That was my actual answer. I was just about to type it!
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, 30 June 2022 01:03 (one year ago) link
My parents were very into that album, as well as Mumford & Sons :/
― jmm, Thursday, 30 June 2022 01:12 (one year ago) link
I think of seeing Joanna Newsom playing "Soft as Chalk" on late-night TV, but I loved that.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 30 June 2022 01:14 (one year ago) link
makes me think of "a thousand miles" by vanessa carlton but that's good
nothing bad comes to mind
― ufo, Thursday, 30 June 2022 01:17 (one year ago) link
norah jones was my first thought as well. my other thought was “if i didn’t have you” by alicia keys.
i don’t hate either, mind
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Thursday, 30 June 2022 01:27 (one year ago) link
what about that “new soul” song, that one sucks
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Thursday, 30 June 2022 01:28 (one year ago) link
Maybe the Dresden Dolls or something. Though I can't actually remember specific songs or the extent of their not-so-greatness. The more I think about this the more 'piano ladies' seem like a excellent thing, on balance.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 30 June 2022 02:45 (one year ago) link
anything by Tori Amos (ducks the hail of FPs)
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 30 June 2022 03:06 (one year ago) link
Theme song to All in the Family though it’s obviously a banger
― Josefa, Thursday, 30 June 2022 03:16 (one year ago) link
Don't come for Blossom Dearie
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Thursday, 30 June 2022 03:53 (one year ago) link
lol sleeve
"piano song by the piano lady" makes me think of "I Feel The Earth Move" but that one is excellent, it can't possibly be that
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 30 June 2022 04:06 (one year ago) link
oh wait i think i know what it is: "A Thousand Miles" by Vanessa Carlton?
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 30 June 2022 04:07 (one year ago) link
ah sorry i didn't see that ufo already guessed that
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 30 June 2022 04:09 (one year ago) link
Yeah it feels like it would be "A Thousand Miles" given the prominence of the piano in the video clip. Great song!
― Tim F, Thursday, 30 June 2022 05:15 (one year ago) link
if this is about Mrs Mills I strongly disagree
― bury my heart in wounded kieth (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 30 June 2022 05:48 (one year ago) link
http://www.mrsmills.org/images/mrs_mills_albums-08.jpg
― bury my heart in wounded kieth (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 30 June 2022 05:50 (one year ago) link
I feel like "piano lady" effectively narrows the field to Vanessa and Tori.
It would be strange to describe any of Adele, Alicia, Norah or Sarah as "piano ladies" - and anyone else you might conceivably describe in those terms (Aretha Franklin? Carole King? Laura Nyro? Roberta Flack? Joni Mitchell? Kate Bush? Fiona Apple?) suffer from the same basic issue - either only intermittently "piano ladies", or at the least it would be odd to refer to them as such and expect anyone to know who you meant.
Then Tori loses out to Vanessa because it would be odd for someone to refer to anything by her as "that piano song" - you either know none of them or you know several of them. Maybe "Cornflake Girl"?
― Tim F, Thursday, 30 June 2022 05:51 (one year ago) link
Having now viewed the VC promo clip I can certainly see why "lady playing a piano" might be the most salient feature in a fading memory.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 30 June 2022 06:15 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmy9CTn6xMs
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Thursday, 30 June 2022 06:22 (one year ago) link
every song i can think of for this rules. currently: chantal kreviazuk, “surrounded” (though idk if anyone would identify her as a piano lady)
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 30 June 2022 06:27 (one year ago) link
also, almost any regina spektor song but “better” is in my head
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 30 June 2022 06:30 (one year ago) link
Chantal Kreviazuk is a fantastic pianist
Ftr it was Vanessa’s song to which my friend referred
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 30 June 2022 07:52 (one year ago) link
Insofar as that genre of freezer aisle music goes I think Colbie is the nadir. I am ambivalent toward the piano song by the piano lady (and I generally adore piano songs by piano ladies)
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, 30 June 2022 07:55 (one year ago) link
piano song by non-piano lady:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6ahzLGK_VY
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 30 June 2022 10:00 (one year ago) link
Just deliberately listened to A Thousand Miles for the first time in a couple of decades. it's still basically a classic tune but the late 90s bizarre vocal affectations and the late 90s brick wall mastering are major issues, 5.5/10 will check it out again in 2043.
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 30 June 2022 10:14 (one year ago) link
Thought you all were talking about "A Thousand Years" by Christina Perri instead of the Vanessa Carlton song. I can't remember if "A Thousand Years" actually is a piano song but in my head it has strong "piano song by piano lady" energy
― Vinnie, Thursday, 30 June 2022 10:19 (one year ago) link
i guess here’s as good a place as any to acknowledge that the best vanessa carlton song is “white houses” and it should’ve been a much bigger hit
i believe this board also knows i stan for the most recent three vc records, she slid into her art pop period with unexpected grace
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 30 June 2022 10:27 (one year ago) link
Depends on your generation, I guess. This might be the first 'piano lady' song that comes to mind for some people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O465enGz03w
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Thursday, 30 June 2022 11:01 (one year ago) link
yeah but that is all-time great, not all-time worst. otherwise this thread would be like wall to wall Sinnerman
― imago, Thursday, 30 June 2022 11:20 (one year ago) link
Well, I'd rank 'Mouldy Old Dough' as all-time great too, but a lot of people at the time really hated it.
