yet again, defend the indefensible: LIONEL RICHIE

So there you go, ET says he's legendary, so he has to be great.

there must be thousands of fucking threads dealing with crap like Killing Joke Mountain Goats Sonic Youth The Fall etc....or whatever amateurish shit is preferred around here....

yet somebody better not dare attempt to begin another Lionel Ritchie thread because it will only be locked....

then that somebody will be referred to a thread that doesn't even have the same premise....

POV or whatever that shit is....as far as I can tell, it seems a little different than this defend the indefensible shit....actually I wouldn't even defend the guy...

yet here we are at I LOVE MUSIC

more like I LOVE MEDIOCRITY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AtkQs1MI5k

I've been listening to and watching LR on Youtube. Quite compelling! I started wondering about finding a LR hits CD.

The video for 'All Night Long' is wonderful, and the track itself is at least interesting.

Can't Slow Down is an excellent album, and the video for "All Night Long (All Night)"--very important, that parenthetical "(All Night)"--is excellent both as a time capsule (i.e. the clothes) and as a way of promulgating Lionel's guy-next-door-who-wants-to-unite-the-world vibe. Also, once when I was DJ'ing in Tracer Hand's basement I followed P!nk's "Get the Party Started" with "All Night Long (All Night)"--again, that parenthetical "(All Night)" is what makes that title for me--and it rocked the motherfucking house. So for that alone he and it would be classic.
-- M Matos (M Matos)

Imagine - Tracer Hand had a basement big enough for a LR-style disco!!

What I also like about that video: the chastity - the way LR is interested in Community rather than in his own desires.

I thought Milan Williams wrote "Machine Gun."

A fantastic songwriter who has, however, lost it since the mid 80s. Up to and including the "Dancing On The Ceiling" album, he was fantastic. His last album was dreadful though.

I vaguely remember reading an interview where he said he originally intended Can't Slow Down to be semi-heavy guitar rock, but realized that no one in 1982 radioland would touch it. Musta pissed him off when "Beat It" and "Let's Go Crazy" took off.

I don't get how he thought the tutor-student relationship in the 'Hello' video was acceptable. But I find it fascinating to see how his videos in that era involve extra dialogue, narrative, sense of LR playing a character.

I vaguely remember reading an interview where he said he originally intended Can't Slow Down to be semi-heavy guitar rock, but realized that no one in 1982 radioland would touch it. Musta pissed him off when "Beat It" and "Let's Go Crazy" took off.

Hall And Oates had done the AOR/rock/R&B fusion for ages already. But I realise they were white and, in 1983, that made a lot of difference.

For a moment baby
For a moment baby
For a moment baby
SugarsugarsugaryeahyeahyeahyeahyeahYEAAAHHH

"Hello" is great if you can listen to it without the video playing in your head. Seriously.

No. Hello is not going to be played in my presence. I will not even admit the fact that I bought the "You Are" single in 6th grade. I refuse. He must be silenced. Lionel Richie is not to be defended. KEEP AWAY. Bimble warned you, Bimble tried to help you.

You're crazy. If you can't accept "Hello" for what it is, you need a new set of ears. Great composition - creepy and great sense of narrative.

Hahahhahah I would rather die than watch that video.

although I do recall you said don't watch the video.

Do you know the initials of his name are L and R??????

LOU REED?????????????????????????????????????????????????????////

hes quite easily defensible.

Of course. And "Stuck on You" is on this album too. Cool cover, too.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/46/Richieslow.jpg

If those songs came out in the seventies, they'd be a lot "cooler".

Is it me you're looking for (blind girl)?

the 80s is cooler right now.

The desperation of it blows all of your punk poo out of the water. You need this song.

NO I DO NOT NEED THIS SONG YOU PUNK

I will gladly sit with a Prince fan for 56 torturous hours of nonstop Prince than hear Lionel.

The Hello video rules.

She's fucking blind!!! It's horrible, creepy. Steer clear of it.

Donna Summer could totally whip his ass with a hand behind her.

She's also a high school student.

The part where LR phones her is priceless.

hahahaha you guys need better dope in your house

lol pwnd. We were all scrapin and doing knifers the other night.

"All Night Long" is a great video. Can YOU rock those leather pants?

hahhahhah I HATE YOU. THIS IS A FUCKING LIONEL RICHIE THREAD
AND WHAT THE FUCK AM I DOING POSTING ON IT?