― adam... (nordicskilla), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:40 (nineteen years ago) link
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― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Friday, 12 November 2004 06:10 (nineteen years ago) link
The Four Seasons C/D?
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 12 November 2004 06:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― zak, Friday, 12 November 2004 07:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 12 November 2004 07:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― bulbs (bulbs), Friday, 12 November 2004 07:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― lukey (Lukey G), Friday, 12 November 2004 11:53 (nineteen years ago) link
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― bulbs (bulbs), Friday, 12 November 2004 12:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Formerly Lee G (Formerly Lee G), Friday, 12 November 2004 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link
can't believe this thread never got bigger. absolutely loving 'opus 17' lately, how it seems to shift up a gear on every verse cycle, getting faster and more manic then on the final verse - when it starts to get really crazy - it goes and fades out halfway through - HUGE anticlimax. i've searched desperately for an extended version of this song, it would be perfect if it were about 7 minutes long and went into some high-octane disco freakout about 2/3 through. does this exist? anyone fancy helping me create it?
― NI, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 14:01 (sixteen years ago) link
it took me forever but I finally found a shitty rip of Valli's solo album for Motown, which has some incredible stuff on it
― J0hn D., Tuesday, 11 March 2008 15:07 (sixteen years ago) link
it even fades out during his vocal, just after the verse begins. the worst editing of a song ive ever heard.
― NI, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 19:12 (sixteen years ago) link
"the night" is pretty much the best song of all time imo
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 01:00 (thirteen years ago) link
otm
― dayo, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 01:04 (thirteen years ago) link
holy shit, i've never heard that song
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 27 September 2011 01:45 (thirteen years ago) link
was that just a chorus? a minute-long chorus?
wow
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 27 September 2011 01:46 (thirteen years ago) link
mine is a minor key 3 minutes?
― dayo, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 01:47 (thirteen years ago) link
ok yeah that whole thing wasn't the hook i guess, when frankie busts out at first he jumps straight into the middle eight
still wow, i love this
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 27 September 2011 01:55 (thirteen years ago) link
i, um, have to 'find' that motown album, ahem
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 27 September 2011 02:05 (thirteen years ago) link
i just texted my dad about this song lol
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 27 September 2011 02:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I grew up listening to "Swearin' to God" without knowing it was Frankie.
― Anakin Ska Walker (AKA Skarth Vader) (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 02:22 (thirteen years ago) link
it was a big northern soul track in England. the whole motown years disc is really really worth getting, so many good tunes. and yeah his vocal entry in "the night," the whole construction of the track - backing vox take the first verse and then valli lands like a fucking raptor, what a track
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 02:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I love how veiled and circumspect the lyrics are, actually not just for that song, but for every song from that time period
― dayo, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Newish Motown west comp on light in the attic is a must
― blank, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 03:21 (thirteen years ago) link
gaudio wrote this, allmusic sez! he really was amazing
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 27 September 2011 03:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, that is just outstanding songwriting. Interesting parallels with R. Dean Taylor, who was also an unorthodox writer.
― timellison, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 04:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Valli's vocal is so fresh here, too - it's like he can feel that this is a choice bit from a guy whose moves he knows - really digs in at just the right pitch
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 04:10 (thirteen years ago) link
i heard this song on a tape from somewhere or other that was in heavy rotation, paired like a one-two-punch with the snake by al wilson (i forget which came first); my brother bought the seven inches for both & would spin them all the time. i think we also got a pretty bad al wilson LP; the same kind of mis-guided extrapolation from one song meant lead me to picking up a bunch of johnny guitar watson records after hearing 'too late'. the two songs, the night & the snake are just canonical & super fun to dance to. both are so forceful and sharp-edged, have such impact. this wasn't motown though was it??, or is 'motown years' just other contemporaneous stuff?
