The other cool fact about Sexual Healing that Ritz put in his book was that Gaye wanted the follow-up single to be called Sanctified Pussy.
DwDunphy
· 11 months ago
...Which had a different title that had to be changed when Marvin's round-the-way-girl Octo objected.
A lie, but hey. Not much else you can do with that nasty factoid.
Mike
· 11 months ago
Which actually wound up getting released after Gaye's death as "Sanctified Lady". Not a bad song, actually.
John Densmore
· 11 months ago
Racey had a great song called "Some Girls" which was originally written for Blondie. It peaked at #2 in the UK in 1979.
RLB
· 11 months ago
I've said this elsewhere, I think, but as I kid I heard Mr. Toto singing, "rises like a leopress above the sarogant eaves," and wondering what "sarogent" meant, why a house would have that quality in its eaves, and why a large cat would be on the roof.
MichaelWSP
· 11 months ago
"Kitty" is just *jarring* to listen to. What a great example of production values making the difference between something iconic and something...awful.
I LOVE Baby Come To Me, and you just know when McDonald is singing on a track, even if he's buried in the mix, the raw "McDonaldness" he creates suffuses the chorus in its velvet splendor.
mojo
· 11 months ago
Iconic is Toni Basil's LSD trip in the New Orleans cemetery with Fonda & Hopper in Easy Rider! Without Toni Basil to blaze a trail for choreographer-singers, Paula Abdul would be serving up Vegiburgers somewhere along the PAcific Coast Highway.
Matt Rappaport
· 11 months ago
Africa IS the best song on this list! ..I also have NO idea what it all means, Howie Day did a cover hehe
E
· 11 months ago
I want to say that Mike Nesmith's proto-MTV Nickelodeon show "Popclips" played the hell out of "Mickey" throughout 1980-81, but now I'm honestly not sure whether it was that or the Shabbadoo 'Swan Lake' clip. Maybe both?
Elaine
· 11 months ago
I'm going to have to search down this instrumental version of Sexual Healing. For me, the best part of the song is the cool groove w/backup singers.
Reg
· 11 months ago
Fags? Really?
Great post otherwise.
Beau
· 10 months ago
This is a quality top 10. "Dirty Laundry" suffers from being in the hand of the same crew of LA session vets who made so many Zevon songs plod along, but speaking as a journalist, I think it's a well-aimed zinger at my profession. (I always tell myself it's about those TV people, not us noble newspaper folk.)
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A lie, but hey. Not much else you can do with that nasty factoid.
I LOVE Baby Come To Me, and you just know when McDonald is singing on a track, even if he's buried in the mix, the raw "McDonaldness" he creates suffuses the chorus in its velvet splendor.
Howie Day did a cover hehe
Great post otherwise.