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I'm shocked!fresh_42 said:untalented Sinatra
I'm shocked!fresh_42 said:untalented Sinatra
I know, not a popular point of view. I once read a short comment on this by my favorite author Ephraim Kishon. IIRC it was like this. Two Hollywood producers talked to each other and one said: "I bet I can make a star from anybody that comes around that corner!" He was unlucky. Sinatra came around the corner.pinball1970 said:I'm shocked!
He is bit before my time and I was probably introduced to him via film.fresh_42 said:I know, not a popular point of view. I once read a short comment on this by my favorite author Ephraim Kishon. IIRC it was like this. Two Hollywood producers talked to each other and one said: "I bet I can make a star from anybody that comes around that corner!" He was unlucky. Sinatra came around the corner.
That made me think about it and I haven't found much contradicting this quote. Some "artists" are simply a result of good PR rather than their own talent. The list is long, and nowadays even longer than ever.
These different perspectives show one thing: we are all the product of our specific experiences, often in childhood, and socialization. I'm probably an Elvis fan because my sister has been and I heard his music very early in my life. And I mean not only his popular titles. I like his blues songs or some gospels a lot more than I like e.g. Hound Dog.pinball1970 said:He is bit before my time and I was probably introduced to him via film.
On the Town is still real fun, as is High society.
“It was a very good year” is a great song.
To get a rock sound in French - truly coming from the guts - you have to go to the other side of the pond:Hornbein said:French pop music is unique. Lots of bathetic ego ballads. Not a bone of rock and roll in their bodies.
And they have the Can-Can!jack action said:[THREAD HIJACKING]
To get a rock sound in French - truly coming from the guts - you have to go to the other side of the pond:
Maybe more of a ballad, but so good:
- Corbeau - Illégal
- Plume Latraverse - Bobépine
- Marjo - Provocante (singer of Corbeau solo)
- Martin Deschamps - Quand
- Marie-Chantal Toupin - Soirée de fille
- Éric Lapointe - Marie-Stone
- France D'Amour - Vivante
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Its fine, that's great thing about music. Music is so powerful it rarely exists in isolation.jack action said:[THREAD HIJACKING]
To get a rock sound in French - truly coming from the guts - you have to go to the other side of the pond:
Maybe more of a ballad, but so good:
- Corbeau - Illégal
- Plume Latraverse - Bobépine
- Marjo - Provocante (singer of Corbeau solo)
- Martin Deschamps - Quand
- Marie-Chantal Toupin - Soirée de fille
- Éric Lapointe - Marie-Stone
- France D'Amour - Vivante
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Their singing is pretty good but their "dancing" very unskilled. (I live in Asia where dance is much more important as an art than in the West. )jack action said:Of course - you don't have to say it - everyone prefers the original.
morrobay said:Original
From my mum I think.fresh_42 said:I'm probably an Elvis fan because my sister has been and I heard his music very early in my life.
morrobay said:And she is hard to follow...
morrobay said:
Thank you for the warning! I'm a big fan of the 7:42 (or so) version of Suspicious Minds.pinball1970 said:From my mum I think.
"If I can dream" is still one of my favourite songs of all time.
I think I may have posted it already but Elvis' "Suspicious minds" cover by "the fine young cannibals" is truly truly awful.
Yes, but the original already has it. The covers weren't really necessary. I cannot see that they actually added something new which is my personal criterion to accept a cover. And btw., the text is a catastrophe! We have a nice word for it: "zum fremdschämen". It cannot be translated. It is the feeling that you feel ashamed (in this case for the text) although you're not responsible for it. It is the feeling of overwhelming embarrassment for something someone else does or did. It's the crucial "fremd = stranger" part that makes it untranslatable.pinball1970 said:Elvis did a great version of this.
A great loss!Arjan82 said:With Eva Cassidy it's more the question which cover to share. Pretty much all of them are better than the original...
And some very unexpected ones:Arjan82 said:With Eva Cassidy it's more the question which cover to share. Pretty much all of them are better than the original...