collection, and new instruments, male backup vocals keep appearing, vaya con Linda:
After a sweeping tour of the music of Mexico and the borderlands which inspired her, “Piel Canela” sees Linda and her band interpreting another Latin musical style that was ever-present in her childhood home: Cuban mambo.
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1693140166_10.jpg
― dow, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 21:37 (one year ago) link
Some of the other artists' singing and songs seem blah and predictable so far, though picking is always good, and would like to hear more from her folkie relatives P.D. Ronstadt & The Co---oh yeah, also on "On The Border," notes say it's Neil Young playing that good harmonica, uncredited steel, bass, drums all effective too, one of the most robust tracks overall.
― dow, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 21:44 (one year ago) link
Classic voice, good material, usually rendered in a mediocre fashion.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 21:55 (one year ago) link