endless paradise: the '80s movie-soundtrack weepy duet slow dance at the prom poll

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Option	Votes
"(i've had) the time of my life" -- jennifer warnes & bill medley (written by franke previte, john denicola an	6
"up where we belong" -- jennifer warnes & joe cocker (written by jack nitzsche and buffy saint-marie, from	5
"endless love" -- diana ross & lionel richie (written by lionel richie, from endless love)	1
"almost paradise" -- ann wilson & mike reno (written by eric carmen, from footloose)	0

― tipsy mothra, Friday, 25 July 2008 06:26 (seventeen years ago)

"almost paradise" is the only one of these that didn't hit #1 or get nominated for an oscar.

jennifer warnes can be so schlocky. but i love her leonard cohen album.

― tipsy mothra, Friday, 25 July 2008 06:28 (seventeen years ago)

i guess i vote "endless love" by default. i don't think i really like any of these. but they're embedded so deeply in my brain that i'm not sure it matters whether i like them or not.

― tipsy mothra, Friday, 25 July 2008 06:29 (seventeen years ago)

time of my life seems the least lyrically creepy

― electricsound, Friday, 25 July 2008 06:33 (seventeen years ago)

i was in "jazz band" in high school (the only chance drummers got to play the trap set), and we played "almost paradise" for some reason. i think maybe some kids from the choir came and sang it with us. hoo boy.

― tipsy mothra, Friday, 25 July 2008 06:40 (seventeen years ago)

has this particular mode of hyper-emotive balladic gloop just disappeared? i can't think of anything even in nashville in recent years that seems comparable.

― tipsy mothra, Friday, 25 July 2008 06:42 (seventeen years ago)

Isn't this genre at least one of the parents of American Idol?

― dad a, Friday, 25 July 2008 07:04 (seventeen years ago)

oh yeah. that's where it went.

― tipsy mothra, Friday, 25 July 2008 07:24 (seventeen years ago)

I thought this poll would include lots of songs featured in John Hughes movies (e.g., Pretty in Pink; Sixteen Candles; Breakfast Club).

― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 25 July 2008 10:32 (seventeen years ago)

OTOH, I didn't go to my HS prom, so what do I know? (Ans.: nothing.)

― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 25 July 2008 10:33 (seventeen years ago)

has this particular mode of hyper-emotive balladic gloop just disappeared?

http://cache.idolator.com/assets/resources/2007/10/letstalkaboutlove.jpg

― Pancakes Hackman, Friday, 25 July 2008 11:10 (seventeen years ago)

I thought this poll would include lots of songs featured in John Hughes movies (e.g., Pretty in Pink; Sixteen Candles; Breakfast Club).

no it just struck me that there were all these (well, four) big ballad duets from movie soundtracks. they form a mini-genre of their own.

― tipsy mothra, Friday, 25 July 2008 14:11 (seventeen years ago)

If John D. is out there, I want him to know that these all suck and I want them removed from the 80's immediately and put in another decade. Thank you.

― Bimble, Friday, 25 July 2008 15:48 (seventeen years ago)

but they suck in a very era-specific way. the '80s wouldn't be the same without them.

― tipsy mothra, Friday, 25 July 2008 17:52 (seventeen years ago)

My only concession is that I enjoyed Endless Love at the time. But for god's sake I was ten years old and sometimes that's just not good enough.

I DO NOT LIKE SAPPY BALLADRY DUET LOVE CRAP

no offense, but thanx

― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, 26 July 2008 09:20 (seventeen years ago)

James Ingram/Linda Ronstadt "Somewhere Out There" from An American Tail

― drench, Saturday, 26 July 2008 12:34 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― ILX System, Saturday, 26 July 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

James Ingram/Linda Ronstadt "Somewhere Out There" from An American Tail

wow yeah, i totall forgot that song. linda looks like she's trying to look like a mouse in the video.

― tipsy mothra, Sunday, 27 July 2008 07:12 (seventeen years ago)

totally

― tipsy mothra, Sunday, 27 July 2008 07:12 (seventeen years ago)

Peter Cetera & Amy Grant- “The Next Time I Fall” - should have been in a movie if it wasn't.

― Mark Rich@rdson, Sunday, 27 July 2008 20:34 (seventeen years ago)

Lionel Richie's "Say You, Say Me."

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Sunday, 27 July 2008 21:08 (seventeen years ago)

You guys are gonna make me vomit. Hahahah.

― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Sunday, 27 July 2008 22:28 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― ILX System, Sunday, 27 July 2008 23:01 (seventeen years ago)

Yuck, "time of my life" is by far the worst of these.

― Mark Rich@rdson, Monday, 28 July 2008 00:36 (seventeen years ago)

Wait a minute...what about "Islands In The Stream", Dolly Parton w/ Kenny Rogers? Written by the Bee Gees! Wow, I never knew that.

But it wasn't in a soundtrack, so it doesn't count in this thread, I guess.

― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Monday, 28 July 2008 01:16 (seventeen years ago)

Plus, possibly skewing a little old for prom night.

― Mark Rich@rdson, Monday, 28 July 2008 01:19 (seventeen years ago)

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