Songs That Should Be Retired

[PhantomOnTour]

Never to be played again...on radio, Pandora, at parties, or live in concert.

I have but one nominee (and this song has driven me nuts for like 30yrs):
In The Air Tonight by Phil Collins

Good Lord this song is overrated...it has people just sitting and tolerating the first few minutes so they can totally lose their minds when the 5 second drum roll kicks in.
Add in all the rumors and stories regarding the meaning of the song and it's unbearable.
Kill
Me
Now

Any other nominees y'all???

[Tom]

Anything by Bruce Springsteen.

[Tor Ekman]

That dreadful song from the early 80's by Christopher Cross about being lost between the moon and NYC, might've been from the movie Arthur . . . f*cking awful . . . thankfully I haven't heard it for years but it immediately came to mind when I saw this thread

[ElKabong]

Anything by Air Supply

Whitney Houstons ...saving all my love, saving all love for youuuuu

Hell, everything concerning Music from 1977 to 1987 needs to be retired, save Imminent Front and Hotel California

[FantasticDan]

I have but one nominee (and this song has driven me nuts for like 30yrs):
In The Air Tonight by Phil Collins
Good Lord this song is overrated...it has people just sitting and tolerating the first few minutes so they can totally lose their minds when the 5 second drum roll kicks in.
I guess someone watched Fallon last nite.. :ThmbUp: :D

[johnhannibalsmith]

Anything by Bruce Springsteen.

Thought I was the only one.

I'll just go for a law that auto-retires any commercially popular song that appears in an advertisement.

[Steve 'StatMan']

The Holiday season is nearing and I can no longer stand The Barking Dogs version of Jingle Bells. Funny & cute when I first heard it as a teen in the mid-1970's. 40,000 later, gads, kill me. Thankfully it is a seasonal song. I'd hate to have to listen to that song 12 months of the year!

[Steve 'StatMan']

Also, The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald. Slow monotonous drone for way, way too long. My only way of coping with it is imagining BullWinkle Moose singing it - I put my thumbs in my ears, turn my hands up, and do my Bullwinkle impersonation and Make A Wredk Of The Edmund Fitzgerald. Seriously, imagine it. Lightfoot sounds pretty close to Bullwinkle in this, doesn't he?

[johnhannibalsmith]

The Holiday season is nearing and I can no longer stand The Barking Dogs version of Jingle Bells. Funny & cute when I first heard it as a teen in the mid-1970's. 40,000 later, gads, kill me. Thankfully it is a seasonal song. I'd hate to have to listen to that song 12 months of the year!

Holiday songs never dawned on me but there's about a quarter million of these that need to go away. Let's start with the Chipmunk Christmas nonsense - OKAY - and from there get rid of Snoopy Claus and his battle with the Red Baron. We'll get rid of two annoying, dumb ones first and then get a few sappy ones next.

[RunForTheRoses]

[QUOTE=PhantomOnTour]Never to be played again...on radio, Pandora, at parties, or live in concert.

I have but one nominee (and this song has driven me nuts for like 30yrs):
In The Air Tonight by Phil Collins

Good Lord this song is overrated...it has people just sitting and tolerating the first few minutes so they can totally lose their minds when the 5 second drum roll kicks in.
Add in all the rumors and stories regarding the meaning of the song and it's unbearable.
Kill
Me


I did like mike Tyson playing air drums to it in The Hangover but I have no problem retiring it. I generally like Genesis, even post Gabriel but there are a few other Collins/Genesis that could use retiring-sue sue sudio my God

In general annoying songs are set and setting that is when you ain't in the mood and it comes blasting over the speakers...U2s Christmas song should be retired, even John Lennon's Christmas song should be listened to once and then put on the shelf for a year.

[Inner Dirt]

That jingle or whatever it is that the USC band plays 100x a game. Of course being a UCLA fan I am biased and hate anything USC does.

