Is anyone else sick to death of Southern Nights?

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C'mon, you know it wasn't nearly as good as Rhinestone Cowboy.

― timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 29 June 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

watered down little river band basically

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 29 June 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

The Allen Toussaint version is great!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 29 June 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

it's no galvastan

― M@tt He1geson, Rendolent Ding-Dong (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 29 June 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

It took you 29 years to get sick of "Southern Nights"?

And "Reminiscing" came out more than a year after "SN," so it was LRB that did the watering.

― Dan Heilman (The Deacon), Thursday, 29 June 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

I've been sickf of southern rap and Southern Comfort, but *never* Southern Nights.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 29 June 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

And the Southern girls with the way they talk
They knock me out when I'm down there

― timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 29 June 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

In the GCC (Glen Campbell Canon) it ranks far below Wichita, Galveston, Phoenix, Rhinestone and even Country Boy You've Got Your Feet in LA. Don't even bring up Roll Me Easy, Moon Is A Harsh Mistress or WTPS? (Where's the playground susie?).

But even bad GC is better than just about anything, so the answer is no. I'm not sick of Southern Nights.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 29 June 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

Toussaint's Southern Nights deserves a nod as one of the most underrated albums of all time.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 29 June 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, but John, didn't you just discover "all time" like a month ago?

― PappaWheelie (aka Ike Spodermang) (PappaWheelie 2), Thursday, 29 June 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

Roll Me Easy rulez.

― timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 29 June 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

Is anyone else sick to death of Souther Rap?

http://www.debbiekruger.com/writer/freelance/souther1.jpg

― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 30 June 2006 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

JD's living, of course, in Nashville, and still at it, I hear. made himself a new album recently. I'm sick of 'im already and I never met him.

Toussaint has never written a bad song; I actually do not know his version of this, or if I've heard it, it's been a while. It's not great Campbell. I blame it on his arrangers, the whole thing could've been done with more flair. but, a good commercial record. I'm not sick of it.

Anyone, where do I start with Toussaint's solo stuff? I of course have all the Lee Dorsey and Chris Kenner and various comps of other artists doing his songs, but I do not have his solo work. Xgau gives his WB LP "Life, Love and Faith" B+. "Southern Nights" LP itself a B-. "Motion" a C+. One on Scepter, "Toussaint," he gives a B. Isn't there a WB comp? Pls. advise.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Friday, 30 June 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

heard toussaint's orig version of this for the first time tonight (it was on the jukebox in a local bar). really good! much better than glen but kudos to him for making a #1 hit out of a kind of odd sounding record as it was originally recorded.

― velko, Wednesday, 23 March 2011 07:34 (fifteen years ago)

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