Here we are: Who Bodied Their Verse On "We Are The World"??
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 December 2010 15:15 (thirteen years ago) link
OTM:
the thing that's most interesting to me from an aesthetic standpoint is how the veterans really kill it with their professionalism. the really awesome ones in here are from people who've been pretty much living on stages in front of audiences for 20+ years and know the difference between singing in an ensemble & singing duet & having a line where you want to both shine & not look like you're trying to out-do anybody (this is where stevie w. & ray charles really give a master class - they both go WAY up, but they could both have taken it much further if they weren't both dudes who know exactly what they're doing & how to always remember that your job is to make the song better than it was before you got there, not to make it a Spotlight On Me deal, which is springsteen's problem imo). dionne, al jarreau, lionel r., tina & willie are to me the ones who outshine everybody else by not trying as hard.
― the evil genius of Zaiger Genetics (J0hn D.), Friday, July 31, 2009
― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 December 2010 15:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I only paid attention to "We Are the World" because of Michael Jackson.
― Hexum Enduction Hour (u s steel), Monday, 20 December 2010 15:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I'll just come in and comment a bit on one statement upthread. Sure, I agree that Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie both have overall better song catalogues with more classics than Bob Geldof and Midge Ure. Still, "I Don't Like Mondays" and "Vienna" are surely up there with the best of everything Jackson and Richie have written.
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Monday, 20 December 2010 23:22 (thirteen years ago) link
take all the vocals out of DTKIC and it reminds me a bit of the Doctor Who theme, therefore it wins.
― Kim, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 13:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes! I remember thinking it sounded kind of cool and futuristic when I was a kid.
― Bernard V. O'Hare (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link
My grandparents donated a record player to my cousins and me to use when we visited them over the summer holidays. They were big into jazz and Motown, and "We Are The World" was one of the rcords that got chucked into the kids' pile. So whenever I hear it, it really reminds me of being on holiday in the South of France. I like it by proxy for this reason.
― Bernard V. O'Hare (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 15:03 (thirteen years ago) link
"We Are the World" is classic American schmaltz, with all the good and bad hideous vomit-induction that such a phrase entails.― Martin Van Burne, Monday, 23 July 2007 15:42 (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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― Also unknown as Zora (Surfing At Work), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 15:19 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UfVmJBF-OY&feature=plcp
― balls, Thursday, 26 July 2012 23:49 (eleven years ago) link
hahaha amazing....genius of american music ladies and gents
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 26 July 2012 23:59 (eleven years ago) link
i love that.
― kid steel (cajunsunday), Friday, 27 July 2012 00:09 (eleven years ago) link
"Bob, it's great -- you're the only singing the lower octave!"
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 July 2012 00:11 (eleven years ago) link
in which Steve Perry and Daryl Hall demonsrate they can sing well no matter how many takes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwEOOgv5unE&feature=related
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 July 2012 00:25 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ Huey Lewis, Cyndi Lauper, and Kim Carnes trying to harmonize their irreconcilable voices.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 July 2012 00:28 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think Daryl Hall is in the same league with Steve Perry. On several of the takes Mr. Hall is off key quite a bit. Look at Steve's face as Hall is singing. He does look a little annoyed with Hall.
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― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 July 2012 00:36 (eleven years ago) link
Who Bodied Their Verse On "We Are The World"??
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 27 July 2012 00:57 (eleven years ago) link
we have a new contender
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4oz4dfi9gg
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 23 July 2017 21:53 (six years ago) link
that's p interesting!
― niels, Monday, 24 July 2017 09:17 (six years ago) link
arguably the most baffling lineup for any charity single:
Love Song to the Earth: Paul McCartney, Jon Bon Jovi, Sheryl Crow, Fergie, Colbie Caillat, Natasha Bedingfield, Leona Lewis, Sean Paul, Johnny Rzeznik, Krewella, Angelique Kidjo, Kelsea Ballerini, Nicole Scherzinger, Christina Grimmie, Victoria Justice & Q'orianka Kilcher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBEGxqJKup8
― marty dwalin (unregistered), Monday, 26 March 2018 22:10 (six years ago) link
the Earth = d00med
― absorbed carol channing's powers & psyche (morrisp), Monday, 26 March 2018 22:18 (six years ago) link
TS: Love Song To The Earth vs Fistfucking God’s Planet
― Siegbran, Monday, 26 March 2018 22:50 (six years ago) link
wow, can't believe macca took part in that shit
― niels, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 09:33 (six years ago) link
Love this guy:
"Do they know it's Christmas" - HANDS DOWN! Bono...FANTASTIC!!! Great song! I think the radio has decided it. When was the last time you heard "We are the World?" on the radio? However, every Christmas we hear "Do they know..." a million times. As George "Dubyah" Bush said of the British... "We have no closer friend..." Thanks for a great song!!!!!― JK, Domingo, 23 de Dezembro de 2001 1:00 (sixteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 27 March 2018 12:03 (six years ago) link