Being "knowingly whimsical", I think, is the equivalent of eyelash-fluttering, i.e. not sexy.
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Walk Of Life is exceptionally unsexy, tipping its hat to jauntily mojo sapping Cajun classics such as My Toot Toot, with a loin numbing ingredient X all of its own.
Chronologically impossible, I know, but a cover version of Walk Of Life by The Jam would have been unbeatably unsexy.
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Originally posted by treibeis View PostBeing "knowingly whimsical", I think, is the equivalent of eyelash-fluttering, i.e. not sexy.
As for eyelash-fluttering, it all rather depends who's doing it. I mean, I'd look a complete dick.
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The Crowd — Roy Orbison. Least sexy song by the least sexy performer ever. Absolutely brilliant though. Don't know but I'm guessing it was written for his much lamented wife Claudette, like several others.Last edited by Amor de Cosmos; 25-08-2018, 19:43.
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Originally posted by Jah Womble View PostYes, but if you're not trying to be, then it seems a bit of a moot point. I mean, you wouldn't criticise a pheasant for not being a Bengal tiger.
As for eyelash-fluttering, it all rather depends who's doing it. I mean, I'd look a complete dick.
"Yellow Submarine" is slightly different. I would say "The Beatles were *always* whimsical". But if I say that, then you'll come out with that line about "if you don't like The Beatles, you may as well say you don't like air/food/water", so I won't say it.Last edited by treibeis; 25-08-2018, 20:33.
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Originally posted by treibeis View PostI don't understand why David Bowie made "The Laughing Gnome". Maybe because he wanted to be knowingly whimsical or maybe because, for the minutes/hours/days he took to make it, he'd just fucking lost it.
"Yellow Submarine" is slightly different. I would say "The Beatles were *always* whimsical". But if I say that, then you'll come out with that line about "if you don't like The Beatles, you may as well say you don't like air/food/water", so I won't say it.
As for Bowie, he made a number of recordings not dissimilar to The Laughing Gnome at the time: he seemed to be channelling Anthony Newley for a while. It wasn't so much that he'd 'lost it', so much as he'd not 'found' himself by then.
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Originally posted by Serge Gainsbourg View PostHmm, I'm not so sure. I think he had a certain rapport with the middle-age mums / youngish grans market. A bit like Jim Reeves or the Everlys.
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Originally posted by Jah Womble View PostYou really do stash these lines away like nuts for the winter, eh?
There aren't enough, for a start. There's the one about The Beatles, there's the one about Andy Stewart (or whoever it was) making Scrumpy 'n' Western records and there's the one about Dele Alli not being quite as much of a rotter as several people on the Football forum believe him to be. And that's about it.
(I'm joking, by the way.)Last edited by treibeis; 27-08-2018, 15:59.
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The one about The Beatles isn't mine, though - it's a well-worn line filed away for use at such times. And Dele might act the dick on occasion, but there are far worse villains out there on Football Island. (OTF does like to get carried away, as we know.)
However, you can gladly have my head on a stick for Scrumpy 'n' Westerngate - I'm happy to remain within the bliss of ignorance.
But - Andy Stewart? The 'Donald Where's Yer Troosers?'-bloke? Have a word.
(So am I.)
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Originally posted by treibeis View PostIf a man had to live on nuts like that in hard times, then he'd starve to death before the first door on the advent calendar were opened.
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