Can we talk a little Robert Palmer?






http://www.youtube.com/embed/L1Uqq0QE7mA


This one has had a heap of rotation from me in recent years.
 
batmon said:Shorty showed me some Palmer cassette with him in some water or something.




The Clues album. From 1980, notable because I think the Sony Walkman came out right around that same time, and he was holding one of the first models off the assembly line on the cover.





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He got a little trapped by that whole double-breasted Armani suit/pharmaceutical nosebag/fashion model image that he acquired after Addicted To Love




Even before that song, his album covers and photos gave him that reputation.
 
staxwax said:





Dont let your feelings get in the way of my robert palmer appreciation clonnery.


And to the kid above, never confuse buying robert palmer from the thrift with digging.


Balearic dj harvey flips aside. Youre still extending the weak shit section of your collection, like the time with that raer 10CC joint dilla touched.




You're definitely top contender for most predictable dude around here.


There's a few decent songs on his early records not to mention his later pop career cuts. Meters, Toussaint and Scratch Perry backing is enough to warrant a discussion on here IMO.
 
frenzie said:


http://www.youtube.com/embed/L1Uqq0QE7mA


This one has had a heap of rotation from me in recent years.




Heavy tune. I didn't have Palmer on the map. I guess that must be one of the tracks with Meters backing, right? I'll be looking out to extend this weak shit section in my record file cabinet.
 
If he only ever came out with DMTTYO he'd deserve massive props.


One of the most brooding and erotic tracks ever committed.


Deeply evocative for my generation, of that nascent yuppie period when newly coined bars full of polished chrome and plush leatherette seats mingled with Armani suits, big hair and cocktails made with creme de menthe.


Redolent of late night haphazard walking patterns through plazas populated with a new breed of angular glass 'n' steel office towers, and tottering with cake-made-up Amazons down glistening cobbled backs streets that shimmer and glint in the memory.


Glorious nights.





Welling up now





::WMIC::
 
My two fave tunes from him are "Every Kind Of People" and the left-field number "Want You More".
 
disco_che said:frenzie said:


http://www.youtube.com/embed/L1Uqq0QE7mA


This one has had a heap of rotation from me in recent years.




Heavy tune. I didn't have Palmer on the map. I guess that must be one of the tracks with Meters backing, right? I'll be looking out to extend this weak shit section in my record file cabinet.




Did A Tribe Called Quest jack the chant for their own Push It Along????