I’m not quite the fan that pkbites is, but I own three of their CDs and you didn’t even mention my favorite Collective Soul song: Heavy
I think Collective Soul are about as exciting as boiled cabbage, but to each his own I guess. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Bon jovie after sliperly when wet.
Poison after debut album.
They should have been a one-album wonder. Their first album was truly awesome. Everything after it was terrible.
They’re hit and miss. They reuse a lot of musical motifs over and over. With that being said, I think maybe 25% of their overall output demonstrated genuine creativity, and their lineup of guitarists and drummers, which has changed many times over the decades, have always had serious chops, from the very beginning with their first studio album which was a fairly unique piece of musicianship. They are also blessed with one of the best living bassists in rock music, whose silly moniker belies an extremely extensive and scholarly knowledge of music.
Anthony has always been their weakest link, frankly. I’ll always have a nostalgic fondness for their music, but I think they could have been a lot better with a different vocalist/songwriter.
IIRC you were fairly young in 1985. At the time I don’t recall much doubt that 69 was an intentional double entendre.
If we are including albums, I’d vote for Molly Hatchet. Flirtin’ With Disaster was a great album from front to back, but I never thought anything else they did was listenable.
So go ahead and sing along, and change it to “It was the summer of Seventy-Six…” See if you can get it to fit.
“Run to You” is yet another one of those songs that Isn’t What Everyone Thinks It’s About.
I’ve always loved “This Time”. The Wiki page says that Lou Gramm does harmony on the song, and it sounds like they’re right. It went to #24 in 1983.
Nickelback. “How You Remind Me” was a decent song and if they’d broken up immediately after it, they might be fondly remembered.
Boston did one very long song and divided it up into dozens of individual segments.
Though this was apparently a #1 single for fifteen weeks, I’d never heard it before. Or, more likely, I’d heard it and then immediately forgotten I’d heard it. Not awful, but pretty much exactly the same thing any four guys in flannel shirts were putting out around that time.
Too late to edit: “Heavy” spent 15 weeks atop Billboard’s “Mainstream Rock Tracks” chart, for whatever that’s worth.
It peaked at #73 on the Hot 100, which helps explain why I wasn’t familiar with it.
I presume you’re being facetious.
But if not, then the suggested substitution is one syllable too many.
Well, it’s either about a guy having an affair. Or it’s about a musician who cares more about his music than his girl. (The latter possibility implied by the video.)
People probably wont like this, but Nirvana… even cobain said his lyrics are just garbage he threw together. They were just shoved down our throughts by the media.
I like it. I bought “Nevermind” and sold it to a kid at school the next day door a $5 loss.
My brother was a college radio DJ in the late 1980s, and after “Nevermind” came out, I asked him if he ever played anything from their first album, “Bleach.” He replied that he did, and if a time traveler had come to him and said that in the fall of 1991, this band would release an album that would hit #1 in pretty much every country on earth that has a chart and turn popular music on its ear, he’d have said they were nuts.
And nobody really thought at the time that their DRUMMER was really the heart and soul of the band.
Heck, I can go back even farther and find examples from my childhood.
Popular music changed dramatically with the “British Invasion”, spearheaded by the Beatles and the Stones. Even American bands got on board (to the extent that some of the Chicago bands promoted by WCFL and WLS were assumed to be British… I saw The Buckinghams this summer and they told of appearing on Hullabaloo, where the stage had been festooned with Union Jacks).
Anyhow, a few bands had a great first single or album, then got lazy. In the case of The Vogues, “Five O’Clock World” had a fresh sound and a gritty message (and it made for a fun opening for the Drew Carey show).
But for some godforsaken reason, that was their only song with that kind of chops, and they decided to completely change their style and start shoveling out nothing but sappy ‘easy listening’ songs like “Turn Around, Look At Me”.
I remember buying The Best of The Vogues and thinking “What? Who are the wusses who are doing all these treacley tunes? I mean, ONE good song? Why did I buy this?”
What was the album that the “Wayne’s World” guys said was issued to all teenagers in the late 1970s? It was either Boston’s self-titled debut, or “Frampton Comes Alive”.
Agreed, but that verse about taking her home tonight just didn’t fit in at all. Totally ruined it.