because of MJ 5th anniversary death day, VH1soul is showing WatW…
seems like Lionel crowbarred James Ingram and Al Jarreau in there…respectively gospel and jazz virtuosos that the '85 pop audience would be vaguely familiar with via their hit songs, but they ain't superstars like everyone else, even Aykroyd! two singers that were reflexively respected by black pop machers like Lionel and MJ.
― veronica moser, Thursday, 26 June 2014 00:04 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4HAIsImOkc
― ulysses, Monday, 29 February 2016 01:19 (eight years ago) link
Who is Justin Bieber?
― 80085 (a hoy hoy), Monday, February 15, 2010 5:13 PM
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 February 2016 01:20 (eight years ago) link
A more innocent time for all of us, Bieber included.
― pitchforkian at best (cryptosicko), Monday, 29 February 2016 01:34 (eight years ago) link
he is a popular new artist― nagl wayne (J0rdan S.), Monday, February 15, 2010 10:20 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkWith whom -- pedophiles?― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, February 15, 2010
With whom -- pedophiles?― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, February 15, 2010
― ulysses, Monday, 29 February 2016 01:34 (eight years ago) link
his hair!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 February 2016 01:38 (eight years ago) link
this song inspired a v classic M@tt Helgo thread
― Hey (Extended Mix), Monday, 29 February 2016 01:41 (eight years ago) link
We are the worldWe are the childrenIs Usher blind?Has this been released?Are you guys quoting lyrics?― Michael Steele, the first black Superman (HI DERE), Friday, February 12, 2010 11:46 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 21 September 2016 00:12 (seven years ago) link
if we put this in a time capsule someone would say this was the year the world ended
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Saturday, 30 November 2019 05:16 (four years ago) link
Alfred OTM. I love this song
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Saturday, 30 November 2019 09:01 (four years ago) link
https://youtu.be/3Xaweac0TxY
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Saturday, 30 November 2019 09:09 (four years ago) link
speaking way upthread about "Voices That Care", I never saw the video before! heard the song every day, but this is my first time seeing it.
*Cetera's hair is a mess*lotsa NBA cameos*lol, Jani Lane*lol, NELSON*lotsa great voices wasted on a stupid song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ol6vr5_CY1o
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 04:14 (four years ago) link
there's a new Netflix doc on this. I never realized it was recorded in one overnight session right after the AMA's. It's fascinating seeing all those stars in one room and watching the on-the-spot collaborations going on. one great moment is Stevie Wonder coaching Dylan on how to sing his part because he was totally lost.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 2 February 2024 20:08 (two months ago) link
Is this the same doc that's been floating around on youtube forever?
(I assume it's at least the same footage, so many amazing moments)
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 2 February 2024 20:14 (two months ago) link
Undoubtedly a lot of the footage from the night is the same, but this seems all new. Haven't watched it yet, but the talking head clips I've seen are definitely new.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 2 February 2024 20:15 (two months ago) link
oh idk i never watched that xp
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 2 February 2024 20:15 (two months ago) link
never likes the song tbh, it creeped me out at a kid
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 2 February 2024 20:16 (two months ago) link
We are the worldWe are the childrenIs this the same doc that's been floating around on youtube forever?why did LL & others rap in unison on the breakdown part?Is Sufjan Stevens known for mandolin solos?
― badpee pooper (Eric H.), Friday, 2 February 2024 20:19 (two months ago) link
I was showing my wife the trailer for the doc last night and I was really not expecting my 12 year-old to pipe up, "that looks good! can we watch it?"
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 2 February 2024 20:21 (two months ago) link
Shalum shalingay
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Friday, 2 February 2024 20:26 (two months ago) link
Enjoyed the doc as well. I didn't know any of the background. The Dylan stuff is awesome/hilarious (if you're into Dylan). Lionel Richie comes off as kind of superhuman for co-writing the song with Michael, hosting and performing on the AMAs that night, then helping corral the all-night recording sesh.
I do wish there were a greater variety of current-day "talking heads"... it's basically Richie, Huey Lewis, Kenny Loggins, Sheila E. (who talks about feeling a little "used," in terms of being included in hopes that Prince would show up – which he doesn't, even though she calls him halfway through the night); and, er, Bruce (who doesn't have much to say).
― jake morgendorffer core (morrisp), Friday, 2 February 2024 20:35 (two months ago) link
I love the footage of the superstars trickling over to the studio after the AMAs. Bruce parks across the street in a little convertible... Kenny Rogers drives onto the lot in a Toyota Supra or some other bland, mid-level car...
― jake morgendorffer core (morrisp), Friday, 2 February 2024 20:37 (two months ago) link
Oh, I think they talk to Cyndi as well. Probably someone else I'm forgetting
― jake morgendorffer core (morrisp), Friday, 2 February 2024 20:38 (two months ago) link
So they don't get Quincy to talk some wild shit, huh
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 2 February 2024 21:04 (two months ago) link
If you need more We are the World content here’s one of the producer/arrangers talking about it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av24jXhcq8s
― bbq, Friday, 2 February 2024 21:50 (two months ago) link
lol from the Wiki entry on WATW:
Controversial anti-LGBT church Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), known for their musical parodies, produced a parody of "We Are the World" titled "God Hates the World". In 2007, Warner Chappell Music unsuccessfully tried to prevent WBC from circulating the video on grounds of copyright infringement.
