TS: "Desperado" vs. "New York State of Mind"

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both are pantomime Ray Charles…but which is better as such? alternatively, which do you dig more?

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

"New York State of Mind" as sung by Rowlf the Dog.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

Desperado by the little girl on the Langey School Music Project CD.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

Hm, that's a good challenge we've made. Can someone YSI both those for immediate comparison? (Do not send the originals at all, plz.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

"NY State of Mind", easily. I can't abide the other one (though I haven't heardt he Langley School version - that might be okay).

― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

http://www.hiphopchains.com/pendants/nas.jpg

― deej.., Wednesday, 15 June 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

What did they call it before bling anyway?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

As much as I wish heaps of thorny, bloodthirsty misfortune upon Billy Joel, I feel somewhat obligated to choose "New York State of Mind," if only out of civic pride. Also, the Eagles make me want to cough up my lower intestines and strangle puppies with it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 15 June 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

<3 new york state of mind

― Surmounter, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 16:43 (seventeen years ago)

four years pass...

two very good, very different, capital-A american songs. as pantomime ray charles, billy joel in a walk 'cause don henley's voice is a good voice but not in that particular way. as a song, "new york state of mind" in a ~~walk~~ taxi, the grounded east coast fantasy easily trumping the hollywood cowboy fantasy for me. i think i'd rather have heard ray charles himself sing "desperado," though, 'cause i think there's more room for him to work in that one. i can't imagine what he would have done with "ny state of mind" beyond imitating his own imitator.

― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 5 September 2013 04:48 (twelve years ago)

A+ Alex In NYC post upthread.

― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 5 September 2013 05:01 (twelve years ago)

Someone should compile Alex's greatest hits someday!

― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 5 September 2013 06:52 (twelve years ago)

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