Lionel Richie in the 1980s: Singles

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"Stuck on You" sounds an awful lot like Evita's "High Flying Adored"

Everything but "Endless Love" are hot steamy turds.

no way "Runnin With the Night" is fuckin dope fuiud

would still voted 'love will conquer all' but man 'you are' is fantastic

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.

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.

"Oh No" (1991, Lionel's last hit with the Commodores) > all of these

Running with the night is a jam

He couldn't dance on the ceiling.

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)

that's the country influence

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Richie’s pal, Santa Claus.

Chuck's gonna have a party

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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.

Glad to see All Night Long receive proper recognition as one of the towering cultural achievements of the 20th century

"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"

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.)

Hilariously stupid.

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I have that collection. Even looks like Clive Davis.

lol at the classic bloom county

What.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aMeSZXQX7I

Restrained and non-ear-splitting by Cilla’s usual standards!

I really like the country remake of “Stuck on You”