http://blog.jameslin.name/2006/10/10/more-music-fun/ Jimmy Lin's blog Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:55:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.jameslin.name/2006/10/10/more-music-fun/comment-page-1/#comment-232 ’80s overdose « Miscellaneous and Useless Information Tue, 31 Oct 2006 07:46:09 +0000 http://blog.jameslin.name/?p=189#comment-232 [...] Maybe it’s because I’ve watched Time-Life’s Classic Soft Rock Collection infomercial one too many times, but when I was leaving for work today, Christopher Cross’s “Ride Like the Wind” popped into my head, complete with backing vocals by Michael McDonald. So I got curious and did a Google search on “ride like the wind michael mcdonald”. And the third hit was an SCTV parody of Michael McDonald singing those lyrics (”such a long way to goooooooooooo…”) posted on YouTube. Really funny, and absolutely hilarious if you know who Christopher Cross and Michael McDonald are. If you don’t, well, you didn’t listen to enough yacht rock as a kid, did you? [...] [...] Maybe it’s because I’ve watched Time-Life’s Classic Soft Rock Collection infomercial one too many times, but when I was leaving for work today, Christopher Cross’s “Ride Like the Wind” popped into my head, complete with backing vocals by Michael McDonald. So I got curious and did a Google search on “ride like the wind michael mcdonald”. And the third hit was an SCTV parody of Michael McDonald singing those lyrics (”such a long way to goooooooooooo…”) posted on YouTube. Really funny, and absolutely hilarious if you know who Christopher Cross and Michael McDonald are. If you don’t, well, you didn’t listen to enough yacht rock as a kid, did you? [...]

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