DISQUS

mojo · 1 year ago

I CAN feel it! I really CAN!!!!!

jefito · 1 year ago

That might be dysentery, Mojo.

mojo · 1 year ago

or, perhaps, too much tabasco on last night's jambalaya

Colin McKay · 1 year ago

You know, speaking as a Canadian, we found that song very inspirational at the time. It still chokes me up a bit.

Then again, we also gave the world Sun Ice full body snow suits in pastel combinations.

Robert · 1 year ago

Hello Mad World!
:P

MarlboroTestMonkey7 · 1 year ago

Someone should do a piece on "that" Tony... Still, great album (The Gift, Still it takes me by surprise, Angel Face), ...Curious Feeling... which has "Lucky Me"...

My name is unimportant
And my job you could call mean
But I like the work and I do it well
That's enough for me.
I think there was a time when I
Could do, and did, much more.
I have dreams in which I captain the ship
And hear the ocean roar.
I've lived alone for all I can remember
That only means some six or seven years.
I would rather be nobody else,
I'm happy as I am.
All I need is in my way
And you see no one expects too much from me.
People cry, but no one asks me to advise them.
They want to know but they don't ask me how.
That's for someone else and not for me, I don't know.
Lucky me.
My friends think that I should be trying
To find out who I was.
But I feel that road would bring me pain
And too much would be lost.
How I am is how I'm meant to be now,
Anyhow there's things I see more clearly
Than those whose heads are searching in the clouds
to make discoveries,
And maybe fail to see
What's on the ground beneath their feet, not hard to find.
People cry, but no one asks me to advise them
They want to know but they don't ask me how,
That's for someone else and not for me, I don't know.
Lucky me.
No one asks me to advise them.
They want to know but they don't ask me how.
That's for someone else and not for me, I don't know.
Lucky me - oh.

BTW, Terje, why did Foster relied on David Paich for interpretation? I mean, it's not like he's composing Rachmaninoff level pieces...

terje · 1 year ago

Do you mean on "Winter Games"? I thought Foster performed that himself. But Paich did participate on a piano duet with Foster on one of the album tracks on "Symphony Sessions" -- "Morning to Morning," I think.

ozarkmatt · 1 year ago

The '96 Summer games were in Atlanta. The LA games were in '84.
Just sayin'

terje · 1 year ago

I don't know how that happened! I've never actually watched the Olympics, but I (thought I) knew that. I deeply ashamed, but it does make me feel a little better that my editor didn't notice either (yes, after all you've done for me, I'm taking you down with me.) Hey, this isn't a sports site or anything! Pheew.

ozarkmatt · 1 year ago

Well, any more sports related music posts come up, send them to me for a final check.

I'd be happy to . . . .

The song still sucks however. And I think you and I have discussed the Bocelli fiasco in the past.

terje · 1 year ago

That's a deal. I'll contact you when I'm doing the David Foster World Wrestling special.

Bocelli - yes, I remember. I also remember you mentioned there were a few exceptions to the suckiness. So this isn't one of them. I was listening to the cd, trying to figure out which numbers you could have referred to, but must admit I had to give it up. Perhaps you were just being kind to them?

ozarkmatt · 1 year ago

Yes I was being kind. But that being said, I like the "Little River Band circa 1979" vibe I get from "Canzoni Stonate." Except for the spoken word middle. And it sounds like Stevie Wonder mailed in the harmonica solo.

The guitar intro on "Solamente Una Vez" is good.

And his voice is in great form in his live cover of "Can't Help Falling In Love," but the tacked on strings are too much.

And you got to give Foster some credit, he kept Christian Aguileria to only THREE warble up-and-down Mariah-esque long notes..

hagen · 1 year ago

Sorry to have missed Thursday's post, but I'm on point at an undisclosed location and they won't tell me how to get out of here. Seems like the last 20 years of Olympics have been ideal growing environments for the sort of song Foster fosters, no matter how painfully feel-good it might be. I don't recall the singles for these doing all that well, though. A quick question, Terje, before I jump back in my box: Is Foster still alive, and who's fault is that?

terje · 1 year ago

Sounds like we're in the same place. Of course he's alive! The David Fosters (healthy, filthy rich, middle-of-the-road producers and directors of dubious artistic merit) of the world always live until they're 120. And he could probably stay alive for the next 40 years based on the royalties he's received on my purchases alone.

hagen · 1 year ago

Still alive, eh? I don't suppose you have his exact coordinates, do you? I, uh, want to get his autograph or something. Think of it: Jefito might set you free if something 'dreadful' were to happen to Foster. There's an awful lot of good music out there, Terje, and so much of it has nothing to do with David F. A new Jonatha Brooke comes out this month, the first three U2 records just showed up with lots of remastery goodness and bonus tracks a-plenty, Ben Folds has something new on the horizon, and New Kids on the Block just dropped something stinky on the porch. Lots of Foster-free options. Tell me where Foster is, and I'll set you free, Terje. Just say the word...

terje · 1 year ago

I'm afraid the only way to set me free is to demagnetize my harddisk (s). But he probably hangs out in a wooden cottage somewhere on his burnt-down estate in Malibu, carefully piecing together old Streisand masters from his old Chartmaker studio vaults... that fire wasn't a coincidence, was it, hagen?

hagen · 1 year ago

It's best not to admit to anything on the internet that you don't want to sell the rights of to Hollywood down the line, Terje. I'll send a giant magnetron right over, though.

Sonia · 11 months ago

Dear Terje,

Thanks for calling me a freak. I'm the person who posted that request to the SOUNDTRACK forum. I loved the vocal version of the song and am sad I can't find it anywhere. Just because I'm a soundtrack collector who loved that song doesn't make me a freak! You seem more obsessed over it than I am.


Sincerely,

Sonia and I'm a WOMAN not a GUY!

terje · 11 months ago

Sorry about that Sonia. I don't usually resort to name-calling, insults and such in my posts; I merely cut'n'pasted your innocent request to score a cheap point. But in my defense, I totally anonymized you.

I fully sympathize with your quest for the vocal version, and I will gladly admit to being the bigger freak here. You will not believe the amount of money I have spent digging up old Foster records.

jefito · 11 months ago

Foster fans are touchy!

terje · 11 months ago

Yes, we have to step very carefully. And I do.

Sharon · 11 months ago

We're not all touchy! A little freakish maybe. Then again, I believe SHE said that SHE is a "soundtrack collector", not a Foster Fan, so maybe those "soundtrack collector" types are touchy, but certainly not a freak. Ah, but she loves the vocal version so...

Sonia Lai · 10 months ago

Hi terje,

Many thanks for the reply and apology. I greatly appreciate it! If I ever do find it somewhere, you'll be the first person I contact ;). It's nice to see I'm not the only one who likes the vocal version of the theme. I only wish David Foster would release the vocal version of it, but I guess it's not top priority on his list.

Thanks again.


Sincerely,

Sonia