Sally Timms

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i am listening to her , and have been almost intnictually since last week, she seems so deep and dark and lovely and her voice is so clear with this hint of breathe and smoke, her phrasing is full of commas and ellipses and meloncholia . what do you all think ?

― anthony, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was deeply smitten with her a couple years back, when Twilight Laments for Lost Buckaroos first came out. Her voice is an intoxicant; nothing puts me in a swoon like "Dreaming Cowboy." But I've seen her live several times since (living in Chicago, where she's an opening-act fixture, it's hard to avoid), and some kind of diminishing returns phenomenon has kicked in. Every time I see her, she pulls the same hungover, can't-be-bothered-to-put-on-a-proper- show schtick, which at first was charming but had since grown tiresome. Also, it seems she hasn't learned many new songs since Twilight Laments, as all the sets I've seen her perform have been pretty much identical. She is diabolically clever and bitchy, though, and always gives her backing band an amusingly rough time.

― Martin Swope, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw her with the Mekons several months ago, and she sounded real purty. I like her solo stuff too, but I don't swoon over her.

― Sean, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Only ever heard 'Give Me Back My Dreams'. I imagine that it's better than her own material, if her own material exists. (That is no particular slur on her own material.)

Actually I find her treatment of that song rather flawed, but the song is too good to be ruined.

This is not an attack on Ms Timms, who may be a better vocalist elsewhere.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the palace brothers's cover of sally timms' "horses" is pretty nice (well, that guitar solo is kinda over the top).

― gygax, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pinefox: I really must play you "Ghosts of American Astronauts" sometime.

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 11 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, yes - but what about Sally Timms?

― the pinefox, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

She is a lovely singer who hangs around w/drunken buffoons too much (the same could be said abt many of us here, of course.) 'To The Land Of Milk And Honey', her second solo alb and the only one I've heard, includes terrific cover versions of John Cale's 'Half Past France' and 'Homburg' by Procul Harum.

― Andrew L, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

She sounds great.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 18 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

six years pass...

http://direct-waves.blogspot.com/2007/02/sally-smmit-soundtrack-to-hangahar.html

Hey look it's Hangahar, the 1980 experimental soundtrack credited to Sally Smmit and Her Musicians. The Musicians include Pete Shelley. Now if I can just find Somebody's Rockin' My Dreamboat, and maybe that punk band where she did Lionel Richie covers...

― clotpoll, Monday, 12 November 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago)

I think I have a cassette version of Dreamboat, I'll have to check.

I have wanted to make a mix CD of all-Sally Mekons songs for some time now. It would be so good.

― sleeve, Monday, 12 November 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago)

I love Hangahar so so much

― Milton Parker, Monday, 12 November 2007 20:23 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

Anyone got "Somebody's Rockin' My Dreamboat"? It's the only solo Sally I haven't heard, never been released on CD or digitally.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 25 August 2009 11:32 (fifteen years ago)

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