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Thread started 06/30/06 2:56am

DavidEye

Rockwell "Obscene Phone Caller" (1984)

Find someone else to bother
(Mr. or Miss) Obscene Phone Caller
why do you get off breathing on the phone?
Obscene phone caller...leave me alone!


lol

http://www.youtube.com?v=...h=Rockwell


who remembers this one? The follow-up single after the massive hit "Somebody's Watching Me".
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Reply #1 posted 06/30/06 3:00am

Sinister

lol as if Rockwell had people mob his car.... neutral
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Reply #2 posted 06/30/06 3:02am

DavidEye

lol

it also seems that,in this video,his voice isn't properly "synced" with the footage.
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Reply #3 posted 06/30/06 3:03am

DavidEye

Sinister said:

lol as if Rockwell had people mob his car.... neutral


they're only mobbing his car because of his connection to Michael Jackson lol
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Reply #4 posted 06/30/06 3:09am

Sinister

DavidEye said:

Sinister said:

lol as if Rockwell had people mob his car.... neutral


they're only mobbing his car because of his connection to Michael Jackson lol


He should have had Michael sing another hook... smile If I could I would hit Barry Gordie with a brick just for letting his son record at all...Good Lawd... disbelief
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Reply #5 posted 06/30/06 3:11am

DavidEye

Sinister said:

DavidEye said:



they're only mobbing his car because of his connection to Michael Jackson lol


He should have had Michael sing another hook... smile If I could I would hit Barry Gordie with a brick just for letting his son record at all...Good Lawd... disbelief


I hear ya lol Rockwell had no talent whatsover.Notice that he doesn't even try to sing,he just talks his way through his songs.
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Reply #6 posted 06/30/06 3:14am

Sinister

DavidEye said:

Sinister said:



He should have had Michael sing another hook... smile If I could I would hit Barry Gordie with a brick just for letting his son record at all...Good Lawd... disbelief


I hear ya lol Rockwell had no talent whatsover.Notice that he doesn't even try to sing,he just talks his way through his songs.


And have you noticed (and its an 80's thing im sure) that he and a few other artists use like a Brit accent? Rockwell reminds of one of the acts that evil music producer in Last Dragon would have signed... smile
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Reply #7 posted 06/30/06 6:16am

RipHer2Shreds

DavidEye said:

lol

it also seems that,in this video,his voice isn't properly "synced" with the footage.

It's probably youtube. Many videos on there are like that.
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Reply #8 posted 06/30/06 6:17am

DavidEye

RipHer2Shreds said:

DavidEye said:

lol

it also seems that,in this video,his voice isn't properly "synced" with the footage.

It's probably youtube. Many videos on there are like that.



yeah,I noticed that.It's actually kinda funny,seeing the videos that way lol
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Reply #9 posted 06/30/06 6:31am

vainandy

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I remember that song well. It was decent. The single that followed on another album the next year, "He's A Cobra", was NOT all that. lol
Andy is a four letter word.
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Reply #10 posted 06/30/06 6:32am

DavidEye

vainandy said:

I remember that song well. It was decent. The single that followed on another album the next year, "He's A Cobra", was NOT all that. lol


oh God,I hated that song "He's A Cobra" barf really,really awful song.Rockwell was trying to do pop/New Wave....very few of his songs are actually R&B.
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Reply #11 posted 06/30/06 6:52am

vainandy

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DavidEye said:

vainandy said:

I remember that song well. It was decent. The single that followed on another album the next year, "He's A Cobra", was NOT all that. lol


oh God,I hated that song "He's A Cobra" barf really,really awful song.Rockwell was trying to do pop/New Wave....very few of his songs are actually R&B.


I saw the 45 in the store when it first came and bought it without even hearing it first. When I got it home it was horrible. It's waaayyyy down somewhere in the bottom of one of my stacks these days. It would take me forever to find it.
Andy is a four letter word.
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Reply #12 posted 06/30/06 9:03am

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vainandy said:



I saw the 45 in the store when it first came and bought it without even hearing it first. When I got it home it was horrible. It's waaayyyy down somewhere in the bottom of one of my stacks these days. It would take me forever to find it.

I bought that 45 back then too but i admit i liked it then. Still dig obscene
phone caller. Can't listen to somebody's watching me. It is painfully obvious
how he got a record deal.We used to dance obscene phone caller my senior year in
high school. He looks like marlon jackson's twin. Now talk about some funny shit. What if somebody dug up the jackson's video for body that marlon sung lead on or the two videos he had from his solo album don't go and baby tonight.
[Edited 6/30/06 9:08am]
Don't laugh at my funk
This funk is a serious joint
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Reply #13 posted 06/30/06 10:27am

dancerella

man you guys are dissing Rockwell. i actually love his first cd and i mean that sincerely. yes, i think he's talented. his first cd was the bomb lots of new wave joints on it!
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Reply #14 posted 06/30/06 10:56am

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phunkdaddy said:

vainandy said:



I saw the 45 in the store when it first came and bought it without even hearing it first. When I got it home it was horrible. It's waaayyyy down somewhere in the bottom of one of my stacks these days. It would take me forever to find it.

