'Im not in love' - the poll!
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Johnny Canuck3
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I used to like it more than I do now.
But for something like that, I'd listen to Godley and Creme
ooh! 'I just died in your arms tonight, must have been somekind of kiss'
I'm totally doing an 80's power ballad CD tomorrow. 'Young hearts, run free' will be on it as well. Possibly Dire Straites 'Julliete' as well, see if I can find a good ending to flow into it. Brothers in Arms is definetly making the cut
Oooh! Do me a copy will you?!
Geri
wasn't born to follow
*Sigh*
cybertect
It's grim up north (London)
Loved it when I was a kid and it was first in the charts. I have a 7" single around somewhere. I think for the best part of a decade after 1975 it was either I'm not in love or Bohemian Rhapsody that would top Capital Radio's annual top 100 singles of all time poll.
I'm a little cooler toward it these days, but it's a technical tour-de-force with tape loops and I have to respect that at least.
I'm a little cooler toward it these days, but it's a technical tour-de-force with tape loops and I have to respect that at least.
I don't want to talk about it but I met Agnus at a Trini Lopez concert and we both liked 'If I had a Hammer'. I used to sing it to her and she would laugh her arse off. I don't like it now though cos it's fuckin shit and cos I'm a different person now. I fuckin told her I'd move on.
Fuck sake!
I still listen to 'I'm not in Love' (moss), 'How deep is your love' (tit), and 'If you leave me now' and they are all like the same song or some fuckin thing.
Fuck off.
Paaaarp !
Fuck sake!
I still listen to 'I'm not in Love' (moss), 'How deep is your love' (tit), and 'If you leave me now' and they are all like the same song or some fuckin thing.
Fuck off.
Paaaarp !
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
Hullo rory
If we're on the old cheese... the sentimental flavour that is...
You're a Lady - Peter Skellern.
I'd forgotten all about it, until a Beeb R6 DJ mentioned it a few days ago.
A main dish of sentimental piano, in sentimental vocal sauce, with an overwhelmingly generous side serving of sentimental choir and brass.
I was seven years old. I actually still *reaaally* like the choir and brass bit. Eeek.
You're a Lady - Peter Skellern.
I'd forgotten all about it, until a Beeb R6 DJ mentioned it a few days ago.
A main dish of sentimental piano, in sentimental vocal sauce, with an overwhelmingly generous side serving of sentimental choir and brass.
I was seven years old. I actually still *reaaally* like the choir and brass bit. Eeek.
paulhackett
voiced by strother martin
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
It's fairly archetypal of the 70s isn't it?
It certainly uses many of what wI'd call "musical commonplaces" of the 1960s and 1970s, such as the electric (probably Fender Rhodes) piano, the glissando strings and the harmonised backing vocals, as well as (to my ears) a slowed down Motown bass line.
For all that, it's still a great song, though.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
If it's archetypal it could hardly be "extraordinarily unique", could it?
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
I think Bloody Tourists was the first album I ever bought, I bought it at around the same time as Tonic for the troops, 31 years on, I'm no longer sure which came first
I'm not in love, was a great slow dance song in the late 70s, when that was the only chance you had of getting off with someone, last 10 minutes at a club, the slowies came on, and you had to pounce like a tiger, if you hadn't already got hold of someone that night
Cant live (if living is without you), the original Harry Nilson oldie is another beaut. The short way he sings the word 'live!' in a cheery tone is so sad,
, like he's choking back a tear straight from his punctured heart .
, like he's choking back a tear straight from his punctured heart .
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
Geri
wasn't born to follow
Cant live (if living is without you), the original Harry Nilson oldie is another beaut. The short way he sings the word 'live!' in a cheery tone is so sad,
It's a great song, I agree - although he didn't actually write it himself.
you wouldn't dance with me
<shakes fist>
You're crackers I'm not talking about you. I hate when I get emotional about nothing at all and post shit.
Basically I got the shift off Agnus way before 'I'm not in love' (moss).
Read the fucking thread.
It was Tubular Bells and my underpants were a disgrace.
Fuck it that's not the point at all.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Nilsson did a cover, it wasn't one of his own.
I think it's supposed to be "impassioned" and "angst-ridden" rather than "cheery".The short way he sings the word 'live!' in a cheery tone is so sad,
By the way, If his heart is punctured, then shouldn't he holding the tear closed, rather than crying?
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Uh-huh, Badfinger.
And there have been far more BAD cover versions of it than just about any other song I can think of, especially the aural the cancer that is Mariah Carey's squawking spew-up of it.
I think it's supposed to be "impassioned" and "angst-ridden" rather than "cheery".
nah. i think he's so heartbroken hes trying to cheer himself up.
By the way, If his heart is punctured, then shouldn't he holding the tear closed, rather than crying?
Dont think so much - FEEL.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
If it's archetypal, that would mean it would typify everything that came after it, which doesn't really match up to being "unique".
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
I'm going by what Harry himself said when interviewed.
I do.Dont think so much - FEEL.
Sorry for you.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
paulhackett
voiced by strother martin
If, in space, noone can you hear you scream, how come they can hear 10cc?
Louloubelle
Well-Known Member
I think it's lyrically very clever
I find the song immensely dreary though, all those synths, so slow and plodding, and the lyrics delivered in such a whiney way.
I suppose it was innovative at the time, now it's just meh
I find the song immensely dreary though, all those synths, so slow and plodding, and the lyrics delivered in such a whiney way.
I suppose it was innovative at the time, now it's just meh
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