She's fucking blind!!! It's horrible, creepy. Steer clear of it.
Donna Summer could totally whip his ass with a hand behind her.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than Your MIDNITE POWERTOOLS (Bimble), Sunday, 21 December 2008 14:08 (fifteen years ago) link
She's also a high school student.
― that karate douche (╓abies), Sunday, 21 December 2008 14:13 (fifteen years ago) link
The part where LR phones her is priceless.
hahahaha you guys need better dope in your house
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than Your MIDNITE POWERTOOLS (Bimble), Sunday, 21 December 2008 14:14 (fifteen years ago) link
lol pwnd. We were all scrapin and doing knifers the other night.
― that karate douche (╓abies), Sunday, 21 December 2008 14:16 (fifteen years ago) link
"All Night Long" is a great video. Can YOU rock those leather pants?
― u s steel, Sunday, 21 December 2008 14:18 (fifteen years ago) link
hahhahhah I HATE YOU. THIS IS A FUCKING LIONEL RICHIE THREADAND WHAT THE FUCK AM I DOING POSTING ON IT?
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than Your MIDNITE POWERTOOLS (Bimble), Sunday, 21 December 2008 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Can you rock the pants AND THAT SHIRT? xpost
― that karate douche (╓abies), Sunday, 21 December 2008 14:24 (fifteen years ago) link
OH shit
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than Your MIDNITE POWERTOOLS (Bimble), Sunday, 21 December 2008 14:26 (fifteen years ago) link
― snoball, Sunday, 21 December 2008 14:27 (fifteen years ago) link
getting into Lionel Richie is kinda like shaving your arm pits. Like at first you're really apprehensive, but then you do it, and it feels really weird and slidey and uncomfortable when you sweat, and you THINK it's in a good way, but like whatever cuz HEY I JUST GREW AS A PERSON or something.
― that karate douche (╓abies), Sunday, 21 December 2008 14:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Um. nb I'm kinda drunk.
YES, i BE DRUNK TOOO
But to be honest I think that is a very homosexual way to sum up Lionel Richie. Just sayin'...
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than Your MIDNITE POWERTOOLS (Bimble), Sunday, 21 December 2008 14:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh fuck, that movie! What is that from?
― that karate douche (╓abies), Sunday, 21 December 2008 14:40 (fifteen years ago) link
That comedy video is funny, but I seriously hope you are not saying Lionel Richie has no soul....
― u s steel, Sunday, 21 December 2008 14:41 (fifteen years ago) link
What I'm saying is that LR in the Commodores >>> LR solo. I suppose that LR solo is more bland, more mainstream.
(xpost) "Amazon Women on the Moon"
― snoball, Sunday, 21 December 2008 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Amazon Women On the Moon! That was it.
Wasn't that scene longer, or...? I swear I remember bits with David Allen Grier at a piano.
― that karate douche (╓abies), Sunday, 21 December 2008 14:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Defence closed.
― derelict, Sunday, 21 December 2008 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link
yay, an excuse to spread this around
http://www.zshare.net/audio/530744696af27b2f/
― Telephone thing, Sunday, 21 December 2008 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
i didnt realise this many ppl hated all night long! you guys are crazy
― t_g, Sunday, 21 December 2008 21:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Bimble Lionel Richie is the actual 80s that you yearn for. Without him your main area of interest is a vast empty soundless sea.
― J0hn D., Sunday, 21 December 2008 21:45 (fifteen years ago) link
ilx is rarely as easy as sunday morning
― Giorgio Moderator (PappaWheelie V), Sunday, 21 December 2008 23:28 (fifteen years ago) link
b... b... but that's because many ILXors work on the nightshift
― snoball, Sunday, 21 December 2008 23:33 (fifteen years ago) link
(and before anyone points it out, I know that LR left the Commodores years before Nightshift was released)
― snoball, Sunday, 21 December 2008 23:37 (fifteen years ago) link
the video for "Hello" is so hilariously awesome/bizarre that it permanently burned into my memory, despite only watching it once.
Can't Slow Down is a surprisingly solid album and "Stuck on You" is a genuinely moving and excellent country ballad.
Not listened to much of his output aside from this album; "Say You, Say Me" is garishly 80s and I really don't need to hear "Endless Love" ever again...
― arctic mindbath (President of the People's Republic of Antarctica), Monday, 10 June 2013 01:03 (ten years ago) link
Re: "Endless Love," I always felt that Lionel was put to better use in another teen romance of the era
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuVH5LcEZj0
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Monday, 10 June 2013 01:12 (ten years ago) link
"surprisingly"
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 June 2013 01:14 (ten years ago) link
well, as I've said, I'm not particularly familiar with his catalog, so when I looked at the tracklisting, the only songs I recognized were "All Night Long", "Running with the Night" and "Hello". I didn't know about the other very good songs.
― arctic mindbath (President of the People's Republic of Antarctica), Monday, 10 June 2013 02:33 (ten years ago) link
"Stuck On You" and "Penny Lover" hold up, don't they?
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 June 2013 02:36 (ten years ago) link
hell yes.
