it's probably on 1 of these new fangles VICE CITY comps (sounds like it should be) but that's not where i've heard it, i just slskd it on a whim. also sounds like it was in MIAMI VICE/some JOHN HUGHES movie at some point. sorta recalls 'behaviour' era pet shop boys doesn't it?
so how come nothing else of his is this good? the rest of his stuff sounds joke-y, like he's taking the piss. this doesn't at all.
― piscesboy, Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― jj dncr, Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:04 (nineteen years ago) link
It's like Prince only in that the lyrics are the work of a strenuously retarded libido.
Apart from that, it's a classic. And Prince couldn't rock this hard if his purple little life depended on it.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― jj dncr, Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― jj dncr, Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― jj dncr, Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:52 (nineteen years ago) link
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― jj dncr, Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:54 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― jj dncr, Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 28 December 2004 23:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― jj dncr, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:04 (nineteen years ago) link
I'll give you this one. If the magazine had any balls, we'd have put Bin Laden on the cover as "Person of the Year".
Just out of curioustiy, JJ, what do you do for a living?
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:07 (nineteen years ago) link
"Eyes Without a Face" -- supremely classic for the moment in the video when Billy mouths the echoed "facefaceface" part.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― jj dncr, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― jj dncr, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― jj dncr, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:14 (nineteen years ago) link
Then I guess I should stop posting here.
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:17 (nineteen years ago) link
For myself, I would gladly cease having to post my monthly series of "It's....in Iraq" on ILE, say. Perhaps I will never be given the chance to stop, and I will have to keep counting up the dead and snarling at the idiocies of this world. This said, I still happen to merrily believe that, say, the Darkness deserve massive and bloody beatings.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― jj dncr, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:25 (nineteen years ago) link
A peek into the past: Neil Tennant on the power of hate
While the references in many cases are dated, this specific point is potent:
That?s the thing about negative energy, about hatred. It can be positive. It throws into relief all the things you know you like. It tells you, by elimination, what you?re about. Sometimes you can only define yourself by what you hate.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― piscesboy, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― cºzen (Cozen), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 00:42 (nineteen years ago) link
War criminals, killer tsunamis, racism = a more serious matter than discussing music on the internet.
OTM.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 01:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― jj dncr, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 01:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― jj dncr, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 01:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― jj dncer, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 01:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― jj dncuh, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 01:18 (nineteen years ago) link
The same, though, as defining yourself by your friends and/or certain values -- both approaches can lead to a self-righteous state (but do not have to).
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 01:22 (nineteen years ago) link
Well, by your estimation, the only reason "Eyes Without a Face" was a sizable hit was because that it was "Prince-like". Why not give Billy Idol a little of his own fuckin' credit, huh?
You interpret my opinions as hateful, yet we've never met. Nine-tenths of the comments I make are with tongue firmly in cheek and they are rarely meant as personal slights.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 01:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― jj dncr, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 01:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 01:30 (nineteen years ago) link
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― jj dncr, Wednesday, 29 December 2004 01:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 29 December 2004 01:43 (nineteen years ago) link
Great video too http://youtube.com/watch?v=SpmWIyjilQo
Does anyone still music videos like this? Did anyone ever make music videos like this?
― Hurting 2, Sunday, 17 June 2007 07:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I'LL TELL YOU WHO DID
BILLY FUCKING IDOL.
― KOOL-AID MAN, Sunday, 17 June 2007 07:23 (sixteen years ago) link
THAT'S RIGHT. BILLY FUCKING AMERICAN IDOL
― Hurting 2, Sunday, 17 June 2007 07:26 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost
There is absolutely nothing wrong with this song. A little cheesy, but not enough to distract from its finery.
