those songs sucked, is the problem. i'd listen to tape of him doing his good tunes with just a guitar on a stool or whatever, but those songs were not that good.
― goole, Monday, 9 August 2010 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link
goole otm - the record sounded great & so did his voice but the songs were lame. I saw A.G. open with "My Father's Eyes" by herself: she can really play! "my father's eyes" is picked not strummed but here she is strumming away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqRbSzpBL1o
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 06:42 (fourteen years ago) link
& oh my God this song...this SONG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LI6pME9P2ek
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 06:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Neil Diamond gets a lifetime pass for writing "I'm A Believer"
― people are for loving (HI DERE), Monday, August 9, 2010 6:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
But that led to this so pass rescinded.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUyu5prWjTE
― thanks for the feedback (supra) (Phil D.), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 13:42 (fourteen years ago) link
interesting point of eschatology: posting that abomination in a lovely amy grant thread will get you such a talking-to on judgement day
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 14:59 (fourteen years ago) link
― Bali Eiffel Tower Hai (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 10 August 2010 15:08 (fourteen years ago) link
So by far my favorite songs on The Collection (which runs in roughly reverse chronological order) are the relatively slick and sparkly, '80s pop-new-wavey-produced stuff at the beginning -- "Stay For Awhile," "Love Can Do" (both dated 1986 -- previously unreleased before this album I gather -- and written with Michael W. Smith and Wayne Kirkpatrick), "Everywhere I Go," and "Angels" (both dated 1984, from Unguarded). You can definitely hear her already transitioning toward Heart In Motion with those; their lyrics seem to be inching toward the secular, too. The rest is okay, for the most part ("El Shaddai" is one sort of weird standout), but not nearly so engaging or fun to me. Which makes me think I should pick up Unguarded and Lead Me On if I see them cheap, but maybe avoid her earlier, less popwise (and less huskily sung, as John says) stuff.
― xhuxk, Sunday, 15 August 2010 18:00 (fourteen years ago) link
I never realized Unguarded was released with 4 covers. Take that, Arcade Fire!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c2/W_cover_Unguarded.jpghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/O_cover_Unguarded.jpghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e7/R_cover_Unguarded.jpghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/29/D_cover_Unguarded.jpg
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 15 August 2010 18:22 (fourteen years ago) link
But Led Zeppelin's In Through The Out Door did it first, right?
Anyway, I guess Unguarded is the album I meant above when I mistakingly said Lead Me On was in that store with two different covered cassettes.
― xhuxk, Sunday, 15 August 2010 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link
There's a song from her very first album called "Old Man's Rubble" that, for whatever reason, wasn't featured on The Collection. You should obtain it one way or another, even if the rest of the debut is kind of blah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpPgkkAL_TA
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 15 August 2010 18:30 (fourteen years ago) link
This really should be posted, despite the brief mentions years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbVtwRrX1hE
― PappaWheelie V, Sunday, 15 August 2010 21:16 (fourteen 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, July 22, 2008 6:08 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
the Gary Lutz story of my dreams
― J0hn D., Tuesday, July 22, 2008 6:11 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I have to say, I peaked here
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Sunday, 15 August 2010 21:32 (fourteen years ago) link
man though I'm listening to "Baby Baby" right now - who knows whether this is a single performance or a lot of punch-in & tape edits but wow, what a performance it is in the final mix - she occasionally does a sort of too-lost-in-the-song-to-enunciate-fully move (esp. @ "baby baby in any kind of weather" et seq.) which is pretty uncharacteristic of both her genre & her usual style, and consequently when she does put it into play it's incredibly effective; she communicates ecstasy, abandon, the conflation of the spiritual and the physical. I still prefer "Every Heartbeat" as a song, but "Baby Baby" is something of a master class in pop single-making.
