This is like choosing between peanut butter and bananas!!!!
― Abbott, Monday, 1 September 2008 22:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I mean srsly!
I think I like Brendan's solo stuff better but would anyone ask him to score a movie about a depressed little Maori girl????
― Abbott, Monday, 1 September 2008 22:45 (fifteen years ago) link
This is hard.
― I am using your worlds, Monday, 1 September 2008 22:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Having said that all my most played DCD tracks seem to have Brendan vocals.
― I am using your worlds, Monday, 1 September 2008 22:46 (fifteen years ago) link
One has a BEARD but the other is WEIRDLY SEXY:
point for Lisa.
― Abbott, Monday, 1 September 2008 22:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Last week I had "how fortunate the man with none" and "fortune presents gifts not according to the book" on a loop all day.
― I am using your worlds, Monday, 1 September 2008 22:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Don't know how their instrumental talents break down though.
Brendan has an IMPRESSIVE and EERIE baritone that wld not work if Lisa was singing shit like: "Like Prometheus we're bound to this grieving world; our godforsaken lot."
OTOH he wrote/performed 'American Dreaming.' Blecchhh.
― Abbott, Monday, 1 September 2008 22:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Me either! I'll go check the box set liner & see what it says, if anything.
― Abbott, Monday, 1 September 2008 22:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Looks like Brendan started out writing the music & asked Lisa to join as a singer, and she'd add little bits to the songs.
― Abbott, Monday, 1 September 2008 22:51 (fifteen years ago) link
One has a BEARD but the other is WEIRDLY SEXY:point for Lisa.
Hmm, I agree with point a, but don't automatically think point b is the logical conclusion.
Lisa still greabt tho.
― I am using your worlds, Monday, 1 September 2008 22:51 (fifteen years ago) link
They totally could not have done songs like "Frontier" w/out Lisa, and that is some HOT and POWERFUL shit.
Oh that's just ONE point for Lisa, they've both tallied up mad points.
― Abbott, Monday, 1 September 2008 22:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Ach! Abbot casually drops the "box set" comment and makes me jealous.
Who has SACD remasters?
― I am using your worlds, Monday, 1 September 2008 22:52 (fifteen years ago) link
The same album w/'Frontier' also features 'Threshold' – awesomes/sexy, but ALSO also 'The Trial' and 'A Passage in Time' which are some of my faves ever of any band.
*le sigh...*
― Abbott, Monday, 1 September 2008 22:56 (fifteen years ago) link
The instrumentals on the first album are amazing.
― Abbott, Monday, 1 September 2008 22:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I never even NOTICED all the weird little vocals on "Fatal Impact" until I was painting while high one day and I felt like such a loser. "I had to be HIGH to notice this, fuck..." :(
― Abbott, Monday, 1 September 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
perry. can't really stand lisa gerrard's DCD contributions after aion
― electricsound, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 00:09 (fifteen years ago) link
they both kinda fell off after Aion, tbh. has there been a DCD album poll yet?
― zappi, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 00:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyone who does even one song like Sanvean during their life time wins forever.
― StanM, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 01:03 (fifteen years ago) link
I still, STILL regret not seeing them near UCLA in 1990. WTF was wrong with me, they were right THERE. (See also Robert Forster and Grant McLennan around that time.)
Both at their best are just otherworldly, but I won't deny that if I could sing something like "The Host of Seraphim" I'd feel like I'd given voice to the universe.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 01:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Gerrard, because I can't handle Perry's Sinatra/Morrison crooning for very long.
― Brad C., Tuesday, 2 September 2008 01:54 (fifteen years ago) link
I used to work with a guy at the foreign affairs dept (he was a diplomatic courier) who one day walked into the mail room where I was playing DCD and stopped and said "oh, hey - dead can dance. I used to live with lisa and brendan in a tower block in london and have to help them haul their gear in the lift".
&^%%^#$@#!
― Trayce, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 01:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Hahaha, wow. I love random stories like that.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 02:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah it was weird! I wish I could remember the guy's name.
― Trayce, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 04:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Lisa, easy. What is Perry up to these days anyways?
― baaderonixx, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 08:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Was it Mr. Lovegrove? (xpost)
― StanM, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 08:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Re: Sanvean:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1WaQmxrXdw -> guaranteed to turn me into a sobbing mess
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xh4MPbNaSs -> not feeling anything at all
― StanM, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 08:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyone who does even one song like Sanvean during their life time wins forever
OTfuckingM. god, that song.
the brightman cover is an abomination. have you heard this? (gets relevant at 1'20" or so).
― grimly fiendish, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 13:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Hahaha, Sarah BRIGHTMAN covered it? Hilarious.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 13:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Thank you Stan M. Never thought of You Tubing them before, thats going to keep me busy for a hile.
And lol at "Beautiful! shes prefect, way better then that lisa chick!" on the Sarah Brightman YouTube comments.
― I am using your worlds, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 14:02 (fifteen years ago) link
fsobsiopgmomadkslasjdf!?!?!? :O
― Abbott, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 15:15 (fifteen years ago) link
have you heard this? (gets relevant at 1'20" or so).
As much as I'd like to hate that, it does work really well (not the dance steps, the interpretation I mean)
― StanM, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 16:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Perry has a wonderful voice, but as some one else poined out, what is he doing now?... Lisa on the other hand, is stellar! My friend and I made a short list of women we would gladly spend the rest of our days with, based soley on their heavenly voices... Lisa was on the top of the list for both of us.
― Child of the 70's-80's, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 17:25 (fifteen years ago) link
I'll always prefer Brendan just a little more than Lisa. And I'll always feel bad about that, probabably. I don't think it was too cool when he started getting all "country'd" out, though.
― Bimble, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 17:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Right now I want to go back in time and reattend that DCD show in Seattle 20+ years ago. I feel there were details I missed and things I was too on edge to appreciate. I'm so damn comfy in the DCD vibe right now tbh. I want to wallow in a mud bath of endlessly permutated late 80s DCD/early 80s peter gabriel/mid-80s shriekback rhythm tracks.
― banned on ixlor (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 3 September 2015 21:38 (eight years ago) link
I read the thread title as Lisa Gerrard vs. Bryan Ferry, and I was really in a quandary.
― Half as cool as Man Sized Action (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 3 September 2015 22:11 (eight years ago) link