― Mike Taylor (mjt), Saturday, 13 September 2003 22:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 13 September 2003 22:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
I saw her sing "God Bless America" in person here in Chicago during the 7th inning stretch at the MLB All-Star game. She looked kind of trashy and strung out.
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 13 September 2003 23:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 13 September 2003 23:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― scott seward, Saturday, 13 September 2003 23:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
BEST DEFENSE EVER
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 13 September 2003 23:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew Frye (paul cox), Sunday, 14 September 2003 05:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 14 September 2003 08:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave q, Sunday, 14 September 2003 10:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 14 September 2003 16:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
I have a new identity should I wish to claim it.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 14 September 2003 16:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
-- dave q (scrape10...), September 14th, 2003.
do u mean Bye Bye Baby?
― Vic (Vic), Sunday, 14 September 2003 23:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
I've come to the point where I'd actually rather listen to Next Time I Fall over Love Song, god what a waste of space that was. It's like a little preview of how crap Prince and Madonna would both eventually become in a nice little three minute tune.
― Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 15 September 2003 13:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 15 September 2003 13:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― pauls00, Monday, 15 September 2003 13:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Vic (Vic), Monday, 15 September 2003 14:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 15 September 2003 14:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
thanks to HAKGTWC i have newfound appreciation for 'Baby Baby'
― blueski, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 16:22 (sixteen years ago) link
yes! baby baby is incredible, gotta love her voice on that.
no homo irony.
― max r, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 16:24 (sixteen years ago) link
damn
― blueski, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 17:22 (sixteen years ago) link
All I know about her, really, is that her ex-husband beat the shit out of her (and then came to a class and gave a lecture on independent music that was terrible).
― I eat cannibals, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link
http://v4admin.sportnetwork.net/upload/379/EMP-4117313.jpg
― Just got offed, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 17:25 (sixteen years ago) link
(and then came to a class and gave a lecture on independent music that was terrible)
the music or the lecture?
― blueski, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link
(both, i pre-ass-ume)
― t**t, Wednesday, 3 October 2007 17:46 (sixteen years ago) link
baby fucking baby
― strgn, Saturday, 26 April 2008 07:04 (sixteen years ago) link
always and forever.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Saturday, 26 April 2008 12:19 (sixteen years ago) link
I said it on another thread: her boxed set from last year reveals a fantastic, brave artist who has never stopped making great stuff. Her recent Legacy: Hymns and Faith is just fantastic, as are some of the songs on her divorce album, Simple Things (unfortunate use of fake turntable-scratches on the title track though).
One of my favorite artists anywhere and far, far from indefensible.
― J0hn D., Saturday, 26 April 2008 13:21 (sixteen years ago) link
songs to hear from Simple Things: "Out in the Open" and "Beautiful," both of which are devastating
― J0hn D., Saturday, 26 April 2008 13:22 (sixteen years ago) link
i have the remix version of baby baby on a 12 inch somewhere and i don't think i've played it yet. i think today is the day.
― scott seward, Saturday, 26 April 2008 14:55 (sixteen years ago) link
AMY WHY ARE YOU TOURING AT THE SAME TIME AS ME BUT GOING UP THE COAST WHILE I'M GOING THE OTHER WAY
DO I GOTTA FLY TO ESCONDIDO ON MY DAY OFF JUST TO SEE YOU SING "SING YOUR PRAISE TO THE LORD"
DON'T EVEN TEMPT ME
― J0hn D., Tuesday, 22 July 2008 03:17 (sixteen years ago) link
she was the all-time favorite of my freshman-year roommate. he was a 2nd-gen korean-american lacrosse player, super christian. his family would come visit on weekends and i'd wake up hungover in my underwear to a room full of immaculately dressed, extremely polite koreans getting ready for church. yoo-sang brought like 10 cassettes to college with him, and half of them were amy grant. i guess they were ok, i don't know. i only let him use my stereo when i wasn't there.
― tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 06:08 (sixteen years ago) link
the Gary Lutz story of my dreams
― J0hn D., Tuesday, 22 July 2008 06:11 (sixteen years ago) link
I want to read what Scott thought of the "Baby Baby" 12".
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 12:31 (sixteen years ago) link
baby baby will forever make her worthwile
― Surmounter, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 14:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Her last pre-crossover album, "Lead Me On," is really, really good.
― Pancakes Hackman, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 15:23 (sixteen years ago) link
some of the touring she's doing right now is in celebration of the anniversary of this outstanding album
tons of the crossover stuff is great too tho & "Legacy: Hymns & Faith" is just awesome
― J0hn D., Tuesday, 22 July 2008 16:52 (sixteen years ago) link
would blap
― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 16:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Holy cow that album is 20 years old = I am old. :(
It's long past time for one of our contemporary R&B chanteuses to cover "Every Heartbeat." That song is positively Motown-esque.
― Pancakes Hackman, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 17:56 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20America/CCM/amy_grant-occult.jpg
― velko, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 03:35 (sixteen years ago) link
best website ever? http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20America/CCM/amy_grant-exposed.htm
― velko, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 03:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Amy’s album House of Love includes the environmental-mother-earth song, “Big Yellow Taxi,” by new-age-priestess Joni Mitchell (Ibid.). Mitchell is infamous for her open relationship with a spirit she calls “Art.” Obviously she is communing with demons, and it is unconscionable for Amy Grant to be promoting Mitchell’s music to Christian young people.
― Pillbox, Wednesday, 23 July 2008 04:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Lead Me On really is the most wonderful record. but recently made available digitally & missing from the box set, who knows why, is Never Alone, her third album -- which is outstanding. it's in the earlier style (before the grain got into her voice, v. young-sounding A.G. as on My Father's Eyes & Age to Age), which is so light & hopeful & wonderful - so much warmth in it. The arrangements do a neat eliding of 70s production styles (which I view as "narrative" but that's a whole thing) and the oncoming 80s bells-and-whistles style -- you can sort of hear how people who'd learned to engineer in a 70s environment were thinking things would go. Which, in CCM, they did - this stuff makes a huge impact on a whole genre, really sets a tone (along with Michael W. Smith records, obviously).
Important also, individual song on a Rich Mullins tribute: AG's version of "Nothing is Beyond You" is A+++ all-time top-ten.
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 25 February 2010 14:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I love this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2wrtoloJ6k
― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 February 2010 14:52 (fourteen years ago) link
oh man that is my deal right there
that first big chord change in the first verse...sublime. and when she gets to "I'll be your champion, and you will be mine"...she is so so great I will never get enough she should make a new album every other month.
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 25 February 2010 15:12 (fourteen years ago) link
coworker on 'baby baby' just now: "that big hit she had in the 90s ... kind of a new jack swing kind of a thing"
i dunno. i can hear that there's value here but i feel kind of awkward listening to it. like i haven't put enough distance between myself and my (RC) upbringing to manage to critically listen to CCM stuff at all. so er back to listening to spoon i guess /:
― thomp, Thursday, 25 February 2010 15:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Crappy audio but great song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HKE0BxQN6Y
― El Poopo Loco (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 25 February 2010 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link
this was the tour I saw her on!
she has a new song btw, song of the year easy, it autoloads here:
http://www.amygrant.com/newsite.html
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Thursday, 25 February 2010 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
ok, i'm making my way through this stuff. i see the appeal, though i find myself liking the pre-crossover stuff better than the big-time early-90s stuff. although the more dunderhead fundie lyrics really defeat me.
she has a gorgeous reading of jim webb's "if these walls could speak."
that song is indestructible. i can imagine a version erring on the side of the gloppy, but even glen campbell's late-'80s version is pretty solid. why hasn't more been written about this phenomenal song? why haven't more covered it?
