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Alison Moyet on David Letterman "Tenderness"
This is Alison Moyet doing the Otis Redding (or whoever did the original) song "Try a Little Tenderness." She's a big ol' girl with a big ol' voice. She's amazingly brilliant.
Jan 25, 2008 2:13 AM
Re: Alison Moyet on David Letterman "Tenderness"
I remember this ... later in the same show he sang "Crazy Train".
By: ice-9
Re: Alison Moyet on David Letterman "Tenderness"
Back in the early eighties, Alison Moyet was Vince Clark's partner and lead singer in British duo Yazoo, known in the US as Yaz. You may remember Vince Clark as founding member of Depeche Mode and later on Erasure.
Twenty years on, while I don't really give Depeche or Erasure much thought, nor 99% of the era's synthpop for that matter, Yazoo's first album still pleases deeply and remains in my regular rotation.
"Upstairs At Eric's" was widely regarded by serious critics as a bona fide masterpiece, in no small part due to Alison Moyet's powerful pipes and soulful yet unmistakably anglo-saxon delivery, a perfect example being "In My Room", sung to Clark's reciting of The Lord's Prayer in the background. There's also some very weird stuff going on in there, check out "I Before E Except After C", considered to be one of the most accurate representations of madness ever put to vinyl, both disturbing and extremely poignant.
Anyway, I'm rambling. To sum up, Yazoo's "Upstairs At Eric's" is, without a doubt in my mind, the peak of its' genre. Give it a whirl, you might be VERY pleasantly surprised.
Twenty years on, while I don't really give Depeche or Erasure much thought, nor 99% of the era's synthpop for that matter, Yazoo's first album still pleases deeply and remains in my regular rotation.
"Upstairs At Eric's" was widely regarded by serious critics as a bona fide masterpiece, in no small part due to Alison Moyet's powerful pipes and soulful yet unmistakably anglo-saxon delivery, a perfect example being "In My Room", sung to Clark's reciting of The Lord's Prayer in the background. There's also some very weird stuff going on in there, check out "I Before E Except After C", considered to be one of the most accurate representations of madness ever put to vinyl, both disturbing and extremely poignant.
Anyway, I'm rambling. To sum up, Yazoo's "Upstairs At Eric's" is, without a doubt in my mind, the peak of its' genre. Give it a whirl, you might be VERY pleasantly surprised.
By: niktemadur
