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Harry Too Hot
Joined: 03 Jan 2009 Posts: 1803
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I was listening to an old compilation album yesterday and this track came on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCVR5XR04Mo
I love Janet Kay's vocal but it's also the arrangement and production that make it so perfect. I forgot how good it was.
I noticed on Facebook Janet's collaborator Dennis Bovell is doing a free show
on Saturday 7th Sept at The White Horse in Peckham at 9pm _________________ I got one art O'level it did nothing for me |
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Wed Jul 31, 2019 9:30 am |
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Halfy Special
Joined: 31 Aug 2008 Posts: 612
Location: Kent
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I will never tire of listening to this especially with the bass above acceptable  _________________ "And he listens to his stereo" |
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Wed Jul 31, 2019 10:36 am |
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Imani Too Hot
Joined: 26 Apr 2008 Posts: 1909
Location: Bradford
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There's a good interview with Dennis Bovell where he talks about how one part of the finished track came about by accident. Drummie Zeb of Aswad played drums on it, and had been asked to keep a constant beat throughout. In the lead-up to the chorus, he stopped playing suddenly to emphasise the words 'play...your....si-lly...games', which Dennis wasn't happy about at first. Then on listening back to it, it sounded just right. |
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Fri Aug 02, 2019 7:55 am |
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Halfy Special
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Impressive improvisation. Thanks Imani for that nugget  _________________ "And he listens to his stereo" |
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Fri Aug 02, 2019 10:55 am |
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Harry Too Hot
Joined: 03 Jan 2009 Posts: 1803
Location: London
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Terry's favourite lyricist Leonard Cohen has a line about it's only when something cracks that the light can get through. (Meaning the best songs, paintings, films all have a few happy accidents and brilliant mistakes in them) _________________ I got one art O'level it did nothing for me |
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Fri Aug 02, 2019 1:49 pm |
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Imani Too Hot
Joined: 26 Apr 2008 Posts: 1909
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"You never hear the same arrangement twice. We make so many mistakes—I do, because I’m changing things around. But they’re professional enough to cover it. If they make a mistake, I teach ‘em: go back, make that same mistake, and make something out of it. Because that’s the way jazz was born—somebody goofed! So you just go ahead; it’s not a mistake—you just build." - Art Blakey |
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Fri Aug 02, 2019 7:50 pm |
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marigold Too Hot

Joined: 16 May 2010 Posts: 3303
Location: washington. d. c.
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Harry wrote: |
Terry's favourite lyricist Leonard Cohen has a line about it's only when something cracks that the light can get through. (Meaning the best songs, paintings, films all have a few happy accidents and brilliant mistakes in them) |
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/may/23/nobody-lies-about-their-dad-writers-rock-stars-reflect-their-fathers
Adam Cohen on Leonard Cohen
"I remember something he told me when I was 16 and starting to take songwriting seriously. He said there’s a moment when you’re blocked on a song, or on any work, and it’s only when you’re about to quit having put much, much more time than you planned into it that the work begins. That’s when you’ve crossed the threshold of being on the right track" _________________ marigold |
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Sat Aug 03, 2019 11:51 pm |
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