tom cochrane's "life is a highway" vs alannah myles' "black velvet"

Personally, for me, I like to crank "Life is a Highway" up real loud on my Zune when I'm at the gym getting pumped up to fuck later that night. Then, later that night, while fucking, I like to have "Black Velvet" playing very softly and gently on my Bose Wave Radio (it also plays MP3s). But don't ask me to choose between these two.

i think any possibility of "Life Is A Highway" growing on me with time was erased when the Rascal Flatts cover became an equally gigantic hit a few years ago.

i kinda love black velvet

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6063/6106565137_d16ee7f37f_b.jpg

dunno life is a highway

Oh you're in for the treatsiest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3sMjm9Eloo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0SHcpvUmCQ

i sort of love both these songs

Both are appalling, but Cochrane gets a passing grade.

black velvet video is very 90s hot. alannah really works it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkXNEmtf9tk

I hated "Life Is A Highway" then and I still do. Truly vile and fuckng inescapable.

'life is a highway' video refuses to show us tom cochrane's fat chin

LIAH is one of the only two cassingles I ever owned.

black velvet 4 lyfe u fools

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SPLITTING THE VOTE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-50svWEPySk

A NEW RELIGION THAT'LL BRING U TO UR KNEES

the best is watching karaoke black velvet tbf, every saint a sinner

'life is a highway' is as inane as the metaphor
'black velvet' = the human condition

i like LIAH cos u can turn the lyrics dirty so easily bc of "life is a" _________, "i wanna" ______ "it all night long"
fill in the blanks as u choose:
butthole, fuck
etc

a strong point in its defense!

That Robin Lee version is like eating "Oat Rings" instead of "Cheerios".

I'm so close to voting Black Velvet

Also Jujubee and Sahara lip synched the hell out of it on S2 of rupaul's drag race
http://fuckyeahrupaulsdragrace.tumblr.com/post/3935537978/mackudokey-bottom-two-jujubee-and-sahara

life is a highway and black velvet have the exact same amount of dislikes on youtube

jus sayin

upon review i regret and would like to retract the "kinda" in my previous post itt

"Black Velvet" is effin great

i like LIAH cos u can turn the lyrics dirty so easily bc of "life is a" _________, "i wanna" ______ "it all night long"
fill in the blanks as u choose:
butthole, fuck
etc

― what does ;_; mean in remorse code (m bison), Sunday, July 28, 2013 1:09 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
for got my personl fav:
ding-dong, suck

"Black Velvet" easily, mainly because I didn't recognize it by name and was pleasantly surprised to finally know what that one song is called. It's not great but it falls into the background sooooo much better. "Life Is A Highway" is way up in your face sonically, and the metaphor is so cringe-inducingly dumb, everything about it proclaims "lame baby boomer in mid-life crisis buys convertible, drives out west looking for experience he missed the first time around." Also irritating because I quite like "Lunatic Fringe" and the positive vibes of post-Cannibals turn-of-the-90s pop-rock (see relevant threads) and this sort of ruins both.

Gotta say the long outro of "Black Velvet" is fairly stupid though, reminds me how much this sort of plodding take on blues-rock arrangement dominated as the go-to signifier for "rootsy" "authentic" American bar-band rock through the entire decade.

by what standard doesn't Myles get way up in your face sonically?

lol @ life is a butthole

I like Life is a Highway because it reminds me of that solo Lou Gramm song 'Midnight Blue' --- I don't know *why* except idk, cars/highways as a theme

"Midnight Blue" is harder better faster stronger

agreed

Black Velvet as I heard the other song way too many times and Tom Cochrane's was the first CD I ever bought at a Target

by what standard doesn't Myles get way up in your face sonically?

― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, July 28, 2013 2:35 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I admit she kind of wails on the chorus but generally the song is more content to stay back as a slow-groove jam or whatever. Compared to the compressed guitar attack on "Life Is A Highway" it's like elevator music.

Midnight Blue is a jam

Life is a Highway is jelly, the cheap store-brand kind

anyway I still don't know what I'm going to pick?

alannah's voice is a little more reverbed and distant than tom's halitosis flying at u face

tom cochrane = http://menwholooklikeoldlesbians.blogspot.com

haha funny you say that about halitosis. Myles' new religion that'll bring you to your knee smells like pepperoni pizza-flavored Combos breath.

I WOULD TAKE COMBOS BREATH OVER LADY-SNATCH BREATH ANY TIME

since you put it that way so would I

Life Is a Highway is the hit that Boy Inside the Man should've been, fwiw.

lunatic fringe > life is a highway

that's a given

look I hate both these songs but how can people be repping for "Black Velvet" ITT, that shit is dire

U CRAZY

both of these songs are probably best experienced at karaoke bars

both of these songs are best experienced by your enemies, locked in a room unable to escape from hornets

The love for Black Velvet sickens and appalls me. I'm outraged tbqh.

Would you say it's brought you to your knees?

yeah i mean cochrane, the boy could sing, knew how to move, everything

Not sure how many people here 'love' "Black Velvet," as opposed to "loathe it slightly less than 'Life is a Highway.'"

