Amanda Lear: C or D?

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Well? Has this one been done before? I bought "The Collection" CD last night, and her voice wasn't at all what I was expecting. Like a female Boris Karloff (or else a sedated Zsa Zsa Gabor), grooving along to 80s new wave. "Comics" was good kitschy fun. I think.

― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 25 August 2002 00:29 (twenty-three years ago)

her look is better then her music.

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 25 August 2002 07:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Her sound is halfway between Nico and Boney M, but not as good as either. She has her moments, but there really aren't enough of them. "Queen of Chinatown" is pretty good, and her "Alphabet" is completely bonkers. There are others, like "This Man (Dali's Song)" and "Fashion Pack (Studio 54)" that sound interesting but are actually pretty drab. I don't know, more dud than classic. Not cause of her, really, it's just the mediocre material. Maybe I just never heard the right records.

― Arthur (Arthur), Sunday, 25 August 2002 22:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Follow Me = C

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 26 August 2002 01:06 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

follow me is awesome!

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks!

― amanda lear (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 03:59 (twenty-one years ago)

i d/led a bunch of amanda lear stuff a while ago based on a mention on k-punk. her story is certainly amazing, the living link btw salvador dali and roxy music (oh, the 20th C). and no, it's not that great but it's not bad.

― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 04:18 (twenty-one years ago)

"Alphabet" is awesome, "Lili Marlene" is rad, "Fashion Pack", "Forget Him", 'The Photograph" . . . many good tunes. She's some kind of fag hag high priestess; some of the lyrics are so over the top, they're flawless (ie. the song about dumping your boyfriend with the lines "He doesn't look good in the nude, he doesn't like art, he doesn't like gays . .. forget him!")

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 04:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry I was so lukewarm about you in '02, Amanda. I guess I hadn't really heard the right records.

― Hot Bitch with an Elecric Guitarthur (Arthur), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 07:02 (twenty-one years ago)

right before i did an ilx search on "amanda lear" the other day i said to myself "arthur is SO gonna pwn these search results." and alas...

― amanda lear (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 07:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I know, I think I was going through a rough patch or something. I expect too much from my fag hag high priestesses.

― Hot Bitch with an ELECTRIC Guitarthur (Arthur), Wednesday, 26 January 2005 07:22 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

Wait - was she born a man or not? I'm very ignorant about her and wikipedia is being notoriously ambivalent about this.

― Cunga, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 06:07 (seventeen years ago)

Follow Me = C
― Mary (Mary), Monday, 26 August 2002 01:06 (6 years ago)

Six-year-late cosign

― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 08:57 (seventeen years ago)

jeez that wikipedia bio is really insane!

― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 09:36 (seventeen years ago)

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