Comments on: Tracy Chapman – ‘Our Bright Future’

By: Sin again

Sin again — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:48:26 +0000

Hey Mrs LZ dont panic I love Cilla as well, she was just a hottie when younger not sure I would buy any of her music though.

Mr LD great review and video clip will buy I think to listen when I’m travelling. I have Tracy Chapmans greatest hits which is one of my favourite collection of songs. She is just so talented.

By: Liefste zus

Liefste zus — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:45:12 +0000

UncleRD, it was indeed Priscilla White (don’t need to google that one ). How she ever became a singer is a mystery even to me but there you go.

By: UncleRaveDave

UncleRaveDave — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 08:25:23 +0000

LZ, it was meant as a compliment – and was meant to read ‘ … I hope that DOESN’T scare anybody too much …’
Cilla Black, wasn’t her real name Priscilla White ? Don’t have time to Google it right now. But I do love music trivia.

By: Liefste zus

Liefste zus — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:06:10 +0000

But I was never *in* the Cilla closet – I’ve never hidden the fact that I love to singalongacilla, just don’t ask me to watch anything she’s been in since 1969!

By: Laughing Dog

Laughing Dog — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:03:12 +0000

fondness = infatuation

Glad to see you’ve finally come out of the Cilla closet

By: Liefste zus

Liefste zus — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:38:46 +0000

“I think that my tastes probably are most closely aligned to LZ’s. I hope that scare anybody too much …..”
Excuse me? I’m sitting right here, you know!

“LZ was infatuated with Cilla Black”
I think you’ll find that I have repeatedly stated my position here: can’t stand the woman but I have a fondness for her tracks from the 60s (Alfie, You’re My World, Liverpool Lullaby, etc.)

By: Laughing Dog

Laughing Dog — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:05:40 +0000

UncleRavey Davey – I too like Greatest Hits collections and have many in my collection for two reasons – I don’t have the time to buy and listen to all the albums of a particular band and I reckon most Greatest Hits albums give a true reflection of a band/artist. I know Spacey will argue differently and I know that by buying just a greatest hits you are missing out on some songs that could be good but ….hey lives too short to worry bout it.

By: Laughing Dog

Laughing Dog — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:57:34 +0000

LZ was infatuated with Cilla Black

By: UncleRaveDave

UncleRaveDave — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:09:11 +0000

LD, I thought as much – which is why I prefaced my suggestion with the “pleb” word. I tend to work the other way round most times; I buy the “Best Of …”, and if I REALLY like what I hear after a couple of whirls, I hunt out an original album or two. That’s quite a big “IF”, though. Also, with some of the more obscure, or older, artists often all you can find are the Greatest Hits. Or, some tracks which I really enjoy, are not worth buying the original album for, or are only (easily) available on a compilation. I think I tend to collect songs, rather than artists. Probably also why I struggled with my Albums of the Decade.

Then too, when I CHILL to music, it’s normally by my own self-defined genres, and then it’s on shuffle / random ; with blues artists it sometimes gets a bit repetitive after their 3rd or 4th song in a row. With someone like John Lee Hooker, each of his songs individually is brilliant, but even to me they start sounding the same after awhile. I find, if I shuffle him in among 5 or 6 other artists, I actually enjoy each of his songs a lot more, than when taken as a collective.

When I really, REALLY LISTEN to music (try putting Pink Floyd on random, it just does not work !) then it’ll be the whole, original, unpolluted, as-the-artist intended option. So I think I know where the S’pig is coming from – it’s just that, for me, most times it doesn’t work that way.

PS: from all the comments, by all the “friends”, I think that my tastes probably are most closely aligned to LZ’s. I hope that scare anybody too much …..

By: Laughing Dog

Laughing Dog — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:16:48 +0000

UncleRaveyDavey – Don’t tell Spacey I told you this but he hates ‘Best of’ or ‘Greatest Hits’ collections. He prefers to explore an artist album by album, track by track and not rely on what the Record Company thinks are an artists best songs – he does make sense sometimes you know.