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― omg, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 01:48 (twenty years ago) link
not yet. maybe when it gets warmer.
(sorry omg, pls continue)
― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 01:49 (twenty years ago) link
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― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 02:01 (twenty years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 02:05 (twenty years ago) link
There'll be no bad mouthing Babs on this board thank you very much.
― queen G of the misty mammories, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:03 (twenty years ago) link
― queen G of the misty mammories, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:07 (twenty years ago) link
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― queen G of the misty mammories, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 15:21 (twenty years ago) link
Then sbe turned 21, and got kinda boring...
― Scott, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 16:32 (twenty years ago) link
(.)(.)
― *, Thursday, 29 January 2004 01:04 (twenty years ago) link
(1) Stoney End (1971) - surprisingly rich country (pedal steel) / soul (horns) / pop (tunes) set, much of it fantastic - check out Harry Nilsson's "Maybe", Randy Newman's "I'l Be Home", Carole King's "No Easy Way Down", plus Joni Mitchell, Gordon Lightfoot, Laura Nyro, Kurt Weill etc. Nice cover too.
(2) What's Up Doc? (1972) - Bogdanovich's screwball homage, still very much underrated - both Streisand and Ryan O'Neal (et al) very lovable and very funny.
Rest dud, natch.
― Mutey, Friday, 4 February 2005 10:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mordechai Shinefield, Monday, 14 May 2007 05:56 (seventeen years ago) link
guess who's 70 today?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-lY952YrEw&feature=share
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
I dated a guy a few years ago who played the album on which "Life On Mars?" is found; almost jumped out the window.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
Babs is not fond of it either.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 00:31 (twelve years ago) link
I’ve seen a handful of those As Read By The Author audiobooks, not sure it’s always a wise choice.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 16:04 (ten months ago) link
She’s charming in many ways but the relentless disingenuousness is just too much to take. She becomes a bore and then she doubles down on it.
― Josefa,
It's as if wants to project a vanished era's idea of "girlishness."
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 16:05 (ten months ago) link
According to the Spotify page for the audio book it "includes extra anecdotes and [exclusive] music" and is also over 48 hours long.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 16:25 (ten months ago) link
She reads the audiobook herself which surprised me. Not sure why, maybe it's more common than i thought.
this is honestly very impressive, I wonder how many days they tracked. doing an audiobook is very fucking tiring; you every time you say a word weird or skip a definite object or whatever you start that over, I guess in her cased the engineer just grabs it all and puts it back together instead of stopping, dragging back & punching (which saves a little time) -- but seriously, it takes a week to do 200+ pages, it's WORK.
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 22:45 (ten months ago) link
Debbie Harry read her autobiography, it definitely gives you a different sense of the "voice."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 22:48 (ten months ago) link
apparently babs’ audiobook digresses from the actual book quite a bit with asides so yknow, babs being babs
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 23:08 (ten months ago) link
_She reads the audiobook herself which surprised me. Not sure why, maybe it's more common than i thought._this is honestly very impressive, I wonder how many days they tracked. doing an audiobook is very fucking tiring; you every time you say a word weird or skip a definite object or whatever you start that over, I guess in her cased the engineer just grabs it all and puts it back together instead of stopping, dragging back & punching (which saves a little time) -- but seriously, it takes a week to do 200+ pages, it's WORK.
― Shifty Henry’s Swing Club (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 23:57 (ten months ago) link
Live at the Bon Soir is amazing. It's a shame they didn't have the noise reduction technology in 1962 to clean up the recording and make this her debut album. I know her actual debut won the Grammy for Best Album, but this live collection is better. The ease and relaxed humor she has at age 20 in front of what was purportedly a sophisticated crowd is almost uncanny.
― Josefa, Thursday, 30 November 2023 14:05 (ten months ago) link
Babs' half-sister covering Max Frost & The Troopers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmZl1BCaBuI
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 19 February 2024 20:21 (seven months ago) link
you know i've been wondering if i should explore Barbra's catalog! i do love her voice.
― Swen, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 15:24 (seven months ago) link
My two cents:
Get Live at the Bon Soir instead of her actual debut album.My Name is Barbra and Color Me Barbra are great examples of her classic style.Stoney End is perhaps the most successful of her "contemporary" albums.
Barbra Streisand... and other musical instruments is her most bizarre album.
― Josefa, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 15:46 (seven months ago) link
Chris Molanphy's Hit Parade podcast just had an episode on her music and chart career, and I learned quite a lot!
https://slate.com/podcasts/hit-parade/2024/02/how-barbra-became-the-original-taylor
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 16:06 (seven months ago) link
I'm waiting for the biog to come out in paperback because i don't care who you are, that hardback can not be easily read by a human.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 16:13 (seven months ago) link
Chris made the case for its best form being audiobook, not least because song clips are part of it. Based on the shared snippet I'm inclined to agree!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 16:16 (seven months ago) link
Damn yeah that does sound good. Bono's is like that, so it must be A New Thing these days.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 16:27 (seven months ago) link
lol at Roslyn Kind up there, she's such a total half-Barbra!
― Josefa, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 16:56 (seven months ago) link