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Title: Great songs you probably don't know about
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Published: Nov 9, 2017
Author: me
Post Date: 2017-11-09 12:58:50 by no gnu taxes
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Views: 4560
Comments: 89

Badlands -- Bruce Springsteen

I can't stand that asshole these days. I don't know when he became a card carrying leftist turd, but he did. However he had 2 great albums in the late 70s/early 80s about life in middle America. This is is one of the better rock songs ever. It was released as a single, but never cracked the top 40.

WOLD -- Harry Chapin

By all accounts, Harry Chapin was a good man. I have no idea what his political or religious beliefs were but I think he honestly wanted to help others.

His biggest hit was "Cats in the Cradle," which is okay if you like that kind of maudlin crap. He also had the hit "Taxi," and that was also okay, although I wasn't impressed by the reference to drug use.

WOLD was a wonderful song. It told the story of a man who wanted to get involved in the radio business, and after many years found it wasn't what he might have expected.

London Town -- Paul McCartney

Most of the stuff Paul McCartney recorded after leaving the Beatles was garbage. I mean they did quite well on the charts, but they were still garbage. This was his best other than "My Brave Face."

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#17. To: no gnu taxes (#0) (Edited)

In my estimation Macarthur Park, which was a actually a corroberative effort by Jimmy Webb and Richard Harris was the finest love song ever done. Nobody but Webb could have written it as an expression of the disappointment he was going through and nobody else but Harris could have performed it adaquately. It was essentially both psychoanalytic and and an IQ test. Many people of concrete ideation hated it because they thought is was only about sweet green cake icing. Others were captivated with it as it symbolized their own experience perfectly.

The second greatest song was Classical Gas. It was a guitar masterpiece.

rlk  posted on  2017-11-09   18:29:53 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: rlk (#17)

The second greatest song was Classical Gas. It was a guitar masterpiece.

I liked the instrumental hits from the classic era, even Herb Alpert who had a surprising following.

Tooconservative  posted on  2017-11-09   18:44:58 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#38. To: Tooconservative (#19)

I liked the instrumental hits from the classic era, even Herb Alpert who had a surprising following.

Geez Louise. Did I just stumble into the old folks home?

misterwhite  posted on  2017-11-10   10:32:22 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#45. To: misterwhite (#38) (Edited)

Geez Louise. Did I just stumble into the old folks home?

I had to check because Alpert did have a long career. Per Billboard:

./1966_Billboard_Top_Usa_Singles/98-Herb_Alpert_-_The_Tijuana_Bras-Zorba_The_Greek.mp3
./1968_Billboard_Top_Usa_Singles/07-Herb_Alpert-This_Guys_In_Love_With_You.mp3
./1979_Billboard_Top_Usa_Singles/80-Herb_Alpert-Rise.mp3
./1980_BillBoard_Top_USA_Singles/54-Herb_Alpert-Rise.mp3
./1987_Billboard_Top_Usa_Singles/79-Herb_Alpert-Diamonds.mp3

So Alpert had a #79 hit of the Billboard 100 back in 1987. So it's old but it's not exactly the Big Band era.

Tooconservative  posted on  2017-11-10   11:30:01 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#46. To: Tooconservative (#45)

I had to check because Alpert did have a long career.

It's not the age of the music. It's the type of music.

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misterwhite  posted on  2017-11-10   11:44:41 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#47. To: misterwhite (#46)

But the Big Band era wasn't truly dead even in the Sixties. So there was room in the market for Herb Alpert for some years. And I assume he was able to play resorts and regional concerts into the Nineties.

Wiki

Alpert's musical accomplishments include five No. 1 albums and 28 albums total on the Billboard Album chart, nine Grammy Awards, fourteen platinum albums, and fifteen gold albums. Alpert has sold 72 million records worldwide. Alpert is the only recording artist to hit No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 pop chart as both a vocalist ("This Guy's in Love with You", 1968), and an instrumentalist ("Rise", 1979).

I forgot about his vocal single in '68. The year after the Summer of Love, burning down major cities like Detroit...

He was a mediocre singer with a limited range (like Fred Astaire) but the song was a good pop song, acceptable enough to bridge the teens and their parents as well.

Don't forget it was the era of the big weekly variety shows like Hollywood Palace and Sid Caesar and Ed Sullivan. I barely recall these myself but they were huge venues for established acts going back to the vaudeville era and the Borscht Belt with some young rock and pop bands tossed in for the young people.

And American Bandstand was huge. Check this out. That was some mindbending stuff back in the Sixties, still hung over from the heavily sedated Fifties of Ozzie and Harriet and Lawrence Welk.

Tooconservative  posted on  2017-11-10   12:00:19 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#48. To: Tooconservative (#47)

He was a mediocre singer with a limited range (like Fred Astaire) but the song was a good pop song,

As was "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" by B.J. Thomas at around the same time.

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