― Bimble, Sunday, 17 June 2007 07:26 (sixteen years ago) link
bilbo2shire (2 days ago) Marked as spam I tell people to listen to my music if they want to get to know me. Always be yourself. So many have been hurt trying to be what others want them to be. Especially in the past. Bilbo2shire (Reply) (Spam)
youtube wisdom from bilbo2shire
― Curt1s Stephens, Sunday, 17 June 2007 07:35 (sixteen years ago) link
sfumato1002 (3 days ago) Marked as spam Its about people who feel rejected in this world of lies. They have eyes but no face. They try to still try to fit in into this world the believe the lies always trying to fit in and stay hip to what others think it's cool. But really this world in nothing. It's all a big lie and we need to be ourselfs and belief in ourselfs no matter what other think or feel about us. We make our own world by our thoughts. Love yourself. Only when you love yourself you will be able to love others.
I know there's always room for interpretation, but I find it bizarre that people can so completely miss the point of a song.
― Hurting 2, Sunday, 17 June 2007 07:41 (sixteen years ago) link
didn't jbr have the username "reading murder books, trying to stay hip" once? classic for that alone
― gershy, Sunday, 17 June 2007 15:56 (sixteen years ago) link
That's right, she did! I'd forgotten that. Ah, the good old days...
― Bimble, Sunday, 17 June 2007 21:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Man, was "jj dncr" the biggest idiot to ever post here? Or merely among the biggest?
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 18 June 2007 07:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Like how did Billy Idol come up with such a glittering woozy midtempo synth jam. Why can't this happen again?
― corey, Friday, 29 October 2010 07:26 (thirteen years ago) link
despise this song tbh
― guess I'll just sing dream on again (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 29 October 2010 07:39 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't know what to say to you then
― corey, Friday, 29 October 2010 07:41 (thirteen years ago) link
This thread is *so* ILX.
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 29 October 2010 08:11 (thirteen years ago) link
in a good way!
― corey, Friday, 29 October 2010 08:19 (thirteen years ago) link
love this jam
― kind of folksy and very down-to-earth (crüt), Friday, 29 October 2010 08:20 (thirteen years ago) link
a classic and unbelievably amazing.
― Tim F, Friday, 29 October 2010 09:49 (thirteen years ago) link
listened to this on spotify recently and a cover came on after and i was like "oh this is nice"
it was SCOOTER. from a chill out album of scooter singing acoustic songs!
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Friday, 29 October 2010 11:21 (thirteen years ago) link
this thread is amazing
― Kim, Friday, 29 October 2010 13:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Prince gets enough handjobs here on ILM, why give him another?
Prince needs MORE handjobs from ILM!
― overrated steven tyler television gigs that I have no interest in viewing (KMS), Friday, 29 October 2010 13:56 (thirteen years ago) link
love this song. always assumed it was about a guy cutting off models' faces to graft onto the skull of his disfigured daughter.
― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Friday, 29 October 2010 15:31 (thirteen years ago) link
this song rules. perfect for being on a bus, a psychedelic trip, reading murder books, or trying to stay hip
― underrated joe perry project albums i have sold (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 29 October 2010 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
*cough* if that's an invite, I took out the macho chugging and slightly screwed it for a recent mix you may have snickered at. Still like how it sounds, and what it cross-fades into.
― cee-oh-tee-tee, Friday, 29 October 2010 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Love this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9am9COGN04
― sandra lee, gimme your alcohol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 October 2010 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I really dislike the bridge in this song. I feel like the guitar solo and Billy's macho posturing during it really ruin and disrupt the sweet sexiness of the mood. I couldn't find another remix with this simple edit so I cut it out.
Here it is: Eyes Without A Solo
― Captain Ahab, Friday, 25 February 2011 05:43 (thirteen years ago) link
kind of disconcerting how the end of the solo cuts in so suddenly, but yeah, that's definitely my least favorite part too.
― flow (chilli), Friday, 25 February 2011 06:43 (thirteen years ago) link
this song stopped me in my tracks a few months ago, unbelievable!
― maybe i'm just gay (Tape Store), Friday, 25 February 2011 06:49 (thirteen years ago) link
xp
I played with it for a good while trying to cut the beginning verse into the post solo verse, but in the end I began to like the way the end of the solo cut in. I'll look at it again and see if I can make it a little smoother.
― Captain Ahab, Friday, 25 February 2011 07:10 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe cut in at the 'say your prayers' bit? if possible. it's not too far out from the overall mood, would add just a slightly sinister note.
