defend the indefensible: "we are the world"

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I was such a dork as a kid that I had a big We Are The World poster of the group shot on my bedroom wall...I think it had a little legend with all the names of the people.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 24 June 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

I only like it because it's one of the only records my grandparents used to let us play as kids on a broken old player they'd dug out the attic to save their good records being destroyed. So I like it for nostalgic reasons only.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 24 June 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

There should be a giant hailstorm of menhirs to blight you all.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 24 June 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

Ray Charles fucking OWNS on this. Dylan and Lauper are great, too. It's a really lousy song and a shitty record but it has a handful of killer performances on it. Not enough to redeem it, obv., but I prefer those flashes to the overall blandess of "Do They Know It's Christmas."

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 24 June 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

B-b-but I waited my entire twelve-year life to hear that duet between Kenny Rogers and Al Jarreau!

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 24 June 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

Last time I watched this video (on the Live Aid DVD) I teared up when I heard Charles' vocal, especially the second time he sings "There's a choice we're makin'..."; he fucking TEARS into it.

However, Dylan sucks!

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 24 June 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

Good Lord, "Do They Know it's Christmas" postively shits all over "We Are the World" in a brown torrent of tannembaum-shaped charity turds.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 24 June 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

Don't you know that turds are not enough?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 June 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

Supposedly Dylan couldn't figure out how to sing it until Stevie Wonder demonstrated in full-on DYLAN mode.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 24 June 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

BTW, ick.

xpost

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 24 June 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

a brown torrent of tannembaum-shaped charity turds.

that would take one precise sphincter!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 24 June 2005 18:13 (twenty years ago)

Supposedly Dylan couldn't figure out how to sing it

And it shows.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 24 June 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

Paul Young and Boy George came off best.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 24 June 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

If it hadn't been made then a lot of food and money wouldn't have been raised. For that alone, I don't find it bad.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 24 June 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

It might've raised a whole lot more had it not been so fucking bad.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 24 June 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

(sorry, that's an admittedly lame argument)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 24 June 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

Don't you know that turds are not enough?

YES! David Foster just dropped dead and rolled over in his grave.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 24 June 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

It might've raised a whole lot more had it not been so fucking bad.

True, but charity songs are, as a rule, complete shit.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 24 June 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)

YES! David Foster just dropped dead and rolled over in his grave.

I knew the Canadians would get the reference.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 June 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

four years pass...

i just heard "voices that care" for the first time and jesus christ i don't think i'll ever even joke about "we are the world" being a bad song again.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 31 July 2009 02:42 (sixteen years ago)

Haha -- I had an argument with a former Stylus colleague who insists that "Sun City" is better than WATW; he was beguiled by Arthur Baker and Hipster Quotient (nice moniker, that).

― Heric E. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 July 2009 02:43 (sixteen years ago)

If you have the time to watch this 10 parts thing, I recommend you do : it's solid gold 80s !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GA5NvqGg0s

― AleXTC, Friday, 31 July 2009 11:23 (sixteen years ago)

haha I remember LOVING "Sun City" at the time

― Four-TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN! (HI DERE), Friday, 31 July 2009 13:28 (sixteen years ago)

prefer voices that care to w.a.t.w and "stars" to either

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZktrrqT1A0

― Trey Tsongas (J0hn D.), Friday, 31 July 2009 13:50 (sixteen years ago)

it has a nice (lovely at times) melody.

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Friday, 31 July 2009 13:53 (sixteen years ago)

plus it generated a lot of money for charity.

also, bob geldofy and bono werent involved.

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Friday, 31 July 2009 13:54 (sixteen years ago)

*geldof

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Friday, 31 July 2009 13:54 (sixteen years ago)

btw if you watch that stars video with the sound down on the player & forrest fang's new album playing instead, life becomes awesome

― Trey Tsongas (J0hn D.), Friday, 31 July 2009 14:02 (sixteen years ago)

You know, the most obvious defence for this song is that it helped save the lives of a lot of starving people in Ethiopia, which is - well.... - not the worst thing a song can do, really...

Besides, it isn't all that bad as a song either - even though the lyrics are indefensible forever and ever.

