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The Don Juan DeMarco was his last French kiss to the American chart - the guy collapsed to such a degree that it’s difficult to remember his ubiquity if you weren’t an adult contemporary listener. I’m a fan of the aforementioned “Can’t Stop This Thing We Started,” a hit in the wake of the Robin Hood theme, yet whose #2 peak, weeks before Soundscan debuted, smells funny. When Tina Turner, Glass Tiger, and Joe Cocker needed hits, there he was, laryngeal on command.

He, Jim Vallance, and his other co-writers (which later included Twain ex Robert “Mutt” Lange) understood what to do with guitars and lyrical tags. Harmless, as committed to the healthily generic as Target, Adams had a pretty good run before 1991. The sensitivity-by-gunpoint arrangement, though, makes a case for solitary confinement. I admire the advice: if you’re in love, tell him! Shania Twain would agree, down to the exclamation point. To quote Pauline Kael about Paul Schrader, he sings like a sleazo putting the make on you, applying his beef jerky timbre to ears, necks, tape decks, and sound systems across the land. We’re a long way from “This Time,” “Cuts Like a Knife, “Somebody,” “Run to You,” or even “Can’t Stop This Thing We Started.” Adams has a propensity for advice now he’s explaining what women like, in the manner of a best bro at seventeen years old explaining earnestly how chicks love pastel soaps, roses on beds, Victoria’s Secret undergarments, and Seal. Because “Don Juan” sounds as exotic as “Chipotle,” he requests flamenco guitar to pluck and strum the main melody. A young cinephile thrilled to see two legends onscreen, I enjoyed Don Juan DeMarco more than it deserved.Īs is his wont, Bryan Adams’ song acknowledges no reality except what’s cooked up in a Hollywood boardroom. The casual erotic banter between Dunaway and Brando is more suggestive and outrageous than any of the fantasies in which writer-director Jeremy Leven places Depp it was one of the few movies in which an older woman and a weird, sexually ambivalent, obese American actor could be allowed a bedroom scene. Any film about Don Juan, especially Byron’s Don Juan, deserved a randier and more ambivalently sexual titular hero Johnny Depp’s idea of randy and ambivalent required a Fred Flintstone exotic accent. Despite starring Johnny Depp and a rather charming Marlon Brando and a game Faye Dunaway, the film wasn’t a hit - audiences didn’t know what they were watching or what they were supposed to react to. 1995’s Don Juan DeMarco lacked this pedigree. 1993’s “All For Love” for The Three Musketeers roped in an an embarrassed Rod Stewart and Adams and Sting in a valentine to cross-promotional platinum. “Everything I Do (I Do It For You)” from 1991’s Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves presumed to comment on Kevin Costner’s mulleted Robin Hood’s affection for Mary Elizabeth Mastroantonio.

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Songs beloved by colleagues and songs to which I’m supposed to genuflect will get my full hurricane-force winds, but it doesn’t mean that I won’t take shots at a jukebox hero overplayed when I was at a college bar drinking a cranberry vodka in a plastic thimble-sized cup.īryan Adams’ “Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?”īy the middle of the nineties, Bryan Adams could only get American hits co-writing songs about abstractions in period drag. I promise my readers that my list will when possible eschew obvious selections. I don’t want to hate songs to do so would shake ever-sensitive follicles, and styling gel is expensive.

His dedication to his craft has helped these songs last beyond the trend-conscious contributions of his many contemporaries.Like a good single, a terrible one reveals itself with airplay and forbearance. The absence of an arrogant rock star attitude gave Adams a nice guy persona at odds with most cocky rockers of his day.

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“Run to You,” “Heaven,” “Summer of ‘69” begin what became an effortless hit machine, while “Everything I Do – I Do It For You,” “the flamenco-based “Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman,” the slightly embarrassing “The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me Is You” are the sound of a professional songwriter (Adams worked best as a collaborator with Jim Vallance and Robert John “Mutt” Lange) finding the perfect balance between AOR accessibility and the stringent demands of modern rock radio. This 36-track collection includes an eye-popping amount of versatile radio hits. “Cuts Like a Knife” may not be the most inventive use of the phrase, but its pleasing radio presence, highlighted by Adams’ gritty voice, made it a true sign of the times. Bryan Adams has been an incredibly successful singer-songwriter since emerging in the early 1980s with his modest, workmanlike pop tunes that bypass the usual rock star poses for clean, concise pop hooks and a heartfelt sincerity.

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