― Joe (Joe), Friday, 25 October 2002 20:53 (twenty-three years ago)
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 25 October 2002 21:24 (twenty-three years ago)
― Kris (aqueduct), Friday, 25 October 2002 21:56 (twenty-three years ago)
― nod, Friday, 25 October 2002 22:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 25 October 2002 22:10 (twenty-three years ago)
― Joe (Joe), Saturday, 26 October 2002 01:20 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ally, Saturday, 26 October 2002 02:32 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 26 October 2002 20:32 (twenty-three years ago)
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 27 October 2002 01:48 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 27 October 2002 04:13 (twenty-three years ago)
― maryann, Sunday, 27 October 2002 07:51 (twenty-three years ago)
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 22 July 2005 18:12 (twenty years ago)
"take me home tonight" is screaming to be used in some fastfood joint ad campaign
― gershy, Monday, 10 December 2007 05:01 (eighteen years ago)
It's Subway Jared's next campaign
― Joe, Monday, 10 December 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)
don't really like either song a lot, but Belinda Carlisle's has a decent melody whereas Eddie Money's song is REALLY cheesy (especially the female vocals going "be my little baby").
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 03:39 (eighteen years ago)
Ally OTM upthread. I'll just comment on the fucking weirdness of Eddie Money's producer dressing up an average song with RONNIE SPECTOR. If there's a back story, I want to hear it.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 03:47 (eighteen years ago)
"I Get Weak" is Belinda's best song (post-GoGo's) and one of the best pop singles of its era/genre (late-80s dance pop), so that.
― Pillbox, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 05:51 (eighteen years ago)
"just like Ronnie sang..."
http://i.cnn.net/money/pf/features/popups/ad_icons/gallery_ronald_mcdonald.jpg
― gershy, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 05:56 (eighteen years ago)
Heard "Take Me Home Tonight" for probably the first time in 20 years tonight. Minus Ronnie Spector, okay mid-80s trifle. But pulling her out of nowhere, genius. I don't know what the equivalent would be today, or if anyone would ever do anything like that. Or if someone did, if any radio station would play it. Or if it matters what any radio station plays anymore. (I do know there are still radio stations. I can access them in my car.)
Maybe a Sinead O'Connor cameo, if done right, would resonate the same way.
― clemenza, Friday, 1 February 2019 01:23 (seven years ago)
I don't know what inspired that move too. There must be an article somewhere? Somebody?
Diane Warren's "I Get Weak" sounds like Heart-discarded piffle, yet Belinda's inadequacies sell it. And the video is one of the few of its era that makes a man a passive object of desire.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 1 February 2019 01:34 (seven years ago)
There should be a new song that utilizes Belinda the way Ronnie was on TMHT.
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 1 February 2019 01:42 (seven years ago)
That'd work--even better, I'd say, Susanna Hoffs. (Stipulating that neither one of them is Ronnie Spector.)
I got onto the song via a "Real Life" entry at the time:
5. Eddie Money, “Take Me Home Tonight” (Columbia)Urgent with a good idea: “Just like Ronnie sang,” pleads the man to his one-night would-be, and then there she is, Ronnie of the Ronettes in the flesh, warbling “Uh-uh-uh-oh/Be my little baby...” She sounds terrible, hopeless--and she’s right in your lap, when she should have been mixed back, emerging only as a radio ghost. The number still makes it.
I like "radio ghost." Three years later, the Replacements put out their great "Rock 'N' Roll Ghost."
― clemenza, Friday, 1 February 2019 01:46 (seven years ago)