Taking Sides:Ms Ross, Ms Warwick, Ms Knight

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from hearing Gladys Knights new xmas album

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

i give it to warwick. but it pains me not to give it to diana.

― born-again christians in the old corral (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

Dionne, no pain involved.

― truck-patch pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

Gladys Knight, for Midnight Train To Georgia.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

Dionne all day.

― Mr Straight Toxic (ghostface), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

"Don't Make Me Over" beats Midnight Train down with a hammer. A velvet hammer.

― truck-patch pixel farmer (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

Diana Ross!

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 20:40 (twenty years ago)

I don't like any of 'em.

I pick Mavis Staples

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

Dionne, I guess, but I'm so addicted to this one great Gladys Knight track from '80, "Bourgie Bourgie," that I dunno, actually. I'm not a fan of Miss Ross too much.

Now my friend said something interesting the other day as we watched some amazing Dusty Springfield footage--that Dusty embodied the whole Bacharach-esque aesthetic better than Dionne. Strong statement, is it remotely true? I kind of don't think so.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 29 December 2005 01:10 (twenty years ago)

that Dusty embodied the whole Bacharach-esque aesthetic better than Dionne. Strong statement, is it remotely true? I kind of don't think so.

hmm, not sure how to answer that, except to say that i think dusty's "i just don't know what to do myself" destroys dionne's.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 29 December 2005 04:39 (twenty years ago)

"...do WITH myself..."

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 29 December 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)

dusty's bacharach stuff is leaps and bounds better than most of her r&b stuff (which is fine, but it doesn't do anything that wasn't being done just as well by her peers).

― born-again christians in the old corral (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 29 December 2005 04:44 (twenty years ago)

but yeah, "i just don't know what to do with myself," definitely one of theeee most OMG HFS WTF vocal performances in all of pop music.

― born-again christians in the old corral (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 29 December 2005 04:48 (twenty years ago)

right, "I Just Don't Know What to Do" is fucking great. but I think "Dusty in Memphis" is far superior to her other work, even her later Gamble/Huff stuff, which I've never really loved. I think she's better than Dionne--probably better than anyone we're discussing here--but there's also something vexing in Dusty's work, and it probably comes down to material. Bacharach is great, I find him a tad overrated, a tad too much, a touch bogus in some ways, and I feel the same way about Warwick(e)--tricky and kinda not-there, perfect equivalent of the meretricious aspects of '60s pop. Dusty is just more soulful, and way sexier.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 29 December 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

So she has a gospel album out, which I hadn't heard about - came out in February. It's good, really good at points, but I am surprised to learn that what I expect that voice to be singing is so tightly bound to what I've heard it sing before - love songs, pop songs - that it's really hard to hear this without a deep feeling of discord. I think it'd be easier for my brain to process Dionne doing Golden Shower of Hits than "Rise, Shine, Give God the Glory."

― J0hn D., Sunday, 13 April 2008 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

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