Has many of the essentials.
― mike a, Thursday, 5 August 2004 16:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― mike a, Thursday, 5 August 2004 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― JaXoN (JasonD), Thursday, 5 August 2004 17:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sir Chaki McBeer III (chaki), Thursday, 5 August 2004 17:19 (nineteen years ago) link
(I confess to liking "Seasons In The Sun" a lot too but I'm not going to defend that one so passionately. I know when I'm on shakier ground.)
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 5 August 2004 17:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 5 August 2004 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 5 August 2004 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link
Also "Don't Pull Your Love" and "I'd Really Love To See You Tonight" - I know one of them is Hamilton Joe Frank and Reynolds, and the other is England Dan and John Ford Coley, but I don't know which is which.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 5 August 2004 19:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 5 August 2004 19:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 5 August 2004 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link
A buddy made several '70s comps and kindly copied them for me - great stuff.
― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Thursday, 5 August 2004 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― JaXoN (JasonD), Thursday, 5 August 2004 20:30 (nineteen years ago) link
Not to be confused with the sixth song off of Ride the Lightening.
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 5 August 2004 20:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 5 August 2004 20:39 (nineteen years ago) link
At first I read this as "faux-Styx feel" and thought, "Huh?" Then I tried to think of bands who do have a faux-Styx feel.
Hamilton Joe Frank and Reynolds
Anybody but me think "Don't Pull Your Love" always sounded like Elvis singing a much better song than what the actual Elvis was actually doing at the time?
― phil d., Thursday, 5 August 2004 23:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 5 August 2004 23:16 (nineteen years ago) link
Saga to thread!
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Thursday, 5 August 2004 23:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 6 August 2004 00:04 (nineteen years ago) link
My contribution.
― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:33 (nineteen years ago) link
Two that haven't been mentioned but should:Orleans - "Still the One"crap, what was the other one I was thinking of?
― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 6 August 2004 00:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― phil d., Friday, 6 August 2004 00:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Friday, 6 August 2004 08:03 (nineteen years ago) link
But the greatest of all these is:Couldn't Get It Right - Climax Blues Band
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 6 August 2004 09:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― John Fredland (jfredland), Friday, 6 August 2004 09:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― John Fredland (jfredland), Friday, 6 August 2004 09:38 (nineteen years ago) link
Now fighting to get Minnie Riperton's "Lovin' You" out of my head. "La la la la la, la la la la la ...".
― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Friday, 6 August 2004 12:50 (nineteen years ago) link
seals and crofts - summer breezeMichael martin murphy - wildfireHenry Gross - Shannon
Also, I would really love a copy of this.
― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 6 August 2004 13:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 6 August 2004 13:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Daniel DiMAGGIO (Daniel DiMAGGIO), Friday, 6 August 2004 13:44 (nineteen years ago) link
OH AND WAHT ABOUT DESE
Nicolette Larson - "Lotta Love"Rita Coolidge - "Your Love (Keeps Me Lifting Me Higher)"Dave Mason - "We Just Disagree"
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 6 August 2004 13:51 (nineteen years ago) link
We were talking about bad spoken word bits recently. I think this has to be counted among them:"I said 'wha?'She said 'oo-oo-oo-wee'I said 'alll riiiight!She said 'love me, love me, love me!"
― mike a, Friday, 6 August 2004 14:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― mike a, Friday, 6 August 2004 14:30 (nineteen years ago) link
This stuff is one of my obsessions:
Some of the playlists when I ran Lite Nite or Easy ... Saturday nights dedicated to soft rock and other soft sounds:
http://home.earthlink.net/~davidday/eavesdrop/EASY.SAT.08.03.02.htmhttp://home.earthlink.net/~davidday/eavesdrop/EASY.SAT.09.27.02.htmhttp://home.earthlink.net/~davidday/eavesdrop/EASY.SAT.10.12.02.htmhttp://home.earthlink.net/~davidday/eavesdrop/EASY.SAT.11.30.02.htmhttp://home.earthlink.net/~davidday/eavesdrop/EASY.SAT.12.07.02.htm
I think this is my all time lost favorite:Climax Blues Band - Couldn't Get It Right
cheers.
