I can't believe we've never had this thread/poll before on DL.

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May 21, 2018 9:47 PM

No way her '80s shit eclipses her '70s material.

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April 7, 2018 10:48 AM

Good choice, r3.

My kind of guilty pleasure is her cover of "Walking in Memphis" (or, as she sings it, Memfuss).

Will "Fernando" ever make such a list?

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April 7, 2018 1:03 PM

Give me a little Just Like Jesse James!

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April 7, 2018 1:05 PM

For once, I agree with an R1

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April 7, 2018 1:44 PM

Talking of covers, back in the salad days she chased the bright Elusive Butterfly of love.

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April 7, 2018 2:46 PM

Love performing this on karaoke nights!

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April 7, 2018 3:58 PM

Eldergay, here.

Top three:

1). Take Me Home (12" version, not the hideously edited single)

2). Dark Lady

3). Half Breed

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reply 13

April 7, 2018 4:15 PM

OP you didn't include the song "We All Sleep Alone" which is my favorite

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April 7, 2018 4:18 PM

I'm hoping she hits a #1 with something from Mamma Mia!2. She'd break her own record for the oldest female to have a #1 hit at 72.

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April 7, 2018 4:20 PM

R15 sorry but that'll never happen now, she better start tanning and get ass implants. We're in trashy CardiB land now!

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April 7, 2018 5:12 PM

"Back on the Street Again", from I,Paralyze. It's a great anthem for any former hooker who decides to throw her hat back in the ring.

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April 7, 2018 5:12 PM

There are just too many hits to list a favorite.

The CD with “Walking in Memphis” was one of my favorites. I can’t remember what the title was though. I think it had a bunch of covers.

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April 7, 2018 5:17 PM

You never know with Mamma Mia! I'm sure there will be popular dance mixes, but it would be pretty cool to have a real #1. Don't count her out- she's been in the biz 55 years now.

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April 7, 2018 5:17 PM

All she really wanted to do, was baby be friends with us.

Yeah, she had a hit with a Bob Dylan cover, and then went all Bob Mackie on it years later.

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April 7, 2018 5:28 PM

This mid-70's Phil Spector production

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April 7, 2018 7:37 PM

I like bang bang. Otherwise I really don't like her. The horrible plastic surgery, the tacky dresses, the extravert cheap whore persona, the shit music, and the dumb liberal politics are too much for me.

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April 7, 2018 7:42 PM

Dumb liberal politics? Lick my ass.

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April 7, 2018 10:24 PM

I found someone is such a good song can't believe it's last place

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April 7, 2018 10:25 PM

"One By One (Junior Vasquez Club Vocal Mix)" which is on the July 1997 GAP In-Store Playlist!

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April 7, 2018 10:28 PM

R27 name all the dates and songs of Cher's that were on GAP Playlists

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reply 28

April 7, 2018 10:30 PM

We just gonna ignore Oooga Boo?

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reply 29

April 7, 2018 10:48 PM

I'm actually quite fond of her version of "Alfie."

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April 7, 2018 11:07 PM

Cher's hits were all so cheesy. I think my favorite song hers was one of her cheesiest, '"The Way of Love". It went:

When you meet a boy

That you like a lot

And you fall in love

But he loves you not

If a flame should start

As you hold him near

Better keep your heart

Out of danger, dear

For the way of love

Is a way of woe

And the day may come

When you'll see him go

Then what will ya do

When he sets you free

Just the way that you

Said goodbye to me.

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April 7, 2018 11:13 PM

R28 Here are all of the Cher songs on GAP In-Store Playlists from 1992 to 2005:

Gap May 1997 - "One By One (Junior Vasquez Club Vocal Mix)"

Gap January 1999 - "Believe"

Gap March 1999 - "Taxi Taxi"

Gap July 1999 - "Love Is The Groove"

GapKids July 1999 - "Love Is The Groove"

PLUS Britney's cover of "The Beat Goes On" was on GapKids July 1999 and Gap August 1999.

