Hated the song when it came out for the cerebral but good reason that I thought it did not deserve to be #1 for all those weeks, a reaction which kicked in well before week #10. Decades later, having heard it on average of at most once a year since it departed the weekly charts, I can appreciate the song to a point. Yeah, call it a “soft spot.”

Utterly sincere vocal performance. I might even call it inspired. Having been worn down by years of faux emotiveness from Diane Warren and Celine Dion, try as I might to avoid them, my resistance is weak.

Will have to give the Patti Smith version a hear.

Hated the song when it came out for the cerebral but good reason that I thought it did not deserve to be #1 for all those weeks, a reaction which kicked in well before week #10. Decades later, having heard it on average of at most once a year since it departed the weekly charts, I can appreciate the song to a point. Yeah, call it a “soft spot.”

Utterly sincere vocal performance. I might even call it inspired. Having been worn down by years of faux emotiveness from Diane Warren and Celine Dion, try as I might to avoid them, my resistance is weak.

Will have to give the Patti Smith version a hear.

BTW, doesn't that “doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo Waaaah…” right before the first verse sound like something that eventually morphed into the Mentos commercial music???