Denny Laine - Japanese Tears (1980).
Denny Laine or Denny Paine? ***** Denny Laine is in my ears and in my eyes 0% [ 0 ] **** It's a clean machine 0% [ 0 ] *** Get back JoJo, your mama's waiting for you 33% [ 1 ] **Very strange 67% [ 2 ] * Full of fish and finger pies 0% [ 0 ]
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Posts : 151439Karma : 1215Join date : 2018-05-02 Subject: Re: Denny Laine - Japanese Tears (1980). Mon Aug 24, 2020 7:46 pm This is the best produced track on the album.
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Posts : 115641Karma : 946Join date : 2018-05-05 Subject: Re: Denny Laine - Japanese Tears (1980). Mon Aug 24, 2020 7:46 pm The Call of the Wendigo wrote: Sounds like it should be the theme tune to a Dennis Waterman show. Yes, the show Japanese Tears (ITV - 1987-1991).
Terry McCann moves to Tokyo and becomes the 'Minder' for the loveable rogue and used Datsun dealership owner Atherukuoka Dailiru.
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Posts : 115641Karma : 946Join date : 2018-05-05 Subject: Re: Denny Laine - Japanese Tears (1980). Mon Aug 24, 2020 7:47 pm This sounds like Steeleye Span.
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Subject: Re: Denny Laine - Japanese Tears (1980). Mon Aug 24, 2020 7:48 pm It is over. That last one was alright. I guess.
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Posts : 151439Karma : 1215Join date : 2018-05-02 Subject: Re: Denny Laine - Japanese Tears (1980). Mon Aug 24, 2020 7:49 pm It is over.
That was a very mixed bag and did have a cobbled together feel to it. In places, it was very dull. In others, genuine talent showed through.
Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it.
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Subject: Re: Denny Laine - Japanese Tears (1980). Mon Aug 24, 2020 7:49 pm Anyway, let's check out the miss's
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Posts : 151439Karma : 1215Join date : 2018-05-02 Subject: Re: Denny Laine - Japanese Tears (1980). Mon Aug 24, 2020 7:50 pm I shall give it 2 stars, as I felt the highlights were too thin on the ground and it was mostly lifelessly produced.
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Subject: Re: Denny Laine - Japanese Tears (1980). Mon Aug 24, 2020 7:51 pm I went ***, very mixed, almost like a compilation of unused tracks.
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Posts : 151439Karma : 1215Join date : 2018-05-02 Subject: Re: Denny Laine - Japanese Tears (1980). Mon Aug 24, 2020 7:55 pm WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote: The Call of the Wendigo wrote: This is a genuinely great song. Nightjar wrote: I've always disliked this song. I don't think I know the original. Denny Laine's original, chaotic, version from 1967:
VIDEO Colin Blunstone's far more refined cover of it from 1972, which is much better known:
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Posts : 115641Karma : 946Join date : 2018-05-05 Subject: Re: Denny Laine - Japanese Tears (1980). Mon Aug 24, 2020 8:00 pm Dos estrellas from me.
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Posts : 151439Karma : 1215Join date : 2018-05-02 Subject: Re: Denny Laine - Japanese Tears (1980). Mon Aug 24, 2020 8:02 pm Maybe we should do a JoJo Laine album.
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Subject: Re: Denny Laine - Japanese Tears (1980). Mon Aug 24, 2020 8:11 pm The Call of the Wendigo wrote: WhatDoesThisButtonDo? wrote: The Call of the Wendigo wrote: This is a genuinely great song. Nightjar wrote: I've always disliked this song. I don't think I know the original. Denny Laine's original, chaotic, version from 1967:VIDEO Colin Blunstone's far more refined cover of it from 1972, which is much better known:VIDEO Never listened to that song.
Probably never will.
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Subject: Re: Denny Laine - Japanese Tears (1980). Mon Aug 24, 2020 8:13 pm The Call of the Wendigo wrote: Maybe we should do a JoJo Laine album. She only made two 7" singles. As far as I can tell.
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Subject: Re: Denny Laine - Japanese Tears (1980). Mon Aug 24, 2020 8:30 pm https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DENNY-JO-JO-LAINE-PHOTOS-NEGATIVES-HANDWRITTEN-ITEMS-PAUL-McCARTNEY-MOODY-BLUES-/223641189569
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Subject: Re: Denny Laine - Japanese Tears (1980). Thu Oct 01, 2020 1:09 pm Nightjar wrote: I can only hope it's better than the album cover at least. The German version had a
different cover:
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