[Tor Ekman]

The Holiday season is nearing and I can no longer stand The Barking Dogs version of Jingle Bells. Funny & cute when I first heard it as a teen in the mid-1970's. 40,000 later, gads, kill me. Thankfully it is a seasonal song. I'd hate to have to listen to that song 12 months of the year!As for Christmas/Holiday songs, you can pretty much scrub anything produced from the mid-60's forward after the commercialization of Christmas began in earnest, to the point now that the likes of Neil Diamond and Babs Streisand released Christmas albums :bang:

[CincyHorseplayer]

Being on jobsites where classic rock is played ad nauseam I'll start with Freebird and Stairway to Heaven.

[Marshall Bennett]

Anything by Bruce Springsteen.
Amen. What a horrible sound and voice. Has my vote for most overrated musician of modern times. Add to the nausea, he's a liberal far left airhead with a stone-age mentality.

[illinoisbred]

Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen...most definitely!

[EasyGoer89]

Never to be played again...on radio, Pandora, at parties, or live in concert.

I have but one nominee (and this song has driven me nuts for like 30yrs):
In The Air Tonight by Phil Collins

Good Lord this song is overrated...it has people just sitting and tolerating the first few minutes so they can totally lose their minds when the 5 second drum roll kicks in.
Add in all the rumors and stories regarding the meaning of the song and it's unbearable.
Kill
Me
Now

Any other nominees y'all???

No doubt 100 pct feel the same way about that song. I used to be able to listen to it many years ago but no more it's like nails on a chalkboard now.

[FantasticDan]

Anything by Bruce Springsteen.At 67, fair to say he's never been more popular, and setting new records for playing epic, joyful concerts night after night in the US and across the world..

Whatever you do, resist the urge to tap your toe :p

L-Ds-FXGGQg

[Tom]

I'm sure we can all agree this one gets played far to much!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow00Kg7oBDE

[Tom]

At 67, fair to say he's never been more popular, and setting new records for playing epic, joyful concerts night after night in the US and across the world..

Whatever you do, resist the urge to tap your toe :p



Amazing how he does that, what with only two chords!

[traynor]

Best described (in Sense8) as "music for lobotomies."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NXnxTNIWkc

What's Up - 4 Non Blondes

[TJDave]

As for Christmas/Holiday songs, you can pretty much scrub anything produced from the mid-60's forward after the commercialization of Christmas began in earnest, to the point now that the likes of Neil Diamond and Babs Streisand released Christmas albums :bang:

IMO, best Christmas song "Grown-Up Christmas list" recorded in the 90's.

What have you got against Diamond or Streisand?

[Grits]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqAFGPmECBw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDUjeR01wnU

Toyota. How one takes a 53 year old song recorded in the early 60s and thinks it's gonna make a great commercial is beyond me. I loathe this song, the lyrics, the melody, the whining. The whole bit--it is pathetic. This was the first time I'd heard it in what feels like 50 years....AWFUL.

I have to consider this artist recorded another pearl titled, "It's My Party (And I'll Cry If I Want To.)"

No, gentlemen. Just no.. :faint::faint::faint:

[TJDave]

Toyota. How one takes a 53 year old song recorded in the early 60s and thinks it's gonna make a great commercial is beyond me. I loathe this song, the lyrics, the melody, the whining. The whole bit--it is pathetic. This was the first time I'd heard it in what feels like 50 years....AWFUL.


Toyota is attempting to steal the lesbian market from Subaru. ;)

[thaskalos]

"We Built This City"...and anything by Roy Orbison.

[pandy]

"We Built This City"...and anything by Roy Orbison.


LOL..We Built This City...LOL, has to be one of the all time worst songs.

[Tom]

Barry and Michelle are doing a cover of this - called, "You Didn't Build That!

[Marshall Bennett]

Lee Marvin : I was born under a wandering star. :(

Great thread btw. :ThmbUp:

[ebcorde]

I May never listen to LaGrange They ruined it haw haw haw haw haw

Damm Geico

[ebcorde]

LOL..We Built This City...LOL, has to be one of the all time worst songs.

That was jefferson Starship I liked that song. Like anything Bad ass Grace Slick sings

[DSB]

I've hated this song since it came out in the 70s...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op5FxEs1aR0

Saturday Night Fever - Bee Gees

[MutuelClerk]

The Star Spangled Banner.

White Christmas.

The disco era.

Country.

Being as huge Springsteen fan ( 27 times live), as yes he has occasionally pissed me off politically. I'd like to nominate Tom's favorite group. I'm guessing The Archies.....

