Super Hits of The 70s: Have A Nice Day, Vol. 21

I can put it in the bedroom
I can put it in the hall
I can put it in the bathroom
I can hang it on the wall

I have always had a soft spot for "Magnet and Steel"

ok shit this is the toughest one in a minute, not least because my wife and i have some great homemade joeks for several of these. gonna have to ponder on this one for a few.

http://www.djdmac.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/mecojapstarwars_seven45rpm1.jpg

<3 Anything other than a vote for this is wrong

Lots of good stuff but it's easily "Werewolves Of London" for me.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/cryptosicko/playlist/5tSQ28kzyCYvtzYuf1WJrF?si=Sx-jeVVbQo2KNAaDd5PY5g

(all here, but "Telephone Man" looks sketchy)

I had that Meco record but this is really bottom of the barrel shit

Finally, a few songs I can wholeheartedly root for. I love three here: the obvious one, "Werewolves of London"--decidedly not a Ronco-type song--but also two that are definitively Ronco (Ronconian?), "Kiss You All Over" and "Magnet and Steel." They were in fact my two biggest discoveries when I wrote the '70s book with Scott Woods. I had stopped listening to Top-40 radio by 1978, so I'm not sure if I had even the dimmest memory of either. Love them both. And "Magnet and Steel," yet again, was used brilliantly in Boogie Nights, punctuating Burt Reynolds' effusive "Those are great names!" line.

If doo-wop had somehow survived into the late '70s, it would've sounded exactly like "Magnet and Steel."

Yeah, those are the same three I like

This is a step up from the last volume, but "Sometimes When We Touch" is the only song in the series so far where just seeing the title gives me PTSD...that damn thing was on the soft rock/AC stations *all the time* well into the 1980s, and was such a slog. I always twin it in my memory with the decade-later "At This Moment" - dudes working through some heavy relationship shit in the most lugubrious manner possible this side of Don 'n Glenn, laced with an unsettling undercurrent of violence, but at least B.Vera repudiates the very idea of harming his lover (but why does he even need to disavow it in the first place?) and seems to "love her enough to let her go" as they say, while Hill starts off by hemming and hawing and "choking" when she asks if he loves her, and then throws in that line about how "sometimes I'd like to break you and drag you to your knees" - no doubt a metaphor, just like the part where he compares himself to both a writer *and* a prizefighter. Who could resist such a charmer? Favorite moment: "but then the PASSION flares AGAIN!"

Makes me like "Bluer than Blue" all the better, which is I find more effective in its portrayal of romantic despair thanks to Johnson adopting an even-keeled, deadpan tone and the lyrics not afraid of a bit of levity (the correlation of starting his life over w/ not missing his TV shows always makes me smile) ...and I love that little guitar bit (riff? I don't know what to call it) right after he sings Bluer than blooooooo.

i love the cheese on this volume. between "Baby Come Back," "Sometimes When We Touch" and "Kiss You All Over." i think i'm voting for Exile.

Never underestimate the power of Stevie and Lindsey in "Magnet and Steel."

"Werewolves of London" is good, but I always resent it when a great songwriter's only real hit was one of their goofiest songs. (See also: Randy Newman, Thomas Dolby)

The best part of "Kiss You All Over" is the harmonies on the "till the night closes in" bits.

I'm voting for "Thunder Island." And I want Sloan to cover it, mostly so that one guy named Jay Ferguson will cover another guy named Jay Ferguson.

Oh yeah, Thunder Island.

Band looks from this era = scary.

Bands from this era = Motherfuckers w/Dark Secrets

I mean, look at this lead singer...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyCvWowx15c

There's some burned out vans and missing dental records in his orbit.

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Voted Exile. I posted in some other Exile thread, that until recently seeing that video I never realized there are two lead vocalists on the song. I love the long, hypnotic intro, the swirly synth, the disco thump. Beautiful Mike Chapman production.

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Department of Missing Babies FTW