Taking Sides : She's Like The Wind vs. Don't Give Up On Us vs. I'm Easy

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Inspired by the "She's Out Of Your League" thread on ILE - Wimp Rock faves from yesterday, courtesy of male actors not known for their vocal talents. (that's Swayze vs Soul vs Carradine for you kids)

― timmy tannin (pompous), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

Keith Carradine's I'm Easy bitchslaps those other songs. The movie it's from, Nashville is one of my alltime favorites.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

SHE'S LIKE THE WIND could be the best bad song of all time. No other song makes me so happy... maybe Bad Days by F Lips.

― FACEBRACE (FACEBRACE), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

"I'm Easy", easy (altho last time I saw "Nashville", a year ago, I was distressed to find I didn't love it as much as previous viewings.)

I don't even think I know "She's Like The Wind" - was that Patrick Swayze? (Never saw "Dirty Dancing" either.)

― Monty Von Byonga (Monty Von Byonga), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

Also, "You're The ONe That I Want" pisses all over all three, if duets count. (Tho I guess it's too energetic for wimp-rock.)

― Monty Von Byonga (Monty Von Byonga), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

This thread is pwned by "Sometimes When We Touch," by Dan Hill. I remember being horrified hearing Totie Fields gushing about this song on The Mike Douglas Show, or maybe it was The Dinah Shore Show, saying something like "he's so young, but he writes with such understanding." The second, guard-down, end-of-the-horror or-James-Bond-movie spinechill moment came when I heard Flo and Eddie express a similar sentiment on some radio show or other.

― The Player In The Redd Cap (Two-Headed Doge) (Ken L), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 23:52 (nineteen years ago)

I was hoping I'm Easy was the Commodores here...

― Rev. PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie 2), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

I was hoping Haikunym would show up to back me up.

― The Player In The Redd Cap (Two-Headed Doge) (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 00:13 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, Keith Carradine's "I'm Easy" isn't that wimpy, it's really more of a I'm-a-sensitive-bad-boy-who-could-love-you-and-understand-you-better-than-your-man-ever-could -but-then-I've-got-to-move-on type of song.

― The Player In The Redd Cap (Two-Headed Doge) (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

I have a strange fondness for "She's Like the Wind," except that it begins with the deathless lyrics, "She's like the wind... through my tree." I ask you, WTF is that supposed to mean. I mean, Dirty Dancing was not an X-rated film!

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

"She's Like The Wind" was a rather nice ballad, although Mr. Swayze should of course have stuck to acting.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 6 July 2006 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

OH MAN. In DC this weekend I was tormenting my buddy with my version of "She's Like The Wind," which was (I swear) no worse than Mr. Swayze's.

"I'm Easy" is probably a better song, but in the battle of the Raspy Amateurs I'll take Swayze. If a much more proficient singer had essayed these Hallmark lyrics it would have descended into a bathos from which it would never have arisen.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 6 July 2006 00:21 (nineteen years ago)

How about "Heartbeat" by Don Johnson or "Hold On" by Jamie Walters?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 6 July 2006 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

"Heartbeat" is tripe. "Hold On" might have worked had Rick Springfield sung it.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 6 July 2006 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

"Let Her In" by John Travolta stepping into the ring.

― slugbuggy (slugbuggy), Friday, 7 July 2006 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

don't give up on david soul

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY8APrYU2Gs&feature=related

― gershy, Saturday, 17 November 2007 06:57 (seventeen years ago)

Carradine, easy.

I can't put bars on my inside
My love is something I can't hide

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Saturday, 17 November 2007 13:02 (seventeen years ago)

fifteen years pass...

What a FOOOOOOL TO BELIEVE

― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Friday, 31 March 2023 20:18 (two years ago)

I've never (knowingly) heard the David Soul track. Should I?

― niall horanburger (cryptosicko), Friday, 31 March 2023 20:20 (two years ago)

― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Friday, 31 March 2023 20:22 (two years ago)

His vocal sucks, the song sucks

― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Friday, 31 March 2023 20:22 (two years ago)

I'm satisfied. Thanks.

― niall horanburger (cryptosicko), Friday, 31 March 2023 20:23 (two years ago)

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