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KeithNacho
Great Country ballad with a tuch of rap-speeching. This song was killed in a public ejecution during SAL film
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Green Lady
Why can't Mick bring himself to take a country song seriously?
I suppose it's part of his emotional detachment (there aren't many suggestions when anybody starts a thread about "Mick's most emotional/passionate/committed vocal performance" ). On any video of Far Away Eyes Mick's obviously enjoying doing his mocking, tongue-in-cheek vocal (and don't get me wrong, it's fun and I enjoy it too) - but whereas Keith can sing country straight from the heart, Mick always has to distance himself by exaggerating the country style - a pastiche, not the real thing.
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Green Lady
Why can't Mick bring himself to take a country song seriously?
I suppose it's part of his emotional detachment (there aren't many suggestions when anybody starts a thread about "Mick's most emotional/passionate/committed vocal performance" ). On any video of Far Away Eyes Mick's obviously enjoying doing his mocking, tongue-in-cheek vocal (and don't get me wrong, it's fun and I enjoy it too) - but whereas Keith can sing country straight from the heart, Mick always has to distance himself by exaggerating the country style - a pastiche, not the real thing.
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Green Lady
Why can't Mick bring himself to take a country song seriously?
I suppose it's part of his emotional detachment (there aren't many suggestions when anybody starts a thread about "Mick's most emotional/passionate/committed vocal performance" ). On any video of Far Away Eyes Mick's obviously enjoying doing his mocking, tongue-in-cheek vocal (and don't get me wrong, it's fun and I enjoy it too) - but whereas Keith can sing country straight from the heart, Mick always has to distance himself by exaggerating the country style - a pastiche, not the real thing.
When this thread has been lifted up, if I may be allowed to, I would like to make a comment:
Myself I think that "Far Away Eyes" is so beautifully double edged. Where does one find such deep sympathy as in the refrain of this seemingly tongue-in-cheek song? That aspect then instead for this listener saves the song from ending up as pathetic. It is the song I would have recommended for a deep down depressed person, telling him or her to listen to the refrain and how it is sung, making "Far Away Eyes" instead of "best" in some meaning, a uniquely moving and comforting song. As such without its equal, apart perhaps from "Do You Know How It Is to Be Lonesome" by Gram Parsons' International Submarine Band. However, I prefer "Far Away Eyes".