Saturday, February 04, 2006

Best songs never to be sung by Corey Feldman

(15) "Any Way You Want It"- JourneyOhhhhhhhhhhh myyyyyyyyyyyyyyy gooooooooooooooooooooood I love Journey!! August 28th at Jones Beach. I'm not going. It breaks me. This is the best song to never be sung by Corey Feldman.

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Do you guys know Kevin? If you don't, you will. He's on the verge of being huge. Kevin shares this "sexy, bad-ass blog" with his girlfriend--despite her living in DC, and despite his being gay--Leigh. I get down with them regularly, and when I got down on July 23, 2005, I learned that Journey's " 'Any Way You Want It' is the best song never to be sung by Corey Feldman." And the first thing I thought when I read that was, duh, blog feature! So I had to ask him why he thought "Any Way You Want It" is the best song never to be sung by Corey Feldman. Here's what he gmailed:

Corey wanted to sing in the show, so Kate asked for my input. Her idea was "Any Way You Want It" and mine was "Every Rose Has Its Thorn," but he ended up
with the worst choice of all- "Babe" by Styx.

And since I, like, really care about the Mattketeers, I gmailed:

i needed quotable text for the old blog. you didn't give me much to work with--i'm probably going to have to go back and beef it up for you. you should read nick's sandra lee essay, which i published in its entirety. *there's* feedback.

So then, this is what Kevin pulled up:

Bitch, I will KILL you. You want something better?? FINE.

During this summer's 10-week suckfest known as 'Fatal Attraction: A Greek Tragedy,' New York audiences were subjected to not only some of the best acting and writing of the season, but to the cataclysmic performance of 80s teen hack Corey Feldman. Channeling equal parts Michael Douglas (or some hideous approximation thereof) and a crazy bag lady, Mr. Feldman also insisted on showing off his (pause for comic effect) vocal gifts with a musical number. But what would he sing? "Any Way You Want It"? Too tuneful. "Every Rose Has Its Thorn"? Too
decade-appropriate. No, he settled on Styx's "Babe," much to the detriment of
everyone within earshot. And so, "Any Way You Want It" has indeed come to be
hallowed as 'The Best Song Never Sung By Corey Feldman.'

And now www.mattthegreat.blogspot.com has a music feature.
So here's the thing: despite seven years of tuba-playing, I don't know a thing about music. My tastes generally line up with a fortysomething of today who was mainstreamly cool twenty years ago. So the idea here is going to be that I come up with a song that I care enough about to write on for whatever reason, but I'm challenged by choosing only those songs that Corey Feldman has never sung.

posted by Matt the Great @ 2/04/2006

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