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My current 'best record of all time'...
Posted by DougieJ on 8 October 2011 - 8:52pm.
or certainly the one that gives the biggest rush (yes, I'm still in a state of delirium over Scotland's crushing victory over the mighty Liechtenstein).
Just fantastic. Heard the actually-pretty-good Glee version on the Graham Norton show earlier. That's almost certainly the campest sentence I've ever typed ;-)
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I heard the Glee
version on GN's show too. It took me a while to realise who it was, as it was pretty good!
Yep. And here it is.
Glee is mos-definitely a G****y P******e of mine...
Live on Jools
Was the first time I heard it. Blew me away.
G****y P******e
Gypsy Perfume?
Right with you there
One of the great records of recent times certainly.
More Noo York tunes please.
I'll start the bidding with this.
Ryan Adams
New York New York
hell I still love you - New York....
Some folks like to get away...
A gem, to be sure.
'The New York Times, and the Daily News...'
One of their late bloomers...
But surely...
That
quite honestly is post of the weekend.
"Someone's fighting bouncers - it's Gavin 'enson"
Absolutely fucking brilliant. I'm sitting here grinning like a Idon'tknowwhat. Fanfuckingtastic
That
Was great. Thank you.
Coincidentally
was in Newport last week - they have really bigged it up. What a great clip.
"Big leeks will inspire you"
Now that is funny. Tremendous stuff.
By way of cheering up the Welsh nation...
here's another variation on the above that I missed at the time, for some, er, unaccountable reason.
That is just jaw-droppingly brilliant.
Not seen it before. Thanks for posting.
Ignoramus alert
This is a song I have heard many times while out and about and I don't know who it's by. A female singer, maybe Duffy or Adele (someone like that) and it goes "because it's New york, New York...de de de de de de de".
It's probably really really obvious, but I lead a sheltered life and I don't keep up with the charts.
I presume
that you can't view the YouTube video in my OP?
It's Jay-Z featuring Alicia Keys.
I love that Alicia Keys/Jay Z song
But it's not that one, it's a different song. Much slower.
This, perhaps?
I think it's this one, Austin
Bingo
Thanks ivan - that's the one. And Nick.
Thanks to Dougie as well. I really should listen to more Alicia Keys. I have always liked what I have heard and I should turn it into actually buying her stuff.
I was thinkin' 'bout Alicia Keys...
I suspect you're thinking of Paloma Faith's "New York", which I think is very underrated, perhaps because Paloma is self-deprecating enough to do appearances on fairly naff TV shows (what might once have been called the Crackerjack circuit):
As for Alicia Keys, she's the genius behind "Empire State Of Mind"; Jay-Z (as he is prone to do with other people's songs) just tramples over it with big expensive boots and takes an unwarranted proportion of the credit:
curse you
and your nimble fingers.... :)
Fair point.
but was she responsible for these?
Lay-Z
I agree that Jay-Z does pretty well on it, but I hate seeing it referred to as a Jay-Z song. Both versions are well worth listening to. Jay-Z's getting very lazy, musically if not lyrically.
It's not an Alicia Keys song either.
She didn't write it. It was done by a couple of fairly no-mark types, as I understand it, and Mr. Zed heard it and thought it was all pretty poor but for the chorus hook, which he appropriated. I'd agree.
It's more a Jay-Z song than an anyone else song, IMO. He kept the only good bit of the original, and sent it into the stratosphere with his rapping. And I have to disagree: even after all this time, nobody flows or produces quite like Jay-Z.
Oops
I must apologise, Bob, for being so mistaken about the song's origins. And I agree that some of the verses are a little bit naff - though I think the "broken down" version has a great haunting feel.
I'm still bored of Jay-Z though. I've got (and enjoy) his earlier stuff, but I can't see my liking for mainstream hip hop being revived until he and Kanye West move on.
Apology not remotely necessary!
TBH, it sounds like it could easily be an AK song, except that it's a lot more tuneful than a lot of her stuff, which I find massively boring apart from Fallin'. The only reason I knew about the song's provenance was because I thought "that's a bit good for Alicia Keys!" when I first heard it, so I looked it up and found, satisfactorily, that I was right!
oh - and I see we've not done...
Britain's answer to...
...usually means something pretty poor. This video has dated badly, as does the lyric referring to "the grebos, the crusties and the goths" but I still like it.
Carter
I put them on the Ipod this week, after not listening to them for a very long time. They were a bit...noisy!
(30 something is still a great album though, and lyrically, despite the over-abundance of puns, they stand up really well)
They aren't all good..
Step forward, Gerard Kenny..
er, yes...
I feel a palate cleanser is in order...
Why not cut to the chase?
I'll forgive him this
'cos he wrote the theme to Minder.
Frank Sinatra wrote the theme tune to Minder?
The things you learn....
squeeze
'Some fantastic place' too inept to upload video but do yourselves a favour and check it out.Watching silver seas on 'later'and amazed to discover---as suspected--how shite they are.Sorry,they just are.
agreed...
... each to their own, and all that - but "the best band in the world" - really?
Got to be some Beastie Boys in here
My favorite New York song
Empire State of Mind
I truly think it's one of the greatest songs ever written.
Oh give me a break..
Most of this ain't even a song but merely a slew of fairly crass rhymes with little if any narrative. What is good (as with most celebrated rap tunes) is the sweet melody line, this one being from Alicia Keys. One finds oneself longing for it during the tedious rap segments. Given all this, it's hard to make a case for its greatness.
Can it be that no one...
...has yet championed Neil Diamond's 'Brooklyn Roads'? A masterpiece! Here it is set to images of Brooklyn...
It's ok
but it's not Even Alicia Keys' best "State of Mind "song.
In The Newport one i love the line
"We didn't know either,thank you wikipedia"
.
And let us not forget...
...this gem from John McLaughlin's 1978 LP 'Electric Guitarist': 'New York On My Mind' - featuring no less than 3 other ex Mahavishnu members. as close to a reunion as they ever got. (This is a wonderful record - I realised recently that someone must have pinched my vinyl ages ago and I've never owned it on CD. I must do something about that...)
when you get caught between the moon and new york city....