"Sun City" - Artists United Against Apartheid - Classic or Dud?

Actually, lots of tribute stuff viewable here (which is where that quote came from):

http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/hiphopmediatraining/147357/michael-jackson-tribute-fit-for-a-king/

Don't get the "We Are The Ones" in the screen in that one clip...Maybe they covered the Avengers classic, too?

first time somebody actually covered it?

Well, there's this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQLhOXlGnRE&feature=PlayList&p=D12E9F33AA184C72&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=43

SNL one doesn't seem to be on youtube.

And there's this:

http://www.hulu.com/watch/33851/the-simpsons-sending-our-love

I always found "We are the World" the most loathesome example of celebrity back-patting self congratulatory dribblespit out of the whole lot of those things. So schmaltzy! So dreadful. At least "Ain't gonna play Sun City" had some kick and funk to it.

yeah "sun city" is the best song qua song of the bunch -- they all have stupid lyrics, but "sun city" is more specific at least, and i always sort of admired the small scale of its ambitions. not saving the world or the children, just saying that we as rock stars will at least not go play in a south african resort. ok, maybe the least they could do, but as far as i know they actually all lived up to it.

Banalities aside, "We Are The World" allows Steve Perry, Willie Nelson, and Ray Charles to be themselves, whereas I can't distinguish John Oates from Ruben Blades, or Nona Hendryx from Bono; it's a lot of cross-racial humanist yelling.

i dunno, joey ramone singing "con-STRUCK-tive en-GAGE-ment is ronald reagan's play-un" is pretty joey ramoney. plus, the rap breakdown alone on "sun city" is better than any part of "we are the world."

Serious question: Do you think anyone in the world played this album straight through last year? It was #5 P&J for 1985.

I've played weirder, more time-trapped things beginning to end on a whim, so I suppose it's possible. If it happened, though, I'd be surprised if it was more than 3 or 4 people out of 6 billion.

I got this album a month ago and let the whole thing play. It was surprisingly good from start to finish. I had low expectations and there’s no doubt that it’s by design an LP length maxi-single, but these are really good B-sides.

Put it on again in memory of Desmond Tutu.