― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link
Also we thank her/hate her for hiring Don Henley as her drummer...
― Brian C, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link
Linda Ronstadt's version of "Someone To Lay Down Beside Me" is an exquisite gem of a song. I still haven't heard the original Karla Bonoff version, but I love the tune and the way Linda sings it.My favourite Ronstadt song.
When I was about 8 years old, my friend's parents next door used to play this album, and I still say this is the one to have:
http://chartts.tripod.com/HISTORY/1977.JPG
Other favourites include her version of Tumbling Dice and that Warren Zevon cover...what was it? Ah yes, "Poor Poor Pitiful Me". My favourite thing to play at the end of an academic quarter. I like Linda. She can sing.
― The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Friday, 3 June 2005 08:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― to let - flats (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 3 June 2005 08:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― harvey.w (harvey.w), Friday, 3 June 2005 11:24 (eighteen years ago) link
But she also made some clunky mistakes. I chanced to hear "It's So Easy" the other day; I never did like that song.
― The Mad Puffin, Friday, 3 June 2005 12:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― to let - flats (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 3 June 2005 14:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 3 June 2005 14:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 3 June 2005 14:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Friday, 3 June 2005 14:53 (eighteen years ago) link
"Long, Long Time" is still devestating to me everytime I hear it -- especially when she betls out that last "'Casue I've done everythin I know/to try and make you mine"
― Randy Reiss (undeadsinatra), Friday, 3 June 2005 16:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Friday, 3 November 2006 23:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie, don't fuck this up (PappaWheelie 2), Saturday, 4 November 2006 00:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 4 November 2006 00:41 (seventeen years ago) link
Hm. Maybe. I'm a guy who digs upbeat Loretta and Dolly and New Wave Rosanne Cash, so, it's a coin flip.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 4 November 2006 00:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― A Radio Picture (Rrrickey), Saturday, 4 November 2006 00:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 4 November 2006 01:00 (seventeen years ago) link
"you're no good" >>>>> everything rosanne has ever done, with the single possible exception of "seven year ache."
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Saturday, 4 November 2006 01:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 4 November 2006 01:33 (seventeen years ago) link
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― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 4 November 2006 01:49 (seventeen years ago) link
California Mafia Faux PunkWave= Adorable
Understanding it's about rock and roll revival and not synths and safety pins = admirable
Ultrathick prog moog in a new wave context classic
― Adam S S (Zephery), Saturday, 4 November 2006 02:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― An evening of fun in the metropolis of your dream (Bimble...), Saturday, 4 November 2006 03:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Adam S S (Zephery), Saturday, 4 November 2006 03:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 4 November 2006 04:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 4 November 2006 04:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 4 November 2006 06:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 4 November 2006 06:38 (seventeen years ago) link
I don't think I'd call her a rock singer, even if she sang rock at times. Way too AM radio, no apparent attitude other than challenging her own vocal cords. Much more a pop artist, moving through genres and styles.
― bendy (bendy), Saturday, 4 November 2006 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― An evening of fun in the metropolis of your dream (Bimble...), Saturday, 4 November 2006 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― An evening of fun in the metropolis of your dream (Bimble...), Saturday, 4 November 2006 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.vanguardrecords.com/listen.asp?idArtist=30
i love the harmonies. so beautiful to me. but it might not be for everyone. i've always loved her voice. it's a really pretty album.
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 4 November 2006 16:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Revive!
Re-discovery for me. My dad used to listen to her back in the early 70s so I have heard all the songs. But I didn't remember how great her voice is. Classic.
YouTube has some killer material up:
Long long time
You're no good
Love has no pride
― that's not my post, Monday, 5 November 2007 06:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Couldn't resist another. Damn, that voice is good.
I guess it doesn't matter anymore
― that's not my post, Monday, 5 November 2007 06:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I always thought of Mad Love as a response to the first two Pat Benetar albums, although its cover art was quaintly New Wave. If nothing else, it made Elvis Costello some cash at the beginning of his career.
Apparently she and Linda Thompson were drinking buddies on the Shoot Out The Lights tour as well.
― mike a, Monday, 5 November 2007 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link
I did get Simple Dreams at the beginning of the year and was surprised by much it rocked, in a stiff-jointed way.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 5 November 2007 15:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Linda Ronstadt was generous in covering rock standards and budding songwriters. But then you hear the original "Blue Bayou," the original "When Will I Be Loved" and "Tumbling Dice," the Dave Edmunds cover of "Girls Talk," and especially the original "You're No Good," and you realize you've been cheated. It's like thinking you hate "Up On The Roof" and "What A Wonderful World" because you're sick of James Taylor's mellow brand of folk-rock, until you finally hear Sam Cooke doing them right. Like it or not, this is the way we '70s kids first heard these songs.
