"Rhythm of the Night" >>>> "All Night Long (All Night)"
― Hey Look More Than Five Years Has Passed And You Have A C (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 10 April 2011 12:15 (thirteen years ago) link
All Night Long
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 10 April 2011 12:17 (thirteen years ago) link
xp DeBarge? Corona? Running With the Night?
― gospodin simmel, Sunday, 10 April 2011 12:21 (thirteen years ago) link
DeBarge.
This poll reminds me of how tight Can't Slow Down is. If the title track had been a single, I'd have voted for it.
The DOTC stuff on the other hand is slush. "Love Will Conquer All" is the only one that touches the CSD singles.
― Hey Look More Than Five Years Has Passed And You Have A C (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 10 April 2011 12:23 (thirteen years ago) link
All Night Long over Say You Say Me.
Running With the Night is really underrated.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 10 April 2011 12:32 (thirteen years ago) link
http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhurxdZcY11qz87uho1_500.jpg
― Grotjahn in the Moma (Pillbox), Sunday, 10 April 2011 12:37 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnnx1n898U8
― Hey Look More Than Five Years Has Passed And You Have A C (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 10 April 2011 12:39 (thirteen years ago) link
This poll reminds me of how tight Can't Slow Down is.
Commodores included, it's his crowning achievement for sure.
― That's why they call me (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 10 April 2011 14:16 (thirteen years ago) link
voted 'love will conquer all' pretty easily
― balls, Sunday, 10 April 2011 14:34 (thirteen years ago) link
I love "Hello", but I also love "Ballerina Girl". Going for the latter as it will receive few votes otherwise.
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 10 April 2011 14:58 (thirteen years ago) link
And I love DeBarge as well btw, but don't feel like putting them up against Lionel Richie. Both are examples of R&B at its best and most melodic.
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 10 April 2011 14:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Y'all rockers are gonna vote "Stuck on You", but I have to give it up for "You Are". Breezy perfection!
― don't flux, whatever (u s steel), Sunday, 10 April 2011 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link
All Night Long (All Night)
― blah blah blah my entire life happened to me once (Abbbottt), Sunday, 10 April 2011 16:28 (thirteen years ago) link
I remember when he was on SNL and Eddie Murphy (who may have been the host -- he was the only member of a current cast to also host) gave an unusually long intro about how Lionel was a musical genius. I smirked, but then Lionel went into "You Are," and I thought, "Yep, Eddie's right."
That said, I went with "All Night Long." Flawless, timeless, vibrant...
― Funky Mustard (People It's Bad) (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 10 April 2011 22:03 (thirteen years ago) link
"Rhythm of the Night" <<<< "All Night Long (All Night)"
― cold hands of monkeys on my heart (CaptainLorax), Sunday, 10 April 2011 23:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I went with the one that charted #24 country. (Apparently he charted #10 country with an Alabama colloboration called "Deep River Woman" four years later, but it's not up there and I don't think I've ever heard it.)
― xhuxk, Monday, 11 April 2011 01:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I really like "You Are", reminds me of my little clock radio and those weird years when I wasn't a kid anymore and wasn't a teenager yet.
― akm, Monday, 11 April 2011 03:44 (thirteen years ago) link
xp Which one is that xhuxk? "Dancing on the Ceiling"?
― amphetamine fueled scholar (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 11 April 2011 04:19 (thirteen years ago) link
tangential but any excuse to post this
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― i think drake distracts (dayo), Monday, 11 April 2011 04:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I think xhuxk means "Stuck On You," which has a country lilt.
― Hey Look More Than Five Years Has Passed And You Have A C (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 April 2011 11:03 (thirteen years ago) link
"All Night Long (All Night)" is great, especially the 12" version. A perfect example of how a tune can be soft and mellow and still have a wonderful groove.
― Tuomas, Monday, 11 April 2011 11:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 14 April 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 15 April 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
"Stuck on You" sounds an awful lot like Evita's "High Flying Adored"
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 19 June 2014 15:43 (nine years ago) link
Everything but "Endless Love" are hot steamy turds.