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April 7, 2018 11:36 PM

None of those, OP. I PARALYZE for the win...

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April 8, 2018 2:37 PM

Love and Undersranding is great and came with a sexy video that got mad VH1 airplay

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April 8, 2018 2:38 PM

This here is THE BEST version of “One By One”

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April 8, 2018 2:41 PM

The reason “I Paralyze” sounds a lot like ONJ’s “Magic” is because it had the same producer.

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April 8, 2018 2:42 PM

I loved the UK version of It's A Man's World CD, but the US version wasn't as good. Cher really toned down the vibrato and the record company thought too many of the songs didn't sound like Cher and fiddled with it.

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April 8, 2018 3:44 PM

R37: I believe I Paralyze OMJ recorded first. They wiped her lead vocals off. You can hear her harmony vocals.

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reply 39

April 8, 2018 3:54 PM

It was an Olivia Newton-John reject. John Farrar and Stephen Kipner wrote and produced it for Cher.

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April 8, 2018 4:16 PM

I don't know of anyone who doesn't cringe when Believe plays on the radio. That sound was played to death. Jesse James still sounds incredible today. Awesome song. Also like her collaboration with Peter Cetera, After All. Of that list, I chose Shoop Shoop. Her version improves quite a bit over the original.

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April 8, 2018 4:31 PM

If I Could Turn Back Time maybe has aged better than Believe, r41, both because it wasn't played to death everywhere we went, but also because it was released with a great, memorable video during the brief span of years when music videos were a big thing on cable TV

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April 8, 2018 4:37 PM

Cher/"The Way of Love" - The Farewell Tour/Miami - 2003

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April 8, 2018 5:24 PM

Cher - Strong Enough (The Farewell Tour)

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reply 45

April 8, 2018 5:26 PM

The stunningly beautiful Cher...

There are so many songs. Each one is my next favorite.

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April 8, 2018 5:53 PM

Does anyone (who likes her) know why she still sounds so good? Do contraltos keep their voices longer? Cher sings better than she did in he 60s and 70s. I did read she still takes voice lessons.

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April 9, 2018 12:00 AM

I love the original version of One By One. Got me through a rough time after a breakup (I know it's the opposite of a breakup song but whatever.)

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May 20, 2018 4:18 AM

Cher's voice is so strong. She's some kind of freak of nature. She always sounds so good.

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May 20, 2018 4:25 AM

[quote] Does anyone (who likes her) know why she still sounds so good?

I believe it's called autotune.

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reply 53

May 20, 2018 4:30 AM

"Yoo BEDD-uh SIDDOWN, keyuhds!"

(Oh, and someone who knows how needs to post the YouTube clip of the "Sonny & Cher Christmas Special," where she brutalizes "O Holy Night.")

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reply 54

May 20, 2018 4:56 AM

She still sounds great live, it's not autotune. Happy 72 Cher!

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reply 57

May 20, 2018 6:52 AM

Cher's been singing so many decades that, when you click "show results" in the poll, it matches the Datalounge age spread.

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reply 58

May 20, 2018 7:18 AM

R58 Gypsys, Tramps and Thieves is winning

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reply 59

May 20, 2018 7:20 AM

Cher has never sounded great. She has the vibrato of a Yugo in bad need of a tune up, and is often flatter than Sonny after hitting that tree.

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reply 60

May 20, 2018 9:59 AM

I liked her from the beginning.

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May 20, 2018 10:14 AM

R60, you should be a comedy writer with those clever quips.

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reply 62

May 20, 2018 2:53 PM

"Believe" which is on the January 1999 Gap In-Store Playlist!

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reply 63

May 20, 2018 2:59 PM

All the songs from her album "Bittersweet White Light", her album of standards.

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reply 65

May 20, 2018 3:22 PM

How can you not list Hell on Wheels from the classic movie, Roller Boogie?

This music video should be shown in ever gay history class under the heading, "Gay clone archetypes of the late 1970s"

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May 20, 2018 3:42 PM

Can you hear the drums, Fernando?

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May 21, 2018 9:47 PM