http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:R-JMxs42CN3MzM:www.americancheer.com/images/tour/pyramids.jpg
― omar little, Monday, 4 February 2008 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link
haha ok well ... bryan adams sounds like a canadian ... guy ... who wanted ... to get laid ...
no ok. but i do love "cuts like a knife" and "summer of 69."
― tipsy mothra, Monday, 4 February 2008 20:44 (sixteen years ago) link
and "lonely nights." he had his moments.
― tipsy mothra, Monday, 4 February 2008 20:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Bryan Adams' arrangements are soooo predictable; he has the sonic diversity of the one ply poo paper at my office ruffling. Production is so fucking flat and his voice (his weakest point) is mixed to appeal to the Lite Rock radio set, which may be an unfortunate artifact of his aboriginal fanbase that vaulted him to stardom.
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 4 February 2008 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link
^ HEY LOOK, I WROTE MORE THAN 3 WORDS
"cuts like a knife" is pretty unfuckwithable, but c'mon, Petty pisses all over this guy.
― will, Monday, 4 February 2008 20:53 (sixteen years ago) link
ew
― HI DERE, Monday, 4 February 2008 20:57 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm not a major fan of either, but I'd pay to see that.
― Sara Sara Sara, Monday, 4 February 2008 21:01 (sixteen years ago) link
aboriginal?
― da croupier, Monday, 4 February 2008 21:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I mean, I'd take those pre-fame Huey Lewis & the New records over Bryan Adams.
Johnny Cougar will forever get a pass for 1. I need a lover 2. ain't even done w/ the night 3. Authority song 4. Rumbleseat
but when Petty was still putting solid stuff outlike Wildflowers, Mellencamp was Dancing Naked. No thanks.
― will, Monday, 4 February 2008 21:04 (sixteen years ago) link
pre-fame pre-superstardom I guess I should say.
― will, Monday, 4 February 2008 21:05 (sixteen years ago) link
the natives of suburban ontario are a proud people, and strong.
― tipsy mothra, Monday, 4 February 2008 21:06 (sixteen years ago) link
"wait, we're talking about the guy that did that fuckin We Come From A Land Down Under song, right?"
nobody's claiming Bryan Adams is better than Tom Petty. What's being claimed is that Tom Petty is a better Bryan Adams.
― da croupier, Monday, 4 February 2008 21:06 (sixteen years ago) link
men at work were pretty tight too
― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 4 February 2008 21:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Unfair. Men at Work also did Overkill, which is teh great.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 4 February 2008 22:15 (sixteen years ago) link
and "It's a Mistake."
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 4 February 2008 22:20 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm listening to "Learning to Fly" right now. Oh the memories of early 90's LA malls...
― baaderonixx, Monday, 4 February 2008 22:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes! Johnny Be Good, too.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 4 February 2008 22:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Men at Work are better than Tom Petty, John Cougar and Bryan Adams put together.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 4 February 2008 22:34 (sixteen years ago) link
hahaha
― roxymuzak, Monday, 4 February 2008 23:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Another one for the ILM FAQ.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Monday, 4 February 2008 23:13 (sixteen years ago) link
I heard a recent song from Colin Hay (men at work singer) and was totally impressed! Let me see if I can youtube it for you guys.
― Steve Shasta, Monday, 4 February 2008 23:24 (sixteen years ago) link
hahaha Steve Shasta watches Scrubs
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 4 February 2008 23:26 (sixteen years ago) link
scrubs is funny
― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 4 February 2008 23:27 (sixteen years ago) link
NOOOOOOOOO I DON'T WATCH SCRUBS!
Some weird chick I met from NYC who works for MTV 0put it on a mix for me...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4tcRlHY-3Q
I thought the voice sounded familiar. But what interested is that the guitar playing is straight up Uncle Tupelo circa Jay Farrar's songs on Still Feel Gone.
― Steve Shasta, Monday, 4 February 2008 23:29 (sixteen years ago) link
...by Uncle Tupelo.
― Steve Shasta, Monday, 4 February 2008 23:30 (sixteen years ago) link
hahaha, i shouldn't post when I'm on the phone.
