TS: Lisa Gerrard v Brendan Perry

I mean srsly!

I think I like Brendan's solo stuff better but would anyone ask him to score a movie about a depressed little Maori girl????

This is hard.

Having said that all my most played DCD tracks seem to have Brendan vocals.

One has a BEARD but the other is WEIRDLY SEXY:

point for Lisa.

Last week I had "how fortunate the man with none" and "fortune presents gifts not according to the book" on a loop all day.

Don't know how their instrumental talents break down though.

Brendan has an IMPRESSIVE and EERIE baritone that wld not work if Lisa was singing shit like: "Like Prometheus we're bound to this grieving world; our godforsaken lot."

OTOH he wrote/performed 'American Dreaming.' Blecchhh.

Don't know how their instrumental talents break down though.

Me either! I'll go check the box set liner & see what it says, if anything.

Looks like Brendan started out writing the music & asked Lisa to join as a singer, and she'd add little bits to the songs.

One has a BEARD but the other is WEIRDLY SEXY:

point for Lisa.

Hmm, I agree with point a, but don't automatically think point b is the logical conclusion.

Lisa still greabt tho.

They totally could not have done songs like "Frontier" w/out Lisa, and that is some HOT and POWERFUL shit.

Oh that's just ONE point for Lisa, they've both tallied up mad points.

Ach! Abbot casually drops the "box set" comment and makes me jealous.

Who has SACD remasters?

The same album w/'Frontier' also features 'Threshold' – awesomes/sexy, but ALSO also 'The Trial' and 'A Passage in Time' which are some of my faves ever of any band.

*le sigh...*

The instrumentals on the first album are amazing.

I never even NOTICED all the weird little vocals on "Fatal Impact" until I was painting while high one day and I felt like such a loser. "I had to be HIGH to notice this, fuck..." :(

perry. can't really stand lisa gerrard's DCD contributions after aion

they both kinda fell off after Aion, tbh. has there been a DCD album poll yet?

Anyone who does even one song like Sanvean during their life time wins forever.

I still, STILL regret not seeing them near UCLA in 1990. WTF was wrong with me, they were right THERE. (See also Robert Forster and Grant McLennan around that time.)

Both at their best are just otherworldly, but I won't deny that if I could sing something like "The Host of Seraphim" I'd feel like I'd given voice to the universe.

Gerrard, because I can't handle Perry's Sinatra/Morrison crooning for very long.

I used to work with a guy at the foreign affairs dept (he was a diplomatic courier) who one day walked into the mail room where I was playing DCD and stopped and said "oh, hey - dead can dance. I used to live with lisa and brendan in a tower block in london and have to help them haul their gear in the lift".

&^%%^#$@#!

Hahaha, wow. I love random stories like that.

Yeah it was weird! I wish I could remember the guy's name.

Lisa, easy.
What is Perry up to these days anyways?

Was it Mr. Lovegrove? (xpost)

Re: Sanvean:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1WaQmxrXdw -> guaranteed to turn me into a sobbing mess

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xh4MPbNaSs -> not feeling anything at all

Anyone who does even one song like Sanvean during their life time wins forever

OTfuckingM. god, that song.

the brightman cover is an abomination. have you heard this? (gets relevant at 1'20" or so).

Hahaha, Sarah BRIGHTMAN covered it? Hilarious.

Thank you Stan M. Never thought of You Tubing them before, thats going to keep me busy for a hile.

And lol at "Beautiful! shes prefect, way better then that lisa chick!" on the Sarah Brightman YouTube comments.

fsobsiopgmomadkslasjdf!?!?!? :O

have you heard this? (gets relevant at 1'20" or so).

As much as I'd like to hate that, it does work really well (not the dance steps, the interpretation I mean)

Perry has a wonderful voice, but as some one else poined out, what is he doing now?... Lisa on the other hand, is stellar! My friend and I made a short list of women we would gladly spend the rest of our days with, based soley on their heavenly voices... Lisa was on the top of the list for both of us.

I'll always prefer Brendan just a little more than Lisa. And I'll always feel bad about that, probabably. I don't think it was too cool when he started getting all "country'd" out, though.

Right now I want to go back in time and reattend that DCD show in Seattle 20+ years ago. I feel there were details I missed and things I was too on edge to appreciate. I'm so damn comfy in the DCD vibe right now tbh. I want to wallow in a mud bath of endlessly permutated late 80s DCD/early 80s peter gabriel/mid-80s shriekback rhythm tracks.

I read the thread title as Lisa Gerrard vs. Bryan Ferry, and I was really in a quandary.