I caught the latest Bryan Adams video the other morning on MuchMoreMusic, it's called "Flying". Yawn. This song could easily have appeared on 1991's Waking Up The Neighbors. Or any Shania Twain album. Bryan, I think you've reached the end of the road in your songwriting days with Mutt Lange. It's starting to sound really generic and quite boring. I recently saw you in concert, and it was a great show. The crowd went wild for most of your songs, but the ones they went crazy over the most were your earlier songs written with Jim Vallance.
Not that I profess to know any of the details of what happened, but it is common knowledge that Bryan and Jim split up their songwriting relationship back in 1989. This is when Bryan went to work with Mutt Lange and produced the hugely successful "Waking Up The Neighbors". Admittedly this was a great album. Everything after that, though, has either sounded similar or was just missing that... can't find the right word... purity? rawness?
Think of all the songs Adams and Vallance co-wrote, for Adams as well as other artists:
Cuts Like A Knife
Run To You
Heaven
Kids Wanna Rock
It's Only Love
Heat of the Night (one of my personal Bryan Adams favorites)
One Night Love Affair
Fits You Good
Somebody
Summer of '69
This Time
Huge songs. Great songs. I miss this Bryan Adams. So I'm begging you guys, you've had 16 years apart now, how about taking a stab at some writing together again? Who knows what may happen.
Jim Vallance has a great website, www.jimvallance.com, where he details all the songs he's worked on, and stories behind them. It's a really great site, really interesting to read the stories. And you get to see a picture of Bonnie Tyler without 80s "Total Eclipse of the Heart" hair!!! There were some songs from other artists which I didn't realize Vallance had written or co-written, most notably for me, "What About Love" by Heart, which was actually written for the group Toronto. He also co-wrote a lot of songs with Glass Tiger. It's an interesting read just to see all of the songs he's been involved with, and not just Canadian artists.
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You nailed it. Couldn't have said it better. But you'll be happy to know that Adams/Vallance have collaborated on a couple of tunes recently. This comes from Bryan himself who paid a visit to his chat room yesterday.
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