Naturally, it was time for a line to be drawn in the sand and for ILM to take sides. I like both of them, but I remember Dancing in the Moonlight being just my favorite song ever when I was eleven or twelve; that song gets the nod from me.
― Cunga (Cunga), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 05:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― ram jam holder (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 06:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 06:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Cunga (Cunga), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 06:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Comes to Haarvest (Ken L), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ruud Comes to Haarvest (Ken L), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 12:44 (seventeen years ago) link
if it has truly come to a time of reckoning between these...then..argh!
it is hard to top that wurlitzer intro. very hard. Looking Glass did counter with a transitional chorus...that helps.
i would ultimately have to choose "Brandy" simply because it reminds me of San Francisco.
"Brandy" seems like a precursor for the entire Decembersist/Joanna Newsom catalogue...with the 'twee' knocked down a peg or two..or twelve.
― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― mike a (mike a), Tuesday, 10 October 2006 16:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Lisa: Poor Brandy. Aunt Selma, do you think you'll ever get married?
Selma: Oh, I don't know. (a beat) Why, you know somebody?
― PappaWheelie: Giving out breaks to the needy since September 25th, 2006 (PappaWh, Wednesday, 11 October 2006 02:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― mango selassie (teenagequiet), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 03:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 03:58 (seventeen years ago) link
"Dancing in the Moonlight" is somehow more "rock," albeit soft rock.
― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 06:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― reo fordecor (reo), Wednesday, 11 October 2006 06:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― s woods (sw00ds), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 01:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― your daughter is one (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 01:40 (seventeen years ago) link
i heard brandy today while driving home, how is this even a contest? so great, <3 songs about sailors
― gershy, Saturday, 17 May 2008 02:36 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, but "dancing in the moonlight" was used in some weird bra commercial a few years ago, if I'm not mistaken. it's possible that could be swaying opinion here, to some extent.
i've said this before, but it's all moustache rock to me, etc.
― dell, Saturday, 17 May 2008 03:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Brandy is MOR godhead almost up there with Wichita Lineman. A little min-epic about love and longing in three minutes. Lovely. So many good lines in that song.
― leavethecapital, Saturday, 17 May 2008 17:01 (fifteen years ago) link
King Harvest vs. Starbuck
anyway, I'd say "Moonight Feels Light" > "Brandy" > "Dancing In The Moonlight" (which is still pretty great)
― xhuxk, Saturday, 17 May 2008 17:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Just found this!! Scary chest hair! Beards! I bet they're now playing some oldies circuit in Myrtle Beach.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U8Bheg86hg&feature=related
― leavethecapital, Saturday, 17 May 2008 17:06 (fifteen years ago) link
xhuxk on the mark.
― dell, Saturday, 17 May 2008 22:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh my god this is the impossible question.
― Abbott, Saturday, 17 May 2008 23:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Has anybody else heard the dance remix for this?
― Cunga, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 23:26 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPLUTMYZQ4o
― Cunga, Wednesday, 16 September 2009 23:28 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWXPOzGpeEs
― xhuxk, Thursday, 17 September 2009 00:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, something to go along with Aly and AJ covering the Lovin' Spoonful.
― Cunga, Thursday, 17 September 2009 03:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Next time you're in the karaoke bar, take a shot at "Brandy". It always kills.
― chocolatepiekid, Thursday, 17 September 2009 03:57 (fourteen years ago) link
"Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" has a Horns & Strings arranged by Larry Fallon, who was otherwise unknown to me, except I just looked him up and he also has similar credits on Astral Weeks, Chelsea Girls and Gimme Shelter, along with a few other albums. Not to be confused with random googler father-in-law larry robinson.
― Beware of Mr. Blecch, er...what? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 October 2019 04:14 (four years ago) link
When I was young I thought that Dancing in the Moonlight was about werewolves.
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 17 October 2019 06:47 (four years ago) link