OTM

between wisdom from a man who's walked the roads and lived to tell and a dryhump w/ some pale skank in the back corner of an applebees you ppl chose the dryhump. sad day for ilx.

looool

I don't think I even ended up voting, I don't really hate either, they're both terrible earworms and I used to like them a long time ago

Dude's album after the one with LiaH was called Ragged Ass Road?

See? My vote could've totally been swayed had I known that.

i will say take off the vocals and 'black velvet' is not too far from being some kind of balearic schaffel track

Take off the vocals and it sounds like the generic tracks that come with Apple GarageBand.

yeah i don't really play video games

ok I changed my mind, black velvet is worse garbage, I keep imagining it covered by four non blondes for some reason and even the mere idea of that song in my own head makes me angry at both Alannah Myles and FNB.

I guess "life is a highway" is terrible too but almost movingly so, it's like the lyrics were written by that firefighter who won season 1 of the bachelorette, I guess my heart warms to the song when I imagine this garbage being recited to a girl in a gazebo at night while she weeps surrounded by a reality tv production team rather than performed by tom cochrane.

manitoba in the middle of a dryspell

― andrew m., Tuesday, July 30, 2013

How this song went from being the hit du jour on my mother's favorite adult contemp station to being a fav of 20 something collegiates who consider it "sultry" is beyond me

Also Life is a Highway is the 90s version of Louie, Louie in regards to how many times it's been covered

Personally, for me, I like to crank "Life is a Highway" up real loud on my Zune when I'm at the gym getting pumped up to fuck later that night. Then, later that night, while fucking, I like to have "Black Velvet" playing very softly and gently on my Bose Wave Radio (it also plays MP3s). But don't ask me to choose between these two.

― del griffith, Sunday, July 28, 2013 1:08 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

being recited to a girl in a gazebo at night while she weeps surrounded by a reality tv production team

"Baby, YOU are my highway. I want to ride you all night long."

This... is ILM.

http://i.imgur.com/mi3oajJ.jpg

I can't find it at present, but I'm pretty sure there was a pre-nu-ilx thread where we compared the lyrics of Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" to those of Whitesnake's "Here I Go Again."

On what type of road do I walk? A lonely one.

Who is with me on this road? No one.

How, therefore, do I walk whilst I am on this lonely road? Why, it appears that I am walking alone.

Because it's a lonely road, and I am on my own.

Have I ever known a different type of road? No, I have not. For I am a person who walks alone, on a road that is best described as "lonely."

A road is like a road that you travel on.

look I hate both these songs but how can people be repping for "Black Velvet" ITT, that shit is dire

― tight in the runs (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, July 28, 2013 6:25 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm x1000

― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Monday, July 29, 2013 11:03 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Black Velvet doesn't make me want to forcefully insert a harmonica in someone's rectum

so you're voting "Life Is A Highway"?

I wonder how many people have been murdered to the tune of 'Life Is A Highway'. Probably lots.

No love for Velvet but if you'd told me back when I was 12 that this song would continually find new life over the next two decades via the horcruxes of shit pop-country fare, I might have made it my life's mission to relieve Cochrane of his head

THERE AREN'T ANY HILLS IN MEMPHIS. THAT'S WHY WALKING THERE ISN'T THAT BIG OF A DEAL.

― pplains, Monday, July 29, 2013 12:01 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

DOWN IN THE CHUGGAROO

Both of these songs still make me want to slit my wrists, so obviously that's effective songwriting.

Elliott Smith had the wrong idea

I don't think I voted in this but if I did it would have been for life is highway bc when I was younger and less sophisticated I would sing the chorus as

Life is a ding dong
I wanna grind it all night long

And that still makes me happy

lololol

omg

i always replaced "blue velvet" with "bleached asshole"

love was ours
ours a love I held tightly
feeling the rapture grow
like a flame burning brightly
but when she left, gone was the glow of
bleached asshole
but in my heart there'll always be
precious and warm, a memory
through the years
and I still can see bleached asshole
through my tears

Huh, I apparently came up with a reason to vote for "Black Velvet" on this thread.

couldn't be anything other than black velvet, if you have a convincing argument otherwise, hit me up at 555-7812

What is this "new religion" called?

scientology

i always replaced "blue velvet" with "bleached asshole"

she wore

Weird comparison but Black Velvet is a top song. Great song to karaoke or to strip to and the lyrics are subtly one of the best Elvis tributes or at least the best I can think of right now without being explicit.

I’ve always kind of hated the backing track and the overall production of the song, though. It sounds very dated and cheap compared to other songs from that year.

Maybe Alannah Myles takes this by default?.

Life is a fuckhole

excellent revive

In a Burger King and the Rascal Flatts LIAH just came on.

Ain't bad enough I gotta hear this song, I gotta hear the auto-tune to shit version?

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6eDkWZxKsHCY8NxFOlISgw?si=dZtn-eCtSA-5-eJ9EtdPgw

Nightmare playlist

This thread is just foreshadowing for the "Top Canadian songs" poll rollout next week.

https://i.imgur.com/fh9buUG.png https://i.imgur.com/l50nooI.png

day and night innit