Comments on: White Label Wednesday: Mr. Mister, “Is It Love”

By: RetroBution

RetroBution — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:35:07 +0000

Richard Page said somewhere that some Japanese interviewer thought the name “Mr Mister” meant they were an all-homosexual rock band.

Maybe her research unearthed his Village People connection and that's how she leapt to that conclusion. So does that mean the VP didn't really sing their own songs? So that was really Champlin and Page singing “In the Navy” and “Macho Man”?? That's hilarious. Shades of Milli Vanilli….

By: RetroBution

RetroBution — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:28:54 +0000

I have the fourth album (PULL) & it's great. It isn't very cohesive, but there are a couple great songs on it and a bunch of good ones. It doesn't come together as an album very well, but I like the individual tracks. I like it and GO ON much more than WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD.

By: RetroBution

RetroBution — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:22:30 +0000

Who cares? Lyrics and titles are, by far, the least important component of a pop song, just as nobody gives a shit in an opera what the libretto is (most librettos, if you read them, are a bunch of melodramatic tripe). Two of the most infectious, enjoyable pop songs of the 80s – “Head over Heels” by Tears for Fears and “Head over Heels” by the Go-Go's – share the same title: the most cliched, trite, banal title imaginable. But the tunes still hold up.

“Hunters of the Night”? Not quite that good, but still pretty good.

By: RetroBution

RetroBution — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:35:07 +0000

Richard Page said somewhere that some Japanese interviewer thought the name “Mr Mister” meant they were an all-homosexual rock band.

By: RetroBution

RetroBution — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:28:54 +0000

By: RetroBution

RetroBution — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:22:30 +0000

“Hunters of the Night”? Not quite that good, but still pretty good.

By: matthew

matthew — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:32:52 +0000

Whats was that band that did 'Don't forget me when I'm gone”? Glass Tiger? Man, I cannot tell them from Mr Mr, though I'm sure that's unfair.

By: terje

terje — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:20:11 +0000

I liked the Third Matinee album, too – and his solo album from -96. My first love will always be the three Pages albums between 1978 and 1981, though – ultrasmooth to be sure, but if you're into that “Steely Dan without bite” kind of thing very little compares to them.

By: DavidMedsker

DavidMedsker — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:55:57 +0000

I actually liked the Third Matinee album Page did with Patrick Leonard more than the Mr. Mister material, personally. I was going to mention that in the piece, but then it would mean mentioning Rick Springfield's (awful) cover of “Broken Wings,” where Page blows him out of the studio, and I thought, nah, keep it simple.

By: Retro_Remixes

Retro_Remixes — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:59:12 +0000

Oh, how I LOVE Mr. Mister. They produced two back-to-back 80's classics as well as a number of other good songs that are worth checking out. I saw them opening for Tina Turner in Memphis, TN on the later leg of her Private Dancer tour when Mr. Mister had just gone supersonic with their first huge hit. They were supposedly going to do a fourth album that never materialized. I know that Richard Page has gone on to do a few other projects with that great voice of his. And how sad is it that I actually already have the Is It Love (Extended Mix) ? Very sad indeed. But happy times for me.

I also enjoyed their sitcom, Sister Sister.