daryl hall - sacred songs

YES

first disc = original vinyl mix
second disc = fripp's 80's CD mix + three Hall vocals

buying on sight

except for the different vocal tracks, i can't tell any difference b/w the first CD and the later version.

In the scrapbook that accompanies 'The Great Deceiver', Fripp says,
"I view the King Crimson repertoire as ongoing and available: not a sacrosanct body of work but available, organic, and malleable."

This would explain the various overdubs and edits to appear on re-releases.

I consider myself a fan of both Fripp and Darryl so I will seek this album out. Sounds righteous.

I wish Peter Hammill had replaced the rest of Hall's vocals as well, these earlier versions are as painful as it gets

an outsized ego works for catchy pop, I like some H&O songs when I have to hear them, but when Hall "freaks out" on an art metal record, you get comedy.
we are talking Shatner.

the five songs that revert to Hall's vocals on disc two: "Disengage", "Chicago", "NY3", "Mary", "Exposure".

I'm not much for lyrics, but listening to Sacred Songs tonight after several months (inspired by Daryl Hall's Pitchfork interview) I'm struck by how, for once, Hall chose to create actual scenarios, like on the title track, "Why Was It So Easy" and "Babs and Babs." It's no surprise that Fripp and Hall's voice are up to them.

What's also not often said: Hall-as-keyboardist is particularly fine. Love the barrelhouse Elton John-esque stuff on the tile track and the alone-with-synth-and-Fender-Rhodes melancholy of "The Farther Away I Am."

i don't really like this

Out.

"Babs & Babs"!

gay cred songs, apparently

very good record.

-- JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, August 11, 2004 4:25 PM

whahappen

Not one of its songs is as great as 1986's "Dreamtime," though.

I have played this album at least twice a day for the last week (when I discovered it). Those vocal parts on "...4/4 Time" blow me away.

What's the chances.....

Dug this out last night after an age. I'd played Aladdin Sane and had to take it off because it was annoying me, but Darryl hit that spot perfick.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0578oOh8NHg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUkpMwyYlDk

What is the short spacey one on this? "Far as I am from you" or something? Totally haunting, very evocative of loneliness

"The Farther Away I Am"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR1tksYYeJ8

Isn't there a weird amount of autotune on the vox in 1st vid? Apart from that p great recording

Love this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZzPABfIloI

Love that, like from a parallel universe.

With some Minus the Bear guys.

whoa

This album is amazing.

Finally found a copy of this in the wild last weekend -- I had read about it before, but I didn't expect that I'd love it so much.

I think this record has finally given me a proper appreciation for Fripp. He takes a fairly meat-and-potatoes rock song like "Survive" and just drizzles these sublime harmonics all over it, and it totally elevates the material.

It's too bad it didn't work out -- I'm now convinced that Hall & Fripp would've been way more interesting than Hall & Oates, but apparently RCA just wasn't havin it.