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.
― will, Tuesday, 24 July 2007 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Funny my dad used to bump that Exile song and even had me put it on a mix cd for him last year. I love the production and the wobbly bassline. Great stuff. I would kill to hear this in a dive bar.
― oscar, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 05:19 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.jasonhare.com
He's the king of '70s soft rock - he understands its ridiculousness, but openly loves it despite himself. (And avoids the kitschy fashion trappings, which is a quadruple plus.)
― mike a, Wednesday, 25 July 2007 13:34 (sixteen years ago) link
more ridiculously great random 70s tunes...
Sanford Townsend Band: Smoke From a Distant FireThe Four Seasons: December, 1963 (Oh, What A Night)The Manhattans: Kiss and Say GoodbyeThe Spinners: Could It Be I'm Falling In LoveGlen Campbell: Southern Nights
― that's not my post, Friday, 19 December 2008 07:25 (fifteen years ago) link
HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCOS2vOxuXE
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 20 June 2010 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
rock on, soft rock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GYyEaQnT60&NR=1&feature=fvwp
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 20 June 2010 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link
sounds like you have mental problems, man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCxQsaQ9FtQ
yeah, sounds like you have mental problems. man.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 20 June 2010 19:02 (thirteen years ago) link
balaeric is a nice update, but lacks a certain gravitas without the skeezy vocals.
i'd like some real "nu soft-rock," and that bon-iver related stuff isn't it.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 4 September 2011 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
Promises - baby its you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekK5d7AI9hA
― meisenfek, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 11:21 (twelve years ago) link
Real Nu Soft Rock?Does this count?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0li04zmCPM
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
these songs, looped forever.
steve folbert -- romeo's tunepaul davis -- cool nightchris rea -- fool if you think it's overgino vannelli -- living inside myself
― Daniel, Esq 2, Monday, 13 January 2014 05:22 (ten years ago) link
Chris Rea really gets a great wurly sound out of that grand piano!
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Monday, 13 January 2014 05:49 (ten years ago) link
Haha, saw this thread last night and bookmarked Daniel's four-song post to listen to at work.
Get to work and Paul Davis' link is already grayed out because apparently I too have gone that route myself.
― pplains, Monday, 13 January 2014 16:13 (ten years ago) link
so that one song isn't really called "Boo If You Think It's Over", gotcha.
Kinda weird to catch up to some of these songs for the first time since I was six.
― pplains, Monday, 13 January 2014 16:30 (ten years ago) link
a few more
seals & crofts -- diamond girlrupert holmes -- himrobbie dupree -- steal awayrobert john -- sad eyesrandy vanwarmer -- just when i needed you mostmary mcgregor -- torn between two loversdr. hook -- sexy eyescliff richard -- we don't talk anymore
some of these are obvious. what i really crave are a few great songs of this era and genre that weren't released as singles. i want nu-soft rock, with that skeevy 70s vibe.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 01:22 (ten years ago) link
sick links bro
― flopson, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 01:37 (ten years ago) link
Daniel, Scott Seward posted a very special version of that Rupert Holmes song last year on this thread:
A thread for Rupert Holmes, the Pina Colada song dude
It's ... it says a lot.
― pplains, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 01:46 (ten years ago) link
Angry Eyes - Loggins and MessinaAl Stewart - "Time Passages" Yes x10000 for those two classics.
Not sure if this fits because this is a legitimately great song, no camp value at all:
Murray Head--Say It Ain't So Joe. Yes, it is the One Night In Bangkok guy.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 01:57 (ten years ago) link
Here are two with plenty of camp value:
Maureen McGovern - The Morning After
And this is one is going hit your soft rock spot: The love theme from Same Time Next Year. Johnny Mathis and Jane Olivor - The Last Time I Felt Like This
Crank the Mathis song.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 02:04 (ten years ago) link
Daniel, Scott Seward posted a very special version of that Rupert Holmes song last year on this thread:A thread for Rupert Holmes, the Pina Colada song dudeIt's ... it says a lot.― pplains, Monday, January 13, 2014
― pplains, Monday, January 13, 2014
can't . . . stop . . . crying . . .
