FORGOTTEN MUSIC #82: JUST THE TWO OF US (SONY TVK 24157)


TRACK LIST:
1. DESTINY’S CHILD – Emotions
2. RICKY MARTIN – She’s All I Ever Had
3. MANDY MOORE – I Wanna Be With You
4. GEORGE MICHAEL & ELTON JOHN – Don’t Let the Sun Go Down On Me
5. MARVIN GAYE – Sexual Healing
6. MACY GRAY – I Try
7. CYNDI LAUPER – True Colors
8. BILLY JOEL – She’s Always a Woman
9. BANGLES – Eternal Flame
10. SADE – No Ordinary Love
11. BOB DYLAN – To Make You Feel My Love
12. BERLIN – Take My Breath Away
13. JESSICA SIMPSON – I Wanna Love You Forever
14. BAD ENGLISH – When I See You Smile
15. REO SPEEDWAGON – Can’t Fight This Feeling
16. JOURNEY – Open Arms
17. MEATLOAF – Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad
18. GROVER WASHINGTON, JR. & BILL WITHERS Just the Two of Us

14 thoughts on “FORGOTTEN MUSIC #82: JUST THE TWO OF US (SONY TVK 24157)

  1. Steve Oerkfitz

    You would have to put a gun to my head to make me listen to most of this. I like the Marvin Gaye and Cyndi Lauper. Not one of Dylan’s best. A couple I don’t know. But Jessica Simpson, Ricky Martin, Reo, Destinys Child, Billy Joel, Meatloaf-all songs I want to avoid at all costs.

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    1. george Post author

      Steve, these are some of the songs that dominated the airwaves years ago. Marvin Gaye and Cyndi Lauper were favorites of mine back then.

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  2. Jeff Meyerson

    In general, I’m on Steve’s side with this one, though I never get tired of the Marvin Gaye.

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  3. wolf

    I feel the same – though I don’t know all of the artists!
    Meatloaf’s “I would do anything for love” however is a classic!

    PS:
    What’s the common motif vor this collection – I don’t get it. 🙂

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    1. george Post author

      Wolf, I’m guessing SONY owned the rights to these songs and just packaged them up for the Mass Market. Cobbling together CD anthologies wasn’t Rocket Science.

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  4. Deb

    Wolf—obviously this is supposed to be background music for sexy-fun-times. If the guy on the cover had more defined abs, that picture could be the cover of a contemporary romance novel!

    Of all the songs here, my favorite is Sade’s “No Ordinary Love”. I’m afraid an Elton John-George Michael duet would not be “mood music” for moi…but to each his/her own.

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    1. george Post author

      Deb, I’m guessing the Elton John-George Michael song might have been included for listeners with alternative life-styles.

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  5. Michael Padgett

    Not much here to get excited about. Even the few artists I like (Dylan, Billy Joel, Marvin Gaye, and Elton John) aren’t represented by songs I’d really care about ever hearing again. Even by the standards of these kitchen sink compilations, this one’s pretty weak.

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    1. george Post author

      Michael, I think I bought this CD in Canada sometime in the 1990s. Many of these performers have slipped in the Ratings.

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