Watching that online Take That reunion earlier, I was reminded that while I find their songs almost at the Rice-Lloyd Webber level of toe-curlingly awful, I find I actually really like them as people. Even the tax dodger, and the sex maniac who believes in UFOs. Do you have similar feelings about bands or artists?
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Originally posted by Sean of the Shed View PostJames Blunt - hilariously self-depracating.
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- An oasis in the middle of Somerset
- Bath City FC; Porthcawl RFC;Wales in most things.
- Fig roll - deal with it.
I read Frank Zappa's book years ago and found him fascinating but can't stand most of his music. I have an idea if I reread it now I may feel differently towards him.
Harry Connick Jr strikes me as thoroughly top bloke but I couldn't say I like his music.
In a slightly different vein, I loved John Peel but couldn't listen to a lot of music he played even when I was younger.
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Yes, and was exceedingly funny and self-deprecating on Never Mind The Buzzcocks, which seemed to help his popularity over here no end.
Here he is appearing onstage with Bubl?(aargh, no diacritics at the moment) Buble during one of the latter's televised specials, where they generally lark around and take the piss out of each other. And sing very, very well, obviously:
I think I must've had that Take That virtual reunion thing affect my YouTube recommendations today, because I stumbled across Gary Barlow's recent string of 'Crooner Sessions' (his daily lockdown collaborations with different singers... plus occasional random other people) just this afternoon via being recommended his aforementioned online team-up with Robbie to do their duet Shame. I ended up watching a whole load of them, as he does indeed seem a thoroughly good sort these days and a bunch of the duets were great – he even paired up with two of the people already mentioned in this thread, Ms Faith on Lean On Me and Mr Blunt on a very solid version of Bonfire Heart, whose voice Barlow's complements very well.
There's a rather sweet Baby Can I Hold You with old boyband rival Ronan Keating, the reliably great Rick Astley turns up to stroll through Together Forever, there's Cliff Richard busting out a super We Don't Talk Anymore (Cliff singing in his bathroom and still hitting the high notes at 79), and fellow Take Thatter Mark Owen strumming guitar in his garage as they sing the Waterboys' The Whole of the Moon. There's also a clearly pleased-as-punch Jason Donovan doing Too Many Broken Hearts, Get Back with Brian May playing guitar live plus a second version of May playing the prerecorded bass on his iPad in the background, I'm Still Standing with Lulu (still standing and still got it), I'm Outta Love with a miraculously unchanged Anastacia in fine voice, a surprisingly joyous You're The One That I Want with Nicole Scherzinger (with a fun twist worth watching for), Alesha Dixon reminding what a good singer she is by effortlessly knocking out a pitch-perfect The Boy Does Nothing (while looking absolutely flawless at the same time) – and after all that, a surprisingly affecting solo Barlow version of Forever Autumn from The War of the Worlds with Jeff Wayne himself on piano.
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Originally posted by Sits View PostI don’t really know any of Paloma Faith’s music but she always seems good fun.
She can really sing, too, though it's a bit frustrating how since her first album (which used her higher register more often and a more 'natural' tone a lot of the time) she tends to fall into 'honking' a bit too often in that "look how authentic this is" style that gets used whenever a modern singer wants to show how much soul and blues they've got. I think my favourite song of hers is still the relatively overlooked title track to that debut album, Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful?
If you've never seen the below video from five years ago, though, I have to recommend what is simply the best performance at the Brit Awards I've ever seen, where she performed Only Love Can Hurt Like This (a song that actually takes full advantage of both her 'soulful' tones and that mostly-hidden high register to stunning effect) with some absolutely spectacular staging, and knocked it out of the park vocally as well as visually at the same time:
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Originally posted by Flynnie View PostBuble’s a good shout, he’s good at chat shows and I love a good Canadian boy having a tour rider where the promotor has to furnish his dressing room with the local hockey team’s puck.
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I had a drink with Danny McNamara of Embrace on a couple of occasions donkeys' years ago: never much rated his band, but he was a decent cove.
Ditto Badly Drawn Boy, who, while I'm not a huge fan of his work, was also a very nice guy.
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