How much on the Wussometer do I climb by admitting ...

4stringer77 · September 03, 2015, 10:16:10 AM

Manring had some ballsy tracks on the Thonk album. Tim "Herb" Alexander on drums probably lent the most machismo.

uwe · September 04, 2015, 05:36:28 AM

Quote from: nofi on September 03, 2015, 08:01:20 AM
succinct and to the point.

Yeah, but that part isn't even in Joanie's original! Priest added that "Diamonds, diamonds and ru-hu-hu-hust" as a coda/chorus on their own accord. I like the original, I like what Priest did with it, but as even a gay Halford was never in love with Bob Dylan or felt jilted by him, I always thought that him singing "You were so good with words ... and at keeping things vague ..." bordered on the incongruous, it's really something only Frau Baez can sing with the necessary credibility. There is still an ache in her when she performs that song today (I saw her a few months ago), she ain't over Bobby yet. $:-\$

Blackers and his Missus do it too and while it's lovely, I hate it when Candice skips the "crummy" in the "from the window of that crummy hotel in Washington Square" - probably because it's not Renaissance enough!

That's not Country by the way, too minorish!

gearHed289 · September 04, 2015, 09:19:33 AM

I like Blackmore's version, I like Priest's version, I like Joan's version. Guess it's just a great song!

I had a Manring album on cassette back in the 90s, with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones on the flip side. I think I recorded over both...

uwe · September 04, 2015, 10:58:32 AM

I need to do something with my ears. Candice is not really singing "the vagina was yours to keep" at 2:35, is she?

Blackmore's Night has children in the audience!

Highlander · September 04, 2015, 04:06:29 PM

How can you mix up a vagina and a Madonna...

(yes, sadly enough, I do have the songbook

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patman · September 04, 2015, 05:40:55 PM

I liked that cut. She has lovely voice

Droombolus · September 05, 2015, 01:35:26 AM

Hmm.......... I'm more of a Diamonds & Debris guy .........

amptech · September 05, 2015, 01:53:24 AM

Quote from: uwe on September 04, 2015, 10:58:32 AM
Candice is not really singing "the vagina was yours to keep" at 2:35, is she?

We had a girl in town once who was a decent jazz singer, but her e's was always too long. You can imagine what that did to 'pennies from heaven'.

Basvarken · September 05, 2015, 04:25:05 AM

Quote from: Droombolus on September 05, 2015, 01:35:26 AM
Hmm.......... I'm more of a Diamonds & Debris guy .........

Great album

uwe · September 07, 2015, 06:38:00 AM

Quote from: amptech on September 05, 2015, 01:53:24 AM
We had a girl in town once who was a decent jazz singer, but her e's was always too long. You can imagine what that did to 'pennies from heaven'.

An elongated feat.