― sander, Friday, 26 September 2003 14:12 (twenty years ago) link
the sentence above confuses me.
anybody ever hear Mandrake Peddle Steamer? were they better than the other robert palmer's Insect Trust?
i'm glad nobody said that he had a bad case of loving you. oops, i just did.
― scott seward, Friday, 26 September 2003 14:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 26 September 2003 14:28 (twenty years ago) link
― scott seward, Friday, 26 September 2003 14:30 (twenty years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 26 September 2003 15:52 (twenty years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 26 September 2003 16:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Friday, 26 September 2003 16:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Friday, 26 September 2003 16:13 (twenty years ago) link
As I recall, Little Feat backs RP up on the "Sailin' Shoes-Hey Julia-Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley" medley on Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley, which used to be in fairly regular rotation on the classic rock station in Boston during the late 80s. Quite good, actually...
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 26 September 2003 16:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Friday, 26 September 2003 17:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 26 September 2003 17:15 (twenty years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 26 September 2003 17:26 (twenty years ago) link
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Friday, 26 September 2003 17:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Jeff Wright, Friday, 26 September 2003 18:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 September 2003 18:34 (twenty years ago) link
Or, indeed, smokers. Someone pointed out after John Entwistle died that everyone was saying "coke -> heart attack" but a lifetime of smoking ciggies brings much the same risks (I think I'm right in saying there's more risk of smokers dying prematurely of heart disease than of lung cancer).
― Andrew Norman, Friday, 26 September 2003 19:22 (twenty years ago) link
I thought it was more like "coke + 2 hookers = heart attack."
― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Friday, 26 September 2003 19:35 (twenty years ago) link
― dave q, Friday, 26 September 2003 19:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 26 September 2003 20:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Friday, 26 September 2003 20:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Bob Six (bobbysix), Saturday, 27 September 2003 02:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean (Sean), Saturday, 27 September 2003 03:32 (twenty years ago) link
Johnny Cash showed me what it was to have things to sing aboutWarren Zevon taught me how to write good songs about themRobert Palmer taught me how to make it sexy.
Who the fuck am I going to draw inspiration from now? (besides Turbonegro, of course)
― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Saturday, 27 September 2003 06:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 27 September 2003 14:46 (twenty years ago) link
I've heard that song "Love Can Run Faster" and it's really nice.
― Dadaismus (Dada), Saturday, 27 September 2003 14:48 (twenty years ago) link
I can't believe this wasn't changed to a sultry, sulky Michael Douglas pose.
― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Sunday, 28 September 2003 04:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Dock Miles (Dock Miles), Sunday, 28 September 2003 05:12 (twenty years ago) link
Powerstation were subdued in their imagery, and made no use of ionic columns or any of the neoclassic silhouettes that had become so integral to Duran Duran. Robert Palmer had a lot to do with that. He seemed like a refined British thug, something out of a pulp novel - Reggie Kray. Handsome, murderous, millionaire dandy. That is what he brought to the table. The Taylors were not the stars of Powerstation, even though they were the famous ones and the only reason little girls tuned in to see them on Friday Night Videos. They were merely the backup band. Robert Palmer was the showman, and in a subtle way that no one had done before. His style was minimalist, bare. He moved very little, but he sung huge.
The performers of the time were wearing hair that defied logic in length or shape, dayglo colors, brooches! Robert Palmer subverted all of that, by giving merely the white man his day. He said - Look. I am a white guy. What you see is what you get. He never apologized about it, and he wasn't made to. His voice was beautiful and authentic, a bluesman down deep. He made white alright! The films of the time, 'Wall Street' and 'Working Girl' - fetishized the white collar executive, giving them prime time on the popular culture scene, which is ironic, as they are still there, they always were there before, probably always will be there.
Robert Palmer enjoyed much success after Powerstation in his solo career, with his ushering in the 'all women are the same' concept in his music videos. The songs lyrically betray the visuals. In them he talks of his one special love whom he is addicted to, whom he finds simply irresistible, these three minute pop confections as confession to desire and enslavement to one woman, yet all the women - sometimes playing the instruments, sometimes just standing by looking disaffected, are dressed and made up exactly the same. They are all the same height, build, color, age, everything, so the effect is that he is surrounded by a Helmut Newton army. I think this messed up the entire generation of men I grew up with. Royally. But too bad for Robert Palmer. Rest In Peace white dude. You had a great voice, and you affected all of us more than you will ever know.
