After hearing "Muscles" at CVS yesterday, I wondered how much of her post-1980 output is worth a second listen.
From what I can remember (this stuff doesn't get played much), search: "Swept Away," "Missing You," "Chain Reaction," the Aerobics Trilogy.
Destroy: "Why Do Fools Fall in Love?" "Endless Love," and the Julio duet.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)
But really, Alf, you've got it basically right. I can only assume you're giving the so-over-the-top-it's-nearly-back-under-it "Muscles" a Search designation, as well.
― Thomas Inskeep (submeat), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)
"Touch By Touch," also from Swept Away, is quite good too. I love the keyboard percussion.
Also, I just discovered that the bulk of her album 'Ross' from 1983 was produced by Gary Katz (Steely Dan) and features Michael McDonald, Jeff Porcaro, Greg Phillinganes. It's not bad!
― Patrick South, Thursday, 30 July 2009 14:33 (sixteen years ago)
"Swept Away" should be a lot better than its pedigree suggests. It just sits there. I know Frank Kogan adores this.
― Heric E. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 July 2009 14:44 (sixteen years ago)
swept away & ross are both good & also the swept away sleeve kicks ass
― Trey Tsongas (J0hn D.), Thursday, 30 July 2009 14:51 (sixteen years ago)
"Telephone" is a good Bernard Edwards tune.
Is "Eaten Alive" (written by MJ) good? I want to hear that album next.
― Patrick South, Thursday, 30 July 2009 14:55 (sixteen years ago)
This is so under-rated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm3f-IZ8dQ4
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 20 May 2012 14:29 (thirteen years ago)
She wants 'Mussels'
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Friday, 21 March 2025 21:59 (eleven months ago)
"Telephone" is a good Bernard Edwards tune.Is "Eaten Alive" (written by MJ) good? I want to hear that album next.
― AlXTC from Paris, Saturday, 22 March 2025 09:28 (eleven months ago)
there's some good stuff on The Force Behind The Power (apparently her biggest selling solo album in the UK?), I particularly like Heavy Weather (written by Michael Sembello) and the title track (written and produced by Stevie Wonder)
― Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Saturday, 22 March 2025 10:18 (eleven months ago)
Is Heavy Weather a 'quiet storm' song? I'd always thought of it that way, and half-listening to the lyrics I'd assumed they were about an affaire du cœur, but looking them up they seem to be about the environment and climate change, literally about the weather? and my understanding of 'quiet storm' was that part of the definition was that it focusses on personal/domestic/intimate stuff? It sounds like what I think of as quiet storm, though.
nails the romance but is a little too jaunty imho
― calstars, Saturday, 22 March 2025 12:40 (eleven months ago)
Relieved to see no one's defending "It's My Turn," her schmaltzy theme to the forgettable Jill Clayburgh/Michael Douglas romcom that I hear on the Sirius XM 80s station from time to time.
― cryptosicko, Saturday, 22 March 2025 14:21 (eleven months ago)
I like "Swept Away" much better than when I started this thread.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 22 March 2025 14:24 (eleven months ago)
I played all of mine
― brimstead, Saturday, 22 March 2025 16:55 (eleven months ago)
this is the Joan Crawford signal, I am a defender of this song
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 22 March 2025 17:09 (eleven months ago)