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What's Daryl scowling at?
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
the popularity of sweaters in the 80s
― a man is only a guy (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
"How did 'I Just Called To Say I Love You' outsell 'Out of Touch?'"
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
maybe if Hall and Oates had gotten themselves featured on The Cosby Show
― DJP, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
they could have tried to molest cockroach ala that very special diff'rent strokes
― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
oates already has the mustache after all
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5p8vyWGrkO0/Rpe1aR1VuXI/AAAAAAAAAxA/T1d6FqNP4bw/s400/cosby-show2.jpg
Cliff and Claire are not having this.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
"I'm out of touch and I need a refill"
― DJP, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
Cockroach is incapable of being molsested :(
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
its so sad he was a cockroach
― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
buried by Tony Montana iirc
― a man is only a guy (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
Omg me and homie just had this convo irl
― give life back to usic (The Reverend), Thursday, 30 May 2013 08:20 (ten years ago) link
James Ingram going WE ARE THE WORLDRay Charles going YESSIR
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 January 2014 15:27 (ten years ago) link
Kim Carnes wuz robbed! You show me a more emotional "when we" in pop music history.
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 18 January 2014 19:50 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IATz8ZVTALo
― tbd (Eazy), Saturday, 18 January 2014 21:50 (ten years ago) link
that 'Making Of' VHS mentioned upthread is here by the way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SGFcYLO0jg
― piscesx, Sunday, 19 January 2014 07:29 (ten years ago) link
Dylan looks hilariously uncomfortable throughout.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 19 January 2014 16:07 (ten years ago) link
No problem with the results on this, except for Springsteen getting any votes whatsoever - he's so bad! He sounds like a parody act of Bruce Springsteen, and looks like Belushi doing Joe Cocker. And they keep cutting back to him! Whereas, like, Paul Simon's part is actually kind of convincing...undermined only by Kenny Rogers's bizarre facial expressions while they're overlapping each other.
Daryl Hall is the most disappointing - anybody could have done that - and Billy Joel is the most surprisingly okay, and I say that as a fan of his. Huey Lewis also sounding way better than I'd have expected, though yeah, uh, a little OTT. Ingram probably most underrated in the results here. Sort of by the numbers, but sounds great.
These things are such great windows into how, briefly, it can seem like Kim Carnes (who does nothing for this) is a bigger, more bankable charity-driving star than Bette Midler, Harry Belafonte, or Smokey fucking Robinson.
Would be into animated gifs of each performer's "greatest" moments. Just saying.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 19 January 2014 23:31 (ten years ago) link
Carnes (and Kenny Rogers) were clients of co-pseudo-organizer/agent Ken Kragen, hence their presence.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 20 January 2014 00:03 (ten years ago) link
Ha, there you go then!
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 20 January 2014 00:17 (ten years ago) link
Kim Carnes (who does nothing for this) is a bigger, more bankable
for years I've wanted to write about Carnes' post-"Bette Davis Eyes" career. She didn't even have a ride-along second top ten -- she collapsed, completely, not even visiting the top twenty again until 1985, no doubt greased by payola.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 January 2014 01:59 (ten years ago) link
apparently moroder had a road to damascus moment over 'bette davis eyes'
― balls, Monday, 20 January 2014 02:06 (ten years ago) link
epitomizes El Lay New Wave though
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 January 2014 02:07 (ten years ago) link
wonder if there's enough good stuff to make an el lay synth pop playlist - 'bette davis eyes', 'stand back', 'boys of summer'. there's probably some dave stewart stuff i'm forgetting though that's cheating kinda.
― balls, Monday, 20 January 2014 02:09 (ten years ago) link
Motels!
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 January 2014 02:13 (ten years ago) link
At this point, I'm more likely to think of Kim Carnes via Tori Amos's "clone myself like that blonde chick who sings / Bette Davis Eyes," than via "Bette Davis Eyes" itself.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 20 January 2014 02:21 (ten years ago) link
This thread title makes me thing it would be tight if world poverty had its own comeback diss track
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Monday, 20 January 2014 02:22 (ten years ago) link
My user name agrees with the Kim Carnes bashing.Please continue.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 20 January 2014 10:26 (ten years ago) link
Just watched the video for the first time in 20 years. Amazing how Cyndi Lauper's "oww wow ow ow" just defines the whole song. The only solo I could remember.
