Real Funk Sung by Mandy Moore

Posted almost 4 years ago

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Mandy Moore
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I Wanna Be With You

Reading Mogger Cody B's 3/20/08 post (http://mog.com/Cody_B/blog_post/150947#write-comment), that had a discussion about, among other things, how hip-hop r&B arrangements are often quite good, made me think of Mandy Moore's CD. This morsel, "Candy (Wade Robson Remix)" by Mandy Moore, is for those of you who, like me, failed to hear the original inferior 1999 version of this track get played to death on certain radio stations, or heard this superior 2000 version either. I happened to come across its CD I Wanna Be With You a couple of years ago in our bag for the thrift store in our garage, and liberated it. Moore was just another name to me at the time, but her CD, though uneven, had a bunch of great new-style girl group tracks such "I Wanna Be With You," "The Way to My Heart," "Walk Me Home," "I Like It" and "So Real." It's unlikely Moore was the creative center of this, but so what?

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dermahrk says Actually Mandy is becoming more of a singer-songwriter these days. I have a track ??All Good Things?? that she apparently co-wrote with the husband-wife team known as The Weepies (per the latest PASTE), which I quite like. This is also pretty tasty. Of course, I have a high pop tolerance.

Permalink posted 03/22/2008
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The Time Machine says

Now she is the creative center of her music. The last two albums "Coverage" and "Wild Hope" are filled with wonderful songs.

Saw her three times last year during her "Wild Hope" tour and she closed the shows with "Candy" as an encore (she also did Billy Joel's "Big Shot" towards the end of the tour). It wasn't at all like the Wade Robson mix but it was a dash of funk with a heavy dose of rock and roll that had the crowds cheering for more. Rachael Yamagata would join in and later Chris Stills. Fun performance.

:=)

Permalink posted 03/22/2008
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JackDelRey says You mean there is an INFERIOR track to this one? That's scary...

Permalink posted 03/22/2008
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Spike says dermahrk & The Time Machine, thanks for alerting me to her newer tracks. I'll check them out. Has anyone besides me had a hard time previewing the posts they write lately? On this one, the Preview button sent me to a white page with a small yellow Rhapsody button on the top left corner, and my Firefox progress spokes rotating literally for hours. That's how the post missed getting out by Friday.

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Spike says JackDelRey, but fear is fun.

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JackDelRey says Well then, I must be in hysterics right about now.

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ye-ye girl says I agree that I have NO problem with the level of creative input the artist put into the music, for the pop genre. I love pop music and most of my favorite artists were heavily produced (60s). I just can't wrap my brain around new pop music. Maybe when I have kids my brain will adjust to this style of music through osmosis?

Permalink posted 03/22/2008
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ivylander says MOG is being very coy about this track - a few seconds will play, then it skips around, then it starts all over again, then stops completely. Kind of like when one was a teenager and a cute girl started messing around with one's mind...

Permalink posted 03/22/2008
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Spike says ye-ye girl, I have a hard time wrapping my brain around most of the new r&b my daughter sings along with in the car radio, but that's true of most new creative product. At a social gathering ears ago I mentioned to a plumbing supplies distributor that 90% of all new music is bad, and he said, "That's not true of plumbing supplies!" Thinking about it later, I concluded that plumbing supplies are creative in a less carefree way. My exposure to new-style rock of last two or three decades is pathetic, but every once in a while my daughter will inadvertently inflict an r&b gem that sounds not too different from the late sixties. Wouldn't the Supremes have loved to have been the ones to do this track, "Bad Girl" (2005) by Black Buddafly? (Ignore the brief rap intro.) Dig the inspired variation on the Bo Diddley beat. ~lKxVvjoZIEx.mp3~ ivylander, MOG never ceases to toy with us. The least that the overworked technicians in MOG's basement could do would be to provide us with a "Change Mog into a Cute Girl" button. Aaarrrgghh!

Permalink posted 03/22/2008
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Cody B says Nice..I think the hip hop production influence on pop music can't be understated. That little backspinning breakdown was pretty cool.

Permalink posted 03/22/2008
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Spike says I agree. I have a friend or two who can't enjoy music that sounds as if it was constructed with editing devices. They don't know what pleasure they're missing.

Permalink posted 03/22/2008
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Mike the Knife says Got no problem with the adorable, spunky, non-self-destructive Mandy Moore, other than some of her questionable choices as an actress. (She was pretty damned good in "Saved!" But that mother-daughter comedy with Diane Keaton? What a waste of talent and charisma.) Anyhow, who can bitch about catchy, disposable pop? It's our right and privilege to enjoy these guilty pleasures. BTW, how cool was it that Mandy covered, for better or worse, the amazing XTC song "Senses Working Overtime" on her tribute-to-her-own-favorites album? Good taste, kid!

Permalink posted 03/23/2008
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Spike says Mike, yes she was damned good in "Saved," and also in some film where she was the kidnapped daughter of a famous politician. Is it hubristic of me to not feel guilty about my guilty pleasures? I'll check out both versions of "Senses Working Overtime."

Permalink posted 03/23/2008