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Irresistable Mix Tape Challenge

Which Palmer track soothes your addiction? Your bad case? Gets into your system?

1) "Addicted To Love"	0 votes
2) "Bad Case Of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)"	1 votes
3) "Discipline of Love"	0 votes
4) "Every Kinda People"	0 votes
5) "I Didn't Mean To Turn You On"	0 votes
6) "Johnny & Mary"	0 votes
7) "Know By Now"	0 votes
8) "Looking For Clues"	2 votes
9) "Man Smart, Woman Smarter"	0 votes
10) "Mercy Mercy Me/I Want You"	1 votes
11) "Pride"	0 votes
12) "Riptide"	0 votes
13) "Simply Irresistible"	0 votes
14) "She Makes My Day"	0 votes
15) "Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley"	0 votes
16) "Tell Me I'm Not Dreaming"	0 votes
17) "Which One of Us Is the Fool?"	0 votes
18) "You Are In My System"	0 votes

Edgy DC Sep 07 2007 10:53 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Sep 07 2007 11:30 AM

Today we explore the goofy career of Robert Palmer. There were two Robert Palmers, each with a run of about 13 years. The first was a rock 'n' soul singer for hire --- tight jeans and British boogie with a taste for black sounds --- funk, reggae, callypso --- but an audience that skewed toward rock (at least in the US). His voice could do different things and wasn't always recognizeable from song to song, but he was good-looking enough that the marketplace didn't forget him when he tried something new. The second career launched the minute the "Addicted to Love" video hit. Draped in a designer suit and surrounded by leggy painted models all with the same exact look, it was so huge that the irony was cast aside and it simply had to become his signature. Too much money was at stake for him not to go back to that well, and what had been a chameleon's career was now locked into a particular look and a particular sound. He called it "heavy nova," a cross between heavy metal and bossa nova. I was jammed into a suite of eight guys freshman year, and I think at least three brought a copy of Robert Palmer's Riptide with them. Do the math and I imagine somebody got very rich. Amazingly, videos from old songs were starting to appear with elements of this new look retrofitted in there (which is kinda scary, come to think of it). He seemed to deal with his compromise of embracing fake tastefulness by returning in part to music that he considered truly tasteful and worthy of the image, so after each album launched with a wailing grinder, his followup single would be a soft blue-eyed soul song, often a cover. I'm pulling a handful of odds out of my end for inclusion here. Feel free to ignore. Songs released with his vocal but under a different billing are included at the bottom for the sake of research, but are not eligible. 1) "Addicted To Love" 2) "Bad Case Of Loving You (Doctor, Doctor)" 3) "Discipline of Love" 4) "Every Kinda People" 5) "I Didn't Mean To Turn You On" 6) "Johnny & Mary" (mime action!) 7) "Know By Now" 8) "Looking For Clues" 9) "Man Smart, Woman Smarter" 10) "Mercy Mercy Me/I Want You" 11) "Pride" 12) "Riptide" (lots of walking) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx_efzEAz94 13) "Simply Irresistible" 14) "She Makes My Day" 15) "Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley" Video evidence unavailable. Work from memory. 16) "Tell Me I'm Not Dreaming" 17) "Which One of Us Is the Fool?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTaah7_nSYk 18) "You Are In My System" Non Ballot Bonus from UB40 Non-Ballot Bonus from Power Station: Non-Ballot Bonus from Power Station: Non-Ballot Bonus from Vinegar Joe:

Frayed Knot Sep 07 2007 11:03 AM

Would I be correct in assuming that you high school yearbook had you listed as the boy most likely to concoct a multiple choice question with 18 possible answers?

Johnny Dickshot Sep 07 2007 11:08 AM

Sneakin Sally thru the Alley is just jammed with smooth, effortless soul. Jammed! Entirely too many choices in this poll.

TransMonk Sep 07 2007 11:13 AM

I had a tough time deciding between the first 2...which for me would be the 2 most easily recognizable Robert Palmer songs on either side of his musical dichotomy. I took Bad Case of Loving You but cannot deny the cultural impact of Addicted to Love. The rest are a 16 way tie for last.

Edgy DC Sep 07 2007 11:32 AM

Well, tits, I told you to ignore what you don't need. I'd've thrown them all out for one clip of "Chasing Sally."

Willets Point Sep 07 2007 11:35 AM

Is Tits a nickname for TransMonk?

Edgy DC Sep 07 2007 11:38 AM

Maybe, but it''s an exclamatory aside here.

metirish Sep 07 2007 11:46 AM

I'll try and find time in my schedule to view all 18 vids......

Edgy DC Sep 07 2007 11:50 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Sep 07 2007 11:54 AM

Now you're taking the piss.

TransMonk Sep 07 2007 11:51 AM

Sorry. Kudos to you for finding 19 videos of Robert Palmer signing different songs. I wouldn't have believed they were all out there if they weren't in this thread. I guess my point was that while Palmer had a buttload of songs, most that I had forgotten about or never heard of, the first two are the most career defining for him from my point of view. I don't really want to ignore them, it's a quantity vs. quality thing.

Edgy DC Sep 07 2007 11:55 AM

No apologies at all. Most of them are up there for curiosity's sake. The Vinegar Joe one stands out though. Who knew he started his career as Chris Robinson?

HahnSolo Sep 07 2007 12:28 PM

18 songs and no "Hyperactive"?

Edgy DC Sep 07 2007 12:30 PM

I'll call that a vote. More posts than votes. I didn't think I can do a lamer poll than Loverboy. I was wrong.

Johnny Dickshot Sep 07 2007 03:23 PM

Underestimate Loverboy at your own peril. My goal with that one was to have a poll with only a few choices, but they snuck up on me. I voted for Clues and its crazy xylophone solo. It's got a good beat and you can dance to it.

Edgy DC Sep 07 2007 05:28 PM

Combined with my vote, we have a leader.

Johnny Dickshot Sep 07 2007 07:19 PM

DIMT is a dynamite project whose potential isn't being realized in this medium.

metirish Sep 07 2007 07:38 PM

I'd forgotten how diverse his music was and how good a singer he was....voted for "Mercy Mercy Me/I Want You" Good work edgy.

seawolf17 Sep 07 2007 07:40 PM

edit - wrong thread

Edgy DC Sep 07 2007 08:46 PM

Johnny Dickshot wrote: DIMT is a dynamite project whose potential isn't being realized in this medium. Tell me about it. The money I'm going to make when I sell Rock Band Ladder Challenge to the big boys.

Johnny Dickshot Sep 07 2007 09:36 PM

We could set up the blog in 4 minutes.

Willets Point Sep 07 2007 11:00 PM

Johnny Dickshot wrote: We could set up the blog in 4 minutes. Please do. That would be awesome.

Johnny Dickshot Sep 08 2007 06:33 AM

I'll see what I can do tonite