The Friday Canon: BECAUSE YOU DEMANDED IT

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It's the Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber canon!

I'd be the first to concede that ALW and his henchmen have been responsible for a great deal of wank. But they've also brought us some fantastic POP and this is what the Friday Canon is here to celebrate.

You get FIVE picks from the selection presented. To get it down to something representative and manageable I have bent the strict Friday Canon rules a little, i.e. OUT goes "No Matter What" by Boyzone, IN comes "Superstar" and only one version per song is listed. BUT if you love a song and don't know the precise version given you may of course vote for it anyway.




[Poll #701614]


Wasn't it good? OH SO GOOD.

Comments

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

Am I completely alone in not being able to think of a single ALW song I can even comfortably tolerate?

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

not even "i know him so well"?

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

I may be wrong, but isn't Chess a Tim Rice/Benny/Bjorn thing, with NO WEBER INVOLVEMEMT whatsoever?

It may be something I've just kept telling myself to make it easier to face up to, though.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yes it is. Rice-related stuff included in the poll, but Martin can embrace the AWESOMENESS of "I Know Him So Well" (and erm A Winters Tale) without breaking his ALW purdah.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Do you not like musicals in general, or is it just ALW?

"Take That Look" in particular I think works in a very similar way to a lot of classic soul - a bit of melodrama, some clever lyrics, a direct route to an emotional situation.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

all these songs have been covered by john holt martin!

oops i voted for loads more than five :\

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

I have no such purdah, but I don't like that song either. Mark is probably correct that there are covers of many of these songs by singers I like (not that I am hugely keen on John Holt, mostly), but I can feel my neck and shoulder and jaw muscles tensing uncomfortably just thinking of these songs, and imagining them by someone good doesn't help that much - but the singers listed here do more harm than good.

I'm less of a musicals fan than most, and didn't tick a huge number on Kat's poll - often more because of ignorance than distaste, though.