everything i do (i do it for you)

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is stuck in my head

remind me how the bridge goes

― amateur!!st, Friday, 29 October 2004 04:24 (twenty-one years ago)

something like

there's no love
like your love
and no other
like your mother

or something

― amateur!!st, Friday, 29 October 2004 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)

something about

i would cry for you
i would die for you

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Friday, 29 October 2004 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)

There's no love - like your love
And no other - could give more love
There's nowhere - unless you're there
All the time - all the way

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Friday, 29 October 2004 04:27 (twenty-one years ago)

i actually like the rhyme scheme, a slight twist from the usual

and i really have no problem w/this song in general

the last line of the bridge suxor though

― amateur!!st, Friday, 29 October 2004 04:29 (twenty-one years ago)

This is among my least favorite songs of all time.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 29 October 2004 05:15 (twenty-one years ago)

the last line of the bridge suxor though

Oh, but doesn't it introduce the OBLIGATORY KEY CHANGE?

Wow, I just checked and this song is 6:33! I'm fairly sure I've never heard the full version, though, since I've only ever heard it on the radio.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 October 2004 05:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, WTF, Brandy covered this song!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 October 2004 05:20 (twenty-one years ago)

why do people dislike this song so much?

i like power ballads.

they're silly; they don't sound much like love to me.

but i like them.

why am i writing like the pinefox?

― amateur!!st, Friday, 29 October 2004 07:00 (twenty-one years ago)

teh sound of love is found within that one Steelheart song

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 29 October 2004 07:02 (twenty-one years ago)

does it have bagpipes? i think love sounds like bagpipes.

― amateur!!st, Friday, 29 October 2004 07:07 (twenty-one years ago)

it has teh requisite piercing vocals and manfully strummed guitars that give men courage and bring women to their knees

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 29 October 2004 07:11 (twenty-one years ago)

is this that robin hood song?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 29 October 2004 07:11 (twenty-one years ago)

good bryan adams songs:

everything i do (i do it for you)
run to you
the one with mel c
summer of 69

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 29 October 2004 07:15 (twenty-one years ago)

weisel otm about the one with mel c
amaturist otm about this one. Had it not been number 1 in the uk for a year. Then this would be held aloft as one of the great power ballads and played alongside 'Valerie' and heart's 'alone' at the end of partys by the ugly kids who didn't pull.

― lukey (Lukey G), Friday, 29 October 2004 07:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to hate this song, but when I saw Bryan Adams live last year, there were so many couples in the crowd that just started slow dancing together that I found it really sweet. So many prom experiences/first wedding songs getting an encore.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Friday, 29 October 2004 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I was in England in 1991, and I think this song was #1 for like 4 months or something. Argh.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

It was #1 in the US for 7 weeks, which in my young chart-watching days seemed absolutely extraordinary to me. Then "End of the Road" and "I Will Always Love You" came around and put it to shame.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 October 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmm ... which one of these things does not belong:

good bryan adams songs:

everything i do (i do it for you)
run to you
the one with mel c
summer of 69

Hint: it's not the duet, the video filmed in a shopping mall, or the awesome one about being a teenager.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Friday, 29 October 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

It's all about "Heaven", people. This song's OK; it's kind of fun to play.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 29 October 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

"Heaven" has the most ridiculous marshmallow drum sound ever recorded.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Friday, 29 October 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

No more of this new-jack Bryan Adams b.s.--"Cuts like a Knife" and "Straight from the Heart" crush all of these like grapes.

― Guayaquil, Friday, 29 October 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

"Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman" is worse.

― mike a, Friday, 29 October 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you mean that in a good or bad (or value-neutral) way? I'm trying to remember what the drums sounded like? Were they Def Leppard-ish?

2xpost

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Friday, 29 October 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

anyone ever see a Russian movie (Hous of fools) with Bryan Adams singing 'Have you ever really loved a woman'. Its a great show.

― Popli Kid, Friday, 29 October 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

That movie is freaking awful.

