The Val Kilmer Recording
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Posted on Jan 09, 2008 08:48 am
dbmasters
Administrator Since: Apr 03, 2002
I just heard a couple tracks from the new Val Kilmer album.
If ya need a good laugh, check it out...he has Mick (Rossi) in the background...it's just barely listenable then, but wow, does Val suck.
Hats off as he's a great actor, one of the greats of all time in my opinion (though apparently one of the biggest a-holes of all time too) but holy crap the dude can't sing, I wanna know what producer thought this was a good idea...
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Keith WarrenMans reach exceeds his graspMember
Since: Oct 23, 2007
Jan 09, 2008 09:21 am I think he got the idea after he played Jim Morrison in The Doors movie.
Who the hell did tell him he could sing? True friend is ok at first, but it gets really retarded in the second verse "Alone with poetry and foreign football on hotel television, text message from trouble kept women" What the hell is he talking about??
Jan 09, 2008 09:23 am I think he's probably cracked...but still, good actor.
JScottDethklok, DethklokMember
Since: Dec 25, 2007
Jan 09, 2008 01:47 pm Where? I can't find it? It's not on Itunes?
Keith WarrenMans reach exceeds his graspMember
Since: Oct 23, 2007
Jan 10, 2008 02:03 pm You can find it on myspace: myspace.com/valkilmermusic
And this is why Val Kilmer is having THE BEST YEAR EVER~! lmao
Jan 10, 2008 02:15 pm horrible lyricist...
and he needs singing lessons...
evidently he gets mad if you make eye contact with him. Some folks in camas, washington told me that. Evidently he lives there or something? hah.
Keith WarrenMans reach exceeds his graspMember
Since: Oct 23, 2007
Jan 10, 2008 02:20 pm The thing about his lyrics is that some of them are actually clever... but they're pieced together, stolen material from other artists, lol. All the other stuff is his pointless ramblings. I'll put this out there again:
Quote:
"Alone with poetry and foreign football on hotel television, text message from trouble kept women"
Jan 10, 2008 02:25 pm Quote:
evidently he gets mad if you make eye contact with him.
I've heard he is one of the biggest a-holes in hollywood...can't say I've ever met the guy, but some of the stories are really bad...putting a cigarette out on an assistants forehead springs to mind...cuz the assistant forgot an ashtray...
Jan 10, 2008 02:27 pm Heheh.. I should rip a track off of Laverne & Shirley Sing and post it in my profile. Or maybe one from The Odd Couple studio album...
BleakA small pie will soon be eatenMember
Since: Aug 26, 2004
Jan 10, 2008 04:32 pm Bit harsh i reckon. I've heard a lot worse than that!
If he was a member posting that then we'd all be saying how good it was.
But yes, he can't write lyrics for sh&*
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Jan 10, 2008 10:38 pm No, I heard a bit of it on KQ this morning and didn't know what it was until this afternoon. What a buffoon. And no, I would not tell him he was good. His voice is hideous.
It was After the Gold Rush that they played and my god, it sounds like Warren Zevon on his death bed. Sorry Warren. His voice is shaking and warped as if he was totally wacked out. The least he could have done was used an autotune.
Oh, I'm gonna go toss my cookies now.
BleakA small pie will soon be eatenMember
Since: Aug 26, 2004
Jan 11, 2008 08:35 am Toss cookies = To puke/vomit/chunder
I had to look that up!
Jan 11, 2008 09:40 am Man, KQ is playing After the Gold Rush again as a joke...jeezuz, it's terrible. I can honestly say I can sing better than that...and I suck.
cooloFrisco's Most UnderratedMember
Since: Jan 28, 2003
Jan 11, 2008 12:52 pm Man, this is corny.
I would say he's mostly, in pitch, but his vocal stylings are kinda wierd to me. Lyrics are mostly nonsensical, like he's trying really hard to be deep/esoterical...but whatever. I kinda agree with Bleak, if it was a member who posted this we would put a kind face on this and try to find something positive about it. But it's not, it's val kilmer, so we can go ahead and bash this. Yee.
Aug 24, 2008 11:58 am On the dvd "The Saint" commentary by Phillip Noyce he actually said he had instructed the extras not to make eye contact with Val as they kept looking at him and messing up the takes. I would have a hard time not looking at him he is such a good actor.
Aug 24, 2008 03:14 pm wow, who doesnt make acoustic rock nowadays? Why does every actor/actress think their a musician? Some are dont get wrong, but cmon if i tried to act in a movie people would be as offended as i am by this music. MMMmmm rants.
Aug 24, 2008 03:43 pm Quote:
Why does every actor/actress think their a musician?
The same reason every musician thinks they're an actor. :-)
There are only a few who could do both at least average or above...I thought Kid Rock could do both fair, Billy Bob kinda, Bruce Willis kinda
...well, then John Belushi and Dan Akroyd...
Noize2uCzar of MidiAdministrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002
Aug 24, 2008 04:36 pm Jon Bonjovi wasn't half bad at acting either. And not a bad musician by the sound's of it.
Kris Kristoferson on the other hand should have stayed in music.
Well OK, maybe not.
Aug 24, 2008 04:36 pm i must watch blues brothers now. on another note i also like the new avatar as well, dB.
