Simply Unexplainable

[yendi]

Robert Palmer has died. :-(

I know lots of folks considered his music cheesy, but it was good cheese, dammit! I've got his greatest hits album, and I'm proud of it. The man was a talented singer, and by all accounts a pretty classy guy, too.

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[divalea.livejournal.com]

OH NO!


Hard not to like the man who gave a videos that we started at, hypnotized, trying to see areolae.

[envoy.livejournal.com]

I liked him too :-(

He also had a knack for covering songs in a way that made me like them better than the original.

"Tell me I'm not Dreaming" I've always his version better than Michael Jacksons.

Heavy Nova had some *wonderful* covers.

He was precisely the kind of guy I'd love to spend and evening drinking cocktails with. Now I'm not going to get the chance. Poop.

emblamatic? only moreso if he'd have died of obesity

[pinballsorceror.livejournal.com]

I never celebrate anyone's death (except perhaps Hitler and the like) but this man really was iconic of everything that was wrong with the eighties. I'm a child of the eighties and all that, but I think you have to admit that his music was emblamatic of style over substance and the general shallow malaise that people now point at the eighties and say "Hey, you were selfish" over. I think he was the Fred Durst of his era, 30 years from now people will look back at his body of work as sort of a joke, much the way I think Durst is going to draw future snickery over his era.

Re: emblamatic? only moreso if he'd have died of obesity

[dangerdean.livejournal.com]

I have to disagree with you. Well partially, as I already snicker at Fred Durst.:)

Yes, his videos had an image of eighties-style conspicuous consumption, but he wrote damn fine pop tunes, and there is definitely a place for that in my world.

[pinballsorceror.livejournal.com]

I guess it's just me then, I can appreciate pop but that dude really rubs me the wrong way. There was something about him from the start that just irked me about him. It wasn't until I was older that I was able to articulate it. It's because this guy was as close to exploitative as it gets I think. Spears and the like may pander to people by showcasing their fantastic abs or something, but that is something they probably at least eat right to maintain. This was a guy who would present an entourage of women selected on their appearance, and wear nice clothes while he sang simple pop tunes to them dancing. I just found it to be this gawdy showcase, I didn't really enjoy it.

[not-hothead-yet.livejournal.com]

Anyone who collaborated with Gary Numan AND covered one of his songs is OKAY in my book!

[lonesomenumber1]

He gets a lifetime pass (better make that a longer-than-lifetime pass, now) from me for Sneakin' Through the Alley With Sally.

[tyrantmouth.livejournal.com]

I loved him in the Power Station, but his solo stuff was cool. That's so sad. :(