Twisted Tenderness

I really love it lately. I used to think it was gay as fuck,but it's not,it's brilliant..We all change without realising don't we...How come?

Gay? I listened to that album endlessly at peak volume for months after it came out and I am as straight as a you can get - John Wayne on a Harley watching a Stallone movie - that's me.

Though, now that I think of it, covering Steve Winwood is kinda gay, as are Harleys and, really, Stallone movies.

No matter, I'm as straight as Spitzer, as the kids say nowadays and TT is a fan-f***ing-tastic disc

TT rocks!

I had to listen to it about 15 times before I finally got it, but now I really love it.

I think it's great that the albums are all so different.

I like that and I am not gay

I'm on about the song Twisted Tenderness itself,not the album... The rest of the album is shat,by an large...Forbidden City is the mutts nuts tho.. The first Electronic album is way,way better overall,ask anyone...

I'm with you there. When I first got it, listened to it three times and found it hohum... put it on the shelf to collect dust. Decided to add it to the iPod and it played in the backround. It shocked me when I thought 'damn that's a good song, why don't I know this one?" since then its been played a bit....

...though I wouldn't jiz all over it like some do here...

Boatraceface wrote: I really love it lately. I used to think it was gay as fuck,but it's not,it's brilliant..We all change without realising don't we...How come?

No bird to rattle all over your gaff.

Both Hooky and Barney were betraying NO in 1999-2000 when they knowing that NO were back on track nevertheless were writing great song for their own bands. Heaven 7 and the opening track off TT would be great on Get Ready.

I read on the feeleverybeat.co.uk site that it was originally supposed to be an acoustic song or something, but they changed it. Here's the section from feeleverybeat.co.uk:

tragically, the urgent centrepiece and title track of electronic’s third lp was never released as a single; the only place it was featured prominently was the twisted tenderness::deluxe promo. bernard sumner: “we wrote twisted tenderness on guitar. we got it programmed and we started playing it on the synthesizer, and it turned into a dance tune and sounded fucking great.” musically and lyrically dazzling, it would have complemented the first single vivid very well and certainly performed on the singles chart—backed by king for a day and warning sign, it would also have been the ultimate electronic single. but it wasn’t to be.