― cºzen (Cozen), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:23 (nineteen years ago) link
'You are completely wrapped in cling-film,' I say.
'You win the bet,' says Roy, muffled. 'Now unwrap me.'
'Not for several hours.'
'Ah.'
― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 November 2004 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 7 November 2004 23:13 (nineteen years ago) link
Another great song on that album to bury your head in the pillow to: 'Summersong'
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 November 2004 23:18 (nineteen years ago) link
George Harrison said that Roy was deeply conversant with the work of Monty Python. I love that.
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Sunday, 7 November 2004 23:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 November 2004 23:36 (nineteen years ago) link
The parenthesized disclaimer however doesn't necessarily mean that they could not be, correspondingly, the Roy'O of lesbos pop and the Roy'O of copycatsdom.
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Sunday, 7 November 2004 23:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Sunday, 7 November 2004 23:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 8 November 2004 00:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― daavid (daavid), Monday, 8 November 2004 01:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Monday, 8 November 2004 01:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 8 November 2004 04:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Monday, 8 November 2004 05:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 8 November 2004 05:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― xx, Monday, 8 November 2004 09:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam... (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 04:20 (nineteen years ago) link
just get one of the greatest hits things with the original monument versions on it.
― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 04:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam... (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 04:32 (nineteen years ago) link
LONELY AND BLUE
Only The Lonely (Know The Way I Feel) Bye-Bye Love Cry Blue Avenue I Can't Stop Loving You Come Back To Me (My Love) Blue Angel Raindrops (I'd Be A) Legend In My Time I'm Hurtin' Twenty Two Days I'll Say It's My Fault
IN DREAMS
In Dreams Lonely Wine Shahdaroba No One Will Ever Know Sunset House Without Windows Dream Blue Bayou (They Call You) Gigolette All I Have To Do Is Dream Beautiful Dreamer My Prayer
Take either.
― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 04:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 04:45 (nineteen years ago) link
Only The Lonely Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream) Blue Bayou The Comedians Ooby Dooby Leah Running Scared Uptown In Dreams Crying Candy Man Go, Go, Go (Down The Line) Mean Woman Blues (All I Can Do Is) Dream You Claudette It's Over Oh, Pretty Woman
I havn't heard this one, but it's got quite the playlist.
― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 05:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Magic City (ano ano), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 05:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 05:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 05:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 9 November 2004 05:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 05:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 05:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 12:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 14:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 9 November 2004 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link
Could he actually be seen as a forerunner of Scott Walker, in some ways; not in the actual vocal timbre, but more in the heartbreaking nature, and an 'existential crooner' effect, perhaps.
― Tom May (Tom May), Saturday, 15 January 2005 03:03 (nineteen years ago) link
Roy Orbison was the first American musician to use Marshall guitar amps. Orbison got an early one on a UK tour and liked it enough to make it his amp when he went back to the USA.
― earlnash, Saturday, 15 January 2005 05:12 (nineteen years ago) link
"Blue Bayou" is a force of nature.
― noodle vague (noodle vague), Saturday, 15 January 2005 05:16 (nineteen years ago) link
Well...how do I say this...I find him kind of overrated in a way. I like him, I stupidly let go of this great Monument 2-LP set of his hits a while back and now I wish I had not. But my taste does not run to that particular style of singing and record-making. I like "Uptown" and "Running Scared" fine, "Pretty Woman" is one of the all-time riffs, etc. The thing I find interesting is that he really wasn't all that popular in his heyday, he was rediscovered later on. For whatever reason he doesn't move me; he sings great but it's not something I put on, you know. One of my literature teachers at the U. of Tenn. in Knoxville, Dick Penner, co-wrote "Ooby Dooby" and after I mentioned this to him I got even better grades. The Big O is someone I probably need to go back to and re-assess, he's one of the few Founding Rock Daddies I just don't quite get.
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Saturday, 15 January 2005 18:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Saturday, 15 January 2005 18:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Why does the birds always shitting on me? (noodle vague), Sunday, 26 March 2006 13:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 26 March 2006 14:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 26 March 2006 14:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 26 March 2006 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Why does the birds always shitting on me? (noodle vague), Sunday, 26 March 2006 14:18 (eighteen years ago) link
Yeah, I'm with that. I always thought "You Got It" was striking for being on a continuum with the earlier hits that worked just fine on radio and elsewhere. Still does.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 26 March 2006 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Sunday, 26 March 2006 14:45 (eighteen years ago) link
Search: "Life Fades Away," from the 'Less Than Zero' soundtrack. He cowrote it with Danzig. Great one.
Two of my favorite things about Roy, these. ("Life Fades Away" is really great and I'm wondering if it was ever anthologized properly, as otherwise I guess it would be missed.)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 26 March 2006 14:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 26 March 2006 14:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Sunday, 26 March 2006 14:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 26 March 2006 15:38 (eighteen years ago) link