New Kids on the Block: RFD, Classic or dud?

There was The Boys Next Door. No, not the early incarnation of the Birthday Party, it was a Saturday Morning live action show on NBC to capitalize on the popularity of NKOTB, a Monkees for the '90's if you would, aboot a boy band who lived in a house together, doing wacky stuff, and a music video to cap off the show. Sank without a splash. Classic.

ugh, i just remembered that one line..."been around the world/met a lot of people/and girls"

it's amazing! it's like the early 90s compressed into one track - pump up the jam vs nkotb + apache tossed in at various key points (eg. under the 'step 1 - we can have lots of fun' breakdown!)

jess their best songs are step by step (original mix), the right stuff, tonight and cover girl. hangin tough is ok tho!

Anyhow, some of the NKOTB singles are pleasant, but nowhere as good as the New Edition numbers they ape ("Is This The End?" beats "Please Don't Go Girl" and so on). The Step By Step songs are more interesting in their mix of ambitiousness and chintz. "Tonight" has nostalgiac lyrics and a Beatles trumpet, while Step By Step has swirling strings and "Games" is all rap-happy in much less lame way then "Hangin' Tough." Their video comps are the bomb. Stick with those if you're looking for entertainment from these guys.

Have I told the story of how my wife accidentally dissed the New Kids to their faces?

Please tell the anecdote!

My sister loved this band when I was 5.

They reigned supreme over the girls in my third grade class.

A few months later, we got a reply: a routine b*w glossy of the Fab 5 smiling, signed "Thanks (hee hee) for your support!! Love, NKOTB."

We got a copy of their first ever album in at work, when they were all really really young, and I died laughing.

HOUSE PARTY RULZ.

(Yeah, I know we'll get one eventually, but I WANT IT NOW!!!!)

I also had these:

"Hammer"-esque pants
Kriss Kross styled shorts that were actually manufactured with the pockets in the front
a bowl cut
PCH tee shirts

oh man.

Q: Which New Kid's voice changed in the middle of a concert?!?!

A: Joey!!

At least, that's what my sister always told me, when she was a superfan and I was the little brother.

Also, there was a fold-in which asked What Group Is More Popular Than The Beatles? and it folded into a spotlight on an empty stage and read "No One."

FACE!

IS DAN PERRY EVER GOING TO TELL THE STORY OF HIS WIFE DISSING THE NEW KIDS?
-- Allyzay Subservient 50s-Type (allyzay), Sunday, March 27, 2005 10:32 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

There should be a campaign to keep this thread active until DAN PERRY tells us THE STORY.

the world trembles with anticipation

Goddamn you, Dan, tell the fucking story!

-- Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, November 14, 2006 12:51 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

Goddamn you, Dan, tell the fucking story!

-- Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, November 14, 2006 12:51 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

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NKOTB singer: Yes, I'm gay

http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/31/jonathan-knight-i-was-never-in-the-closet/?hpt=T2

^^ not sure why this is front-page CNN news?

Because Americans must know what goes on in your bedroom even though they will never have a chance with you in real life.

the cutest one is actually the gay one!

I'm relieved.

Remember this two years ago?

http://snarkfood.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/jonathan-knight-nkotb-gay.jpg

he's the Funny Kid!

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Tiffany apologizes for outing Jonathan Knight

Eighties singing sensation Tiffany is apologizing to former flame Jonathan Knight after seemingly outing him during a recent TV appearance.

While promoting her upcoming SyFy movie "Mega Python vs. Gatoroid" on Bravo's "Watch What Happens Live" last Friday, Tiffany, 39, admitted that she and Knight dated back in their heyday.

"He's fabulous. But he became gay later," she said before jokingly adding that she wasn't sure if she had a hand in "switching" his sexuality.

“I had issues with that! I was thinking maybe I did," she said. "But no, now looking back when we were dating, he was so much fun — we used to do facials together, he was so easy to talk to.”

Though Tiffany seemed casual about her whole "Watch What Happens Live" conversation, she changed her tune the next day when Knight, who has never publicly acknowledged his sexuality, tweeted about the incident.

