taking sides: Jimmy Webb vs Goffin/King

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just wot it says....

― Peter, Thursday, 17 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

it you place "will you love me tomorrow," "goin' back," and "(you make me feel like a) natural woman" against "by the time i get to phoenix," "wichita lineman," and "galveston," i'd say it's pretty close. but i think that webb ultimately has a deeper catalog, is a more skillful producer and arranger, and, for me, his work is just more interesting in general.

more apt comparisons would probably be mann/weill vs. goffin/king and bacharach/david vs. webb.

― fred solinger, Thursday, 17 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm so fucking ashamed...I think I forgot to vote for Macarthur PArk in my top 100...ouch, anyway, Webb all the way, saw him last yr in concert - he made a cheesy micro-brewery seem like heaven for just a while...and then he went and ruined it by thanking god...oh well, webb - bttigtp, Witchita, where's the playgroound suzi? Hands down, Webb.

― Geoff, Thursday, 17 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

jimmy webb gave us the godawful webb brothers, so for that he loses.

― keith, Sunday, 20 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

six months pass...

So Keith, who the hell are you and how much music have you created in this lifetime? Leave the Webb boys alone.

― --Suzan, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one month passes...

The godawful Webb Brothers? Surely some mistake? Seen them live? Thought not. The boys are quite simply brilliant. So are the cds for that matter.

― Mike Howard, Wednesday, 23 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

two months pass...

--in the end--it's what the music conjures in your soul--how it links you with a moment in the past and a moment to be...Mr. Webb has this ability...

― stosh, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

two years pass...

a voice from the past comes stealing

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 04:40 (nineteen years ago) link

nine years pass...

Gerry Goffin has passed.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/06/19/us/ap-us-obit-gerry-goffin.html?hp&_r=0

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 19 June 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link

Oh, man.

― Alba, Thursday, 19 June 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link

Such a great lyricist. RIP.

― banjoboy, Thursday, 19 June 2014 22:24 (nine years ago) link

oh boy. yeah.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONPVklwj9mQ

― I dunno. (amateurist), Thursday, 19 June 2014 23:57 (nine years ago) link

probably my favorite pop songwriters ever, on par with bacharach/david

― I dunno. (amateurist), Thursday, 19 June 2014 23:57 (nine years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caLC0fov34A

― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 20 June 2014 00:07 (nine years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olqvPg3GL1M

― tylerw, Friday, 20 June 2014 02:17 (nine years ago) link

RIP Gerry Goffin

― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 June 2014 14:06 (nine years ago) link

five years pass...

Found a nice copy of Nils Lofgren's first solo record ('75) at the flea market yesterday. Good version of "Goin' Back," very different from the four or five others I have. I'm going to put it alongside "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" and the most cover-proof song ever. You just can't do a bad version of it.

― clemenza, Monday, 19 August 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link

that’s a nice album!

― brimstead, Monday, 19 August 2019 18:49 (four years ago) link

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