Comments on: Creation Records Founder Screws Up The Courage To Admit That George Michael Was Awesome (Well, Duh)

By: texasbrian

texasbrian — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:49:34 +0000

Only thing wrong with saying that “George Michael was awesome” is the verb tense: George Michael IS awesome. He continues to create masterful works of art time after time, both lyrically and musically, composing, arranging, producing, and then performing without peer. Most pop acts on the charts can’t even do ONE of those. It’s a cliché, but his music is the soundtrack to my life (I don’t know how he does that with his words), and the music is funky in all the right places, and haunting when it needs to be. Simply brilliant.

By: Lucas Jensen

Lucas Jensen — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:16:30 +0000

@cheesebubble: *makes hissing Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1970s Phillip Kaufman version) noise*

By: cheesebubble

cheesebubble — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:33:22 +0000

Lots of love here. I’m kind of surprised. I’ll throw a wrench into the works by submitting a “thumbs down” to the notion that this album is stellar. And I now retreat to the shadows.

By: Joe Gross

Joe Gross — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:35:51 +0000

McGee is a tool, but “The Creation Records Story: My Magpie Eyes Are Hungry for the Prize” is a great book with a too long title and Faith is one of the great 80s pop albums.

So there’s that….

By: Lucas Jensen

Lucas Jensen — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:32:29 +0000

@Thierry: I'm still waiting, too.

By: Lucas Jensen

Lucas Jensen — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:31:54 +0000

@Thierry: So OTM. He signed a band called Cosmic Rough Riders, for Pete's sake!

By: Thierry

Thierry — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:08:08 +0000

I – unlike the Guardian commentors – don’t think there’s anything wrong in admitting that was a great album, but let’s keep in mind that using McGee to validate our taste is kind of pointless, as this is the same guy who described 3 Colours Red as “the new Sex Pistols” and Bernard Butler as “the new Neil Young” (I love the latter to death and at this point would be more likely to pick up his version of Archives, but Neil Young he is not).

By: How do I say this...Throwdini!?!

How do I say this...Throwdini!?! — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:30:23 +0000

I agree, Faith is really good, but I'm still waiting for Listen Without Prejudice, Vol. 2. No really, I loved that album.

By: slowburn

slowburn — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:52:20 +0000

I will ride or die for this album. It’s the one thing on my iPod that my friends laugh at when they see, and I’m always like, “What’s wrong with you? You weren’t cooling out to “Father Figure” on the Jersey Shore? You don’t know what you were missing!”

By: NeverEnough

NeverEnough — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:58:25 +0000

Faith is an amazing album. I hate the whole “authenticity” argument. If some moves you, it’s doing its job as a piece of art.

By: Chris Molanphy

Chris Molanphy — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:50:37 +0000

I pity folks who pick up the CD of Faith and only hear Michael’s self-produced album version of “Monkey,” which he himself calls inferior to the Jimmy-and-Terry-produced rerecording/single. That version — heard in the video above — just cooks.

In fact, Sony should do a proper remaster of Faith with the single version of “Monkey” thrown on and some of the contemporaneous B-sides, maybe even throw “A Different Corner” on there. (I know, unlikely, given the long war Michael fought against the old Columbia regime in the early ’90s, but a boy can dream.)

By: NedRaggett

NedRaggett — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:24:52 +0000

Great album of course, pretty much soundtracked my senior year of high school along with the local classic rock station. This all said I have the feeling McGee is honoring some obscure part of the contract he signed when he sold over Creation to Sony.