~Margaret Cho
― johnny fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 28 September 2003 07:31 (twenty years ago) link
Ummmm...wrong, Margaret. Try Tony Thompson.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 28 September 2003 07:39 (twenty years ago) link
That eulogy makes me want to push Margaret Cho over into a puddle of viscous filth. Robert Palmer deserves better.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 28 September 2003 07:41 (twenty years ago) link
― wuperetta, Sunday, 28 September 2003 09:35 (twenty years ago) link
― bflaska, Sunday, 28 September 2003 13:25 (twenty years ago) link
― bflaska, Sunday, 28 September 2003 13:42 (twenty years ago) link
whoa.
― amateurist, Thursday, 15 October 2009 08:17 (fourteen years ago) link
why?
― Mark G, Thursday, 15 October 2009 08:24 (fourteen years ago) link
exactly.
― amateurist, Thursday, 15 October 2009 08:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Who's going to tell amateurist about Michael Jackson?
― go in go hard brother (Billy Dods), Thursday, 15 October 2009 09:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Amateurist... I know it may surprise you and stuff, but.... you know..... John Lennon and Elvis Presley both died :(
― Tied Up In Geir (Geir Hongro), Thursday, 15 October 2009 10:10 (fourteen years ago) link
http://mytakeontv.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/burn-notice.jpg
― Vladislav Delap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 15 October 2009 10:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I had no idea either.
― doe-eyed chicks get wiped out, fatally (The Reverend), Thursday, 15 October 2009 10:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Did you just forgot...?
RIP
― amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 27 September 2003 20:49
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 15 October 2009 10:49 (fourteen years ago) link
i was responding to the posts about coke, not to news of robert palmer's death.
geir, you have a leaden sense of humor.
― amateurist, Thursday, 15 October 2009 16:39 (fourteen years ago) link
hey, for what its worth, i completely forgot that he died. r.i.p. smooth crooner.
― scott seward, Thursday, 15 October 2009 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link
me too :(
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 15 October 2009 17:03 (fourteen years ago) link
honestly i had forgotten too.
― amateurist, Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:09 (fourteen years ago) link
wtf is up with this album cover
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ae/Robert_Palmer_Pride.jpg
― amateurist, Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:24 (fourteen years ago) link
It's coke.
― Roman Polanski now sleeps in prison. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 October 2009 19:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I had just never heard about him dying in the first place. RIP big guy. ;_;
― doe-eyed chicks get wiped out, fatally (The Reverend), Thursday, 15 October 2009 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
i just got a bunch of old terrible vinyl, which happens to me every so often as 'the guy with turntables'. a my fair lady cast recording, greek opera singers, french orchestral renditions of western scores... just all basically unredeemable. and wedged in there.. 'Clues' by Robert Palmer. sah-mokin!! i swear to god i thought i'd put it on at the wrong speed though, at first. no way those songs are that fast. but, well, no, they're that fast.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 6 October 2019 21:59 (four years ago) link
That's the one where he teamed up with Gary Numan on a couple of tracks. "Looking for Clues" has one of those pre-MTV videos with a off-white backdrop and cardboard props, along the same lines as Sparks' "Beat the Clock" and "Number One Song in Heaven":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92wCPfqyVbg
I don't know what kind of image he was going for. He looked slightly too old and slightly too well-fed to be a New Wave star. You had to be really thin to be a New Wave star. That's one of the reasons Talking Heads never invited Jocky Wilson into the band. He would have looked strange in that context.
The ancient Egyptian pharaohs were entombed along with their servants, so I like to imagine that somewhere in Switzerland there's a mausoleum with a skeleton dressed in a really sharp suit and some other skeletons - taller, thinner skeletons - dressed in 1980s minidresses, with fingernail scratchmarks on the door etc. It's a compelling mental image.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Sunday, 6 October 2019 22:32 (four years ago) link
Palmer was the best fellow traveler.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 6 October 2019 22:33 (four years ago) link
XP - That song is remarkably like McCartney's 'Coming Up'
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 6 October 2019 23:08 (four years ago) link
“Woke Up Laughing” is such a perfect little tune.
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 7 October 2019 02:12 (four years ago) link
so this green gartside interview has some juicy robert palmer stories:
https://www.mixcloud.com/NTSRadio/trevor-jackson-green-gartside-29th-october-2019/
― cheese canopy (map), Friday, 1 November 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link