tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-221995408913908390.post5002455137216381007..comments2024-02-18T09:34:24.773-07:00Comments on RobVogt80s: Phil Collins: Losing Against All OddsRob Vogthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18316076448705260047noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-221995408913908390.post-48056266430265527652014-07-20T05:47:35.189-06:002014-07-20T05:47:35.189-06:00Horrid as it allegedly is, I STILL want to see and...Horrid as it allegedly is, I STILL want to see and hear Reinking's ruination of this great song. I have never heard her rendering (and I use the term advisedly) because I never watched it at the time, but someone MUST have it. The 1985 Oscars is indeed floating about the net, but it is a cut-down BBC version and contains neither Deniece Williams nor Ann Reinking. (I should also point out that Diana Ross, for some reason, sang "I Just Called To Say I Love You" on the Oscars that year). The "winning" song is, to my ears, still utterly drab. Time has not improved it. How the Academy's voters could have gone for such a piece of dross defeats me. At least "Part Time Lover" had a vestige of life to it. "I Just Called To Say I Love You" is and was a dull abomination and the point where Stevie Wonder completely sold out. I can still remember how deflated I was when I first heard it.... but how startled I was at Phil's "Against All Odds", a complex song that required many hearings to get it. And that, perhaps, is the key to it. The Academy just didn't "get" it.Petehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15769421721800932060noreply@blogger.com