Mad About You vs. Heaven Is a Place on Earth

Looking at the wikipedia article, apparently Alfred copied a non-U.S. version of her greatest hits tracklist. Still don't know why Mad About You wouldn't be on there though.

Only hit #67 in the UK!

UK missed out, imo! Mad About You all the way here.

heaven!

Mad About You is a decent song. Heaven Is A Place On Earth is some of the worst recovery-rock of the age

lol xp we meet again!

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dvd_mad_about_you_home_3177.jpg

"recovery-rock" ua?

post-heroin addiction?

HIAPOE owns. ooh baby do u know what its worth!!!!

They're both great imo (i love her) but I think I prefer Heaven. It's powerful guys!

"Heaven is a Place on Earth" – an excellent example of how a non-singer is often the most qualified person to sing.

Tom wrote a terrific write-up, and the comments are excellent:

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2010/05/belinda-carlisle-heaven-is-a-place-on-earth/

"I Get Weak" > "Mad About You" > "Heaven"

Not a huge I Get Weak fan tbh.

it feels like a lyric built to fit a title and a song built to fit a chorus.

otm

"I Get Weak" is one of the few Diane Warren singles I can stand.

"Heaven Is a Place on Earth" and "Livin' on a Prayer" are virtually the same song, btw.

Is there a Go-Gos therad? I'm not finding one using search but that can't be right.

x-post OMG stop they are not.

I liked Marcello's comments:

The exultant growl of “baby” and the eager upwards leap of the second of the three syllables she makes out of the word “more” demonstrate just how right it was that Belinda Carlisle should finally become a mainstream pop star. Some alleged that she sold out, but there’s a difference between wearily yielding to corporate bar charts because you’ve just received a fresh tax bill and gaining stardom by right while retaining the essence of the personality which attracted people to you in the first place.

It is a shame that Belinda had to go solo to achieve her first real commercial success in Britain – since the Go-Gos deserved far better chart luck than they found here – “Heaven Is A Place On Earth” is a splendid example of how to do AoR bigness properly. She left the writing and producing duties to Rick Nowels and Ellen Shipley (who became her regular support team) and compared to the Brian Dennehy fist-shaking of something like “Livin’ On A Prayer,” the “ooh baby”s, the “ooh heaven”s and the thunderous drums are sensationally astral in their ambition. Beneath it all is a thoroughly professional, logically constructed song, rising on the aforementioned “baby” before readying itself for the chorus, with Belinda singing the praises of unity, both spiritual (“When I’m lost at sea/I hear your voice/And it carries me”) and physical (“And we’re spinning with the stars above/And you lift me up in a wave of love” – note the aqueous common metaphorical denominator). The record is full of near-miraculous touches, for instance the ethereal, distant “heaven” harmonies which loom up like the Sirens’ song near the end, as the drummer adapts some lessons from Trevor Horn, before hammering his way back into the final key change and chorus.

"I Get Weak" > "Mad About You" > "Heaven"

prefer "Mad About You" to "I Get Weak" -- the rhythm section on "Mad About You" is in the classic Go-Go's mode!

the rest of this is another one of those things where I am surprised to find that something I thought of as just pretty unlikeable turns out to be something people totally love so that's cool glad yall love this jam

I just sat down and listened to this for the first time last week. I had first heard it when I was maybe 9, being sung by one of my 6-year-old sister's annoying friends, which put me off it for a long time. Since then, I'd really only heard it in grocery stores or whatever. So, sitting down and listening to it I was pretty impressed. I like this description

the “ooh baby”s, the “ooh heaven”s and the thunderous drums are sensationally astral in their ambition

And for You Get What You Give stans, one of Carlisle's writers on this song was Gregg Alexander's co-writer on that song.

I still think I like Mad About You better, but I wanted to give them a chance to square off against one another when I saw that Mad About You had been chopped from the Belinda singles poll.

Are people still YGWYG fans even?

"Mad About You" vs. "Rush Hour."

YGWYG is vile

Yeah, there was a period where peoples were all like "this song" and I bought into it a little like "yeah, okay, sure, that song", but I'm pretty done with it.

YGWYG is good, but Mother We Just Can't Get Enough is the New Radicals song I like the most.

(And then I like a lot of Danielle Brisebois's solo stuff even more than that.)

"I Get Weak" > "Mad About You" > "Heaven"

prefer "Mad About You" to "I Get Weak" -- the rhythm section on "Mad About You" is in the classic Go-Go's mode!

The > there is not covering a lot of distance for me, I love them both very nearly equally. Just something about the melody in "I Get Weak" gives it the slight edge for me. In my deepest heart, though, I might love her cover of "Band Of Gold" even more than all three of those.

the "I Get Weak" video is batshit in the best sense: a guy presented as manhunk to horny Belinda and her Asian pals.

Not gonna resurrect another Go-Go's related thread to post this, but I just found out that Jane Wiedlin was the voice for one of the Hex Girls in Scooby Doo and the Witches Ghost

http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/24100000/dusk-the-hex-girls-24105811-640-480.jpg

"Heaven Is a Place on Earth" and "Livin' on a Prayer" are virtually the same song,

Trying to remember this song I kept inching toward the latter song.

"Leave A Light On"!

i have done 'heaven' at karaoke a few times, probably like 'mad about you' more, still think 'rush hour' is better than either

Song = Mad
Video = Heaven (Belinda at her peak sexiness, imo)

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I'd say she's at her most unassailably beautiful in the "Mad About You" video. Playful, retro, youthful...and HOOP EARRINGS!

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"Leave A Light On"!

― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, August 31, 2012 7:32 PM

and its George Harrison solo!