SoulAlive said:

They couldn't invite everybody Donna Summer,Patti LaBelle,Aretha Franklin,James Brown,Al Green,Rick James,Madonna....there are dozens of folks who apparently weren't asked.

why not?

MickyDolenz said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

James Brown wasn't there either.

Neither was Dolly Parton, Rick James, Luther Vandross, John Mellencamp, Frank Sinatra, New Edition, John Denver, Journey, and a whole bunch of other people. Waylon Jennings was there but walked out halfway through the session.

Menudo wasn't there. Paul Stanley & Gene Simmons from KISS wasn't there. Teena Marie wasn't there. And again, Kool & The Gang were there.

BTW, does anyone know why Rick James back down from doing We Are The World?

Ellie said:

Who on earth would admit to being on Band Aid II behind the scenes? The few of the vocalists on that record who survived in the industry can't hide and would probably rather forget.

Better yet, why did the music critics hated Stock Atkins Waterman/PWL so much? Granted, their electronic dance-pop sound was very formulatic. But at least the tracks they produced were uptempo most of the time and NOT boring.

NO JERMAINE JACKSON!!

TonyVanDam said:

MickyDolenz said:

Neither was Dolly Parton, Rick James, Luther Vandross, John Mellencamp, Frank Sinatra, New Edition, John Denver, Journey, and a whole bunch of other people. Waylon Jennings was there but walked out halfway through the session.

Menudo wasn't there. Paul Stanley & Gene Simmons from KISS wasn't there. Teena Marie wasn't there. And again, Kool & The Gang were there.

BTW, does anyone know why Rick James back down from doing We Are The World?

Pretty much everybody on the song was popular with the mainstream pop audience, and Teena wasn't (and neither was Rick James for that matter). Why would she be asked? Anyway, were Rick or any of those other acts at the awards program? KISS wasn't on the rock version (Hear N Aid) either.

TD3 said:

SoulAlive said:

They couldn't invite everybody Donna Summer,Patti LaBelle,Aretha Franklin,James Brown,Al Green,Rick James,Madonna....there are dozens of folks who apparently weren't asked.

why not?

They had things to do! They didn't wanna be jammed up in one studio with all those people. You knew Patti, Donna & Aretha couldn't be there at the same time. Rick James would bring weed brownies to the shindig and Madonna would flirt with everybody.

SoulAlive said:

actually,it was odd that Donna Summer wasn't a part of it.Quincy produced her 1982 hit "State Of Indpendence" which featured an all-star choir including Michael Jackson.This is the song that inspired the whole We Are The World project.

Well yeah that song probably did inspire it in production, but Harry Belefonte, who got the ball rolling for USA for Africa, said it was Bob Geldof's and Midge Ure's song "do they know its christmas?" that directly influenced them to record a song to benefit Africa.

As for Paul not being on the USA for Africa song? Who knows? According to sources, Bob Geldof literally called artists on the day of the recording of "Do they know its christmas?" (the British one) to turn up. Human League thought it was a joke LOL, and were surprised when it wasn't. McCartney, along with other british no shows like Bowie and Queen were probably out of the country that day so just probably couldn't show up in time.

Actually, the first line in "do they know it's christmas", sung by Paul Young, was intended for David Bowie. Bowie sang it at live aid instead.

Ellie said:

Who on earth would admit to being on Band Aid II behind the scenes? The few of the vocalists on that record who survived in the industry can't hide and would probably rather forget.

band aid 2 took everything that was wrong about the 80s music and put it on one single record

although he didn't appear on the record, write, produce or do anything on it, i blame it all on paul macartney. john lennon wouldn't have let it happen if he was alive. he would have done a charity fart in a bag or something instead

TonyVanDam said:

Ellie said:

Who on earth would admit to being on Band Aid II behind the scenes? The few of the vocalists on that record who survived in the industry can't hide and would probably rather forget.