Ahh, Bryan Adams. "The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me Is You" is the Absolute Zero of smarm. By the way, anyone care to start a thread of song titles doubling as awful pickup lines? "Out of My Dreams And Into My Car." "Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel"...

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Friday, 29 October 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

mike a otm--"have you ever..." loses points for the ineffectual quasi-latin instrumentation. also bryan doesn't really do laid-back midtempo.

i haven't really followed adams's career arc. i do like this song well enough, but yeah i guess "heaven" is better. the italians LOVE bryan adams. in one bar over the course of one night we heard about five bryan adams songs on the radio.

― amateur!!st, Friday, 29 October 2004 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Oddly enough, you've got the parentheses reversed in the thread title, Am.

It is "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 October 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

j cotten: "Why don't we do it in the road?"

― Guayaquil, Friday, 29 October 2004 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

anyone care to start a thread of song titles doubling as awful pickup lines? "Out of My Dreams And Into My Car." "Heaven Must Be Missing an Angel"...

"Do Fries Go With That Shake"
"I'd Really Love to See You Tonight"

― mike a, Friday, 29 October 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

"If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me?"

"Pick Me Up, I'll Dance"

"Stay With Me Till Dawn"

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 29 October 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

"Push It"

― Ryan Pitchfork, Saturday, 30 October 2004 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

To me, "Everything I Do (I Do it For You)" is like the wussy, naive younger brother of the same year's more jaded but ultimately tougher and wiser "November Rain". I love both, probably the latter a little bit more. Two of the last great power ballads.

Wow, I just checked and this song is 6:33! I'm fairly sure I've never heard the full version, though, since I've only ever heard it on the radio.

Yeah, the first time I downloaded this song I was really surprised to hear it go on after that last "you know it's true..." It's a great outro, actually.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Saturday, 30 October 2004 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

It's one of the worst powerballads of all time. I have nothing more to add to that, but I hope my response will encourage others to speak out loudly and proudly against it.

Now, "Right Here Waiting," that's a powerballad.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Saturday, 30 October 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you all insane?

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Saturday, 30 October 2004 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

"Heaven" has the most ridiculous marshmallow drum sound ever recorded.

I'm not even entirely sure what this means, but holy fuck is it funny.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 30 October 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

six years pass...

Get ready for the mother of all Popular entries by Tom Ewing:

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2011/03/doing-it-for-you/

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 11 March 2011 15:29 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

And he's off and running!

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2011/05/bryan-adams-everything-i-do-i-do-it-for-you/

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 May 2011 15:16 (fifteen years ago)

Ground Rules (to be deleted after I finish): I’m going to listen to this sixteen times in a row, writing as I go. I’ll update the post after each play, so there may be gaps in between as I finish a sentence, etc. Feel free to comment as I go! See you on the other side.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 May 2011 15:16 (fifteen years ago)

He's currently up to play nine.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 May 2011 15:16 (fifteen years ago)

this was the first song i ever performed live, 8th grade band. pretty sure i froze up when it came to the one big drum fill leading into the bridge.

― adult music person (Jordan), Thursday, 5 May 2011 15:23 (fifteen years ago)

He is a hero for this.

― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 5 May 2011 15:26 (fifteen years ago)

Hate this song, but in a technical way have to admire how Adams cobbled it together using nearly 100% post-consumer recycled cliches.

― relentlessly ugly frat hedonist retard anthems I have loved (staggerlee), Saturday, 7 May 2011 03:10 (fifteen years ago)

Strange the way pop works in that this song sold millions of copies and still completely killed his career.

― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 7 May 2011 03:54 (fifteen years ago)

twelve years pass...

WALK THE WIRE FOR YOU
YEAAAAAAAAAAA I'D DIE FOR YOUUUUUUUUU

KEvin Costner didn't deserve this shit

― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 06:42 (two years ago)

at the start (and maybe even the middle) of its sixteen weeks at number one I did not appreciate that Costner and Adams were two separate people.

― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 29 November 2023 07:15 (two years ago)

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everything i do (i do it for you) - bryan adams