I bought that 45 back then too but i admit i liked it then. Still dig obscene
phone caller. Can't listen to somebody's watching me. It is painfully obvious
how he got a record deal.We used to dance obscene phone caller my senior year in
high school. He looks like marlon jackson's twin. Now talk about some funny shit. What if somebody dug up the jackson's video for body that marlon sung lead on or the two videos he had from his solo album don't go and baby tonight.
[Edited 6/30/06 9:08am]


That's ironic that he should look like Marlon Jackson twin, considering Marlon Jackson was born with an identical twin brother, who only lived for a few hours. neutral
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Reply #15 posted 06/30/06 10:56am

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Sinister said:

He should have had Michael sing another hook... smile If I could I would hit Barry Gordie with a brick just for letting his son record at all...Good Lawd... disbelief

evillol
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Reply #16 posted 06/30/06 11:47am

dancerella

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Sinister said:

He should have had Michael sing another hook... smile If I could I would hit Barry Gordie with a brick just for letting his son record at all...Good Lawd... disbelief

evillol



they claim he got signed without his father knowing. I guess he used an alias?

Why ya'll hatn on Rockwell? Where is he now anyway?
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Reply #17 posted 06/30/06 12:06pm

Handclapsfinga
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dancerella said:

Handclapsfingasnapz said:


evillol



they claim he got signed without his father knowing. I guess he used an alias?

how could berry not know?! whofarted

Why ya'll hatn on Rockwell? Where is he now anyway?

for all we know, hittin the pipe and thinking someone really IS watching 'im. stoned
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Reply #18 posted 06/30/06 1:26pm

TonyVanDam

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DavidEye said:

Find someone else to bother
(Mr. or Miss) Obscene Phone Caller
why do you get off breathing on the phone?
Obscene phone caller...leave me alone!


lol

http://www.youtube.com?v=...h=Rockwell


who remembers this one? The follow-up single after the massive hit "Somebody's Watching Me".


Everytime VH-1 brings up the subject of Rockwell, they never bring up this classic hit at all. Why is that? cool
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Reply #19 posted 06/30/06 3:08pm

SPYZFAN1

Is it just me or does this song sound a lot like Luther's "Stop To Love" from 1986? Maybe the same producer? OK..SOMEONE out there has to know whatever happened to this guy..David Eye, you're my musical muse when it comes to knowledge. Do you know whatever happened to him?
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Reply #20 posted 06/30/06 3:24pm

dancerella

SPYZFAN1 said:

Is it just me or does this song sound a lot like Luther's "Stop To Love" from 1986? Maybe the same producer? OK..SOMEONE out there has to know whatever happened to this guy..David Eye, you're my musical muse when it comes to knowledge. Do you know whatever happened to him?


Yes, please tell us David!
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Reply #21 posted 06/30/06 4:35pm

Handclapsfinga
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SPYZFAN1 said:

Is it just me or does this song sound a lot like Luther's "Stop To Love" from 1986?

it does sound a lot like it, don't it? hmmm
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Reply #22 posted 07/01/06 7:07pm

dancerella

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

SPYZFAN1 said:

Is it just me or does this song sound a lot like Luther's "Stop To Love" from 1986?

it does sound a lot like it, don't it? hmmm




wow, that means luther ripped off rockwell! biggrin
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Reply #23 posted 07/03/06 11:39am

DavidEye

dancerella said:

man you guys are dissing Rockwell. i actually love his first cd and i mean that sincerely. yes, i think he's talented. his first cd was the bomb lots of new wave joints on it!


I like those two singles ("Somebody's Watching Me" and "Obscene Phone Caller"),but let's be honest,he wasn't very talented.If his father wasn't Berry Gordy,would he have gotten a record deal? Would Michael Jackson (the biggest artist at that time) have sung on his debut single? Let's be real now lol

Something else...he just talks his way through those songs.The best parts of those songs are the chorus/hook which he doesn't even sing.Notice that he never had another hit after that first album.The reason? He tried to actually "sing" on his latter singles,lol.

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Reply #24 posted 07/03/06 12:24pm

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DavidEye said:

Something else...he just talks his way through those songs.


Slow his music down and he'd be a major star today. lol
Andy is a four letter word.
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Reply #25 posted 07/03/06 12:35pm

DavidEye

vainandy said:

DavidEye said:

Something else...he just talks his way through those songs.


Slow his music down and he'd be a major star today. lol



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