Laura Branigan RIP

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Died of a brain aneurysm aged 47

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Saturday, 28 August 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeep. :-( (This is the type of thing that starts making one worry the more one approaches 'middle age.')

Perhaps "Disco 2000" was the greatest tribute to her.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 28 August 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

:(
RIP

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 28 August 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

younger than i figured :(

seems like a good place to ask for recommendations for songs by her as good as 'gloria' and 'self control'...

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Saturday, 28 August 2004 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

NOTHING is as good as "Self Control"

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 28 August 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Eek! I had just finished downloading "Gloria" for an '80s mix I'm making. Then I click over and read this.

I've never felt worse about abusing p2p than I do right now.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 28 August 2004 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Her track on the Ghostbusters OST is Hot.

― artdamages (artdamages), Saturday, 28 August 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Solitaire, it gets so lonely.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 28 August 2004 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never felt worse about abusing p2p than I do right now.

Not that this'll slow you down or anything, of course

― Musical Bear, Saturday, 28 August 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

you've got to walk right through that fire, it will not burn you
and the once you may love, only life won't make it, or just burn away

― dave q, Saturday, 28 August 2004 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

S: "Te Amo," "I Found Someone," and her cover of "Dim All the Lights"

― Joseph McCombs, Saturday, 28 August 2004 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

my dad will be very sad about this.

― maria tessa sciarrino, Saturday, 28 August 2004 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't like this news. This sucks.

It seems to me I used to like Self Control a lot, but I can't remember how it goes at all, now.

― Bimble (bimble), Saturday, 28 August 2004 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Young Johnny Fever had a big crush on Laura Branigan, only surpassed by his crush on Belinda Carlisle in her Go-Go's days.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 28 August 2004 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow - she covered the Who song Squeeze Box??

― Bimble (bimble), Saturday, 28 August 2004 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Sad news indeed. "Gloria" is always the song that comes to mind instantly whenever I mentally drift back to 1982-turning-to-1983 (for whatever reason), and it deserves to be. RIP.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Sunday, 29 August 2004 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

another bit of my childhood gone :-(

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 29 August 2004 00:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I did coke with her brother once in the Eighties. I used to see his record in cut-out bins all the time but I never bought it.

Anyway, "Self-Control" is utterly, utterly classic. What a shame.

― Arthur (Arthur), Sunday, 29 August 2004 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Life is so uncertain. Sad news.

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 29 August 2004 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I really wish I had the videos for "Self-Control" and "Solitaire," they're great. I do have "Shattered Glass," though.

I bought her first two solo albums on a whim once, check out the album track "Mama."

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 29 August 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

"self control" has that great part where everything stops and she goes "ohhhh uhhhh ahhhh" "uuhhhh ahhhhh ohhhhh" . It was buried away in my subconscious until I heard it at the madrid airport a few years ago and had a crazy flashback to being about 4 years old. I really liked that part.

― Elliot (Elliot), Sunday, 29 August 2004 04:45 (twenty-one years ago)

crap.. I used the wrong braces..should be "oooooh uhhh ahhhh" (BAM!) "uhhhhh ahhhhh ohhhhh" (BAM!) etc..

― Elliot (Elliot), Sunday, 29 August 2004 04:46 (twenty-one years ago)

fifteen years pass...

Someone sang the shitty Bolton version of "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You?" tonight and it made me miss Laura.

Love her version. And her tunes.

"Gloria" will never be beaten

― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Saturday, 12 October 2019 03:34 (six years ago)

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 12 October 2019 03:49 (six years ago)

Only now hearing her version of "Power of Love".

Fuuuuuck.

― When I am afraid, I put my toast in you (Neanderthal), Saturday, 12 October 2019 03:52 (six years ago)

four years pass...

someone this alive should still be with us

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEJqLF1BqrI

― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Monday, 30 October 2023 16:41 (two years ago)

Is this where I admit that Gloria is p much always my most played song on Spotify? It is just so good. Her voice was amazing.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 30 October 2023 19:04 (two years ago)

A little odd to me that "Self Control" has 90 million more Spotify streams than "Gloria". "Gloria" seemed like her biggest song.

― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 30 October 2023 19:25 (two years ago)

Self-Control > Gloria

― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 October 2023 19:41 (two years ago)

I don't know if any of you listen to Mo Rocca's Mobituaries podcast—I don't usually—but his Laura Branigan episode is so perfect I've gone back to it three times in as many years.

― ⓓⓡ (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 03:20 (two years ago)

Oh I haven't but I will. I'm not a huge fan of self control! Solitaire on the other hand.

― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 09:44 (two years ago)

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