anyone like alex? or liv? or kate? i don't much...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9FaUdKL6VE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I83fzex4TmE&feature=related
― scott seward, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 13:41 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brh-_4zmOmc&feature=related
― scott seward, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 13:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Gage O.: Lester Bangs's ghost? Taylor shouldn't be in the Rock and Roll HOF (he's not alone there), but "Fire and Rain," "Something in the Way She Moves," and "Carolina on My Mind" are close to as good as early-'70s singer-songwriter gets. "Fire and Rain"'s harrowing.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 13:58 (thirteen years ago) link
- clemenza
I feel the same way about him. Not brilliant and many of his compositions are downright offensive in their corniness but those 3 songs are pretty good. I've had 'something in the way she moves' stuck in my head all morning.
― Moka, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
love the hammond people
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_5csvww0fY
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
Surely there are worse culprits than the otherwise inoffensive James Taylor!― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, October 28, 2002 5:41 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Was really surprised to scroll down and see this tame Alex in NYC post! Expected furious vitriol, tbh.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
seek the funny people outtake where seth rogen is improvising some questions to j.t. and j.t. is batting them right back, making adam sandler laugh
― anorange (abanana), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
Further evidence that I am not, in fact, a two-dimensional cartoon character.
― Alex in NYC, Thursday, 29 September 2011 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
So that brings the evidence count to...2?
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 30 September 2011 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
near #1 on my list of music that's underrated by music-thinkin cats -- feel like most people's opinions on this dude are way phoned-in
― five gone cats from Boston (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, May 2, 2011 4:36 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
whats the dopest james taylor record #seriousq
― fanute da croupier (D-40), Saturday, 3 November 2012 08:41 (eleven years ago) link
nb my dad used to play this song out & i liked ithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWeaO4ZobeA
― fanute da croupier (D-40), Saturday, 3 November 2012 08:43 (eleven years ago) link
i was also wondering this after reading 'girls like us'. joni and carly can't both be wrong.
― Tim F, Saturday, 3 November 2012 15:18 (eleven years ago) link
His Apple debut has three songs I love: the original versions of "Something in the Way She Moves" and "Carolina on My Mind," and "Circle Round the Sun." The two big LPs after that have lots of good stuff, some of it well known, some not. I understand why, in the context of when he wrote it, Lester Bangs went off on James Taylor--it was 1971, the post-Beatles '70s were starting to take shape, and some of the critics who were aligning themselves with the singer-songwriter wave were dismissing Led Zeppelin and glam and such in the process. Forty years later, that doesn't seem all that important.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rtr5ehjihNU
― clemenza, Saturday, 3 November 2012 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
Ha, I was just thinking about this yesterday while reading the neil young bio Shakey. Apparently him and Linda Ronstadt contributed harmonies to something on Harvest and I was like "maybe I'll have to check out some James Taylor."
― how's life, Saturday, 3 November 2012 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
Sweet Baby James is pretty essential - it's got "Fire and Rain." If you've ever lost anybody, but especially to death, that song can really be there for you at the right time - a remarkable accomplishment in tone and feeling imo. One thing that can be challenging w/Taylor if if you have a great love for Motown and/or blues, he pretty unabashedly does this "well, I'm a super-white dude who digs this tune so here's what it sounds like coming from a super-white dude" and it can be jarring - I hated his take on "Handyman" back when but he's one of those dudes who once you've sorta developed a taste for his schtick you're able to cut him loads of slack. Check also Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon, JT ("Your Smiling Face" is an all time jam imo). That's Why I'm Here from '85 is really good though I don't know if it's diggable unless you're already into his whole deal, I find "That's Why I'm Here" really moving and "Only A Dream in Rio" has a terrific melody
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 3 November 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
Sweet Baby James is def a great album
― some dude, Saturday, 3 November 2012 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
Every second and every detail of "Fire and Rain" is brilliant. It came out in February of '70: if you don't object to the arbitrariness of what constitutes a decade, I'd put it right alongside "Whole Lotta Love" (Oct. '69) as the two key gateways into the '70s. (I'm probably forgetting something else.)
