― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:06 (twenty years ago) link
― H., Monday, 27 October 2003 16:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:09 (twenty years ago) link
strangest punctuation ever: they put a comma in the pause in the firt line, but then fail to put one after 'keep' in the last.
Another vote for TEOTH being stone cold classic.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:14 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:18 (twenty years ago) link
A friend of mine gave me the disc, Faster than the Speed of Night as a housewarming present in 1996. It gets an annual airing at least.
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd800/d809/d80967c3i9w.jpg
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:18 (twenty years ago) link
Now, "Wishing You Were Here" by Chicago...
― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 27 October 2003 16:19 (twenty years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:21 (twenty years ago) link
― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:22 (twenty years ago) link
Bollocks to that and bollocks to anyone who like TEOTH and *not* 'Beautiful'.
― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Jonathan (Jonathan), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:24 (twenty years ago) link
I am anticipating a ludicrous powerballad for The Darkness Christmas single.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:25 (twenty years ago) link
I recently gained an appreciation for "Keep On Loving You" based on its appearance in, of all things, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, where (if memory serves) it's in rotation on the "Emotion FM" station. I'd never really listened to it in detail before, and it struck me how weird, airless, and alien the production is. Sonically, its as synthetic as anything Kraftwerk ever released: it's got this total untouched-by-human-hands vibe. The vocals and guitars have been run through a million different delays, harmonizers, and compressers, until everything becomes this huge, reverbing whooooosh. Of course there's zero low-end (perfect for AM radio.) In short, it's a work of genius. I still hate the fuck out of Journey, though.
― d.w., Monday, 27 October 2003 16:27 (twenty years ago) link
A good way to work out how TEOTH is great is to listen to it next to Jennifer Rush's "The Power Of Love".
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:27 (twenty years ago) link
Oh, Enrique, the Beta Band were not being sardonic or ironic in appropriating the TEOTH quote, and Steinman himself approved it. And "Beautiful" is a stinking assortment of Clinton Card cliches sung nasally by a pretend anorexic, so bollocks to you too, sir.
(so much for the Oxford FAP then!)
Re. J Rush "Power Of Love"; influenced very clearly by Ultravox's "Vienna" which itself was influenced very clearly by Scott Walker's "The Electrician." Is there a theory here somewhere about the gradual dilution of "difficult" music before people will buy it?
― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 27 October 2003 16:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:30 (twenty years ago) link
x-post: sorry for not being a 'right-thinking person'.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:30 (twenty years ago) link
yes!!
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:31 (twenty years ago) link
and we all know about the More Than A Feeling/Smells Like Teen Spirit interface (via Debaser?).
― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 27 October 2003 16:34 (twenty years ago) link
I have to say I re-discovered 'Keep On Loving You' by REO Speedwagon when Mark Kozelek & his merry Red House Painters covered it. Like all his covers, it is twisted and lovely.
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:35 (twenty years ago) link
Ow, fuck, yeah probably, then -- NME readers I knew (=me) didn't know that. I still think their versh stinks; as for Xtina, oh come now we can't be slagging power ballads for their lyrical infelicities! + I know nothing of singing technique, so point conceded, but I quite like the idea of being a 'pretend anorexic' -- wearing baggy clothes in a kind of double-bluff, that's quite good.
I'm a miss the FAP anyway cos I'm in the big smoke watching some old new bollox about the red brigade and/or robbing all yourn houses. Might send a ringer.
― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:37 (twenty years ago) link
― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:38 (twenty years ago) link
Quite right. Listening to "Any Way You Want It" on my iPod recently gave me the sudden realization that said song trumps (in retrospect) both the Electric Six and Andrew WK at their own game, all at once.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:38 (twenty years ago) link
Soulseek must have a conscience after all, electing to spare you from the sonic blight that is the Speedwagon's excretion.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 27 October 2003 16:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Vic (Vic), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:46 (twenty years ago) link
― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:51 (twenty years ago) link
Didn't Bryan Adams spending 16 weeks at no. 1 help to (temporarily?) kill off the power-ballad?
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 27 October 2003 17:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 27 October 2003 17:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 October 2003 17:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 27 October 2003 17:11 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 27 October 2003 17:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 October 2003 17:15 (twenty years ago) link
that reminds me.....EYES WIDE OPEN *ducks*
― Michael B, Monday, 27 October 2003 17:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Michael B, Monday, 27 October 2003 17:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 October 2003 17:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Monday, 27 October 2003 17:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Vic (Vic), Monday, 27 October 2003 17:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Monday, 27 October 2003 17:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 27 October 2003 17:29 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 27 October 2003 17:31 (twenty years ago) link
I love Total Eclipse of the Heart. I had never paid it any attention, until this one time I was trying to get over a rough breakup and it came on the radio in the IHOP I was working at. I had to conceal actual tears while slinging pancakes. Very overwrought and cheesy, but it hit me like a missile.
Haven't knowingly listened to the rest of her music, except in the course of doing research for the Givin' It All You Got thread, when I came across this 1990 song of hers from German action sports film Fire, Ice, and Dynamite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nlWeTL4dtk
― peace, man, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 16:35 (one year ago) link
<3 lovely post
absolute classic btw, especially for drunk karaoke
― nxd, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 17:33 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsgWUq0fdKk
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 17:40 (one year ago) link
When I was in high school a dance troupe came through to perform for the entire school. The lead dancer gracefully danced until one by one, her skills faltered as she shared a dance with different partners. Each partner was dressed completely in black and had a different word written on their back. ALCOHOL. MARIJUANA. COCAINE. HEROIN.
She eventually fell to the ground, at which point the blacked-out dancers lifted her up and placed in a Jesus Christ crucifix pose to the audience.
This entire performance was done to “Total Eclipse of the Heart.”
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link
Wish I'd been there!
― bendy, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 18:08 (one year ago) link
lol, that's amazing.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 18:14 (one year ago) link
xxp this isn't the one i witnessed but holy moly they were doing this bit in front of 5 year olds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoRL-xzdlVI
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 17 November 2022 05:43 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl5PLKr-Zcc
― Josefa, Thursday, 17 November 2022 06:06 (one year ago) link