x-post w/Will
― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 02:27 (twenty years ago) link
ANd yeah, I like a bunch of McDonald fronted tracks, both with the Doobies and solo. They are welcome to end that phone ad campaign anytime though.
― Broheems (diamond), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 02:53 (twenty years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 02:55 (twenty years ago) link
re mr. loggins: supposedly, vox humana is at least kinda interesting. and it's also interesting how he went from being a seventies-sensitive-songwriter to an eighties-mullet-hitmeister. but he's basically harmless, so why fuss over him?
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 02:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 03:01 (twenty years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 03:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 04:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 04:03 (twenty years ago) link
The recent Michael McDonald ads have been drilling themselves into my brain.
― Catherine (Catherine), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 04:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Broheems (diamond), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 04:18 (twenty years ago) link
pro: major influence on daft punk
con: my dad likes him
kenny loggins i got no problem with.
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 04:20 (twenty years ago) link
(NB Kenny Loggins has become an author of Christian prayer books on the covers of which he appears in super-soft focus with anime eyes)
― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 04:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Broheems (diamond), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 04:23 (twenty years ago) link
the following album cover was surely a prelude to the foregoing:
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd800/d809/d80949txys4.jpg
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 04:28 (twenty years ago) link
― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 04:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Broheems (diamond), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 04:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 05:04 (twenty years ago) link
― robin carmody (robin carmody), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 05:14 (twenty years ago) link
Oh fuck -- of course, Robin! That's what I was thinking of. It was on the tip of my tongue. Damn, my memory is terrible these days..
― Broheems (diamond), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 05:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 06:40 (twenty years ago) link
any idea where I could find this?
― Will(iam) (will), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 06:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Will (will), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 06:58 (twenty years ago) link
― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 08:40 (twenty years ago) link
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 17:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 18:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 18:42 (twenty years ago) link
― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 21:16 (twenty years ago) link
I love the the he and Fagan sing the chorus on both "Bad Sneakers" and "Time Out of Mind":it's like they're two satellites orbiting each other.
― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 21:29 (twenty years ago) link
― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 01:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 14:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 15:06 (twenty years ago) link
― gareth (gareth), Friday, 2 April 2004 10:49 (twenty years ago) link
― earlnash, Friday, 2 April 2004 11:13 (twenty years ago) link
― David (David), Friday, 2 April 2004 11:17 (twenty years ago) link
― David (David), Friday, 2 April 2004 11:26 (twenty years ago) link
(Or so I understand. I was not one of the guests.)
Footloose is one of the few films that I can honestly say had a profound transformative effect on my life, but its otherwise glorious theme now evokes hideous mental images of naked/ bearded wedding vows.
― High Cholesterol (bastarda), Friday, 2 April 2004 15:50 (twenty years ago) link
― High Cholesterol (bastarda), Friday, 2 April 2004 16:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Saturday, 3 April 2004 06:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 3 April 2004 09:28 (twenty years ago) link
― stevem (blueski), Saturday, 3 April 2004 11:04 (twenty years ago) link
??? Tell me more! My copy of "Regulate" (on the Warren G album Regulate... G Funk Era) doesn't have McD's vox! I've always thought a remix of "Regulate" with "I Keep Forgettin'"'s chorus inserted somewhere would be fantastic.
McD: Total adult contemporary classic. Awesome voice.Loggins: Total adult contemporary non-classic.
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 4 April 2004 04:28 (twenty years ago) link
― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Sunday, 4 April 2004 04:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Dude (The Yellow Dart), Sunday, 4 April 2004 04:45 (twenty years ago) link
http://sethputnam.com/seth&michael.jpg
from putnam's website
michael mcdonald - august 9th, uncasville, CT
i got there a lot later than i wanted to. the show was at the mohegan sun indian casino, and it was free. "first come, first served" as they say. when i got there, i was like 400th in line, and wondered if i'd even get inside or not. they sit 6 people at every table. since i was by myself, there was a table in the front row that had only 5 people in it, so, they sat me there. it was awesome, i was about 5 feet from michael mcdonald! i sat next to 2 groups of people. one guy (with some broad), claiming he was danny devito (but he wasn't short enough or funny enough to be him), and a group of 3 nice "housewife" types. they asked me before the show what my 3 "desert island" cd's would be, and being an asshole, i said, "how would you be able to play cd's on a desert island with no electricity?". they later, between themselves, asked each other who the 3 guys they could be stranded on a desert island would be (with no surprise, no husbands of theirs were mentioned), one of them said "mel gibson (generically understandable), billy joel (!!!!!), and michael mcdonald(!!!!!!!!!!). it made no sense to me at all. so, back to michael mcdonald, he was on tour promoting his new cd of motown covers. i didn't care what he was going to sing. his voice is so awesome, he could even sing hatebreed or limp bizkit songs, and i'd think he was awesome. he sounded unbelievable! he did some doobie brothers songs, some of his solo songs, and some motown ones (stuff from marvin GAYe, stevie wonder, etc). he sounded better than i expected. he has easily one of the most unique gay voices ever. his band was really good as well, they were all from other bands that i never heard of, but, supposedly, they're well known musicains. by the end of the set, he did "taking it to the streets", and a whole bunch of civilized middle aged people rushed the stage. he totally fucking kicked ass all night. i highly recommend seeing him.
