The woman had entire RIBS taken out to look cool—how punk is that?
She looked goth when Andrew Eldritch was dissatisfied about his mother’s teat.
She’s been on the road longer than the Dead and isn’t dead.
Her new electronica (whatever) is way more fun than Madonna, and you know she’d never fuck something as skanky as Guy Ritchie.
"Believe" is both the catchiest and most annoying song of an entire decade—how punk is that?
She did that inspirational power chord metal ballad on a Navy carrier with about 100 queer dancing seamen—and America swallowed it.
"Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves"—how punk is that?
Classic.
― iang, Thursday, 3 February 2005 01:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Thursday, 3 February 2005 01:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 3 February 2005 01:31 (nineteen years ago) link
I don't know. Cher sucks.
― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:12 (nineteen years ago) link
she did fuck gregg allman though...
― Nimrod Kovacs (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nimrod Kovacs (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Masked Gazza, Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― adam (adam), Thursday, 3 February 2005 02:55 (nineteen years ago) link
Still (or perhaps, consequently), classic.
― Atnevon (Atnevon), Thursday, 3 February 2005 06:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― David A. (Davant), Thursday, 3 February 2005 06:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Thursday, 3 February 2005 07:37 (nineteen years ago) link
Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down), I Got You Babe, The Beat Goes On
― El Janko (JasonD), Thursday, 3 February 2005 08:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nimrod Kovacs (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 3 February 2005 13:55 (nineteen years ago) link
Without her, could there even be a Bronski Beat?
"Song for the Lonely" easily kicks "The Rising" as the only 9/11 lament that transcends treacle by embracing the mechanics of kitsch to get across a real sense of sadness-hope (there's probably a German word for this.)
― iang, Thursday, 3 February 2005 14:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Thursday, 3 February 2005 14:15 (nineteen years ago) link
Annoying studio trickery can be revolutionary. (And catchy.) And revolution can be classic. "Gypsies Tramps And Thieves" certainly is.
(And FWIW, she can sure as hell out-act Madonna. Or Whitney Houston or J.Lo or whoever.)
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 3 February 2005 15:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 3 February 2005 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 February 2005 15:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 3 February 2005 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 3 February 2005 17:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Robin Goad (rgoad), Thursday, 3 February 2005 18:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― iang, Thursday, 3 February 2005 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― noodle vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 3 February 2005 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link
There's a good comp of her late 60s Imperial recordings on spotify. Listening to it right now and she or her handlers one picked some great songs to cover.
There's also a Casablanca comp on there which I'll cue up next.
― Bout to go Jethro TULL on that ass (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 20 October 2012 07:32 (eleven years ago) link
Man, Dark Lady is marvelous, innit?
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 August 2019 02:02 (four years ago) link
Oh you tease
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 20 August 2019 03:16 (four years ago) link
I randomly saw Cher's farewell tour last night. It was surprisingly good!
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Monday, 9 December 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
Did she do her song about how she can't believe she's queen?
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 9 December 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
No, mostly because after that show, I can't believe she can't believe she's queen.
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Monday, 9 December 2019 18:04 (four years ago) link
were you comped?
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 December 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
Of course I was! (A friend from college plays keyboards for Chic, who were opening)
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Monday, 9 December 2019 18:06 (four years ago) link