― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Saturday, 3 February 2007 01:37 (seventeen years ago) link
I've been listening to and watching LR on Youtube. Quite compelling! I started wondering about finding a LR hits CD.
The video for 'All Night Long' is wonderful, and the track itself is at least interesting.
― the pinefox, Monday, 4 August 2008 13:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Can't Slow Down is an excellent album, and the video for "All Night Long (All Night)"--very important, that parenthetical "(All Night)"--is excellent both as a time capsule (i.e. the clothes) and as a way of promulgating Lionel's guy-next-door-who-wants-to-unite-the-world vibe. Also, once when I was DJ'ing in Tracer Hand's basement I followed P!nk's "Get the Party Started" with "All Night Long (All Night)"--again, that parenthetical "(All Night)" is what makes that title for me--and it rocked the motherfucking house. So for that alone he and it would be classic. -- M Matos (M Matos)
Imagine - Tracer Hand had a basement big enough for a LR-style disco!!
― the pinefox, Monday, 4 August 2008 13:16 (fifteen years ago) link
What I also like about that video: the chastity - the way LR is interested in Community rather than in his own desires.
― the pinefox, Monday, 4 August 2008 13:17 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought Milan Williams wrote "Machine Gun."
― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 4 August 2008 13:28 (fifteen years ago) link
A fantastic songwriter who has, however, lost it since the mid 80s. Up to and including the "Dancing On The Ceiling" album, he was fantastic. His last album was dreadful though.
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 4 August 2008 13:39 (fifteen years ago) link
I vaguely remember reading an interview where he said he originally intended Can't Slow Down to be semi-heavy guitar rock, but realized that no one in 1982 radioland would touch it. Musta pissed him off when "Beat It" and "Let's Go Crazy" took off.
― Sara Sara Sara, Monday, 4 August 2008 14:58 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't get how he thought the tutor-student relationship in the 'Hello' video was acceptable. But I find it fascinating to see how his videos in that era involve extra dialogue, narrative, sense of LR playing a character.
― the pinefox, Monday, 4 August 2008 16:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Hall And Oates had done the AOR/rock/R&B fusion for ages already. But I realise they were white and, in 1983, that made a lot of difference.
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 4 August 2008 19:50 (fifteen years ago) link
For a moment baby For a moment baby For a moment baby SugarsugarsugaryeahyeahyeahyeahyeahYEAAAHHH
― ellaguru, Monday, 4 August 2008 22:40 (fifteen years ago) link
"Hello" is great if you can listen to it without the video playing in your head. Seriously.
― u s steel, Sunday, 21 December 2008 12:57 (fifteen years ago) link
No. Hello is not going to be played in my presence. I will not even admit the fact that I bought the "You Are" single in 6th grade. I refuse. He must be silenced. Lionel Richie is not to be defended. KEEP AWAY. Bimble warned you, Bimble tried to help you.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than Your MIDNITE POWERTOOLS (Bimble), Sunday, 21 December 2008 13:04 (fifteen years ago) link
You're crazy. If you can't accept "Hello" for what it is, you need a new set of ears. Great composition - creepy and great sense of narrative.
― u s steel, Sunday, 21 December 2008 13:15 (fifteen years ago) link
Hahahhahah I would rather die than watch that video.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than Your MIDNITE POWERTOOLS (Bimble), Sunday, 21 December 2008 13:17 (fifteen years ago) link
although I do recall you said don't watch the video.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than Your MIDNITE POWERTOOLS (Bimble), Sunday, 21 December 2008 13:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Do you know the initials of his name are L and R??????
LOU REED?????????????????????????????????????????????????????////
hes quite easily defensible.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Sunday, 21 December 2008 13:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Of course. And "Stuck on You" is on this album too. Cool cover, too.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/46/Richieslow.jpg
If those songs came out in the seventies, they'd be a lot "cooler".
― u s steel, Sunday, 21 December 2008 13:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Is it me you're looking for (blind girl)?
― ^likes black girls (HI DERE), Sunday, 21 December 2008 13:31 (fifteen years ago) link
the 80s is cooler right now.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Sunday, 21 December 2008 13:32 (fifteen years ago) link
The desperation of it blows all of your punk poo out of the water. You need this song.
― u s steel, Sunday, 21 December 2008 13:33 (fifteen years ago) link
NO I DO NOT NEED THIS SONG YOU PUNK
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than Your MIDNITE POWERTOOLS (Bimble), Sunday, 21 December 2008 13:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I will gladly sit with a Prince fan for 56 torturous hours of nonstop Prince than hear Lionel.
The Hello video rules.
