"She's a Beauty" is one of my all time favorite pop rock songs and in my mind, probably Foster's finest production.
For those who don't know this, Bobby Kimball from Toto and Bill Champlin from Chicago do all the background vocals on the track.
MichaelFortes
· 1 year ago
...and Bill Spooner too.
MatthewBolin
· 1 year ago
Looking at Matthew Wilder's moustache, I think it can be easily assumed that his hits dried up soon after because he was spending too much time tying women to railroad tracks.
drcastrato
· 1 year ago
I have always loved "She's A Beauty." It comes from a time when I didn't know or care about Fee Waybills or David Fosters or what a girl could do for a dollar. It was just a cool song.
Don
· 1 year ago
Back in the early 90's I took a class at the Recording Workshop and they had a guest speaker there. I don't remember if it was the engineer or the producer of She's a Beauty, it was so long ago. But I do remember that he told this really funny story. You know how there's this drum thing in the song that sort of goes "sssssht pow", well they were working on the song and were really frustrated because it was lacking something. Then one of the band members came out into the hallway and hacked up a loogie in the trash can and the producer went "that's it!!!" If you go back and listen to the song you'll know exactly what I'm talking about and can see how it came from that. The only problem for me is that now whenever I hear that song I keep thinking of that guy spitting. LOL!
Jack Feerick
· 1 year ago
Matter of fact, the only song about a nudie booth ever.
With Primus's "Glass Sandwich" do I refute thee!
Jack Feerick
· 1 year ago
And also Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Put 'em on the Glass."
(THINKS: If I can come up with three more, I can get a Mix Six out of this...)
DwDunphy
· 1 year ago
I stand corrected. In my defense, about all I know from Mix-A-Lot is "Baby Got Back".
Breadalbane
· 1 year ago
And I will add Stan Ridgway's "Can't Stop The Show".
forwardgirl
· 1 year ago
She's A Beauty is a great early 80's time capsule pop song. I was 11 years old in 1983, and I think the movie Something Wicked This Way Comes came out around then too. No wonder I find carnivals so creepy...
forwardgirl
· 1 year ago
~~"C’mon, that sounds like Colin Hay on the “No I never met a girl like you” at the bridge, don’t it?"
At the wrong speed or after fairly radical surgery, perhaps. You're right, though, the song sounds very similar to Men at Work's Down Under. I never noticed that before. Maybe VH1 could arrange a smackdown between Colin Hay's lazy eye and Matthew Wilder's moustache...
DwDunphy
· 1 year ago
"Maybe VH1 could arrange a smackdown between Colin Hay's lazy eye and Matthew Wilder's moustache..."
If not VH1, it would make a hell of a Residents album.
EricL
· 1 year ago
Up till now I thought "Break My Stride" was recorded by a Men at Work with an intro by one of those interchangeable early 80's pop "divas." Watching a video of it being sung by a balding man with a whitefro and stache distrubs me to no end.
Stephen
· 1 year ago
No one remembers Chumbawamba's "Amnesia" from that same album? That single got some airplay in Canada at the time. It's pretty good, can't find an official video for it though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QhVA498Qdw
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For those who don't know this, Bobby Kimball from Toto and Bill Champlin from Chicago do all the background vocals on the track.
With Primus's "Glass Sandwich" do I refute thee!
(THINKS: If I can come up with three more, I can get a Mix Six out of this...)
At the wrong speed or after fairly radical surgery, perhaps. You're right, though, the song sounds very similar to Men at Work's Down Under. I never noticed that before.
Maybe VH1 could arrange a smackdown between Colin Hay's lazy eye and Matthew Wilder's moustache...
If not VH1, it would make a hell of a Residents album.