There is a je ne sais quoi de "Sexy MF" about the funky guitar fills in "Do You Love Me Like You Say?" but I couldn't tell you just now which came first, and they're both just cribbing from James Brown anyway. "Delicate" is a stunner.
I wish I could remember "Penelope Please" or "Turn The Page" right now. But this does give me something to look forward to for the drive home!
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 14 July 2005 21:41 (eighteen years ago) link
1. Sony execs knew they had a masterpeice on their hands, pressed 5 million copies on the first run.
2. TTD fans were early adopters of "downloading" "mp3" files from the "internet"
3. "Wishing Well" fans fled from "Neither Fish Nor Flesh," no amount of positive press could bring them back.
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― yeahyeahyeah (yeahyeahyeah), Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:44 (eighteen years ago) link
"he'll do anything, anything to make her cum"
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 14 July 2005 23:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Taste the Blood of Scrovula (noodle vague), Friday, 15 July 2005 01:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 15 July 2005 01:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 15 July 2005 01:32 (eighteen years ago) link
If you like his music I might have NEWS for you :)Do you know he has NEW SONGS out?
You can freely download & listen to it from his official site:
http://www.SanandaMaitreya.com(he changed his name)
Look at the links there:Angels & VampiresWildCardSongs!
He uses Weedshare to spread them: this makes it possible you can download the songs for FREE to have 3 listens, if you like the song(s) you can buy them and make money yourself on them as well and share them even when you dind't buy them.
Check out http://www.weedshare.com he's also topping their all time Top 100.
Enjoy!
Musical greetings,Lilyhis webmistress
― Lily, Saturday, 16 July 2005 17:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lily, Saturday, 16 July 2005 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 19 May 2006 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 May 2006 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 19 May 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 May 2006 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 19 May 2006 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 May 2006 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link
Bump, just because.
― Dimension 5ive, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:55 (sixteen years ago) link
BABY LET ME SHARE MY LOVE
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 16:58 (sixteen years ago) link
i remember being confused by the title when this came out. and being reminded of it now, i still am.
― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 17:07 (sixteen years ago) link
this thread alerted me to the surprising information that people outside of D'Arby's immediate family bought this record
― J0hn D., Tuesday, 21 August 2007 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link
...most of whom returned it immediately after purchase.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 18:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Enough good stuff (and a little great stuff) to push this one comfortably into the "Classic" column - and I wasn't overfond of his two previous ones. It goes on too long, but that's a foregone conclusion. "Penelope Please" is glorious.
Also: His first halfway-decent album title (still pretty bad tho.)
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 19:27 (sixteen years ago) link
"Let Her Down Easy" is one of the most generous soul ballads I've ever heard; he redeems a totally icky concept.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 19:29 (sixteen years ago) link
liked it alot; but gave up after Vibrator…
― Veronica Moser, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 20:07 (sixteen years ago) link
J0hn D. is being kind of uncharacteristically snotty here! What the heck, did we stumble into some kind of heretofore undiscovered grudge and/or feud?
― Dimension 5ive, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 20:20 (sixteen years ago) link
This is a great and sorely underrated (?) record.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 21:28 (sixteen years ago) link
one of only about 10 albums in the 90's to get five stars out of a possible five stars in its original Q magazine review.
― pisces, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 21:30 (sixteen years ago) link
they sure backed a winner with that review
― Charlie Howard, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 06:07 (sixteen years ago) link
this thread alerted me to the surprising information that people outside of D'Arby's immediate family bought this record― J0hn D., Tuesday, August 21, 2007
― J0hn D., Tuesday, August 21, 2007
lol. Didn't like the record, you say?
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 30 August 2009 16:35 (fourteen years ago) link
did you buy it?
― post-contrarian meta-challop 2009 (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 30 August 2009 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link
real talk from youtube:
abualbelawi (1 day ago) Show HideMarked as spam Replyits like a tea with mint in the afternoon after a hard day
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Sunday, 30 August 2009 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I need to listen to this right now, don't I?
― if I don't see more dissent, I'm going to have to check myself in (Matos W.K.), Sunday, 30 August 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
First reaction: You mean me? Yeah, years ago, on cassette, I think. Now I'm fixing to download it from eMusic.
