Soft Rock Hits of the 70s - search

Now fighting to get Minnie Riperton's "Lovin' You" out of my head. "La la la la la, la la la la la ...".

seals and crofts - summer breeze
Michael martin murphy - wildfire
Henry Gross - Shannon

Also, I would really love a copy of this.

OH AND WAHT ABOUT DESE

Nicolette Larson - "Lotta Love"
Rita Coolidge - "Your Love (Keeps Me Lifting Me Higher)"
Dave Mason - "We Just Disagree"

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!"

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.htm
http://home.earthlink.net/~davidday/eavesdrop/EASY.SAT.09.27.02.htm
http://home.earthlink.net/~davidday/eavesdrop/EASY.SAT.10.12.02.htm
http://home.earthlink.net/~davidday/eavesdrop/EASY.SAT.11.30.02.htm
http://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.

I'm also surprised that no one has mentioned the Atlanta Rhythm Section yet.

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

Ozark Mountain Daredevils - "Jackie Blue"
Pure Prarie League - "Aimee"

When I was, a younger man, I hadn't a care
Foolin' around, hitting the town, growing my hair
You came along and stole my heart, when you entered my life
Ooh babe, you got what it takes, so I made you my wife

Since then I've never looked back
It's almost like living a dream
And ooh, I love you

You came along, from far away, and found me here
I was playin' around, feeling down, hittin' the beer
You picked me up from off the floor, and gave me a smile
You said you're much too young your life ain't begun, let's walk for awhile

And as my head was spinnin' 'round
I gazed into your eyes
And thought ooh, I want you

Thank you babe for being a friend
And shinin' your light in my life
'Cause ooh, I need you

As my head was comin' round
I gazed into your eyes
And thought ooh I want you

Thanks again for being my friend
And straightenin' out my life
'Cause ooh, I need you

Since then I never looked back
It's almost like livin' a dream
Ooh, I got you

If ever a man had it all
It would have to be me
And ooh, I love you

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.

(I also kinda think "Couldn't Get It Right" is a little too uptempo for this list though)

rebel!

http://www.myspace.com/reallysmoothmusic
http://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

I watched a looooong infomercial for soft rock CD set last week. It had Air Supply sitting in sofas and talking about the hits. I've had Into The Night in my head ever since. Soft rock!

I heard about that, haven't seen it.
yay this thread! i got ignored bringing this stuff up on the country rock thread. like BIG difference huh who knew.
Nicolette Larson's "Lotta Love" sent me on a tear with this stuff a few months ago, I'm starting to match names to songs, having last heard most of these in my mom's car growing up. Anyone see VH1's softastic countdown last year? doesn't add anything to the thread but I ate it up.

i meant last month

I saw it. Rupert Holmes lip-synching to "Escape" was too much.

I watched a looooong infomercial for soft rock CD set last week. It had Air Supply sitting in sofas and talking about the hits. I've had Into The Night in my head ever since. Soft rock!

lolll I saw that thing too. it started out awesome but was we kept watching and watching, my wife and I were like "wait a minute, that's not soft rock, that's just a shitty song." there seemed to be a lack of focus.

have i ever told you guys how much i hate the term Yacht Rock and all it's ironic bandwagon jumpers?

the only difference is yacht rock is a stupid name

-- jaxon, Saturday, April 28, 2007 6:00 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Link

yes

jaxon: approve/disapprove?

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f286/Timdogg3/staysmooth_V.jpg

Sentimental Lady, Bob Welch (or the Fleetwood Mac version)

Anyone see VH1's softastic countdown last year

Please, the word is "softsational."

Deej, the thing is I would probably go to that if I wasn't going to a house party tonight. Then again, it's sort of on the way home.

i think the flyer would be better w/out the part calling people 'smooths'

i also fear the number of my-name-is-earl ironic mustaches.

that said i'm totally going

If 10cc count as soft rock, then search 10cc in general.

that flyer looks fine except for the attire part.

a lot of nü balearic beardo dance acts are addopting this schtick too. and even though i like the music, it is a bit silly

see bay area dreamchimney duders: hatchback, windsurf, etc

i think those yacht rock skits are funny but yeah, cut it out. deej overdosed on my ambrosia the other night fyi.

hah i didnt even notice the attire

overdosed on my ambrosia

o_O

man that night sucked! fuck schubas

wow. just wow.
Exile - I Wanna Kiss You All Over
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJJQpSzDgC0

haha...well, it helps to understand that Exile came from a country music background...(which might explain the singer's boots)...funny thing, back when that video came out I had NO idea I would one day be laughing hysterically at it...it just didn't seem so out of place back then...

he looks like he should be in spinal tap. great song though

ha! a friend of mine made a comp called "Couples' Skate" filled with lots of the stuff mentioned above. I'm going to need to get a copy asap.

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/

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)

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 )

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"

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?

I just spent 15 minutes contemplating the amazingness of the Pablo Cruise logo, as evocative of intent as any metal band's logo.

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.

are there more recent examples of this trope in pop lyrics?

― mookieproof, Tuesday, April 7, 2020 9:41 AM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

steve winwood - "valerie" kinda?

yikes steve

"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 flames
Also it seems like a distinctly cis male POV but I have nothing to prove that aside from a gut feeling

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.

Whereas ladies are always singing things like "I'm happy for you. I wish nothing but the best for you both."