kokorodoko wrote: Mon Nov 06, 2023 4:22 am Scritti Politti

"Perfect Way" is kinda what Jacob Collier sounds like lol

^ but I gotta say the instrumental here is pretty rad

Beatles - Let it be

gaswar

I haven't listened to this band in a lonnnnnng time, but I randomly thought of them today.

Duke Ellington - In a Sentimental Mood

Celine Dion - It's All Coming Back to Me

An always fascinating thing for me is how the same tune can change drastically with different instrumentation, or with differences in recording aesthetic. Similar to how instruments sound very different played together than separately, how tones sound different together...

Anyway I think the song here is very good - could be a Dolly Parton tune with a different arrangement. The "da-daa" at the end of the stanza gets me ("the win-dow", etc.). I do like the way Celine sings this too, it's just a bit much.

Trivia: The song is written by Jim Steinman, who did a bunch of stuff with Meat Loaf. Meat Loaf wanted to sing this originally, but Steinman intended it for his own girlgroup project Pandora's Box (who had one somewhat interesting but crappy album called Original Sin in 1989).

Was looking for Jackie Wilson's "Higher and Higher" but didn't know the name, so I searched for "higher higher du du du" and ended up with this song. No thanks.

George Michael - Careless Whisper

Add to "songs I turn off after 2 seconds".