American Idol 2006--Live Thread (Part II)

FOX ^ | 3-25-06

[silent_jonny]

still for Tammy

[over3Owithabrain]

Night moves - excellent. He can point to Kat when he sings "she was a black haired beauty with big dark eyes; and points of her own sitting way up high".

[Wyatt's Torch]

Some more for Taylor from 1976:

Play That Funky Music - Wild Cherry
Love Is Alive - Gary Wright
Dream Weaver - Gary Wright
You Sexy Thing - Hot Chocolate
Love Hurts - Nazareth
Take It To The Limit - The Eagles
Golden Years - David Bowie
Lowdown - Boz Scaggs
Evil Woman - ELO
She's Gone - Hall & Oats
Tear The Roof Off (Give Up The Funk) - Parliament
Still The One - Orleans

Got those off iTunes. Some good choices in there.

[Wyatt's Torch]

Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out - Bruce Springsteen

Another GREAT option for Taylor. He could have a blast doing this song. Right in his vocal wheelhouse as well.

[Apple Blossom]

Just curious, but who is already on the market that is anything like her, whose music you would buy? As far as the "stage voice", something for show tunes, classics, etc., we haven't really had anyone like that since Bette Midler.

When Katharine is relaxed she has a very smooth alto sound that we haven't seen (heard) since Karen Carpenter. I may not be totally up on who's who in music today, but when I couldn't understand the words enough to sing along, I switched to country music... and yes, I CAN sing.

As far as David Foster goes, yes he has to find someone the public wants to buy and can learn a lot by watching who we vote for week to week. Getting it to sell can be done with creative marketing. Good points though.

[commish]

Yes, it has to be Billboard top 10 THIS WEEK. Any Chart.

Perfect song for taylor - Believe, Brooks and Dunn

Perfect song for Elliot - You're Beautiful, james Blunt

[Netizen]

Good choice!

[ladyinred]

I so totally disagree with you on Katherine. I thought she nailed that song, and they did owe her and the audience an apology!

[Apple Blossom]

Wonder if he was doing "too soul-ful" of a rendition of the song or if it got too up-beat and they wanted another night of ballads? There's nothing saying that a love song can't be up tempo.

He has lost his sunny disposition though. I would really like to see his smile light up the screen the way it used to.

[misterrob]

I got some feedback from last night's dinner:

1) Kellie knew she was going home after watching the tape of her performance. Packed her bag in advance. She is ditzy but swears like a truck driver


2) Everyone actually treats each other very well. No backstabbing, no BS as in previous years. Show people are amazed how well everyone gets on. There appears to be no jealousy.

3) Simon came to the kick off dinner last night. He's actually a prety nice guy I was told. A lot of fun.

4) Kat has a 40 something year old Greek boyfriend.

[Wyatt's Torch]

Trying to think about songs for Chris from 1980. Some of the top 'rock' albums that year were:

Pink Floyds, The Wall (Can anyone say Comfortably Numb? Run Like Hell?)

Queen's, The Game (Another One Bites The Dust)

Tom Petty Damn The Torpedo's (Refugee, Here Comes My Girl)

[over3Owithabrain]

He has lost his sunny disposition though. I would really like to see his smile light up the screen the way it used to.

I know what you mean. It may be that his spirit has been broken somewhat by the AI shenanigans.

[Netizen]

4) Kat has a 40 something year old Greek boyfriend.

Now THAT doesn't surprise me a bit! lol

[Senator Goldwater]

"Kat has a 40 something year old Greek boyfriend"

I'm not Greek. I'm Irish.