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 27 May 2004 04:49 (nineteen years ago) link
That is a picture of Kenny Loggins' backyard. No joke. An acquaintance's girlfriend is Kenny Loggins' live-in nanny and she took the pic.
― LC, Thursday, 27 May 2004 04:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx immer wieder (baaderonixx), Monday, 3 July 2006 09:18 (seventeen years ago) link
At one point in the song's evolution, its melody was underway, but the lyrics were incomplete. Loggins moved it forward after a visit to his ailing father, who had undergone a series of surgeries for vascular problems stemming from small strokes and was discouraged at the prospect of another. His perspective on the lyrics then changed: "'I've got it,' I announced to Michael, it's not a love song. It's a life song."[1]
Damn right, Ken.
― Cunga, Thursday, 1 October 2009 00:55 (fourteen years ago) link
as a child I almost drowned in kenny loggins' swimming pool. had to go to the hospital and everything. I don't think it was the backyard in that photo though, I think he moved.
his music sucks and he is indefensible.
michael mcdonald is great and needs no defense.
― iatee, Thursday, 1 October 2009 01:06 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHpCZoK54t4
oh man. this is on some total el debarge shit.
― chain the color of am0n (The Reverend), Friday, 6 July 2012 06:39 (eleven years ago) link
my boy who is KL's second cousin just put me up on that
dope
― some dude, Friday, 6 July 2012 12:24 (eleven years ago) link
George Michael's voice sounds a lot like Loggin's on 'This Is It'
― calstars, Monday, 6 January 2014 02:51 (ten years ago) link
i won't defend his lame-o songs and his awful main band, but michael mcdonald was awesome fronting grizzly bear.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPI7oU-fuGw
he should be made the permanent lead-singer for this band.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Monday, 6 January 2014 02:55 (ten years ago) link
therer've been times in my life, i've been wondering why
― Ƹ̴Ӂ̴Ʒ (brimstead), Monday, 6 January 2014 03:05 (ten years ago) link
michael mcdonald is golden you indie feebs
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Monday, 6 January 2014 09:44 (ten years ago) link
The track MM did with Holy Ghost was a str8 up banger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_zTamb69bU
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Monday, 6 January 2014 11:24 (ten years ago) link
^^^ class!
― subaltern 8 (Michael B), Monday, 6 January 2014 11:31 (ten years ago) link
also he manages to make grizzly bear listenable. no mean feat.
― subaltern 8 (Michael B), Monday, 6 January 2014 11:32 (ten years ago) link
truth bomb for the ages
― Emilia Fabbo (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 January 2014 11:34 (ten years ago) link
Chikka ch paChikka ch pa
― calstars, Monday, 6 January 2014 16:28 (ten years ago) link
Folks were really bashing the dude who wrote “Whenever I Call You Friend”!? Easily one of the best pop songs of all time...
― afriendlypioneer, Saturday, 17 October 2020 12:23 (three years ago) link
Thundercat must have been reading this thread with great interest whilst recording the Drunk album.
― henry s, Saturday, 17 October 2020 12:46 (three years ago) link
i think the chorus on 'friend' is a little uncomfortable - it's hurried - they're just trying to pack in a couple too many syllables on those lines. Also the Stevie really belting it on 'REASON TO CARRRY OOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNN" is not my favorite Stevie
― calstars, Saturday, 17 October 2020 13:00 (three years ago) link
The crazy atmospheric intro and bassline sent it over the top for me.
― afriendlypioneer, Monday, 19 October 2020 14:58 (three years ago) link