ah okay gotcha
I heart Hal Blaine
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 18:30 (sixteen years ago) link
the most beautiful world in the world and though there are times when i doubt you i just couldn't stay here without you
― ghost rider, Sunday, 23 September 2007 04:38 (sixteen years ago) link
i want to party with him
― ghost rider, Sunday, 23 September 2007 04:42 (sixteen years ago) link
You're not the only cuddly toy that was ever enjoyed by any boy
You're not the only choo-choo train that was left out in the rain
― Billy Pilgrim, Sunday, 23 September 2007 05:34 (sixteen years ago) link
That Knnillssonn cover is triggering tavern-toilet bowl flashbacks
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Sunday, 23 September 2007 06:53 (sixteen years ago) link
you're breakin my heart you're tearin it apart so fuck you
― ghost rider, Sunday, 23 September 2007 07:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Love all the plucky-plucky strings (real? fake?) and the crazy song about being in an Agatha Christie story
that used to annoy me as a kid because i'm sure it didn't add up properly.
― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 23 September 2007 09:03 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrQ8NHz6T4Q
Harry Nilsson wrote the series' theme song, which Candy sang.
― and what, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 18:46 (sixteen years ago) link
wau
― ghost rider, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link
its such a harry nilsson song!!
― and what, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 19:09 (sixteen years ago) link
You're totally fucking with me! I remember liking the song and having next to no interest in the show. Wow. That's hilarious. It's as Nilsson a theme song as you could imagine - loping, drunken, absolutely not the kind of go-getter tune a kids' cartoon theme song of the day called for. Sadly John Candy didn't have quite Nilsson's set of pipes.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 27 September 2007 02:44 (sixteen years ago) link
"Jump Into The Fire" was so integral to that great coked-out sequence in "GoodFellas"
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 27 September 2007 03:29 (sixteen years ago) link
If anyone wants the Popeye demos, I've got them. Email me and I'll figure out how to share 'em. I don't think there's a copyright on the demos.
Seems like I got them off of a direct link on a site, though...I'll try to track it down.
Currently I'm trying to find a few of the tracks off of Nilsson's unreleased last album, anybody hear them yet?
...and my insignificant vote for most underrated Nilsson album is Sandman. Classic stuff. All his early stuff was fantastic, too, up until Pussycats.
― morningsaystoidleon, Friday, 28 September 2007 22:33 (sixteen years ago) link
fortheloveofharry.blogspot.com/
― ghost rider, Friday, 28 September 2007 22:43 (sixteen years ago) link
chaki otm re Knnillssonn. tho he never really did get his voice back all the way. that's just aging and cigarettes as much as damage tho.
― ghost rider, Friday, 28 September 2007 22:45 (sixteen years ago) link
ghost rider, thanks much for the link. I've been waiting to hear those tracks.
Harry said toward the end that his voice would feel like it was coming back sometimes after a hot shower. If you do a youtube search you can catch some live performances from later on in his life, and he doesn't sound so great...still, his last album and some tracks he recorded for a Yoko Ono tribute album sound pretty good, his voice was tarnished but it was still amazing.
― morningsaystoidleon, Friday, 28 September 2007 22:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Holy sh*t!
― Billy Pilgrim, Friday, 28 September 2007 23:02 (sixteen years ago) link
been rinsing 'jump into the fire' thx to goodfellas thread madeleine-effect.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 7 December 2007 12:28 (sixteen years ago) link
we can make each other happy
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 7 December 2007 13:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Nilsson Schmilsson and The Point! rule!
Gotta Get Up.
― our work is never over, Friday, 18 January 2008 16:20 (sixteen years ago) link
WE COULD MAKE EACH OTHER HAPPY!
― Emily Bjurnhjam, Saturday, 19 January 2008 00:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Sit beside the breakfast table, Talk about your troubles...
― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 19 January 2008 02:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Perfect Day as used in the movie All That Jazz is pretty fucking awesome.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 19 January 2008 14:12 (sixteen years ago) link
11:20am saturday... 2 hours sleep... last night total debauch... going to a funeral in an hour... "gotta get up" just about the perfect song right now.
― s1ocki, Saturday, 19 January 2008 16:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Quick question: Did the vinyl issue ofThat's The Way It Is have a special innersleeve? I picked up a copy sans innersleeve this weekend and am curious, since some of the later Nilsson lps had sleeves w/in-jokes on them.
