defend the indefensible: "we are the world"

A menhir....yesterday.

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However, Dylan sucks!

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that would take one precise sphincter!

And it shows.

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.

that "Let it Be" upthread is like a cluster bomb of wtf

xp That's not a bad track - had they dropped a couple of the worst songs and reinstated "New Danville Girl," that would've been a pretty good album IMHO. Also forgot the Traveling Wilburys, that's a fun album. But Knocked Out Loaded, the Hearts of Fire movie, nearly all of Down in the Groove and the live stuff with the Grateful Dead are pretty awful.

(Yes, "Brownsville Girl" is a different version of "New Danville Girl," and "Maybe Someday" is kind of catchy, but I still wouldn't play Knocked Out Loaded again.)

A new all-star charity single based on Mark Knopfler's theme to Bill Forsyth's great film Local Hero, and naturally, it's all about guitarists, not singing:

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

Benefits Teenage Cancer Trust and Teen Cancer America.

The full list of contributors is: Joan Armatrading, Jeff Beck, Richard Bennett, Joe Bonamassa, Joe Brown, James Burton, Jonathan Cain, Paul Carrack, Eric Clapton, Ry Cooder, Jim Cox, Steve Cropper, Sheryl Crow, Danny Cummings, Roger Daltrey, Duane Eddy, Sam Fender, Guy Fletcher, Peter Frampton, Audley Freed, Vince Gill, David Gilmour, Buddy Guy, Keiji Haino, Tony Iommi, Joan Jett, John Jorgenson, Mark Knopfler, Sonny Landreth, Albert Lee, Greg Leisz, Alex Lifeson, Steve Lukather, Phil Manzanera, Dave Mason, Hank Marvin, Brian May, Robbie McIntosh, John McLaughlin, Tom Morello, Rick Nielsen, Orianthi, Brad Paisley, Nile Rodgers, Mike Rutherford, Joe Satriani, John Sebastian, Connor Selby, Slash, Bruce Springsteen, Ringo Starr and Zak Starkey (both on drums, of course), Sting (on bass), Andy Taylor, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, Ian Thomas, Pete Townshend, Keith Urban, Steve Vai, Waddy Wachtel.

The sleeve has been designed by pop art icon and Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band designer Peter Blake, whose collage shows all the contributors in front of Hank’s guitar store in London’s Denmark Street.

Might be the last thing Jeff Beck ever recorded - he opens the record.