Keith Houchen Posted August 9, 2017 Share Posted August 9, 2017 36 minutes ago, johnnyboy said: I'll Be Me is one to keep the hankies nearby for. Yep, the end made me have a wank as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Thunderplex Posted August 9, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted August 9, 2017 Saw him in the mid 70's at Belle View in Manchester. Remember him being very nice at an autograph session after. Horrible way to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted August 10, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted August 10, 2017 By The Time I Get To Phoenix, Wichita Lineman, Rhinestone Cowboy. Any singer worth their salt would kill to have one song half as good as any of them under their belt - do have recorded them all, and done so much more besides, is one hell of a career. I wish I'd given more thought to him while he was alive - he was someone who'd always raise a smile when I heard him, and I'd never skip past Wichita Lineman if it came on shuffle on the iPod, but it's not a song, and he's not an artist, that I'd have ever listed amongst my favourites, he was just always there. Hearing so much of his stuff on the radio yesterday made me realise how much I'm missing out. Definitely going to go out of my way to listen to more now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator Onyx2 Posted August 10, 2017 Awards Moderator Share Posted August 10, 2017 Wichita Lineman has been in my scrupulously-culled Desert Island Discs playlist (8 songs only, as per) for over fifteen years. It's achingly sad, evocative and the perfect length. It's just staggeringly beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted August 10, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted August 10, 2017 Just now, Onyx2 said: Wichita Lineman has been in my scrupulously-culled Desert Island Discs playlist (8 songs only, as per) for over fifteen years. It's achingly sad, evocative and the perfect length. It's just staggeringly beautiful. It's on 6Music now...like I said, I've always loved it, just never given it much thought. Evocative is exactly the right word - it just sounds of wide open space, of loneliness, but with a hopeful tinge. And the strings and bloody gorgeous. It's perfect, not a thing you could change about it. All that and it's only 13 lines, and one of those is repeated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 1 hour ago, Onyx2 said: Wichita Lineman has been in my scrupulously-culled Desert Island Discs playlist (8 songs only, as per) for over fifteen years. It's achingly sad, evocative and the perfect length. It's just staggeringly beautiful. It's a favourite of our Butch as well. REM do a wonderful cover of it, certainly does the song justice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted August 10, 2017 Moderators Share Posted August 10, 2017 There are a lot of good covers of that song. Sergio posted a good one by The Meters some months ago in the song of the day thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith Houchen Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 Sweet, will go give that a listen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Sergio Mendacious Posted August 10, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted August 10, 2017 That's a cracker, and obviously I adore the Sergio Mendes version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted August 10, 2017 Moderators Share Posted August 10, 2017 7 hours ago, Keith Houchen said: It's a favourite of our Butch as well. REM do a wonderful cover of it, certainly does the song justice. Greatest love song of all time, dealing with pure need and also is a bit dark and stalkery. Has it all. Johnny Cash also did a fine rendition during the American Recordings years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyattSheepMask Posted August 11, 2017 Share Posted August 11, 2017 Was going to mention the Johnny Cash version. It's from the Unearthed box set for anyone that's interested, but you can more than likely find it on YouTube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Thunderplex Posted August 18, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted August 18, 2017 Bruce Forsyth has died, aged 89. Didn't he do well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Gus Mears Posted August 18, 2017 Author Paid Members Share Posted August 18, 2017 Ah man, gutted. Such a fixture of all of our childhoods I would imagine. One of the true greats of entertainment that this country has produced. Doing his entrance to the Generation Game followed by a crap 'good game, good game' has been a key part of a night out for as long as I can remember. Absolutely loved Brucey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members ReturnOfTheMack Posted August 18, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted August 18, 2017 There was a bit of me that thought he'd live forever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Thunderplex Posted August 18, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted August 18, 2017 3 minutes ago, ReturnOfTheMack said: There was a bit of me that thought he'd live forever. He's one of those who will. The catchphrases and the pose has been going for as many years as I can remember, and will carry on now he's gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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