hadn't really paid attention before but I'm listening now and it's cool how they have the dulcimer panned right and hard left and they kind of duel with each other
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Thursday, 8 February 2018 03:39 (six years ago) link
dulcimer panned right and guitar panned left
apologies for sass, I just have an intense love for that song and specifically the vocal melody
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Thursday, 8 February 2018 04:57 (six years ago) link
me too! i love everything about the song and i think Taylor's playing adds a lot.
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Thursday, 8 February 2018 05:23 (six years ago) link
The whole sweet baby James is solid
― brimstead, Thursday, 8 February 2018 06:14 (six years ago) link
sweet baby James album, I mean
2 things1) if he was such an amazing instrumentalist (I believe those of you who say he is), I guess what I don't like about him are a) his songs and b) his voice. I applaud his instrumental prowess and can only wish he had quietly gone about his musical business wordlessly
2) last night i was watching some of those "what's in your bag" amoeba videos and one of the guys from red kross had a james taylor album. the clip they played didn't sound as repulsive as i expected, kind of like heavily produced sunshine pop. so much more palatable than his usual sack of singles. i will admit that i did not hate it. i didn't like it, but i didn't recoil in disgust.
this was the song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oAInzTXu_Y
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 8 February 2018 14:26 (six years ago) link
Ha - I watched TWO-LANE BLACKTOP for the first time last night and nearly fell over when I saw the lead actor. He's pretty affectless and not much of a presence, but the disc includes his screen test with what I'm fairly sure is Joaquin Phoenix pretending to be James, performing the newly-written Riding on a Railroad which is bittersweet brilliant, fuiudhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jgg0ym7O6Rc#t=4m32s
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Monday, 12 February 2018 05:10 (six years ago) link
Oh - time link failed to work, jump to 4:32 for the song.
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Monday, 12 February 2018 05:14 (six years ago) link
just watched Two-Lane Blacktop for the first time. it was OK, but I liked James Taylor a lot in it. my man's pupils were pinned throughout
― flappy bird, Monday, 12 February 2018 05:38 (six years ago) link
James Taylor will win over the grouches eventually. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uQa4dvrg1E
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Monday, 12 February 2018 05:44 (six years ago) link
Also a fan of "Carolina in My Mind."
― timellison, Monday, 12 February 2018 05:59 (six years ago) link
is james taylor the guitar player sitting on the stage in this video? if so, i revise my assessment of james taylor. i don't like his singing or his songs, but now i have enjoyed his guitar playinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBI669Ac3cg
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 16 April 2018 20:57 (six years ago) link
yes
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 16 April 2018 21:03 (six years ago) link
James Taylor rules and this thread is absolute insanity.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 16 April 2018 21:04 (six years ago) link
pshaw
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 01:59 (six years ago) link
That's a beautiful performance
(also, james taylor wrote some great songs)
― niels, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 10:13 (six years ago) link
Terra Nova , come now
― calstars, Sunday, 22 April 2018 03:42 (six years ago) link
Never saw the gatefold art for Flag before--James and his gang look like a bar band that was forced to go 'New Wave'.
https://recordsalbums.com/11430-thickbox_default/james-taylor-flag-vinyl-lp-record-for-sale.jpg
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 30 November 2019 02:07 (four years ago) link
What a douche
― calstars, Saturday, 30 November 2019 02:21 (four years ago) link
He's like 80% on the way to David Byrne in that pic.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 30 November 2019 02:25 (four years ago) link
he has a full substitute teacher sneergod i hate him
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 30 November 2019 05:19 (four years ago) link
I've never even really liked this song, but goddamn what a brilliant guitaristhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws5kp1_iksw
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 21 November 2020 05:12 (three years ago) link
Yup
― Indieland Phil and Indieland Don (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 21 November 2020 05:19 (three years ago) link
https://images.45worlds.com/f/ab/james-taylor-flag-3-ab.jpg
https://images.45worlds.com/f/ab/james-taylor-flag-2-ab.jpg
Flag inners of New Wave of JT & band from upthread
― "what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 21 November 2020 05:47 (three years ago) link
hearing this to the tune of "I Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson"
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Saturday, 21 November 2020 05:50 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/H5pLovP.png
― calstars, Sunday, 29 August 2021 22:26 (two years ago) link
still hate him
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 29 August 2021 22:27 (two years ago) link
Not really a fan, although I did recently enjoy reading how he was jealous of Mick Jagger, at least partially because of “You’re So Vain,” which humanized him a bit for me, and he did write this, which I never tire of posting:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vAuXP4hIoo
― Gwar ina Babyon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 August 2021 23:18 (two years ago) link
seen fuckin fire and seen fuckin rain
― Duke Detain (Neanderthal), Monday, 30 August 2021 00:49 (two years ago) link
Have you read that book?