[ldiatone]

i agree with most all of these tunes and it just points out how commercial radio the stations playing "classic" and hits from the 70's-80's etc are all just "sing along" stations.. same loop each day. when i was working i could set my watch to "Purple Haze" each sun. morning @ 8:30 am
and that chant and song everyone chants at the collage football game and the rangers home games when someone scores...UGG. cant find the groups name
here it is...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB9K0zGfCr8&spfreload=10

[barahona44]

I May never listen to LaGrange They ruined it haw haw haw haw haw

Damm Geico
Wasn't Geico aware that LaGrange is about a bordello?

Classic rock stations play lists are so regimented they're now unlistenable.At least twice in the past year the two classic rock stations where I live played the same song within a few minutes of each other and I rarely have them on so it probably happens more frequently than that.They're only slightly more diverse than Top 40 stations.

[jk3521]

RAP MUSIC, HIP HOP OR WHAT EVER THEY CALL THAT CRAPOLA NOW !!!!

[JustRalph]

Lee Marvin : I was born under a wandering star. :(

Great thread btw. :ThmbUp:

I love that song, from Paint your wagon. Quite possibly the least likely actor of all time singing in a movie. It just has to make you think, who the hell came up with this idea?

Gold Fever is my fav from the musical.

[JustRalph]

"We Built This City"...and anything by Roy Orbison.

Even this one.........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk6xLX-C7_U


sk6xLX-C7_U

[JustRalph]

The Star Spangled Banner.

White Christmas.

The disco era.

Country.

Being as huge Springsteen fan ( 27 times live), as yes he has occasionally pissed me off politically. I'd like to nominate Tom's favorite group. I'm guessing The Archies.....

The Archie's were incredible. There was no group. One guy sang all the parts and that includes the girls. He played most instruments too. I lean toward "Bang Shang Alang" :lol:

Meghan Trainor has some Archie's influence for sure

[PhantomOnTour]

I guess someone watched Fallon last nite.. :ThmbUp: :D
:lol: :lol:
I actually saw a clip of the performance this morning on the news, and that's what set me off...they only showed about 5 seconds of the song, guess which 5 seconds it was?
Drumroll please... :D

[RunForTheRoses]

That was jefferson Starship I liked that song. Like anything Bad ass Grace Slick sings

That's actually Starship, more Mickey Thomas than Grace. Paul Kantner sued them over the name hence no Jefferson.

[RunForTheRoses]

At 67, fair to say he's never been more popular, and setting new records for playing epic, joyful concerts night after night in the US and across the world..

Whatever you do, resist the urge to tap your toe :p

L-Ds-FXGGQg

I like Bruce, he has some good stuff. I thought this was cool from the recent tour:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7ZirSDg3LQ

Here's how your song should be done though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thkqtpjjIIg

[CincyHorseplayer]

"We Built This City"...and anything by Roy Orbison.

Gotta keep this one though!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txfVKHMIOy8

[RunForTheRoses]

Even this one.........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk6xLX-C7_U


sk6xLX-C7_U

Roy is a true Legend.

[MutuelClerk]

The Archie's were incredible. There was no group. One guy sang all the parts and that includes the girls. He played most instruments too. I lean toward "Bang Shang Alang" :lol:

Meghan Trainor has some Archie's influence for sure

I knew that. Was trying to think of something really bubblegum. As far as rock songs go. I love Dylan but never liked Lay Lady Lay. Hey Jude by the Beatles never did anything for me. As much as I love Bruce you can have Glory Days. Don't Worry Be Happy was throw up in my mouth bad.

[headhawg]

Has my vote for most overrated musician of modern times.No, that would be Billy Joel.

[JustRalph]

No, that would be Billy Joel.

Anybody who can master the piano is a genius in my mind.

[jk3521]

Billy Joel was a master of story telling in a song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxEPV4kolz0

[CincyHorseplayer]

I still like those early Billy Joel records. But we can retire "Piano Man"! :)

[jk3521]

I still like those early Billy Joel records. But we can retire "Piano Man"! :)

It is a song of lost chances and life's disappointments. Very sad. When I was young, I didn't like it, but as I grew older , I began to love that song.

