taking sides: Jimmy Webb vs Goffin/King

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just wot it says....

― Peter, Thursday, 17 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

it you place "will you love me tomorrow," "goin' back," and "(you make me feel like a) natural woman" against "by the time i get to phoenix," "wichita lineman," and "galveston," i'd say it's pretty close. but i think that webb ultimately has a deeper catalog, is a more skillful producer and arranger, and, for me, his work is just more interesting in general.

more apt comparisons would probably be mann/weill vs. goffin/king and bacharach/david vs. webb.

― fred solinger, Thursday, 17 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm so fucking ashamed...I think I forgot to vote for Macarthur PArk in my top 100...ouch, anyway, Webb all the way, saw him last yr in concert - he made a cheesy micro-brewery seem like heaven for just a while...and then he went and ruined it by thanking god...oh well, webb - bttigtp, Witchita, where's the playgroound suzi? Hands down, Webb.

― Geoff, Thursday, 17 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

jimmy webb gave us the godawful webb brothers, so for that he loses.

― keith, Sunday, 20 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

six months pass...

So Keith, who the hell are you and how much music have you created in this lifetime? Leave the Webb boys alone.

― --Suzan, Monday, 3 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

The godawful Webb Brothers? Surely some mistake? Seen them live? Thought not. The boys are quite simply brilliant. So are the cds for that matter.

― Mike Howard, Wednesday, 23 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

--in the end--it's what the music conjures in your soul--how it links you with a moment in the past and a moment to be...Mr. Webb has this ability...

― stosh, Wednesday, 3 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

a voice from the past comes stealing

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)

nine years pass...

Gerry Goffin has passed.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/06/19/us/ap-us-obit-gerry-goffin.html?hp&_r=0

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 19 June 2014 20:56 (eleven years ago)

Oh, man.

― Alba, Thursday, 19 June 2014 21:30 (eleven years ago)

Such a great lyricist. RIP.

― banjoboy, Thursday, 19 June 2014 22:24 (eleven years ago)

oh boy. yeah.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONPVklwj9mQ

― I dunno. (amateurist), Thursday, 19 June 2014 23:57 (eleven years ago)

probably my favorite pop songwriters ever, on par with bacharach/david

― I dunno. (amateurist), Thursday, 19 June 2014 23:57 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caLC0fov34A

― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 20 June 2014 00:07 (eleven years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olqvPg3GL1M

― tylerw, Friday, 20 June 2014 02:17 (eleven years ago)

RIP Gerry Goffin

― curmudgeon, Friday, 20 June 2014 14:06 (eleven years ago)

five years pass...

Found a nice copy of Nils Lofgren's first solo record ('75) at the flea market yesterday. Good version of "Goin' Back," very different from the four or five others I have. I'm going to put it alongside "Only Love Can Break Your Heart" and the most cover-proof song ever. You just can't do a bad version of it.

― clemenza, Monday, 19 August 2019 17:31 (six years ago)

that’s a nice album!

― brimstead, Monday, 19 August 2019 18:49 (six years ago)

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