Julia Fordham: Classic or Dud?`

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A thread posted in rememberance.
Does anyone have any opinions on her?

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 28 October 2004 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

did she die???

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 28 October 2004 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

didn't she used to be a backing singer for mari wilson? when I was in the used rekkid store, and when we used to test all of the Cds we bought in to make sure they worked, we got in a JF disc. I remember that it wasn't much cop, and time seemed to lengthen as we listened to it. The store owner christened her "julia boredom" with his usual "devastating wit".

x-post I have no idea! I don't recall reading about it.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 28 October 2004 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

No. But she has probably been forgotten. Which, in the music business, is almost as bad as being dead.
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― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Thursday, 28 October 2004 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

She is boring, though.

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Thursday, 28 October 2004 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

i have the 45 of "happy ever after", nice enough song

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Thursday, 28 October 2004 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

michael brook produced at least one of her albums which should make it interesting, but i think it probably is not.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 28 October 2004 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I confuse her with Carmel (Carmel Mccourt) who was produced by Brian Eno to similarly boring results.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 28 October 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Carmel did have a couple of singles that I remember as being great (though I haven't heard them for ages)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 28 October 2004 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Carmel's "storm" was pretty good if i recall. the vocals were quite distraught and the backing a stripped jazz quartet rather than the usual slick snooze. at the time it nearlt fit as post punk. then what bloody happened?

― bulbs (bulbs), Thursday, 28 October 2004 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Neither classic nor dud. Just nice. Meh, but nice.

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 28 October 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Carmel had a "comeback" in about 1992 with a plasticine-y video which was on the ITV Chart Show which I still have on tape somewhere probably. I can remember one Julia Fordham song and it was Love Moves, possibly, and was very dull.

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Friday, 29 October 2004 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

She has an incredible range on her earlier albums. "Behind Closed Doors", on her first, particularly, is a classic. Also, Ailsa OTM, if "nice" refers to her personality. I've seen her a few times, and she's been charming in post-show signature lines.

Overall, adult-contemporary sounds, with crisp production by Hugh Padgham, among others. If you think she's "meh" from earlier listening, the last few albums won't change your opinion. One or two tracks that key the nostalgia for loving the first few discs, and a lot of pleasant, vanilla filler.

― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Friday, 29 October 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I meant "nice" as OK, non-descript, inoffensive, pleasant, but, kind of, meh-shoulder-shruggingly-nothing. The way that annoys me when other people use it as a description as it doesn't give any depth, emotion or real clue as to what you mean other than just not not nice in any way. Meh and nice are exactly the words I think I mean.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 29 October 2004 16:39 (twenty-one years ago)

(in relation to the music, that is. Though I'm sure she's a lovely person too)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 29 October 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

She had an awful, awful single called "Woman of the 80s". Whenever I try and think of a truly awful, awful single, "Woman of the 80s" nearly always springs to mind.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Y'know I really liked that album 'Porcelain.' (some of the albums I bought during the same shopping spree when I got that album were from The Fall, Sonic Youth, and The Beautiful South -- so you can see what an anomaly that purchase was)

However everything I've listened to since then has been the embodiment of 'meh.'

― righteousmaelstrom, Saturday, 30 October 2004 04:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Dear me, after that thread opener, I really am glad that *she* hasn't died too - my reserves of pain and pity are feeling the strain.

Long live 1988.

― the bellefox, Saturday, 30 October 2004 09:47 (twenty-one years ago)

seven years pass...

she has no profile at all, does she?

anyway I happened to hear "Porcelain" today and was, well, stunned by her performance: a warmer Annie Lennox. She even pulls off a vocal swoop lifted from Joni's "Help Me."

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 February 2012 03:24 (fourteen years ago)

Back when I was young and didn't own any June Christy records, "For You, Only For You" was probably the first torch song I fell in love with.

― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 12 February 2012 06:24 (fourteen years ago)

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