OK, as a result of this thread I just got a hold of a Carlene Carter album produced by Howie Epstein, so maybe some good will come of it.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 01:00 (sixteen years ago) link
it's supposed to be decent!
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 01:00 (sixteen years ago) link
like I wrote upthread, I can't recommend the Epstein-helmed Prine albums highly enough.
THANK YOU. May I add that Men at Work are also better than LED ZEPPLIN and BOSTON combined. (n.1)
_______________________________ (n.1) Actually, I was kidding in this and the original post. I do like Men at Work, tho.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 5 February 2008 01:51 (sixteen years ago) link
the original question could have been answered with a quick "no". i love the extrapolation but other threads deserve it more.
― or something, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 02:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Lock thread.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 5 February 2008 02:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Seconded
― Billy Pilgrim, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 02:49 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah let's get extrapolating on the 700 poll threads about terrorizer poll results
― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 04:14 (sixteen years ago) link
agreed
i do like a lot of his songs but by no means does he warrant this much discussion, positive or negative.
― winston, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 04:15 (sixteen years ago) link
xp!
― winston, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 04:16 (sixteen years ago) link
i love the extrapolation complaints that something isn't worth discussing, but other threads deserve it more.
― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 04:17 (sixteen years ago) link
It's fun to talk about Tom Petty, I think Michael Ian Black forgot to.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 04:18 (sixteen years ago) link
B-b-but he fucked Princss Diana!
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 07:01 (sixteen years ago) link
...or Princess Diana as she's more commonly known.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 07:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Carlene Carter album pretty good.
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 23:08 (sixteen years ago) link
It's not bad. But the best song on it is one she first recorded 28 years ago, for whatever that's worth.
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 23:09 (sixteen years ago) link
We talking about the same album, I Fell In Love?
― James Redd and the Blecchs, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 23:11 (sixteen years ago) link
that colin hay song is pretty good! it's at least as good as iron and wine and stuff like that that's big in indie circles
― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 23:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Hey hey hey hey, easy there.
― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 6 February 2008 23:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I guess not! I'm talking about Stronger, out March 4 on Yep Roc.
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 23:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Princss Diana has such great style sheets.
― wanko ergo sum, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 23:45 (sixteen years ago) link
HAD *pow*
But hey James, this is about the Carlene Carter album you got -- from the rolling country 2006 thread (parts of which also ended up on a Cock Robin thread yesterday, coincidentally enough):
carlene carter *i fell in love* 1990 $2.99 (title track sounds familiar, so i guess maybe it was a hit? it also sounds like a nick lowe song, though he apparently didn't write it) -- xhuxk, Saturday, March 25, 2006 11:04 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link
I think Carlene's "I Fell In Love" was written by Al Anderson, ex-NRBQ; at least, he and she were having a rave-up with it, when I saw 'em on Austin City Limits (so astonished I forgot to hit "Record"). He's written a lot of other good songs too. -- don, Sunday, March 26, 2006 9:21 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link
actual songwriting credit is: Carlene Carter/Howie Epstein/Benmont Tench/Perry Lamek. ("The Sweetest Thing" on that album gives partical credit to Robert Ellis Orrall, who I've brought up a couple times on this thread. And more interestingly, "The Leavin' Side" gives partial credit to one Tom Gray: I wonder if that's the same guy who used to lead the Brains, of "Money Changes Everything" fame! They were Southerners, from Atlanta, right? So it wouldn't have been out of the question for him to go the country songwriting route.) -- xhuxk, Sunday, March 26, 2006 10:44 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link
The Carlene Carter album I bought seems consisently kinda fun but never quite fun *enough*, at least so far. Maybe I wish her poppabilly was more rockabilly, "The Sweetest Thing" is slow, and could amost be a Lorrie Morgan hit from around that time; "Goodnight Dallas," which I like more than most of the tracks, has mariachi horns and yodels, so it's "western" I guess. I'm still waiting for at least one track though to jump out at me. -- xhuxk, Sunday, April 9, 2006 3:27 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 23:53 (sixteen years ago) link