TS: "Hungry Eyes" vs. "Crazy For You"

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"Before you came, I was cruel and mean/ There was a hole in my life where my heart should've been"

― dave q, Friday, 28 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Everyone seems to think "Live to Tell" is better, but it's not! It just "sounds like it's SUPPOSED to be better". Like, "OK let's make our bid for an immortal TV-film standard, get your pop brains workin', drama on 10 and muted-guitar on 6 for AC/CHR crossover!" Which is weird because 'CFY' really WAS written by pop hacks but sounds effortless, like something a 13-yr-old girl would've written but not in an indulgent Lena Zavaroni way or grotesque comedy Hanson way or (esp. not) a pervy way but in a "Wow, this person has natural talent of some sort for crafting pop tunes, will be worth watching in a few years!" kind of way, like if Kate Bush grew up in sunny suburbia not the Home Counties

― dave q, Friday, 28 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry man, but Swayzee's She's Like the Wind pisses enemas all over those two.

― Queen I am neither Buffy nor the Messiah G, Friday, 28 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Both "Crazy For You" and "Live To Tell" are light-years better than "Hungry Eyes".

― Dan Perry, Friday, 28 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Crazy For You" remains the definitive Madonna ballad; came out the same year as "Into the Groove", the definitive Madonna dance song. "Hungry Eyes" is Eric Carmen throwing away his legacy for Corey Hart leftovers.

― J Blount, Friday, 28 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am going to have nightmares about Eric Carmen's legacy

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 28 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

GOD are you INSANE? Is it not obvious that 'Crazy for you' is a paen of unearthly pain delivered from space by the same immortal who designed the DNA of the various species and threw out misleading evolutionary clues to scientists, while 'Hungry Eyes' is a disgusting attempt by an unfeeling rejected molester of teenage girls to please his blase wife? 'Hungry Eyes' is about healthy Kruschen salts sex whereas 'Crazy for You' is about the conquest of infinity. Etc.

― maryann, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sadly, this is not a very compelling 'taking sides'-- "Crazy For You" is far from a masterpiece, but it's not without its charms and it is one of the better vocals from Mrs. Ritchie (love the 'spoken' line in the last chorus).

If this were college hoops, Hungry Eyes wouldn't even make the NIT Tournament.

― Ryan, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

fourteen years pass...

heard "hungry eyes" in Togos today. so many songs of this ilk/period are just completely overbearing but this one is relatively light and uncomplicated. it's strange how the title words are sung in such a soft and indistinct manner, they're almost not sung at all, relative to the vocals that surround them. i think it's intended to foreground the title, but it's an odd effect. didn't work on me, anyway, i never knew this song's name until recently despite having heard it a zillion times throughout the years

"crazy on you" is pretty close to a masterpiece, what a supremely thrilling song

― brimstead, Monday, 19 June 2017 23:34 (nine years ago)

oh vs "crazy FOR you"? now it makes sense. "crazy for you" is ok, i guess. these are both pretty boring songs

― brimstead, Monday, 19 June 2017 23:40 (nine years ago)

haha yeah, I was thinking of Heart too

― Wet Pelican would provide the soundtrack (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 01:08 (nine years ago)

Lol, I had also hoped it was about the Heart song, which is amazing.

― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 01:22 (nine years ago)

this is totally "Crazy for You", not even a contest

― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 01:23 (nine years ago)

my ears always hear "trying hard to control my fart" in the Madonna tune

― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 01:24 (nine years ago)

Has to be "Crazy For You" which has one of the wickedest opening guitars ever

― Unchanging Window (Ross), Tuesday, 20 June 2017 01:50 (nine years ago)

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