Coming soon: "Are You Gonna Go Away" and "Let Love (Rule)."
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 6 October 2008 03:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Even if I have no real use for him, I've never understood the hatred he inspires.
oh i understand it very well -- his whole "the 70s is where it was AT" schtick is just about all he has going for him. then there's his prissy insistence on "authenticity" to said schtick -- which may be forgivable if his talent wasn't so mediocre.
― Eisbaer, Monday, 6 October 2008 03:20 (fifteen years ago) link
i would have said RESOUNDING DUD until i saw this video and now i gotta say that i have felt a positive feeling for lenny kravitz. sure, he's showboating, but so is that awesome nerd guitar kid.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/lenny-kravitz-crashes-church-choir
― an outlet to express the dark invocations of (La Lechera), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
On the one hand, his music is airbrushed soft rock. On the other hand (as that video proves) at least he's not a dick like Axl Rose.
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
I suppose that from Kravitz's point of view, that it's a shame that the Larkin Law doesn't work in reverse.
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
He should be locked in a room and forced to listen to his version of "American Woman" until he screams for mercy and avows to give up rock. Gibby Haynes and Paul Leary should preside.
― grandavis, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
his music is abysmal! i agree, and i never thought i could feel one single positive feeling for lenny kravitz, but...i watched that video and i did. i caught a small positive feeling. by no means do i want to listen to his music, but he seems alright as a human being.
― an outlet to express the dark invocations of (La Lechera), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Well he only has two decent riffs: 'Fly Away', which is a Curtis Mayfield grab, and 'Are You Gonna Go My Way', which is sort of Hendrix by way of Stones/Zep.
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
The fact that 'Fly Away' was used for a car commercial while it was still near the top of the UK singles makes me dislike him a tiny bit more.
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 16:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Also I just remembered some old MTV advert from years ago:
(Interior: a guitar store. LENNY KRAVITZ walks in the door and goes over to the counter, behind which is the STORE CLERK)
KRAVITZ: "I want a <insert long list of guitars related stuff here>."
CLERK (incredulously): "That's a lot of stuff!"
KRAVITZ: "Well I'm gonna need it!"
CLERK (still incredulously): "Why?"
KRAVITZ (looking directly at the camera): "I'm going on tour!"
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link
he is so embarrassing
― an outlet to express the dark invocations of (La Lechera), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link
As he played in the background at Trader Joe's last night, I thought to myself that his music seems to exist primarily to be licensed.
― bendy, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 16:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Massive, massive lols @ how awful "Boongie Drop" is. Why Hov, why? Now I want to hear how awful the one with Drake is.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
feel like lenny has been lying awake at night lately, wondering why jagger didn't invite him to join superheavy.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
Ok, yeah, "Sunflower" with Drake is awful too.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
"Again" is underrated. You can appreciate his music, if you want, with the same distance that allowed people to finally appreciate Journey et al. ten years ago.
― Cunga, Saturday, 23 February 2013 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
I liked his debut and "It Ain't Over Til It's Over."
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 23 February 2013 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
Agreed about "Again," that one worms itself into the brain quickly (though I think it wears out its welcome - dude REALLY loved to repeat a chorus ad infinitum). Heard "It Ain't Over Til It's Over" in the drug store the other day and was totally tapping my foot and getting into it, sort of not believing it was a Lenny Kravitz song even though the voice was unmistakable. Good song.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 23 February 2013 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
I think all artists, should they happen across street performances of their music, should handle it like Lenny did:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBgZNINN6MU
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 23 February 2013 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
lenny does a mean elvis costello voice!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAHlQ77lm10(might want to skip to 1:30 to hear it)
― niels, Sunday, 28 September 2014 14:13 (nine years ago) link
When Lenny Kravitz asks "Are you gonna go my way?" it's a dilemma to respond: yes, in the long term - the grave - but not via the same path— Robyn Hitchcock (@RobynHitchcock) October 24, 2017
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 21:54 (six years ago) link
YEAAAHHHH YEAHHHHHHHH
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 November 2017 03:59 (six years ago) link
I don't know where I saw this, and I might have concocted it from something different in which case sorry -- but it's my favorite thing to do with Lenny Kravitz. Apparently Nirvana were recording Nevermind in the same studio as Kravitz. One night the three of them were drinking and commandeered the studio intercom, and Krist broadcast throughout the studio, "Will Lenny Kravitz please report to the principal's office, I repeat: Lenny Kravitz to the principal's office."
That has always cracked me up.
― Sam Weller, Thursday, 30 November 2017 16:47 (six years ago) link
I don't like the song much but I'm endlessly amused by this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t-iFr9q1I8
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 November 2017 17:20 (six years ago) link
oh I missed this comment
Someone recently confirmed for me that Lenny Kravitz heard this and his reply was "What the hell"
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 November 2017 17:21 (six years ago) link
total shit
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Thursday, 26 July 2018 03:35 (five years ago) link
I agree. One of my most hated artists (and I don’t hate many).
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Thursday, 26 July 2018 03:39 (five years ago) link
Interesting that he inspires so much hate on here. The first three albums are good to great IMO. Just heard 'Sister' for the first time in ages and dang.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ktc4oc5eDxU
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Friday, 13 October 2023 20:44 (six months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--rBP8_QuwI'American Woman' vs 'Fly Away'
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Friday, 13 October 2023 21:05 (six months ago) link
His 2014 album Strut had a really good guitar sound. I liked this song a lot.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5_pstB8pGM
― read-only (unperson), Friday, 13 October 2023 21:20 (six months ago) link
xpost The dedication to the bit has restored some of my faith in ... (sigh) I dunno, youtube?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 13 October 2023 22:08 (six months ago) link