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 02:10 (ten years ago) link
that maureen mcgovern song is great.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 02:11 (ten years ago) link
Trying to think of something a bit obscure (from 1970):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAdiSPcAVqQ
― clemenza, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 02:12 (ten years ago) link
The Podeidon Adventure wouldn't be the same without it. The Johnny Mathis one is my favorite.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 02:13 (ten years ago) link
that bells song is 'saright.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 02:29 (ten years ago) link
anyone know an obscure song that has that chevy van vibe? now that's 70s skeevy soft-rock.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 02:30 (ten years ago) link
i think this counts, too: bob welch (with stevie nicks) -- ebony eyes
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 03:02 (ten years ago) link
This one's from 1981, but I think this kind of genre really had no boundaries when it came to what decade it belonged to. (Rupert's "Escape" was the last U.S. No. 1 song of the 70s, after all.)
I would've posted the longer version because it has that scary fade-out, but man, an Australian band – complete with instrumentless lead singer singing back-up – playing on a German music show with a Confederate flag hanging on the wall was too much to pass up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbXqgtcrbyY
― pplains, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 03:28 (ten years ago) link
little river band had great vocal harmonies.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 03:29 (ten years ago) link
more
pilot -- magicace -- how longmelissa manchester -- midnight blueleon russell -- lady bluemac davis -- baby don't get hooked on medavid soul -- don't give up on us babyleo sayer -- more than i can sayandy kim -- rock me gentlylobo -- i'd love you to want youfirst class -- beach babyblue swede -- never my love (borderline inclusion)
enough for tonight. reminiscing about music isn't such a bad mid-life crises, as such things go.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 05:38 (ten years ago) link
boz scaggs - what can i say? (the "other" single from silk degrees)
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 06:33 (ten years ago) link
"Moonlight Feels Right" - Starbuck
This is really nice. Great synth lead through the verse. And the marimba (?) solo is fun. Vocals are a little sleazy, I can picture singing "me and moon are itchin' to play" while winking at the audience with an unsettling grin.
― brimstead, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 06:55 (ten years ago) link
^I can picture **the vocalist**
rod stewart - tonight's the night
spread your wings and come inside this one, which will hook you from the paul mccartney & wings guitar chord that opens it and hold you through the cooing french spoken word that ends it, with a stop in the middle for some soft strings and silky saxophone.
also, the video is a pre-mtv lost treasure.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 07:07 (ten years ago) link
smooth as fuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU2mfK-maSQ
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 07:08 (ten years ago) link
I love Little River Band, Ambrosia, and Leo Sayer! Also this guyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fCzfO18Rh4
― JacobSanders, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 07:21 (ten years ago) link
Just to throw out a few more:
Dave Mason - We Just DisagreeDave Loggins - Please Come To BostonLooking Glass - BrandyMichael Murphy - Wildfire
It's almost an endless genre...
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 08:11 (ten years ago) link
surely bread qualify for this love ?
picked up their catalogue last year and alongside, elo, moody blues, and 10cc, find their smooth aor country rock pop is joyous ear candy.
― mark e, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 10:40 (ten years ago) link
Al Stewart rules this genre, Time Passages as mentioned upthread is a good'un but Year of the Cat just edges it
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 10:42 (ten years ago) link
This isn't soft-rock, but if we're mentioning Boz Scaggs in the same breath, we've got to include George Benson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iey3CZFg-KE
This was playing in your dad's Cutlass as he was driving back from the apartment of that chick he met at the racquet club.
― pplains, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 14:37 (ten years ago) link
oh yeah. that song soundtracked a summer of mine as a young teenager, while i was desperately in love with a girl who wouldn't give me the time of day (no girl in her right-mind would've, but that's another story).
― Daniel, Esq 2, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 14:46 (ten years ago) link
Oh man, I had completely forgotten about Alan O'Day! Love the way this one starts: Yeahhhh....Awright Baby.....Uhhhh....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7Xvf-L1wzo
― German Disco Songsmith (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:16 (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/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, 14 January 2014 15:31 (ten years ago) link
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
― 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