― badpee pooper (Eric H.), Friday, 2 February 2024 22:09 (two months ago) link
Al Jarreau was lit
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 2 February 2024 22:17 (two months ago) link
I remember some good clips of the rhythm section laying down the basic tracks, there's not a lot of other footage of those guys in their prime that I've seen. JR Robinson still sounds great now, and did when I saw him do a clinic in the late '90s, but it's still cool to see him then.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Friday, 2 February 2024 22:17 (two months ago) link
a parody of "We Are the World" titled "God Hates the World".
How is this not a Slayer song
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Friday, 2 February 2024 22:49 (two months ago) link
I was relentlessly otm in this thread
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 February 2024 23:02 (two months ago) link
Alex in NYC too ... at least to his own truth, which I'm forever grateful is not my truth
― badpee pooper (Eric H.), Friday, 2 February 2024 23:11 (two months ago) link
Omg this was hilarious
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Saturday, 3 February 2024 03:37 (two months ago) link
― jake morgendorffer core (morrisp), Friday, February 2, 2024 3:37 PM bookmarkflaglink
Lol I remarked on Kenny's car to my mother "THAT'S his car?"
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Saturday, 3 February 2024 03:45 (two months ago) link
Supposedly Dylan couldn't figure out how to sing it until Stevie Wonder demonstrated in full-on DYLAN mode.― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, June 24, 2005 2:11 PM bookmarkflaglink
this appears in the documentary!
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Saturday, 3 February 2024 04:15 (two months ago) link
also jesus christ @ Lindsay Buckingham's hair
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Saturday, 3 February 2024 04:42 (two months ago) link
wau, didn't know Waylon Jennings walked out.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 February 2024 13:20 (two months ago) link
I learned that from this or one of the other threads, but had no idea that him leaving was caught on video
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Saturday, 3 February 2024 13:21 (two months ago) link
I don't know whether to call him out for racism or to high-five him for vetoing a bad idea. Both, I guess?
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 February 2024 13:30 (two months ago) link
I forgot I had this, but I listened to a We Are the World compilation I burned many years ago, and besides the many iterations of the UK equivalent, "Do They Know It's Christmas?," there's also the CANADIAN equivalent with Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, a French one with Gérard Depardieu somewhere in the mix, and the Spanish-language "Cantaré, cantarás" with Placido Domingo, Miami Sound Machine, Julio Iglesias, Cheech Marin and Apollonia among many others. All on YouTube.
― birdistheword, Saturday, 3 February 2024 18:15 (two months ago) link
oh man:
Geldof argued that it sounded too close to an African language and that it might be considered mocking, so Stevie Wonder called a Nigerian friend to get a phrase in Swahili that would be appropriate for the song. The phrase was “willi moing-gu”, which didn’t go down well with some of the cast. “Say what!” yelled Ray Charles, “Willi what! Willi moing-gu, my ass! It’s three o’clock in the goddamn mornin’ – I can’t even sing in English no more.” Geldof pointed out that Ethiopians don’t speak Swahili and Waylon Jennings left the sessions claiming “no good old boy sings in Swahili”. When everyone voted to settle on a new line, “one world, our children”, an exhausted Tina Turner muttered, “I like sha-lum better, who cares what it means?”
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/we-are-the-world-usa-for-africa-charity-michael-jackson-and-lionel-ricjie-a9374791.html
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 3 February 2024 22:12 (two months ago) link
“no good old boy sings in Swahili”.
"Some day the mountain might get 'em, but the Swahili never will..."
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 3 February 2024 22:36 (two months ago) link
I'm sad there wasn't a reboot in, say, 1996. Imagine an over-emoting Billy Corgan passing the verse along to an overer-emoting Ed Kowalczyk!
― Front-loaded albums are musical gerrymandering (Prefecture), Monday, 5 February 2024 01:45 (two months ago) link
there's no way Ed w0uldn't have been kicked out of the session
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Monday, 5 February 2024 02:00 (two months ago) link
Ha! Ed trying to add "MORE WINE!!" to the song might have led him to some early drama he could not sell
― Front-loaded albums are musical gerrymandering (Prefecture), Monday, 5 February 2024 02:09 (two months ago) link
somehow no recollection of this vid is possible in my brain without seeing donald trump pretending to sing in that line-up in a terrible vhs capture. i don't know why, it just feels true.
― a single gunshot and polite applause (Hunt3r), Monday, 5 February 2024 03:31 (two months ago) link
Still an insufferable bag of pungent crap, this song.
― Alex in NYC, Monday, 5 February 2024 20:07 (two months ago) link
Really enjoyed watching this, even though I had seen most of the footage before. The clothes & '80s LA vibes are worth it alone.
Ultimate nightmare audio engineer scenario when it's 4am and there's some weird monitoring issue and Dionne Warwick is mad at you, not mention you need to physically rewind the tape in between every take.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 5 February 2024 20:17 (two months ago) link
The related bit with Cyndi and all her accessories really made me sweat...
― atmospheric river phoenix (morrisp), Monday, 5 February 2024 20:18 (two months ago) link
need a similar doc for the 2001 "What's Goin On" with Fred Durst rapping about suicide bombers
― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Monday, 5 February 2024 20:52 (two months ago) link
Is it as good as this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHT8V5OIkl4
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 5 February 2024 20:55 (two months ago) link