― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Monday, 25 July 2005 03:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 25 July 2005 03:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 25 July 2005 03:18 (eighteen years ago) link
bad story, i'm drunk, syrian made me do it
― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Monday, 25 July 2005 03:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 25 July 2005 17:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 03:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― SoHoLa (SoHoLa), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 03:19 (eighteen years ago) link
is she? iirc she's irish, puerto rican, and a quarter black.
― badass porcelain knives (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 03:31 (eighteen years ago) link
I think you're thinking of Paula Abdul. And isn't she part Lebanese?
― Candicissima (candicissima), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 03:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― badass porcelain knives (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 04:36 (eighteen years ago) link
I've heard those rumors, too.
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 05:00 (eighteen years ago) link
no way.
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 17:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:16 (eighteen years ago) link
Not an Asian-American but "Ue O Muite" by Kyu Sakamoto is the only US #1 (1963) sung in Japanese.
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― donut ferry (donut), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link
I still think that "Calypso Breakdown" and "Jive Talkin'" are the best songs on the soundtrack.
― donut ferry (donut), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 21:32 (eighteen years ago) link
Of course I do. I'm just saying, something's off with that arrangement harmonically.
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 23:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 01:44 (eighteen years ago) link
see like, ok, you play the chorus "if i can't have you" backwards vvvveeeerrrrryyyyyyy sssssllllooooowwwwllllyyyyy and it sounds like "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOEH YAH NICK KNIFE!"
You also hear an "accidental" playing of the devil's tritone
Moral: DO NOT FUCK WITH ELLIMAN
― donut ferry (donut), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 01:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link
Great song in the movie and out of it. Did she ever do anything else as good?
"Love Me" is def. a contender
― tremendoid, Monday, 18 February 2008 09:34 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah.
Did she sort of pack it after SatFev? She probably had enough money to...
― Mark G, Monday, 18 February 2008 09:51 (sixteen years ago) link
well, fresh from her wiki let me answer that for you. She took like 20 years off and had an ep in 04'. I like "Everything Must Change" too, kind of Melissa Manchesteresque hamming over proto-Anita Baker arrangements, oddly involving. She's got some elegance to her.
― tremendoid, Monday, 18 February 2008 10:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Good god this song is so C.L.A.S.S.I.C.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Do14z5ycic&
― Bimble, Sunday, 9 March 2008 08:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Also does anyone happen to know how well this might have fared in the charts in European countries?
― Bimble, Sunday, 9 March 2008 08:11 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah classic. even her lipsyncing is lovely.
― tremendoid, Sunday, 9 March 2008 08:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Is this pretty much the only American #1 hit sung an Asian-American? -- Michael Daddino
not really
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU8vOQNvd3c
― gershy, Sunday, 9 March 2008 08:32 (sixteen years ago) link
also, yvonne rules
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDFRVWMA8wY
― gershy, Sunday, 9 March 2008 08:35 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3_2RNf_RaI&NR=1
― tremendoid, Sunday, 9 March 2008 08:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Good god, gershy's link of "Can't Find My Way Home"...yikes. Is she in her own private Stairway to Heaven there or what? Bloody brilliant.
― Bimble, Sunday, 9 March 2008 09:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Ah! I just realized the opening riff for that reminds me of "Naked Eye" by The Who!!! Must rip it to iPod forthwith!
― Bimble, Sunday, 9 March 2008 09:55 (sixteen years ago) link
This song is better than all your grandmother's 78 records. Nominate this one for "best song ever".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Do14z5ycic
― Where's All The Hippies? Fuck off! (Bimble), Friday, 3 July 2009 11:10 (fourteen years ago) link
No, I'm serious. I want 3000 page essays on why that song isn't the best thing that ever happened to your life. Dave Segal, don't let me down. Haha.
― Where's All The Hippies? Fuck off! (Bimble), Friday, 3 July 2009 11:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't know if I could have fulfilled Bimble's request for a 3000 pg. essay on the subject matter but damn this really is one of my favorite songs of all time. <3
― ENBB, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I think I'm the only one in the eorld what truly hates a Yvonne Elliman.
― cosmic abbigong (Abbott), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
She does sing v pretty on the verses tho.
:-( Abbott.
― ENBB, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
the French horn is nice on this song, too...it's just Jesus Christ Superstar is one of my fave albums & I hate her character & songs in it SO MUCH (this will probably make you sad too)
― cosmic abbigong (Abbott), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
but this has been a beneficial thread insofar as it reminded me to listen to the JCSS OST
― cosmic abbigong (Abbott), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
fuck "I Don't Know How to Love Him" and its cloying ersatz longing
― cosmic abbigong (Abbott), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 19:04 (fourteen years ago) link
I forgot she had a bit in "What's the Buzz," my self-protection mechanisms must have erased this bummer memory
― cosmic abbigong (Abbott), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 19:05 (fourteen years ago) link