― bodacious ignoramus, Friday, 20 June 2014 21:43 (nine years ago) link
no way "Runnin With the Night" is fuckin dope fuiud
― Neanderthal, Friday, 20 June 2014 21:57 (nine years ago) link
would still voted 'love will conquer all' but man 'you are' is fantastic
― balls, Friday, 20 June 2014 22:12 (nine years ago) link
i don't know why it took me 35 years (give or take a few) to realize what a great song "all night long" is! it's a perfect production, lots of great touches in the rhythm section, the vocal, etc... it's a very MOR synthesis of different rhythmic traditions but it's a seductive synthesis just the same!
"dancing on the ceiling," however, is dreck. it's like he abandoned everything that made him distinctive.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Thursday, 11 February 2016 04:00 (eight years ago) link
actually it took listening to the instrumental version of "all night long" for me to realize its greatness. not that the vocal is bad, i guess i just needed to pay closer attention to what was going on in the arrangement.
can't slow down is overall a classic, classic album. it was a mainstay in my cassette player when i was a kid and lionel richie was along w/michael jackson my first music hero. unlike MJ i kinda checked out after that period but i recently bought CSD on vinyl for a buck and it's great.
― nomar, Thursday, 11 February 2016 04:28 (eight years ago) link
"Oh No" (1991, Lionel's last hit with the Commodores) > all of these
― pitchforkian at best (cryptosicko), Thursday, 11 February 2016 04:37 (eight years ago) link
Running with the night is a jam
― lute bro (brimstead), Thursday, 11 February 2016 05:39 (eight years ago) link
He couldn't dance on the ceiling.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 01:58 (five years ago) link
recently in CVS i was admiring the little spit curls at the ends of notes in "Stuck on You"s guitar solo
weedl-ah-WHEET-whurrrr(swoop)
― cheese is the teacher, ham is the preacher (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 14:47 (five years ago) link
that's the country influence
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 14:47 (five years ago) link
Lionel Richie says he feels like 'kid at Christmas time' ahead of the coronation concert, adding that the performance will be 'a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity'Latest: https://t.co/gELyhGXZyw pic.twitter.com/0Rk8jPEdWZ— Sky News (@SkyNews) May 3, 2023
― birdistheword, Sunday, 7 May 2023 05:40 (eleven months ago) link
What is happening here?https://s.abcnews.com/images/International/king-charles-coronation-gty-moe-77-230506_1683372097480_hpMain_16x9t_608.jpgSomething's going on it's not quite clear.
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Sunday, 7 May 2023 08:47 (eleven months ago) link
Richie’s pal, Santa Claus.
― birdistheword, Sunday, 7 May 2023 15:55 (eleven months ago) link
Chuck's gonna have a party
All
Day
Long
― coolgnoscenti (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 7 May 2023 16:13 (eleven months ago) link
The album version of "Penny Lover" got play on my local A/C station. Corny as fuck, but, god, what a hook. The playing is peak L.A. studio mafia.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 22:31 (two months ago) link
Glad to see All Night Long receive proper recognition as one of the towering cultural achievements of the 20th century
― Kraal Disorientation Chamber (emsworth), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 22:51 (two months ago) link
"All Night Long" is forever marred for me by teasing a soaring bridge that ultimately doesn't happen. Just three bars of "oh sheet this is about to get next level" before "nope, just back to the chorus again"
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 23:54 (two months ago) link
Seeing him in the recent "We Are the World" documentary was interesting. I can go for years without thinking about him. Then I remember how ubiquitous he was.
For some people of my age, class, and temperament, Lionel will always be drama-teaching clay Lionel as rendered by the Braille-reading young woman in the "Hello" video but there are more Lionels than that.
At one point he was upside down.
(Apologies if this sounds flippant. My affection is genuine.)
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 00:21 (two months ago) link
Hilariously stupid.
https://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploads24/cg4ff60dc2d5c1c1436908595.jpg
― birdistheword, Wednesday, 21 February 2024 04:37 (two months ago) link
I have that collection. Even looks like Clive Davis.
― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 February 2024 04:43 (two months ago) link
lol at the classic bloom county
― that's not my post, Wednesday, 21 February 2024 04:52 (two months ago) link
What.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aMeSZXQX7I
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 05:28 (one month ago) link
Restrained and non-ear-splitting by Cilla’s usual standards!
I really like the country remake of “Stuck on You”
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 14:10 (one month ago) link