Belinda Carlisle – Classic or Dud?

There was a thread on here a while back that said she never did a bad single. They're right.

I have an album of hers though & it's rubbish, in that totally to be expected appalingly ultra-commercial (in 1985) production and fillerific way so...

I am listening to "La Luna" RIGHT NOW and it is making me want to dance a bit in front of a mirror. In a pretty dress. But I don't have the hips. (for a dress, I have them for dancing to Belinda in front of a mirror though).

B.Carlisle: Classic, but kind of boringly classic.

Orbital to thread! (This is intentional, yes?)

I lurv me some "Mad About You" (especially on PCH!), but I don't know that I'm ready to grant solo Belinda classic status. Too much, er, filler. And no extra points for the tasteful Playboy layout.

Belinda is way classic. So many great, great singles.

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/showbiz/2010/06/03/behar.belinda.carlisle.intv.cnn?hpt=C2

30 years!

I had no idea that this existed until today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-0NwHBwNbQ

Belinda's voice is probably a bit too sweet for this song (and I doubt that anyone's voice is more suited to this than Marianne's anyway), but, fuck it, it's one of my very favourite singers ever singing one of my very favourite songs ever!

I am listening to "La Luna" RIGHT NOW and it is making me want to dance a bit in front of a mirror. In a pretty dress. But I don't have the hips. (for a dress, I have them for dancing to Belinda in front of a mirror though).

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, August 2, 2005 9:36 AM

this industry's gone mad: 5-disc 30th anniversary Heaven on Earth boxset?!

Two of the discs have 6/7 tracks!

The 13-CD Debbie Gibson retrospective for £87 looks comparatively good value.

this is a great album! a long way from being the least deserving album to get the 5-disc box set anniversary edition treatment, anyway

The beautiful lift-off lid box contains four LPs, all in individual LP sleeves with inner bags. LP 1 features the original album, while LP 2 features the 7" single versions plus five of the singles performed live on Belinda's 1988 tour. LPs 3 and 4 feature the various 12" single mixes. The CD contains the original album, plus three brand new recordings! An acoustic rendition of "Heaven Is A Place On Earth" (also to be found on new album "Wilder Shores"), is followed by "Why", a new song co-written with fellow Go-Go Charlotte Caffey. The last new recording is Belinda's fabulous version of Leon Russell's "Superstar", a song best-known from The Carpenters' hit version in 1971. The booklet contains annotation based on interviews with Belinda, Rick Nowels, and songwriters Ellen Shipley and Diane Warren, along with all the lyrics, and photos from Belinda's own collection.

I'm probably satisfied with my existing 1-disc edition, but I would like to hear her version of Superstar

this 30th anniversary box set edition of Popped In Souled Out includes 13 versions of Wishing I Was Lucky

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Wet-Wet-Wet-Deluxe-Edition.jpg

ironically

yeah I saw this a while ago. label barrel scraping for deluxe editions has reached baffling levels.

"Circle in the Sand" is glorious Technicolor pop.

popped in souled out is a deathless classic tho

What the actual fuck!? That Wet Wet Wet reissue is a real, actual thing!?

13 versions of wishing i was lucky is probably about how many i desire tbh

Enh, okay but she's no Karen Carpenter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12-0Xkn3WYg

Belinda is Stevie Nicks as a teen: horny, undersexed, a few years away from Jeanne Dixon astrological guides and wicca.
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, August 2, 2005 8:51 AM (twelve years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Also the most obvious 'Used To Be Cheerleader' lead singer EVAH.

As for Belinda's solo stuff, there's one or two tracks that I like... 'Always Breaking My Heart' I've always thought was an underrated one, even though it was a big hit here.

Fucking hell, that Wet Wet Wet box set... I mean, is there any need!?

xp if that's meant literally it's way off the mark

'In Too Deep' wasn't too bad either... I couldn't tell you anything she's done since '96, though.

She did a French chanson cover album a couple of years ago

Do we have a thread about people doing that?

Is it a... thing?

Iggy Pop did a couple, Belinda did one, surely there must be others.

Reviving just because I woke up with "Leave a Light On" in my head and I'm rather happy about it.

You looked over at the nightstand and saw you'd left the lamp on overnight.

Oh, huh...she turned 60 last Friday. One day younger than Madonna!