Michael McDonald

Another classic

Look, he had his moment....get over it.

Why the hell would you be ashamed to admit that? He’s got one of the most memorable voices in music history, on some of the best songs ever recorded. I don’t know a single person who dislikes him.

Love him.

I do, R3, since you bring it up, but I'm not going to stand in anyone's way about it.

You do what, R5?

Dislike him. His voice, I mean.

He's amazing!!

Love him.

I keep forgetting, we're not in love anymore.

He has an amazing voice. And I'll bet he was one hot bear roundabout 1979.

Well then you can go fuck yourself, R7. I don’t know how the hell you can’t like his voice.

Hot sex on a stick when he was younger

Cause he’s seen as cheesy @R3 I love this

Anyone who thinks he’s cheesy doesn’t know what the hell they’re talking about.

Is he uncut? That's the only cheese I want from Michael.

I hope he never had lice. Looks like it'd be a bitch to get rid of on him.

me too, OP - one of my all-time favorite singers.

The king of 1980s Adult Contemporary.

He is one of a kind.

He often sounds, as I've seen it described before, as someone singing with a mouthful of mashed potatoes. But the "musicality" more than makes up for it.

R18, yes, he is. Thankfully.

Excuse me, R20? What do you mean, exactly?

Love a lot of his music. I think he got a little blah in the 80s but so did a whole lot of people in music. I liked his new single and loved that Thundercat is/was collaborating with him.

(Thundercat's video are always just bizarro, but the song is beautiful, to me.)

Michael's new single - sounds really good.

and...

Christ, getting old is a bitch, he's barely recognizable. No one has mentioned how many backing vocals he did in the 70's and 80's.; he was everywhere!

Omg I didn’t even know he had new music. This song is great.

Fucking ON MY OWN with Patti, bitches!

R27, meet R1

On My Own was a monster hit that made #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Throwback to him having black hair.

God, the 70s were such a hideous decade. If Michael McDonald had been clean-shaven with short hair in r30's pic, he would've been stunning.

I would have begged him to fuck me....and the beard and shaggy hair could stay.

On My Own was one of the blandest, most boring songs ever recorded in human history.

By two people who weren't even in the same room when it was recorded.

He was pure meat then. I would have fucked his fat cock right off him, that hairy fuckin' slut.

Patti decided to turn On My Own into a duet and her first choice to sing with her was MM.

"Middlebrow" certainly applies here.

I've always loved his music. His voice is so unique. Probably one of my favorite male vocalists.

I much prefer this over On My Own. It's really Aretha's song, but I like Michael's part. It's a remake of song that was featured in Baby Boom by Facts of Life guest star and Michael Jackson debut girl Siedah Garrett.

[quote] He was pure meat then. I would have fucked his fat cock right off him, that hairy fuckin' slut.

I would have ridden him so hard all his hair would have fallen out!

Anyone remember his guest appearance on “What’s Happenin’?”? Rerun tries to bring a cassette recorder to a concert and gets busted and Michael and the Doobies tell them it’s not cool to be a bootlegger.

He pretty much ruined the Doobie Brothers.

My God, a bad flashback from the 70s. He was everywhere and then, thankfully, he disappeared.

Lol @R42 Exactly why I don’t tell people I like MM

Didn’t he freak out when the movie 40 Year Old Virgin poked fun at him?

He was a very busy man.

Great voice, but an even better head of hair....

His pal Kenny Loggins also enjoyed the glorious head of 70s hair.

Hee! It took an hour... just to blow-dry it!

Good times.

Love his voice and I'd still fuck him today.

I was also a proud member of the 70s Pop Hair Club for Men.

You're in company with Lisa Welechel, OP. A shameless Michael McDonald fan, back in the day she put up a poster of him in Blair's room on the Facts of Life.

Just listened to the new single posted upthread. Man, if you thought it was "Mashed Potato Time" before, you ain't heard nothin' yet.

[QUOTE]He pretty much ruined the Doobie Brothers.

The Doobies would’ve been extinguished if it wasn’t for him. He kept the band alive.

He comes from somewhere back in my long-ago. 1979, IIRC.

I can't pay much attention to a man with such a light tenor voice that he sounds like contralto female soprano.

His throat sounds so painfully strained getting into a falsetto voice that he loses most of his diction. And most of the lyrics can't be heard.

He still has a full head of hair.

Any shirtless pics of him "back in the day?" I want to see what he had goin' on.

I've grown to appreciate McDonald, Kenny Loggins and Dan Fogelberg in the last few years.

Yes, they were totally overexposed and yes, some of their stuff was garbage - no one hits a home run all the time. But the interceding years has the effect of sweeping away the bad and elevating the ones worth remembering.

The Fogelberg song that has wrecked me, repeatedly, for the last few months is the one sung on his tribute album by none other than Donna Summer. A stunning song all on its own (his version is lovely as well) but to hear Donna sing it and totally own it....and then to know she did this only a few months before she died........I am a sobbing mess at the end of this song.

[quote] Any pantsless pics of him "back in the day?" I want to see what he had goin' on.

fixed

Fogelberg and Loggins had pleasant voices and only Loggins could have been considered overexposed (the theme from Caddyshack alone). McDonald was hugely over exposed and had an unpleasant voice. No comparison.

Uh sorry, no. McDonald had a great voice.

But his 80s solo stuff was meh at best and even the good Doobie stuff was overplayed.

r58 that was great. Was Donna Summer already sick with cancer when she did that?

R58 Nice track. I cried a little too.

I’ve been listening to “Find it in Your Heart” all day. Thanks to R23.

I’ve been listening yah mo be there

I love his voice. Another great song:

R62 I believe she may have been. Which just makes it all the more of a poignant song....and a triumph: that voice was amazing, even 30+ years after her heyday.

[quote] Christ, getting old is a bitch, he's barely recognizable.

McDonald still looks a bit like himself.

Loggins has done the Kenny Rogers Special and looks like he assumed a new host body.

R40 Yesssss. And that episode kinda proved The Doobies had street cred.

How could they not, with a name like The Doobie Brothers?

A cover but still nice.

His dick is so enormous he must carry it around in a wheelbarrow

YAAAAS HUNTY

My favourite male singer ever. And I would have banged him for days.

fuckin hot daddy bear!

R72 How do you know this?

Love his work, solo and with Steely Dan and Doobie Brothers.

He sang back up for Christopher Cross' Run Like the Wind.

Forget him, THIS is the only Michael McDonald worth discussing!

Bump

No bump.

R81 meet R23, where we discussed this a few days ago.....

Here's a rare cut with Nicolette

I also like him OP, but his voice is mostly gone now. Here his is on Harry Connick, and it was sad to see how little he has left of his beautiful voice.

R83 lived across the street from the Larson's briefly.

Arguably the best backup singer ever. His only peer is Merry Clayton.

Love him.

His version of "Stop, Look, Listen" with Toni Braxton is beautiful. It is on one of his Motown albums.

Love him. He also had one of the most solid careers in the business.