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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
i love this thread
― NASCAR, surfing, raising chickens, owning land (zachlyon), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 07:23 (eleven years ago) link
Every Heartbeat is a jam
― Broney, Pt. 1 (Pillbox), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 09:59 (eleven years ago) link
that album, man
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 11:04 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (ten 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
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