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But I am more into the singer than the composer - I would rather just listen to the work of one singer who I particularly like, but that's me.

Yeah, I guess this is my thing, is I don't know a whole lot about specific pre-rock singers because I haven't heard very much of them. I just played the tunes on the piano. People like Fitzgerald and Sinatra are exceptions because almost everyone's heard them, but I only know Ella's version of "The Lady is a Tramp" that Horseshoe brought up because Kelsey put it on a mix CD for me like three years ago. (And I was only able to make the Mark E. Smith comparison because I just listened to it on my iPod.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Jordan, that one looks good!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link

The Rodgers/Hart one looks good, too. Man.

Also would like recommendations on Jimmy Webb or Burt Bacharach compilations.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, I would love to somehow be able to get the "best" version of like the Rodgers and Hart, Gershwins, and Porter bodies of work. my stepdad had Ella Fitzgerald sings everybody, basically, and sometimes, like on "Lady is a Tramp," she's amazing, but then, she's really slow and boring on "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered."

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Jeff prob. has a Burt B. recommendation. I know we've got some records of his that I l-o-v-e but I can't remember what they're called.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Not this Jimmy Webb, btw:

http://www.blueridgedemocrats.org/images/Webb.gif

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:47 (seventeen years ago) link

But he was BORN FIGHTING.

His poor mother.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Similar to jaymc, I know most of these tunes from playing in jazz groups, but for half of them I've never even heard the lyrics.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link

WHOA. I am listening to Joanna Newsom on "All Songs Considered" and am just realizing that my favorite song on last year's Emiliana Torrini record is actually a SANDY DENNY cover. ARMANDO, please advise.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 19:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I just heard "The Heat Is On" (from Beverly Hills Cop) on the radio and a co-worker left some cookies on my chair, my day is looking up.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link

agh interrupted by pesky students

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Get Fairport Convention's Liege and Lief or Unhalfbricking.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I just discovered that L3v3l Optic@l has moved in across the street from Old Timer's!

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Nice. Can't wait until January so I can finally get SPECS.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm gonna be getting a new pair soon, maybe even this week. I cannot WAIT to be rid of these awful things. Any suggestions, folks? (Preferably, under about $100.)

I hope that my insurance company gets off their collective asses and approves my claim for new contacts sometime this year, as well.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

1. My historic jazz go-to guy is named Armando for real. I might even have some of his compillations around the house somewhere.

2. My eye doc in GSO was in the same strip mall as a bar and yes, I have gotten my eyes checked after beerz.

3. Dan, it's hard to make specs suggestions w/out seeing them on yr face. But my glasses from Level Optical were $30 co-pay and I loves them.

― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the reason why the acronym GSO bothers me is that I think you guys are talking about a symphony orchestra at first.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link

ps jaymc what was the song? i love sandy denny. i would like to hear fotheringay (her band after FC, i think?) but i don't have no moolah and i don't know if their albums are in print.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

xxpost I think I want something black or possibly dark brown, but not clunky thick frames. Honestly I sorta prefer the rimless kind but I have been told they are UNFASHIONABLE. The FASHIONABLE part was what I was really looking for aid on.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I decided yesterday that "The Look of Love" is the best song ever*. I was listening to a Sergio Mendes version but it sounded so great, esp. during the "don't ever go" part.

*i changed my mind almost immediately, but for a minute it was the best song i had ever heard.

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

xxxxxxpost

john, i'm pretty sure i put the della reese version of 'the lady is a tramp' on your mix tape or whatever. that version blew my mind when i first heard it. it's like she 'got it' and everyone else was just doin' musicals.

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Honestly I sorta prefer the rimless kind but I have been told they are UNFASHIONABLE.
http://www.knox.edu/Images/_News/news_media/img/2006/colbert_stephen-1ss.jpg

― JuliaA (JuliaA), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www-assets.eyeglasses.com/dyn/frame_large/726396568.jpg

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Honestly I sorta prefer the rimless kind but I have been told they are UNFASHIONABLE

You don't say. I started out with thick emo glasses years ago and they've been getting progressively thinner. My current pair are half-rimmed so I assumed that rimless would be the logical next step.

