Re: Sophie B Hawkins - Tongues and Tails - 1992

by Nightjar Wed Apr 08, 2020 8:48 pm

Sounding like a demo for a Bond theme song.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Apr 08, 2020 8:48 pm

Castanets.

by Nightjar Wed Apr 08, 2020 8:49 pm

Don't stop swaying, baby
You've got a license to kill!

by Guest Wed Apr 08, 2020 8:50 pm

Yo brother
You sure heard me
Banging on the big drums for your love
You called me baby then
Talked to me like your best friend
When the time was right you were so good
Asked me what I like
And I said
Don't stop swaying baby

scared

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Apr 08, 2020 8:51 pm

She's got Hansel and Gretel having sex with each other, with the help of their father. shifty

by Nightjar Wed Apr 08, 2020 8:51 pm

I can't stop seeing Monty Norman Bond opening sequences with Timothy Dalston looking moody against a black background.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Apr 08, 2020 8:52 pm

This is a very lyrically dubious song but it is a great track, regardless.

by Nightjar Wed Apr 08, 2020 8:52 pm

With some bints off of a Pirelli calendar swinging on the stem of a champagne glass.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Apr 08, 2020 8:52 pm

by Guest Wed Apr 08, 2020 8:53 pm

Well, it's over.

Quite liked that last one. yes

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Apr 08, 2020 8:54 pm

It is over.

That is a wonderfully luscious piece of early 1990s Pop that, questionable s*xual sentiments aside, is almost impossible to pick fault with.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everyone else made of it. Excited

by Guest Wed Apr 08, 2020 8:57 pm

WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote:But is it better than Chér's cover?

Let's find out!

hmm

by Guest Wed Apr 08, 2020 8:58 pm

It (The Sophie B Hawkins album) just too AOR for me. Sorry.

by Nightjar Wed Apr 08, 2020 9:01 pm

Personally, I really didn't like it at all.

However, it has to be considered in its own right and whether SBH "hit her targets".

It was weird to me, because it was at once a proper horror-show of early '90s-ness and the work of someone I couldn't possibly have anything against (especially since I've not much to measure it by).

It was unusual insofar as it got progressively more daring and interesting as it went on.

Normally, if you hold the artist in very high esteem, putting all the good songs at the beginning of the album is very frustrating, but with this it was as if the commercial/Madonna-esque stuff was wedged in early and it was only after that it got interesting.

by Butterfield Thu Jan 18, 2024 1:28 pm

I listened to this for the first time in a while this week and aside from Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover and California Here I Come I still don't love it. I prefer her next album, Whaler. yes

3/5

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Jan 18, 2024 1:53 pm

Maybe we should do a thread for Whaler? Excited

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Jan 18, 2024 1:54 pm

We did a track from it, the other day, in a mini-playlist. It went down really well. yes

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Jan 18, 2024 1:54 pm

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Jan 18, 2024 1:54 pm

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