Lionel Richie "Hello" Ultimate 80's Cheese

Lionel Richie ^ | 1983 | Lionel Richie

[DallasBiff]

Lionel Richie stalking a blind woman..the video its so bad its ALMOST good

[DallasBiff]

It's a Saturday.

To the youngins out there, music videos in the early to mid-80s were the penultimate form of artistic expression.

I remember seeing this video on the communal dorm tv, and everybody basically said this is so bad.

Well anyway MTV's first video was "Radio killed the radio star"

Lionel Richie killed the video star.

[EEGator]

He follows her, he almost touches her hair, he crank calls her at night…
Creeper…

[dfwgator]

[dfwgator]

I remember the woman in the video was a Playboy centerfold a few years earlier.

[left that other site]

YIKES.

I couldn’t get through the first minute, it was so creepy.

[MV=PY]

And yet everyone loves The Police’s “Every Breath You Take” which is a song about a stalker.

[Samurai_Jack]

Worst Song Ever.

[heavy metal]

needs more cowbell...

[escapefromboston]

My dad’s favorite song. Every time I hear it on the radio I think of him.

[DallasBiff]

Creeper

What was Lionel Richie thinking, when he signed on to do this video.

[nwrep]

... were the penultimate form of artistic expression.

And what was the ultimate form of artistic expression?

[SamAdams76]

Lionel Richie had a slew of forgettable, syrupy ballads that hit the top 5 during the early to mid 1980s. I do remember this one playing on the jukebox at a Shakey's pizza joint in Oceanside, CA around the end of 1984. I used to like going to Shakey's, you could get a couple slices and a bottle of beer at the counter and take it to a table, which was sort of like a plastic picnic bench all colored in red with checkered placemats. Back then, I used to drink Michelob. It was just before the microbrew explosion and in those days, Michelob was considered sort of an "upscale" beer, right up there with Heineken, which came in green bottles.

People would come up to me and say "What's up with the fancy-schmancy beer?" as most men stuck to Bud, Miller High Life, and Pabst Blue Ribbon in those days.

Certain songs just bring these kind of random memories flooding back for me.

Anyway, I liked Lionel's music better when he was with The Commodores.

[BOBWADE]

Great song for sure. Far better than dancing on the ceiling LOL

[dfwgator]

Running With the Night is a good song. Great solo from Steve Lukather on that one.

[dfwgator]

Now this is a Jam

Machine Gun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVoMJSMgsUM

[Hyman Roth]

Far better than dancing on the ceiling

Just awful. LOL

[BlueLancer]

Greatest hit: Let's Roll Over Lionel Richie With A Tank".

[dfwgator]

Loved Bloom County.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

That reminds me of a funny story from the NY Post I think.

So, Richie had been seeing his girlfriend at her apartment but his wife followed him over there.

So the writer says something like: “I bet when he answered the door he didn’t have to ask his wife: “Babe, is it me you’re looking for?”

Anyway I thought it was hilarious.

[Libloather]

Highly recommended.