― mike a, Monday, 5 November 2007 15:53 (sixteen years ago) link
At the end of the early 90's movie version of The Secret Garden they play her "Winter Light" and it's awesome.
― dad a, Monday, 5 November 2007 16:09 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm listening to After The Gold Rush, and liking it
― Surmounter, Saturday, 12 April 2008 22:13 (sixteen years ago) link
"hand full of thorns and you know you've missed it/lose your love when you say the word 'mine'"
COME ON SHE IS CLASSICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, 28 June 2008 07:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't care who wrote the song, okay?
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, 28 June 2008 07:40 (fifteen years ago) link
IT'S SO EASY TO FALL IN LOVE
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, 28 June 2008 07:41 (fifteen years ago) link
TUMBLING DICE
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, 28 June 2008 07:44 (fifteen years ago) link
the love for mad love upthread is otm. i tracked it down and downloaded it a while ago because i remember my dad had it and it was one of my favorite records when i was about 10. she did faux-new-wave really well. (and ditto faux-country-rock, hand sown ... home grown is great.)
i also like this stone ponys clip.
― tipsy mothra, Saturday, 28 June 2008 13:35 (fifteen years ago) link
"Hurt So Bad" is so classic - reminds me of some old Dusty Springfield gem. Nice screaming guitar solo too.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 2 January 2009 19:09 (fifteen years ago) link
never heard her version of this until today. nice!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0Sr2KK1oqs
― buzza, Thursday, 14 October 2010 20:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I tell you, Evergreen Vol 2 by the Stone Poneys is utterly brilliant. So for that alone, I'd give her classic status.
― Officer Pupp, Friday, 15 October 2010 15:00 (thirteen years ago) link
t A Wonderful World" because you're sick of James Taylor's mellow brand of folk-rock, until you finally hear Sam Cooke doing them right. Like it or not, this is the way we '70s kids first heard these songs.
Really interested in someone expanding on this – her position as gateway drug.
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 15 October 2010 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link
OTM
She seems like a good candidate for a POLL.
― Ernani and the Professor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 June 2020 14:59 (three years ago) link
Russ Kunkel also the longtime drummer on much of Stevie Nicks's material.
― Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.), Monday, 1 June 2020 15:12 (three years ago) link
He’s experiencing some kind of ILX Renaissance of late.
― Ernani and the Professor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 June 2020 15:25 (three years ago) link
Pretty sure he got some love in this memorable thread
The Ubiquitous HIred Gun Session Veteran Shout-Out Thread
― fo' schnitzel (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 1 June 2020 15:32 (three years ago) link
Wow, had no idea she ever put out a version of "Lies." Pretty good--wish she'd tried "A Public Execution" too.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 03:28 (three years ago) link
Yeah, or "You're Gonna Miss Me".
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 03:36 (three years ago) link
If folks haven't seen that recent Linda Ronstadt doc, they can click this link to watch it between June 4 and June 10
https://www.brightfocus.org/movie/
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 04:51 (three years ago) link
Thanks!
― How I Wrote Neuroplastic Man (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 12:34 (three years ago) link
Philip K Dick had some weird infatuation with Linda Ronstadt, and wrote characters based on her into a couple of his nuttier-than-usual later novels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Divine_Invasion#Writing
Both novels not only reference Linda Ronstadt,[5] but include fictional characters named Linda; in the case of VALIS, there is a character named Linda Lampton,[6] and in the case of The Divine Invasion, there is a character named Linda Fox.[7] In both novels, a character has a dream that conveys the notion that slippers need to be put on in order for said character to approach the dawn.
― dominance and transmission (Matt #2), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 12:49 (three years ago) link
I tell you, y'all are sleeping on the Pirates of Penzance soundtrack (Linda Rondstadt, Kevin Kline, Angela Lansbury, Rex Smith).
She is a gem and a treasure
― fo' schnitzel (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 14:50 (three years ago) link
Planning to watch that doc soon.
― How I Wrote Neuroplastic Man (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 June 2020 01:44 (three years ago) link
Please forgive the facile comparison but I feel like I bought into the common dismissal of another pretty voice and pretty face singing songs they don’t really understand the same way I bought into it when it was said about the other Elvis, the one from Tupelo, which I long ago got over, and I guess I got over in this case too, only haven’t taken a deep dive into the discography yet.
― How I Wrote Neuroplastic Man (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 June 2020 01:58 (three years ago) link
She date Jerry Brown while he was governor. Still a wild thing to consider.
― earlnash, Sunday, 7 June 2020 03:08 (three years ago) link
Yeah, think about that every once in a while.
― How I Wrote Neuroplastic Man (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 June 2020 03:16 (three years ago) link
That and the Eagles breaking up for the first time at an Alan Cranston fundraiser is the cool hilarious underbelly of late 70s/early 80s politics.
