bubinga5 Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 (edited) Androgynous has a theme with me.. the supreme musical women i listen to. well a couple anyways. She is EPIC in my opinion.Powerful personality, i pick and choose what i like from her because its not all good. some of her music is sh*te. She plays bass, piano and vilolin, but I'm wondering if anyone takes the time to find out. She's a monster in lots of ways, . I think she's fantastic and when she does good music, she does it very well. I love her version of Edith Piaf's, 'La Vie En Rose'. as do i love, Warm Leatheret, Private Life and, I've Seen that Face Before. Nipple to the Bottle. and of course Pull up to the Bumper and Slave to the Rhythm. She's as original as they come and when her music is good its amazing.. That's why i dig her. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crVVcW6JvuU[/media] anyone tell me the actor at the start of this record gets a gold star. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THt7o6dzMuw[/media] Edited February 6, 2016 by bubinga5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discreet Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 (edited) Ian McShane..? We must acknowledge Sly & Robbie's contribution, too. Edited February 6, 2016 by discreet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezbass Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1454756120' post='2972616'] Ian McShane..? [/quote]I just looked it up, Gold Star to Mr Discreet it seems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassBus Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 (edited) [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1454756120' post='2972616'] Ian McShane [/quote] Definitely what he said. Edited February 6, 2016 by BassBus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BottomE Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 Absolute shi*e live though. Was persuaded to spend some hard earned cash to go and watch her Karaoke show - basically her singing along to backing tracks. Loads of people walked out during the gig. I was hoping for a bit of Sly and Robbie but was more like Mr Blobby. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oopsdabassist Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 [quote name='discreet' timestamp='1454756120' post='2972616'] Ian McShane..? We must acknowledge Sly & Robbie's contribution, too. [/quote] gotta be yes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Japhet Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 Mad as a box of frogs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve-soar Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 Goddess.xxx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Riva Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 [quote name='BottomE' timestamp='1454756418' post='2972623'] Absolute shi*e live though. Was persuaded to spend some hard earned cash to go and watch her Karaoke show - basically her singing along to backing tracks. Loads of people walked out during the gig. I was hoping for a bit of Sly and Robbie but was more like Mr Blobby. [/quote] Which is a shame as she's good with a live band.. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crsb7fdWflU"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crsb7fdWflU[/url] Always find it odd when an artist like her chooses to do the PA gigs rather than the full live set - I know costs and the audience she's playing to are contributory factors but any live stuff I've seen with her in a band context has been excellent - quite edgy and she feeds off the band.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colgraff Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 Grace also slapped Russell Harty. Instant heroine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alyctes Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 When she's good, she's superb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BottomE Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 Without the band it was flat and boring. She doesn't have a great voice, its all very monotone - almost like talking. She got a bit feisty when peeps started walking out and tried to energise the crowd by getting some audience members to come up on stage. It was a bit tragic - like a mediocre caravan park entertainment night where she was the Cabaret act who featured after Bobby Bigwoood's Balloon Animal show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scalpy Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 I heard a story about one of her recording sessions, for 'cannibal'. Apparently she was late, so was rung up to find out when she'd arrive. 'An hour' she replied. No show after several hours. A call was made, and the process was repeated several times. Eventually the session was abandoned for that day. Turns out she was in Ibiza. The session was in London. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubinga5 Posted February 6, 2016 Author Share Posted February 6, 2016 (edited) The gold star goes to Discreet.! Good lad. And Yes Sly and Robbie are legendary. don't get me started on those 2 musical magicians. Edited February 6, 2016 by bubinga5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubinga5 Posted February 6, 2016 Author Share Posted February 6, 2016 [quote name='BottomE' timestamp='1454756418' post='2972623'] Absolute shi*e live though. Was persuaded to spend some hard earned cash to go and watch her Karaoke show - basically her singing along to backing tracks. Loads of people walked out during the gig. I was hoping for a bit of Sly and Robbie but was more like Mr Blobby. [/quote]Its a shame you had that experience. She is as mad as a box of frogs yes, but when its a good live Grace Jones gig, its a good Grace Jones Live experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubinga5 Posted February 6, 2016 Author Share Posted February 6, 2016 Fantastic tart she is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6A53k7DkUw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubinga5 Posted February 6, 2016 Author Share Posted February 6, 2016 Love the bass line. a better (imo) take on Chrissie Hyndes's record. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8bA-VgGjlM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chardbass Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 (edited) I don't think Sly and Robbie had much to do with the STRR album- it was more of a Trevor Horn project. An amazingly-well produced one at that 😀 Robbie S was involved in some of the numbers on Island Life which featured the song STTR though. Edited February 6, 2016 by chardbass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Riva Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 [quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1454773736' post='2972881'] Love the bass line. a better (imo) take on Chrissie Hyndes's record. [/quote] I like both, but The Pretenders' version shades it for me, due in no small part to James Honeyman-Scott's guitar solo.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fleabag Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 As the owner of both Warm Leatherette and Island Life, yup - i dig the nutter. But especially Sly and Robbie ..those 2 are just mustard But i'm in agreement with OMR above... the pretenders version of Private Life is just so much more emotional , for me anyways. Its Hynde's unusual voice, JHS beautiful guitar sound and that awesome but simple bass line Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Dare Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 A triumph of style over substance. Her intonation is pretty doubtful, too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazed Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Just reminded me 'a mate' still has 2 of my grace jones picture disc vinyls since the early 90s :evil: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjones Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 When I saw this video my love for Grace, which I thought was extinguished, was reignited. I think the queen should move over..... and let Grace take over. http://youtu.be/vSa5EvWqB7g Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Count Bassy Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 She's one of those people that I could never understand how they got the acclaim that they did, or why they are still discussed today. Similar to Morrisey in that respect. Only my opinion of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kodiakblair Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Quite happy to go from old punk to listening to Grace,think she can be great. Her skelping Russel Harty more than makes up for the horror of Conan the Destroyer Never got Morrisey either CB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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