Showing posts with label Yacht Rock Favorites (a.k.a. Soft Rock So Soft It Hurts). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yacht Rock Favorites (a.k.a. Soft Rock So Soft It Hurts). Show all posts
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Meat Loaf's Loss Is Someone Else's Gain - Part I: Air Supply

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It's 1981. The evening sunlight streams gently into Jim Steinman's apartment. He scribbles some final notes onto the sheet music...
Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Air Supply - Supplying Far Too Much Air

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If you've ever wondered who the wimpiest band of the '80s were, you can wonder no longer. It was Air Supply. Look at them. Air ...
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Thursday, June 21, 2012

Waiting For A Wimpy #2 Foreigner Ballad Like You

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Foreigner rocked. They rocked hard. First they were Hot Blooded , then they were Cold As Ice . When you heard a Foreigner track in the l...
Thursday, June 14, 2012

Paul Davis - "Cool"; Not Actually Cool

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Did you know that Axl Rose's father used to be a soft rock musician? All right, so Paul Davis was not Axl Rose's father. But he ...
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Sunday, June 10, 2012

A Washed Up America Creates One Last Piece Of Pop "Magic"

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No, I'm not talking about our great nation; I'm talking about '70s soft rock juggernauts America. Yes, they named themselve...
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Thursday, June 7, 2012

You Mean The Song That Sounds Like An Eagles Song Isn't, And The Song That Doesn't Sound Like An Eagles Song Is?

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You're being held captive in a dungeon. A sick, psychopathic terrorist has tied you to a chair resting over a trap door. Beneath t...
Monday, May 28, 2012

Robbie Dupree "Steals Away" Michael McDonald's Sound

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A funky drum beat. A sparkling keyboard. A bouncy piano riff. You're thinking, "All right, 'What A Fool Believes'! I lo...
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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Yacht Rock Favorites (a.k.a. Soft Rock So Soft It Hurts)

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As brilliant as it may have been, the Yacht Rock online video series, to quote the conclusion of my last Yacht Rock post , "only ...
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