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Originally Posted by Off Yonge Street
I wasn't able to successfully to change the colour of the font, but I have re-typed the gist of my post below:
Given that the music for "Anything For Love" was not written by Lightfoot (but instead by David Foster), I always think of "Anything For Love" as a Lightfoot song with an asterisk.
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I agree, 'Lightfoot song with an asterisk', is a pretty apt way of describing it. Anything for Love has never really sounded like a true Lightfoot song to me. Foster's arrangements sound like an attempt to replicate Lightfoot's style, but they never quite reach that goal.
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It is interesting to compare Chuck Dauphin's list of the 10 best Gordon Lightfoot songs to "Canada's choices for the definitive Gordon Lightfoot top 10" that was revealed in 1988 and based on "tens of thousands of responses". (Radio stations across Canada had run a contest in which listeners where asked to send in their three favourite Lightfoot songs.)
Below is the list of "Canada's choices for the definitive Gordon Lightfoot top 10" that was revealed in 1988 (with the "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" being the top Lightfoot song):
1. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
2. If You Could Read My Mind
3. Sundown
4. Canadian Railroad Trilogy
5. Early Morning Rain
6. Old Dan's Records
7. Alberta Bound
8. Beautiful
9. Rainy Day People
10. The Circle Is Small
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I think it's safe to say that #4 and #7 on the list wouldn't have made it on the Billboard list because they're songs Americans can't fully understand and appreciate because, well,
they're not Canadians.
I think the list above is much more representative of Gord's 'ten best' songs than the Billboard list will ever be.