Luther Vandross: Classic or Dud?

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Luther Vandross, the continental Smoothie who mixes Nat King Cole with a Bullhorn.
Is he a Power Ballad Belting God of the New Aeon...or (as Eddie Murphy once called him) a "Kentucky Fried Chicken Muthafucka" whos here to make Michael Bolton look like the fool he is.
I say (after hearing him over the radio today and rediscovering that he really is an enthralling singer.)

So: Soul Singing Classic ...or... Melismaniac Dud?

Subthread:
If you want to do a Taking Sides...howsabout Luther vs Billy Ocean?

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Saturday, 23 October 2004 19:03 (twenty years ago)

The man can turn a single good note into twenty-four great ones.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Saturday, 23 October 2004 19:37 (twenty years ago)

I'll have to get friend Stripey over here on Monday, she'll have much positive to say. I know comparatively little of his work but what I do is pretty damned good.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 23 October 2004 19:42 (twenty years ago)

This has been done, I believe, but classic....if only for "Give Me the Reason".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 23 October 2004 21:55 (twenty years ago)

And compairing Luther Vandross to Billy Ocean is like comparing Iggy Pop to Good Charlotte.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 23 October 2004 21:56 (twenty years ago)

classic. never too much is close to perfect.

― bulbs (bulbs), Saturday, 23 October 2004 22:07 (twenty years ago)

Luther Vandross: Skinny or Huge?

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Saturday, 23 October 2004 22:35 (twenty years ago)

http://www.sacobserver.com/soul/images/luther_vandross.jpg

http://as.wn.com/i/23/af16f788fec84d.jpg

― bulbs (bulbs), Saturday, 23 October 2004 22:42 (twenty years ago)

i like the drawn on glasses on the first one

― bulbs (bulbs), Saturday, 23 October 2004 22:43 (twenty years ago)

I own a 2CD comp, and the single person whose taste in R&B I respect the most is a big fan, but I don't really "get" him. Can someone plaese provide one of those eye-opening semi-essays that pop up every now and then on CoD threads and make the greatness of the artist being discussed painfully apparent?

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 23 October 2004 22:51 (twenty years ago)

Heheh, trust me Daniel, Stripey will do the job there. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 24 October 2004 00:36 (twenty years ago)

Luther Vandross: Skinny or Huge?
He loves Oprah and wants to be more like her.

Okay, enough sarcasm.
And compairing Luther Vandross to Billy Ocean is like comparing Iggy Pop to Good Charlotte.
Oh, boo. Billy Ocean doesn't suck. He's not as great as Vandross (as far as I can tell) but he doesn't suck.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 24 October 2004 01:51 (twenty years ago)

yeah, there was a thread...

Luther Vandross: C/D, S/D

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Sunday, 24 October 2004 01:53 (twenty years ago)

Yeah. I found it after I posted my thread.
(Didn't find a single Vandross thread the frist time I searched. Must've mispelled it when I typed it in the search window....or something.)

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 24 October 2004 02:01 (twenty years ago)

Y'know, maybe I should just copy and paste this to the old thread, and then a mod can kill this one.
Eh?
Is there a mod in the house?

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 24 October 2004 02:12 (twenty years ago)

b-b-but...billy ocean?

― bulbs (bulbs), Sunday, 24 October 2004 02:13 (twenty years ago)

He's the first Vandross wannabe that popped into my head.
And considering the wide (and perverse) taste of ILx, I was waiting for somebody to jump in with "Billy Ocean is the greatest musician since Beethoven and Vandross is a talentless hack" kind of insanity.
Or even worse "billy 0c34n is grebt u r all gay!" rhetoric from some random Billy Ocean fan club message board member.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 24 October 2004 02:15 (twenty years ago)

ned and alex have nice things to say about luther vandross b/c of the vandross-bowie connection ;-)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 24 October 2004 02:16 (twenty years ago)

Okay, for the sake of effeciency, I've moved this discussion to the old Luthermania thread.
If theres a mod available, feel free to kill this thread.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 24 October 2004 02:20 (twenty years ago)

Personally, I never understood his appeal. But then again... I'm not black. Is it a black thang?

― maria b (maria b), Sunday, 24 October 2004 04:20 (twenty years ago)

no, its about sensitivity.

― bulbs (bulbs), Sunday, 24 October 2004 04:27 (twenty years ago)

No, that's Ralph Tresvant's thang.

― maria b (maria b), Sunday, 24 October 2004 15:46 (twenty years ago)

fourteen years pass...

This man still doesn't get his due.

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 August 2019 03:02 (five years ago)

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