― david day (winslow), Friday, 6 August 2004 14:58 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm also surprised that no one has mentioned the Atlanta Rhythm Section yet.
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 6 August 2004 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link
i was also gonna start a 60s-70s country pop thread, stuff like Afternoon Delight, Witchita Lineman and Lee Hazelwood. does the stuff from that countrypolitan fit into it? badical
― JaXoN (JasonD), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:31 (nineteen years ago) link
Ozark Mountain Daredevils - "Jackie Blue"Pure Prarie League - "Aimee"
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link
When I was, a younger man, I hadn't a careFoolin' around, hitting the town, growing my hairYou came along and stole my heart, when you entered my lifeOoh babe, you got what it takes, so I made you my wife
Since then I've never looked backIt's almost like living a dreamAnd ooh, I love you
You came along, from far away, and found me hereI was playin' around, feeling down, hittin' the beerYou picked me up from off the floor, and gave me a smileYou said you're much too young your life ain't begun, let's walk for awhile
And as my head was spinnin' 'roundI gazed into your eyesAnd thought ooh, I want you
Thank you babe for being a friendAnd shinin' your light in my life'Cause ooh, I need you
As my head was comin' roundI gazed into your eyesAnd thought ooh I want you
Thanks again for being my friendAnd straightenin' out my life'Cause ooh, I need you
Since then I never looked backIt's almost like livin' a dreamOoh, I got you
If ever a man had it allIt would have to be meAnd ooh, I love you
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link
Old punk is fun because you get to hear the songs for the very first time in some cases. On the complete other side, soft rock is fun because every song is just a giant 'OH, YEAH, THIS THING!" waiting to happen. There's a few songs on this list that I don't recognize, but Lord knows that I've probably heard those songs a couple hundred times without knowing it.
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:41 (nineteen years ago) link
(I also kinda think "Couldn't Get It Right" is a little too uptempo for this list though)
― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Friday, 6 August 2004 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link
rebel!
― mike a, Friday, 6 August 2004 17:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― briania (briania), Friday, 6 August 2004 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.myspace.com/reallysmoothmusichttp://www.myspace.com/talconline
http://low-bee.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2293 (hollertronix is even doing it?!)
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a320/djdeluxxx/Soft_Explosion.jpg
all links stolen from asilentflute
― jäxøñ (jaxon), Thursday, 11 May 2006 04:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis, Saturday, 28 April 2007 07:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tinky-Winky, Saturday, 28 April 2007 12:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaxon, Saturday, 28 April 2007 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie V, Saturday, 28 April 2007 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― earlnash, Saturday, 28 April 2007 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Arthur, Sunday, 29 April 2007 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link
^I can picture **the vocalist**
― brimstead, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 06:55 (ten years ago) link
rod stewart - tonight's the night
spread your wings and come inside this one, which will hook you from the paul mccartney & wings guitar chord that opens it and hold you through the cooing french spoken word that ends it, with a stop in the middle for some soft strings and silky saxophone.
also, the video is a pre-mtv lost treasure.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 07:07 (ten years ago) link
smooth as fuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU2mfK-maSQ
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 07:08 (ten years ago) link
I love Little River Band, Ambrosia, and Leo Sayer! Also this guyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fCzfO18Rh4
― JacobSanders, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 07:21 (ten years ago) link
Just to throw out a few more:
Dave Mason - We Just DisagreeDave Loggins - Please Come To BostonLooking Glass - BrandyMichael Murphy - Wildfire
It's almost an endless genre...
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 08:11 (ten years ago) link
surely bread qualify for this love ?
picked up their catalogue last year and alongside, elo, moody blues, and 10cc, find their smooth aor country rock pop is joyous ear candy.
