― Dadaismus (Are we in love like I think we be?) (Dada), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― mms (mms), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― mms (mms), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 08:36 (seventeen years ago) link
How true.
I dug up an old single, Kenny Everett singing 2 nilsson songs. How about that!
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 12:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Are we in love like I think we be?) (Dada), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 12:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Are we in love like I think we be?) (Dada), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:09 (seventeen years ago) link
http://chilled.cream.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=812&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=20
then there is an mp3 of Harry Nilsson from an Everett radio show that's worth hearing. Unfortunately none of the other links on the thread appear to work.
― mms (mms), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Are we in love like I think we be?) (Dada), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 13:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 20 July 2006 04:12 (seventeen years ago) link
I wanted to add a "classic" vote. The cover of "River Deep, Mountain High" on Pandemonium Shadow Show (better than the "remix" on Aerial Pandemonium Ballet though that one's great too) is so classic: sonically it's very similar to the original, with all the instruments save voice pretty much the same. But Nilsson does all the voices, and on the second verse (the one about the puppy) when he gets to the "I'm gonna be as faithful as that puppy" he shout/sings it and at that moment it's like the standards of faithfulness have been completely reset, like you can only really be faithful to another person if you can shout it that mountain high. It's like when Cash says "I find it very, very easy to be true", and you're like, wow, it's not easy for me at all, I've got some work cut out for me...Nilsson resets the standards of faithfulness too.
― Euler, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 21:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I remember Blue Peter creating a dance routine to Nilsson's "River Deep" (didn't know it was his version till many years later, it was that puppy line that registered w/me), with Lesley Judd of the Young Generation (the rest wus historie)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link
i have been totally obsessed for the past like three months. everything about him is perfect - voice, songs, piano, personality, everything. classic, classic, classic.
― Emily Bjurnhjam, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 21:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Funnily enough, I just dug up my 2CD "Ariel Pandemonium Ballet Show" cd set about an hour ago. And suddenly here's this thread.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link
how is Son of Schmilsson? seen that LP the other day, looked so cool. dunno why i didnt pick it up
― rizzx, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link
its good. has the fuck you song.
― chaki, Tuesday, 31 July 2007 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link
And Without You, of course.
― Billy Pilgrim, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 01:11 (sixteen years ago) link
thats on nilsson schmilsson
― chaki, Wednesday, 1 August 2007 02:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Knnillssonn is very underrated. He definitely got his voice back after Pussy Cats.
― chaki, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 01:32 (sixteen years ago) link
just to say a little more it has a very ethereal, angelic quality to it. a bit Spector-esque with beautiful string arrangements and heavy reverb throughout. not much guitar except for wonderful acoustic playing and lots of Beach Boys style percussion. some of his best vocals and melodies of his career for sure. even the cover is heaven.
http://www.jefito.com/nilsson_knnillssonn.jpg
― chaki, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 01:40 (sixteen years ago) link
actually, knnillssonn kind of depresses me. he doesn't sound blown out, but he does a little desensitized to me
― Dominique, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 01:41 (sixteen years ago) link
haha im liking it tons and tons today. btw i posted a song from it on askchaki! board last week and it still seems to be an active link of anyone wants.
― chaki, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 01:42 (sixteen years ago) link
+ i'll ask again: where in sf??
― Dominique, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 02:00 (sixteen years ago) link
just with friends for now! ill hit you up on webmail.
― chaki, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 02:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I sort of know what you mean, it's still beautiful though
― Tom D., Tuesday, 21 August 2007 08:57 (sixteen years ago) link
!!!! I just bought Knnillssonn the other day and was going to post about it. It's good. Not quite up there with the best of them, but certainly better than the snoozier albums of his I've heard, eg A Touch of Schmilsson. Just enough weirdness to stay alive. Love all the plucky-plucky strings (real? fake?) and the crazy song about being in an Agatha Christie story.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 17:36 (sixteen years ago) link
what is "Beach Boys-style percussion"?
