YES or NO: Ebony & Ivory
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YES or NO: Ebony & Ivory
Time to climb off the fence again, y'all
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Love Paul. Love Stevie. Don't love Paul & Stevie.
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Re: YES or NO: Ebony & Ivory
pig bodine wrote:1982? when I was even more infantile than I am now, I used to put $2.00 in a jukebox and play Ebony and Ivory 8 times in a row. Boy, would people hate me!
Oh, I did the same exact thing.
Hardly a peak for either artist, but...they weren't yet too far gone to get away with this sort of thing - I really can't fault or belittle the intent, however David Brent the end result might be.
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It could be worse.
It could be Bowie and Jagger.
It could be Bowie and Jagger.
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Matt Wilson wrote:It could be worse.
It could be Bowie and Jagger.
Exactly!
I voted NO, but I don't hate it enough to reach for the skip button when I play my Wonder comps. I have also grown to tolerate I Just Called (both out of laziness to reach for the skip button).
I think the Macca-Jackson duets, The Girl is Mine and Say Say Say are both better than EAI.
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Not great production choices perhaps, but a resounding yes from me -- for the song, that great intro, and even some real feeling in the vocals.
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Really not keen on this at all, excruciatingly painful despite the sentiment.
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Quaco wrote: real feeling in the vocals.
"people are the same, wherever you go"
Macca's harmony on the reprise is brilliant.
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ergo wrote:Quaco wrote: real feeling in the vocals.
"people are the same, wherever you go"
Macca's harmony on the reprise is brilliant.
I kind of agree. Also, the way he does "learn to give each other" is somehow a definitive McCartney vocal moment. Weird. Though Stevie's effortlessly good, clearly.
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Liked it much better when Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy did it. Amazing to find something from SNL on YouTube, but why did they edit it? Jeez
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NoNoNoNoNoNoNo!!!
Which makes me too cool for school, I suppose.
Which makes me too cool for school, I suppose.
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Ha! Your 1982 fixation has gone too far this time.
Merde, of course.
Merde, of course.
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Awful. Not quite as bad as Mull of Kintyre, but up there
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I am proud to NOT be a pretentious, cynical, too cool for school asshole. Listen without prejudice.
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I don't mind it.
I guess
I guess
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Quaco wrote:ergo wrote:Quaco wrote: real feeling in the vocals.
"people are the same, wherever you go"
Macca's harmony on the reprise is brilliant.
I kind of agree. Also, the way he does "learn to give each other" is somehow a definitive McCartney vocal moment. Weird. Though Stevie's effortlessly good, clearly.
It should be "learn to give one another," presuming he's talking about more than two people.
Sorry!
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Voice of Baron wrote:I don't mind it.
I guess
ergo wrote:Time to climb off the fence again
Mind you, I don't get this "climb off the fence" stuff. I suspect most people feel neutral about most music. Fences can be useful for steering you away from the quicksand.
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Snarfyguy wrote:Quaco wrote:I kind of agree. Also, the way he does "learn to give each other" is somehow a definitive McCartney vocal moment. Weird. Though Stevie's effortlessly good, clearly.
It should be "learn to give one another," presuming he's talking about more than two people.
Sorry!
Oh, I thought it meant Paul giving Stevie a much-needed boost for a failing career and Stevie giving Paul racial credibility.
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Marginally preferable than the atrocities he recorded with Wacko Jacko.
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pb wrote:Marginally preferable than the atrocities he recorded with Wacko Jacko.
"The Girl Is Mine" is pleasant enough, certainly much better than "Ebony and Ivory".