crackerjack
Well-known member
Even by your own standards of painfully contrived and conceited contrarianism, that's a spectacularly cuntish thing to say. Well done Crowley, you've excelled yourself.
Amy Amy Amy
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Even by your own standards of painfully contrived and conceited contrarianism, that's a spectacularly cuntish thing to say. Well done Crowley, you've excelled yourself.
mistersloane
heavy heavy monster sound
you lot are harsh. lauryn hill wasnt crap. ex factor, to zion, and doo wop (though this is more hip hop than singing) are classics. its more a case not of poor phrasing, just not enough good songs. winehouse i felt was a great writer and emoter but as a singer i often found her actual voice a bit shaky or just a bit weird sounding. a real weird kind of mangling of jazz/soul singer stylings. but in a way the weirdness and the mangling made her different. like people say 'she was just trying to sound black' or 'singing like a black woman' but i never once thought that when listening to her cos you could tell she wasnt despite trying to do that. its never nearly as bad as say someone like mick jagger trying to sound like a country/blues singer from the american south in any case. joss stone = bad british white soul singer (sounded like an impersonator with no personality of her own). winehouse = good british white soul singer. dont sleep on mick hucknall though.
she did sound like lauryn on some songs but her real idol was erykah badu imo. she never really aped them though. couldnt see either of those two singing about fuck me pumps (def not lauryn) or what kind of fuckerie is this. hence she is/was unique.
and ronson only produced one of lilly allens early hits.
she did sound like lauryn on some songs but her real idol was erykah badu imo. she never really aped them though. couldnt see either of those two singing about fuck me pumps (def not lauryn) or what kind of fuckerie is this. hence she is/was unique.
and ronson only produced one of lilly allens early hits.
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Ulala
Awkward Woodward
Talking last night to my mate who works in a record shop, it appears that there are no physical copies of any of Amy's albums available, apparently Island had minimal stock which all got exhausted on the day after her death, and now you'll really struggle to buy a copy anywhere. I don't doubt that they're scrambling desperately to press more, but if you want to commemorate Amy's passing by lining Island's pockets then you'll have to download the albums.
I'm always intrigued by the sudden rush to purchase music in the wake of an artist's death. I guess some copies go to fans (to keep pristine as mementoes, etc) but surely the vast bulk are sold to people who never bought the artist's songs when they were alive. I find this ghoulish, as if the songs suddenly have some deeper meaning in the context of the artist's death. That said, mind, I have a gargantually appalling record by John The White Rapper (yes, really) which features an uncredited Amy on the choruses, and I'm going to sell it for a newly vastly inflated sum to a chump. Hurrah!
Gumdrops - Mick Hucknall poured loads of his own cash into Blood and Fire, the reggae/dub re-issue label, so he's alright by me.
I'm always intrigued by the sudden rush to purchase music in the wake of an artist's death. I guess some copies go to fans (to keep pristine as mementoes, etc) but surely the vast bulk are sold to people who never bought the artist's songs when they were alive. I find this ghoulish, as if the songs suddenly have some deeper meaning in the context of the artist's death. That said, mind, I have a gargantually appalling record by John The White Rapper (yes, really) which features an uncredited Amy on the choruses, and I'm going to sell it for a newly vastly inflated sum to a chump. Hurrah!
Gumdrops - Mick Hucknall poured loads of his own cash into Blood and Fire, the reggae/dub re-issue label, so he's alright by me.
pattycakes_
Can turn naughty
The sound of that album is really down to the playing of the Dap Kings and the engineering of Gabriel Roth. Salaam Remi produced half the album and no one obsesses over his importance in relation to it. If you take away Amy and just leave Ronson then you get an album like Version.
pattycakes_
Can turn naughty
never knew there was a daptone link with amy, they're quality when it comes to getting 'that' sound.