― ledge, Friday, 25 February 2011 10:22 (thirteen years ago) link
wow.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_okSlFkkUpE
― Kim, Friday, 25 February 2011 15:00 (thirteen years ago) link
no real recollection of starting this at all. i know i liked it but i didn't know i liked it so much.
― piscesx, Saturday, 26 February 2011 12:08 (thirteen years ago) link
So seems like Captain Ahab had the same idea- but it looks like it's been taken down.
Here's my version without the solo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU1Yolk9TXg
dl link in description.
― mom, Friday, 21 November 2014 03:04 (nine years ago) link
hi mom
― GYBE ALFOTHAD download from mediafire - Type: .rar Size: 53.25 MB (unregistered), Friday, 21 November 2014 03:08 (nine years ago) link
the lyrics in the sort of breakout part of this are fucking hilarious and terrible. they feel like they were written by someone's dad impersonating a rebellious figure. especially the way he sings "ooh, the gigolo pool".
When you hear the music you make a dipInto someone else's pocket then make a slip.Steal a car and go to Las Vegas oh, the gigolo pool.
Hanging out by the state line,Turning holy water into wineDrinkin' it down, ohI'm on a bus on a psychedelic tripReading murder books tryin' to stay hip.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, 23 January 2017 23:26 (seven years ago) link
i think id like to make an edit of this track where that bit doesn't happen
― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Monday, 23 January 2017 23:33 (seven years ago) link
ha, i didn't read the previous revive of this thread. a common complaint it seems
― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Monday, 23 January 2017 23:35 (seven years ago) link
i would also put the bpm down by 5 or so
i always thought the lyric was "ooh, the gigolo crew" which is funnier and worse than "gigolo pool" which sounds like a venue or something. i like the idea of idol referring to himself and some cronies as "the gigolo crew".
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, 23 January 2017 23:37 (seven years ago) link
this is a boss tune and the breakdown and the rest are as luridly trashy as each other
killing yourself would be preferable to editing it into a lynch meets soft sad techno komkukt jam
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 00:07 (seven years ago) link
it's all trashy but the breakdown guitar sound is just unforgivable.
― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 00:10 (seven years ago) link
the arguing at the beginning of this thread between press outlets about Dubya coverage is ... something
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 00:15 (seven years ago) link
xp great riff, you're unforgivable
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 00:18 (seven years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, December 28, 2004
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 00:18 (seven years ago) link
I'm on a bus on a psychedelic tripReading murder books tryin' to stay hip.
Can imagine Dylan flipping over these cue cards
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 02:49 (seven years ago) link
I never heard this song growing up, only heard the italo disco version (sung in Italian!) that omits the middle section, and assumed it was an original until only a few years ago. Funny that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJIfAciHPo8
― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 03:43 (seven years ago) link
I like the solo but yeah the bridge singing is pretty mood-breaking. Still a fantastic song
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 05:40 (seven years ago) link
i'm into the bridge. lyrics look ridic spelled out like that, but it's all about that cadence and the marriage of the groove with the buttrock riff. plus it has that cool, careening guitar feedback thing in there. i'll go the opposite way: i'll make an edit of just this part and rock all y'all!
― andrew m., Tuesday, 24 January 2017 14:58 (seven years ago) link
say your pra-hayers
saay yo-our pra-haayyers
― andrew m., Tuesday, 24 January 2017 14:59 (seven years ago) link
i'm always psyched to hear this song, such a finely distilled mood. I understand wanting to erase the middle eight but then you'd lose OOOH GIGOLO POOL which along with THE WOMAN IS WILD OOOOOO is one of the most useful 80s eruptions for almost any situation
― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 15:44 (seven years ago) link
Mangzorz1 month agoThe break down is the best part of this song... "I'm on a bus on a psychedelic trip, reading murder books and trying to stay hip" Dude, my entire life, Billy...you truly get me.
― salthigh, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 17:03 (seven years ago) link
the opening synths are incredible
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 17:11 (seven years ago) link