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 22 December 2008 17:25 (fifteen years ago) link
It would seem not: Skimmed my usual places of info for this, and havent found one.
― Mark G, Monday, 22 December 2008 17:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Why is the "Who is Harry Nilsson?" documentary still not out on dvd?!! Blurg.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 30 January 2009 22:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Just about the best thing ever:
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 5 February 2009 18:41 (fifteen years ago) link
nilsson/nilsson/nilsson...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOwUvGgAL0k
― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:16 (fourteen years ago) link
it has dawned on me this past week that "don't forget me" is an astonishingly beautiful song.
― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Monday, 28 December 2009 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
yes! it's a highlight of Pussy Cats. He's learned from the old masters on A Little Touch and written a subtle lyric, but not without a cheap laugh or two (I'm thinking esp. of the alimony line). But the vocal is heartbreaking, esp. in light of what's to come in his career. I love this album so much.
― Euler, Monday, 28 December 2009 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
the whole song is pretty brutal, though.
― figuratively, but in a very real way (amateurist), Monday, 28 December 2009 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
I'll Never Leave You is so lovely <3
― Salvador Dali Parton (Turangalila), Monday, 28 December 2009 20:31 (fourteen years ago) link
After living with two different greatest hits comps for years and years, I've slowly been picking up the actual albums in the last year. Bought Nilsson Schmilsson first, which in a way was a let-down because I already knew all the best songs and wasn't that into the others. Then I happened across A Touch of Schmilsson in the Night and was pretty bored by that one. Finally two weeks ago I got Pandemonium Shadow Show and that one is stellar, front to back. Next up for me will be Aerial Ballet, I think.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Monday, 28 December 2009 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
For me a moment that handily sums up the dude is the first verse of "Moonbeam." He's singing, with his gorgeous, free-floating voice, a rhyming list of places you may have seen a moonbeam, just some great imagery:
Have you ever watched a moonbeamAs it slid across your windowpaneOr struggled with a bit of rainOr danced about the weathervaneOr sat along a moving trainAnd wondered where the train has been?
And that last line breaks the rhyme and forces some more syllables in and interest is heightened a bit, so then he drops:
Or on a fence with bits of crap around its bottomBlown there by a windbeam?
Casually dropping the word "crap" in there, which isn't a totally crass or disgusting word but is really silly – man, it just tickles me every time. Such a Harry thing to do.
― just a moonful of sugar (Abbott), Monday, 28 December 2009 20:47 (fourteen years ago) link
just reveling in Aerial Pandemonium Ballet and wondering what other acts pursued the possibilities of this side of the Beatles: elegant but playful, tunes over conceptual depth, gorgeous but always aching.
― begs the question, when is enough enough (Euler), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link
How come this still hasn't come out (as far as I know)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmmwMx06Pg8
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link
no idea but it looks nice!
― begs the question, when is enough enough (Euler), Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
I just ask because the trailer has been online since 2006. Apparently it's been shown at a few festivals, but there's still nothing about a dvd release. I want to SEE IT!
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 3 March 2010 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link
i want to see this urgently!!
― wilter, Thursday, 4 March 2010 10:28 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah.
― Mark G, Thursday, 4 March 2010 10:35 (fourteen years ago) link
would totally watch this
― Wet Hot American Oil Spill (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 4 March 2010 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
it is kind of a bummer Harry died when he did -- he should've had at least one late-career classic comeback sort of albums.
― tylerw, Thursday, 4 March 2010 16:31 (fourteen years ago) link
"Knnillssonn" sorta filled that role. I'm glad he stopped recording though, it was very wise of him.
― Tom D (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 March 2010 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah but Knillssonn is what 1976 or 77? When did he die, early 90s?
― tylerw, Thursday, 4 March 2010 16:35 (fourteen years ago) link
'77. He hadn't made a good album in a while though and then he stopped after it... OK he did make another album after it, but who's heard that?
― Tom D (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 March 2010 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
That doesn't mean it was no good though.
― Mark G, Thursday, 4 March 2010 16:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Nah, it's supposed to be dire
― Tom D (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 March 2010 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Popeye soundtrack is fun. I heard some song of his from the 80s that was a LA Dodger theme song or something. "Go Dodger Bluuuuue!"
― tylerw, Thursday, 4 March 2010 16:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Yah, I know that blog too!
― Tom D (Tom D.), Thursday, 4 March 2010 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link