defend the indefensible: "we are the world"

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Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 24 June 2005 18:11 (eighteen years ago) link

a brown torrent of tannembaum-shaped charity turds.

that would take one precise sphincter!

M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 24 June 2005 18:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Supposedly Dylan couldn't figure out how to sing it


And it shows.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 24 June 2005 18:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Paul Young and Boy George came off best.

Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 24 June 2005 18:20 (eighteen years ago) link

If it hadn't been made then a lot of food and money wouldn't have been raised. For that alone, I don't find it bad.

Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 24 June 2005 18:37 (eighteen years ago) link

It might've raised a whole lot more had it not been so fucking bad.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 24 June 2005 18:51 (eighteen years ago) link

(sorry, that's an admittedly lame argument)

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 24 June 2005 18:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Don't you know that turds are not enough?

YES! David Foster just dropped dead and rolled over in his grave.

MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 24 June 2005 18:58 (eighteen years ago) link

It might've raised a whole lot more had it not been so fucking bad.

True, but charity songs are, as a rule, complete shit.

Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 24 June 2005 19:00 (eighteen years ago) link

YES! David Foster just dropped dead and rolled over in his grave.

I knew the Canadians would get the reference.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 24 June 2005 19:15 (eighteen years ago) link

four years pass...

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.

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 31 July 2009 02:42 (fourteen years ago) link

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).

Heric E. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 July 2009 02:43 (fourteen years ago) link

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

AleXTC, Friday, 31 July 2009 11:23 (fourteen years ago) link

haha I remember LOVING "Sun City" at the time

Four-TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN! (HI DERE), Friday, 31 July 2009 13:28 (fourteen years ago) link

prefer voices that care to w.a.t.w and "stars" to either

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZktrrqT1A0

Trey Tsongas (J0hn D.), Friday, 31 July 2009 13:50 (fourteen years ago) link

it has a nice (lovely at times) melody.

titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Friday, 31 July 2009 13:53 (fourteen years ago) link

plus it generated a lot of money for charity.

also, bob geldofy and bono werent involved.

titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Friday, 31 July 2009 13:54 (fourteen years ago) link

*geldof

titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Friday, 31 July 2009 13:54 (fourteen years ago) link

btw if you watch that stars video with the sound down on the player & forrest fang's new album playing instead, life becomes awesome

Trey Tsongas (J0hn D.), Friday, 31 July 2009 14:02 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

Geir Hongro, Friday, 31 July 2009 14:32 (fourteen years ago) link

man i need to poll this

tulsa anti-juggalo league (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 31 July 2009 15:58 (fourteen years ago) link

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.

Alex in NYC, Friday, 31 July 2009 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link

Yes, black Americans are always ripping off the British!

Hoot Smalley, Friday, 31 July 2009 19:01 (fourteen years ago) link

alex is being too kind imo

omar little, Friday, 31 July 2009 19:03 (fourteen years ago) link

"i've heard the song its a tremendous song uh i don't know the words but uh i heard the song"

- wayne gretzky

generic xanax order cialis buy viagra cheap tramadol (Dr. Phil), Friday, 31 July 2009 19:12 (fourteen years ago) link

lol @ alex internet toughguying it up about we are the world

tulsa anti-juggalo league (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 31 July 2009 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link

^ thats one of my favorite alex in nyc posts btw

generic xanax order cialis buy viagra cheap tramadol (Dr. Phil), Friday, 31 July 2009 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link

haha that is classic

tulsa anti-juggalo league (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 31 July 2009 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link

there's one...god...alex what did you say?

like "X shits down upon X from a prodigious height or something"

tulsa anti-juggalo league (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 31 July 2009 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link

hahaha

generic xanax order cialis buy viagra cheap tramadol (Dr. Phil), Friday, 31 July 2009 19:40 (fourteen years ago) link

what's the one that involves eating someone's organs or was it defecating on their organs

generic xanax order cialis buy viagra cheap tramadol (Dr. Phil), Friday, 31 July 2009 19:44 (fourteen years ago) link

POX: Alex in NYC posts

generic xanax order cialis buy viagra cheap tramadol (Dr. Phil), Friday, 31 July 2009 19:45 (fourteen years ago) link

where's the one where he compared so and so unfavorably to denny vertigo?

omar little, Friday, 31 July 2009 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link

"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.

velko, Friday, 31 July 2009 19:49 (fourteen years ago) link

James Ingram and Micheal McDonald "Yah mo be there"

What kind of keyboards did Micheal McDonald and James Ingram use to make this song.

-- startrekman, Saturday, November 27, 2004 6:22 AM

irritating ones.

-- Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, November 27, 2004 6:27 AM

generic xanax order cialis buy viagra cheap tramadol (Dr. Phil), Friday, 31 July 2009 19:49 (fourteen years ago) link

hahahaha that one is great

Four-TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN! (HI DERE), Friday, 31 July 2009 19:50 (fourteen years ago) link

lol indeed

AleXTC, Monday, 3 August 2009 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link

prefer voices that care to w.a.t.w

jesus christ. at the very least, the message of WATW (standard hippie zen "we should all love one another") is a better one than the barely camouflaged pro-war bullshit of "voices that care."

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 3 August 2009 19:25 (fourteen years ago) link

i actually think "voices that care" may make me angrier than any other record in the world. watching that video certainly does.

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 3 August 2009 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link

"You Had To Take a Stand In Someone Else's Land"

Yeah, "Voices that Care" is pretty indefensible.

Alex in NYC, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link

Holy crap -Dudley Moore!

Alex in NYC, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link

wau never even heard of Voices That Care, that is some next level awfulness. was that for Gulf War I? That was a good war.

girlish in the worst sense of that term (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link

bible nut orel herschieser and noted facist cokedhead james woods in on the action!

wanna be tough guy stephen stills!

man there's way more actors than singers in that.

what a horrible song!

voices that care makes "we are the world" sound like "supernaut"!

tulsa anti-juggalo league (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link

okay that is enough to make me stop playing Major Lazer and check this out

pon de floor (HI DERE), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:30 (fourteen years ago) link

voices that care makes "we are the world" sound like "supernaut"!

Bahahaha

Alex in NYC, Monday, 3 August 2009 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link

holy fucking lolgasm

pon de floor (HI DERE), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link

Michael fucking Bolton, lolololol

pon de floor (HI DERE), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link

holy shit KENNY G

pon de floor (HI DERE), Monday, 3 August 2009 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link


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