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
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, 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