A Spiritual Journey With Michael Sembello

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'well we survived the "sopranos" episode and I learned that I can still fit in a closet "

wtf?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 10 May 2004 19:27 (twenty years ago) link

It has deep mystic meaning.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 May 2004 19:30 (twenty years ago) link

I wonder if you would allow me to cut your song 'Maniac'. I'm producing the legendary Flip Wilson & he wants to do this song with his 'Geraldine' character for his new dance cd. She has a thing with water & welding & some other issues I'm not privy to at the moment. but, you know that this means a sincere performance, just as it was written, a steamy jacuzzi reading per se.
I have the charts worked out, which I can forward to you (one note at a time) & you are certainly welcome to play (replay, fly in) the solo gtr on this recording. (Logic Multi-paltinum 9.44.01 preferred for Linux)
This is a great opportunity, being Flip's swan song & telling (all)at that. He wants to go 'out' on this, your note, & I can't agree more!
Do not dilly dally or even dilly Dolly with Geraldine! Time is of the essence.
What's the word, Mr. Sembello?

BEAUTIFUL

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 May 2004 19:59 (twenty years ago) link

utterly.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 10 May 2004 20:01 (twenty years ago) link

It's truly mystic.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 May 2004 21:13 (twenty years ago) link

Can we talk for a second about the lyrics to "Maniac"? Without really knowing anything about Michael Sembello yesterday, I guessed that he might be from Italy and that the language barrier would explain just how odd and beyond comprehensibility these lyrics are. But no, he's from Philly. THERE'S NO EXCUSE.

philadelphia IS a strange town.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 11 May 2004 05:48 (twenty years ago) link

five months pass...

Halloween gift. Ghostly sum resurrection. The ghouls and goblins.

It's too good too let die.

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Monday, 1 November 2004 03:22 (nineteen years ago) link

this is the best thread i've ever started.

― results not typical (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 1 November 2004 03:40 (nineteen years ago) link

C'mon, what's not to get about 'cold connective heat?'

https://www.asseenontvnetwork.com/vcc/coldheat/coldheat/121315/

― results not typical (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 1 November 2004 03:46 (nineteen years ago) link

hehehehee

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Monday, 1 November 2004 03:59 (nineteen years ago) link

crate diggers take note: there are at least TWO different record covers of sembello's epochal _bossa nova hotel_. the first (and i'm guessing original) looks like this:

http://www.bluedesert.dk/cd3cm/sembello/bossa.JPG

that's michael behind the desk on the right in black/white face reading a godzilla comic. then there are two oiled-up pieces of beefcake rising off the floor (?), a dark one in a speedo with a huge shiny log-chain around his neck (??), the blond one in a sumo-diaper thing and what looks like christ's spear wound on his ribs (???). michael is on the back side in white shorts similarly floating off the floor with two suitcases.

the second (i'm guessing, for gay-squeaming audiences) puts the floating-suitcase michael on the front cover, and EXCISES COMPLETELY the stigmata-chain-diaper-south-beach-titty-tan-angels. so don't get that one!

― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 1 November 2004 07:31 (nineteen years ago) link

good to know

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Monday, 1 November 2004 07:54 (nineteen years ago) link

please tell me there's a larger image of that original cover online.

― results not typical (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 1 November 2004 14:15 (nineteen years ago) link

a little bigger

meanwhile, "squeaming"??

― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 1 November 2004 14:25 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Still one of the greatest threads ever.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 22 January 2005 03:13 (nineteen years ago) link

four months pass...

what the?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 26 May 2005 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link

the movie linked to seems like it's gotta be a comedy... like there's even jokes and stuff in it! but the rest of the site, and people's reactions on this thread, make it seem totally serious. so i am confused.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 26 May 2005 19:39 (nineteen years ago) link

i think the movie WANTS to be humorous, but it's unironic in ways perhaps sembello and howard don't even realize.