[CincyHorseplayer]

How bout we push some songs?! Like Reverend Horton Heat?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H96XcNWKZVg

[NorCalGreg]

How bout we push some songs?! Like Reverend Horton Heat?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H96XcNWKZVg


I like that, Cincy..kind of funky rockabilly sound. Very cool :ThmbUp:

[PhantomOnTour]

Amen. What a horrible sound and voice. Has my vote for most overrated musician of modern times. Add to the nausea, he's a liberal far left airhead with a stone-age mentality.
Just can't put those politics aside for anything , can you?
Pffffffft :ThmbDown:

[OTM Al]

How bout we push some songs?! Like Reverend Horton Heat?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H96XcNWKZVg
John Cale. Paris 1919. Whole album is great. Here is the title song

https://youtu.be/q5YHqWqhFkU

[JustRalph]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc9sQoxPxAg

From the former Chicago mailman

[ElKabong]

Just can't put those politics aside for anything , can you?
Pffffffft :ThmbDown:

Which was what put him (Marshall) off, in reference to the band.

[barahona44]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc9sQoxPxAg

From the former Chicago mailman
I didn't know Mostpost was a recording artist.A true Renaissance Man :)

[thaskalos]

Even this one.........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk6xLX-C7_U


sk6xLX-C7_U

Ralph...I'll never say another bad word about Roy Orbison ever again! :ThmbUp: :ThmbUp:

[barahona44]

Ralph...I'll never say another bad word about Roy Orbison ever again! :ThmbUp: :ThmbUp:
Good thing, I myself was just about to make insulting remarks about Yanni and Vangelis. :)

[thaskalos]

Good thing, I myself was just about to make insulting remarks about Yanni and Vangelis. :)

As long as you don't say anything bad about my man Zorba, we are fine. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-8SfhC2Ryw

[ebcorde]

No, that would be Billy Joel.


I agree with that we used to call Bill Joel Bummer Music

[ebcorde]

Just can't put those politics aside for anything , can you?
Pffffffft :ThmbDown:


good post Phantom

[ebcorde]

RAP MUSIC, HIP HOP OR WHAT EVER THEY CALL THAT CRAPOLA NOW !!!!


underrated music. I've been listening to a lot of Tupac lately. The guy was a genius. Not the music for chalk players.

all eyez on me.


one of a few tunes I use to motivate my long shot bets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m916XdaF4FI

[Marshall Bennett]

Hey Jude by the Beatles never did anything for me
Yellow Submarine was the only Beatles tune I couldn't listen to. It seemed to stand alone so far away from everything else for me because I loved the Beatles.

[Tom]

Being as huge Springsteen fan ( 27 times live), as yes he has occasionally pissed me off politically. I'd like to nominate Tom's favorite group. I'm guessing The Archies.....

Beatles.

Bang shang alang!

[pandy]

Yellow Submarine was the only Beatles tune I couldn't listen to. It seemed to stand alone so far away from everything else for me because I loved the Beatles.


Although brilliant songwriters, they had a few other duds, you probably didn't like Octopus's Garden.

I'm not a musician, but I've written songs, either by giving my lyrics to a songwriting partner, or writing the lyrics and singing a tune to a songwriting partner, who then put chords to the song.

I've also written a suspense novel, which wasn't easy, but on songwriting, in my opinion, it is one of the most difficult art forms. Master song writers like Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Dylan, Cole Porter, etc., these people are musical geniuses. To be able to write catchy melodies over and over again is something that very few people can do. Try creating a melody that doesn't sound like another song, extremely difficult. To write a lot of good songs like these guys did is an astonishing accomplishment.

Another thing about songwriters, most famous song writers wrote their top hits in their twenties. I don't know if its age, or if they simply only have a certain amount of good songs in them, but most song writers run out of hits. Billy Joel hasn't written a song in over 30 years. Carole King wrote all of her great songs as a young woman, some when she was a teenager, and couldn't write a good song after that. There are many other examples and few exceptions.

Springsteen's 2002 album, The Rising, which he came out with in his early 50's, was a surprise to me because it's a modern day masterpiece, based on an epiphany he had after 9/11, and one of the finest collections of songs by a songwriter over the age of 50 I've ever heard.

