It explains both his long-term, for-all-ages vocal approach and why he was never a punk rocker.
Too young to be a punk rocker ffs
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 13:30 (seven years ago) link
Unless he means listening to Discharge and Crass and hanging about the town centre with 2 litre plastic bottles of cider.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 13:32 (seven years ago) link
check out the iTunes top 100 videos right now
http://www.apple.com/uk/itunes/charts/music-videos/
― piscesx, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 13:55 (seven years ago) link
:)
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 13:57 (seven years ago) link
Interesting to compare against the US list: http://www.apple.com/itunes/charts/music-videos/
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 14:00 (seven years ago) link
xxp he shunned punk rock in favour of forming a two-tone inspired ska outfit called "The Executive"
http://george.michael.szm.com/Special/Tribute/Texecut.html
― soref, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 14:07 (seven years ago) link
Why is Careless Whisper twice on both lists? SD and HD versions of the video? If you combined the sales on both versions, would it top the list?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 14:19 (seven years ago) link
Maybe it's just the musical arrangements but 'Cowboys & Angels' gives me such a Bacharach vibe.
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 December 2016 16:33 (seven years ago) link
it's always this way with iTunes for some reason. versions of songs that may have slightly different edits/lengths on different albums and compilations get counted separately. sometimes it's just the difference between an album mix and a single mix (as with Wham!'s Freedom which has 2 different mixes) but also often it's the exact same track just classed as a different song because the edit is a few seconds longer or whatever. with videos I guess it's a smilar thing; slight variations between compiled versions. there are 2 different DVD/video compilations (Ladies And Gentlemen and Twenty Five) too, which have similar track lists but perhaps slightly different lengths on some songs. it's confusing man.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 28 December 2016 17:06 (seven years ago) link
I’ve also come to love that he was born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou in North London, emerging from an old-fashioned kind of immigrant background and name change for a pop singer, rather like a second closet. It explains both his long-term, for-all-ages vocal approach and why he was never a punk rocker. Subsequently, that’s why, given the era, he had so little cool cred. He was suburban, not abjectly working class, yet his parents didn’t even let him buy pop records. (He was hearing mainly Tom Jones and Henry Mancini at home but Queen and Elton John on the radio.) So his threshold for rebellion was much lower than for many of his London peers. Pop would do. Plus, the punk kids weren’t the beautiful people, and—at least after he met his more stylish adolescent bandmate—he wanted to be one of those.
this feels right to me. and not snobby.
george was also just not rock-press cool cos he was working from more of a pop and soul set of influences. also, too smooth for rockists. i tuned out mostly from his music after the late 90s, but was a massive fan in the 80s. i also grew up in the burbs, son of immigrants, etc, though ofc, never knew that part of his background. he def became a bit more of a classicist (or at least thought of pop in historical terms more and more as he got older, which that quote in the slate piece hints at) IIRC and i think this maybe undid him. i should go back and relisten to his albums though. i hadnt really thought about him in a very long time.
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 29 December 2016 10:10 (seven years ago) link
at the peak of his charm and warmth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zo4JAfGVDNE
Also, he looks great
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 December 2016 14:05 (seven years ago) link
the title track to "Older", which I just heard for the first time, is delightfully moody.
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 29 December 2016 14:45 (seven years ago) link
I watched the movie Keanu a few days before he died which was sort of a weird coincidence, it was as far as I remember the only time I'd heard a sincere-sounding tribute to George Michael. Listening to Faith now and yeah, this is like a good Prince album. Now I regret sleeping on the guy.
― frogbs, Thursday, 29 December 2016 15:21 (seven years ago) link
Now I regret sleeping on the guy.
sounds like a missed opportunity
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 29 December 2016 15:22 (seven years ago) link
― soref, Wednesday, December 28, 2016 9:07 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Small snippet here:
https://youtu.be/qCzjjLTTJS8?t=9m7s
― how's life, Thursday, 29 December 2016 15:23 (seven years ago) link
I always did love the lyric "Sex is natural, sex is good, not everybody does it, but everybody should"
― frogbs, Thursday, 29 December 2016 15:24 (seven years ago) link
i dont know if he ever spoke much about prince (or vice versa) but sleep around (from prince's emancipation) has always seemed like prince paying tribute to GM (or just liking something like fast love and being inspired by it).
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 29 December 2016 15:26 (seven years ago) link
Fastlove is an incredible, incredible song.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 29 December 2016 18:40 (seven years ago) link
So much vulnerability in something so hedonistic. So much honesty.
