Addicted to Love - Classic or Dud?

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Beyond Classic in my opinion though it was one of those songs i couldn't care less about when it was released, possibly cos it seemed to be all about the video? I have rediscovered it recently and now i can't get enough of it, the production is amazing and it has pretty good lyrics too: "You'd like to think that you're immune to this stuff/ it's closer to the truth to say you can't get enough"

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 5 June 2004 16:48 (twenty years ago) link

I like that part near the end where he says "and you'll be MINE! A ONE! TRACK! MIND!"

Whenever some guy I know is wondering if there's a band with a guy singer and only women playing instruments, I always bring up Robert.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 5 June 2004 16:50 (twenty years ago) link

rob. palmer seemed like an affable enough guy, but this song is the pits.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 5 June 2004 17:22 (twenty years ago) link

It's no "Johnny & Mary" I'll admit.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 5 June 2004 17:27 (twenty years ago) link

It's songs like this that make me remember what shitty musical taste I had when I was seven.

― Unknown User, Saturday, 5 June 2004 17:29 (twenty years ago) link

I love "Addicted To Love" and always will. The ~~Sonic~~ Ciccone Youth karaoke version is pretty great too. It's just such a perfect song.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Saturday, 5 June 2004 17:30 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah classic. Always was waiting for that "and you'll be MINE! A ONE! TRACK! MIND!" bit. And he had some of the coolest moves in the video too.

― Omar (Omar), Saturday, 5 June 2004 17:54 (twenty years ago) link

He was in the video?

― willem (willem), Saturday, 5 June 2004 18:06 (twenty years ago) link

I never cared for those 80s beeyatches, Willem. ;)

― Omar (Omar), Saturday, 5 June 2004 18:12 (twenty years ago) link

I think it's a tuneless bore.

― shookout (shookout), Saturday, 5 June 2004 18:18 (twenty years ago) link

not 80, but 5 will do for now ;-)

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― willem (willem), Saturday, 5 June 2004 18:24 (twenty years ago) link

Fuck it, I'm going to say classic.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 6 June 2004 01:51 (twenty years ago) link

It's not awful, but I have to say dud. The chorus is way too repetetive, and the slick 80's production is laid on a little too thick.

― wetmink (wetmink), Sunday, 6 June 2004 16:34 (twenty years ago) link

I think the production sounds just right. Otherwise it would just be a cheesy blue-eyed soul song with rock guitar (this is not to hate - I like the song)

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Sunday, 6 June 2004 16:43 (twenty years ago) link

I recall Robert going on Letterman before the song was released and talking about writing it in a dream, humming the verse synth line and then doing a version with Paul Shaefer's band and thinking, 'fuck, you're a rich dude now.'

It *is* a perfect song.

― Ian G., Sunday, 6 June 2004 17:22 (twenty years ago) link

A Karaoke Klassic.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Sunday, 6 June 2004 17:44 (twenty years ago) link

Palmer worked with the Comsats at some point along the way, so he can't be all bad. This song, however, is pretty dire.

― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Sunday, 6 June 2004 18:00 (twenty years ago) link

He worked with Gary Numan as well, he is very clearly not all bad!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 6 June 2004 18:01 (twenty years ago) link

"rob. palmer seemed like an affable enough guy"
he was annoyingly smug & highfalutin' when I interviewed him, swilling cognac throughout(and not even offering me a drink). Of course, this was around the time of Power Station so I guess he had good reasons to be in a bad mood.

― lovebug starski, Sunday, 6 June 2004 19:21 (twenty years ago) link

his vocal is terrible, somewhere near joe cocker/buster poindexter on the white soul chart.

i think i related the lee perry/robert palmer story on the other thread....

― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 6 June 2004 19:22 (twenty years ago) link

me no likey

― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 6 June 2004 20:55 (twenty years ago) link

classic!

― dicky, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 00:22 (twenty years ago) link

he is the tragic result of worshipping Bryan Ferry rather than Brian Eno

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 01:36 (twenty years ago) link

I like this a lot, despite it not being the kind of thing I'm usually okay with.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 01:51 (twenty years ago) link

dud due to extreme over exposure although if i was hearing it for the first time, i might say classic.

― stirmonster, Tuesday, 8 June 2004 02:43 (twenty years ago) link

This is a great song.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 02:48 (twenty years ago) link

Every single horrid 80s recording cliche is in that song. Dud then. Triple-dud now. His earlier stuff is terrific though, start with Clues and work backwards.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 03:21 (twenty years ago) link

are you talkin about that sneakin' sally through the alley crap?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 05:16 (twenty years ago) link

Crap? A lot of that stuff is great!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 8 June 2004 14:40 (twenty years ago) link

two years pass...

So classic! This is one of the few songs where the first time I heard it, I was in love, and I have never, ever gotten tired of it. The only qualm I have is that it was released a few weeks too early...it would have been my birthday song if it had hit #1 later in May, but instead I got stuck with "The Greatest Love of All". I don't even know why I care about this shit, but I do.

― musically (musically), Monday, 2 October 2006 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link

This song = heaven.

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Monday, 2 October 2006 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link

One of the highlights of my at-work classic rock station bombardment. So, yeah. CLASSIC.

― Apocalypse '07: Rodney Strikes Back (R. J. Greene), Monday, 2 October 2006 17:03 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...

second day in a row that i've REALLY wanted to hear this. a one track mind indeed.

― haitch, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 05:00 (sixteen years ago) link

Right in the middle between classic and dude. "Simply Irresistible" is classic though.

― daavid, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 05:19 (sixteen years ago) link

*dude=dud

― daavid, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 05:19 (sixteen years ago) link

If you had a kid who asked "Daddy, what sucked *and* was awesome in the 80s?" this would be your one-stop answer song.

― i, grey, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 05:20 (sixteen years ago) link

fuck this yuppie bullshit

― special guest stars mark bronson, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 10:40 (sixteen years ago) link

Not that there's anything wrong with yuppies...

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 12:28 (sixteen years ago) link

― special guest stars mark bronson, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 12:37 (sixteen years ago) link

You're outnumbered.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 12:46 (sixteen years ago) link

not outgunned.

― special guest stars mark bronson, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 12:47 (sixteen years ago) link

seven years pass...

Cat Power should cover this.

― pastoral fantasy (jed_), Friday, 12 February 2016 02:27 (eight years ago) link

Imagine what she could make of "You'd like to think you're immune to this stuff / it's closer to the truth to say you can't get enough"

― pastoral fantasy (jed_), Friday, 12 February 2016 02:29 (eight years ago) link

Classic

― lute bro (brimstead), Friday, 12 February 2016 03:42 (eight years ago) link

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