Alison Moyet - Classic or Dud; Search and Destroy

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She's classic for "Invisible" alone.

Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 28 February 2005 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link

i still think her show in my dream at a hackney bus-stop when one-inch-high was the pinnacle of her career!

mark s (mark s), Monday, 28 February 2005 17:33 (nineteen years ago) link

She coulda been the closest thing to Dusty Springfield. As it was, "Do You Ever Wonder" came damn close; its lack of a proper U.S. release was utterly tragic to me.

Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 28 February 2005 17:39 (nineteen years ago) link

three months pass...
Revive – just head "Invisible" and wonder how on earth with a voice this beautiful never found the right collaboraters.

Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 17 June 2005 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link

er, *how on earth anyone with a voice this beautiful

Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 17 June 2005 16:38 (eighteen years ago) link

seven years pass...

I'm right.

the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 January 2013 03:10 (eleven years ago) link

Fun fact: Her solo debut, from 1984, was maybe the second or third album I ever reviewed for the Voice. Pretty hacky/inept (not to mention ambivalent) review too, iirc. (Didn't like any tracks as much as Yazoo's best singles, but didn't make much of an issue about it I don't think.) Maybe someday I'll dig it out and quote the worst parts here.

xhuxk, Thursday, 3 January 2013 03:47 (eleven years ago) link

It's not a great album and certainly no patch on Yazoo's best.

the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 January 2013 03:55 (eleven years ago) link

"invisible" is a wonderful single

too many encores (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 3 January 2013 04:08 (eleven years ago) link

LOVE HER.

go to party leather (ENBB), Thursday, 3 January 2013 04:11 (eleven years ago) link

Always thought her track on the very special Christmas album my family played in the car every year was weird and awesome. Heard yazoo on the collab spotify list and diggin that as well

toy_sleigher (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 3 January 2013 06:44 (eleven years ago) link

yeah her coventry carol is lovely

Midnight is what i think of when i think of her. that low intro & that huge chorus *teary*

she's awesome

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 January 2013 07:04 (eleven years ago) link

always forget just how big a star she was, albeit briefly, back in the day

http://liveaid.free.fr/rewind/bbc/images/065mccartney/04.jpg

piscesx, Thursday, 3 January 2013 18:05 (eleven years ago) link

I will admit here that I thought she and Paul Young's cover of "That's The Way Love Is" at Live Aid totally worked.

the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 January 2013 18:09 (eleven years ago) link

Her thing with Tricky, 'Make a Change', puts her voice to fine use

ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Friday, 4 January 2013 01:40 (eleven years ago) link

she also wrote a good song with King Britt in 2001.

the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 January 2013 01:41 (eleven years ago) link

Always thought her album Hometime was a lost classic. In addition to the aforementioned "Do You Ever Wonder", this is also a gem:

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

chris_coolidge, Friday, 4 January 2013 03:25 (eleven years ago) link

five months pass...

So her new album The Minutes is really doing it for me right now!

The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, 14 June 2013 20:15 (ten years ago) link

Am listening to 'Whispering Your Name' for about the 30th time since I downloaded it off WINMX. Haunting blend of lyics, voice and dance-mix rhythm.

this. Like she's just WAAAAIIIIITING-GUH

kinder, Friday, 14 June 2013 22:43 (ten years ago) link

four years pass...

New album Other sounds in spots like she's been listening to Roisin Murphy.

the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 June 2017 15:42 (six years ago) link

one year passes...

Other is fantastic, and even better than The Minutes ... one of those LP's from last year that I'm still playing the shit out of.

Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Sunday, 8 July 2018 09:11 (five years ago) link

Also, it fucking sucks that in order to get to this thread via search, I have to wade through all those really shitty joke threads.

Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Sunday, 8 July 2018 09:15 (five years ago) link


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