― LimbsKing, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 12:25 (ten years ago) link
For the record, I prefer Canada's b-side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJN3u1wAWIk
― Eric H., Thursday, 18 December 2014 22:43 (nine years ago) link
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2015/01/27/we-are-the-world-30th-anniversary/22395455/
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 January 2015 13:59 (nine years ago) link
My favorite thing about this is from Huey Lewis on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me:
SALIE: I have to ask you about something that I loved when I was a teenager, "We are the World."LEWIS: Right.SALIE: Can you talk about that day? I mean were you really like - were you guys standing at craft services with, you know, like Bruce Springsteen is on your right and Diana Ross is on your left.LEWIS: Exactly.SALIE: What was it like?LEWIS: It was amazing. It was amazing. I mean, I'm talking to Willie Nelson about golf and Bob Dylan over here says are you guys talking about golf?He said yeah. And Willie said, yeah, we put the clubs on the bus. And Bob says, man, that's outrageous. He says that's outrageous. I said no, Bob, "Nashville Skyline" was outrageous. This is just golf.SALIE: In that room, were there like cool kids and not cool kids?LEWIS: No, but Paul Simon said - it's probably not nice to say. I don't know. Paul Simon said if a bomb drops on this place, John Denver is back on top.
LEWIS: Right.
SALIE: Can you talk about that day? I mean were you really like - were you guys standing at craft services with, you know, like Bruce Springsteen is on your right and Diana Ross is on your left.
LEWIS: Exactly.
SALIE: What was it like?
LEWIS: It was amazing. It was amazing. I mean, I'm talking to Willie Nelson about golf and Bob Dylan over here says are you guys talking about golf?
He said yeah. And Willie said, yeah, we put the clubs on the bus. And Bob says, man, that's outrageous. He says that's outrageous. I said no, Bob, "Nashville Skyline" was outrageous. This is just golf.
SALIE: In that room, were there like cool kids and not cool kids?
LEWIS: No, but Paul Simon said - it's probably not nice to say. I don't know. Paul Simon said if a bomb drops on this place, John Denver is back on top.
― joygoat, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:06 (nine years ago) link
lol
i legit enjoy this record, and feel a strong need to listen/watch from time to time
the more i do so, the more i appreciate michael jackson's solo chorus
― he quipped with heat (amateurist), Monday, 8 June 2015 22:33 (eight years ago) link
Bruce really does bomb this, doesn't he? Kenny Loggins sounds great by comparison.
― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 13 April 2018 13:48 (six years ago) link
Michael Jackson 0
Wait, what?
― Uppercase (Eric H.), Friday, 13 April 2018 14:21 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_tZUg8onNg
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 15 December 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
How in the ever loving fuck did Ray Charles not walk this?????
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 15 December 2019 19:12 (four years ago) link
He etc
― Mark G, Sunday, 15 December 2019 22:34 (four years ago) link
idk if this is a poll u wanna "win" necessarily
― 100 Percent That Grinch (Neanderthal), Sunday, 15 December 2019 22:43 (four years ago) link
"we are the world" is something that sounds like a generic anthem until you realize how profoundly fucking weird it is
i think i must have heard it a hundred times before the bizarreness of the line "as god has shown us, by turning stones to bread" finally sunk in
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Sunday, 15 December 2019 23:48 (four years ago) link
also
"when you're down and out, and there seems no hope at all/BUT IF YOU JUST BELIEVE, THERE'S NO WAY YOU CAN FALL"
which, in the context of what the song is meant to be about and who it's meant to be addressing, is just incredibly funny and insane
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Sunday, 15 December 2019 23:50 (four years ago) link
clap your hands if you believe you're not starving!
― 100 Percent That Grinch (Neanderthal), Sunday, 15 December 2019 23:56 (four years ago) link
I like Greil Marcus' response "When you're done and out" ("The Ethiopians are 'down and out'?").
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 December 2019 04:52 (four years ago) link
what does it mean to body a verse?
― Sassy Boutonnière (ledriver), Monday, 16 December 2019 10:16 (four years ago) link
“If you just believe, there’s no way we can fall.” Yep, that’s all it takes to end famine in Ethiopia, just believing.
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 16 December 2019 13:40 (four years ago) link
In one of the "making of" videos IIRC, there's a moment with A. Jarreau recording his part and he's so not ale to follow the rhythm you have to wonder how that's possible for a "professional" singer (especially after such a long career) !
― AlXTC from Paris, Monday, 16 December 2019 14:31 (four years ago) link
He was a jazz guy, it was him being avant garde
― 100 Percent That Grinch (Neanderthal), Monday, 16 December 2019 15:02 (four years ago) link
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, December 16, 2019 4:52 AM (two days ago)
marcus also pointed out how weird it is that a song written by two guys who'd done pepsi commercials centers on the line "there's a choice we're making," which sounds like an unconscious echo of pepsi's then-current slogan "the choice of a new generation"
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 00:20 (four years ago) link
xpostkilled their verse in outdated rap slang
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 18 December 2019 00:32 (four years ago) link
It's time: Who Bodied Their Verse On "Tears Are Not Enough"??
― crusty but malignant (Eric H.), Thursday, 5 March 2020 15:37 (four years ago) link