Those songs you like but you hate yourself for liking. That. My head is full of 'em. And just when you think you can't possibly fit another Still the Same or Don't Stop Believing in, along comes a new arrival, a Johnny come lately, if you will. But unlike most other AOR/Yacht Rock guilty pleasures who generally announce their arrival by way of a Netflix or HBO soundtrack and thus showing you their credentials (Bob Seger and Journey did just that - and very successfully - in Ozark and The Sopranos respectively), this annoyingly catchy slice of soft rock seems to have attached itself like a barnacle to my latest predictive playlist without any of the above mentioned pleasantries. And yes, after it happened twice I 'hearted' it (or should that have been 'red-flagged'?) and so now it just drops in and out anytime it bloody well feels like it.
Eddie Money - Two Tickets to Paradise (1977)
"Yacht rock" - very good.
ReplyDeleteAlyson has written quite a few excellent pieces on Yacht Rock; her insight into the genre is forensic.
DeleteThat is amazing.
ReplyDeleteNot quite in the same league as Bob Seger though.
A good song is a good song is a good song. What league does Bob Seger play in just out of interest?
DeleteA new song for me. I have an unashamed love for soft rock/yacht rock, mainly because I associate it with my life in the late 70s/early 80s - great memories of that time. Lots of people and lots of laughs - ooh, like blog-con!
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Another one that's crept in lately is Kiss' I Was Made For Lovin' You. A more banal song, on the face of it, you'd struggle to find. And yet, and yet. I think you may have touched upon it in one of your pieces, but the big chorus is what pulls me in. If you can reach the back row and get them to sing the song back to you then you've got a HIT on your hands; nothing's so sure.
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