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the legendary dana gillespie, iv never heard of her. its a one time listen for me,it has its merits in certain parts but would i reach for the play button again,nah.
You mean you haven’t seen this film?! …
Lol.
Anyway. If you’re a big fan of Bowie, then you probably would be more familiar with her. I guess she may be considered ‘legendary’ by some, simply for that connection.
"Contrives to frighten you" sounds wrong. It should be "the news conspires to frighten you.Love the lyric, 'the news contrives to frighten you'. It's beautifully expressed and so true.
It's not a favourite Morrissey song of mine but I was pleased to hear it do so well at the time.
It's also nice to hear a relatively modern Morrissey song being covered, and not just another version of Every Day Is Like Sunday.
I don't like the sentiment. It's a bouncy song and only the David Ikeness of the lyric puts me off. But the phrasing and the lyric is solid. The news contrives to frighten you is a great line.Oh you mean the Rod Stewart urban legend! I remember that. Ranks with the Richard Gere...story.
So spill the beans...on the sweetcorn!its amazing how these things even happen,there was also one about a sexual encounter and a bit of sweetcorn.
The Bitter Congratulations. Song title?Haha.
The bitter congratulations.
Can anyone clever do a mashup of Morrissey’s vocal with the instrumentation of Dana’s version?
It’s a great song: pure pop (as opposed to rock) with an acerbic edge—the kind of track I’d usually associate with The Pet Shop Boys. It was his best single since Irish Blood, for my money.
That would be so cool.
Both versions are great, and one of Morrissey’s best, but I’m really digging what Dana’s team have done musically with STDIB. So yeah, that would be really interesting to hear.
I'm sorry, but she seems sexually aroused.... He has a libidinous voice. No, I don't like it! Maybe if the lyrics were erotic regarding the use of the bed
Agree, the focus on the "news" part just makes the song much more cringe than it needs to be. (But, as per her radio interview, that's the part of the lyrics that resonated with her, so she's done it very deliberately.Hmm, I don't like the video either, it emphasises the weak "news part" of the song far too much. And I don't know why everyone nowadays thinks, that a little bit of stock footage thrown together makes a good video, it just always looks cheap. And not a fan of the Dana-footage either, it just looks weird somehow.
Hmm, I don't like the video either, it emphasises the weak "news part" of the song far too much. And I don't know why everyone nowadays thinks, that a little bit of stock footage thrown together makes a good video, it just always looks cheap. And not a fan of the Dana-footage either, it just looks weird somehow.
I wonder if when he is pouring his third or fourth glass of Grey Goose, he ponders the irony that a cover version of one of his minor singles can get a label release and yet his latest original songs are trapped in no man's land.
There's a lovely profile of Dana here, while promoting the single, affirming her legendary status, with details like these:the legendary dana gillespie, iv never heard of her.
She has a revered status in the industry, not least considering the context of her early career given that no female soloist hit No.1 with a studio album in the UK until 1980. Returning to music in 1982, she released Blue Job, reaching a new career milestone by venturing into blues and founding the Mustique Blues Festival. A respected radio presenter, Gillespie, also embraces spirituality, recording bhajans since becoming a follower of Sri Sathya Sai Baba, adding devotional music to her extensive discography.