yeah, you're right "can't fight this felling" is basically a pop song.
This was the most popular from my youth.
I never liked it.
Journey, however, fucking rules.
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12We're headed for social anarchy when people start pissing on bookstores.
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13One of the best, yeah. Maybe THE best.
Yeah, this can end the thread.
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14I think the prog and power ballad lines are getting blurred. A prog song can have pretty sections without being commercial schlock.
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15jason from volo wrote: Tue Jul 20, 2021 10:21 amI can understand why, but please don't tell me then that you like the song "Coconut"? At least not Nilsson's version?Dudley wrote: Tue Jul 20, 2021 3:46 am No.
I love most of Nilsson, but damn, this song makes me leap across the room for the pause/skip/MAKE IT FUCKING STOP button.
Re: Song style: Power ballad
16It's not one I'd choose to listen to, but I might not get up to skip it. My antipathy for it is nothing compared to the bludgeoning "Call that a crescendo? THIS is a crescendo! No, THIS is a crescendo" awfulness of "Without You"jason from volo wrote: Tue Jul 20, 2021 10:21 amI can understand why, but please don't tell me then that you like the song "Coconut"? At least not Nilsson's version?Dudley wrote: Tue Jul 20, 2021 3:46 am No.
I love most of Nilsson, but damn, this song makes me leap across the room for the pause/skip/MAKE IT FUCKING STOP button.
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17Is "Heartbreaker" by Grand Funk the blueprint for all power ballads to come after?
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18Total crap. There's a clear dividing line between rock bands writing a ballad in the 60s and 70s and all the shit loads of dross that followed Crue's 'Home Sweet Home' which created an awful formula; the identikit sounding twangy guitars over big reverbed out snare hits... gross. But I'm sure the reason everyone did it was it sold a ton more records for a good few years.
Crap wf payin' the bills, babe...
Crap wf payin' the bills, babe...
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19What?! Not crap at all! This rules:
"lol, listen to op 'music' and you'll understand"....
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20Rock was invented so we could have the power ballad. It is the ultimate form of music.