POX: Bryan Adams

1) Heaven
2) Summer of '69

I could really get by with just those. I'll grudgingly concede some sort of perverse classic status (in a "We had to learn an arrangement of it in Gr 10 concert band and I'm sort of weirdly glad in retrospect" + "You can't honestly remember that time period without remembering this" way) to:

3) Everything I Do

These are OK in a "not totally transcending the cheese but I wouldn't turn it off and I'll probably never forget the tunes if I never hear them again and deep inside I know at some point they all either have or will have done something for me or soundtracked something important" way:

4) Heat Of the Night
5) Can't Stop This Thing We Started
6) Kids Wanna Rock
7) This Time
8) Cuts Like a Knife
9) Run to You

And in a "haha I'd totally forgotten that one until Di mentioned it and now I want to clap my hands and sing the chorus" way:

10) I Need Somebody

Don't remember "Hearts On Fire" or "She's Only Happy . . ." Is anyone willing to defend his career from the mid-90s onward ("The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me Is You", "Please Forgive Me", etc)?

11) heaven. how did i forget??!!

Fast forward to the 21st Century, and Adams is providing vocals for Chicane, the Mantovani of clubland.

What a worthless whore Bryan is. Bob Seger's Old Time Rock 'n' Roll may have been equally luddite, but at least you don't see him miming over dance beats on MTV Party Zone.

Oh for God's sake. So you're seriously suggesting that Bryan may have actually been "in character" for the song?

"Yeah, Kids is a parody of some of the rock-centric attitudes that I've had to deal with in the music industry. I actually listen to nothing at home other than Kraftwerk and Giorgio Moroder..."

Bryan Adams obviously pointed out that you can write a song without meaning it. "Summer of 69" is an example. What was he? Like 5 years old then?

but I well remember its sneering dismissal of the nascent electronic dance music scene

let bryan sneer if he wants to. i mean, come on, hes blatantly MOR and has always been sneered at because of it.

Bryan Adams is the most important musical talent to emerge from the west in the last 30 years.

"It cuts like a knife... but it feels so right"

God, how did he think of that!?!? That is brilliant. Every day I wake up and look at myself in the mirror and curse myself for not being half as talented as Bryan Adams. Fuck The Beatles, Bryan Adam's ownz them!

my POX only has three songs because Bryan Adams kicks so much ass that anymore than three on a POX could potentially tear the fabric of the universe apart.

BAAS REPRESENT!!!

Had the first four albums myself and actively cared up through, what, 1987 or so? Saddest thing ever was that ridiculous pose on the cover of Waking Up the Neighbours. Please.

Hiding From Love
Win Some, Lose Some
Wait and See
Give Me Your Love
Wastin' Time
Don't Ya Say It
Remember
State of Mind
Try to See It My Way

...and, Run To You

Anyway, "Somebody" was great. As was "Cuts Like a Knife". Cannot quite think of 10 great Bryan Adams songs though.

wait, my 7-inch single of it is by Sweeney Todd FEAUTRING Nick Gilder and Bryan "Guy" Adams. So which one is that? (Or do you mean: the Sweeney Todd version versus the solo Gilder version? Ok I get it.)

>Ain't Gonna Cry (lyrics that would shock Anal Cunt!)<

So would the dumpster solo.

Been enjoying Heaven all week.

But its been that kind of week...

Bryan Adams is the prairie Barry White.

came on the radio this morning and I couldn't deny it.. I fucking love "When You're Gone"

ew

Bryan Adams explains how you should love a woman.

i dont appreciate yr smearing a canadian icon alfred

'Let's make honey baby, soft and tender' might be the most objectionable lyrics I've ever heard.