Pick hits: "The Other Woman" (cheating as compulsion; one of the best synth-horn lines evah, plus grebt pseudo-menacing guitar raunch), "A Woman Needs Love" (cheating as revenge), "Bad Boy" (the sequel to "The Other Woman," in which Ray takes his punishment w/whips and chains[!!]), "Me" ("Girl, I've got something good for you--guess what it is? Me!"), probably a dozen more.
oh, I also bought the "Ghostbusters" 7-inch. Hell fucking yeah.
― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 19 July 2003 07:41 (twenty years ago) link
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― zachary mckethan, Sunday, 16 April 2006 17:01 (eighteen years ago) link
also, it is always a good idea to rep "Me" from the debut over and over again. ditto "A Woman Needs Love."
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Monday, 17 April 2006 02:55 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 17 April 2006 08:48 (eighteen years ago) link
Television event of the year tonight: the Ray Parker Jr. episode of Unsung.
http://tvone.tv/unsung-videos?pid=2TjW0eH0Mu3zeREzxzwkGN6CNttvkju9&cat=1
Ray Parker Jr. pre-Ghostbusters Arbitrary Road Map. He did one, some, or all of the following things on each song: guitar, songwriter, producer, other instruments.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9ryNyPEyqA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOegUBz1QzM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63zOqDYB0Ko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsoev9raCvo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M98ZCnSuuRQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rju9b_Uk8Sw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soV9PE5dHyo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDgbBjeMy90
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CaE7cssEx4
This accounts for a very small percentage of his career.
― Andy K, Monday, 13 February 2012 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AYgpqkfT14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGTsqjTJsBA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBHAPaH5GjI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TETznfG-O-s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA-4F6l-jr4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFjhdqB4_EY
― Andy K, Monday, 13 February 2012 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
"I said, 'Ray -- if you're gonna sing...let me otta this group.'"
― Andy K, Tuesday, 14 February 2012 23:59 (twelve years ago) link
Good lord, it's a goldmine.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
"I Still Can't Get Over Loving You" is one of the loveliest synth-pop melodies to grace the top 40. It's Human League worthy!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 00:02 (twelve years ago) link
these are my two favorites. someone promininet (?) did an edit of 'more than one way.,' a couple of years ago that was pleasant.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fUIdrFKG2Ihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uut17AbaxiA
― andrew m., Wednesday, 15 February 2012 04:24 (twelve years ago) link
*prominent
terje? rune? someone... don't feel like searching now
― andrew m., Wednesday, 15 February 2012 04:26 (twelve years ago) link
Full Unsung episode can be seen after some digging here:
http://tvone.tv/unsung-videos
It's one thing to see the site of The 20 Grand, but it's another thingentirely to see someone who played there -- still in full health -- standing in front of it.
― Andy K, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 13:47 (twelve years ago) link
bustin makes me feel good http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif
― dave cool, Wednesday, 15 February 2012 13:58 (twelve years ago) link
A marvelous interview that takes him seriously:
Q: You mentioned cameos in the "Ghostbusters" video. I distinctly recall watching you perform "Ghostbusters" on Solid Gold where the show incorporated clips of Tina Turner, the Pointer Sisters, and Laura Branigan lip-syncing the title, which I thought was the coolest thing. Looking back on that, it's impressive how you, Tina Turner, and the Pointer Sisters were veteran artists and yet all of you had achieved your greatest commercial success during the second, or in Tina's case, third decade of your career at that time. I don't know if that would be possible now in the industry.
Yeah, I even had a Greatest Hits (1982) album out before "Ghostbusters". I think that was the peak of record sales, the late-'70s, early-'80s. I was born at the right time. Had I been born ten years earlier, there were no album sales in the '60s. It's like being a session musician. There's a window that I happened to fall in where people could make money. You can't do that now in studio work. There's not enough studio work. In the '70s, studio musicians were making as much as the artists. You could make a fortune. Some of it is "I'm great!" and some of it is just timing. If I had done the exact same thing ten years earlier or ten years later, that wouldn't have been it.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 December 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
New interview: https://www.popmatters.com/ray-parker-jr-interview-2023
― niall horanburger (cryptosicko), Monday, 6 March 2023 18:15 (one year ago) link