https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y25stK5ymlA
― cholula bankhead (m bison), Sunday, 7 February 2010 19:34 (fifteen years ago)
i don't think i've listened to this in 15 years
it was one of the 15-20 compact discs in my house growing up. i listened to this on repeat because i did not want to here sinatra's duets.
― cholula bankhead (m bison), Sunday, 7 February 2010 19:36 (fifteen years ago)
"Walking on Broken Glass" is a great fucking song and pretty much my go-to example for lyrical content not at all reflecting the bright and sweet music.
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Sunday, 7 February 2010 22:45 (fifteen years ago)
the singles from this were pretty big just as i was getting into the charts and so on - when i found out about the eurythmics i was pretty confused. i really liked "love song for a vampire"!
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Sunday, 7 February 2010 23:02 (fifteen years ago)
1992 was just plain the best year for singles ever in my life, srsly.
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Sunday, 7 February 2010 23:07 (fifteen years ago)
"Walking on Broken Glass" one of the truly COMPLICATED big hits of the period. I still don't quite understand how all the pieces of the rhythm work. I also really like the way Lennox delivers "Keep Young and Beautiful" -- just straight enough to give the thing a little sting. Superb record through and through.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 8 February 2010 01:25 (fifteen years ago)
"Why" is absolutely gorgeous. I still recite the litany of rhymes with "-ead" to impress friends.
The rest of the album? Not so much.
― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 February 2010 01:43 (fifteen years ago)
OH WAIT SORRY.
"Little Bird" is fabulous. In fact, this is the greatest video of Lennox's career:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI0gdIWJ4-w
I mean, it's at Madonna and Bowie's level of image savviness.
― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 February 2010 01:44 (fifteen years ago)
Ha speaking of which:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNG2z4wWkhA
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 February 2010 01:45 (fifteen years ago)
That avocado green jacket is at Madonna and Annie Lennox's level of visual savviness.
― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 February 2010 01:46 (fifteen years ago)
Hahahah
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 February 2010 01:47 (fifteen years ago)
"why" is so good
― anita bonghit (rionat), Monday, 8 February 2010 01:53 (fifteen years ago)
She flirted with boredom -- was very friendly with boring music -- for many years, so it's no surprise she became so irrelevant.
― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 February 2010 01:55 (fifteen years ago)
I love this album. I think I like every song on it. I loved the video for "Little Bird" with all the Annie Lennox "drag-clones."
― JammerDNA, Monday, 8 February 2010 05:52 (fifteen years ago)
Alfred OTM. I was so stoked for this record and so appalled by it.
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, 8 February 2010 05:53 (fifteen years ago)
an ex of mine would invariably put this record on when she was upset about something so hearing any of it fills me with tremendous anxiety
― trembling blue knees (electricsound), Monday, 8 February 2010 05:57 (fifteen years ago)
"Dying is easy/it's living that scares me to death."
― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:50 (fifteen years ago)
i fuck w/ this album
― OMG Thanx Jeezy (some dude), Thursday, 25 February 2010 06:48 (fifteen years ago)
huge annie lennox stan right here. up until the stuff that came after this album.
― THEY HAVE CREATED ANOTHER (jjjusten), Thursday, 25 February 2010 06:51 (fifteen years ago)
this is totally great tho.
this album sounds so good this a.m.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 25 November 2012 13:18 (twelve years ago)
so people who love this one don't love Medusa? Medusa gives me feelings
― too many encores (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 25 November 2012 14:07 (twelve years ago)
Medusa has No More I Love You's, and I think her take on Waiting in Vain is quite genuinely gorgeous, but her Train in Vain is an unforgivable atrocity.
― Room 227 (cryptosicko), Monday, 26 November 2012 05:24 (twelve years ago)
Her song in Dracula was the second or third best thing about that movie
― a funny thing happened on the way to the forum (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 26 November 2012 05:33 (twelve years ago)
All year, "Call Me Maybe" just made me reminisce about "Walking On Broken Glass."
― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Monday, 26 November 2012 05:44 (twelve years ago)
i said this a while ago but it is my new karaoke goal to find myself singing "why" in drag
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 6 September 2013 14:24 (twelve years ago)
i also kinda love this album front to back, and especially bc it lands in a drifting and unresolved blue nile cowrite
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 6 September 2013 14:25 (twelve years ago)
I did a horrifying version of "Why" at karaoke once.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 September 2013 14:30 (twelve years ago)
mine probably would be too but i feel the bare horror would be tempered by mascara
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 6 September 2013 14:33 (twelve years ago)
the only time I wrested the tune away from my hapless pipes was I sang-shouted the THIS IS THE BOOK AH NEVER READ part
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 September 2013 14:35 (twelve years ago)
Cool
― FrankieGrande, Monday, 9 September 2013 22:50 (twelve years ago)
Nice
― FrankieGrande, Monday, 9 September 2013 22:51 (twelve years ago)
saw some of her clips on bazoocam
― FrankieGrande, Monday, 9 September 2013 22:52 (twelve years ago)
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson)
any luck?
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 23 February 2014 15:27 (eleven years ago)
This was the only CD my dad ever played in the car from its release till some point in the mid 90s.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 24 February 2014 13:51 (eleven years ago)
this is the fearthis is the dreadthese are the contents of my head
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 10 May 2014 00:53 (eleven years ago)
The sun's still shining in the big blue skyBut it don't mean nothing to meOh let the rain come downLet the wind blow through meI'm living in an empty roomWith all the windows smashedAnd I've got so little left to loseThat it feels just like I'm walking on broken glass
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 January 2015 01:44 (ten years ago)
same
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 19 January 2015 02:11 (ten years ago)
WALKING ON WALKING ON
― The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Monday, 19 January 2015 03:25 (ten years ago)
Man, those are awful lyrics written down.
And yet, the single is OK.
― Mark G, Monday, 19 January 2015 17:04 (ten years ago)
hi, Brad
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 27 January 2019 03:53 (six years ago)
"walking on broken glass" is the greatest song of all time
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 18:32 (six years ago)
Wrong.
The single mix of "Little Bird" is.
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 19:07 (six years ago)
finally happy to agree to disagree about something
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 19:28 (six years ago)
and the video
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 19:29 (six years ago)
Wrong. This (spurious?) rap couplet is: Your Favorite Rap Couplets of the Moment, You Contrarian-Ass Mutha!
― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 19:34 (six years ago)
ok that's p good
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 19:50 (six years ago)
You know what song kills me? "Primitive."
― Let's have sensible centrist armageddon (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 19:58 (six years ago)
I know it’s from the next album but “no more i love yous” is all-time. Incredible video too
― i am a horse girl (map), Saturday, 1 February 2020 05:50 (five years ago)
Yep
― Tim F, Saturday, 1 February 2020 05:53 (five years ago)
Brad, come back so we can talk about Diva.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 31 August 2020 16:41 (five years ago)
1992 was just plain the best year for singles ever in my life, srsly.― queen frostine (Eric H.), Sunday, February 7, 2010 5:07 PM (ten years ago)
I still pretty much believe this.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Monday, 31 August 2020 16:51 (five years ago)
before I ever got into rock/metal, the singles from this album were my shit. I mean don't get me wrong, I still love them, but as a kid I was into this shit rather than the 'cool' pop of the moment.
guess I need to listen to the album proper beyond the singles finally
― pass the cur's dossier (Neanderthal), Monday, 31 August 2020 17:00 (five years ago)
i finally did sing "why" while wearing a dress this year, in february (rip karaoke)
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 31 August 2020 17:09 (five years ago)
I love the Bowie-level image manipulation of the "Little Bird" video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjbNLVQ_Iwk
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 31 August 2020 17:15 (five years ago)
I bought this on a bootleg cassette from a man at Speke Market, it was such a bad copy I could barely hear it through the hiss.
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 31 August 2020 17:27 (five years ago)
Man my dad really loved this album in 1992.
― chap, Monday, 31 August 2020 17:29 (five years ago)
Can't believe how long it took me to listen to this gorgeous album. I mean, it opens with two amazing singles, why wouldn't the rest of it be great
I believe that love alone might do these things for you
― Vinnie, Thursday, 17 November 2022 00:51 (two years ago)
listening to annie's covers album medusa from 1995 this morning. it's hilarious! i genuinely like "whiter shade of pale" for its pomp melodrama anyway and this rendition goes full bore in that direction. also opens with "no more i love yous" (originally by the lover speaks). has ilm ever weighed in on that potentially lost classic?
anyway if you ever wanted to hear "i can't get next to you" with a flamenco guitar solo, i have good news for you friend!
(also for clarity: the album really isn't that good but like most covers records, it's a fun curiosity. and yeah, the blue nile song is what prompted me to check it out. not a bad version; pretty faithful to the og.)
― W E F L Y T O G E T H E R (Austin), Saturday, 22 April 2023 17:03 (two years ago)