Videodrone: "Don't Forget The Lyrics" Has A Billy Vera Moment

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"Don't Forget The Lyrics" Has A Billy Vera Moment

One reason I love Google Trends: It allows me to keep up with Don't Forget The Lyrics while not having to watch the show, thanks to the many searches for strings like "thriller lyrics" and "hit the road jack lyrics" and "movin on up lyrics" (sadly not for the awesome Primal Scream song). No. 7 on the list at this moment is, uh, "At This Moment" by Billy Vera and the Beaters, a song that I have a probably disproportional affection for thanks for a) the way it's kind of the perfect slow-dance song and b) its introduction to the American populace via Family Ties, which was one of my favorite shows as a young lass and which I actually credit with a few personal musical epiphanies. I mean, do you remember when Nick wanted "Lola" as his wedding song? Once those Raincoats reissues came out I liked to think that he actually wanted their cover of the Kinks song playing, and not the original.

This is so much more Nick than the Kinks version. Ayy.

Raincoats - Lola [Songza]
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11:30 PM on Thu May 8 2008
By Maura Johnston
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by tigerpop at 12:14 AM on 05/09/08
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Nice lip sync, Billy! You too, "pedal steel" guitar guy! Gosh, I miss the 1980s.
by Luke N Atmaguchi at 02:13 AM on 05/09/08
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"What do you think /
I would give at this moment /
If you stay I'd subtract /
Twenty years from my life . . ."

"ACK! Gggkkk! (sounds of choking)"

"(gasp.) KIDDING! JUST KIDDING! (hack, wheeze.) Artistic license, only a song lyric. (cough, wheeze.) I'LL KEEP THE TWENTY YEARS."
by essdog at 10:09 AM on 05/09/08
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I always wondered what it would be like to attend one of those "concerts" where the band/artist lipsynced the songs. Is this a clip from Solid Gold?
by remarkie at 11:26 AM on 05/09/08
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Hey now, Billy Vera is the quintessential local-bar-rock-guy (and liner notes-writin' music geek) who made good with his big sappy ballad hit--after years of playing TV production wrap parties, he finally got his sync on. And maybe you had to be in the throes of a break-up to appreciate it at the time, but this is very good contender in the sappy-ballad genre. The whole "if I could just hold you again" really makes it, if you've been there.
by sydbarrett05 at 02:21 PM on 05/09/08
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By the way...Billy Vera wrote one of the greatest songs ever that could be...
"Don't Look Back" by The Remains...
Look for it on the 1'st Nuggets box...