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Sunday, 15 August 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
ok yup it's AG listening party in the hotel now
SING YOUR PRAISE TO THE LORD COME ON EVERYBODY STAND UP AND SING ONE MORE HALLELUJAH
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Sunday, 15 August 2010 21:51 (fourteen years ago) link
oh am I gonna go with "Doubly Good to You" next? you had better believe it
remembering you tonight Rich Mullins, one of the best who ever lived
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Sunday, 15 August 2010 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link
ok this is my last post on the amy grant thread til dinner all right
there's a video for "better than a hallelujah" now and here it is. it's great but 1) why do country videos gotta always be making the old people in 'em suffer? like, really suffer? weird emotional porn impulse 2) if any track on that song ever existed on actual tape, as the video suggest, I would be extremely surprised
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm5kx3xqmg0
― gross rainbow of haerosmith (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Sunday, 15 August 2010 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link
I still prefer "Every Heartbeat" as a song, but "Baby Baby" is something of a master class in pop single-making.
Yeah, there's every reason for me to hate its emphatic synth hook but her performance and lyric are charming instead of gormless.
Besides the fat synth bass (which was wiped from the single remix), "Every Heartbeat" boasts the great couplet, "No exception to the rule/I'm simple but I'm no fool."
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 15 August 2010 22:18 (fourteen years ago) link
THYYYY WORD IS A LAMP UNTO MY FEET AND A LIIIIIGHT UNTO MY PATH
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
You know she's doing a bunch of dates this year w/Michael W. Smith, right?
― Du Musst Calamari Werden (Phil D.), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah I do!
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 2 March 2011 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
i've listened to "1974" about ten times today
― moesha my reflection (donna rouge), Tuesday, 31 July 2012 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
i've listened to "baby baby" about ten times today
― gwenguthrie gwen ross (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 04:57 (twelve years ago) link
i love this thread
― NASCAR, surfing, raising chickens, owning land (zachlyon), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 07:23 (twelve years ago) link
Every Heartbeat is a jam
― Broney, Pt. 1 (Pillbox), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 09:59 (twelve years ago) link
that album, man
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 11:04 (twelve years ago) link
I love Amy Grant. I went to a Christmas concert by her and Vince Gill last year that was pretty awesome.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 12:59 (twelve years ago) link
really, really enjoying the new album how mercy looks from here
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 21 June 2013 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
OK I demand an edit/remix/cover/whatever of "Angels" by, like, Diskjokke. Think he's our man for the job.
― andrew m., Tuesday, 18 March 2014 03:46 (ten years ago) link
If he's ever googling "Diskjokke AND Amy Grant" he'll find this and do it!
― andrew m., Tuesday, 18 March 2014 03:47 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PddJStucKQ
Heard this in the thrift store today! So good! Would be a great 90s dancefloor filler for anyone who DJs that stuff!
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 4 May 2014 04:42 (ten years ago) link
I love this woman so much
― Master of Treacle, Sunday, 4 May 2014 04:56 (ten years ago) link
The singles run off Heart in Motion is up there with anyone ever
― Master of Treacle, Sunday, 4 May 2014 04:58 (ten years ago) link
Her vocal phrasing on Good for Me is reducing me to a quivering wreck
― Master of Treacle, Sunday, 4 May 2014 05:03 (ten years ago) link
I defy anyone to listen to that song and not love it.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 4 May 2014 05:17 (ten years ago) link
YOU LIKE TO DRIVE LIKE MARIO ANDRETTI
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 4 May 2014 11:58 (ten years ago) link
"good for me" is the best song ever
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Sunday, 4 May 2014 15:17 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMXuuYnoRdI
This is up there too. I loved these songs when I was a kid, had no idea they were Amy Grant.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 4 May 2014 16:48 (ten years ago) link
I Will Remember You ftw
― Drugs A. Money, Sunday, 4 May 2014 17:13 (ten years ago) link
"Every Heartbeat."
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 4 May 2014 17:30 (ten years ago) link
Well yeah obviously
― Drugs A. Money, Sunday, 4 May 2014 19:28 (ten years ago) link
Pathetic turnout: Amy Grant - Greatest Hits
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 4 May 2014 20:11 (ten years ago) link
you linked to this thread
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 4 May 2014 21:37 (ten 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