― mark e, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 10:40 (ten years ago) link
Al Stewart rules this genre, Time Passages as mentioned upthread is a good'un but Year of the Cat just edges it
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 10:42 (ten years ago) link
This isn't soft-rock, but if we're mentioning Boz Scaggs in the same breath, we've got to include George Benson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iey3CZFg-KE
This was playing in your dad's Cutlass as he was driving back from the apartment of that chick he met at the racquet club.
― pplains, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 14:37 (ten years ago) link
oh yeah. that song soundtracked a summer of mine as a young teenager, while i was desperately in love with a girl who wouldn't give me the time of day (no girl in her right-mind would've, but that's another story).
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 14:46 (ten years ago) link
Oh man, I had completely forgotten about Alan O'Day! Love the way this one starts: Yeahhhh....Awright Baby.....Uhhhh....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7Xvf-L1wzo
― German Disco Songsmith (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:16 (ten years ago) link
I started throwing stuff together, looked up and saw that it's almost 9:30. I've got work to do.
So do you – somebody add what I forgot here: http://open.spotify.com/user/pplains/playlist/0nwTuzF4shGGH4D9FjUtXT
Be careful because Good Lord, this genre is ate up with acts either re-recording new versions of their old hits or the dreaded "karaoke" version of everything.
Also, feel free to arrange these. I haven't gone through and said "no, we can't follow 'my maria' with 'take a letter, maria'" yet.
― pplains, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:31 (ten years ago) link
Just found out Alan O'Day died this year, and that he wrote "Angie Baby" for Helen Reddy. I've never paid any attention to the lyrics, but according to wiki:
In order to make the character ("Angie") more interesting, he based her on a neighbor girl he had known who seemed "socially retarded".[citation needed] O'Day also thought of his own childhood; an only child who was often ill, many of his days were spent in bed with a radio to keep him company.[citation needed] O'Day showed the unfinished song to his therapist, who pointed out that the character's reactions were not those of a retarded person; O'Day then switched Angie from mentally "slow" to "crazy."[citation needed] This expanded to her living in a dream world of lovers, inspired by the songs on her radio. When an evil-minded neighbor tries to enter her room to take advantage of the girl, he is instead drawn into her reality, literally shrinking him down into her radio, "never to be found".
― German Disco Songsmith (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 18:32 (ten years ago) link
Alan O'Day's debut was a self financed sort of promo record that is really good! Originals can be expensive but Big Pink reissued it a few years ago on CD.
― JacobSanders, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 18:41 (ten years ago) link
I started throwing stuff together, looked up and saw that it's almost 9:30. I've got work to do.So do you – somebody add what I forgot here: http://open.spotify.com/user/pplains/playlist/0nwTuzF4shGGH4D9FjUtXTBe careful because Good Lord, this genre is ate up with acts either re-recording new versions of their old hits or the dreaded "karaoke" version of everything.Also, feel free to arrange these. I haven't gone through and said "no, we can't follow 'my maria' with 'take a letter, maria'" yet.― pplains, Tuesday, January 14, 2014
― pplains, Tuesday, January 14, 2014
this is great.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I know it's 1982 but it sure sounds 1970s. Strangely enough stripey t-shirt dude looks just like a Shoreditch hipster, unlike the bassist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5Adx0RXpvg
― bleak strategies (Matt #2), Wednesday, 15 January 2014 00:14 (ten years ago) link
yeah. i think that counts, but it's right on the edge. america had that "middle-aged, alcohol-soaked guy making an unsettling pass at a woman half-his-age" vibe, which is the essence of 70s soft rock.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 00:17 (ten years ago) link
Craig Ruhnke is one of Canada's soft rock greatest secrets. The Japanese pay a lot for his records, and with good reason. His first from 73 is pure easy and free. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9okhZ972m3shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr7wn_Zyc6A
― JacobSanders, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 00:50 (ten years ago) link
oh wow, those are great.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 00:56 (ten years ago) link
Hey Daniel if you'd like my soft mix I posted in the mixtape thread
― JacobSanders, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 17:04 (ten years ago) link
Hey Daniel if you'd like my soft mix I posted in the mixtape thread― JacobSanders, Wednesday, January 15, 2014
― JacobSanders, Wednesday, January 15, 2014
missed this somehow. i'll check it out tonight. thx!