― by another name (amateurist), Monday, 8 March 2010 06:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I've met Amy Grant in person a couple of times. She's really pretty & very nice.
― lukevalentine, Monday, 8 March 2010 15:02 (fourteen years ago) link
The circle won't be broken
― Run Through The Jungle Groove (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 May 2014 21:38 (ten years ago) link
Sure he didn't link to another AG thread?
― Run Through The Jungle Groove (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 May 2014 21:39 (ten years ago) link
I'm not 100% sure what I'm talking about but Good to Me almost feels like freestyle's last gasp on the chart. Obv I dont think AG was from Miami but just in production choices...Alfred, you seem like a freestyle enthusiast? Do you get the same impression?
― Drugs A. Money, Monday, 5 May 2014 03:53 (ten years ago) link
YOU GET BRAVE WHEN I GET SHYJUST ANOTHER REASON WHY
― Master of Treacle, Saturday, 10 May 2014 05:03 (ten years ago) link
I also feel the need to mention her vocal performance on That's What Love Is For
― Master of Treacle, Saturday, 10 May 2014 05:21 (ten years ago) link
"I Will Remember You", even though its central message is fairly optimistic, used to really depress me as a teen, as I had bad separation anxiety issues so losing touch w/ people was a shattering concept. great tune.
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Saturday, 10 May 2014 06:03 (ten years ago) link
Obv I dont think AG was from Miami but just in production choices...Alfred, you seem like a freestyle enthusiast? Do you get the same impression?
A bit, yes. It'd have to be faster. Certainly those synths already sounded outdated in '91.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 May 2014 11:41 (ten years ago) link
took me forever to notice the album and single mixes of "every heartbeat" are different but they're really different
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 10 May 2014 16:57 (ten years ago) link
Yep. Prefer the album version, thanks to that burbling sequencer.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 May 2014 17:11 (ten years ago) link
same, for the same reason
also (fake?) horns
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 10 May 2014 17:14 (ten years ago) link
btw if "Hats" still bothers you, just imagine she's singing about 'condoms.'
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 May 2014 17:17 (ten years ago) link
i like "hats" now
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 10 May 2014 17:34 (ten years ago) link
(hats)
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 10 May 2014 21:10 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euMfgdv_TWw
― MarkoP, Thursday, 5 May 2016 22:37 (eight years ago) link
been bumping Cetera's "Next Time I Fall" a bunch lately and she's great on that. actually I've always liked her in general, including "I Will Remember You"
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Friday, 27 November 2020 00:11 (three years ago) link
Tbh I had no idea until just now that Amy Grant did "Baby, Baby," which makes me feel like there are a lot of other songs from that era that I attribute wrongly.
But also this tidbit from earlier in the thread:
defnedI have a new identity should I wish to claim it.― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, September 14, 2003 9:24 AM (seventeen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, September 14, 2003 9:24 AM (seventeen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Friday, 27 November 2020 01:17 (three years ago) link
Heart in Motion is the Christian Thriller, and one of the decade's best.
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 November 2020 05:51 (three years ago) link
i am here at the ryman for the amy grant/vince gill christmas concert. hard for it not to feel like a superspreader event but i’m gonna try to enjoy myself for the last time ever regardless
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 December 2021 01:20 (two years ago) link
rodney crowell is opening ;_;
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 December 2021 01:28 (two years ago) link
Every one of my heartbeats belongs to you, Brad.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 December 2021 02:09 (two years ago) link
amy grant extolled the virtues of community more than once during this show so i hereby refer to her as comrade amy grant
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 23 December 2021 03:01 (two years ago) link
I went to the Amy Grant/Vince Gill Christmas concert in 2011 (can't imagine it's changed all that much in the last decade) and it was quite a pleasant experience.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Thursday, 23 December 2021 17:57 (two years ago) link
I know it's been said before in this thread but "Baby Baby" is a jam and I've always loved that song. Something about the drum sound/production in particular evokes my childhood. Same goes for a lot of 'soft rock'/adult contemporary from that period but this is a highlight.
