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Post by tarzanontarmazepam on Feb 25, 2010 22:56:18 GMT
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Post by riotgrrl on Feb 26, 2010 8:49:33 GMT
What a waste of a fantastic talent.
Not my cup of tea (Whitney's music), but still very sad.
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Post by tarzanontarmazepam on Feb 26, 2010 10:21:31 GMT
She hasn't really had a hit since that dreadful theme to that equally appalling Kevin Costner film...forget the name of it.
Whatever happened to Bonnie Tyler? She who sang the worst song of all time..'Total Eclipse of the Heart..' now that was bad.
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Post by Weyland on Feb 26, 2010 11:50:22 GMT
She hasn't really had a hit since that dreadful theme to that equally appalling Kevin Costner film...forget the name of it. Whatever happened to Bonnie Tyler? She who sang the worst song of all time..'Total Eclipse of the Heart..' now that was bad. Whitney was always a pain in the ears. Worst song? There are so many, but a strong candidate would have to be Achy Breaky Heart by Billy Cyrus. |
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Post by Patrick on Feb 26, 2010 13:07:31 GMT
Should have stuck to blanket making.
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Post by aubrey on Feb 26, 2010 16:52:28 GMT
I know I always go on about them, and Itry not to, but this sounds like an average Fall concvert. Missing high notes (actually, not even trying; though he doesn't do the high pitched singing that he used to break into from time to time), wandering off the stage (he'll do full songs from the dressing room), forgetting words (I've often seen him sing from behind the drum kit, reading a scrawled lyric that he has taken from a carrier bag), turning his back on the audience (he did this the first time I ever saw him, in 1978, and has done it ever since), performing in a wheelchair, turning the amplifiers up and down, taking the microphones away from the drum kit, banging the keyboard, etc etc.
I mean, he's a genius and all that, but Whitney fans don't know they're born.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Mar 2, 2010 20:03:30 GMT
Mark E Smith is a bit of legend... "Wireless enthusiast intercepts government secret radio band and
Uncovers secrets and scandals of deceitful type proportions..."You can't buy lyrics like that!  AH |
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Post by aubrey on Mar 3, 2010 17:12:34 GMT
Yay - Dam' right.  (I especially like the high-pitched "This is on the new LP" at the start. And the way he forgets who gets arrested at the end (I think it's this version that he does that).) |
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Post by everso on Mar 3, 2010 19:28:59 GMT
I know I always go on about them, and Itry not to, but this sounds like an average Fall concvert. Missing high notes (actually, not even trying; though he doesn't do the high pitched singing that he used to break into from time to time), wandering off the stage (he'll do full songs from the dressing room), forgetting words (I've often seen him sing from behind the drum kit, reading a scrawled lyric that he has taken from a carrier bag), turning his back on the audience (he did this the first time I ever saw him, in 1978, and has done it ever since), performing in a wheelchair, turning the amplifiers up and down, taking the microphones away from the drum kit, banging the keyboard, etc etc. I mean, he's a genius and all that, but Whitney fans don't know they're born. I don't really go for stars that come over all precious and start doing eccentric stuff. Mr. E. and I visited my aunt and uncle in Detroit in 1976 and my uncle bought tickets to a Benny Goodman concert. I love the typical 1940s swing stuff, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, etc., and I was beside myself. Benny was getting on a bit by then, but I expected something great. The concert, however, was dull, dull, dull, with Benny behaving like a real pain. The music was pretty crap, frankly. |
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Post by aubrey on Mar 3, 2010 21:10:59 GMT
He's always done it, Everso.
I was listening to something from 1979 - live - as I walked through London Bridge today. He's berating the band and the sound mixer, singing out of tune, mashing his hands over the keyboard, etc. It is an amazing performance, though. (the keyboard solo starts at about 5.55).
The first time I saw them (in 1978) I thought he was going to get some grief off some hell's angels because he spent most of the concert with his back to the audience.
When he was on Top of the Pops (with the Inspiral carpets) he read the words off a bit of paper.
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Post by Weyland on Mar 4, 2010 10:07:11 GMT
I was listening to something from 1979 - live - as I walked through London Bridge today. Amazing coincidence that Whitney Houston was performing in a railway station just as you walked through! |
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