r/Music • u/Lazthedestroyer • 5h ago

article Lionel Richie appreciation day… what song of his do you like most? Either solo, the Commodores or another collab?

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My fav is running with the night

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u/SadAd4707 5h ago

Easy

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u/TheProcrastafarian 1h ago edited 1h ago

Faith No More’s cover is awesome.

Downvote me all you want. Mike Patton can sing. If it’s a dance contest on the ceiling, Lionel has that locked, for life.

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u/Mayonnaise_Poptart 5h ago

Lionel Ritchie wrote "Three Times a Lady" (for the Commodores) in 1978, "Lady" (for Kenny Rogers) in 1980, and "Lady" (a different one than the Kenny Rogers one, this time for the Commodores) in 1981. All were hits. Big ones.

Dude really likes the ladies.

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u/BillyShears17 2h ago

"🎶 You are Once. Twice. Three times a lady...."

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u/TheProcrastafarian 1h ago edited 1h ago

That’s what he gets for trying to sell stolen dinosaur DNA on the black market.

“See? Nobody cares.”

God:

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u/philament 5h ago

All Night Long

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u/acatnamedballs 5h ago

Stuck On You.

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u/mamacrocker Pandora name 4h ago

From his days with The Commodores, but I love "Sail On." Such a good message. HIs music was a staple growing up, though.

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u/BabyfaceNelson7 5h ago

Sail On and Oh No from his Commodores days

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u/guysitsausername 🔊 Eclectic & Dyslexic 🤘 5h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/WS3i2y88foYpE584rI

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u/rippa76 4h ago

Essay question: do the presence of lockers at Laura’s school make the video’s premise problematic, or are they just a production error in depicting a college campus?

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u/guysitsausername 🔊 Eclectic & Dyslexic 🤘 3h ago

80's culture was out of pocket. Haha. You make a great point.

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u/bwanabass 3h ago

The sculpture at the end, though!

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u/guysitsausername 🔊 Eclectic & Dyslexic 🤘 3h ago

Right? That whole video is bonkers.

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u/bwanabass 42m ago

Peak 1980s pop music video. Right up there with Thriller IMO 🤣

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u/OkDoughnut7938 5h ago

Machine gun

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u/BillyShears17 5h ago

I believe Easy by The Commodores will become part of the American Songbook. That being said, Dancing on The Ceiling

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u/DeBooBoo 🎧💿 4h ago

My Love

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u/profjamie4102005 4h ago

Just to Be Close to You (with The Commodores)

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u/mookx 4h ago

Night Shift

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u/sillycones 5h ago

dancing on the ceiling

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u/zizban 5h ago

Say You, Say Me

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u/VictorBlimpmuscle 5h ago

Three Times a Lady

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u/LanguageNo495 5h ago

Brick House!

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u/AMGRN 5h ago

You are. I think of my sister. She loves him

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u/SpuddMeister 4h ago

I remembered watching the Commodores doc, and Lionel said the rest of the members were sick of the success of his ballads.

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u/Crazy_Speed_3700 3h ago

Easy with the Commodores.

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u/Yahroon 5h ago

Love Will Find A Way

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u/Equivalent_Hunt_7899 5h ago

With the Commodores, Easy. As a solo artist, Say You Say Me

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u/Wide-Pollution-3275 4h ago

SAIL ON

OH OH HEARTBREAK

(heartache?)

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u/ApprehensiveRun1818 4h ago

ZOOM...live version especially.

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u/VirginiaUSA1964 She rolls like the dice in a poor gamblers hands 4h ago

His stuff for Kenny Rogers was peak Lionel. I'm not sure he has ever received the recognition he deserves for his songwriting. The industry needs to get on this stat.

He is definitely Gershwin Award level worthy.

Never mind - he got the Gershwin in 2022.

Sail on

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u/dascrackhaus 4h ago

his keyboard work on ‘Machine Gun’

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u/Triggerscore 4h ago

Hellooooo

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u/downtownpanda 3h ago

Why did I think this was Charlie Murphy from a Chapelle Show sketch haha

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u/cap10wow Performing Artist 3h ago

All Night Long (all night), Easy, Hello, Love will conquer all, Dancing on the ceiling…

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u/cbar22 3h ago

Can’t Slow Down was the second cassette I ever bought. I always loved Stuck On You.

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u/asukagrimvigil 3h ago

brick house is the one that always gets me, mostly because it's so funny that the king of slow jams also wrote the horniest bassline of the 70s. the ballads get the credit but that groove is undefeated

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u/gobux10 3h ago

Brick House

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u/John32070 3h ago

Struck on you and Say you say me

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u/tulipshakur 2h ago

Night Shift

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u/Hot_Ad741 2h ago

All night long

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u/Kelvin_505 1h ago

I used to say Stuck on You but now Say You Say Me Hits Harder, bit of a rare one but the B-Side to Dancing on the Ceiling, Hold My Hair, makes me cry

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u/Rev_Biscuit 1h ago

I feel sanctified

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u/MyFoxieBrown_16 45m ago

Zoom (Commodores) Jesus is Love

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u/PerformerOk4312 32m ago

All Night Long

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u/Jetfan99 21m ago

Sweet Love and Just To Be Close to You from his Commodores days. Both top 10 Pop hits too, but kinda forgotten nowadays. Can’t remember last time I heard them on a SiriusXM channel.

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u/iowaman79 1m ago

Stuck on You has always stuck with me, and the fact that he did a duet of it with Darius Rucker for the Tuskegee album just made it that much better

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u/MinimumRelief 3h ago

All I ever think of is what a horrible husband he was.