Nancy & Lee POLL

i mean i do kind of know what will win already but more interested in chat about all these fine tunes

Has to be...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=670YMraVnyk

... just wanted to post that video tbh.

Can't sleep on this one though...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbtKHrI-OAs

i mean i do kind of know what will win already

Because of novices like me..."Some Velvet Morning."

hadn't actually seen that first video before. amazing! now i want to see it in a movie theatre, over and over again....

Some Velvet Morning - primal scream ft kate moss vs Summer Wine - The Corrs ft Bono

Something I don't know: was the writing of "Some Velvet Morning" indeed inspired by the Velvet Underground? I've always assumed so.

It's "Jackson" tbh

(xp) Seems highly unlikely!

This album is soooo backloaded.

I might go with "Sand"!

btw thank you! I haven't listened to this in over ten years and it is a rush of pure fucking joy to go back. To be real it's almost certainly going to be svm but I am going to have a good time making sure

hadn't actually seen that first video before. amazing! now i want to see it in a movie theatre, over and over again....

It is awesome. What did people look at before Queen invented the music video with "Bohemian Rhapsody" though?

"Greenwich Village Folk Song Salesman" has some quality adlibbing.

It was recorded in late '67, and the first VU album came out in March '67. Seems like just the sort of song you'd write under the spell of hearing that, and then there's the title.

many xps already
shit it's such a great Jackson, my favourite Jackson

I’ll mostly be curious what the vote disparity will be between what I would think are the obvious #1 and #2.

I really need somebody to come out on the lash with me tomorrow and karaoke this whole album

re SVM:

The recording was produced by Hazlewood and arranged by Billy Strange. According to one review, overdubbing was not used. Instead, the duo "recorded the entire song live with the band, the full orchestra and Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra singing all at the same time."

always assumed it was tape splicing ngl

I really need somebody to come out on the lash with me tomorrow and karaoke this whole album

i am so there!

I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s something to that Velvet Underground theory, because “Sand” sounds like the VU also.

nv come to London, almost-birthday ILB fap followed by Lee & Nancy karaoke

Nancy & Lee might have both been invited to/attended the LA Exploding Plastic Inevitable residency.

Sadly not gonna get next week off work

I saw “Movin’ with Nancy” in a theater 20+ years ago in LA it was really cool to see it that way

The VU did their notorious Exploding Plastic Inevitable three-day residency at The Trip on the Sunset Strip in May 3-5, 1966. Cher attended it and famously badmouthed the VU. But I think Nancy & Lee were in Europe at the time because they went to London to record the Nancy in London album in late April (?) and afterwards Nancy went on to the Continent (Paris, Hamburg) and did a TV appearance in Rome on May 7. Had Lee returned to LA separately before then? I guess it's possible. The VU also did a show at UCLA on May 19 so that could've been one that Lee caught.

I was thinking that just hearing the album would be enough to inspire "Some Velvet Morning", but if Hazlewood did manage to see them, even more so.

If there is this inspiration I think Lee hearing the album in ‘67 is the simplest explanation. Because he and Nancy did make the Sugar album at some point in the second half of ‘66 which doesn’t betray any VU influence, except for the song “Sugar Town” being about taking drugs.

The Gavin Report would have had an issue with "Heroin Town"

Lee hearing the album in ‘67 is the simplest explanation

Most likely connection is Lee overhearing Nancy's dad blasting "European Son" on the hi-fi to impress his young wife

Opening this record with their quaalude-and-bourbon cover of “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling” is such a perfect way to enter this world.

Picking the best song in this is a breeze. Picking my favorite is incredibly hard.

i'd say this whole album was marinated in quaaludes and bourbon

SAND

Yeah Sand

That said, of course “some velvet morning” is one of the most genius and creepy pop songs ever made. It defies categorization.

idk if ILX ever gets around to a Hazlewood pool but "Sundown, Sundown" is an easy top 10 for me.