The Video That Could Have Ruined A Career

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  cbrunelle783 Posts: 1,025

  February 2011

  Christmas Is the Time to say I Love You is one of my favorite Christmas songs. It's almost as awesome as PJ's version of Someday At Christmas.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EixTYzkwj8c
  
  Billy Squire also suffered from the "I want to be Robert Plant" syndrome that David Coverdale (from Whitesnake) and many other rock singers (if you could call David Coverdale a rock singer) suffered from until everyone wanted to be Eddie Vedder.
  
  That song is truly awful. It is almost as bad as Steve Miller Band's Abracadabra.

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  gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 22,152

  February 2011

  g under p wrote:

  ....if he ever had one
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR0j7sModCI
  
  words to another song of his....
  
  "The Stroke "
  
  
  Now everybody have you heard
  If you're in the game, then the strokes the word
  Dont take no rhythm, dont take no style
  Got a thirst for killin, grab your vial and ...
  
  Put your right hand out, give a firm hand-shake
  Talk to me about that one big break...
  Spread your ear-pollution both far and wide...
  Keep your contributions by your side and stroke me, stroke me
  Could be a winner boy, you move quite well...
  Stroke me, stroke me...
  Stroke me, stroke me...
  You got your number down...
  Stroke me, stroke me...
  Stroke me, stroke me...
  Say youre a winner but man youre just a sinner now
  
  Put your left foot out keep it all in place...
  Work your way right into my face
  First you try to bed me you make my backbone slide
  But when you found you bled me, skip on by... keep on
  stroke me, stroke me
  Give me the business all night long
  Stroke me, stroke me (stroke)
  Stroke me, stroke me
  Youre so together boy...
  Stroke me, stroke me
  Say youre a winner but man youre just a sinner now
  
  Stroke, stroke, stroke, stroke, stroke, stroke, stroke
  
  Better listen now said it aint no joke
  Let your conscience fail ya, just do the stroke
  Dontcha take no chances keep your eye on top
  Do your fancy dances you cant stop you just stroke me, stroke me
  
  Stroke, stroke
  
  Stroke me, stroke me
  
  Stroke, stroke
  
  Stroke me, stroke me
  
  Stroke, stroke
  
  Stroke me, stroke me
  
  Stroke
  
  Do it.
  
  Stroke me, stroke me.
  
  Stroke
  
  
  
  Peace

  to quote Butthead:
  "words can not describe how much this sucks uh huh huh huh...."

  There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.- Hemingway
  
  "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."

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  Back_Pedal Posts: 1,171

  February 2011

  My mom used to make this guy subs in New Jersey a few years back. He's bald as shit now.

  Thanks EPOTTSIII!
  "Vinyl or not, you will need to pay someone to take RA of your hands" - Smile05
  424, xxx

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  number1PJfan Posts: 3,748

  February 2011

  What's wrong with it?
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  :shock: I kid...

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  DocChicago Posts: 653

  February 2011

  Fine, since nobody else stepped up to be the Billy Squier apologist, I'll do it. There's no arguing that the video for "Rock Me Tonite" was an awful career move. But Billy had done pretty well for himself up to that point. The dude was headlining arenas. (Nevermind that his opening acts often blew him out of the water).
  
  Billy had quite a few hits and a few genuinely good songs in the early 80s, though you may not want to admit it.
  The Stroke
  Everybody Wants You
  In The Dark
  Lonely is the Night
  My Kinda Lover
  
  So feel free to shit on that video. It's awful and deserving of mockery. But Billy definitely had a career to ruin.
  
  I'm going to go listen to In The Dark on youtube.

  It is time to admit that we used to rock like hurricanes. It is time to run for the hills and go round and round. It is time for us to shout at the devil. We've got the right to choose it, there ain't no way we'll lose it, and we're not gonna take it anymore.
  - C. Klosterman

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  number1PJfan Posts: 3,748

  February 2011

  In the dark is a good idea. The song is not bad, but his moves are.

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