I figure half of you are saying “Who is Mandy Moore?” and the other half are asking “Who is Joan Armatrading?” SHAME ON YOU ALL.
The video is slightly embarrassing for Ms. Moore, as videos so often are. The cover itself, however, is not bad.
I’ll be back later. With a drilled head.
You have to give some credit to Mandy Moore for being married to Ryan Adams.
Love and Affection was always my favorite. There are some decent covers of it too.
Just bring a sponge in case anything leaks out…
I hope you are doing okay after your dental invasion!
who is MandyMoore? Who is Joan Armatrading? Who am I?
Love and Affection is hard to beat. Who is Mandy Moore?
I may not have known who Joan Armatrading was but now I do. Some ignorance has been defeated.
Really? That’s what you leave us with? Try this…http://youtu.be/-fmCoUjOMXU. You can tell Adele really nails the performance by the look on her face at the end.
Hope nothing leaks out with the head-drilling experiment. Of course, they might be secretly installing a BrainPal(tm).
(this is the third time I’m trying to post this. For some reason, even though I’m logged in, it’s telling me to log in to make the post and then deleting the contents.)
I made it 34 seconds. *shudders*
You have my sympathy. I had my first ever root canal and crown this week. I hope your dental problem isn’t that bad.
Makes me long for Mandy Moore’s guest spots in “Scrubs”.
Mandy Moore looks dressed for a video from the 90′s
After the last entry, some people would say that you deserve to have your head drilled.
I recognize Mandy Moore from one of my favorite flix, Saved. I recognize Joan Armatrading from my iTunes library, née my CD collection, née my vinyl collection.
Damn I’m old.
Say what you want about Mandy, she rocked in Scrubs.
Whenever anyone mentions head drilling, I think of the movie “Pi.” You’re two days too late for “Pi” day.
@ravenweb71 and Chris Goodson: “That’s so funny.”
I think you deserve a drilled head, after the mischief you caused with the earworm thread last night. ;-)
I’m part of both halves. Never heard of either of them.
When The Novocaine Wears Off is the name of my next California ballot initiative.
What about the other 50% of us who just say “Meh…”?
On the other hand I hope the drilling went well and the insides of your head are still inside your head. :D
The most painful part of every dental procedure is the dilate-and-curette on the wallet, but none of my dentists have ever offered lidocaine at that point in the procedure.
Thanks for posting this video, it reminded me of how good Joan Armatrading is. I know I have a copy of “The Key” somewhere.
Knew who Joan Armatrading is. Good, strong voice control, but her signing always reminds me of Linda Perry from 4 Non Blondes, I have to be in the right mood or the high pitched overtones drive me nuts.
Was unaware of Mandy Moore. Good voice, not great, but less idiosyncratic; she belts the notes, but not effortlessly so. Overall, I think she improves on Drop the Pilot, which, while it has pretty good lyrics, was never one of Armatrading’s better tracks.
Hope the dentist went well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOtMizMQ6oM
@ stoicjim
Adele always nails the performance. The modern dearth of decent singing technique has lowered my standards to where even decent is good. Adele is slightly above that, IMO.
@ Arthur D.
Aye, when women’s fashions were starting to look stylish before they veered back off track. Men’s fashions haven’t looked good since the 60’s.
Mandy Moore’s WP page says she’s a fashion designer. Perhaps there is hope for human attire after all.
Gotta go, kids on the lawn…
Dammit, singing, not signing!
I must be part of the third half who knows who both of them are. I guess I’m showing both my age and my current lack of maturity to be able to do that (and I don’t even have any kids as an excuse for knowing who Mandy is).
Oooh – I like that, Rodney – I’m part of the third half too! (band name, John? The 3rd Half…); know and like them both.
Pfff, the first (and only time) I saw Joan Armatrading was at Rockpalast, in 1979…
I’m getting old – and yes, I’m wearing my trousers rolled.
J.A. was back at Rockpalast in 1980; I wasn’t but I couldn’t find any clips from 1979… so here goes: http://youtu.be/rT_0MUrXMJo
Another “third half” person here, who cringed when I read the description of the video. But it was nowhere near as bad as I worried it would be. Maybe because Mandy Moore was trying to look like Pat Benatar, while trying to sound like Joan.
And if it gets the kids today listening to more Joan Armatrading, then it’s well worth it.
- yeff
The video, however … the video is way too “pose”-y and nowhere near rough enough.
@Gulliver
Aye, when women’s fashions were starting to look stylish before they veered back off track. Men’s fashions haven’t looked good since the 60’s.
Men’s fashion took a nose dive when Fedora’s stopped becoming mandatory head wear. Sigh… if I could only find one in this cesspool of backwoodsdom.
Embarrassing, yeah… there were an awful lot of down-the-blouse shots in the concert segments.
Now if Mandy More had sung this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc_WJFp6fRs — it would have been interesting. When I first heard this from Joan Armatrading it took me a while to get what she was really singing about. (What can I say, I was a relative clueless high school sophomore when that song came out.)
Part of the “who’s Mandy Moore” crowd, but I can hear why I should be ashamed. But the producer or whoever pushed this to the net should be ashamed too. The audio/video sync is at least a full second off.
How can you not love it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4eZ1DP__yY
And this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brp8Va8XVQw
I knew getting old would have a purpose one day