Aug 24, 2008 05:56 pm I don't like the Gold Rush one... But, the rest I really like!
Am I an ******* for this? Haha.
Aug 24, 2008 06:13 pm damn thing won't even play for me.
Aug 24, 2008 07:36 pm Quote:
Why does every actor/actress think their a musician?
Most of them started as singer / dancer / instrumentalist. To get an acting gig, unless you're one of those "amazing story" types that get discovered running to the bathroom in an airplane, you need to have a pretty solid resume together before you can even get into a cattle-call.
I can't think of too many actors that don't have some wonderfully embarrassing video of all their community theatre gigs from their teens...
Dematrixhttp://www.reverbnation.com/2ndgMember
Since: Nov 27, 2007
Aug 24, 2008 09:29 pm ICEMAN!!
Geez that really does suck.
quote from true friend:
"I bend and i bend and i bend and im bending".
Never put that in a song. Its just sounds wrong ya know?
Aug 24, 2008 10:50 pm the songs won't play for me, but i do notice that he used the nirvana font for his album cover. that's kind of strange, no?
Dematrixhttp://www.reverbnation.com/2ndgMember
Since: Nov 27, 2007
Aug 25, 2008 01:24 am i shouldnt say it but hey its my opinion.
in regards to the Nirvana font usage; He's just doing what so many muso's are doing out there these days. Ripping off others ideas hoping no one will notice.
well i notice everything, mostly in songs. these muso's think they can just rip off a specific tune in a good song and just write their own tune around it.
they are nothing but fakes and piggy backers, and there are so many out there.
hold on, i think i just went off on a tangent there.
Aug 25, 2008 06:07 am well, as long as you're doing that, have you ever noticed that rick astley's 'never gonna give you up' and 'together forever'--his only two hits--are in fact the same exact songs?
i thought so, anyway. i'd have to check again. it's the chord roots/progressions. there's a prechorus in one of them, but otherwise, cookie cutter.
it's really bad when you rip your OWN MUSIC off, right?
Aug 25, 2008 06:24 am i got the thing to play. the first thing that bothered me was the octave jump on 'anymore' in 'true friend.' that's no good.
but he's in key. his voice doesn't bother me at all.
lyrics: i tend never to hear them...wait a second.
the phrase 'alone with poetry' was phrased wonderfully. that single line there--that's voiced really fantastically. the melody is great at that very moment too, the up and down of it. and the spill of the syllables right there is great too. but then 'football' comes along to wreck it absolutely. that's just not a good decision.
i'd have to listen more, but it's not that bad to me. lyrics are in trouble, yes. the 'all you do is lie' part sucks. 'vacuous man' sucks. 'my value' sucks.
poetry doesn't translate to songs. i imagine that val made the mistake of trying to fit poetry to music. he should have killed his babies and written songs instead. then he'd have something.
i think it's not essentially bad, though, judging by this one track. it's just a lyric problem and a couple bad melody choices.
Aug 25, 2008 10:32 am Quote:
it's really bad when you rip your OWN MUSIC off, right?
Didn't John Fogerty actually get sued by his own record company for plagiarizing his own music?
Aug 25, 2008 10:33 am ha, Jim beat me to it, the John Fogerty story always pops into my head in that sort of a situation, he proved one can plagiarizer themselves.
NightcapVeni, MIDI, ViciMember
Since: Jul 02, 2008
Aug 25, 2008 03:02 pm I don't want to start an argument here, but how can one plagiarize oneself? The definition of plagiarism is using somebody else's ideas or creative work without giving credit to that person. Well, JF wasn't using another person's ideas and he also gave credit to himself. No? :-)
Aug 25, 2008 03:04 pm when your song is owned by somebody else, and you write another song that sounds too much like the one that is owned by another...it's not about who created it, it's about who owns the rights to it.
NightcapVeni, MIDI, ViciMember
Since: Jul 02, 2008
Aug 25, 2008 03:12 pm Yeah, that would explain it. I never really followed that whole JF story and I was just wondering after reading the earlier posts. Glad you cleared that up for me dB.
Aug 25, 2008 03:13 pm Glad to clarify what little I am actually capable of clarifying for anyone :-)
CptTrippsCzar of Turd PolishMember
Since: Jun 20, 2006
Aug 25, 2008 04:00 pm His voice, meh, not horrible nothing that made me say "oooo ahhhh" either.
Thing is, I assume he did this with his $$$$ and access to high end studio's so I expected more. If he did it on a PC in his basement with a $300 program and a $500 interface I can honestly say I would be more forgiving and say "not too bad".
Dematrixhttp://www.reverbnation.com/2ndgMember
Since: Nov 27, 2007
Aug 25, 2008 08:00 pm forty,
here are a couple bands that rip off stuff so much, that i cant believe they get away with it.
"White Stripes" and dunno if you guys have heard much of this "grinspoon"
I can think of plenty more, but better not slander too much i guess.
there is one song in particular that was popular a few years back by "white stripes" where the riff used pretty much through the whole song was the main riff from a popular "police" song.
It makes me aggas, because they must be able to get away with it somehow legally, and thats why they do it.
nothing but wanna be's getting a free meal from someone elses hard work.
as for Rick Astley...well...what a sexy man he was eh??? great muso. Ha Ha Ha!
He always reminded me of "tin tin"
