Richard Marx - S&D

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?

http://articles.latimes.com/1990-07-06/entertainment/ca-232_1_richard-marx

Richard Marx leaned his head over the West Hollywood restaurant table and poked his fingers into the top of his notoriously lush mane.

"You can see right here, I have no hair spray," the pop singer said. "I don't ever use hair spray. I just have thick hair, which I think (upsets) a lot of bald critics."

lol

"When I read bad reviews of me and when I read slams in the press, I don't ever read, 'He doesn't sing well' or, 'He doesn't write melodic songs,' or 'He doesn't work hard on stage or produce good records,' " he said. "I read, 'His hair's too perfect.' "

HAHA

Marx called Curry a "mousse endorsement."

Okay, so Marx has always been pretty zingy. Love this dude now.

he always seemed like a funny, chill sorta dude. i feel bad for him ;_;

I still think Marx's "Angelia" is one of the best hair-metal ballads of the 80s - it's basically just a Def Leppard ripoff. Haven't heard that song in decades but I'm sure I'd still like it today.

Didn't remember that track until the video started, but yeah...that's some post-Hysteria ish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsYK2JJNflg

named my daughter after this song

janice crawford 2 weeks ago

and married to Cynthia Rhodes for 20 years!

I was 14 when I heard that "Hitline USA" episode (which Curry hosted briefly) in which they sparred.

I dunno, seems p much straight ballad to me. I hear the Hysteria connection but I'd never go as far as hair metal.

Yeah, I guess the way the guitar sounds reminds me of Hysteria a bit. His voice kills any metal aspect. Hair Ballad.

Pretty boilerplate slow-Marxian single imo. Not one of the best of anything.

hey

It's no Hold On To The Night, c'mon!

i guess. I like the last half of Hold On To the Night but the first half takes FOREVER to build

I like Marx when he goes big, lol

I'll take "Keep Comin' Back" (with Luther on backing vox!)

YES

god I love that

"Now and Forever" is a gross sack of shit though

yeah he veers into that Bryan Adams/Everything I Do territory there, it's too much

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2006-10-08/news/0610070202_1_richard-marx-guitars-parent-teacher-conferences

I don't feel the least bit sorry for him -- he's living exactly the sort of life that shoudl be the envy of musicians: stable marriage of 20+ years, massive early success, regular royalty checks, still writing and producing hits.

He's playing a small club here in a couple of weeks, same place I'm seeing Graham Parker.

Which would you prefer, Josh -- a punked-up cover of "Should've Known Better" by Parker or Marx doing an acousti-sensitive "You Can't Be Too Strong"?

Good question! Marx is more versatile, so maybe Marx doing Parker? Then again, Parker doing Marx would be more fun. Marx clearly writes songs others like to sing.

Marx popped on stage for one of his songs when I saw Keith Urban a while back.

i worked on a show that had an episode w/marxie 10+ years ago. iirc he came across as remarkably decent. on that same show, david foster was revealed as a thoroughly reprehensible piece of shit but that's another story.

i would see richard marx play if he ever came to cali

Remember this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wdv7sxdiE0

Plainly emulating Daryl Hall.

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