'We are the World' remake 2010

[kwame k]

Guess it would be too hard to write another gem like We Are The World........

[Mr Walker]

guess it would be too hard to write another gem like we are the world........

lmao!!!

[LEFTY is Gar's Bitch]

i love that we are world song.kanyay could take micheal jacksons spot in the new song.
i would buy it for sure.he is the next king of pop.

[Shaun Ponsonby]

It's almost as bad as the British equilavent...Simon Cowell brings together a bunch of X Factards and BGT pricks to destroy "Everybody Hurts". He shat all over Michael Jackson's legacy not a few months after his death last year and now he's got the nerve to do it to REM whilst they're still alive and able to hear it.

Whats the point? Why don't people just give money direct to the campaign and cut out the Simon Cowell-flavoured middle man? At least the Band Aid/USA For Africa songs were as much about raising awareness as it was about raising money...who hasn't heard about this earthquake? Everybody knows it exists and if they wanna give money they will...probably significantly more than the 79p it will cost to download the song.

Adding to that...at least Geldof/Ure/Ritchie/Jackson bothered to write a new song rather than just lazily pick one from their iTunes playlist. "Yea, that'll do".

It just all seems more about celebrity culture than it does about actually trying to help people who need it (a point brilliantly and hillariously illustrated by modern-day social genius Charlie Brooker on last night's "Newswipe").

[Mushroom]

Neil gives a fuck about making a buck... thus three successful Christmas albums.

what the fuck do you know about Christmas music!!

[sadaist]

At least the original included some living legends: Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Ray Charles and Diana Ross, Bob Dylan. They should include Neil Diamond this time around.

I read that Lil Wayne was asked to sing Bob Dylans part. It's been 25 years since the original and it's still kinda neat to watch because everyone still knows who all of the musicians are. 25 years from this new version people will be thinking "what the fuck? Who is that?".

Although I still never understood what Dan Aykroyd was doing in the original.

[sadaist]

All the more reason for Ronnie Dio to recover...time to do the 25th anni-version of "Hear N' Aid". Musically "Stars" kicked the uber-crap "We are the World" into the next time zone...

I loved watching the 2 hour special on that when it came out. The original guitar solo was like 20 minutes long. Crazy.

But it was noticeably missing the biggest names at that time. Eddie & Angus on guitar obviously, but singers mainly. David Lee Roth, Vince Neil, Klaus Meine, Brian Johnson, Bruce Dickinson, Steven Pearcy, Ozzy Osbourne. I mean, did they not invite them so they could make sure there was room for Don Dokken & Paul Shortino?

If they could have pulled in the biggest names like We Are The World did, I'm sure it would have been much, much larger than it was.

[chefcraig]

If they could have pulled in the biggest names like We Are The World did, I'm sure it would have been much, much larger than it was.

Don't forget the WATW session benefited from being scheduled at the same time as the Grammys, so there was a rich pool of talent to choose from (in theory). Dan Aykroyd was ahead scratcher, though.

[BITEYOASS]

This is an insult to the people of Haiti! The fuckin record industry doesn't even bother to write an original song, so they take the cheap route and do a re-make.

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Dan Aykroyd was ahead scratcher, though.

Well, oddly, I believe the first Blues Brothers live album is technically the biggest selling blues album of all time (or it was at the time).

[Shaun Ponsonby]

But it was noticeably missing the biggest names at that time. Eddie & Angus on guitar obviously, but singers mainly. David Lee Roth, Vince Neil, Klaus Meine, Brian Johnson, Bruce Dickinson, Steven Pearcy, Ozzy Osbourne. I mean, did they not invite them so they could make sure there was room for Don Dokken & Paul Shortino?

Who said they wern't invited?

I was thinking that when people were bitching about some of the people who wern't at the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame 25th Anniversary Show...

"Why didn't they invite Bowie? Why didn't they invite McCartney? The Who? Him? Her? Them? Whatshisface? Whereshismum? Whatshertits?"

Maybe they did and their schedules wouldn't allow it or they just didn't want to do it. Brian Johnson has literally just said that he doesn't believe celeb-u-tards should start telling people to dig deep into their pockets when working class people can't afford to do that. Not everyone feels the need to be such a public do-gooder and prefer to be more anonymous (like Ted Danson in that episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm).

[ace diamond]

oh no, not this fucking "feel good" fucking bull shit again.
i really fucking hate this kind of useless fucking garbage.
i fucking hated it in 1985, and i still fucking hate it.
fucking hell, these fucking douche funnels just couldn't leave well enough the fuck alone, could they?

[chefcraig]

Well, oddly, I believe the first Blues Brothers live album is technically the biggest selling blues album of all time (or it was at the time).

Perhaps, but it made about as much sense as having the guys from Spinal Tap show up in the "Hear N Aid" deal.

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Perhaps, but it made about as much sense as having the guys from Spinal Tap show up in the "Hear N Aid" deal.

Whats wrong with that?

[chefcraig]

Whats wrong with that?

This presupposes that the heavy metal image is a cartoon to begin with of course, but it just looked pretty goofy. There wasn't anything inherently wrong with it, it just didn't appear to make a bunch of sense in the concept of things.