defend the indefensible: "we are the world"

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

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

I knew the Canadians would get the reference.

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.

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).

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

haha I remember LOVING "Sun City" at the time

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

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

it has a nice (lovely at times) melody.

plus it generated a lot of money for charity.

also, bob geldofy and bono werent involved.

*geldof

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

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.

man i need to poll this

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.

Yes, black Americans are always ripping off the British!

alex is being too kind imo

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

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

- wayne gretzky

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

lil wayne -- fuck tha world

^ thats one of my favorite alex in nyc posts btw

haha that is classic

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

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

hahaha

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

POX: Alex in NYC posts

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

"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.

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

hahahaha that one is great

lol indeed

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."

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

"You Had To Take a Stand In Someone Else's Land"

Yeah, "Voices that Care" is pretty indefensible.

Holy crap -Dudley Moore!

wau never even heard of Voices That Care, that is some next level awfulness. was that for Gulf War I? That was a good war.

bible nut orel herschieser and noted facist cokedhead james woods in on the action!

wanna be tough guy stephen stills!

man there's way more actors than singers in that.

what a horrible song!

voices that care makes "we are the world" sound like "supernaut"!

okay that is enough to make me stop playing Major Lazer and check this out

voices that care makes "we are the world" sound like "supernaut"!

Bahahaha

holy fucking lolgasm

Michael fucking Bolton, lolololol

holy shit KENNY G

MERYL STREEP?????????????????

Also I had completely forgotten what early 90s Celine Dion looked like, lololololololol; I spent most of the video going "I know that voice... is that Martika?"

haha Martika

too bad they didn't let Shatner get a few solo bits in

Fred Savage was never more punchable

What the hell. Wow was I glad I never heard about this at the time.

downtown julie brown, brian bosworth, michael tucker from la law, it's really a shame they didn't just take everyone on that stage and bury them deep in the ground as a time capsule.