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Post by fange on May 21, 2020 3:32:27 GMT
Do you love them all, none or some?
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Post by toomanyhatz on May 21, 2020 5:24:14 GMT
They're all great in their way, but "Summer Wine" is particularly good. "Lady Bird" verges on self-parody, but it's amusing at least. Probably the least interesting song of the three.
"Some Velvet Morning" is wonderful, of course, but whenever I hear it I can't help but think "he has other songs, you know!"
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on May 21, 2020 6:17:17 GMT
Love them all (in fact now I'm trying to think if there's a dud on the whole album) but went for 'Some Velvet Morning'. I take hatz's point, but it's one of the strangest and most beautiful songs to come out of the decade and that arrangement is stunning. It stands out a mile. And that corny/classy pause ('some velvet morning when I'm....') - my heart races every time!
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Post by bungo the mungo on May 21, 2020 18:58:49 GMT
These always remind me of one of my sisters and her boyfriend, these albums, songs were her, their music. He was in Nam, firebase hellhole 37, they would mail letters and records back and forth. He sent some from Japan, Thailand, etc., The records were the soundtrack to the letters. Nancy was essentially a Kardashian, who could sing, she was always very careful not to get pulled into the Nam culture wars of the time. The orchestrations and arrangements are excellent, something that would cost a fortune nowadays for a throwaway pop album. Out of context, she's possibly arch, because of Hazelwood, interesting how things are seen differently out of their time. you are unravelling, Gav. keep yer pecker up. |
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Post by bungo the mungo on May 21, 2020 19:10:04 GMT
least of all 'soul's island' x
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2020 16:51:07 GMT
Close to the pinnacle of popular music, all three. Very close.
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Post by DarknessFish on May 22, 2020 20:29:31 GMT
It's all about the orchestration and arrangement isn't it? They sound wonderful, I'm not sure whether the songs themselves kind of matter. The mood the space, the layers of instrumentation, it's all more imporant than whatever they're babbling on about. But I mean that in a positive way.
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Post by fange on May 23, 2020 3:49:25 GMT
Close to the pinnacle of popular music, all three. Very close. I thought and said something very similar a little while ago when JC had posted one of these. There is something very true about these recordings that I can't really explain, or even really put my finger on; they represent some sort of peak of what popular music can be, and the weirdness, beauty and contradictions are all part of it. |
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Post by The Right Profile on Aug 4, 2020 9:13:19 GMT
Love them all (in fact now I'm trying to think if there's a dud on the whole album) but went for 'Some Velvet Morning'. I take hatz's point, but it's one of the strangest and most beautiful songs to come out of the decade and that arrangement is stunning. It stands out a mile. And that corny/classy pause ('some velvet morning when I'm....') - my heart races every time! It's the way that Lee's beckoning vocal sounds at once alluring and utterly seedy at the same time that makes it for me. Like, you know he's promising bad things, but you go with it because he's so convincing. And Nancy's airy response was absolutely perfect as an accompaniment because it sounds oddly innocent yet totally sexy at the same time. And there's an incantation-like quality to it- the song begins and ends in exactly the same place! But yeah, a perfect record in its own right. |
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