I love the Rick James and Teena Marie duet!!  I would love to slow dance to this song with Nic - tehe!!!!

Fire and Desire - Rick James w/ Teena Marie

here's another nice song, I know it's not the official vid, but I just love those disney moments to much!

I didn't noticed before, but now you say it's true! and thanks =)

Dreamgirl, nobody can sing like Etta, I love this song!Hmm, this song seems very suited for Nic, because, as the lyrics say: you smile, and then the spell was cast!

This is also a song I like a lot :)

Charles & Eddie - would i lie to you..? (lyrics) 

Ya!  thats a happy song, I like to sing along, & hadn't ever heard it B4

THANKS EVA!

IN which young Sprockett doth embark upon a spirited defense of a lyric ballad by Mark Knopfler, esq.:

Dire Straits were in my childhood what I imagine Bruce Springsteen was for many others - evocative of an adult reality in which music is played by men in bars who work and they have to walk down dirt roads to get to those bars. The singer knows about the toughness of life and though it seems far off as a kid, you know that one day you'll grow up and enter into that world, though as you grow older it never moves closer to you, but silently makes the about-turn from hopeful aspiration to nostalgia without you even noticing. That is, unless you buy a motorbike or join a blues band when you reach adolescence, in which case you probably start feeling like Dire Straits and Springsteen wrote all those songs about you! I think it might be because Dire Straits are less about youthful exuberance than world-weariness (their most recognised song is after all about workmen hauling ovens and televisions) that they're seen as particularly mockable. They possess no glib irony, the lyrics are unapologetically sentimental and they're more than happy to give their guitars long work-outs. In many ways, Dire Straits are quite unlike the bands I love the most (R.E.M., The National, The Decemberists) and certainly not as cool, but they care about storytelling and this one is lifted from one of the greatest:

EDIT: Probably don't watch the video though, it's terrible!

Haha, Flo, I wasn't aware of the Rick Rolled thing till I saw your post, funny! Yes, I remember this video quite well, it always amused me. And I also love the song.

Sprocket, I love your musings on Dire Straits, and also enjoyed hearing Romeo and Juliet again, it's a great song. As for the video, you are right, sooo bad. Here in Canada we had a controversy about the Money for Nothing song recently. The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council ruled that it was too offensive for Canadian airwaves. There is a politically incorrect line in there. So they only allowed the edited version. Needless to say, lots of the radio stations were up in arms and protested by repeat-playing it unedited. They did eventually lift the ban. Someone must have explained satire to them.

Eva, I can't see the last Josef Hedinger video you posted.