― mr. vertical (schlump), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 12:25 (thirteen years ago) link
too late is a jam also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q_KCJykETo
sorta almost a competitive duet replete with so many archetypally awesome dressings of the period - the backbeats on the guitar, the concise strings-solo, obligatory deployment of 'keep on keepin' on' &c
― mr. vertical (schlump), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 12:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Bassline ftw. Which reminds me that Pete Hook picked it as one of his favourite tracks of all time in an interview I read with him once.
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 12:36 (thirteen years ago) link
schlump, the parent album (and presumably the single itself), 'inside you', was released on motown in 1975
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 27 September 2011 12:44 (thirteen years ago) link
ah thank you, i couldn't remember & it didn't seem right somehow
― mr. vertical (schlump), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 12:48 (thirteen years ago) link
the writing on "the night" with its repetitive circularity plays to one of my biggest weaknesses as a reader, i just love that shit
my favorite example: http://www.bartleby.com/100/173.112.html
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 5 September 2012 02:42 (twelve years ago) link
"the night" is one of the greatest singles of all time
― we don't wanna miss a THING!!! (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 02:45 (twelve years ago) link
I appear to have downgraded it from "greatest of all time" since last time this thread was around. in my defense...I have no defense, "the night" is the shit
― we don't wanna miss a THING!!! (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 02:46 (twelve years ago) link
it really is
sometimes i think the 4 seasons anthology LP i have is my favorite album ever. an entire life lived in 26 songs
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 5 September 2012 02:57 (twelve years ago) link
The Night is one of my top five songs of all time.
Only discovered this song last year, also pretty amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHi02bpom_Q
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 03:35 (twelve years ago) link
uncanny, valli
― Intent to Distribute (buzza), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 03:38 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoQUIu0ccMY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDS4cQFPwoQ
― Don't Call Me A Lunkhead, You Dingbat! (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 20 October 2015 16:52 (nine years ago) link
And now for the soppy passive aggressiveness of his biggest mid seventies hit.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 2 June 2018 02:10 (six years ago) link
A 45-CD box set?!? Go for broke I guess. Anyway, good interview:
https://variety.com/2023/music/news/frankie-valli-four-seasons-boxed-set-ultimate-collection-interview-1235705611/
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 27 August 2023 19:38 (one year ago) link
Guess maybe people have been beggin’ for it
― The Thin, Wild Mercury Rising (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 August 2023 19:40 (one year ago) link
when I got the announcement for this I promised my wife that I would not spend our money on a forty-five disc Frankie Valli boxed set.
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 27 August 2023 20:50 (one year ago) link
May I register here my disappointment at hearing "Swearin' to God" for the first time recently, but it was the version with no swears?!?
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 27 August 2023 23:54 (one year ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/2024/10/27/frankie-valli-lip-syncing-interview/
At 90 Valli is still touring but is lip-syncing and won’t admit although a former bandmate, tech analysis, and others say it is lip-syncing
― curmudgeon, Monday, 28 October 2024 17:39 (five days ago) link
I saw ELO in the 70's and they got sued by the promoter of the show for "cello-syncing." It didn't occur to me (or probably anybody else in the venue) that you can't actually play the cello while you are twirling it/throwing it into the air.
― henry s, Monday, 28 October 2024 17:46 (five days ago) link
people in the entertainment business often believe that if they retire they will die. it's not quite a superstition but there's a profound anxiety about stopping.
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 28 October 2024 18:10 (five days ago) link
Recent footage of him is painful. Honestly he'd be better off with a "Frankie Valli Presents" show, where he acts as an MC and other people sing the songs. Then he can pretend to sing along and who'd know? People just want to see the legend onstage anyway, and this way they could.
― white dogshit for goalposts (Matt #2), Monday, 28 October 2024 18:26 (five days ago) link
I read somewhere that Valli signed a bad management contract or something, and that part of the reason he still tours is to make some money, but yeah I think he just doesn't want to retire
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 29 October 2024 16:09 (four days ago) link