― Gwar ina Babyon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 August 2021 01:05 (two years ago) link
someone did Steamroller Blues at a karaoke night once, it was so jarring to realize it was a JT song, even if it's a satire of the blues
― Duke Detain (Neanderthal), Monday, 30 August 2021 01:13 (two years ago) link
Yeah. It kind of works either way, as put-on or not. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/24/books/fire-and-rain-by-david-browne-book-review.html
― Gwar ina Babyon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 August 2021 01:16 (two years ago) link
― Duke Detain (Neanderthal), Sunday, August 29, 2021
not the lyric iirc
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 August 2021 02:04 (two years ago) link
Surely Neanderthal is referring to the old joke about the wise guy who makes a request to hear “Strangers in the Night” in 5/4.
― Gwar ina Babyon (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 August 2021 02:09 (two years ago) link
Oh, General Motors and IBMAFL-CIO and all the king's menWhen I began the gameSee me singing about fire and rainLet me just say it againI've seen fives and I've seen tens
(from Taylor's own "Money Machine" - xgau was right, guy had a sense of humor that was nowhere to be seen on his worst yet best-selling hits)
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 16:39 (two years ago) link
He admits he gave John Lennon opiates in 1968, maybe for the first time. BAD MAN.
― Alba, Thursday, 6 January 2022 08:22 (two years ago) link
Taylor had a harrowing addiction. He actually wrote a few good songs drawing on that experience, but again, it's a side of him that isn't really seen in his best-known hits which tends to be bland or syrupy..
― birdistheword, Thursday, 6 January 2022 17:28 (two years ago) link
James Taylor, hung or not hung?
http://www.kennethinthe212.com/2022/04/secret-o-life-epic-endowment-of-sweet.html#more
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 10 April 2022 03:33 (two years ago) link
Joni Mitchell said he was her best lover, no contest.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 10 April 2022 04:26 (two years ago) link
JT BDE
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 10 April 2022 04:33 (two years ago) link
https://c.tenor.com/nGJdVgAyHaQAAAAM/eddie-murphy.gif
So long, walking man, so long...
― birdistheword, Sunday, 10 April 2022 04:41 (two years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/vujQLCLjUi— SNL Hosts Introducing the Musical Guest (@snlhostsintro) September 1, 2022
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 1 September 2022 22:39 (one year ago) link
That's a great tune.
I despised JT, along with Dan Fogelberg, John Denver, et al. back in the day. Like much of the music I hated then, it now has a huge appeal to me. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 1 September 2022 22:55 (one year ago) link
Oh, and I especially hated Jackson Browne, mostly because he would get much more AOR airplay than those other dudes.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 1 September 2022 22:56 (one year ago) link
JT blowing Stephen Colbert's mind about how he actually played on Blue (starts around 1:23)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJcZGK1yCYA
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 1 September 2022 22:59 (one year ago) link
FWIW, this was the reference CD-R I compiled for Taylor. Sequenced in more or less chronological order. (no re-recordings or live versions)
1. Knockin' Round the Zoo2. Something in the Way She Moves3. Carolina in My Mind4. Night Owl5. Rainy Day Man6. Sweet Baby James7. Steamroller8. Country Road9. Fire and Rain10. You Can Close Your Eyes11. Long Ago and Far Away12. Chili Dog13. Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight14. Walking Man15. Mexico16. Gorilla17. You Make It Easy18. Shower the People19. A Junkie's Lament20. Money Machine21. Your Smiling Face22. Another Grey Morning23. Secret O' Life24. Handy Man
― birdistheword, Thursday, 1 September 2022 23:26 (one year ago) link
No copperline huh
― calstars, Thursday, 1 September 2022 23:47 (one year ago) link
Eh, come on! It's not nostalgia! This suggests passivity. Trust your intelligence. You hear these bros' good qualities.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 September 2022 23:54 (one year ago) link
"Copperline"'s all right (so is "Her Town Too" FWIW) but I'm still fine leaving them off. I'm not a big James Taylor fan - I dislike most of his stuff, but there was enough I was drawn to that warranted a reference.
― birdistheword, Friday, 2 September 2022 16:10 (one year ago) link