Don't Stop Believing ...

Are we confusing the cheesy, crap songs of otherwise good bands/artists with the Richard Marx-like shit of shitty artists like Richard Marx?

I believe you can rip Steve Perry to shreds for Oh Sherry and rip Journey to shreds for Open Arms because that crap stands out amid a decent body of rock and roll work.

Bryan Adams, Richard Marx, Air Supply and Peter Cetera, among others, were never anything more than cheesy ballad singers in the first place.

 

I've written on this board a couple of times that "Crazy For You" was my first slow dance in school. It still gets men when it comes on the radio. You did not want to be on the side of the gym when they played that one at dances.

I have the same experience as the EW writer with "Could've Been" by Tiffany. It was right after my first bad breakup, and the damned local radio station always seemed to play it right after my alarm clock went off every morning.

I'll cop to liking "Faithfully." I thought the video was cool.

 

Fenian,

The honesty's too much.

 

Vast, wonderful vistas of largely desolate suckitude.

 

How come nobody's mentioned my first slow dance song yet... Spandeau Ballet's "True"? That song is pretty cheesy

 

Air Supply wasn't cheesy.... sugary and sappy, yes, cheesy no. They could induce a diabetic coma they were so sappy.
(Yes, I own Air Supply's Greatest Hits)

 

If we're going to rip REO Speedwagon and Journey, we better damn well rip Styx for "Babe", "Lady", and "Best of Times"

 

Were you in Sixteen Candles?

 

Yeah, I'd put that in tiny print, too.

 

I'm adding a few from my dance days:

- All N'Sync and 98* stuff
- "I Can Love You Like That" - All 4 One
- "For You I Will" by Monica (off the Space Jam soundtrack)
- "I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing" - Aerosmith
- "Amazed" - Lonestar
- "Nobody Knows" - Tony Rich Project
- "Hero" - Enrique Iglesias
- "Save the Best For Last" - Vanessa Williams
- "One Sweet Day" - Boyz II Men & Mariah Carey
- "Truly, Madly, Deeply" & "I Knew I Loved You" - Savage Garden

And also:
- "Almost Paradise" - Anne Wilson & Mike Reno (from the Footloose soundtrack
- "What About Love" - Heart
- "Eternal Flame" - The Bangles
- "Beautiful Soul" - Jesse McCartney
- "Careless Whisper" - George Michael
- "Up Where We Belong" - Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes
- "All My Life" & "Don't Know Much" - Aaron Neville & Linda Ronstadt
- Michael Bolton's work
- "I Just Called To Say I Love You" - Stevie Wonder (a horrible pockmark on his amazing career)

 

Not only do I live in the Chicago 'burb where two of those three songs were recorded, but it's the same place where Kevin Cronin and Michael Flatley grew up. So I live in Cheeseball Central.

 

Weird that "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" popped into my head just then.