Tag: romance

audio review : Like A Stranger ( song ) … Fine Young Cannibals

This is a good song that gets great near the end. That’s when singer Roland Gift is joined by a chorus of women he still manages to sound more effeminate than. “You’ve been too long in the institution,” they go and it sounds like the finale of a glorious Broadway musical. The storyline has to do with a gay man’s fears in regard to his abusive ex-lover being released from prison.

my rating : 4 of 5

1985

audio review : Fine Young Cannibals ( album ) ... Fine Young Cannibals

audio review : The Other Level ( song ) … Bushwick Bill

Bushwick Bill is having a threesome with “two of the finest bitches around”, but they’re not the only ones enjoying themselves. Listeners are treated to not only a fun little sex story, enhanced with ad-libs and sound effects from the girls, but a raunchy beat enhanced with a sample from Love Hangover by Diana Ross; the part where Ross sighs like she’s getting fucked.

my rating : 4 of 5

1991

audio review : Largo ( song ) … Fiona Apple

The fact that this song is about a real place; a music theatre in LA; from which Fiona Apple shouts out specific people doesn’t sit well with me. It’s one of her best two songs; Waltz, produced by Jon Brion, one of the names mentioned here, is the other; and it deserves a better, or at least more ambiguous, concept. Does Largo, the place, deserve such a wonderful theme? Probably not. Nonetheless Flannagan should be proud.

my rating : 5 of 5

2012

audio review : The Idler Wheel ( album ) ... Fiona Apple

Roxanne Shanté or Tone Lōc : Whose Fatal Attraction song is better?

Roxanne Shanté or Tone Lōc : Whose Fatal Attraction song is better? Roxanne Shanté or Tone Lōc : Whose Fatal Attraction song is better?

These songs were inspired by Fatal Attraction; the 1987 movie starring Michael Douglas and Glenn Close. Roxanne Shanté’s came two years later and Tone Lōc’s two years after that. Both are first-person accounts of romantic allure turned violent; the former playing the maddened mistress while the latter serves as a heartless casanova.

Roxanne Shanté tells her story in a more interesting way; her raps/verses are better composed and I prefer the vintage effect on her vocals; but her song gets rather lonely during the breaks. Tone Lōc’s (breaks) are enhanced by “baby” ad-libs and bits of said movie dialogue, which help make his (song) the more Attractive of the two.

my vote : Tone Lōc