― Atnevon (Atnevon), Sunday, 10 April 2005 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 10 April 2005 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link
The single might have been credited to George Michael, but it's on Make It Big, which is a Wham! album.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 10 April 2005 20:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Silent Disco of Glastonbury (Bimble...), Sunday, 10 April 2005 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― paulhw (paulhw), Sunday, 10 April 2005 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 10 April 2005 21:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ferlin Husky (noodle vague), Sunday, 10 April 2005 22:26 (nineteen years ago) link
is Jacqueline Susann to most folks' Danielle Steele.
― Ferlin Husky (noodle vague), Sunday, 10 April 2005 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 10 April 2005 22:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Atnevon (Atnevon), Monday, 11 April 2005 04:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 April 2005 13:47 (nineteen years ago) link
You're fired. (That said, it IS a great song and the extended introduction from the album which is all Anne Dudley goodness roxors.)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 11 April 2005 13:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 11 April 2005 13:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 April 2005 13:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 11 April 2005 13:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 11 April 2005 13:57 (nineteen years ago) link
I like "Everything She Wants" more, though.
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Monday, 11 April 2005 14:00 (nineteen years ago) link
What about "To Turn You On" or "Dance Away", Dan?
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 11 April 2005 14:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 11 April 2005 14:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 11 April 2005 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link
Heh. I've never heard either of those songs. I'm really not the biggest Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry booster in the world (although I suspect the 32-year-old me would like them/him a lot more than the 16-year-old me did).
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 April 2005 14:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― jody l'anti-vierge (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 01:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― That One Guy (That One Guy), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 01:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― andrew r, Tuesday, 21 June 2005 01:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― gershy, Saturday, 24 March 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link
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― gershy, Saturday, 24 March 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 24 March 2007 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― gershy, Saturday, 24 March 2007 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Steve Shasta, Saturday, 24 March 2007 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 24 March 2007 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish, Sunday, 25 March 2007 12:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Noodle Vague, Sunday, 25 March 2007 12:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― artdamages, Sunday, 25 March 2007 13:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Roz, Sunday, 25 March 2007 13:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tape Store, Sunday, 25 March 2007 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― artdamages, Sunday, 25 March 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tape Store, Sunday, 25 March 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 26 March 2007 00:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bimble, Monday, 26 March 2007 00:41 (seventeen years ago) link
Holy SHIT, I have been hearing this song my entire life and never knew who it was (I though it was some one-hit smooth jazz throwaway) and EEEUUUGGGHH truly think this is THE WORST song of all fucking time. It is so, so awful.
― Pissed off our Weingarten (Stevie D), Monday, 2 August 2010 13:23 (fourteen years ago) link
classic. melody and superb vocal performance are what makes this track so good.
― V79, Monday, 2 August 2010 13:44 (fourteen years ago) link
It reminds me of the family holiday in 1984, when it was played on the radio endlessly. There was a drought and we got to visit a village that was at the bottom of a (empty at the time) water reservoir.
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Monday, 2 August 2010 14:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Classic, no doubt about that.
― There's Money To Be Made in Ice Cream (EDB), Monday, 2 August 2010 16:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I can't tell you how many times people have picked up my 45 of this song, and just started laughing, and like patted me on the shoulder, and said something like, "Oh man, this is too good! Seriously?" Ok, this has actually happened only four times, but that's enough.
― spanikopitcon (Abbott), Monday, 2 August 2010 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
I have never seen the video until now...they're boating, not dancing. This makes no sense!
― spanikopitcon (Abbott), Monday, 2 August 2010 16:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Dud song. But I have great memories of having someone write "I LOVE WHAM!" in permanent marker across my face when I was passed out. Ahh, youthful binge drinking .. classic.― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, April 11, 2005 6:57 AM (5 years ago)
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Monday, 2 August 2010 16:46 (fourteen years ago) link
this song is fucking amazing, easily the best thing George Michael has ever done/been associated with. kinda surprised people hate on it or think appreciating it requires irony...?
― RAGE, for Men (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 2 August 2010 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link
xxp most of the non-studio bits of the video had to be reshot the next day because GM didn't like the way his hair looked - which is the reason he wears a baseball cap in the boating scenes.
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Monday, 2 August 2010 16:51 (fourteen years ago) link
That is incredible! It was actually a pretty enjoyable video. A lot of dramatic, angry-looking women.
― spanikopitcon (Abbott), Monday, 2 August 2010 16:54 (fourteen years ago) link
The production is awesome, all the instruments are given plenty of space to work, nothing's overcooked - for example the FM brass stabs sound like part of the record rather than being laid over the top as the sound-de-jour, the muted guitar keeps things ticking over, the sax solo goes on long enough to make it's point without being cheesy, GM's voice works on all the different levels it needs to for the various moods/emotions in the lyrics, the intro puts you right there within a couple of bars, come hear George's tale of woe! The way the song gets you to feel sorry for and sympathetic towards a character who is basically a cheating bastard. The only real mis-step is that the song doesn't really have a proper ending, just kind of drifts off towards the end.
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Monday, 2 August 2010 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
This song is a total classic. His vocals from the "tonight the music seems so loud" bit onwards are just incredible.
Actually I agree with everything in Snoball's post above, the production is just perfect.
Though the Rufus Wainwright and Ben Folds version is probably the best version of it.
― jellybean (jellybean), Sunday, April 10, 2005 10:57 AM (5 years ago)
I don't agree with this being a better version but it is really amazing, the harmonies and the climax give me a little shiver.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 04:03 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kas6akz1jWU
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 21 February 2013 20:05 (eleven years ago) link