She's supercute, really nice, and on her new record she covers some of my favorite songs of all time really well. "Coverage" features her versions of XTC's "Senses Working Overtime", The Waterboys "The Whole Of The Moon", Todd R's "Can We Still Be Friends", Joe Jackson's "Breaking Us In Two", and my fave on the record Joan Armatrading's "Drop The Pilot". She (or her A&R guy) has impeccable taste. It's a pop record through and through, and a way cooler gift to buy your daughters and nieces than the new Brittany album. She's even got Evan Dando & X's DJ Bonebrake on the record. Mrs. Footix really digs this record too. I haven't brought a record home that we both agreed on since the last Neil Finn disc.
Well, from that photo it's clear she has two things going for her. Ahem. Does she have any original songs on the album, or is it all covers. I'm stuggling between respecting her for not putting out another bland pop pseudo- original CD written by some drum machine geeks holed up in a swanky studio on the outskirts of Gotenborg and disliking her for knowing her own stuff was such crap she better steal someone else's if she planned to make the Mercedes payments this month. courtesy of the good folks over at desktopangels.net:
But how good is the XTC cover, really?? * (I suppose, I could listen to it at work, but I have a 50K disc library to peruse...you know what I mean??) *btw...XTC reminds me too much of my ex-wife, thus I don't/won't listen to them or covers of them anymore, so I'm relying on your review.
It's not even close as good as the original, but it's pretty great as part of a package of poptunes. I'm not saying this album's a "classic" by any means...I just think it's a pretty darn fun record. Then again, I 'm one of the approximately 15 people on this earth that likes the new Liz Phair album .
She's ubercute, yes-- but she looked even better when she was blonde. I'll qualify that statement by saying that I'm a bit prejudiced towards blondes.
I probably won't like the record but she's the only pop queen I ever liked. I like the fact that she doesn't look sleazy and actually seems to have a brain in her head.
True... between her and Deltra Goodrem, they're actually likeable, unlike the talentless lip-synchers like Christina, Kylie, Britney, et al, etc.
Yeah, gotta disagree with you on this one buddy. waaaay cuter as a brunette. Coudn't tell her apart from Britney and Jessica with the blonde (although she might be closest of the three to have it naturally).
Between those three, the blonde hair on Mandy may not be exclusively the only thing that's natural. But back to the hair... I'm quite partial to blondes. That's the only way I can qualify my preference.
she's also a VERY good actress. Doing movies and Broadway shows. I have 10X more respect for her than I do for Britney and Christina (even though Christina has one of the nicest voices I've ever heard). Lleytin Hewitt is a lucky bastard
I don't know, I don't think Kim Clijsters is all that attractive. You meant to say Andy Roddick of course. I understand, I confuse those hunky tennis players all the time too.
Okay, a friend at work lent me this album today and I listened to the entire thing. Man. I was psyched to listen to is because of the Footix plug, but I really couldn't get into it. Listening to the covers makes me sad for the original. I'd really rather hear Blondie or Joe Jackson sing than her. I get that she is on the Michelle Phillips side of the "Mamas and the papas rule" [That to make it as a female musician you have to be hot (michelle phillips) or really able to sing (mama cass) but you have to have one or the other going for you], but I don't get how this is a good CD. "I feel the earth move" is an all time classic, arguably one of the best female solo songs ever. Tapestry was a landmark album. To hear it covered without the strong piano thundering the backround, without Carole King belting out the lyrics, it made it a flat, soul-less remake. I'm not trying to rip her, but that song bothered me. Layering a quiet keyboard cut under pseudo record scratching and jazz horns was a mistake, to me anyway. And the end was...uh... let's settle for anti-climactic. Like harmonizing the end of "happy birthday". She apparently decided that these are the songs that inspired her, and that she wanted to sing them instead of another batch of the "hot tunes" that some guy with a drum machine was going to pump out for her. I'm fine with that, but, interesting question for her: Did she decide that she was so unable to write music that she had to take other people's music to make it, or did she decide that if she couldn't be original that there was no point in faking it? She can sing okay (better than Spears), but it reminds me of Barry Manilow doing Swing music. Take someone who can sing (in theory), make them sing songs they didn't write, aren't good at, in a style they can't legitimately subscribe to. I guess you could say she updated them to make them more "pop", but at what price glory? I guess I respect her for not toeing the record company line (in a sense) by putting out another pop fluff album, but she took non-puff pop songs and pop-puffed them. At the end of the day it doesn't make for good music. Just one opinion.
On a (semi) related note: David Bowie does an admirable cover of the Kinks' "Waterloo Sunset" on the b-side of his latest single. I also think Ms. Moore's boobies are FAR more yummilicious than Mr. Bowie's are. Where I'm going with this, I don't know...
I can see that. I never said it was a classic, but I think it's a friggin' great alternative to the other teen pop records out now.
It was confirmed yesterday that Mrs. Moore is indeed in Houston watching Roddick play. In case any of the stalkers out there were interested.