Soft Rock Hits of the 70s - search

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=9okhZ972m3s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr7wn_Zyc6A

oh wow, those are great.

Hey Daniel if you'd like my soft mix I posted in the mixtape thread

Hey Daniel if you'd like my soft mix I posted in the mixtape thread

― JacobSanders, Wednesday, January 15, 2014

missed this somehow. i'll check it out tonight. thx!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s-KwsoZk0Q

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

future world orchestra - miracles

https://soundcloud.com/lexx72/lexx-symptoms-of-love

this mix is really good

really like this record:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz8dtIruywA

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."