Home -> Magazines -> Issues -> Articles in this issue -> View
The List | |
Feargal SharkeyArticle from One Two Testing, January 1985 |
Feargal Sharkey selects vocalists
Sexual Healing
"I don't think this characterises Marvin Gaye best as a singer, but it's just so damn sensual. Wonderful. It's one of those records that lulls you straight away into its atmosphere. And when it's gone you really wish there was another verse to come."
Midnight Hour
"I think this is the best thing Ferry's done as a vocalist. On a sheer technical level he is a pretty restricted singer – he's got six notes and he sticks rigidly to them. But he does a much better job with those six notes than a lot of other people. This track exploits them most fully – and doing cover versions you often put more into them than your own stuff. There's obviously effort here. You have to try to make a cover version better than the original, otherwise there's no point. The gift, of course, is trying hard but not sounding like you're trying hard."
Get It On
"Most of my chosen vocalists here have very stylistic voices. Marc Bolan has an exciting voice, I think, and I'd choose this, again, for atmospherics over something obvious like 'Ride A White Swan'. It's aggressive without going over the top – he pulls back at the right moments. That's the mark of a clever singer, knowing when to do that."
Perfect Day
"This was the original B-side of 'Walk On The Wild Side', and is very dreamy and soft – a departure then for Lou Reed vocally, a slow ballad that was at odds with what he usually did then. He doesn't have a great voice technically, but he gets his point, his message, across. It's very difficult to go into a sterile environment like the studio and perform to such an extent that when people listen to the record they will get some form of meaning from it."
Save Me
"I get the impression, without ever having met the guy, that he knew exactly how physically to control his body and his voice, and would use that to enhance what was already a very colourful and exciting voice. I think the difference between a good musician and a bad musician is that a good one will get across whatever emotional state they want to convey, and the bad ones don't."
Feature
mu:zines is the result of thousands of hours of effort, and will require many thousands more going forward to reach our goals of getting all this content online.
If you value this resource, you can support this project - it really helps!
New issues that have been donated or scanned for us this month.
All donations and support are gratefully appreciated - thank you.
Do you have any of these magazine issues?
If so, and you can donate, lend or scan them to help complete our archive, please get in touch via the Contribute page - thanks!