Popdose - Latest Comments in CHART ATTACK!: 5/13/89

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Musicrowe — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 05:56:29 -0000

I was fortunate enough for Kim Keys to sing BG for my debut album. She is the best I have even seen at hearing something one time and adding any style of harmony. She is amazing and I am blessed to have her on my album.

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Retro Remixes — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 02:11:10 -0000

Woohoo! I got name-checked in a Chart Attack column. IN YOUR FACE!

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Gigi — Sat, 16 May 2009 03:41:27 -0000

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.

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Ray — Sun, 10 May 2009 23:17:08 -0000

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!!!

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theroux — Sun, 10 May 2009 21:27:36 -0000

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.

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forwardgirl — Sat, 09 May 2009 23:39:10 -0000

Re: Forever Your Girl video: Holy Violet Beauregarde, Batman!!!

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Chris X — Sat, 09 May 2009 01:31:40 -0000

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!)

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dslifton — Sat, 09 May 2009 00:34:29 -0000

Can she kill with a smile and wound with her eyes?

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DwDunphy — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:28:54 -0000

Danny Romalotti? Sounds like an MST3K gag: How much does Danny roam? Danny Romalotti! Yuck. Yuck.

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DwDunphy — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:27:12 -0000

No, that you stole my robe and scythe and got all Reapy. That's my gig!

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DwDunphy — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:25:59 -0000

Or do you mean "Mm-mn"?

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DwDunphy — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:24:51 -0000

"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.

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DwDunphy — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:12:22 -0000

This list is scrotum-shreddingly bad.

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BobCashill — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:19:04 -0000

What, that I didn't get an oil-soaked booklet? :)

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JonCummings — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:13:40 -0000

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.

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Jefferson — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:47:54 -0000

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.

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jefito — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:39:19 -0000

Michael Damian covered "Into the Mystic"?

I am filled with rage.

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jasonhare — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:07:28 -0000

Yeah, that's who it is -- she's mentioned in the comments. But to me, she'll always be Woman.

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KellyStitzel — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:04:50 -0000

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.

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BobCashill — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:22:41 -0000

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=...

My Like a Prayer CD booklet smelled like...a CD booklet. How did I miss out?

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kshane — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:36:54 -0000

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.

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Matt — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:31:28 -0000

Probably Kim Keyes, who is Cetera's BG singer....also tours/records with Amy Grant.

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jefito — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:19:40 -0000

When I first read this, I thought for a moment that Ken was saying he liked "After All." The reality is more disappointing, somehow.

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kshane — Fri, 08 May 2009 10:45:26 -0000

"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.

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Matt — Fri, 08 May 2009 10:35:43 -0000

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!