"I'm so devastated," he wrote. "How can I not remember getting facials???????"

Because Americans must know what goes on in your bedroom

only if you are not straight though! straight ppl are boring to americans

see: every celebrity sex tape ever

(all hetero btw)

well pr0n aside i guess

i bet you Dan reads this thread every time it's revived and intentionally withholds the story just cuz it makes him laugh

While promoting her upcoming SyFy movie "Mega Python vs. Gatoroid"

I watched 10 minutes of this over the weekend, horrible even by SyFy original movie standards. Had no idea until just now that it was Tiffany and Debbie Gibson in the scratching cat fight. Gibson looks AWFUL now, like a thinner, more coked out version of Katie Morgan.

local theatre here did an original musical based on her music called "Electric Youth" a few years back. she attended opening night.

Lol @ this thread

lol @ you!

I watched 10 minutes of this over the weekend, horrible even by SyFy original movie standards

on the plus side, Mickey Dolenz got eaten by a giant snake

agree that Debbie Gibson looked like some sort of decrepit horse-mummy

Haha, yeah, I did forget to mention Mickey Dolenz getting eaten. Tbh though, I almost missed him getting eaten just because I was loling so hard at him playing himself in the movie.

The story isn't actually that exciting!

During my wife's freshman year, she dated a dude who went to HS with NKOTB and tried to flex his VIP cred by taking her out to a nightclub where they were hanging out and introducing her to them. Unfortunately this was pre-The Right Stuff and she had no idea who they were, so when dude was all "they're SINGERS" she said "so? I am too" and proceed to talk about placing third at the Mid-South Fair and being courted by Juilliard.

(This is the same woman who dumped Anfernee Hardaway in high school; lady is difficult to impress.)

oh man I have major props for your wife then. Penny was asshole non grata in O-Town for many things, basketball and non-basketball related.

she said "so? I am too"

lol i can so hear her saying this

rumor has it penny hardaway took the breakup bad and promised he'd be loving her all his life, til his dying day was through

wait a sec if they were hanging out in a nightclub pre-hangin tough they were all underage

It was an all-ages night

woops, missed she was a freshman xpost!

i presume they were all jettisoned from the club when donnie set the carpet on fire

(This is the same woman who dumped Anfernee Hardaway in high school; lady is difficult to impress.)

#humblebrag

Kidding, kidding. Thats a great story.

It is a total, unabashed #humblebrag and I would be offended if ppl didn't notice it!

most famous person I ever met locally in public was Anthony Bowie of the Orlando Magic in 1997 and he made fun of me.

Jonathan has some thoughts about "You Got It (The Right Stuff)."

The things you do
Is forever

oh oh ohhhh oh oh
oh oh ohhhh

the right stuff

*handclap*

i'm surprised i never posted on this thread. my sister was a huge NKOTB fan. she had their posters up all over her walls, and of course her favorite was Joey, because Joey was younger than the rest of the kids on that block, which meant that he was only 8 years old than my sister, who was 8 in 1988. i was 5. a legendary new kids moment happened during a concert when Joey's voice changed in the middle of the concert. how adorable!!

Jon Knight's in trouble with some real estate deal

also, for some reason I _cannot_ forget the memory of listening to "Funky, Funky Xmas" on the famed 1989 release Merry, Merry Christmas

xp is that right? apparently that's an interest of his

In the years after the group first disbanded, Knight worked as a real estate investor living in Essex, Massachusetts;

i laugh when I watch new live videos now cos all I see when I see Donnie Wahlberg is his snarky character from that awful copaganda show Blue Bloods (which my folks love and I see via osmosis), but also because holy fuck is he a tone deaf singer, way more than he used to be.

like completely miles away from the other guys. he doesn't even sing the "all that I needed was you" because his voice cracks.

but man lighting that carpet on fire was badass

I actually really liked their comeback single "Summertime"

Jon was the cutest one imo

Don't sleep on 'I'll Be Your Everything', their collab with Tommy Page (who I just learned committed suicide in 2017, RIP).

Wait, did I hear someone ask if NKOTB ever did a reggae song? Well of course they did!

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