Alexander O'Neal -- classic or classic?

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I mean, I don't know about you folks, but courtesy of Mr. Matos I am listening to "If You Were Here Tonight" right this second and I'm kicking myself for not remembering just how freakin' great the man's voice was (and hopefully still is?).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm gonna have to go with "CLASSIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG WTF?"

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, yes. :-) Him on the duet with Cherrelle, "Saturday Love" = oh baby.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

So only Dan and I care? It's YOUR loss, philistines! < / Sebastian >

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 19:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I love Alexander O'Neal, especially his early 90s house trax!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I just thinks he's ok, the best track is "A broken heart can mend".
He would have been great if the production on most songs wasn't so awful (see also Luther Vandross, Lionel Ritchie & Al Jarreau).

― Jim Janse, Wednesday, 4 February 2004 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm more of an SOS Band (and Change, and Thelma Houston) man myself... :-)

― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I wonder what YOU could be listening to today, Mr. Job. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 20:27 (twenty-two years ago)

i like him too havnt herd any of his music in a while

― Emma williams (Emma williams), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic :-)

R&B generally was a lot better in the 80s than it is now.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 4 February 2004 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

"Hearsay" is a straight up KEE-LASSIC R&B album. Don't know much after that. But, yes, CLASSIC.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Thursday, 5 February 2004 07:22 (twenty-two years ago)

so...which alex o neal track is best for a valentine's night party ?

i'm trying to recall if he had a track that banged a bit,
y'know real upbeat and that ?

wasnt there a megamix of all the hits off 'hearsay' put out
as a single?

didn't 'criticise' come out twice?

― piscesboy, Thursday, 5 February 2004 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

i think he did like a 90s dance makeover of criticise. wasn't as good as the amazing original.

― Shooz (shooz), Thursday, 5 February 2004 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)

The original 12" of that was terrific, lots better than the album version. I think one of the remixes was by Jellybean Benitez (there's a blast from the past). "What's Missing?" is pretty funky.

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Thursday, 5 February 2004 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not really appropriate for Valentine's Day, but "Fake" rules over everything.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 5 February 2004 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

He's classic but I want to hear more about Change. I found a pile of (scratched to hell) records I owned aged 4 onwards and found the Change LP, which I don't remember jack about.

― Barima (Barima), Thursday, 5 February 2004 19:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Change were responsible for two of of the greatest club tracks of all time, namely "Searching" and "The Glow of Love" both featuri ng utterly sublime vocals by Luther Vandross. "Searching" was pretty radical at the time, not many acts had used electronics so soulfully until then.

― LondonLee (LondonLee), Thursday, 5 February 2004 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I asked this question before, but didn't really get much response then: Was "Hearsay" the first of those recent R&B "concept albums", that were later copied by Janet Jackson and lots of hip-hop acts? Or was there some album prior to it?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 5 February 2004 23:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Saturday Love is fab, I havwen't heard the Innocent 12 inch for years but remember that as being pretty stellar

― H (Heruy), Friday, 6 February 2004 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

if I've never admitted on ILM, I will now: Hearsay is easily in my top ten of all time.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 1 December 2008 02:47 (seventeen years ago)

no i didn't write the book on loooove

but i try my best to read it EV-ry day

― vergangenheitsbewaeltigung (later arpeggiator), Monday, 1 December 2008 03:55 (seventeen years ago)

eleven months pass...

was it the magazine
that asked is he all yours?
was it the show you watched,
the show when oprah did the
interview with men who wanted free love?
there's no doubt about it, something's on the grapevine
'cos somebody changed your mind
somebody changed your miiiiiind

― rio (sean), Saturday, 7 November 2009 16:14 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

"Sunshine," y'all.

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 12 November 2011 01:54 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

fucking WOW

am so excited to have never heard this before now omg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Esy9l3MJ32U

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 00:06 (twelve years ago)

and the reissues are due....soon?

