Thanks, Jason. Really. Thank you for writing up a Chart Attack that is half of the core artists of the stations I work for. After reading this, it's almost like I'm at work. Fucker.
dslifton
· 6 months ago
The aural hell that is Wind Beneath My Wings is cut out by the knowledge that the lyric defies the laws of flight. In order to fly higher than an eagle, the wind must be above Bette's wings. If the wind is beneath her wings, she'll crash to the ground and die. I love telling this to people who really love this song. You can actually see them die a little inside.
Now if the "you" in the song was actually a jet-fueled rocket pack, then that would be possible. It would also be totally badass.
DwDunphy
· 6 months ago
"Wind Beneath My Wings" is a physics impossibility. I love it. It's almost like telling someone Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny are really down with the gay sex. You can see the childlike innocence just explode like an M80 firecracker inside a chubby man's fist.
Matt
· 6 months ago
Damn man, this is seriously 8 or so of my favorite tunes from the 80s. Not necessarily on board with Watley, and definitely not on board with Bette.
Good stuff, as always!
kshane
· 6 months ago
"Chances Are." Always like the song, and even liked the movie. Don't know who the Woman is, but she's not THE Woman who recorded this song with Cetera.
jefito
· 6 months ago
When I first read this, I thought for a moment that Ken was saying he liked "After All." The reality is more disappointing, somehow.
kshane
· 6 months ago
No, that is the reality. I do like the song. So sue me. Maybe it's the way it was used in the film, but I like it.
Matt
· 6 months ago
Probably Kim Keyes, who is Cetera's BG singer....also tours/records with Amy Grant.
jasonhare
· 6 months ago
Yeah, that's who it is -- she's mentioned in the comments. But to me, she'll always be Woman.
DwDunphy
· 6 months ago
Or do you mean "Mm-mn"?
dslifton
· 6 months ago
Can she kill with a smile and wound with her eyes?
BobCashill
· 6 months ago
Coincidentally, Dream a Little Dream director Marc Rocco, who made the film when he was 23, was found dead this week: http://incontention.com/?p=6417
My Like a Prayer CD booklet smelled like...a CD booklet. How did I miss out?
JonCummings
· 6 months ago
Way to drop a flaming turd into Chart Attack, Bob.
Jason's problem was, EVERYTHING he put his nose to smelled like patchouli in '89. He should never have tried that briefly-on-the-shelves knockoff of Vicks Vapo-Rub.
BobCashill
· 6 months ago
What, that I didn't get an oil-soaked booklet? :)
DwDunphy
· 6 months ago
No, that you stole my robe and scythe and got all Reapy. That's my gig!
KellyStitzel
· 6 months ago
Oh, Michael Damian. I was a big "Y&R" fan growing up (watched it every day until mid-way through college) and Damian's character, Danny Romalotti, was my favorite character on that show for years. I mean, a rock star on a soap opera? Of course I loved him. When "Rock On" hit the airwaves, it was totally worlds colliding. "Danny Romalotti has a song on the radio. Wait, it's the actor who plays him, who also sings? OMG!" Look, I was 11. Leave me alone.
Damian also covered "Into the Mystic" for the "Dream a Little Dream" soundtrack. The album is still in print, or I would totally do a Soundtrack Saturday feature on it, if for no other reason than to have a column in which I could write about a character named Dinger.
jefito
· 6 months ago
Michael Damian covered "Into the Mystic"?
I am filled with rage.
DwDunphy
· 6 months ago
Danny Romalotti? Sounds like an MST3K gag: How much does Danny roam? Danny Romalotti! Yuck. Yuck.
Gigi
· 6 months ago
I, too, remember Danny Romalotti and his Y&R rocking. Most of the time he and his sometime fiancee/duet partner, Lauren, sang covers (I remember "Through the Fire" distinctly). Every summer, Danny had a big concert that would inevitably be dedicated to some social issue that his girlfriend Cricket had found herself involved in. They would devote the entire hour to the concert, usually with some criminal activity being attempted and ultimately foiled somewhere backstage. It was the highlight of my August.
Jefferson
· 6 months ago
my first observation in the paula abdrool video is that she is clearly singing live. and it's not nearly as bad as I would have expected. much more respectable than that trainwreck on AI this week.
DwDunphy
· 6 months ago
This list is scrotum-shreddingly bad.
Chris X
· 6 months ago
I forgot how awful pop music had gotten in 1989. Truly the end of that decade, and the beginning of all that which sucked (read: everything that came after!)
That said, there are a couple gems in the bunch. "Patience" and "Like a Prayer" mainly, and yes, even "I'll Be There For You." You know, I absolutely love the smell f patchouli and wish more records smelled like it!
and for the love of god, if I never hear "Wind Beneath My Wings" again for as long as I live, I will die a happy man.
Hasta la vista, baby! (If nothing else, Jody Watley is responsible for one of Arnold's one liners in Terminator 2!)
forwardgirl
· 6 months ago
Re: Forever Your Girl video: Holy Violet Beauregarde, Batman!!!
theroux
· 6 months ago
This Jody vid, one of Fincher's inaugural quick-edit opuses. The remix is totally overwrought, but the visual is surprisingly non-dated (unlike the patent-leather excess of Watley's 4 premier vids.) Props to Jody for the fashion-pop merger; that's much of her legacy, the hybrid sound great-dress great, style that George Michael and others went on to ape. Every other tune featured on this Chart Attack is laughable, but "Real Love" remains the real deal.
Ray
· 6 months ago
Ok I'm being totally facetious here, but what a shame we can't see any of the Donny Osmond video clips here! Although I distinctly remember seeing "Sacred Emotion" being skewered by Beavis and Butthead ("this looks like that beer commercial where they open the bottle and it starts snowing..." huh-huh-huh...).
One thing I will say is I've always enjoyed Jody Watley's videos, and a DVD compilation is WAY overdue!!!
DJ D
· 5 months ago
Woohoo! I got name-checked in a Chart Attack column. IN YOUR FACE!
All Comments
Now if the "you" in the song was actually a jet-fueled rocket pack, then that would be possible. It would also be totally badass.
Good stuff, as always!
My Like a Prayer CD booklet smelled like...a CD booklet. How did I miss out?
Jason's problem was, EVERYTHING he put his nose to smelled like patchouli in '89. He should never have tried that briefly-on-the-shelves knockoff of Vicks Vapo-Rub.
Damian also covered "Into the Mystic" for the "Dream a Little Dream" soundtrack. The album is still in print, or I would totally do a Soundtrack Saturday feature on it, if for no other reason than to have a column in which I could write about a character named Dinger.
I am filled with rage.
That said, there are a couple gems in the bunch. "Patience" and "Like a Prayer" mainly, and yes, even "I'll Be There For You." You know, I absolutely love the smell f patchouli and wish more records smelled like it!
and for the love of god, if I never hear "Wind Beneath My Wings" again for as long as I live, I will die a happy man.
Hasta la vista, baby! (If nothing else, Jody Watley is responsible for one of Arnold's one liners in Terminator 2!)
One thing I will say is I've always enjoyed Jody Watley's videos, and a DVD compilation is WAY overdue!!!