― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 26 March 2006 15:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 26 March 2006 15:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 26 March 2006 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 26 March 2006 16:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 26 March 2006 16:31 (eighteen years ago) link
now that's bizarre. {insert dan perry-esque quip here}
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 26 March 2006 16:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― O-Keigh (O-Keigh), Sunday, 26 March 2006 17:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― O-Keigh (O-Keigh), Sunday, 26 March 2006 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Sunday, 26 March 2006 17:38 (eighteen years ago) link
Same here. Still.
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 27 March 2006 08:04 (eighteen years ago) link
"THE DARK ELVIS!!"
...........Chuck E. don't like him much though.
― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Monday, 27 March 2006 08:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Monday, 27 March 2006 11:20 (eighteen years ago) link
I think I'm right in saying he was much more popular in the UK than the USA? Or he had hits for a longer period in the UK?
― Dadaismus sinks his soul in Mother Nature's bower (Dada), Monday, 27 March 2006 11:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 27 March 2006 11:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Why does the birds always shitting on me? (noodle vague), Monday, 27 March 2006 12:04 (eighteen years ago) link
Anyway, y'all should rent this unexpectedly terrific documentary called Roy Orbison: In Dreams, released in 2003, featuring rather good interviews with Robert Plant, Jeff Lynne, Emmylou Harris, and a surprisingly un-twat-ish Bono, among others. The last 15 minutes, as the Mystery Girl-Traveling Wilburys triumphs approach, is so wonderful and sad that I had to pause the DVD. I forgot how much great stuff he recorded before he died: the k.d. lang remake of "Crying," the Danzig collab, "You Got It."
Fuck Johnny Cash -- he was the only artist who could have made one of those Rick Rubin album-length collabs work.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 11 January 2007 00:40 (seventeen years ago) link
Yeah, I really enjoyed the fact that half the music business seemed to be behind him, determined to give him a hit.
― A Radio Picture (Rrrickey), Thursday, 11 January 2007 06:59 (seventeen years ago) link
-- scott seward (skotro...), March 26th, 2006. (scott seward)
That is interesting though - just by sheer odds it seems impossible.
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 11 January 2007 07:06 (seventeen years ago) link
He's part of the best anagram ever :
The Traveling Wilburys: Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Roy Orbison
An angry jew, the Beatle, blond boy, sorry prat in ELO, stiff guy, in short: very boring old men
― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 11 January 2007 07:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 11:17 (seventeen years ago) link
Funny how they never managed to make a decent song after Big Roy's passing though.
― Brede Trollsås (FunkDirt), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 12:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 14:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan Heilman (The Deacon), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:23 (seventeen years ago) link
YOU GOT IT
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 17 January 2008 02:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Is there any better sounding echo than on Roy Orbison's early 60s hits? I'm not familiar with music terms so I don't know if you would exactly call it "echo", but what I'm talkin about is the sound of his voice specifically on "In Dreams" when he starts singing "I close my eyes and drift away...". God I love that song.
― Belldog, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 02:34 (sixteen years ago) link
reverb, I imagine
― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 03:50 (sixteen years ago) link
and yeah, it's pretty much the best reverb
― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 03:51 (sixteen years ago) link
He wore those big sunnies 'cause he was shy.
― S-, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 04:11 (sixteen years ago) link
album recommendations?
― Local Garda, Sunday, 14 September 2008 17:26 (fifteen years ago) link
The original In Dreams if you mean non-compilations.
― Scowly D (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 14 September 2008 17:31 (fifteen years ago) link
The two-disc comp released a few years ago collects a lot of worthwhile one-off tracks from various eighties soundtracks ("Wild Hearts Run Out of Time," "Life Fades Away"), but the track list is frustratingly out of sequence.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 14 September 2008 17:36 (fifteen years ago) link
There's a new 4xCD set called The Soul of Rock and Roll. It's out next month and it's very good.
― deusner, Sunday, 14 September 2008 19:24 (fifteen years ago) link
does Roy Orbison join Al Green as the artist with universal ILE acclaim?
I like him a lot more than I do like Al Green. Al Green is, well, OK, but not at all up there with peers such as Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye. Roy Orbison was one of the very few great pre-Beatles acts.
― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 14 September 2008 23:25 (fifteen years ago) link
As for original albums, I guess "Crying" may be the most essential. The title track in particular, but also contains "Running Scared" among others.
Generally, original albums by pre-Beatles acts are not really recommended though. They were typical singles acts and should be treated as such. Also the case with Orbison.
― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 14 September 2008 23:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks for the education.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 14 September 2008 23:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Had a look at the tracklisting for the box set - no "Southbound Jericho Parkway," no "definitive" I'm afraid.
― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 15 September 2008 09:10 (fifteen years ago) link
He was a guest on Night Network one night in the late 80s, along with the Voice of the Beehive. They were reviewing new videos and a late Smiths or early solo Morrissey song came on and Roy Orbison said how sad the singer seemed and how he felt bad for him.― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 9 November 2003
― the pinefox, Monday, 15 September 2008 09:20 (fifteen years ago) link
I picked up a really shabby looking Roy Orbison best of today for a dollar and I'm mighty glad that I did. I've always been envious of people who grew up with families who listened to radio all of the time, and have long been familiar with all the old staples. But then again, sometimes it's really cool to approach this stuff as an adult for the first time. Currently I'm going fucking wild about "Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)", the way the drums get louder and louder during the final minute.
― Z S, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 04:42 (fifteen years ago) link
He's really somethin' else. Runnin' Scared is my jam.
― ian, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 05:25 (fifteen years ago) link
I was flipping through channels on Thanksgiving during post-eating and some kind of all-star concert was shown on PBS.. It was filmed in B&W, and I remember hearing "It's Over" and "Pretty Woman.."
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 05:36 (fifteen years ago) link
wow ZS, I'm not sure if I envy you or pity you.
Dream Baby, Crying, Dream Baby, Pretty Woman: these songs are the sdtk to my life.
hard to imagine what could've replaced them, but the thought of approaching with fresh ears is appetizing
xp
billstevejim, that special is the greatest dream like music thing i've ever seen. kinda lynchian
― STILL GEETIKA IN 2009 (PappaWheelie V), Tuesday, 9 December 2008 05:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah I loved it.. I'm pretty sure most, if not all, of my family was into it, but there were people running in and out of the room a lot, so it's hard to tell.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 05:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Okay, I'm reading on wikipedia that he recorded a disco album called Laminar Flow in 1979. This sounds intriguing.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 05:52 (fifteen years ago) link
LIFE FADES AWAY
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 14 December 2008 19:48 (fifteen years ago) link
a friend of mine recently picked up a tape at a carboot sale with "boy or bison" written on the inlay card. he thought it was a great bandname and bought it for that reason. he got home and it was, of course, a roy orbison compliation.
― NI, Sunday, 14 December 2008 20:56 (fifteen years ago) link
His late Sixties/Early Seventies Jimmy Webb-style Überpop-opera recordings for MGM-Monument are totally slept on.― musicmope (musicmope), Saturday, November 8, 2003 11:40 AM (5 years ago)
On the basis of the copy of 'Memphis' (1972) I just picked up, this would appear to be true - amazing song called 'Run the Engine High' by jerry McBee, that sounds like it could be the Box Tops, a bonkers, phased I fought the Law, and an even more Bonkers 'Danny Boy'
― sonofstan, Saturday, 16 May 2009 11:45 (fifteen years ago) link
"She's a Mystery to Me" is an obvious standout on Mystery Girl but this is a really strong album. The second half is particularly strong: "The Comedians" is excellent as is said above, as is "Windsurfer" and "Careless Heart" (the latter a Diane Warren co-write but let's not hold that against it).
Why do we always go for something we can't reach? Nobody ever really understands.
― Euler, Saturday, 13 June 2009 16:12 (fourteen years ago) link
roy orbison sing it for the lonely
― Lamp, Saturday, 13 June 2009 19:15 (fourteen years ago) link
So true.
― Bud Huxtable (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 20 June 2009 02:02 (fourteen years ago) link
You know someone who said something interesting about Roy Orbison is Alan Sparhawk in that NPR Fresh Aire interview linked from the Low thread.
― bamcquern, Saturday, 20 June 2009 02:28 (fourteen years ago) link