― Daniel, Esq 2, Saturday, 18 January 2014 00:37 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s-KwsoZk0Q
― nerve_pylon, Saturday, 18 January 2014 01:18 (ten years ago) link
buddies of mine in philly made this: https://soundcloud.com/#the-dream-chimney/mix-of-the-week-darklord-soft-rock-for-hard-times . it's great.
jacob - can you share a direct link to your mix? not sure which mixtape thread you're talking about
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 20:28 (ten years ago) link
future world orchestra - miracles
― brimstead, Thursday, 5 February 2015 00:27 (nine years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/lexx72/lexx-symptoms-of-love
this mix is really good
really like this record:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz8dtIruywA
― Moyes Enthusiast (LocalGarda), Thursday, 5 February 2015 10:19 (nine years ago) link
hell yea, stoked to listen to this lexx mix
btw soft rock for hard times vol 2 came out a while back on test pressing, link for anyone who might be interested: http://testpressing.org/2014/09/370-universal-cave-soft-rock-for-hard-times-vol-2/
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Thursday, 5 February 2015 23:26 (nine years ago) link
hi I've been nerding out so hard on this stuff lately
(also early 80's easy listening hit machines like george benson, Peabo Bryson et al)
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 20 January 2017 03:07 (seven years ago) link
but also this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0sTpZja6JQ
(and I always end up thinking about MST3K's riff on whether it's Hamilton, Joe, Frank, & Reynolds / Hamilton Joe, Frank & Reynolds / Hamilton Joe Frank, & Reynolds etc etc )
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 20 January 2017 03:13 (seven years ago) link
so although it was techically 1981, it was mentioned up thread - Paul Davis's "Cool Night".
one I loved as a kid, as an adult I hear it and think "ugh, relatable".
which is to say "classic"
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 03:35 (six years ago) link
listening to the rhino 70s box and there seems to be a significant subgenre of 'dude runs into old flame, everyone's doing fine, but dude never in fact got over old flame (and sometimes sees her face when he's fucking his wife)'. kinda creepy!
are there more recent examples of this trope in pop lyrics?
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 16:41 (four years ago) link
I just spent 15 minutes contemplating the amazingness of the Pablo Cruise logo, as evocative of intent as any metal band's logo.
― Julius Caesar Memento Hoodie (bendy), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 17:28 (four years ago) link
I have the "Have A Nice Day" series of 70s comps which cover all sorts of low-charting hits, very evocative of my childhood listening to the radio. Much of my early ideas of love and relationships came from those songs.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 17:45 (four years ago) link
― mookieproof, Tuesday, April 7, 2020 9:41 AM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
steve winwood - "valerie" kinda?
― brimstead, Saturday, 11 April 2020 03:04 (four years ago) link
yikes steve
― mookieproof, Saturday, 11 April 2020 03:40 (four years ago) link
"What a Fool Believes" ??
I always figured this trope was because a lot of people were getting divorced in the 70s and because they had been off the market for a while, the people who spring to mind when romance became a possibility again were old flamesAlso it seems like a distinctly cis male POV but I have nothing to prove that aside from a gut feeling
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 11 April 2020 14:24 (four years ago) link
i'm definitely fascinated by this strain of thought, which like you i think of as being particularly cis male. something like bill labounty's "livin' it up" or, i mean, earlier something like "flowers on the wall". the bitter regret of someone who took what he had for granted and treated "his woman" like shit but lacking in anything resembling real insight or personal accountability. that's the extra layer of tragedy of songs like that, you just know the protagonist of the song is going to pull that shit again and again until they finally die, alone and miserable.
― Kate (rushomancy), Saturday, 11 April 2020 17:50 (four years ago) link
Whereas ladies are always singing things like "I'm happy for you. I wish nothing but the best for you both."
― pplains, Saturday, 11 April 2020 21:31 (four years ago) link