― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 24 August 2003 15:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 12:02 (twenty years ago) link
Depends on what you mean by successful...
― ModJ, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 12:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 13:52 (twenty years ago) link
The funny thing is that the Atari's "In This Diary" is even worse, and it's an original.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 19:25 (twenty years ago) link
(also, side question: which has been covered more by mediocre pop punk bands, this or "take on me"?)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, August 22, 2003 12:43 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
99 luftballoons
― i got nothin (deej), Saturday, 10 October 2009 19:11 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^^
― sunn o))) successor (Curt1s Stephens), Saturday, 10 October 2009 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't know crap about this cover version, but the original is one of the best songs of the 80's.
― akm, Thursday, 12 May 2011 03:08 (twelve years ago) link
I still want to hear the original demo.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 12 May 2011 03:17 (twelve years ago) link
why? it probably wouldn't have the cool drum machine or the synths or anything that makes this song rule. it would probably just have don henley wheezing all over it
― akm, Thursday, 12 May 2011 03:26 (twelve years ago) link
a song that cuts deeper every year
― always have time for the crystalline entity (contenderizer), Thursday, 12 May 2011 03:48 (twelve years ago) link
also, it's strange that young people in the 80s were so hung up on nostalgia and the loss of youth. "forever young", "young turks", "glory days", "jack & diane", etc. if they only knew...
― always have time for the crystalline entity (contenderizer), Thursday, 12 May 2011 03:57 (twelve years ago) link
pretty sure the original demo is all drum machine & no henley. This is discussed somewhere here or Wikipedia or ?
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 12 May 2011 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
Bat for Lashes does this on her current tour and it's beautiful. Here it is.
https://youtu.be/bQ_TnYlvcR8
This made me think of the concept of an unimpeachable song, a song that everyone likes. Everyone I know fucking hates the Eagles and thinks Don Henley is a piece of shit, but everyone loves this song because it's so fucking good. The only other song I can think of right now that has that level of acceptance is probably God Only Knows.
― akm, Friday, 14 February 2020 17:44 (four years ago) link
maybe this will embedd:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ_TnYlvcR8&feature=youtu.be
well fuck that, you can click the link above
― akm, Friday, 14 February 2020 17:45 (four years ago) link
It's the transitive property of Mike Campbell. Everyone loves Mike Campbell, Mike Campbell makes everything better, Mike Campbell wrote and plays on this, Mike Campbell makes Don Henley better.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 14 February 2020 17:47 (four years ago) link
Wow, I didn't even realize that. Maybe I should have given fleetwood mac with Mike Campbell a shot before dismissing them completely. Clearly he made everything he did with Petty pretty excellent.
― akm, Friday, 14 February 2020 17:53 (four years ago) link
JiC absolutely otm.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 14 February 2020 17:55 (four years ago) link
xpost Also Neil Finn, who is nothing but class. I would have loved to see a Finn tour with Mike Campbell, it's the rest of Fleetwood Mac that turned me off that outing.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 14 February 2020 17:57 (four years ago) link
yeah Finn is excellent. I probably should have bit the bullet on it but I'm still a Buckingham stan.
― akm, Friday, 14 February 2020 18:06 (four years ago) link
Out on the road today, I saw a Bright Eyes sticker on a CybertruckTried to share a pic, but Insta was down, I was out of luck
― You have seen the heavy groups (morrisp), Friday, 14 February 2020 18:51 (four years ago) link
Out on the road todayI saw an Andrew WK sticker on a Highlander (Hybrid)A little voice inside my head said"Don't get wet, you can never get wet"
https://i.imgur.com/O7NHdyB.png
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Friday, 29 March 2024 16:11 (three weeks ago) link
Out of the road today I saw a Tackhead sticker on a ChevroletLittle voice inside my head said, "Right on the edge. We were walking right on the edge."
― President Keyes, Friday, 29 March 2024 16:21 (three weeks ago) link
Basically, same as the last post: a guy in his 50s walking out of the grocery store yesterday wearing a Skinny Puppy T-shirt, enough to activate that little voice inside my head.
― clemenza, Thursday, 4 April 2024 15:26 (two weeks ago) link