― clemenza, Saturday, 3 November 2012 17:09 (eleven years ago) link
This is the only James Taylor I can stomach. He plays a great Lord/huckster. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqHjbowiLPQ
― Jazzbo, Saturday, 3 November 2012 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
his unapologetic-white-dude-voice is kind of what interests me about him, albeit maybe not on Motown covers per se
― fanute da croupier (D-40), Saturday, 3 November 2012 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
some dude otm
― brimstead, Saturday, 3 November 2012 18:29 (eleven years ago) link
underrated Aerosmith otm too. Just a solid album.
i dunno his new stuff is p cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChLJbkfEOp0&feature=player_embedded
― kl0ppa john's (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 01:09 (eleven years ago) link
reminiscent of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugRq52VN6G8
― Bill Goldberg Variations (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
No love for Steamroller Blues?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VXr6U-BwMs
― The Teardrop ILXplodes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 January 2013 15:25 (eleven years ago) link
I used to think Carolina In My Mind was pure nostalgic pap but lately the song is resonating with me and the lyrics are more interesting than I noticed before.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 05:26 (six years ago) link
I read something the other day saying that the next revival would be James Taylor and now here this is. I blame you.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 05:29 (six years ago) link
James Taylor wrote some great songs
― niels, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 07:31 (six years ago) link
https://media1.giphy.com/media/V2JcZ0608BfEY/giphy.gif
― velko, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 07:40 (six years ago) link
i continue to dislike the music of james taylorhis lyrics do not resonate with me, i dislike his voice, and the most charitable thing i can say is that he reminds me slightly of Kermitmost loathed song: the one about smothering the people you love with love
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 13:32 (six years ago) link
I think James Taylor might be the whitest music ever made.
― Evan, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 16:18 (six years ago) link
and "Mexico" is certainly the whitest song
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 16:27 (six years ago) link
just checked into a hotel on the spanish island of fuertaventuraplaying in the lobby? james taylor
― i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 16:33 (six years ago) link
Say hi to him from ILX
― Agharta Christie (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 16:34 (six years ago) link
i would but tbh I think i pissed on my chips when i yelled ‘freebird’ at him
― i gotta be a gazpacho man (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 16:53 (six years ago) link
Depends. Was he playing Angry Birds?
― Evan, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 17:09 (six years ago) link
He's revered in Americana, so don't worry, the revival has been quietly gathering steam for a while. I have no idea what saying that Taylor is the "whitest artist ever" even means, btw. I can't take the guy for more than 10 minutes, but those 10 minutes are often sort of good. "Mexico" is his best song unless it's "Don't Let Me Be Lonely." I always heard the lyric in that one as "Go away, Ben Daniel," as if he were writing in the mode of the Band or something similar in the tune.
― eddhurt, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 17:11 (six years ago) link
the most charitable thing i can say is that he reminds me slightly of Kermit
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WJoU2sTqslM
― omar little, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 17:12 (six years ago) link
― eddhurt, Tuesday, February 6, 2018 12:11 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Whitest music* ever. Like his work embodies all of the cliche lazy comedian old white people music qualities: stiff, safe, inoffensive etc.
For me it's the most direct audio association to the image of a bunch of old rich white people in the suburbs snapping their fingers and bobbing their heads down at the local concert hall.
― Evan, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 17:27 (six years ago) link
whitest comment ever
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 17:35 (six years ago) link
How old are you, Evan?
― eddhurt, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 17:40 (six years ago) link
my soul or my body?
― Evan, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 17:41 (six years ago) link
― Evan,
this could be a Metallica or Arcade Fire show tbh
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 17:43 (six years ago) link
Xp /r/lewronggeneration?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 17:45 (six years ago) link
anyway, I was thinking about how Carolina in My Mind turns kind of dark in the last verse -- dogs that bite, omens, dark side of the moon, seems like it goes on like this forever, so that "going to Carolina in My Mind" seems to change from a metaphor for homesickness and nostalgia to a metaphor for slipping away from a sound mental state.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 17:47 (six years ago) link
or could also be nodding from heroin
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 18:04 (six years ago) link
still cheesy, not sold
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 18:09 (six years ago) link
not a fan by any means but the song "late for the sky" is tops
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 18:15 (six years ago) link
The fact that he was a narcissistic self-absorbed junkie for years and years does tend to be overlooked.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 18:17 (six years ago) link
that just makes him seem even more predictable imo
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 18:19 (six years ago) link
Inspired by this thread I'm listening to the LPs for the first time... with the caveat that my parents love this guy so his music was all over the place growing up. My dad never sings along to anything but he sings along to James Taylor.
The first truly bad moment on the first album was "Oh Baby, Don't You Loose Your Lip on Me". Embarrassing.
― skip, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 18:20 (six years ago) link