[Tom]

One of my favorites!

I'd like to be,
Under the sea,
In an octopus's garden with you!

I listened to that in the car this morning, as a matter of fact! :lol:

[jk3521]

Although brilliant songwriters, they had a few other duds, you probably didn't like Octopus's Garden.

For some reason, I seem to like the songs that Ringo is lead singer on. Yellow Submarine, Act Naturally . They gave him the fun novelty songs.

[pandy]

One of my favorites!

I'd like to be,
Under the sea,
In an octopus's garden with you!

I listened to that in the car this morning, as a matter of fact! :lol:


You are a hard core Beatles fan! So am I. I even love listening to their bad songs. I love the White Album, but many of the songs on that album are mediocre at best, especially for song writers of their caliber.

[pandy]

For some reason, I seem to like the songs that Ringo is lead singer on. Yellow Submarine, Act Naturally . They gave him the fun novelty songs.


When Ringo was recording A Little Help With My Friends, a classic, McCartney told him that he needed to belt out the last note and hold it. Ringo said, "I can't." In interviews, Ringo said that McCartney told him, "Yes you can, and you will."

There are so many great Beatles anecdotes.

[Fager Fan]

Best described (in Sense8) as "music for lobotomies."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NXnxTNIWkc

What's Up - 4 Non Blondes

Are you kidding? Great song.

I woukdnt mind at all if Springsteen and all his music was zapped from existence.

[Steve 'StatMan']

"We Built This City"...and anything by Roy Orbison.

I know being in Chicago, I can't help but think of the lyrics as "We Bilked This City"

[Tom]

When Ringo was recording A Little Help With My Friends, a classic, McCartney told him that he needed to belt out the last note and hold it. Ringo said, "I can't." In interviews, Ringo said that McCartney told him, "Yes you can, and you will."

There are so many great Beatles anecdotes.
I have that one album where they were actually recording the songs live, mistakes and all, and even alternate versions. Man, did A Day in the Life evolve from the first time to the final album cut!

[Tom]

I know being in Chicago, I can't help but think of the lyrics as "We Bilked This City"

Backed with The Night Chicago Died.
I believe that was election day, 2008.:D

[kingfin66]

Yellow Submarine was the only Beatles tune I couldn't listen to. It seemed to stand alone so far away from everything else for me because I loved the Beatles.

I will give you a hint; the song was not really about a yellow submarine. There was definite metaphor in that sung. Very counterculture. Subversive. If you weren't part of that you probably would not be able to connect with that, and many other, songs. Plus it was a Ringo song, so points off right there!

[Inner Dirt]

RAP MUSIC, HIP HOP OR WHAT EVER THEY CALL THAT CRAPOLA NOW !!!!

You and me both, when it first became popular in the mid 80's I thought it would last about 3 years or so like disco, instead it is more popular than ever going on 30 years, WTF!

[CincyHorseplayer]

Being born in 1973 I grew up with rap and it's evolution was great. Now it has reached status quo and is marketed out the azz and is being shoved in your face from every direction and it makes you hate it. But like any other genre the good is great and everything else sucks! But I'm not looking for it much these days.

I look at music as there is a song for every emotion. So I am all over the map with what I will listen to. Not stuck in any time period either. I've been listening to Django Reinhardt in the car. I love sitting on my front porch with a bourbon drink in hand and listen to the bugs in the trees and Frank Sinatra in late summer. Will wear out my Mozart piano concert 10 disc box set all winter while couped up. Have Beach Boys blasting on my way to the pool all summer. Love my new age rockabilly and old school jazz. Will filter in some hip hop and alternative but have to have classics like this! This is a handicapping fatigue motivator and my theme song for the Breeders Cup! Let's crush this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd972J6f4IY

[CincyHorseplayer]

Great thread. Love when we do one of these!

[pandy]

We just got one of those new Amazon Echo Dot's last week. Now you don't have to have Amazon Echo to use one, it's a stand alone item that sells for $50, a bargain. I have it hooked up to my Marantz receiver and I am on the Amazon Prime Unlimited music free 30 day trial (which is $3.99 a month thereafter). They say they have 10 million songs. Anyway, I can just say, "Alexa, play Frank Sinatra's I've Got You Under My Skin" and the song comes on. I also synched it with my Nest thermostat so I can tell it to turn on the heat and set the temperature to whatever I want. There going to sell a zillion of these during the Holidays.

