What is the American equivalent of Britain's Simply Red fixation?

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SR doesn't move much product here. So who are the would-be American SR fans (presuming they exist) listening to? Ruben Studdard?

― Aaron A., Tuesday, 15 March 2005 18:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Are you talking demographically or artistically?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 18:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Michael Bolton.

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 18:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Argunaut OTM

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 18:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Civil War reenactments.

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 18:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Dave Matthews.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 18:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Hall & Oates?

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Hall & Oates are too respectable to deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Simply Red. I still think Michael Bolton is the best choice.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link

The Great Depression

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Michael Bolton is the best choice for 1992, except that no one still cares about him. (Do people still care about Simply Red?)

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link

> (Do people still care about Simply Red?)

In the U.S. last year he charted AC with "You Make Me Feel Brand New" and on both the AC and Dance charts with "Sunrise." (Can we officially refer to Simply Red as a "he" rather than a "they" now?)

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link

"You Make Me Feel Brand New"

..The Leo Sayer song?!

BAahahahahahaha!

(Praying & pleading that Sunrise is NOT the Gordo Lightfoot song...)

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link

The Leo Sayer Song was called "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" methinks.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Michael Bolton is the best choice for 1992, except that no one still cares about him. (Do people still care about Simply Red?)

Certainly not to the extent they did in 1992

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Dave Matthews is closest, I think, though not many people over 35-40 listen to huim.

― Aaron A., Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh right... Well "You Make Me Feel Brand New" is a cover of some guy with a high voice though, innit?

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― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:53 (nineteen years ago) link

"...Brand New" was a cover of the Stylistics hit. "Sunrise" was an original that heavily sampled H&O's "I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)" and sorta ripped off Ace's "How Long" at the same time.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:54 (nineteen years ago) link

And, yes, The Stylistics were known for some rather high pitched vocals at times.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Josh Groban.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link

In the conservatory.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link

With the lead pipe.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Josh Groban is more like the Soft Opera Michael Bolton

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:56 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm listening right this second to the reggae compilation *Run It Red: Mick Hucknall Selects from 10 Years of Blood and Fire Classics.*

It is great.

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Not w/ the lead pipe in the conservatory he's not, Geir!

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link

agreed Micheal Bolton does not run a first-class reaggae reissue label.

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Dave Matthews comes from sort of an "alternative" background, but so did Simply Red at the very start as well, so maybe they aren't so far off after all.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, but has Mick Hucknall ever (literally) shit on a boatload of tourists?

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Kirstie Ally

― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:16 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't know if the Dave Matthews thing works. Do lame college kids (err, university i guess?) in England love simply red and discuss his musical prowess to great lengths, referring to him only by his first name... Simply?

― mat, Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Whatever the equivalent is, it needs to spawn horrors that look like this:

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00003J9UP.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Dan Fogelburg isn't still making records is he?

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:36 (nineteen years ago) link

HA HA HA

I love that bit in 24 Hour Party People when Coogan the narrator lists all the people who would later be famous that were at that Sex Pistols show in London. When they mention Mick Hucknall the scene jumps to some HUGE arena/stadium where the dude is singing...I'm always like, WTF? Never understood the appeal. Is the band named after his hair?

― 57 7th (calstars), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 20:36 (nineteen years ago) link

...in Manchester, obv.

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Don't forget Hucknall put some of that money in the excellent Blood And Fire reggae reissue label.

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 21:40 (nineteen years ago) link

they're named after red schoendist right?

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 21:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I've heard that Mick has a diamond embedded in one of his front teeth. Ultimate bling if it's true.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Mick initially had a ruby, but to celebrate the new millennium, he changed it to a diamond.

― JoB (JoB), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 23:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Michael Bolton is the best choice for 1992, except that no one still cares about him. (Do people still care about Simply Red?)

Only Hucknall.

In some freaky way I always see SR in the same way as Mariah Carey. I'm most probably alone in this.

― nathalie barefoot in the head (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 23:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Not an American, but interestingly, as a perennial big seller in the United States:
Sade

(Maybe it's a lite-R&B thing. Hucknall should keep promoting himself to Quiet Storm radio.)

― late adopter, Wednesday, 16 March 2005 08:18 (nineteen years ago) link

I wish Hucknall was a Commie.

― Quit glaring at Ian Riese-Moraine! He's mentally fraught! (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 18 March 2005 00:34 (nineteen years ago) link

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