― DT, Monday, 27 December 2021 07:46 (two years ago) link
Great read, this -- and a familiar voice is quoted within.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/11/29/amy-grant-kennedy-center-honors/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 30 November 2022 03:20 (one year ago) link
Got it on my second guess.
― The Dark End of the Tweet (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 30 November 2022 03:29 (one year ago) link
She rules:
Amy Grant announced that she & her husband Vince Gill are going to host a same-sex wedding on their farm for her niece. Amy is quoted as saying, “Jesus you just narrowed it down to two things: love God & love each other.” https://t.co/SznCI3trDg— Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) December 19, 2022
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 14:06 (one year ago) link
I think we can all agree now that "Baby Baby" is leagues better than "Smells Like Teen Spirit" right? It took awhile, but I'm glad society finally caught up
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 14:10 (one year ago) link
You're taken with the notion!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 14:14 (one year ago) link
Had false hope that the tweet would have more likes than the inevitable tweet 2
― Indexed, Tuesday, 20 December 2022 14:57 (one year ago) link
Amy Grant getting soft-canceled for defying conservative evangelical expectations …the 90s are back! https://t.co/MqdEG1kJZH— Ruth Graham (@publicroad) December 19, 2022
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 15:10 (one year ago) link
I mean I'm not shocked at the reaction (the Christian scene disowned her for far less than this decades ago), but once again, props for Amy.
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 15:41 (one year ago) link
Suddenly inspired to watch the Kenney Center Honors. (I'll fast forward thru the U2 segment.)
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 15:48 (one year ago) link
Then you'll miss the Bono-Amy duet on "Every Heartbeat."
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 15:49 (one year ago) link
Far more likely he takes a verse on "El Shaddai"
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 15:51 (one year ago) link
"Next Time I Fall", with a cameo from Peter Cetera who comes onstage and promptly beats him to death
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 15:52 (one year ago) link
does Vince Gill replace the Edge
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 15:57 (one year ago) link
Still have a very vivid memory from the one year I was forced to join a youth group and attending one Friday night meeting where three girls in the group tearfully yanked the tape from the spools of their Amy Grant cassettes and dramatically threw them in the garbage for "going secular".
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 16:51 (one year ago) link
I'm glad it hurt them personally
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 16:57 (one year ago) link
ever since the dayyou threw my tape in trashcan
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link
In the "Rednecks and Bluenecks" book Rodney Crowell talks about how Vince Gill's values were actually pretty liberal but that he identified as a Republican because they were the Jesus team.
― The Beatles were the first to popularize wokeism (President Keyes), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 17:36 (one year ago) link
I legit liked "Everywhere I Go" and "Wise Up." Strong songs. I am not religious or Christian at all but those are solid pieces of music.
― Cirque de Soleil Moon Frye (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 17:56 (one year ago) link
three girls in the group tearfully yanked the tape from the spools of their Amy Grant cassettes and dramatically threw them in the garbage for "going secular"
It's what Jesus would have wantd.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 18:44 (one year ago) link
*wanted
*wanded
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 19:03 (one year ago) link
Eric's simple, but he's no fool.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 19:06 (one year ago) link
Alfred's a wonderful counselor, a lord of life, lord of Soto
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 19:08 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/FIdmzrn.gif
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 19:20 (one year ago) link
Fat Baby is an awesome song
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 19:27 (one year ago) link
[Outro]He's just a fat, fat, fat, fat, fat, fat, fatFat, fat, fat, fat, fat, fat, fatFat, fat, fat, fat, fat, fat, fatBaby
― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 19:31 (one year ago) link
"He's just a faaa...He's just a fat little baby!Wa, wa, waaaaa..."
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 20 December 2022 19:56 (one year ago) link