yet again, defend the indefensible: LIONEL RICHIE

For a moment baby
For a moment baby
For a moment baby
SugarsugarsugaryeahyeahyeahyeahyeahYEAAAHHH

"Hello" is great if you can listen to it without the video playing in your head. Seriously.

No. Hello is not going to be played in my presence. I will not even admit the fact that I bought the "You Are" single in 6th grade. I refuse. He must be silenced. Lionel Richie is not to be defended. KEEP AWAY. Bimble warned you, Bimble tried to help you.

You're crazy. If you can't accept "Hello" for what it is, you need a new set of ears. Great composition - creepy and great sense of narrative.

Hahahhahah I would rather die than watch that video.

although I do recall you said don't watch the video.

Do you know the initials of his name are L and R??????

LOU REED?????????????????????????????????????????????????????////

hes quite easily defensible.

Of course. And "Stuck on You" is on this album too. Cool cover, too.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/46/Richieslow.jpg

If those songs came out in the seventies, they'd be a lot "cooler".

Is it me you're looking for (blind girl)?

the 80s is cooler right now.

The desperation of it blows all of your punk poo out of the water. You need this song.

NO I DO NOT NEED THIS SONG YOU PUNK

I will gladly sit with a Prince fan for 56 torturous hours of nonstop Prince than hear Lionel.

The Hello video rules.

She's fucking blind!!! It's horrible, creepy. Steer clear of it.

Donna Summer could totally whip his ass with a hand behind her.

She's also a high school student.

The part where LR phones her is priceless.

hahahaha you guys need better dope in your house

lol pwnd. We were all scrapin and doing knifers the other night.

"All Night Long" is a great video. Can YOU rock those leather pants?

hahhahhah I HATE YOU. THIS IS A FUCKING LIONEL RICHIE THREAD
AND WHAT THE FUCK AM I DOING POSTING ON IT?

Can you rock the pants AND THAT SHIRT? xpost

OH shit

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.

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'...

Oh fuck, that movie! What is that from?

That comedy video is funny, but I seriously hope you are not saying Lionel Richie has no soul....

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"

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.

Defence closed.

yay, an excuse to spread this around

http://www.zshare.net/audio/530744696af27b2f/

i didnt realise this many ppl hated all night long! you guys are crazy

Bimble Lionel Richie is the actual 80s that you yearn for. Without him your main area of interest is a vast empty soundless sea.

ilx is rarely as easy as sunday morning

b... b... but that's because many ILXors work on the nightshift

(and before anyone points it out, I know that LR left the Commodores years before Nightshift was released)

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...

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuVH5LcEZj0

Can't Slow Down is a surprisingly solid album and "Stuck on You" is a genuinely moving and excellent country ballad.

"surprisingly"

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.

"Stuck On You" and "Penny Lover" hold up, don't they?

hell yes.

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

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

Love 'running with the night'. What are the original lyrics that tracer is referring too tho?

"Say You, Say Me" is hideously 80s.