sharko wrote:Hearts by Marty Balin...
smooth as Jif, no trans-fats

I absolutely LOATHE this song.

I think it's because of that awful glissando he does at the end of the song.
"Heaaaarts can beeeeeeeeeee
eeeeeeeeeeeeee
eeeeeeeeeee"

Ugh ugh ugh.

Mr. Limpet no likey likey?

Criss Cross - "Sailing." Awesome.

Looking Glass - "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)." This one approaches the sublime.

Hall and Oates - "Sara Smile"

And of course, the entire Carpenters catalog, which is the soft rock equivalent of Plato's dialogues.

tipcat wrote:Criss Cross - "Sailing." Awesome.

Looking Glass - "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)." This one approaches the sublime.

Hall and Oates - "Sara Smile"

And of course, the entire Carpenters catalog, which is the soft rock equivalent of Plato's dialogues.

Man...I like some weird CRAP...but you guys are out there. Faiz...Eric fucking Carmen?! I might as well throw my lot in with the hippies on Randall's Flaming Lips board.

I have a soft spot for the "soft rock" of the Carpenters. My favorite song of theirs is actually "Merry Christmas, Darling." I'm not sure if that's the actual song title.

My parents already think that something is severely wrong with me...when I tell them that I kinda like the Carpenters, they really think something is wrong with me. My parents have...basically...really awful taste in music...they like some really boring CRAP. Even they hate the Carpenters.

Hall and Oates had a few good songs actually, and sonically their production wasn't too disimiliar from Todd Rundgren's, really.

Rich Girl, Sara Smile, Your Kiss is On My List, Private Eyes, Maneater...they had some good hooks. Any decent rock band could probably find the hooks in any Hall and Oates song and do a cover that can be rocked out to without even a hint of a smirk.

By the way, you guys see the infomercial for Time Life's Flower Power collection.

Sheesh...what the once might Fonda clan has been reduced to these days.

I'm going not crap, I am a huge fan of infomercials...not all but when you find a good one it is hard to turn the channel. I love the one that is a supposed talk show and the guy is selling a colon cleansing concoction. At one point he describes his three year old daughter's shits as coming out bigger than a babies arm.

or....

one of those chopper do-dads I think it is called the magic bullet and there is a brit or an aussie dude and some perky white chick and they apparently had a bunch of people crash at their house the night before and are now going to get the day going with a hearty thirty second meal. It isn't the meals they make but some of the people they had over. There is one guy who is an apparent drunk, I know this because the make a margarita or something and the Aussie Brit hybrid says to one the drunk a little hair of the dog Bill I know your not going to say no. My other favorite person is some old bag in a moo-moo who has a cigarette with a long ash dangling from her lip the entire time.

and finally...

My years of infomercial fandome has had some side affects. There was this time life classic set I remember there was a commercial for when I was a kid that I saw all the time and now in my later years I can't here the chorus to the song "Rock Me Gently" by Andy Kim without immediately busting out the chorus to "The Night Chicago Died," by Paper Lace. I'm a sick sad man.

Before I saw this on TV, I never even knew that the phrase 'soft rock' could be used non-pejoratively.

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:

iembalm wrote:Player - Baby Come Back

I refuse to believe that anyone genuinely likes this song.

Hi Brett!

kerble wrote:Man...Air Supply sounds AWFUL! their voices have just gone to shit.

No kidding.