IN THE ABSENCE OF SECURITY
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 December 2016 19:23 (seven years ago) link
Friday night on BBC4 in the Uk
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2016-12-29/bbc-to-show-night-of-programmes-dedicated-to-george-michael#amph=1
― piscesx, Thursday, 29 December 2016 19:30 (seven years ago) link
I was listening to 'Fastlove' earlier and I'd love to know what the writing process for the track was like... I love how the track slides effortlessly from the main part of the song into the "outro" section, with the 'Forget Me Nots' sample... it's so seamless and the sample is integrated into the track superbly well. The "ooh ooh hey baby" and "gotta get up to get down" hooks fit as snugly alongside that sample and they do in the main body of the song. It's a far better use of the sample than that Will Smith track, too.
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Thursday, 29 December 2016 20:33 (seven years ago) link
always just assumed that whoever produced the Will Smith song heard Fastlove and thought 'we'll have that as well'
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 31 December 2016 14:35 (seven years ago) link
"In the absence of security" always makes me picture him dismissing his three Russian bodyguards for the night before walking over to the boardwalk.
― who even are those other cats (Eazy), Saturday, 31 December 2016 16:05 (seven years ago) link
Jukebox mega-post:http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=22734#more-22734
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Monday, 2 January 2017 21:51 (seven years ago) link
You're welcome!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 2 January 2017 23:51 (seven years ago) link
A British coroner says George Michael died of natural causes as the result of heart disease and a fatty liver. Darren Salter, senior coroner for Oxfordshire, says a post-mortem has found that the singer died of "dilated cardiomyopathy with myocarditis and fatty liver."
Dilated cardiomyopathy is a condition in which the heart's ability to pump blood is limited, while myocarditis is inflammation of the heart muscle.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 16:15 (seven years ago) link
Guy at work* today, who grew up in the same area, says he knows one of George Michael's cousins and that, according to the cousin, he'd put on an enormous amount of weight in the last year or so.
(*almost but not quite 'man in pub', I admit)
― Return of the Flustered Bootle Native (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 18:21 (seven years ago) link
In which six of us commemorate the 30th anniversary of Faith.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 28 October 2017 20:56 (six years ago) link
this thread title is still such a heartsinker
― estela, Sunday, 29 October 2017 06:57 (six years ago) link
yeah
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 29 October 2017 10:14 (six years ago) link
yes
― maura, Sunday, 29 October 2017 13:32 (six years ago) link
I spent late yesterday afternoon watching a bunch of clips and was in the hole again.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 29 October 2017 13:40 (six years ago) link
I said this on the Listen Without Prejudice thread, but I really wish he'd put out more music. I loved (still love) his voice, but he deserved more respect as a songwriter.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Sunday, 29 October 2017 18:48 (six years ago) link
Still hurts. Am drunk, and about to watch the Ladies And Gentlmen DVD all the way through til collapse.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 26 December 2017 22:13 (six years ago) link
this is still the worst
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Tuesday, 26 December 2017 23:01 (six years ago) link
otm ;_;
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 26 December 2017 23:38 (six years ago) link
yes :(
― maura, Wednesday, 27 December 2017 04:20 (six years ago) link
One of my Xmas presents (thanks, sis!) was the LWP deluxe package. I spent last night watching The South Bank Show episode from 1990 included. Man, did he look hot in that period, at the peak of his musicianship.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 December 2017 04:34 (six years ago) link
This dude has become my big brother
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 17 December 2018 03:18 (five years ago) link
you need to correct "Uet" in your subheading. This has made me want to listen to LWP again right now, so thanks!
― brokenshire (jed_), Monday, 17 December 2018 03:22 (five years ago) link
Lovely top 5, Alfred. I haven’t gotten over his passing either.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 17 December 2018 05:13 (five years ago) link
My friend shared a very cute story today about her 3 year old.
“Important- G. asks us to play the “Save me some tears” song Friday night. We are perplexed. Saturday, we’re driving and Wham’s Last Christmas comes on. “Here it is Mom. My favorite song!” and proceeds to sing 80% correct lyrics at full volume. Also, telling me it’s her turn to sing-“not you Mom.”
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 17 December 2018 11:27 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1kWLPGUKcs
― just another country (snoball), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link
Nailed it
https://c.files.bbci.co.uk/7314/production/_114406492_georgemic1.jpg
― groovypanda, Saturday, 19 September 2020 16:50 (three years ago) link
the hell
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 19 September 2020 16:53 (three years ago) link
http://steemitimages.com/DQmW9bN7ck4wXs98aB1YdmHF1iu7f7RgcDKr5adwSR5v8EQ/parker_oliver1.jpg
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 19 September 2020 16:58 (three years ago) link
What does that say on the bottom left, 'just abolishing'?
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 19 September 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link
saw this the other day, and still cannot figure out the crashing helicopter thing.was it really the only way to get 'WHAM' into the image ?!
― mark e, Saturday, 19 September 2020 17:13 (three years ago) link
it’s the police helicopter from the “Outside” video, innit? George was on his way to singlehandedly ‘just abolishing’ (as well as defunding) the police with the way he let that sting operation blew up in their faces. (I think I just blew my own mind here)
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Saturday, 19 September 2020 19:42 (three years ago) link