Better yet, why did the music critics hated Stock Atkins Waterman/PWL so much? Granted, their electronic dance-pop sound was very formulatic. But at least the tracks they produced were uptempo most of the time and NOT boring.

cuz all the records sounded like shit, that's why

unique said:

although he didn't appear on the record, write, produce or do anything on it, i blame it all on paul macartney. john lennon wouldn't have let it happen if he was alive. he would have done a charity fart in a bag or something instead

Wouldn't it be George Harrison, since he did one of the first things of this sort?

TonyVanDam said:

Ellie said:

Who on earth would admit to being on Band Aid II behind the scenes? The few of the vocalists on that record who survived in the industry can't hide and would probably rather forget.

Better yet, why did the music critics hated Stock Atkins Waterman/PWL so much? Granted, their electronic dance-pop sound was very formulatic. But at least the tracks they produced were uptempo most of the time and NOT boring.

You guys in the US only got Rick Astley and maybe abit of Bananarama. The UK (and probably Europe) got them and also Kylie, Jason Donovan (I do like "until you come back to me" LOL), Sonia, Mel and Kim ("Respectable" is my shit though), even Donna Summer and Sigue sigue Sputnik. They were EVERYWHERE in the UK in the late 80's. And "Band aid 2" was awful. And despite the odd good tune (which is hard to find as they did so much samey pap), alot of their stuff had the same weak ass drums, keyboards and melodies. Not surprising considering they wrote and produced for artists (as opposed to just producing), but still.....

Their earlier stuff was better though, and even Kylie's "better the devil you know", their last real commercial gasp in 1990, is actually a good song. But they had so much crap though LOL, which alot of the US didn't get. Pete Waterman also did Steps, which was like a rebirth and were mainly awful aswell.

Here's a rare one thats actually good:-

Timmy84 said:

TD3 said:

why not?

They had things to do! They didn't wanna be jammed up in one studio with all those people. You knew Patti, Donna & Aretha couldn't be there at the same time. Rick James would bring weed brownies to the shindig and Madonna would flirt with everybody.

Yeah, if Rick had been invited, he would've gotten everyone high.

Instead of "We Are The World" it would've been . . . "We Are High and Don't Give A Damn About the World".

Busy

p-u-b-l-i-c-i-t-y

unique said:

TonyVanDam said:

Better yet, why did the music critics hated Stock Atkins Waterman/PWL so much? Granted, their electronic dance-pop sound was very formulatic. But at least the tracks they produced were uptempo most of the time and NOT boring.

cuz all the records sounded like shit, that's why

THIS thread needs a serious......

RICKROLL!!!!!!!

MickyDolenz said:

unique said:

although he didn't appear on the record, write, produce or do anything on it, i blame it all on paul macartney. john lennon wouldn't have let it happen if he was alive. he would have done a charity fart in a bag or something instead

Wouldn't it be George Harrison, since he did one of the first things of this sort?

george harrison has absolutely no connection with any of the band aid records and you want to blame it all on him? blaming the dead guy is the easy way out

unique said:

george harrison has absolutely no connection with any of the band aid records and you want to blame it all on him? blaming the dead guy is the easy way out

I thought you were talking about charity songs as it's what the thread is about. It was kind of a joke anyway. I've only heard the 1st Band Aid. I don't know anything about the others, I don't live in the UK.

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thesexofit said:

TonyVanDam said:

Better yet, why did the music critics hated Stock Atkins Waterman/PWL so much? Granted, their electronic dance-pop sound was very formulatic. But at least the tracks they produced were uptempo most of the time and NOT boring.

You guys in the US only got Rick Astley and maybe abit of Bananarama. The UK (and probably Europe) got them and also Kylie, Jason Donovan (I do like "until you come back to me" LOL), Sonia, Mel and Kim ("Respectable" is my shit though), even Donna Summer and Sigue sigue Sputnik. They were EVERYWHERE in the UK in the late 80's. And "Band aid 2" was awful. And despite the odd good tune (which is hard to find as they did so much samey pap), alot of their stuff had the same weak ass drums, keyboards and melodies. Not surprising considering they wrote and produced for artists (as opposed to just producing), but still.....