Too bad I can't say, "Alexa, $20 on the 2-10 double in the 1st at Belmont." Who knows, maybe that's coming.

[JustRalph]

We just got one of those new Amazon Echo Dot's last week. Now you don't have to have Amazon Echo to use one, it's a stand alone item that sells for $50, a bargain. I have it hooked up to my Marantz receiver and I am on the Amazon Prime Unlimited music free 30 day trial (which is $3.99 a month thereafter). They say they have 10 million songs. Anyway, I can just say, "Alexa, play Frank Sinatra's I've Got You Under My Skin" and the song comes on. I also synched it with my Nest thermostat so I can tell it to turn on the heat and set the temperature to whatever I want. There going to sell a zillion of these during the Holidays.

Too bad I can't say, "Alexa, $20 on the 2-10 double in the 1st at Belmont." Who knows, maybe that's coming.

I've had two Echo's for about a year. Makes a great radio in the shower too.

Not sure I like the new prime music but we'll see.

Bob, remember you can setup playlists of your own in the prime music app. Then just tell it to play the playlist. Every morning I hear my wife walk into the bathroom and say "Alexa, shuffle Lori's shower music playlist"

I like the jeopardy questions too......

I like that I can call out radio stations from all over the country. "Alexa, play WLS" " Alexa play KTRH" etc.......adjusting volume on the fly by voice command is cool too. Weather and time anywhere in the world is great too.

It's gaining abilities every week too👍

[pandy]

Thanks for the tips Ralph, I didn't know that.

My oldest son has automated shades on his windows and his lights are also on the network, so he says, "Alexa, set room to nighttime, and the shades go down, and the lights go on."

[zico20]

Although brilliant songwriters, they had a few other duds, you probably didn't like Octopus's Garden.

I'm not a musician, but I've written songs, either by giving my lyrics to a songwriting partner, or writing the lyrics and singing a tune to a songwriting partner, who then put chords to the song.

I've also written a suspense novel, which wasn't easy, but on songwriting, in my opinion, it is one of the most difficult art forms. Master song writers like Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Dylan, Cole Porter, etc., these people are musical geniuses. To be able to write catchy melodies over and over again is something that very few people can do. Try creating a melody that doesn't sound like another song, extremely difficult. To write a lot of good songs like these guys did is an astonishing accomplishment.

Another thing about songwriters, most famous song writers wrote their top hits in their twenties. I don't know if its age, or if they simply only have a certain amount of good songs in them, but most song writers run out of hits. Billy Joel hasn't written a song in over 30 years. Carole King wrote all of her great songs as a young woman, some when she was a teenager, and couldn't write a good song after that. There are many other examples and few exceptions.

Springsteen's 2002 album, The Rising, which he came out with in his early 50's, was a surprise to me because it's a modern day masterpiece, based on an epiphany he had after 9/11, and one of the finest collections of songs by a songwriter over the age of 50 I've ever heard.

When you leave out Brian Wilson on your list of master song writers then we know how serious to take you. :D He was one of the greatest. Then again, I am a huge Beach Boys fan!

[pandy]

When you leave out Brian Wilson on your list of master song writers then we know how serious to take you. :D He was one of the greatest. Then again, I am a huge Beach Boys fan!


They have a big following, that's for sure. I like the Beach Boys, I have a friend, Gene Casey, who is a singer/songwriter and has a band called The Lone Sharks that play on the east end of Long Island. He also thinks that Brian Wilson is a genius but the guy only wrote a handful of good songs, whereas there are song writers who have a volume of work.

[jk3521]

Neil Diamond is another prolific writer of hit songs. No voice , but he got the point over.

[jk3521]

Being born in 1973 I grew up with rap and it's evolution was great. Now it has reached status quo and is marketed out the azz and is being shoved in your face from every direction and it makes you hate it. But like any other genre the good is great and everything else sucks! But I'm not looking for it much these days.

