Richard Marx - S&D

You just don't get hair like that in the charts anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPI5ecQ1YTA

Drunk on Twitter right now:
@richardmarx

highlights?

Richard Marx ‏@richardmarx
OMG it's so fun to be on Twitter when you don't have a career to worry about protecting!!!!!

Actually, nothing too crazy, he's just tweeting a lot.

and you're... right there waiting for him.

damn this thread is full of classics

He really is making Twitter work for him:

Playing in Coral Springs, Fl 2nite. I think like..eleven people are coming. Gonna do the whole show in dark glasses and play all Soundgarden

only 50 minutes from me! I may ask him to play "Pretty Noose."

would pay .99 for a richard marx cover of "the day i tried to live" tbh

now I imagine Soundgarden returning the favor and covering "Should've Known Better."

I like to think about the people (who surely existed) who heard Should've Known Better and thought "Wow, I didn't know Richard Marx could ROCK!"

Don't Mean Nothing and Should've Known Better were actually his first two singles. The ballads came later.

awww dammit

yeah Marx's early rockers weren't bad at all. "Don't Mean Nothing" actually has Joe Walsh (which makes sense: it's a "Long Run" rewrite).

and it must be pointed out:

Marx placed himself in the record books by being the first solo artist to have his first seven singles hit the Top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart (3, 3, 2, 1, 1, 1, 4)

Not to mention his songwriting/production credits.

I really like some of the stuff he's written for Keith Urban.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dtfBxUTXRY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3pzIzlcCMs

he was pretty cool on Chelsea Peretti's podcast

This is also a Marx jam, as is that N' Sync one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6ug6PvTI-c

"Hazard" was big in England too, wasn't it?

i really dig this. it's no hazard, but it's just so goddamn catchy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmj7gX2yDUI

for being a #1 single it's fallen down the memory hole. I bought Repeat Offender thanks to this lol

nice

I've been thinking about it. I had it on cassette in high school but never re-upped. Maybe it's time.

I could be wrong, but Marx's hair was a topic of discussion even when people had ridiculous hair everywhere, right? Because that's just plain silly.

it was p impressive, even for the time

because Marx was just over four feet tall.

didn't get into a tiff with Adam Curry?

>:(

what would you keep besides "Hazard," Neanderthal?

I like "Endless Summer Nights", "The Way She Loves Me", "Take This Heart", and uh...probably a few more.

"don't mean nothing", which i'd call the best fake eagles song ever except 3 of the eagles are on it so i'm not sure there's anything 'fake' about it, and of course 'hazard' are the only two i'll really rep for, there are a few others i can get more mild pleasure than mild annoyance from ("satisfied", "children of the night" a pretty big guilty pleasure, "endless summer nights" which could probably use more sax tbh). no use for "right here waiting" or "hold on to the nights".

until wikipedia had no idea he cowrote, produced, and played on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQOmDUnt8Hs

yeah I said upthread it's a blatant copy of "The Long Run" but less obnoxious. I like the falsetto.

man for like a year and a half i've been moaning about spotify not having the eagles and how they're precisely the type of band i would never buy but would totally check out on spotify but now that they're on there i've been all 'eh, maybe i'll check out pink floyd instead'.

"The Long Run has deep cuts!"

ended up playing the hazard video for a bunch of coworkers trying to reconvince them of his brilliance and ended up back down the Richard Marx rabbit hole. I realized I never did reup the first 2 albums as intended. I think today will be the day.

i really love the sound of his voice.

ended up ended up ended up :(

I dunno about brilliance but "Hazard" is several leagues better than most of his stuff, and not exclusively because it's Serious Material.

man it's amazing what my exchange with balls wrought

I read that very wrongly

well ok maybe not brilliance but everyone just laughs at his hair and he's so good!! sigh

lol i thought that also, it's like seeing a guy in 1963 go 'i think i might join the marines'

well I didn't end up with the first 2 albums I only scored the greatest hits but a) used and b) 50% off because I am a regular shopper at that establishment so SCORE

anyway now I can listen to Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaangeliiiiiiiiiiiiiiia anytime I want

Albini interviews Fulks:

A: So, this has nothing to do with your music, but I'm gonna ask you about it. Are you familiar with—there's a short film that your lovely wife, Donna, has been asked to be in that I have also been asked to be in. Are you familiar with this?

F: Sure. I told her never in a million years to even approach you because you would be uninterested, but it sounds like there's a possibility you could do it.

A: Well, what happened is—it's a short film about a Twitter beef between a writer and a musical celebrity, let's say a slightly passe musical celebrity along the lines of a Richard Marx.

F: Like Groucho Marx but from Winnetka.

