Posts by FeelItComing

    I worship Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) but don't know Harley's other work at all - a similar thing I have with two of my other favourite songs, Africa by Toto and More Than A Feeling by Boston. Sometimes one song is enough. That probably sounds silly. RIP Mr Harley.

    From what I can gather each musician plays at a specific part of the song. By the way, Paul Carrack is on it too! Next week another video will be released which will pinpoint exactly where in the track each musician plays. Of course it's possible that if Mike is playing rhythm he could be there throughout as Sting is on bass.


    It''s an exciting time to be a Knopfler fan so I'm rather beating the drum a bit. He's retired from touring though. A live performance of this track with as many of the people as he could get would be epic.

    While I am at it - I never post photos on here because I know I need to post them from my computer, but as I have a couple of Mark at the moment here he is at St James Park. He & Brian Johnson will be co-hosting a series about various musicians on Sky Sports from April 25.

    Thank you for that. I never understood why Mark opened for Dylan. I love Dylan but I have seen him live three times, and each time got more & more underwhelming. The first time I saw him was on the joint tour with Tom Petty - when Mark was a special guest, because it was in the middle of Dire Straits' record breaking run in Australia (which I am proud to have attended). I took a photo. This was in 1986, remember:


    My daughter doesn't listen to CDs at all. She watches lyric videos on YouTube. She doesn't even watch the actual videos (e.g. she likes Games Without Frontiers, but doesn't watch the official video). I assume she sometimes listens to music on her phone.

    I have the same definition of 'defiant' as yours and yes, for me PC is showing a 'come and get me, I'm fighting back' stance, which does not exclude at all to be also a serious and contemplative one at the same time. What I wanted to say is that both Collins and Madge are gazing the same way.

    They're both looking into the camera.


    I think you are reading far too much into this. Before this topic was started I had never heard of the Madonna album. Does it worry me that it looks slightly similar to FV? No, it does not.


    For what it is worth this is the quotation from Not Dead Yet about FV:


    For the cover, I have the idea of seeing inside my head, right through the eye sockets. What is going on inside this person's mind? That, and not any egotistical reason, is why it's a close-up. And of course, it's black and white. That cover image in turns underlines an idea I've not had for the title: Face Value.

    The Clash- London Calling and Elvis Presley's first album. :/

    Yes - but wasn't that meant to be a 'tribute' and acknowedged as such?


    What about Zappa's We're Only In It For The Money/Sgt Pepper? I think Zappa discussed it with McCartney before he released it.

    It is totally a private enterprise, with no aspirations to serve anyone but themselves. That said, for the longest time they favoured American-based artists and artists that have had a big impact on the American music landscape. However, that bias has shifted in the past decade or so, hence the admission of artists such as Genesis, Yes, Rush, heck even The Cure. If anything, Phil has more mainstream acceptability in the U.S. than some of these other artists I mentioned. So I do expect that at some point he will get in.

    But he was TOO mainstream, hence why Peter got in and he hasn't.

    I meant a defiant look. Their faces were posing defiantly.

    Phil looks serious, contemplative. You and I must have different definitions of the word 'defiant'. Defiant is saying 'come and get me, I'm fighting back'. Although he no doubt thought that when he was making the album, his face doesn't show that. I'm re-reading his book and all he says is he wanted people to see right into his eyes.

    I mean, it is not very common to feature on the cover of an album the name of the singer handwritten on the singer's own forehead.

    Besides, there are more similarities: a close-up, cut-out the same way, black and white photo, defiant pose...

    I know there has been other copycats, but this is the brazenest one.

    What do you mean by 'defiant pose'? They are closeups of their faces.