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 31 July 2009 14:32 (sixteen years ago)

man i need to poll this

― tulsa anti-juggalo league (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 31 July 2009 15:58 (sixteen years ago)

Ugh. Absolutely without merit. Typically American. We lift the idea from Band And, and then blow it way out of proportion ("the day rock cried" my ass). Plus, it's a horrible, overwrought, lyrically meaningless piece of shit song. Fuck everyone involved.

It was true then and it's still true today.

― Alex in NYC, Friday, 31 July 2009 18:50 (sixteen years ago)

Yes, black Americans are always ripping off the British!

― Hoot Smalley, Friday, 31 July 2009 19:01 (sixteen years ago)

alex is being too kind imo

― omar little, Friday, 31 July 2009 19:03 (sixteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlLIL9rbECE

― generic xanax order cialis buy viagra cheap tramadol (Dr. Phil), Friday, 31 July 2009 19:11 (sixteen years ago)

"i've heard the song its a tremendous song uh i don't know the words but uh i heard the song"

- wayne gretzky

― generic xanax order cialis buy viagra cheap tramadol (Dr. Phil), Friday, 31 July 2009 19:12 (sixteen years ago)

lol @ alex internet toughguying it up about we are the world

― tulsa anti-juggalo league (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 31 July 2009 19:27 (sixteen years ago)

lil wayne -- fuck tha world

― generic xanax order cialis buy viagra cheap tramadol (Dr. Phil), Friday, 31 July 2009 19:37 (sixteen years ago)

^ thats one of my favorite alex in nyc posts btw

― generic xanax order cialis buy viagra cheap tramadol (Dr. Phil), Friday, 31 July 2009 19:38 (sixteen years ago)

haha that is classic

― tulsa anti-juggalo league (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 31 July 2009 19:38 (sixteen years ago)

there's one...god...alex what did you say?

like "X shits down upon X from a prodigious height or something"

― tulsa anti-juggalo league (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 31 July 2009 19:39 (sixteen years ago)

hahaha

― generic xanax order cialis buy viagra cheap tramadol (Dr. Phil), Friday, 31 July 2009 19:40 (sixteen years ago)

what's the one that involves eating someone's organs or was it defecating on their organs

― generic xanax order cialis buy viagra cheap tramadol (Dr. Phil), Friday, 31 July 2009 19:44 (sixteen years ago)

POX: Alex in NYC posts

― generic xanax order cialis buy viagra cheap tramadol (Dr. Phil), Friday, 31 July 2009 19:45 (sixteen years ago)

where's the one where he compared so and so unfavorably to denny vertigo?

― omar little, Friday, 31 July 2009 19:46 (sixteen years ago)

"Shock the Monkey" positively defecates in its own paw and lobs it derisively at not only this Billy Joel track, but at BILLY JOEL'S ENTIRE CATALOG!

Siouxsie's cover of "This Town Ain't Big Enough" discreetly defecates on the original from a lofty, height like a divine brown deluge.

― velko, Friday, 31 July 2009 19:49 (sixteen years ago)

James Ingram and Micheal McDonald "Yah mo be there"

What kind of keyboards did Micheal McDonald and James Ingram use to make this song.

-- startrekman, Saturday, November 27, 2004 6:22 AM

irritating ones.

-- Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, November 27, 2004 6:27 AM

― generic xanax order cialis buy viagra cheap tramadol (Dr. Phil), Friday, 31 July 2009 19:49 (sixteen years ago)

hahahaha that one is great

― Four-TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN! (HI DERE), Friday, 31 July 2009 19:50 (sixteen years ago)

lol indeed

― AleXTC, Monday, 3 August 2009 16:43 (sixteen years ago)

prefer voices that care to w.a.t.w

jesus christ. at the very least, the message of WATW (standard hippie zen "we should all love one another") is a better one than the barely camouflaged pro-war bullshit of "voices that care."

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 3 August 2009 19:25 (sixteen years ago)

i actually think "voices that care" may make me angrier than any other record in the world. watching that video certainly does.

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 3 August 2009 19:30 (sixteen years ago)

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