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Thursday, 30 June 2022 11:32 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG-_ZDrypec
― Sam Weller, Thursday, 30 June 2022 12:09 (one year ago) link
more piano ladies from that same mouldy old period:Lynsey de Paul • Sugar Me:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkvAAvOp464Chi Coltrane • Go Like Elijah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0Wj2jOpIm0
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 30 June 2022 12:42 (one year ago) link
this video made me appreciate 'A Thousand Miles' for the first time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeSdSrCKp-8
― cajunsunday, Thursday, 30 June 2022 12:44 (one year ago) link
I was thinking "A Thousand Miles," but thought about it a little more and concluded the song in question must surely be "Love Song" by Sara Bareilles
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Thursday, 30 June 2022 13:16 (one year ago) link
Ooh that’s a good suggestion actually. Though I guess Sara is the Girls 5eva lady now.
Brad is right about “White Houses” which is amazing.
― Tim F, Thursday, 30 June 2022 13:28 (one year ago) link
For me it conjures "Piano in the Dark" by Brenda Russell although I don't hate that song (don't love it either but it's what came to mind)
My real guess for what that person was talking about is Vanessa Carlton bc that song is so annoying
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Thursday, 30 June 2022 14:05 (one year ago) link
ruth b "lost boy"? i think she has other songs and isn't exclusively a piano lady tho
― dyl, Thursday, 30 June 2022 14:29 (one year ago) link
what about that “new soul” song, that one sucks― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili)
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili)
Yeah, that was the first place that my mind went with this topic.
― MarkoP, Thursday, 30 June 2022 14:42 (one year ago) link
Ftr it was Vanessa’s song to which my friend referred― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, June 30, 2022 8:52 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― flamboyant goon tie included, Thursday, June 30, 2022 8:52 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Sudden Birdnet Thus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 30 June 2022 14:48 (one year ago) link
Are there female persons associated with the piano who aren't regarded as "ladies"?
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 30 June 2022 15:37 (one year ago) link
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41W9B1GA9AL._AC_.jpg
― Eavis Has Left the Building (Tom D.), Thursday, 30 June 2022 15:45 (one year ago) link
https://keyassets-p2.timeincuk.net/wp/prod/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/04/rexfeatures_741245ky-630x408.jpg
― fetter, Thursday, 30 June 2022 15:50 (one year ago) link
Sara Bareilles is mint gtf
― bury my heart in wounded kieth (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 30 June 2022 16:41 (one year ago) link
piano songs by piano men are way worse (cf. five for fighting, the fray)
― aegis philbin (crüt), Thursday, 30 June 2022 18:19 (one year ago) link
I couldn't remember the name of that song (A Thousand Miles) or who it was by, but I started hearing the tune in my head as soon as I read the words “That piano song by the piano lady” before even clicking through to the thread, which is a kind of tribute to Vanessa Carlton more than 20 years on I guess.
see now if this was "That piano song by the piano guy" I would know exactly what it was, but I'm lost here
the song that this brings to mind is even older though, immediatley thought of The Way It Is by Bruce Hornsby
― soref, Thursday, 30 June 2022 18:36 (one year ago) link
taxonomy of piano ladies, piano guys, piano men etc
― soref, Thursday, 30 June 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link
https://www.chicagotribune.com/resizer/11B7rHWBZvL6fGF5bZkx6tQpd-s=/1200x782/top/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-tronc.s3.amazonaws.com/public/2P4KP3KPQFF67GZON3VG3VYISI.jpg
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 30 June 2022 18:40 (one year ago) link
if you search 'piano dude' on google you get a lot of videos of guys playing stuff on those public pianos they sometimes have in stations or shopping centres or whatever.
Alternative to the Piano Lady - the Piano Gal
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81-GbabomkL._SS500_.jpg
― soref, Thursday, 30 June 2022 18:44 (one year ago) link
I Ain't No Piano Lady would be a good name for an album by a female honky-tonk pianist
― soref, Thursday, 30 June 2022 18:48 (one year ago) link
That album cover practically screams "ragtime."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 30 June 2022 18:51 (one year ago) link
That's no piano lady, that's my piano wife
― jmm, Thursday, 30 June 2022 18:59 (one year ago) link
women of (ama)pianoaccompanying Spotify playlist
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
It made me think of 'Promise Me' by Beverley Craven. I might be misremembering/exaggerating but now all I can hear is the massive intakes of breath she does right through the song.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Thursday, 30 June 2022 19:41 (one year ago) link
That Was No Piano Lady...
good horrible album title
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 1 July 2022 14:44 (one year ago) link
― aegis philbin (crüt), Thursday, June 30, 2022 1:19 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
"piano man" is nuclear-grade garbage
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Friday, 1 July 2022 14:48 (one year ago) link
^^one of my most hated songs of all time
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 1 July 2022 14:48 (one year ago) link
Worst piano song is "The Ship Song" by Nick Cave though.
― raven, Saturday, 2 July 2022 10:59 (one year ago) link
Diamanda Galás, piano demon
― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Saturday, 2 July 2022 15:26 (one year ago) link
so long as it wasn't "Piano in the Dark."
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 2 July 2022 15:36 (one year ago) link