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Re: Lenny Kravitz

Postby Osgood » 21 May 2017, 08:52

Your post describes exactly how I feel about him. I still have the first two but haven't heard them in ages. Not sure I would like them as much now, tbh.
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Re: Lenny Kravitz

Postby fange » 21 May 2017, 09:56

Yeah, same here really. I didn't mind a few of his songs off those first two albums - which I liked but never loved - and then he lost me totally with 'Are You Gonna Go My Way' as well, and I've not been tempted by anything since really.

His jackdaw approach to 60s and 70s musical styles was limited, and his lack of an original sound or approach was laid bare pretty quickly.
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Re: Lenny Kravitz

Postby Tactful Cactus » 21 May 2017, 11:58

fange wrote:His jackdaw approach to 60s and 70s musical styles was limited, and his lack of an original sound or approach was laid bare pretty quickly.


Yip -- I was in a coffee shop a few weeks ago and they were piping his Best Of. The Let Love Rule era was decent, everything else an overworked pastiche - he even did a few Stax soul type songs

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Re: Lenny Kravitz

Postby trans-chigley express » 22 May 2017, 09:39

Just to sound like a broken record I have to completely agree with everyone else....some decent stuff on the first two but lost interest with the next one and never checked out anything since.

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Re: Lenny Kravitz

Postby Diamond Dog » 22 May 2017, 10:04

I have time for some of his stuff but if I never hear him again, I'd not notice.

Besides this - which is one of the great singles of the 90's:



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Re: Lenny Kravitz

Postby Canis lupus » 22 May 2017, 13:46

What's so wrong with Are You Gonna Go My Way?!

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Re: Lenny Kravitz

Postby naughty boy » 22 May 2017, 14:11

◉ ͜◉ wrote:What's so wrong with Are You Gonna Go My Way?!


Beats me.
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Re: Lenny Kravitz

Postby fange » 22 May 2017, 14:43

'O' wrote:
◉ ͜◉ wrote:What's so wrong with Are You Gonna Go My Way?!


Beats me.


What's right with it? It's a boring riff, with boring cliched lyrics and boring vocals. I can hardly stay awake just thinking about it.
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Re: Lenny Kravitz

Postby Bent Fabric » 22 May 2017, 15:52

I mean - if I DIDN'T pop along and offer my (not especially generous) assessment of the man and his work, I think it's safe to say that my views would be well represented in my absence.

And, shit - once that happens, my description of the man (at his BEST, I'm afraid) as shorthand for a certain type of "on the nose" facsimile of certain idioms, totems and eras (and, as I've learned, I like him even less when he's giving you "pure Lenny")...well, maybe that description itself becomes a bit 'trite" or "rote" or "perfunctory" in its own way.

And, well, that's just worse than my saying nothing.

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Re: Lenny Kravitz

Postby trans-chigley express » 22 May 2017, 16:00

fange wrote:
'O' wrote:
◉ ͜◉ wrote:What's so wrong with Are You Gonna Go My Way?!


Beats me.


What's right with it? It's a boring riff, with boring cliched lyrics and boring vocals. I can hardly stay awake just thinking about it.

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Re: Lenny Kravitz

Postby sloopjohnc » 22 May 2017, 16:37

I concur with everything everyone's written. His cover of American Woman kinda epitomizes his own approach to rock - Hamfisted music with okay lyrics.
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Re: Lenny Kravitz

Postby nathan » 22 May 2017, 16:40

I just looked and he has apparently put out 10 albums. When the fuck did that happen? I'm almost curious to hear his last five. Get to the bottom of this.

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Re: Lenny Kravitz

Postby nathan » 22 May 2017, 16:49

Ok. Curiosity got the best of me. I went to the Spotify and put on his 'latest' album from '2014'. Look at this goddamn cover:

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I mean, who names an album 'Strut' in '2014'? And the track names read like a Lenny Kravitz parody. Almost too on the nose.

1 Sex
2 The Chamber
3 Dirty White Boots
4 New York City
5 The Pleasure and the Pain
6 Strut
7 Frankenstein
8 She's a Beast
9 I'm a Believer
10 Happy Birthday
11 I Never Want to Let You Down

It's playing right now, and I still can't believe it's real. The second track sounds like some Weird Al parody of Heart of Glass and he actually says 'heart of glass' in the lyrics. Multiple times. It's part of the chorus. This happens.


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Re: Lenny Kravitz

Postby nathan » 22 May 2017, 16:59

One last comment and then I have to turn this off. It's really not very fun to listen to '2014' Lenny Kravitz.

BUT, the laziness of this song demands to be heard. Now, I worked at a corporate music store in the mid to late 90's and had to listen to Hootie and the Blowfish, the Wallflowers, Matchbox 20 etc. in-store on repeat but this beats them all in the 'holy shit I made a rock song' sort of laziness. My jaw is dropped. Like, what?? An adult man made this. An adult man who named his tenth album 'Strut', but still!

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Re: Lenny Kravitz

Postby Diamond Dog » 22 May 2017, 17:25

To be fair he was once married to this vision of beauty, so he can't be all bad..

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Re: Lenny Kravitz

Postby harvey k-tel » 22 May 2017, 17:26

Are we talking about Lenny Kravitz the furniture designer? I didn't know he made music!
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Re: Lenny Kravitz

Postby Tactful Cactus » 22 May 2017, 17:48

Diamond Dog wrote:To be fair he was once married to this vision of beauty, so he can't be all bad..


His daughter Zoe is a bit of a ride aswell

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Re: Lenny Kravitz

Postby Bent Fabric » 22 May 2017, 18:30

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Re: Lenny Kravitz

Postby WG Kaspar » 22 May 2017, 19:00

I agree with the opening posts with the exception that I love Are You Gonna Go My Way.
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Re: Lenny Kravitz

Postby sloopjohnc » 22 May 2017, 21:32

Tactful Cactus wrote:
Diamond Dog wrote:To be fair he was once married to this vision of beauty, so he can't be all bad..


His daughter Zoe is a bit of a ride aswell


Yeah, I found out she was in the latest Mad Max. I didn't know that was his daughter.

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