― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 27 May 2005 03:35 (eighteen years ago) link
"the promise," though, what a sweet bit of late 80s dance-synth cotton candy! even if the lyrics are kinda naff.
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 27 May 2005 03:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 May 2005 03:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 27 May 2005 04:00 (eighteen years ago) link
You're fired. (That said I do enjoy the When in Rome song, but Echo's song has become even better to me over the years, more and more. Mind you, it might also be because I hear it as a proto-Pumpkins song, which might explain Alex's disdain. ;-) )
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 May 2005 04:45 (eighteen years ago) link
That said, I prefer "A Promise" -- I actually don't think my namesake sounds that whiny.
― Ian Riese-Moraine's Plateau Rouge! (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 27 May 2005 09:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 27 May 2005 10:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 May 2005 14:09 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm going with Echo.
The Rome "Promise" is guilty pleasure glitz pop.
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Friday, 27 May 2005 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link
just not "a promise."
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 27 May 2005 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 27 May 2005 15:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 27 May 2005 15:19 (eighteen years ago) link
Quick - what recent movie featured that WiR song at the end? I'm thinking Napoleon Dynamite, but I could be mistaken...
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 27 May 2005 16:54 (eighteen years ago) link
even something off of reverberation?!?
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 27 May 2005 17:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ian Riese-Moraine's Plateau Rouge! (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 27 May 2005 17:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 27 May 2005 22:41 (eighteen years ago) link
Rather than whiny, the vocals are typical of a kind of anti-whine that it seemed every singer in Britain agreed to adopt in the wake of Ian Curtis. There's an affectedly rounded, throaty emphasis, in reaction to the nasal whine predominant in punk/new wave. I'm surprised to see Alex object so strongly, because the vocals here have always reminded me of "Wardance".
― Curt (cgould), Friday, 27 May 2005 23:09 (eighteen years ago) link
You're high.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 May 2005 23:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Curt (cgould), Friday, 27 May 2005 23:19 (eighteen years ago) link
I've always felt that "A Promise", as its lone representative, really undersold the otherwise remarkable Heaven up Here Album on the Songs to Learn and Sing comp. The later best of corrected this a bit, but added "People Are Strange" and the second version of "Bedbugs and Ballyhoo." Oh well.
I still take Echo though!
― D. Bachyrycz, Friday, 27 May 2005 23:45 (eighteen years ago) link
Huh?! An "anti-whine" is still a whine. Ian Curtis never "whined."
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 28 May 2005 00:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Richard Wood Johnson, Friday, 4 May 2007 15:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't think I'll ever get over how stupid the When in Rome lyrics are. It's actually part of the reason I love the song so much, though, because the song addresses how stupid and inadequate the lyrics are.
Anyway, it popped into my head today.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Saturday, 21 November 2020 22:04 (three years ago) link
it lurks on my ipod somewhere which lives in the car - it came on last week.
― kinder, Saturday, 21 November 2020 23:03 (three years ago) link