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Post by BiteUrLip on Mar 28, 2020 19:07:55 GMT
Writer: Jean-Paul Dreau and Gary Osborne
Lyrics:
They must have loved each other once
But that was many years ago
And by the time I came along
Things were already going wrong
I felt the pain in their pretence
The side they tried hard not to show
But through the simple eyes of youth
It wasn't hard to see the truth
And in the end nobody wins
When love begins to fall apart
And it's the innocent who pay
When broken dreams get in the way
The game begins, the game nobody wins
They must have loved each other once
Before the magic slipped away
And as their life became a lie
What love remained began to die
I used to hide beneath the sheets
I prayed that time would find a way
But with the passing of the years
I watched as laughter turned to tears
We used to love each other once
With all the passion we possessed
But people change as time goes by
Some feelings grow while others die
But if we learn from what we see
And face the truth while we still can
Then though the passion may be gone
Some kind of love can still live on
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Post by BiteUrLip on Mar 28, 2020 19:08:50 GMT
It's pretty good, catchy song. I really like the groove. Didn't like it in the beginning but it grew on me.
4½ stars.
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Post by nix on Mar 28, 2020 19:54:44 GMT
5 brilliant pop song full of passion, perfect vocals, exciting rythm
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Post by dougs on Mar 28, 2020 23:03:18 GMT
"Nobody Wins" from THE FOX:
Interesting story behind 1981's "Nobody Wins." Apparently Elton was driving in his car while in France and heard Janic Prevost's version of "J'Veux d'la Tendresse" (translates to "I Want Tenderness") and EJ was so overcome with the song that he pulled the car over to listen to it. He stated that the song "just sent shivers up and down my spine." He then asked Gary Osborne to write an English lyric to the song. Osborne then wrote a lyric about Elton's relationship with his father and "Nobody Wins" was the result.
"Nobody Wins" has EJ giving the song a stronger electronic & programmed treatment than Prevost's version. Good for EJ to step a little outside of the box musically with "Nobody Wins." With New Wave influences crashing into the music charts at this time Elton's music was less and less trend-setting for certain. Programmed drums & percussion and electronic keyboards were either dominating or influencing so much music at the time. "Nobody Wins" incorporated both. Strangely I recall that, despite these influences, "Nobody Wins" just didn't match the excitement of most of the great contemporary pop happening at the time. It almost sounds better today than it did then. "Nobody Wins" did manage a top 10 chart position in Norway but overall it didn't chart particularly well; #21 in the US, #23 in Canada, and #42 in the UK.
Elton was better able to capture that electronic programmed Euro-pop sound with "Crystal" and "Too Low For Zero" in 1983 from the TOO LOW FOR ZERO album.
Rating: 4 1/2 stars
Doug
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Post by newloneranger on Mar 29, 2020 2:52:14 GMT
First single from The Fox album, always liked it.
5 stars
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Post by Commodore Orpington on Mar 30, 2020 20:18:16 GMT
It grew on me later, especially J'Veux d'La Tendresse the extended version, which I have on a comp tape. Notable for its Linn LM-1 drum machine, new at the time. I remember an ad in a music magazine naming the record, then showing a picture of the Linn LM-1, captioned "the drummer on the record". Can't find it online.
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Post by rocketman on Mar 31, 2020 17:18:31 GMT
4 stars...As DougS mentioned, in some ways this song sounds better now, and as Commodore pointed out, it's a bit of a grower, though I kind of always liked it. The heavy use of programmed drums at the time now seems rather interesting when one looks back almost 40 years, so the whole song has aged pretty well. As Doug also said, it's superseded by songs like Crystal and the title track from the Too Low album in terms of sound (and overall quality) but Nobody Wins does stand the test of time fairly well.
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