― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 15 June 2006 11:13 (eighteen years ago) link
an outsized ego works for catchy pop, I like some H&O songs when I have to hear them, but when Hall "freaks out" on an art metal record, you get comedy. we are talking Shatner.
the five songs that revert to Hall's vocals on disc two: "Disengage", "Chicago", "NY3", "Mary", "Exposure".
― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 15 June 2006 18:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 15 June 2006 18:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 15 June 2006 19:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 15 June 2006 19:27 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm not much for lyrics, but listening to Sacred Songs tonight after several months (inspired by Daryl Hall's Pitchfork interview) I'm struck by how, for once, Hall chose to create actual scenarios, like on the title track, "Why Was It So Easy" and "Babs and Babs." It's no surprise that Fripp and Hall's voice are up to them.
What's also not often said: Hall-as-keyboardist is particularly fine. Love the barrelhouse Elton John-esque stuff on the tile track and the alone-with-synth-and-Fender-Rhodes melancholy of "The Farther Away I Am."
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 22 August 2007 02:56 (seventeen years ago) link
i don't really like this
― jaxon, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 03:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Out.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 03:28 (sixteen years ago) link
"Babs & Babs"!
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 03:30 (sixteen years ago) link
gay cred songs, apparently
― gershy, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 03:33 (sixteen years ago) link
very good record.
-- JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, August 11, 2004 4:25 PM
whahappen
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 03:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Not one of its songs is as great as 1986's "Dreamtime," though.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 30 January 2008 03:41 (sixteen years ago) link
I have played this album at least twice a day for the last week (when I discovered it). Those vocal parts on "...4/4 Time" blow me away.
― A happenstance discovery of asynchronous lesbians (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 5 December 2010 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
What's the chances.....
Dug this out last night after an age. I'd played Aladdin Sane and had to take it off because it was annoying me, but Darryl hit that spot perfick.
― sonofstan, Sunday, 5 December 2010 18:58 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0578oOh8NHg
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 4 October 2015 00:47 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUkpMwyYlDk
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 4 October 2015 00:57 (eight years ago) link
What is the short spacey one on this? "Far as I am from you" or something? Totally haunting, very evocative of loneliness
― brimstead, Sunday, 4 October 2015 01:25 (eight years ago) link
"The Farther Away I Am"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR1tksYYeJ8
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 4 October 2015 01:53 (eight years ago) link
Isn't there a weird amount of autotune on the vox in 1st vid? Apart from that p great recording
― niels, Sunday, 4 October 2015 16:33 (eight years ago) link
Love this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZzPABfIloI
― MaresNest, Sunday, 20 December 2015 11:00 (eight years ago) link
Love that, like from a parallel universe.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 20 December 2015 14:38 (eight years ago) link
With some Minus the Bear guys.
― Bryan, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 05:59 (eight years ago) link
whoa
― akm, Wednesday, 23 December 2015 14:56 (eight years ago) link
This album is amazing.
― Austin, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 01:23 (eight years ago) link
Finally found a copy of this in the wild last weekend -- I had read about it before, but I didn't expect that I'd love it so much.
I think this record has finally given me a proper appreciation for Fripp. He takes a fairly meat-and-potatoes rock song like "Survive" and just drizzles these sublime harmonics all over it, and it totally elevates the material.
It's too bad it didn't work out -- I'm now convinced that Hall & Fripp would've been way more interesting than Hall & Oates, but apparently RCA just wasn't havin it.
― enochroot, Friday, 9 April 2021 01:06 (three years ago) link