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like, the last minute of "I'm Going Down" when she's like "what did I do wrong? please forgive me baby.... and come on come.... going down....." totally kills me every single time.
― Peace (peaceful) (The Brainwasher), Sunday, 12 February 2012 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
otm. it's funny because it strays so little from rose royce's original, but something about its context on the album and mary's fragile vocals gives it all this added poignance.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 12 February 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
just cos i wouldnt necessarily be mad at someone claiming my life was boring; it is sort of torpid in a profound way, i dunno.
― r|t|c, Tuesday, September 8, 2009 5:43 PM Bookmark
torpid, not droning, but yes, this seems otm.
― horseshoe, Sunday, 12 February 2012 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
haha lots of great posts in that thread:
imo only a heart of stone wouldn't have had to beat back an instant gleeful impulse for 411 - so many classic jams represented there (sprawled admittedly over 411, 411 remix, the odd 12, and time itself) but not necessarily a great listen-thru album the way it is a great cd or the seminal record of the 90s that it most probably is. and share my world is frequently excellent too, but all the same somehow never quite cumulates in that sense of magnificent abyssal totality that my life ends up leaving you with.
― r|t|c, Tuesday, September 8, 2009 8:07 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oftentimes i tend to find myself imagining chucky thompson having had this huge crush on mary while he was making this album, is that weird? the utterly silent, sadly noble kind where he'd know putting an arm around her shoulder would only ever be an awkward, inadequate kind of gesture.
― r|t|c, Tuesday, September 8, 2009 8:13 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― horseshoe, Sunday, 12 February 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
"Be Happy" was #1 on my year-end that year. Seems like an odd choice looking back, but I remember it was kind of lousy year for me, and it tapped into something.
― clemenza, Monday, 13 February 2012 03:31 (twelve years ago) link
eleven years pass...