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 17:39 (sixteen years ago) link
are you serious? you of anyone knows that wrcking crew percussion sound.
dr c: yes real strings.
― chaki, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 18:29 (sixteen years ago) link
ah okay gotcha
I heart Hal Blaine
― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 21 August 2007 18:30 (sixteen years ago) link
the most beautiful world in the world and though there are times when i doubt you i just couldn't stay here without you
― ghost rider, Sunday, 23 September 2007 04:38 (sixteen years ago) link
i want to party with him
― ghost rider, Sunday, 23 September 2007 04:42 (sixteen years ago) link
You're not the only cuddly toy that was ever enjoyed by any boy
You're not the only choo-choo train that was left out in the rain
― Billy Pilgrim, Sunday, 23 September 2007 05:34 (sixteen years ago) link
That Knnillssonn cover is triggering tavern-toilet bowl flashbacks
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Sunday, 23 September 2007 06:53 (sixteen years ago) link
you're breakin my heart you're tearin it apart so fuck you
― ghost rider, Sunday, 23 September 2007 07:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Love all the plucky-plucky strings (real? fake?) and the crazy song about being in an Agatha Christie story
that used to annoy me as a kid because i'm sure it didn't add up properly.
― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 23 September 2007 09:03 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrQ8NHz6T4Q
Harry Nilsson wrote the series' theme song, which Candy sang.
― and what, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 18:46 (sixteen years ago) link
wau
― ghost rider, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link
its such a harry nilsson song!!
― and what, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 19:09 (sixteen years ago) link
You're totally fucking with me! I remember liking the song and having next to no interest in the show. Wow. That's hilarious. It's as Nilsson a theme song as you could imagine - loping, drunken, absolutely not the kind of go-getter tune a kids' cartoon theme song of the day called for. Sadly John Candy didn't have quite Nilsson's set of pipes.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 27 September 2007 02:44 (sixteen years ago) link
"Jump Into The Fire" was so integral to that great coked-out sequence in "GoodFellas"
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 27 September 2007 03:29 (sixteen years ago) link
If anyone wants the Popeye demos, I've got them. Email me and I'll figure out how to share 'em. I don't think there's a copyright on the demos.
Seems like I got them off of a direct link on a site, though...I'll try to track it down.
Currently I'm trying to find a few of the tracks off of Nilsson's unreleased last album, anybody hear them yet?
...and my insignificant vote for most underrated Nilsson album is Sandman. Classic stuff. All his early stuff was fantastic, too, up until Pussycats.
― morningsaystoidleon, Friday, 28 September 2007 22:33 (sixteen years ago) link
fortheloveofharry.blogspot.com/
― ghost rider, Friday, 28 September 2007 22:43 (sixteen years ago) link
chaki otm re Knnillssonn. tho he never really did get his voice back all the way. that's just aging and cigarettes as much as damage tho.
― ghost rider, Friday, 28 September 2007 22:45 (sixteen years ago) link
ghost rider, thanks much for the link. I've been waiting to hear those tracks.
Harry said toward the end that his voice would feel like it was coming back sometimes after a hot shower. If you do a youtube search you can catch some live performances from later on in his life, and he doesn't sound so great...still, his last album and some tracks he recorded for a Yoko Ono tribute album sound pretty good, his voice was tarnished but it was still amazing.
― morningsaystoidleon, Friday, 28 September 2007 22:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Holy sh*t!
― Billy Pilgrim, Friday, 28 September 2007 23:02 (sixteen years ago) link
been rinsing 'jump into the fire' thx to goodfellas thread madeleine-effect.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 7 December 2007 12:28 (sixteen years ago) link
we can make each other happy
― Pleasant Plains, Friday, 7 December 2007 13:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Nilsson Schmilsson and The Point! rule!
Gotta Get Up.
― our work is never over, Friday, 18 January 2008 16:20 (sixteen years ago) link
WE COULD MAKE EACH OTHER HAPPY!
― Emily Bjurnhjam, Saturday, 19 January 2008 00:48 (sixteen years ago) link