Second reaction: That comment reminded me of an old Prince song, where a guy named Bob George is berating his girlfriend for her having an affair with Prince's manager ("Nice coat, huh. / Did you buy it? / Yeah, right. / You seeing that rich motherf----r again." And so on.). Greatest song ever, maybe.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 30 August 2009 19:06 (fourteen years ago) link
some days i think i may still be in love with the lady from the wishing well video.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Sunday, 30 August 2009 19:14 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean, uh, carry on.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Sunday, 30 August 2009 19:22 (fourteen years ago) link
You mean the chick that appears right at the beginning of the video?
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 30 August 2009 19:26 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean "young woman"! Apologies.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 30 August 2009 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link
leather jacket, short hair, otherwise late-80s fashion sense.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Sunday, 30 August 2009 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah yeah. She's 'saright.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 30 August 2009 19:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Apparently, you're not the only one who feels that way about 'that girl.'.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 30 August 2009 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
just ordered this on account of y'all. damn.
― what kinda life is that? (Ioannis), Sunday, 30 August 2009 20:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Hope you didn't overpay. You can get it for, like, a dollar in most used record stores!
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 30 August 2009 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
nah, it was dirt cheap.
― what kinda life is that? (Ioannis), Sunday, 30 August 2009 20:31 (fourteen years ago) link
I say again: BABY LET ME SHARE MY LOVE
― post-contrarian meta-challop 2009 (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 30 August 2009 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link
classic.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 31 August 2009 08:56 (fourteen years ago) link
God, "Let Her Down Easy."
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 22 August 2010 02:59 (thirteen years ago) link
everyone i knew aged 13 LOVED 'Hardline' i mean LOVED that thing. crossed over to everyone. i always meant to check Symphony... hm.
― piscesx, Sunday, 22 August 2010 05:18 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost -- Had nobody mentioned that one on the thread before?
I just remembered I saw him in concert for this album, appearing at the first KROQ summer concert festival from 1993.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 22 August 2010 05:20 (thirteen years ago) link
(yow!)
― Ioannis, Sunday, 24 October 2010 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
dig the Steven Tyler-esque vocalisms on "She Kissed Me."
(^^^aero-bait.)
― Ioannis, Sunday, 24 October 2010 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
just remembered I saw him in concert for this album, appearing at the first KROQ summer concert festival from 1993
review??
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 24 October 2010 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Let Her Down Easy is amazing. I wonder, if he'd have released this album after the debut maybe he'd have been as big as he looked like he was going to be.
― piscesx, Sunday, 24 October 2010 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link
hahah--at the Dylan channeling Otis Redding (or the Four Tops' "Bernadette," maybe?) wordplay/organ surges on "Turn the Page!"
― Ioannis, Sunday, 24 October 2010 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
SHE KISSED MEand PUT IT THERE
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 03:01 (twelve years ago) link
this might fall into the ever shrinking category entitled "great forgotten neglected at the time albums that have yet to be reassessed by younger critics or hip bands."
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 03:06 (twelve years ago) link
there aren't many left you know!
We should do a thread on this, though there needs to be some rules so it doesn't just become "my favourite album that I don't see talked about." Perhaps include an argument for why it deserves rehabilitation.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 03:09 (twelve years ago) link
i think it has to be albums by failed or fizzled pop stars, or at least people working in a pop idiom, so it doesn't turn into "this noise cassette from 1985 by a friend of boyd rice that shoulda set the world on fire."
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 03:13 (twelve years ago) link
of course that gets tricky too because the first one that popped into my mind when you showed up tim was ultramarine who arent quite pop in the same way ttd was trying to be pop.
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 03:14 (twelve years ago) link
I could mention any number of Rosanne Cash and Maze & Beverly records. But, yeah, it's a shrinking category.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 03:19 (twelve years ago) link
haha the radio played a double-shot of beverly/maze today and i did think "here is one r&b sound that will not likely be revived any time soon."
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Wednesday, 22 June 2011 03:21 (twelve years ago) link
― strongo hulkington's ghost dad, Tuesday, June 21, 2011
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 July 2012 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
She kissed me andshe put it...there
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 00:47 (six years ago) link
Your yearly reminder that this album is incredible.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 June 2019 13:10 (four years ago) link
His voice on "I Still Love You"... how??
― geoffreyess, Thursday, 20 June 2019 14:59 (four years ago) link
and on "Let Her Down Easy"
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 20 June 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link