Their earlier stuff was better though, and even Kylie's "better the devil you know", their last real commercial gasp in 1990, is actually a good song. But they had so much crap though LOL, which alot of the US didn't get. Pete Waterman also did Steps, which was like a rebirth and were mainly awful aswell.

Here's a rare one thats actually good:-

Excuse you, but we in the USA did get these tracks by Kylie:

The only reason Kylie didn't do well in the USA the first time was because the youths at the time were already spellbound by Debbie Gibson & Tiffany.

TonyVanDam said:

unique said:

cuz all the records sounded like shit, that's why

THIS thread needs a serious......

RICKROLL!!!!!!!

the ricky martin of the 80's

alphastreet said:

TonyVanDam said:

THIS thread needs a serious......

RICKROLL!!!!!!!

the ricky martin of the 80's

Ricky Martin was in the 1980's. He started in Menudo.

unique said:

jackson fucking paul over probably had a teeny bit to do with it

Michael hadn't bought the ATV catalog yet.

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SoulAlive said:

They couldn't invite everybody Donna Summer,Patti LaBelle,Aretha Franklin,James Brown,Al Green,Rick James,Madonna....there are dozens of folks who apparently weren't asked.

Exactly

you KNOW Rick was partying that night anyway

bboy87 said:

SoulAlive said:

They couldn't invite everybody Donna Summer,Patti LaBelle,Aretha Franklin,James Brown,Al Green,Rick James,Madonna....there are dozens of folks who apparently weren't asked.

Exactly

you KNOW Rick was partying that night anyway

Like I said dude would've had weed brownies and he would've also been drunk and with the Mary Jane Girls also by the time he got there. They wouldn't be able to finish the session. I could see Rick fighting Stevie too for some reason.

Timmy84 said:

bboy87 said:

Exactly

you KNOW Rick was partying that night anyway

Like I said dude would've had weed brownies and he would've also been drunk and with the Mary Jane Girls also by the time he got there. They wouldn't be able to finish the session. I could see Rick fighting Stevie too for some reason.

fuck weed brownies. Muthafuckin' Rick would've had coke on the conductor's stand

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bboy87 said:

Timmy84 said:

Like I said dude would've had weed brownies and he would've also been drunk and with the Mary Jane Girls also by the time he got there. They wouldn't be able to finish the session. I could see Rick fighting Stevie too for some reason.

fuck weed brownies. Muthafuckin' Rick would've had coke on the conductor's stand

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Shit the coke would be sprinkled EVERYWHERE, let's keep it fucking real.

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because it was American artists, and Band Aid was British (except for Kool & the Gang who happened to be in England at the time)

NDRU said:

because it was American artists, and Band Aid was British (except for Kool & the Gang who happened to be in England at the time)

Don't forget about Jody Watley. But I think you're right about that since Mickey pointed out he did participate in a charity-type song...with his own hit lol

unique said:

Ellie said:

Who on earth would admit to being on Band Aid II behind the scenes? The few of the vocalists on that record who survived in the industry can't hide and would probably rather forget.

band aid 2 took everything that was wrong about the 80s music and put it on one single record

although he didn't appear on the record, write, produce or do anything on it, i blame it all on paul macartney. john lennon wouldn't have let it happen if he was alive. he would have done a charity fart in a bag or something instead

incredibly, that is not too far from some of his ideas with Yoko

Band Aid was just a product of the 80's. It could not help but be terrible. We are the world, too, what a conceited concept!!

It's just a way for coked out superstars to feel better about themselves. Like White Lines. It's mandated community service.

NDRU said:

Band Aid was just a product of the 80's. It could not help but be terrible. We are the world, too, what a conceited concept!!

It's just a way for coked out superstars to feel better about themselves. Like White Lines. It's mandated community service.

^^Ah well... it collected money and helped feed people... it served it's purpose I'd say! Better than doing nothing!