John Coan's SHIT OR HIT 8
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John Coan's SHIT OR HIT 8
Matt 'interesting' Wilson wrote:So I went from looking at the "I'm a Man" riff, to showing how the rave up was popular for awhile.
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I aint losing sleep.
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We don't talk anymore about how Cliff has a good handful of transcendent pop moments, he was as much of a fixture on the new pop TOTP as Haircut 100, Adam and the Ants and Madness.
That's supposed to be a compliment
We don't talk anymore about how Cliff has a good handful of transcendent pop moments, he was as much of a fixture on the new pop TOTP as Haircut 100, Adam and the Ants and Madness.
That's supposed to be a compliment
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I will never say anything positive about Cliff ever, other than that "Move It" was ok.
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It's a good one.
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Oh, this is a stone cold classic in my eyes.
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I WOULD vote 'hit' but...
a) those fucking synths, those sounds, they really do sit on top of what is potentially a great song like pigeonshit on a statue
b) you get the sense that Cliff has absolutely no sense of humour whatsoever. Not that I'm expecting him to goon for the cameras like Robbie Williams, but there's always a twinkle missing somehow, and like Jagger there's a kind of business-like approach to his music (and his 'moves'!). He's kind of a tool and it's unignorable
You could send in a team of troubleshooters and overhaul the whole thing and end up with a classic, I reckon, but it'd need a lot of work.
a) those fucking synths, those sounds, they really do sit on top of what is potentially a great song like pigeonshit on a statue
b) you get the sense that Cliff has absolutely no sense of humour whatsoever. Not that I'm expecting him to goon for the cameras like Robbie Williams, but there's always a twinkle missing somehow, and like Jagger there's a kind of business-like approach to his music (and his 'moves'!). He's kind of a tool and it's unignorable
You could send in a team of troubleshooters and overhaul the whole thing and end up with a classic, I reckon, but it'd need a lot of work.
Matt 'interesting' Wilson wrote:So I went from looking at the "I'm a Man" riff, to showing how the rave up was popular for awhile.
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For some reason, this song came into my head last week after nearly 30 years. No reason why - I couldn't stop singing the chorus.
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I think it highlights how much performance and production can really elevate something. In this case it's the lack thereof of course. It's a good song but it suffers from some naff production choices and Cliffs characterless performance
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Alan Tarney's keyboard-sound wasn't too bad -I remember his version of Kathy's Clown- and it hasn't aged too badly either, i.e. it doesn't sound so over-the-top plastic like so many other 80s productions.
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I always found the tune and production really bland and unmemorable, and was surprised it was such a huge hit for him. I'd like to buy into Nev's theory that this is some paradigm of new pop but it's too wishy-washy to support that (Dollar would be a much better example of a deeply unfashionable act who nevertheless captured the new pop zeitgeist).
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Fine by me!
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A genuine classic.
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I seem to have missed this the first time around, but agree with a lot of what's been said here. There is the basis of something decent here but it's pretty half-baked. It's probably not missing much, but what's there is surely shit without it.
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