Passing Strange - Favorite Song?

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Passing Strange - Favorite Song?

Posted: 12/26/08 at 1:48pm

What's your favorite Passing Strange song?

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#2

re: Passing Strange - Favorite Song?

Posted: 12/26/08 at 1:51pm

Hated the show, but I LOVE "Amsterdam". Such a great song!

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#3

re: Passing Strange - Favorite Song?

Posted: 12/26/08 at 1:53pm

bump

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I'm a professional. Whenever something goes wrong on stage, I know how to handle it so no one ever remembers. I flash my %#$&. "Jayne just sat there while Gina flailed around the stage like an idiot."

#4

re: Passing Strange - Favorite Song?

Posted: 12/26/08 at 1:55pm

Meri Beacoup, M. Godard.
Passing Phase makes me cry.
Along with both of the Keys.

#5

re: Passing Strange - Favorite Song?

Posted: 12/26/08 at 1:56pm

You felt the need to bump after 5 minutes? Was there really a need? Is it that dire of a question, what your favorite song from a mediocre show was?

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"He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want— not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable." -F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise

#6

re: Passing Strange - Favorite Song?

Posted: 12/26/08 at 1:56pm

Keys
Merci Beaucoup, M. Godard
Love Like That
Mayday, Mayday
Identity (as weird as it may seem, it reminds me of Jim Morrison so much that I just love it)

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#7

re: Passing Strange - Favorite Song?

Posted: 12/26/08 at 1:57pm

Arlington Hill.

#8

re: Passing Strange - Favorite Song?

Posted: 12/26/08 at 6:03pm

Working the Wound, followed by the call-and-receive section of Keys.

#9

re: Passing Strange - Favorite Song?

Posted: 12/26/08 at 6:24pm

top five

1. Arlington Hill
2. Keys (It's Alright)
3. Identity
4. Baptist Fashion Show
5. Youth's Unfinished Song/Work the Wound

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#10

re: Passing Strange - Favorite Song?

Posted: 12/26/08 at 6:36pm

"Come Down Now" followed by "Love Like That" and "Passing Phase."

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#11

re: Passing Strange - Favorite Song?

Posted: 12/26/08 at 7:24pm

1. Work the Wound
2. Stoned
3. Keys (Its Alright)
4. Passing Phase
5. Freight Train

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#12

re: Passing Strange - Favorite Song?

Posted: 12/26/08 at 7:31pm

Come Down Now.

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#13

re: Passing Strange - Favorite Song?

Posted: 12/26/08 at 7:35pm

You felt the need to bump after 5 minutes? Was there really a need? Is it that dire of a question, what your favorite song from a mediocre show was?

Says the user with "wicked" as nic!

Passing Phase
Arlington Hill

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#14

re: Passing Strange - Favorite Song?

Posted: 12/26/08 at 9:44pm

Come Down Now is just a great song. I love it.

#15

re: Passing Strange - Favorite Song?

Posted: 12/27/08 at 12:59am

"Work the Wound"

And while it's not an actual song, Mr. Franklin and Youth's dialogue during the Arlington Hill section got to me every time I saw the show.

#16

re: Passing Strange - Favorite Song?

Posted: 12/27/08 at 1:22am

blaxx, I made this when the only two shows I knew were Wicked and Beauty and the Beast, cut me some slack. I wish I could change it to some SITPWG or Sondheim reference, but I can't.

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"He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want— not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable." -F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise

#17

re: Passing Strange - Favorite Song?

Posted: 12/27/08 at 1:35am

"Baptist Fashion Show"

#18

re: Passing Strange - Favorite Song?

Posted: 12/27/08 at 1:44am

I'll cut you a huge chunk of slack if you say YOU think it was mediocre.

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Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

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re: Passing Strange - Favorite Song?

Posted: 12/27/08 at 2:54am

Gosh, that's SUCH a hard question for me...

I'll gladly give you my Top 5, though:
(in no particular order)

01. Keys (It's Alright)
02. Arlington Hill
03. Come Down Now
04. Passing Phase
05. Work the Wound

#20

re: Passing Strange - Favorite Song?

Posted: 12/27/08 at 11:55pm

That's a toughie...the 'It's Alright' part of Keys was the most intense, electrifying moment I've ever had in a theater (each time I saw it).

Closely followed by 'Stoned'.

I always enjoyed 'Church Blues Revelation'. And 'Work the Wound' is beautiful. But I really loved ALL of the songs. There really wasn't one I didn't like.

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#21

re: Passing Strange - Favorite Song?

Posted: 12/28/08 at 1:20am

Definitely "Arlington Hill". In fact that whole Arlington Hill scene is by far my favorite part of the show.

#22

re: Passing Strange - Favorite Song?

Posted: 12/28/08 at 11:05am

To watch: The call-and-response segment of "Keys."

To listen to: "Freight Train."

#23

re: Passing Strange - Favorite Song?

Posted: 12/28/08 at 11:30am

I think it is mediocre. It's all just a matter of taste, in my opinion. I would rather see a classic, honest-to-god, broadway show than any of the newer, "contemporary" shows.

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"He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want— not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable." -F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise

#24

re: Passing Strange - Favorite Song?

Posted: 12/28/08 at 12:56pm

Hard decision, but I have to say Come Down Now.

#25

re: Passing Strange - Favorite Song?

Posted: 12/28/08 at 3:21pm

I'm with WickedBeast here. I just don't see any of those songs as being great theater songs. None of them gave me that Broadway tingle. But I did like Daniel Breaker a lot.