― arctic mindbath (President of the People's Republic of Antarctica), Monday, 10 June 2013 02:41 (ten years ago) link
Last American Virgin has a great soundtrack, iirc.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/The_Last_American_Virgin_movie_poster.jpg/220px-The_Last_American_Virgin_movie_poster.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 10 June 2013 04:16 (ten years ago) link
Side 1"Teen Angel Eyes" - Tommy Tutone (3:30)"De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" - The Police (4:07)"Whip It" - Devo (2:38)"When I Find You" - Phil Seymour (5:13)"Better Luck Next Time" - Oingo Boingo (3:30)Side 2"Are You Ready for the Sex Girls?" - Gleaming Spires (4:00)"Since You're Gone" - The Cars (3:30)"I Know What Boys Like" - The Waitresses (3:14)"Airwaves" - The Fortune Band (3:46)"I Will Follow" - U2 (3:34)In addition to this, the film contains a compendium of other 1980s radio hits:"Oh No" - The Commodores"Open Arms" - Journey"Keep on Loving You" - REO Speedwagon"Just Once" - James Ingram"That's the Way (I Like It)" - KC and the Sunshine Band"Love Action (I Believe in Love)" - The Human League"Shake It Up" - The Cars"Besame Mucho & Granada"- Los Fabulosos 3 Paraguayos"It Aint Easy Comin' Down" - Charlene"Zero Hour" - The Plimsouls"In the Flesh" - Blondie"España Cani" - The Dancing Brass
"Teen Angel Eyes" - Tommy Tutone (3:30)"De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" - The Police (4:07)"Whip It" - Devo (2:38)"When I Find You" - Phil Seymour (5:13)"Better Luck Next Time" - Oingo Boingo (3:30)Side 2
"Are You Ready for the Sex Girls?" - Gleaming Spires (4:00)"Since You're Gone" - The Cars (3:30)"I Know What Boys Like" - The Waitresses (3:14)"Airwaves" - The Fortune Band (3:46)"I Will Follow" - U2 (3:34)In addition to this, the film contains a compendium of other 1980s radio hits:
"Oh No" - The Commodores"Open Arms" - Journey"Keep on Loving You" - REO Speedwagon"Just Once" - James Ingram"That's the Way (I Like It)" - KC and the Sunshine Band"Love Action (I Believe in Love)" - The Human League"Shake It Up" - The Cars"Besame Mucho & Granada"- Los Fabulosos 3 Paraguayos"It Aint Easy Comin' Down" - Charlene"Zero Hour" - The Plimsouls"In the Flesh" - Blondie"España Cani" - The Dancing Brass
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 10 June 2013 04:17 (ten years ago) link
Love 'running with the night'. What are the original lyrics that tracer is referring too tho?
― So: The Answers (or something), Monday, 10 June 2013 11:07 (ten years ago) link
"Say You, Say Me" is hideously 80s.
― arctic mindbath (President of the People's Republic of Antarctica), Monday, 10 June 2013 19:26 (ten years ago) link
I've already said that upthread, but I was listening to it again and it bears repeating.
so listen to it again
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 June 2013 19:49 (ten years ago) link
"hideously 80s" = my aesthetic now basically
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 10 June 2013 20:12 (ten years ago) link
I'll defend Hello -- it's got a great melody, the singing is full of pathos, and although some of the lyrics are a little too cheesy for their own good, there are a couple of subtle things that really capture the loserish longing of a guy too afraid to even talk to the object of his affection, especially "Hello, is it me you're looking for?" The kind of almost magical thinking that a guy in his position can resort to -- he's never even made himself apparent to her, yet he imagines that she might be looking for him. He doesn't actually have the slightest idea who she is or what she's like, yet he has almost creepily constructed elaborate fantasies about her (I say "almost" creepily, because it's the kind of thing I think most guys engage in at some point in their lives).
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 01:16 (ten years ago) link
This week has been Lionel Richie week in my work, Greatest Hits playing every morning so far - it was George Benson the week before - I'm not the biggest fan but the guy is undoubtedly a class songwriter.
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 11:30 (eight years ago) link
Came here to give big ups to "You Are," and see that I already did it way back in 2003. Some things never change.
― J, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 12:09 (eight years ago) link
I'm stuck on him.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 02:43 (seven years ago) link
I was confused about the inclusion of Nightshift before I realized you weren't restricting your Commodores considerations to only years he was a Commodore.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 02:52 (seven years ago) link
my wife's a big fan and i went with her to a gig a few years ago with fairly low expectations but tbh it's one of the best gigs i've ever been to as far as staging, pacing and frequency of hits goes
the guy puts on a hell of a show and he is massively charismatic onstage
― 🎵 it's grey pubic now, stoner blue 🎵 (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 09:06 (seven years ago) link
Lionel is classic as fuck.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Tuesday, 24 April 2018 18:29 (six years ago) link
What the bloody hell happens three minutes into Say You, Say Me? I mean it wasn't a great song anyway but this hot garbage won an Oscar.
― Your dad's Carlos Boozer and you keep him alive (fionnland), Saturday, 16 February 2019 13:47 (five years ago) link
Lionel Richie IS classic as fuck.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 May 2019 00:21 (five years ago) link
I'd forgotten about 'Don't Wanna Lose You'! Saw the video to that quite a lot in '96, and it made the Top 20. I can still sing it in my head now even though I haven't heard it for 23 years.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Thursday, 30 May 2019 01:55 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/pn8lXBh.png
― calstars, Thursday, 17 February 2022 01:40 (two years ago) link
Lionel Richie's stuff is wildly uneven to me, but I lean towards the Commodores hits. There's really not much by the post-Richie Commodores that I want to play, but I like "Night Shift" more than any of their previous hits except "Brick House."
― birdistheword, Thursday, 17 February 2022 15:59 (two years ago) link