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"A Different Corner." No beats, no pretense, just a little pretty synth and piano and these incredibly bittersweet lyrics, a fond memory and an accusation -- "Don't you care?"

And that voice. Makes me weak. Every time.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 06:00 (twenty-two years ago)

collect the music asap

― alexan coro, Wednesday, 19 November 2003 06:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Freedom 90, duh. A song so brilliant even Robbie Williams couldn't ruin it completely.

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 07:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Too Funky for the video alone.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 08:35 (twenty-two years ago)

"Careless Whisper". Which is what the 80s revival would be like in an ideal world.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 08:36 (twenty-two years ago)

CW and ADC are on my Wham! The Final album so I always think of them as Wham! tracks. They're the two obvious best ones though. I have a soft spot for "Praying For Time", it's a bit absurd really though. All the later 90s disco ones like "Fastlove" and "Outside" never really convinced me. I actually liked "Shoot The Dog" quite a bit!

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 09:08 (twenty-two years ago)

That's sort of a s/d answer, oh well.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 09:08 (twenty-two years ago)

'Like Jesus to a Child'

― alext (alext), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 09:11 (twenty-two years ago)

The video for "Praying For Time" is excruciating though!

Jesus to a Child goes on a bit I think.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 09:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I've always found something affecting about "Waiting For That Day," a pretty song with a hip-hop backing track. Nevertheless, the "everybody's talking about this new decade" part sounds a bit odd now that the 1990s are the *old* decade (not as odd, however, as when Styx started a song with "don't look now -- here comes the 80s!")

― John Fredland (jfredland), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

"You Have Been Loved"

(although I also have a soft spot for "Shoot The Dog", and was puzzled why it was almost totally ignored on ILM last year - never more pertinent in the UK than this week of course)

― Jeff W (zebedee), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

"Cowboys and angels", easily. Not quite sure why though, I just have a really guilty love of the song. Everything else I can take or leave - well, leave preferably. I do have a strange penchant of echoing George's "That's right" towards the end of "Fastlove" though, because I find it incredibly funny.

― Rob M (Rob M), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

kenan is OTM.

*but* i go for 'cowboys...'.

he gets an unbelievable lack of respect, usually from weeds who like ryan adams or whoever. i fckn love george.
'jesus to a child' is just about the saddest, most heartfelt song to get to number one ever, yet the like of n*ck h*rnby would probably think he wasn't for real enough, like he does in 'about a boy' over the pet shop boys. not that have read it.

george has just signed to SONY again. more pwer to him.

― piscesboy, Wednesday, 19 November 2003 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

"Everything She Wants". The little descending bass bit after "somebody tell me" is just incredible. All downhill from there (though GM had many other fine moments)

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Freedom 90, definitely. Piano slides, handclaps, lovely shuffly drums, echoey/gospel vocals - a great come-hither look from pop to house.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

"Kissing a Fool" for vocal performance. "You Have Been Loved" for actual song quality. "Fastlove" for production

I guess "You Have Been Loved" is the overall choice here

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 22:28 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

Right now, today, "Cars and Trains". What an awesome song with a great vocal. The gyst: people make the same mistake over and over, slowing killing themselves (like throwing themselves under cars and trains, dig?) Plus he says "fuck" and refers to a guy who "gets laid, every day".

― john'n'chicago, Monday, 14 February 2005 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

classics :monkey,mothers pride,you have been loved
coulda been single - hand to mouth

― La Camilla Henemark, Monday, 14 February 2005 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

"Heal the Pain".

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 14 February 2005 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

everything she wants

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 14 February 2005 03:25 (twenty-one years ago)

the george michael sports machine

― stockholm cindy's secret childhood (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 14 February 2005 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

thirteen years pass...

The way the bridge in “Father Figure” dissolves after a few verses into an entirely different, more diffuse & complex bridge, is just so wonderful.

― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Monday, 14 May 2018 03:47 (seven years ago)

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