Willie Nelson says he smoked a joint on top of the White House after Carter was elected.
― earlnash, Sunday, 7 June 2020 03:50 (three years ago) link
My dad claims he ran into Neil Young at a Democratic campaign HQ in Ohio in the 70s
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 7 June 2020 15:15 (three years ago) link
Just watched the doc, still processing, goes pretty deep. All I have now is a a nerdy question: is that Renee Fleming dancing in the audience during the tribute concert at the very end?
― How I Wrote Neuroplastic Man (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 June 2020 16:44 (three years ago) link
Rock and Roll HoF induction ceremony and not the Kennedy Center so maybe not.
― How I Wrote Neuroplastic Man (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 June 2020 17:04 (three years ago) link
I'll have to check out the documentary. I'm not exactly a huge fan of her work, but from the interviews I've read, she always struck me as thoughtful and very modest (not to mention self-critical). It's kind of frustrating that her work isn't better, something she has said herself.
"Heart Like a Wheel" is an excellent LP, and I like a few other singles - the ones that come to mind generally pre-date "Heart Like a Wheel" - but whenever I've ventured beyond that, it's been disappointing.
― birdistheword, Sunday, 7 June 2020 19:23 (three years ago) link
Documentary is really well done.
― How I Wrote Neuroplastic Man (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 7 June 2020 22:39 (three years ago) link
If this is her show w Byron Berline and Country Gazette I heard (could have sworn it was a live broadcast from a studio), it's amazing---she mentions how much better this is than her tour (the early one w Neil Young, I think), where the audiences were more interested in tossing beach balls around. Digs deep into the olde roots and lets fire----scroll down for link to original post of whole show (variously labelled '72, '74, maybe others, on YouTube posts, as you can tell by their having the same setlists). Also see links to songs from a '75 set w Byron & CG, which poster says has better sound than the first show---haven't listened to much of it yet, but most of the links still work: https://ronstadt.proboards.com/thread/1431/ronstadts-bluegrass-country
― dow, Monday, 18 October 2021 16:55 (two years ago) link
On the Midnight Special, with a very special band:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3SOosWH6_M
― Askeladd v. BMI (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 October 2022 13:33 (one year ago) link
And then again, later that Rockin’ Eve, after midnight:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c41embg2Bfg
― Askeladd v. BMI (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 12 October 2022 13:41 (one year ago) link
https://www.billboard.com/pro/linda-ronstadt-last-of-us-sync-wont-make-money-very-glad/
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 3 February 2023 02:04 (one year ago) link
Oh, I fuckin hope this does a Kate Bush for her. I have so many Ronstadt albums I can’t even sell for a buck.
― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Friday, 3 February 2023 03:58 (one year ago) link
Outside of Heart Like a Wheel, there's only a few singles that I like, and that's definitely one of them.
When Capitol released that two-disc anthology of her complete recordings for them, they included a live recording from the Troubadour as a bonus - it's even better than the single IMHO. (More intimate, it isn't overpowered by an orchestral arrangement.)
https://open.spotify.com/track/6BNYxL2ss2yXfaq549uLD1?si=0cf4cf3a0f3844a7
― birdistheword, Friday, 3 February 2023 04:13 (one year ago) link
She's only on four tracks of 2022's Putamayo Presents----Songs from The Sonoran Borderland---Feels Like Home: Linda Ronstadt's Musical Odyssey. which goes with her book of almost the same name, but they're the best on first listening, along with one I just linked on the main Los Lobos thread): "El Sueño," with blurry, unsettling, somewhat VU-ish acoustic guitar, has her waking up alert and foreboding---Springsteen's "Across The Border" (tune not as faux-Mexicali-solemn as I feared, though maybe she's keeping a lid on it) incl. Emmylou's maybe double-tracked, still thin intrusions on chorus, but LR always restores the vibe of verses---also good, if maybe a little too-drawn-out, on the thoughtful "I Never Will Marry" (Dolly v. effective on choruses)--then this one gets me right off, with the only piano (and it's a good piano) on the whole collection, and new instruments, male backup vocals keep appearing, vaya con Linda:
After a sweeping tour of the music of Mexico and the borderlands which inspired her, “Piel Canela” sees Linda and her band interpreting another Latin musical style that was ever-present in her childhood home: Cuban mambo.
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1693140166_10.jpg
― dow, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 21:37 (one year ago) link
Some of the other artists' singing and songs seem blah and predictable so far, though picking is always good, and would like to hear more from her folkie relatives P.D. Ronstadt & The Co---oh yeah, also on "On The Border," notes say it's Neil Young playing that good harmonica, uncredited steel, bass, drums all effective too, one of the most robust tracks overall.
― dow, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 21:44 (one year ago) link
Classic voice, good material, usually rendered in a mediocre fashion.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 21:55 (one year ago) link