(I am not talking about rimming on the internet etc.)

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Colbert can wear any glasses he likes. He's so handsome, he's impervious to fashion.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

kenan, i think a pair of glasses that is rimless along the bottom but a heavy dark top would look nice on you.
maybe not this exactly, but something similar:
ihttp://img.inkfrog.com/pix/DiscountEyewear/may30065.jpg

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link

whatevs. link for yer pleasure.

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link

link = click. i'm tired.

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I just shorted out my electricity with my space heater and hot pot.
:(

― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link

oh no! please don't freeze!

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link

i need new glasses. i think i might like a pair of those half-rimless buddy holly glasses. or plastic on top, metal on bottom

― grbchv! (gbx), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess mine are thin on top and rimless on the bottom. They're Chesterfield brand and they have a ridiculous snakeskin-ish pattern on the inside of the earpieces where no one can see, just to taunt me.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Grrr. The IT department here is infuriating. They're PC people. They're PC zealots, more like. They think that Microsoft is just simply amazing, and if asked to fix anything on a Mac, they get angry and frustrated. They do not know how to use Macs at all. Which is fine with them, since the narrative they have collectively created is that Mac people are pretentious little children who use Fisher Price computers. It's so weird. I didn't know that PC zealots were still out there in force, at least not ones who go around thinking that OS X is a piece-of-crap operating system.

― whoop de doodle (kenan), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 20:51 (seventeen years ago) link

IT dudes who "think that Microsoft is just simply amazing" == n00b l@m3rz LOLOLOLOL

Seriously, *nix or go home.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link

the glasses i bought most recently have a style guide on their website. i clicked on 'petite face woman' and found the glasses i got.

http://www.bevelspecs.com/

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I mean, I know a LOT of sysadmin/developer/whathaveyou types, and I could count the ones who have anything good to say about Windows/Microsoft on like one finger.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link

ps jaymc what was the song?

"Next Time Around"

john, i'm pretty sure i put the della reese version of 'the lady is a tramp' on your mix tape or whatever.

You're probably right. It doesn't sound much like Ella, now that I think about it. I just realized that you didn't give me a track list, so I had to make up the tags in iTunes when I imported it.

Who sings the version of "Girl From Ipanema" that's on there?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link

i have never known any sysadmins or IT people who have ever had anything but a serious loathing for microsoft.

cluster-sharing on microsoft in 99/2000 had me thinking kaczynski-like thoughts.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link

couldn't tell ya, lil' j.

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Excel is pretty sweet, though. That is pretty much the best Microsoft product ever.

― danno martinez (danno martinez), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Ooh, Kels, I like Bevel frames! I had my eye on a pair for a while but optician didn't carry 'em and I couldn't deal with the paperwork of going elsewhere.

Ev: Plastic on top, metal on the bottom, and tiny mother-of-pearl inlay on the temples.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

That song is verboten.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

i have been extremely happy with mine. they were stupid expensive, but the titanium has held up beautifully. they have yet to get bent.

― sweet tater (sweet tater), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

What, Jordan? "Girl From Ipanema"? It's a pretty sweet tune, if a bit played out. I'm trying to remember if I know "The Look of Love."

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link

I just listened to the Dusty Springfield "L of L" and it's luverly.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link

...which has inspired me to move onto the rest of the Bacharach 3-disc set.

"What do you get when you kiss a guy? You get another chance to catch pneumonia / and when you do, he'll never phone ya."

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, GFI. It's probably the most requested and least played song at all jazz jam sessions/gigs. Well, it does get played, but only under duress.

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I just listened to the Justin Guarini "Look of Love" on YouTube -- and yeah of course I know it.

the Bacharach 3-disc set.

What's this? Rhino's The Look of Love: The Burt Bacharach Collection? I just found that on Amazon.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, it's really pleasant. Lots of Dusty, lots of Dionne, DeShannon, deloveliness.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link

http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000003N8M.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― JordanC (JordanC), Tuesday, 5 December 2006 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

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