[Netizen]

Songs from 1980

1. You Shook Me All Night Long - AC-DC
2. Living After Midnight - Judas Priest
3. Breaking the Law - Judas Priest
4. Anyway You Want It - Journey
5. Train in Vain - The Clash
6. Against the Wind - Bob Seger
7. I Don’t Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats
8. Games Without Frontiers - Peter Gabriel
9. Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2) - Pink Floyd
10. Brass in Pocket - The Pretenders
11. Boys Don't Cry - The Cure
12. I Don't Remember - Peter Gabriel
13. Call Me - Blondie
14. Hit Me With Your Best Shot - Pet Benatar
15. Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
16. And the Cradle Will Rock - Van Halen
17. Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
18. My Girl - Madness
19. What I Like About You - The Romantics
20. Refugee - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
21. On the Road Again - Willie Nelson
22. Do You Remember Rock 'N' Roll Radio? - The Ramones
23. Cars - Gary Numan
24. De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da - The Police
25. Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
26. Embarrassment - Madness
27. Private Idaho - B-52's
28. Somewhere in America - Survivor
29. Run Like Hell - Pink Floyd
30. Fame - Irene Cara
31. Love on the Rocks - Neil Diamond
32. Into the Night - Benny Mardones
33. Volcano - Jimmy Buffet
34. Rock Lobster - The B-52's
35. Love Stinks - J. Geils Band
36. Turning Japanese - The Vapors
37. Do That To Me One More Time - Captain & Tennille
38. Hungry Heart - Bruce Springsteen
39. Cheap Sunglasses - ZZ Top
40. I'm Coming Out - Diana Ross
41. Whip It - Devo
42. The Rose - Better Midler
43. Lady - Kenny Rogers
44. Heartbreaker - Pat Benatar
45. You May Be Right - Billy Joel
46. Hold On - Kansas

[Palladin]

I love those insider tidbits!

Now I can say Kat reminds me of Jacquie Kennedy, because she has a Greek boyfriend 20 years older than herself. Is he in the shipping business, by any chance?

Things will be duller for the contestants without Kellie around.

They all seem to enjoy each other's company. You can see that whenever one of them has to leave.

[Netizen]

It may be that his spirit has been broken somewhat by the AI shenanigans.

I think you are right. It has to be hard on you to realize that you are trying to fight city hall. I think Bucky nailed it.

[Wyatt's Torch]

Also released in 1980 -

Van Halen's Women and Children First (Everybody Wants Some, And The Cradle Will Rock)

AC/DC Back In Black (Hells Bells, Back In Black, You Shoock Me All Night Long)

Ozzy's Blizzard of Oz (Crazy Train)

The Police, Zenyatta Mondatta (Don't Stand So Close To Me, De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da, Voices Inside My Head, When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Still Around)

[Wyatt's Torch]

I would absolutely love to hear Chris do Pink Floyd. One Of My Turns would be hysterical (Run to the bedroom, in the suitcase on your left you find my favorite axe...)

There's come great stuff opn this list. A lot of which is on my iPod.

[misterrob]

Some songs are not meant to be covered and groups like 1980 Van Halen, AC/DC and Ozzie do not belong on Idol.

[TonyWpi]

I agree with you on Elliott. He was picked to go home a few weeks back by a lot of folks but hung on when Ace went home.
He seems to be getting more comfortable in front of the camera. I really liked his ad-lib with Seacrest when he gave kudos to Donnie Hathaway's daughter who sings back-up for the show.

Let's see....songs in the year you were born as a topic for next week? Could be interesting.

Taylor will get a much needed boost as I think he can do the 70's stuff pretty well. (Unless of course they change his song again at the last minute as I've heard from others on this thread was done)
Elliott can do late 70's and 80's stuff so he should be good.
McPhee can do most of anything.
Paris could suffer more because she's best on the old jazz stuff and not very good at more modern material.

One more note...Pickler fans are going to head for Katharine as they were buds and her "fans" are pushing in that direction. That could give her a boost as well.
Elliott could get a "Kellie-boost" too because A LOT of the Kellie-fans on the websites are mad as heck at Paris because they thought SHE should have gone home last night.
Since after Kellie, Elliott and Paris are in the bottom 2, that gives them incentive to vote for him in order to ambush her.

That all said...I'm rooting for Elliott or Taylor to win (yes...not Katharine. I like her a lot but the guys are much better this year).