― that karate douche (╓abies), Sunday, 21 December 2008 13:43 (fifteen years ago) link
She's fucking blind!!! It's horrible, creepy. Steer clear of it.
Donna Summer could totally whip his ass with a hand behind her.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than Your MIDNITE POWERTOOLS (Bimble), Sunday, 21 December 2008 14:08 (fifteen years ago) link
She's also a high school student.
― that karate douche (╓abies), Sunday, 21 December 2008 14:13 (fifteen years ago) link
The part where LR phones her is priceless.
hahahaha you guys need better dope in your house
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than Your MIDNITE POWERTOOLS (Bimble), Sunday, 21 December 2008 14:14 (fifteen years ago) link
lol pwnd. We were all scrapin and doing knifers the other night.
― that karate douche (╓abies), Sunday, 21 December 2008 14:16 (fifteen years ago) link
"All Night Long" is a great video. Can YOU rock those leather pants?
― u s steel, Sunday, 21 December 2008 14:18 (fifteen years ago) link
hahhahhah I HATE YOU. THIS IS A FUCKING LIONEL RICHIE THREADAND WHAT THE FUCK AM I DOING POSTING ON IT?
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than Your MIDNITE POWERTOOLS (Bimble), Sunday, 21 December 2008 14:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Can you rock the pants AND THAT SHIRT? xpost
― that karate douche (╓abies), Sunday, 21 December 2008 14:24 (fifteen years ago) link
OH shit
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than Your MIDNITE POWERTOOLS (Bimble), Sunday, 21 December 2008 14:26 (fifteen years ago) link
― snoball, Sunday, 21 December 2008 14:27 (fifteen years ago) link
getting into Lionel Richie is kinda like shaving your arm pits. Like at first you're really apprehensive, but then you do it, and it feels really weird and slidey and uncomfortable when you sweat, and you THINK it's in a good way, but like whatever cuz HEY I JUST GREW AS A PERSON or something.
― that karate douche (╓abies), Sunday, 21 December 2008 14:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Um. nb I'm kinda drunk.
YES, i BE DRUNK TOOO
But to be honest I think that is a very homosexual way to sum up Lionel Richie. Just sayin'...
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than Your MIDNITE POWERTOOLS (Bimble), Sunday, 21 December 2008 14:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh fuck, that movie! What is that from?
― that karate douche (╓abies), Sunday, 21 December 2008 14:40 (fifteen years ago) link
That comedy video is funny, but I seriously hope you are not saying Lionel Richie has no soul....
― u s steel, Sunday, 21 December 2008 14:41 (fifteen years ago) link
What I'm saying is that LR in the Commodores >>> LR solo. I suppose that LR solo is more bland, more mainstream.
(xpost) "Amazon Women on the Moon"
― snoball, Sunday, 21 December 2008 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Amazon Women On the Moon! That was it.
Wasn't that scene longer, or...? I swear I remember bits with David Allen Grier at a piano.
― that karate douche (╓abies), Sunday, 21 December 2008 14:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Defence closed.
― derelict, Sunday, 21 December 2008 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link
yay, an excuse to spread this around
http://www.zshare.net/audio/530744696af27b2f/
― Telephone thing, Sunday, 21 December 2008 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
i didnt realise this many ppl hated all night long! you guys are crazy
― t_g, Sunday, 21 December 2008 21:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Bimble Lionel Richie is the actual 80s that you yearn for. Without him your main area of interest is a vast empty soundless sea.
― J0hn D., Sunday, 21 December 2008 21:45 (fifteen years ago) link
ilx is rarely as easy as sunday morning
― Giorgio Moderator (PappaWheelie V), Sunday, 21 December 2008 23:28 (fifteen years ago) link
b... b... but that's because many ILXors work on the nightshift
― snoball, Sunday, 21 December 2008 23:33 (fifteen years ago) link
(and before anyone points it out, I know that LR left the Commodores years before Nightshift was released)
― snoball, Sunday, 21 December 2008 23:37 (fifteen years ago) link
the video for "Hello" is so hilariously awesome/bizarre that it permanently burned into my memory, despite only watching it once.
Can't Slow Down is a surprisingly solid album and "Stuck on You" is a genuinely moving and excellent country ballad.
Not listened to much of his output aside from this album; "Say You, Say Me" is garishly 80s and I really don't need to hear "Endless Love" ever again...
― arctic mindbath (President of the People's Republic of Antarctica), Monday, 10 June 2013 01:03 (eleven years ago) link
Re: "Endless Love," I always felt that Lionel was put to better use in another teen romance of the era
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuVH5LcEZj0
― Public Brooding Closet (cryptosicko), Monday, 10 June 2013 01:12 (eleven years ago) link