We all seem to go for the music the most that we got to know when we were in our teen years. My teen favorites Four Seasons, Beatles , Stones , Beach Boys. Etc. I also loved Motown,the Tempts and Four Tops, Jackie Wilson and in the seventies , the Spinners and Al Green and early Aretha. I feel like an antique now days. Thank God for Youtube, I can still watch their performances.

[JustRalph]

Neil Diamond is another prolific writer of hit songs. No voice , but he got the point over.

That entire neighborhood where he grew up was full of songwriters. Neil Sedaka dated Carole King. There were many others in Brooklyn who were primarily poor Jewish kids who worked out of the brill building. Including Babs Streisand who went to school with Diamond. It's amazing when you put it all together.

[OTM Al]

When you leave out Brian Wilson on your list of master song writers then we know how serious to take you. :D He was one of the greatest. Then again, I am a huge Beach Boys fan!
Saw both Mike Love's Beach Boys and Brian Wilson's band (which had more real Beach Boys in it btw) this past summer. No comparison. Mike Love had John Stamos and fun surf music. Brian Wilson had a real band and played all of Pet Sounds as the second half of the show. It was remarkable.

[MutuelClerk]

Agree with Al. I saw Brian Wilson at the Fox theatre this summer and it was a great show. The movie on him Love And Mercy? was really good too. Love Pet Sounds.......

[NJ Stinks]

That entire neighborhood where he grew up was full of songwriters. Neil Sedaka dated Carole King. There were many others in Brooklyn who were primarily poor Jewish kids who worked out of the brill building. Including Babs Streisand who went to school with Diamond. It's amazing when you put it all together.

I saw the play Beautiful and I'm going to see it again next month. :ThmbUp: :ThmbUp:

[EasyGoer89]

"moves like jagger"

Awful.

:bang:

[Tom]

"moves like jagger"

Awful.

:bang:

Whoa!

Not only is that a GREAT song, I, too, have moves like Jagger!~

[Tom]

Agree with Al. I saw Brian Wilson at the Fox theatre this summer and it was a great show. The movie on him Love And Mercy? was really good too. Love Pet Sounds.......

Pet Sounds, the American Sgt Pepper. :ThmbUp:

[Tape Reader]

That entire neighborhood where he grew up was full of songwriters. Neil Sedaka dated Carole King. There were many others in Brooklyn who were primarily poor Jewish kids who worked out of the brill building. Including Babs Streisand who went to school with Diamond. It's amazing when you put it all together.

Me Too.

And it was not a “Poor neighborhood.” Very middle class.

I was in Barbara’s PS 89 class.

Get this: Music teacher, Mrs. Beach, has students sing…La,La,LA .
Me: lz, lr,lar! Mrs. Beach: NO, NO, NO, nobody can sing like my “Barbara.”
I was devastated and decided my time could be better spent playing the horses. True story.

P.S. I graduated PS 89 and went to Erasmus HS where Barbara and Neil Diamond never met . It was put together for the song “You don’t bring me flowers” I think.

[barahona44]

Whoa!

Not only is that a GREAT song, I, too, have moves like Jagger!~
Mick or Dean? :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Jagger

[CincyHorseplayer]

I was born in 1973 but my grandma practically raised me as my mom worked so all the 50-60"s you guys are mentioning I grew up with as well. Love it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sxnXO2RjVg

[CincyHorseplayer]

Pet Sounds, the American Sgt Pepper. :ThmbUp:

Great album!

[JustRalph]

Me Too.

And it was not a “Poor neighborhood.” Very middle class.

I was in Barbara’s PS 89 class.

Get this: Music teacher, Mrs. Beach, has students sing…La,La,LA .
Me: lz, lr,lar! Mrs. Beach: NO, NO, NO, nobody can sing like my “Barbara.”
I was devastated and decided my time could be better spent playing the horses. True story.

P.S. I graduated PS 89 and went to Erasmus HS where Barbara and Neil Diamond never met . It was put together for the song “You don’t bring me flowers” I think.

Funny, I've heard Diamond call it a poor neighborhood at least twice in interviews. I love to hear Sedaka talk about the area. He used to talk about it in his shows. Thanks for the first hand account 👍

[reckless]

Anybody who can master the piano is a genius in my mind.

Here is a true genius but surely not as a piano player nor singer.