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 00:07 (twelve years ago)

Please listen to this one. It kills me -- my favorite reiteration of Jam Lewis' hallowed "Human" template

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

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 00:07 (twelve years ago)

wowee wowowow that is beautiful

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 01:30 (twelve years ago)

I must find a mate worthy of that valentine.

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 01:39 (twelve years ago)

def for 'that someone special', no question

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 01:44 (twelve years ago)

two years pass...

'if you were here tonight' landing on me like a ton of bricks right now

― feargal czukay (NickB), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 20:08 (ten years ago)

best song ever by anyone

― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 20:13 (ten years ago)

p much

― feargal czukay (NickB), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 20:15 (ten years ago)

hadn't really noticed the tablas on it before, a sneaky secret layer swing there

― feargal czukay (NickB), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 20:19 (ten years ago)

apparently he ran a taxidermy business with his wife for a while in the 80s, but he got fed up cos all she wanted to do was critters' eyes

― feargal czukay (NickB), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 20:24 (ten years ago)

lol

― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 20:25 (ten years ago)

i don't know if this was a common promotional gimmick at the time but this is both really cool and a completely terrible idea at the same time:

http://eil.com/images/main/Alexander-ONeal-Criticise-236654.jpg

― feargal czukay (NickB), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 20:43 (ten years ago)

Hearsay >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Beatles

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 20:54 (ten years ago)

struggled to not include every hearsay single on my 80s playlist

― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 20:55 (ten years ago)

In 2015 O'Neal took took part in the Channel 5 reality series Celebrity Big Brother. On Day 10 O'Neal was given a formal warning by Big Brother for his use of offensive language towards Perez Hilton.[10] On Day 12 O'Neal decided to leave the show.[11] On the same show, he also made his racially based hatred of Arabic people known. [12]

wtf, i've been living in a bubble and missed all this. o alex ;_;

― feargal czukay (NickB), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 22:08 (ten years ago)

Nick, all you wanna do is criticize!

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 22:16 (ten years ago)

no actually i think i want to slap him first

― feargal czukay (NickB), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 22:21 (ten years ago)

You criticize his friends. You criticize his ideals. You criticize his lifestyle.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 22:24 (ten years ago)

criticize his hate speech

― feargal czukay (NickB), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 22:44 (ten years ago)

won't link to the daily mail but...

'I try not to hate anybody but [Arabs] are probably my most disliked and most distrustful person in the whole world,' he said.
'My take on it is this: if you hate me or don't like me one time, it's OK because I don't like you ten times. And now you come back to get through that, so I was so hoping I didn't have to deal with Arabs in the Big Brother house.'
'The singer, 61, also described his upbringing in Mississippi and his apparent dislike of the Arabs who live in the area, while claiming that 'black people are very trusting to people of colour'.
'But I've never approved of them, I've never approved of them running our stores. We've got Arabs in Mississippi, I'm like 'What the f***?' We're out in the country here and you've got Arabs running this country store,' he added.

― feargal czukay (NickB), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 22:47 (ten years ago)

61 is awfully young to be such a cranky old fucker

― feargal czukay (NickB), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 22:49 (ten years ago)

anyway, news from 9 months ago. maybe he has recanted all this nonsense

― feargal czukay (NickB), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 22:51 (ten years ago)

double groove records! there haven't been many have there? that Python album was a famous one. any others?

― piscesx, Tuesday, 8 September 2015 23:28 (ten years ago)

'if you were here tonight' landing on me like a ton of bricks right now

― feargal czukay (NickB), Tuesday, September 8, 2015 1:08 PM (3 hours ago)

is this his most well-known song nowadays? i hear people (rightly) mentioning/praising it a lot lately, like in the last year... so i'm always surprised when i take a peek at his chart numbers and see that it wasn't one of his bigger hits at the time (it didn't even go top 10 r&b).

― dyl, Tuesday, 8 September 2015 23:38 (ten years ago)

A hit in England.

"Fake" is still the tune I hear most. Second is "All True Man" (both on adult R&B, of course).

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 September 2015 23:47 (ten years ago)

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