Favorite Soft Rock Songs of all time

Aimee Mann – Build That Wall
Fleetwood Mac – Gypsy
Todd Rundgren – Cold Morning Light
Joni Mitchell – Help Me
Hall and Oates – Rich Girl


At least two of these artists have TP entries, so I feel no shame. If you haven't heard the Aimee mann song (from the Magnolia soundtrack), you dont know what you're missing. Very pretty indeed.

Heh, I have a "soft rock" playlist on my iPod. Some faves:

Randy Newman: "God Song"
Loudon Wainwright III "Summer's Almost Over"
Kings of Convenience "Homesick"
Eels "Ugly Love"
Deniece Williams "Free"
any number of Tom Waits ballads, e.g. "Fish and Bird"
from Brian Eno's "Another Day On Earth": "This," "Wider," "And Then So Clear"

Antony & The Johnsons "I Am A Bird Now" album

Hall & Oates, "Sarah Smiles"

sweet baby mudslide oberst's new single...

I loves me some "Just Another Day" by Jon Secada.

Also:

Fleetwood Mac - "Over My Head"
Ace - "How Long"
Paul McCartney - "Arrow Through Me"

5th dimension
millenium
roberta flack

a whole bunch of tracks on Big Star's "#1 Record". I hate to say it, but it qualifies as '70s soft rock. And not always in a good way.

'i-i-i'm inl ove with a girl' is a favorite.
kiss's 'beth i hear you calling...' crack's me up.
jefferson's starship song 'what you doing with me with your love' was playing in a gas station and was in my 9 year old daughter's head for a while which got me singing along, too.
what did bob welch mean in his lyrics for sentimental lady: "Fourteen joys and a will to be merry?"

The fourteen joys?
if you need to ask...

what happens if i need to ask? am i classified as ignorant in a certain category?

...if you need to ask about the fourteen joys, surely you've experienced but a few. I'm still working on the 9th.

gerry rafferty's ''baker street'' seems to be a wide range favorite.
i just found out he was in steel wheels.

that's Stealers Wheel

it sure wasn't steel breeze or steel pulse...

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We listen to the Yachts on my yacht.


we listen to the cows on my farm.

NP
alarm clocks.
Rise and shine!!!!!!!!

Ha, I have "Otra Dias Mas Sin Verte" -- original version of "Just Another Day" -- on the iPod. Got it for my wife, but it's nice indeed.

zombies-odessey and oracle

Not to mention Colin Blunstone's solo work.

I am currently enjoying "The Great Pretenders" by Silver Lakes. I have a hard time defining soft rock fairly (negative connotations to me), but I think they fit the genre.

10cc

Velvet Crush's Soft Sounds
the Matthew Sweet/Susannah Hoffs covers record
Rufus Wainwright's first album

I forgot Prefab Sprout.

I'm a sucker for Lennon's "Woman" and "Beautiful Boy"

From the awesome crudcrud music blog:

"Late last Summer, my girlfriend and I are walking...and we come upon a yard sale. I see a lady looking at records...dressed in the latest hipster fashion and is making a nice stack of records...I take a look at the pile she has created: Captain & Tennille, The Carpenters, Seals & Croft, etc. Essentially she is creating a pile of shit...Later I am told that the latest trend among the hip and the dumb is Yacht Rock. The youngsters gather in bars, drink, and finding fuckables to smooth sounds of the Seventies. Martinis to Muskrat Love."

Yikes! That's news to me. Is this trend over yet? And who are these "hipsters" - anyone on this board? Explain yourself!



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Martinis to Muskrat Love."

Yikes! That's news to me. Is this trend over yet? And who are these "hipsters" - anyone on this board? Explain yourself!

satch is one of them


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i thought they said "crotch rock"...

I like the Carpenters. Karen Carpenter was a hell of a singer and her voice added all kinds of depth and melancholy to those songs which might not have been there in the hands of lesser singers. For proof, just check out Cracker's embarrassing performance on the Carpenters tribute from about ten years ago. David Lowery can't sing for fuck and their version of "Rainy Days and Mondays" just sounds like "nudge-nudge-wink-wink ain't we ironic" bullshit, but when Karen Carpenter sang it, you believed that rainy days and Mondays were depressing the hell out of her. (In contrast, check out American Music Club's version of "Goodbye to Love." Eitzel gets it.)

It's always been odd to me that the Carpenters are held up as the epitome of early 70s blandness, when they were in fact an open bleeding wound and were in some ways closer to Nick Drake than they were to the Osmonds or "Billy, Don't Be a Hero." And my tongue is only barely in cheek when I say that.

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