TS: In Your Eyes vs. Rosanna

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― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Susan, I wish I could join you on the dark side (insert John Cafferty joke) but that Holiday Inn/airport lounge boogie just kills the whole party dead for me. Despite the ace backing vox and fingersnaps.

Whereas Tony Levin gives my ears a hard-on.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 18 August 2005 22:47 (eighteen years ago) link

s'alright, i'm doing fine "on the dark side". sometimes your deconstruction while very keen, doesn't add up to the whole i hear.

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Thursday, 18 August 2005 23:08 (eighteen years ago) link

The problem with Jeff Porcaro is that, like a lot of session drummers, he's got technical proficiency but no personality. I mean, Vinnie Colaiuta played with Sting, Zappa and on "Nightshift" by the Commodores, not that you'd be able to tell by listening. Manu Katche, on the other hand, is immediately recognizable. Even when, on "So," he's augmented by another drummer or two (Marrotta, Stewart Copeland) and tons of sequenced drums.

Ergo, "In Your Eyes," a song that I doubt will ever end up on a cheesy "Best of the '80s" comp. Not least because it's a rare universal classic that wasn't a hit.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Thursday, 18 August 2005 23:25 (eighteen years ago) link

That is far from fair in reference to the Maestro Colaiuta. Some of us have good enough ears to be able to tell his playing just from his striking of the snare drum. Or by his unique groove alone. Others can recognize his drumming from the outlandish stuff he can pull off.
To say that Colaiuta has no personality to his playing is just plain ignorant.
Take for example, Sting's Brand New Day disc. Colaiuta and Katché both share drumming duties. Both styles are equally unique and equally recognizeable. This is good because individual credits are not listed.
A singular example, when I first heard Faith Hill's song Cry....One listen on the radio and I knew that it was Vinnie on drums. I had no idea that he had done work on her new album. Turned out I was right.

― bahtology, Friday, 19 August 2005 00:41 (eighteen years ago) link

odd how close to 'africa' 'in your eyes' is!

Just listened to both tonight. A mash-up waiting to happen.

PS - God, I love "Cry."

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 19 August 2005 02:22 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

I've got news for you all. "In your Eyes" was NOT written about Roseanna Arquette. It was written about another actress who was dating Peter in 1985 and 1986 before Arquette entered his life. Also with "Roseanna" the only thing Arquette was the inspiration for was the title and not the song, which the band has repeatedly said publicly, ad nauseam.

― Daniel Lanois (Lanois), Saturday, 15 October 2005 20:25 (eighteen years ago) link

ten months pass...

wow! i just heard "rosanna" and i can't stop listening to it. what a perfect song.

― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 10 September 2006 01:23 (seventeen years ago) link

It's all about those thunderous chords that wake the song up after the first stanza. Yacht Rock nailed this perfectly. You're bobbing along, feeling the smooth, he's just sailing the vocal on in, and then BRARROW DOW! ALL I WANNA DO IN THE MIDDLE OF THE EVENING IS HOLD YOU TIIIIGHT ... It's electric. Although... "in the middle of the evening"? Even Paul Simon takes you all the way till it's late in the evening. How about night, guys?

The boogie part is fucking terrible though. Pretty well redeemed by the solo. This thread makes me think I should give "In Your Eyes" another chance, I've always disdained it as a sappy ballad but I don't think I've ever really sat down and listened to it not in the context of dopes fawning over its sappy John Cusack-themed classicness.

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 10 September 2006 04:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Rosanna in a fucking walk, the hairstyles alone are godlike
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― timmy tannin (pompous), Sunday, 10 September 2006 05:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Is the long version of "In Your Eyes" with the lengthy Youssou N'Dour coda available on any CD?

― Hideous Lump (Hideous Lump), Sunday, 10 September 2006 05:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Rosanna in a fucking walk

amen

― ruddy raleigh and the rickets (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 10 September 2006 05:34 (seventeen years ago) link

It's on 12-inch. It begins with the lovely, humble "Accepting all I've done and said, I want to stand and stare again...."

I still stand by what I wrote last year. If it was "Africa" versus any of Gabriel's African experiments he might have more competition...

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 10 September 2006 05:34 (seventeen years ago) link

lengthy Youssou N'Dour coda

more like lengthy youssou n'dourance test amirite?

― ruddy raleigh and the rickets (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 10 September 2006 05:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I really hope that was actually Lanois upthread.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 10 September 2006 05:47 (seventeen years ago) link

y'know, i had mucho problems with xgau over the years, but sometimes the dude just NAILED it

(on Peter Gabriel)"beware of middlebrows bearing electric guitars"

― timmy tannin (pompous), Sunday, 10 September 2006 05:50 (seventeen years ago) link

It's on 12-inch. It begins with the lovely, humble "Accepting all I've done and said, I want to stand and stare again...."

Yeah, that's the one, where the "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" guy pops in on backup vox. I've got the 12", but vinyl is so inconvenient these days (meaning I've got too many CDs piled on top of the turntable).

― Hideous Lump (Hideous Lump), Sunday, 10 September 2006 05:58 (seventeen years ago) link

two months pass...

It's all about those thunderous chords that wake the song up after the first stanza. Yacht Rock nailed this perfectly. You're bobbing along, feeling the smooth, he's just sailing the vocal on in, and then BRARROW DOW! ALL I WANNA DO IN THE MIDDLE OF THE EVENING IS HOLD YOU TIIIIGHT ... It's electric.

-- Doctor Casino (agode...), September 10th, 2006.

Also, those big chords change the key, down a whole step from G to F, but rather than go down, the vocal goes up a (not quite) octave. Totally brilliant.

I unapologetically love Rosanna. I love the horn parts, I love the somewhat silly vocal exhortations near the end, and I think the 2 guitar solos are about as good as "80's guitar solos" get.

― Ash (ashbyman), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link

six years pass...

Rosanna playing now
In your eyes is major lam

― buzza, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 06:35 (eleven years ago) link

lol @ Susan Douglas

― buzza, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 06:41 (eleven years ago) link

Wait a second...did Daniel Lanois post to ilx in 2005?

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 20 December 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link

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