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Wham!- Nothing Looks The Same In The Light "We may deify or demonize them but not ignore them. And we call them genius, because they are the people who change the world." |
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Along with "Club Tropicana," the only glimpse on that album of the greatness to come "Whitney was purely and simply one of a kind." ~ Clive Davis | |
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AlexdeParis said: Along with "Club Tropicana," the only glimpse on that album of the greatness to come
That's right. Well, I like Bad Boys and the 1982 version of Wham rap too. I like the whole album, but Club Tropicana and Nothing are the only strong conventional songs. The other songs are merely rhythm and basslines but have no remember worthy melodies. (it's a bit like Prince's You. One's gotta respet the young age at the time they wrote the songs, but obviously there was better music to come). I like Nothing the most. It's a truly sincere song. It's about a one night stand George had in cyprus in 1983 (with a man). he talked about that in an Advocate interview. It's also unsual sounding for Wham! In fact, when I was just beginning to get into GM's music and first heard that song I thought Andrewb Ridgley was singing because it sounded so different. What did I know back then, haha. This song definitively is a forgetten gem! But my favorite Gm song of that period is "Blue (Armed With Love)". I don't know if it was finished for Fantastic or lately afterwards but during the Club Fantastic tour he was singing this song, and I always liked it. Btw, one gotta admit George chose strange topics to sing about. Wham Rap! was about unemployment and living on the dole Young Guns about young parents and marriage Bad Boys... about being bad (okay, it's not an original idea but he did it years before Michael Jackson) [Edited 12/25/08 6:36am] | |
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graecophilos said: AlexdeParis said: Along with "Club Tropicana," the only glimpse on that album of the greatness to come
That's right. Well, I like Bad Boys and the 1982 version of Wham rap too. I like the whole album, but Club Tropicana and Nothing are the only strong conventional songs. The other songs are merely rhythm and basslines but have no remember worthy melodies. (it's a bit like Prince's You. One's gotta respet the young age at the time they wrote the songs, but obviously there was better music to come). I like Nothing the most. It's a truly sincere song. It's about a one night stand George had in cyprus in 1983 (with a man). he talked about that in an Advocate interview. It's also unsual sounding for Wham! In fact, when I was just beginning to get into GM's music and first heard that song I thought Andrewb Ridgley was singing because it sounded so different. What did I know back then, haha. This song definitively is a forgetten gem! But my favorite Gm song of that period is "Blue (Armed With Love)". I don't know if it was finished for Fantastic or lately afterwards but during the Club Fantastic tour he was singing this song, and I always liked it. Btw, one gotta admit George chose strange topics to sing about. Wham Rap! was about unemployment and living on the dole Young Guns about young parents and marriage Bad Boys... about being bad (okay, it's not an original idea but he did it years before Michael Jackson) [Edited 12/25/08 6:36am] Blue is one of my favorites. I wonder if they ever re-recorded the studio version "We may deify or demonize them but not ignore them. And we call them genius, because they are the people who change the world." |
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bboy87 said: graecophilos said: That's right. Well, I like Bad Boys and the 1982 version of Wham rap too. I like the whole album, but Club Tropicana and Nothing are the only strong conventional songs. The other songs are merely rhythm and basslines but have no remember worthy melodies. (it's a bit like Prince's You. One's gotta respet the young age at the time they wrote the songs, but obviously there was better music to come). I like Nothing the most. It's a truly sincere song. It's about a one night stand George had in cyprus in 1983 (with a man). he talked about that in an Advocate interview. It's also unsual sounding for Wham! In fact, when I was just beginning to get into GM's music and first heard that song I thought Andrewb Ridgley was singing because it sounded so different. What did I know back then, haha. This song definitively is a forgetten gem! But my favorite Gm song of that period is "Blue (Armed With Love)". I don't know if it was finished for Fantastic or lately afterwards but during the Club Fantastic tour he was singing this song, and I always liked it. Btw, one gotta admit George chose strange topics to sing about. Wham Rap! was about unemployment and living on the dole Young Guns about young parents and marriage Bad Boys... about being bad (okay, it's not an original idea but he did it years before Michael Jackson) [Edited 12/25/08 6:36am] Blue is one of my favorites. I wonder if they ever re-recorded the studio version Apparently no. As you know, only a dub version was released as the B-side of CT. But a few months later George sang the whole song on the Club Fantastic tour. btw, does anyone have tour books by GM or Wham! On ebay I'd have to import them! Of course non of the fans have these. | |
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graecophilos said: bboy87 said: Blue is one of my favorites. I wonder if they ever re-recorded the studio version Apparently no. As you know, only a dub version was released as the B-side of CT. But a few months later George sang the whole song on the Club Fantastic tour. btw, does anyone have tour books by GM or Wham! On ebay I'd have to import them! Of course non of the fans have these. I have one of the Club Fantastic concerts. You don't think they went back and re-recorded it with the finished lyrics? "We may deify or demonize them but not ignore them. And we call them genius, because they are the people who change the world." |
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bboy87 said: graecophilos said: Apparently no. As you know, only a dub version was released as the B-side of CT. But a few months later George sang the whole song on the Club Fantastic tour. btw, does anyone have tour books by GM or Wham! On ebay I'd have to import them! Of course non of the fans have these. I have one of the Club Fantastic concerts. You don't think they went back and re-recorded it with the finished lyrics? I don't know. You know how it is: Little is known about George's outtakes. He easily could have rerecorded it for Make It Big. Yet he seemed to like it enough to perform and feature it in the China movie. On the other hand it was his American record label that put it on record (Music From the...), not George. | |
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"Wham! Rap" and "Bad Boys" are the gayest rap songs EVER but I still love that album.  | |
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