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Discussion: Once Upon a Time: The Donna Summer Singles Rate
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Hmm. I'll take you on a ride. To all the songs that got less than a nine.
How many will that be? Find out!
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Let's do this!
Time for "She Works Hard for the Money" to exit the building.
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Originally posted by supaspaz
Let's do this!
Time for "She Works Hard for the Money" to exit the building.
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Originally posted by supaspaz
Let's do this!
Time for "She Works Hard for the Money" to exit the building.
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Originally posted by @michael.
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I agree!!
But first, my heart is broken.
10.
This Time I Know It's for Real
Average Score: 7.77
Highest Score: 10 (Ace Reject, supaspaz, Diamond Dust)
Lowest Score: 5 (Ra2)
Lyrics and Music by: Donna Summer, Mike Stock/Matt Aitken/Peter Waterman
Donna's last big hit. A round of applause for her writing part of it, as SAW is notorious for allowing no creative involvement to any of the acts that went with them. After leaving Geffen Records, she signed to Atlantic Records - and This Time I Know It's for Real was the first release from this new partnership. Something that embraced her past, while still sounding fresh, the song became one of Donna's biggest hits in the UK. It reached number three, and brought her back to the top ten for the first time in a decade. It achieved similar, if lesser, success in the U.S., reaching number seven. TTIKIfR would become her first transatlantic hit in a full decade.
And doesn't she look gorgeous in the single cover?
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I Will Go With You at #16 instead of the top 5?
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Ugh, this really just turned into a battle of her biggest hits, didn't it?
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Originally posted by supaspaz
Ugh, this really just turned into a battle of her biggest hits, didn't it?
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You're so hung up on that
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09.
MacArthur Park
Average Score: 8.04
Highest Score: 10 (Ace Reject, BoyonBoyWonder, Diamond Dust, Porygon2z)
Lowest Score: 3 (Geezus Haberdash)
Who could get a number one single from a live album?
Donna could.
Her cover of Richard Harris' 1968 original was widely accepted as better than the original, and became Donna's first number one single in the United States, staying there for three weeks.
Seriously, check out the entry for it. The song's history is pretty fascinating.
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So far I'm pretty accurate with the Top 10. I knew MacArthur Park wouldn't be Top 5 Surprised that Heaven Knows has made it so far!!
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Originally posted by @michael.
You're so hung up on that
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Completely. "She Works Hard for the Money" and "Hot Stuff" and "On the Radio" and "Bad Girls" and "Love to Love You Baby" may be iconic, but I don't think they're the best of her catalog.
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"MacArthur Park" is so weird to me.
MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, nooooo
... what?
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I burst into a rendition MacArthur Park anytime cake is mentioned. "Someone left a cake out in the rain. I don't think that I can take it, cause it took so long to bake it. AND I'll NEVER HAVE THAT RECIPE AGAIN!" It always gets a good response, and inevitably I end up introducing someone who hasn't heard the song before to something really great.
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Originally posted by supaspaz
Completely. "She Works Hard for the Money" and "Hot Stuff" and "On the Radio" and "Bad Girls" and "Love to Love You Baby" may be iconic, but I don't think they're the best of her catalog.
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They're not.
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Originally posted by @michael.
So far I'm pretty accurate with the Top 10. I knew MacArthur Park wouldn't be Top 5 Surprised that Heaven Knows has made it so far!!
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08.
Heaven Knows (with Brooklyn Dreams)
Average Score: 8.31
Highest Score: 10 (Amaru, Porygon2z)
Lowest Score: 6 (madonnas, Patrick, Geezus Haberdash)
Lyrics and Music by: Summer/Moroder/Bellote
Another single - and top five hit - from her Live & More album (seriously, who else does this?) - Heaven Knows finally leaves us. Recorded with her future husband's band, Brooklyn Dreams, there are two versions of the song; Donna sings lead on her version, and plays the secondary role on theirs.
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Originally posted by Patrick
I burst into a rendition MacArthur Park anytime cake is mentioned. "Someone left a cake out in the rain. I don't think that I can take it, cause it took so long to bake it. AND I'll NEVER HAVE THAT RECIPE AGAIN!" It always gets a good response, and inevitably I end up introducing someone who hasn't heard the song before to something really great.
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It's good that we have that.
The kids of today will burst into a rendition of Birthday Cake.
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Great song
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Originally posted by @michael.
Gross @ She Works Hard for the Money. That song is tired.
1. I Feel Love
2. Bad Girls
3. Hot Stuff
4. Love to Love You Baby
5. Last Dance
6. On the Radio
7. She Works Hard for the Money
8. MacArthur Park
9. This Time I Know It's for Real
10. Heaven Knows
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Quote:
Originally posted by supaspaz
Let's do this!
Time for "She Works Hard for the Money" to exit the building.
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Quote:
Originally posted by @michael.
+1
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Quote:
Originally posted by supaspaz
Completely. "She Works Hard for the Money" and "Hot Stuff" and "On the Radio" and "Bad Girls" and "Love to Love You Baby" may be iconic, but I don't think they're the best of her catalog.
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07.
She Works Hard for the Money
Average Score: 8.39
Highest Score: 10 (Amaru, BoyonBoyWonder, Porygon2z)
Lowest Score: 7 (Ace Reject, supaspaz, Patrick)
Lyrics and Music by: Donna Summer, Michael Omartian
The first time I've been in the low scores.
But it's nice to see LOAPers standing tall together. (Lovers of Amazing Pop. Like that girls?
So, answer this question.
Who was the first black female to get a video into heavy rotation on MTV?
Tina Turner?
Whitney Houston?
Janet Jackson?
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
DONNA ****ING SUMMER.
This was the song/video to do it. Forever a feminist, Donna co-wrote this top three hit based on an encounter she had with an "exhausted bathroom attendant."
Hmm. One of my faves punched an exhausted bathroom attendant in the eye because she wouldn't give her a lollypop. Maybe I need to upgrade.
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I'm so ON-POINT with my predictions so far.
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My top 5 prediction is going great so far.
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Two more for the night.
Which two?
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Member Since: 10/28/2009
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Christ, how many times was I the lowest score? maybe I was too harsh
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