― a collectivist romantic fling! (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 27 May 2005 03:18 (nineteen years ago) link

i mean it's definitely... jokey. and ron howard is def'ly acting like he's in a comedy.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 27 May 2005 03:22 (nineteen years ago) link

fuckin scientologists

― a collectivist romantic fling! (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 27 May 2005 03:23 (nineteen years ago) link

And now you know the mysteries, Mr. Slocki.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 May 2005 04:46 (nineteen years ago) link

i think about ron howard in this clip WAY more often than is probably normal/safe

― jones (actual), Friday, 27 May 2005 04:55 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...

may..june..july..august...REVIVE! I did this once and I SWEAR it will never end. For the newbians y'know.

― cs, Thursday, 18 August 2005 09:50 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Nice job :) Keep it up buddy! online casino ( http://online-casino.webpark.pl/ )

― online casino, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 10:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, keep it up buddy!

― pappawheelie II, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

I just laughed out loud at the last two posts here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 16 April 2006 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link

"keep it up"

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 21 April 2006 01:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I have a feeling this is all down to the Sembello cult.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes, these drugs are definitely being flogged by singing dolphins with access to gmail.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 21:51 (eighteen years ago) link

I'd believe it!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 22:08 (eighteen years ago) link

nine months pass...

time honored tradition----REVIVE!!!!!!!

― one triple scoop (cs appleby), Friday, 9 February 2007 10:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Still genius.

― chap (chap), Friday, 9 February 2007 12:39 (seventeen years ago) link

four months pass...

And again.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link

In retrospect I appreciate how Ron Howard's bit with the sunglasses is a tribute to David Caruso before his time.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link

six months pass...

I needed the laugh.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 December 2007 03:57 (sixteen years ago) link

god god the god blessed the true name of fun.

― dice in my pockets, Friday, 14 December 2007 07:02 (sixteen years ago) link

the man is my avatar pic at the dubstep forum. lol...must delete?

― dice in my pockets, Friday, 14 December 2007 07:12 (sixteen years ago) link

NEVER!

― latebloomer, Friday, 14 December 2007 07:19 (sixteen years ago) link

YOU MUST HONOR SEMBELLO WITH EVERY LAST BREATH

― latebloomer, Friday, 14 December 2007 07:19 (sixteen years ago) link

he really needs to release a quality mp3 of the rap theme to Monster Squad. that shit is something else.

― latebloomer, Friday, 14 December 2007 07:20 (sixteen years ago) link

my employees at work speak almost no english so tomorrow i am going to say sembello in almost every sentence to throw them off.

― dice in my pockets, Friday, 14 December 2007 08:47 (sixteen years ago) link

two years pass...

New website.

He has apparently recovered his sanity -- although the list of recent production credits suggests he never truly lost it.

And I have to confess I really like the smooth-jazz version of "Maniac" that auto-plays.

― My head is full of numbers from the internet! (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 19 August 2010 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link

one year passes...

http://i.imgur.com/sqD8Z.jpg

― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:00 (twelve years ago) link

^actual album art

http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Years-Michael-Sembello/dp/B004JKLTWU

― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 00:00 (twelve years ago) link

Wow. Is he...um...cornholing the earth right now? Should we avert our eyes?

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 02:48 (twelve years ago) link

looks like brazil's taking the brunt of it.

-- g®▲đұ, Sunday, June 3, 2007 9:34 PM

― gershy, Wednesday, April 23, 2008 9:40 PM

― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 02:50 (twelve years ago) link

I was seriously just thinking about this thread and that album cover today. Mr. Sembello must have fucked the planets into alignment, huh?

― SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 03:55 (twelve years ago) link

Pick a song!

1. Love Doesn't Live Here Anymore
2. Tear Down The Walls
3. The Winter Of Our Love
4. Black Rain
5. Heavy Weather
6. One Planet, One People
7. Maniac (New Version)
8. The Life Of My Broken Heart
9. Where Are We Now
10. Rub The Stone
11. Voodoo (Bonus Track)
12. What You Really Want (Bonus Track)
13. Burn It Up (Bonus Track)

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 22 February 2012 04:27 (twelve years ago) link

Rub The Stone ooo er

― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 22 February 2012 04:32 (twelve years ago) link

two years pass...

Didn't realize that he co-wrote Saturn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLHI-Y_RJGA&feature=kp

― how's life, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 12:28 (ten years ago) link

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