I Just Called To Say I Love You C/D

So yeah, it's a classic I guess.

I guess I don't quite cross-over into hating it just by itself, but mentioning my love for Stevie to someone and having that be the first song from their lips usually pushes me over the edge.

And - in fact - "Superstition" was worse too.

In fact?! Source please?

I just got back from seeing Rapider Than Horsepower, and they played part of this song. It was endearing. Didn't he sing this song with Mrs. Huxtable? That was awesome.

"i just called to say i love you" is pap, but it's relatively inoffensive pap -- i don't see the point in getting too worked up about it one way or the other.

Stevie in the 80s and 90s didn't hit the peaks he did in the 60s or 70s (except maybe on Hotter Than July), but he still did good work. "Skeltons" is great, as is Conversation Piece. In any case, very little of the music is egregious enough to "erase[s] the merit" of Innervisions or Talking Book. Alex, I get the feeling that if someone just called to say they loved you, you'd tell them to fuck off and then lecture them for fifteen minutes on their shallowness.

Depends on who it was.

Maybe I'm a little annoyed cuz I've had multiple friends compare me to his character in High Fidelity. Especially when he notes that "you can be and ARE wrong." so kiss my ass.

Neither Jack Black nor his character in "High Fidelity" would EVER endorse crass piffle like Good Charlotte, so the comparison is moot.

haha I should go over to that other thread and start screaming about how I made that thread especially for ILX as a goddamn conversation starter!

The final half-second "cha-cha-cha" of this execrable piece of shit makes me angrier than any other moment of music I've ever head in my life. The whole song is naff to the extreme, but that...final...half...second...makesmewanttokillsomeone.

2. "Part Time Lover" is worse, but it gives me a weird childhood radio rediscovery nostalgia feeling that prevents me from hating it.

3. Tim Meadows didn't get his head ripped off, David Allen Grier did.

4. You know how people here about something and then start to do it and then they realize that what they are doing is nothing like it at all? Like, isn't "The Overload" supposed to be what David Byrne thought Joy Division sounded like before he ever heard them? Good Charlotte is like people from another planet hearing about punk and then making up a bunch of shit that they think is correct. Except "The Overload" is fucking awesome.

Oh yeah! Thanks.

You want a piece of me? *coughs*

Why all the "Part-Time Lover" hate? I loves it, although my internal bootleg generator long ago magicked it into a mashup with Hall & Oates's "Maneater".

What else ends with the chas?

ahem ... be careful not to make too much out of that. when one of my close friends interviewed Scratch four years back or so, he asked the legend to name his two favorite records. what he came up with was this:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00003OTE8.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
and this http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000025IWB.03.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

for real. and this was after he had scribbled secret messages all over the hotel room walls and declared that "bob marley is in hell. it was god who killed him". shitm he wouldn't even speak to the concert promoter because he had dreadlocks ...

That reminds me of the best EastEnders episode ever, where they splice/edited two different conversations together to create one (hugely drunk) character saying "I just called to say I love you" and an entirely different character saying "And I mean it from the bottom of my heart"...

From a distance where it's almost difficult to even remember that it was ever a big hit or that there was ever any reactive backlash to it, I have to admit that this is pretty damn easy on my ears. Not prime Stevie, but still very good value.

Someone on another thread compared the synths to a Wendy Carlos, and that really kicked in next time I listened to it. (Also loving “Love Light in Flight” this summer.)