A: When I read about that original Twitter beef, my initial reaction was that the writer guy, who was all incensed about how cheap Richard Marx was—my initial reaction was that that guy was a cock and a half, and I hoped that Richard Marx punched him square in the nose. So I was curious to read the script, because I wanted to see if the script was from the perspective of Richard Marx or from the perspective of the writer. Or if it was from some external perspective.

F: Have you read the script?

A: I did read the script. And now I'm kind of creeped by it, and I kind of don't want to do it. But I feel like I'm an awkward position, because it seems like this guy has written this part for me to play me, saying things that I would never say about someone I would never say them about.

F: That's kind of why I told her that I didn't think you'd be interested in it. Because it's you playing you, right?

A: I think that's the idea. Were you aware of this Marxstroversy when it happened?

F: I guess I did read an article about it somewhere, yeah.

A: Secondarily, I'm a little freaked about it because I appeared on—there was a local taping of a podcast, the Scharpling podcast [Low Times]. It's Tom Scharpling from The Best Show. He and a couple of other people from the show have a podcast, where it's more related to music. Anyway. They taped it at the Hideout, Chicago's friendliest tavern, and they had me and Richard Marx as guests. So I actually met Richard Marx.

F: And he wasn't a cock—he was a nice guy.

A: Well, you know, he seemed like he was a little out of touch and maybe a little full of his own dump. But I find it really hard to think ill of a guy who's self-aware enough to come down to a thing where he knows he might get picked on. I thought that was, relatively speaking, big of him.

F: To want to punch a music blogger is an inherently creditable notion. (Laughter.)

he won't stop until he's satisfied!

is this really happening? now?

Richard Marx ‏@richardmarx 3m

Today is the 25th Anniversary of Repeat Offender which scored 2 #1 hits, 5 top 15 singles & sold 10M copies #teammarx pic.twitter.com/xZBl4Ae5uc

happy anniversary

http://m.chicago.curbed.com/archives/2014/11/20/soft-rocker-richard-marx-lists-palatial-lakefront-mansion-for-18m.php

On this day in '89 my song "Satisfied" topped the Billboard Hot 100. Going out 2night and celebrate its anniversary.

DONCHA KNOOWOOOH

I like the idea of Marx updating us chart geeks. "On this day in 1994, my last top ten 'Now and Forever' fell off the Hot 100!"

just married daisy fuentes!

wtf i didnt even know he & cynthia split ;_;

Ugh

Second marriage for both. For some reason this union seems like a lack of imagination on both of their parts.

i heard "endless summer nights" on a radio and god help me i liked it. i probably heard it back in the 1980s but don't remember if so.

the problem w/ the blogger discussed above is that he can't imagine a person who could make the sort of music marx makes (and continues to make) doing so in earnest. i see no reason to doubt marx's commitment to even the dreck-iest of his music.

meaning, i don't see evidence of bad faith on his part.

take celine dion -- does anyone doubt her passionate commitment to the kind of music she makes?

endless summer nights is one of my faves

also: angelia

whenever i see the name of that song i think it's a typo

Don't Mean Nothing = best Eagles rip of the '80s.

otm

Should've Known Better is fun to karaoke

http://www.avclub.com/article/soft-rock-hero-richard-marx-helps-stop-violent-att-247689

something something hazard

richard marx will save us

should have known better imo

right here waiting (with rope)

I’m THE Richard Marx who doesn’t need to defend my career, calling you out for being so far up Trump’s ass you can taste his colon. And you keep dodging the fact that you failed your viewers by being a pussy. @piersmorgan https://t.co/lnAX59MQK3

— Richard Marx (@richardmarx) January 26, 2018

lol

I keep waiting for Richard Marx's no wave EP.

saw him live last night & idk what deal he has made with the devil but his voice still sounds fkng great

Anyway it made me go back and find some of the later-period albums I hadn't heard, like Flesh & Bone & that red Avalon one that I can't remember the name of and the most recent album and they're pretty good imo! Though I will admit to a deep abiding bias, lol.

It occurred to me that his catalog would hold up well against a listening thread if enough ppl were on board.

oh that would be fun. i legit loved 'hazard' when i was 9 or 10 and when i go back to those songs now they really are quite decent and defensible.

that whole album, repeat offender, is really good - my personal fave

This dude is always a treat on Twitter. He's like the Chrissy Teigen of 90s adult contemporary dudes.

The ones your girl fucked to before she met you. https://t.co/n6whpEPXrK

— Richard Marx (@richardmarx) March 11, 2020

He was a guest recently on a podcast I listen to; he had some fairly interesting stuff to talk about, mainly his early days in the biz.

he was on Chelsea Peretti’s podcast randomly a number of years ago, and he was great - even when all of her caller/listeners had no idea who he was!

he was also on the low times podcast with tom scharpling a while back, he seems like a bro for sure