Leo Sayer: S & D

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q84lhmj8odk

Pretty sweet Beaker/Boz Scaggs mashup right here.

And by 'sweet' I mean 'not sweet'.

Pretty sure he was the most off-putting Muppet Show guest by a country mile.

No, I don't know why I'm reviving a Leo Sayer thread, really. But there's no fewer than five to choose from, if you were interested.

(I mean, I was prompted to revive the thread because I'm listening to a playlist specifically dedicated to terrible music. Why I'm engaged in that masochistic pursuit, though, I could not say.)

Can't believe no one is keeping this conversation alive.

All kidding aside, I can at least give the man props for making the most of having tragically been flayed alive. Many people would just give up after having all of their skin removed, but Leo 'Slim Goodbody' Sayer chose instead to make Leo-monade, and for that I salute him. Or what's left of him.

i actually really love "when i need you"

I did a deep dive on Sayer a couple months ago after knowing nothing besides that dancing song. The 'Another Year' album is thoroughly fantastic, and 'Living In a Fantasy' is really great as far as 70s artists navigating the 80s goes.

this performance is great, weird energy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6gEkfwozhE

So odd. I was a bit thrown that he was joking with the audience then launches into the song with great intensity. It's kind of brilliant in its way - though i find the section at 1.37 perhaps a bit too intense.

I wonder what the Pierrot costume is about? He does have this slightly hangdog 'sad clown' look in most of his photos - it does capture something of his personality.

This was his breakthrough hit in the UK, the pierrot thing was a gimmick - a bit like Gilbert O'Sullivan's bowl cut and 30s gear - and it was how most people first saw him. I suppose he (or his management) thought it fitted the lyrics.

It's a bit Kevin Coyne-like this performance.

"Drop Back" and "The Dancer" are interesting songs on his debut Silverbird. He's musically and vocally adept but I was really wondering "what's he getting at?" As if there was some secret significance I couldn't understand, or none at all.

went down a Leo Sayer rabbit hole just last month -- he has so many great musicians playing on his records. but "what's he getting at?" really is the question, like - how are we supposed to be taking this? as pop, it's fine, sometimes better than fine, but really hard to assign character to.

for some reason "when i need you" used to make me feel very depressed as a kid - can still remember the feeling of this crushing darkness falling down on me from nowhere, violent in its suddenness, inescapable and crippling

so that's a no from me i guess

Leo has always had extremely weird energy, ultimate example is when he broke out of Celebrity Big Brother

Wait what?

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/jan/13/broadcasting.bigbrother

it's just an amazing few minutes of tv, he is deranged but correctly so

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ly6cf1Syh8

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"I'm leaving the house, guys, 'cos Big Brother won't provide me with underwear," he told housemates, before beating his fists on a two-way mirror, grabbing a broom and forcing his way out through one of the walls.

That was great, thanks! Made my day.

Feel like I must have mentioned somewhere already recently realizing that “Long Tall Glasses” starts as a Loudon Wainwright imitation.

Maybe I didn’t.

ok my respect for Leo Sayer, which was already high, just skyrocketed

OTM. So were the other people washing their pants in the sink?

yeah that's all well and good but i'm loling with much enthusiasm for old lunch about five years ago-

I can at least give the man props for making the most of having tragically been flayed alive. Many people would just give up after having all of their skin removed, but Leo 'Slim Goodbody' Sayer chose instead to make Leo-monade, and for that I salute him. Or what's left of him.

― Gregory Horsemelt (Old Lunch), Tuesday, July 17, 2018 10:43 AM

thread title needs to be updated to "defend the indefensible" classification.

also yeah, that clip is leo's greatest hit

Trying to remember that funny Onion parody of reality shows.

Curious now about his Beatles covers

Pretty good so far

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