The song is great. Video quality is poor, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5YCQePkVfM

[reckless]

I still like those early Billy Joel records. But we can retire "Piano Man"! :)

I bought the album, The Hassels, for $2.99 when I was 13. They were my favorite group then. Played it non stop until it just about wore out. Still have it and play it on my birthday.

Here's my favorite song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0p0gEt579E

[pandy]

One of my favorite groups is Squeeze (Black Coffee In Bed, Tempted, Pulling Mussels From The Shell. If I Didn't Love, Is That Love, Goodbye Girl, Take Me I'm Yours, Cool For Cats, etc.). Songwriting team of Glen Tilbrook and Chris Difford. I saw them twice 79/80. This year they came out with a new album, first one since 1998, and they toured. My wife and I got to see them in the Keswick Theater in Glenside, PA. They were great. Tilbrook sings most of the songs and at 59, his voice sounds just as good as it did when he was 20.

We also got to see Jordan Smith, who won The Voice last year. He played the Musikfest Cafe in this area last Sunday. Incredible voice, one of the best I've ever heard from a pop singer.

[Burls]

I could never stand any of the post-Eagles 'solo career' crap that came out in the mid-80s.
Boys Of Summer by Don Henley was the worst.

[JustRalph]

I could never stand any of the post-Eagles 'solo career' crap that came out in the mid-80s.
Boys Of Summer by Don Henley was the worst.

2007 album, "out of eden" the worst piece of shit .........

[CincyHorseplayer]

I bought the album, The Hassels, for $2.99 when I was 13. They were my favorite group then. Played it non stop until it just about wore out. Still have it and play it on my birthday.

Here's my favorite song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0p0gEt579E

Cool song Reckless. It reminds me of this band, one of their background good songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43on86AmOw8

[RunForTheRoses]

Speak of the devil
https://www.google.com/amp/nypost.com/2016/10/28/is-john-lennons-imagine-the-worst-song-of-all-time/amp/

I'm on my iPhone I don't know how to get the google out of the URL

A lot of the songs are good songs just played out.

[Marshall Bennett]

I lost any respect for Henley and Frey after they fired Don Felder. Yes, the band was shit after that as most expected it would be. Joe Walsh only stayed because of the money. Now one is dead and the other looks like death warmed over (Henley and Frey). Funny sometimes how life plays out. :)

[OTM Al]

Pet Sounds, the American Sgt Pepper. :ThmbUp:
Sgt Pepper is the British Pet Sounds more accurately.

Smile, given what has been finally put together from it, would have been even better.

[FantasticDan]

I could never stand any of the post-Eagles 'solo career' crap that came out in the mid-80s. Boys Of Summer by Don Henley was the worst.Huh.. Henley's :3: 80s solo albums are among my favorites from the decade.

Some real lovely stuff in his first solo:

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TSwoHRVGHhQ

[RunForTheRoses]

One of my favorite groups is Squeeze (Black Coffee In Bed, Tempted, Pulling Mussels From The Shell. If I Didn't Love, Is That Love, Goodbye Girl, Take Me I'm Yours, Cool For Cats, etc.). Songwriting team of Glen Tilbrook and Chris Difford. I saw them twice 79/80. This year they came out with a new album, first one since 1998, and they toured. My wife and I got to see them in the Keswick Theater in Glenside, PA. They were great. Tilbrook sings most of the songs and at 59, his voice sounds just as good as it did when he was 20.

We also got to see Jordan Smith, who won The Voice last year. He played the Musikfest Cafe in this area last Sunday. Incredible voice, one of the best I've ever heard from a pop singer.

Yeah, I like Squeeze, saw them sometime in the 80s at Nassau Colliseum, a venue probably a little too big for them. Picked up a real good boot from around 79 or 80 at the bottom line at a torrent site and it is a real scorcher.

The one Squeeze dood Jools Holland has become a big talk show host in the UK

[CincyHorseplayer]

Sgt Pepper is the British Pet Sounds more accurately.

Smile, given what has been finally put together from it, would have been even better.

Nicely put and agree. That is a concept album and Pet Sounds is something else of the sound variety.

Got my mind on the times...

https://youtu.be/QxizIrbcSuU