OPX - Chicago

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i "Questions 67 & 68"
ii "If You Leave Me Now"*
iii "25 or 6 to 4"
iv "Never Been in Love Before"
v "Window Dreamin'"
vi "Feeling Stronger Every Day"**
vii "Wishing You Were Here"
viii "Street Player"
ix "Free Form Guitar"
x Bobby Conn

*There is a very small minority of vocalists who actually sound good ONLY when their voices are a)recorded as dry (w/out artificial reverb) as possible b) COMPLETELY unaccompanied, not even doubled or harmonised by themselves. Bryan Ferry is one of these vocalists and Peter Cetera is another. Which is why 'IYLMN' is the ballad pick, not "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" or "You're the Inspiration", not to mention that I cannot stand that GODDAMN synth-bass, plus the titles of the last two are embarrassing
** Now THAT is a modulation kids. Good enough to make me overlook the blatant violation of the double-tracked voice thing above

― dave q, Monday, 31 March 2003 08:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Fans of early 70s sex-lib cf. Stephen Stills, Glenn Frey and Peter Wyngard are highly recommended to check out "The Road" from 'Chi II' PC is highly inappropriately initialled in this case, he actually starts barking! "Let's do everything we want, let's not cry, it's SUCH A WASTE OF TIME! Cause I may be gone tomorrow, and not even know your name!" Somewhere on the unreconstructed-het-male continuum equidistant twixt the Bundys Ted and Ralph

― dave q, Monday, 31 March 2003 08:43 (twenty-three years ago)

1) Beginnings
2) In the Country
3) Make Me Smile (single edit)
4) Introduction
5) I've Been Searching So Long
6) Questions 67 & 68
7) Feeling Stronger Every Day
8) If You Leave Me Now
9) Dialogue 1 & 2
10) Mississippi Delta Blues

― Joe (Joe), Monday, 31 March 2003 11:25 (twenty-three years ago)

five years pass...

man when I was a kid I hated Chicago so much. I mean, "If You Leave Me Now," which was all over southern California radio when it was new, is the first song I can remember really actively hating, just feeling sickened by. from high school forward, whenever I feel like that about something, I take it as a sign that I need to look more closely because there's something in there, but back then I was like nine or ten years old goin "HOW CAN PEOPLE LIKE THIS HORRIBLE MUSIC" - I would try to explain it to myself, like maybe this is a kind of music you can understand only after you're old enough to have sex or do drugs or something.

it took my recent Amy Grant obsession for me to note that Peter Cetera is one of the greatest harmony vocalists of all time, pace Dave Q's preferences above, and a song he did with Karen Carpenter ("Making Love in the Afternoon") to really drive the point home. I wonder if I'll ever be able to stand his repertoire, just because I've hated it for so long, but I want to publicly confess that dude's harmonic instincts are spotless & I can hear it now.

― J0hn D., Friday, 5 December 2008 02:19 (seventeen years ago)

also this:

Somewhere on the unreconstructed-het-male continuum equidistant twixt the Bundys Ted and Ralph

is a greatly undersung Q-ism

― J0hn D., Friday, 5 December 2008 02:20 (seventeen years ago)

I feel an obsession developing

this song "Take Me Back to Chicago" is like the melancholy parts of Steely Dan without the sarcastic bitter parts - pretty intense, really

― J0hn D., Monday, 8 December 2008 23:23 (seventeen years ago)

1. Street Player
2. Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
3. 25 or 6 to 4
4. If You Leave Me Now
5. Stay the Night

Don't know any others

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 9 December 2008 01:49 (seventeen years ago)

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