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Post by markmcneil on Dec 10, 2016 23:52:56 GMT -5
Gene Pitney's "She's A Heartbreaker"
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Post by matt on Dec 16, 2016 13:35:31 GMT -5
For me, 1983's Making Love (Out Of Nothing At All) was a departure for Air Supply. The difference in production, thanks to Jim Steinman, made them stronger, less wimpy, wussy & overly gentle, in my mind. While "Making Love" was a slight departure for Air Supply, a song that was more drastic for them was "Just As I Am". While it's not my favorite song, it was refreshing to hear AS finally come out with something that wasn't a slow dramatic ballad.
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Post by matt on Dec 16, 2016 13:39:52 GMT -5
To me The Cars' "Drive" fits this category, in part because of the different lead vocal (Ben Orr instead of Rik Ocasek). Apparently Orr sang some of their earlier hits too ("Just What I Needed" for one, if memory serves) but "Drive" was their first hit that didn't have that nervous singing style I associate with them. Ben Orr also sang lead on "Let's Go". Agree with you here--though the Cars do have another ballad or two in their hits catalog, nothing else they ever hit with sounds quite like "Drive".
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Post by matt on Dec 16, 2016 13:52:02 GMT -5
Would Blondie count? They had a bunch of hits with different styles than their usual rock sound: reggae ("The Tide Is High"), rap ("Rapture"), disco ("Heart of Glass"), calypso ("Island of Lost Souls"). Although that sounds more like your Kiss example. Thing is with Blondie, and you more or less pointed this out in your post, they were a rare band that seemed to perpetually experiment with incorporating different styles and genres into their music. Quite honestly, it's probably one of the most significant factors in their success, both commercial and critical. So it's hard to say that anything for them would've been a departure from their style, because they had so many different styles. BTW, you could probably add post punk ("One Way Or Another") and rock ("Call Me") to other styles they used...
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Post by keithr63 on Dec 17, 2016 14:28:03 GMT -5
38 Special and Second Chance-their highest charting song and for me their worst song and I am a huge 38 fan- this song just can' t compete with Hold On Loosely,Rockin' Into The Night and Back Where You Belong
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Post by pb on Dec 17, 2016 15:14:23 GMT -5
On this week's 70's episode (12/18/76) we have a disco song by Al Green called "Keep Me Cryin'." I'm not sure if it was his only disco hit, but I believe shortly after this he stopped doing secular music.
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Post by dukelightning on Dec 17, 2016 17:06:19 GMT -5
^That song actually goes into 2 specialty threads devoted to songs. The other being songs Casey liked. Suppose I should have put this post in that thread. But when I heard the song and what Casey said about it, I immediately thought a post could be put in both threads. Also it is the song that I am least familiar with in the whole show.
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Post by pb on Dec 17, 2016 17:31:28 GMT -5
^That song actually goes into 2 specialty threads devoted to songs. The other being songs Casey liked. I noticed that too. Despite Casey's enthusiasm the song could get no higher than #37 on the pop chart.
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Post by jlthorpe on Dec 17, 2016 23:12:56 GMT -5
On this week's 70's episode (12/18/76) we have a disco song by Al Green called "Keep Me Cryin'." I'm not sure if it was his only disco hit, but I believe shortly after this he stopped doing secular music. Much like power ballads from hard rock acts, disco songs from non-disco acts are good examples. For example: "Warm Ride" by Rare Earth (which was written by The Bee Gees) and "I Was Made for Loving You" by Kiss. Outside of disco, here's another example I thought of: Billy Preston and Syreeta's "With You I'm Born Again".
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Post by mkarns on Dec 17, 2016 23:35:36 GMT -5
On this week's 70's episode (12/18/76) we have a disco song by Al Green called "Keep Me Cryin'." I'm not sure if it was his only disco hit, but I believe shortly after this he stopped doing secular music. In fact, it was that very weekend (December 18, 1976) when Al was ordained and began preaching at Full Gospel Tabernacle Church in Memphis. 40 years later he's still its reverend, while he eventually returned to recording and performing secular music as well as gospel.
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Post by at40nut on Dec 18, 2016 11:40:37 GMT -5
38 Special and Second Chance-their highest charting song and for me their worst song and I am a huge 38 fan- this song just can' t compete with Hold On Loosely,Rockin' Into The Night and Back Where You Belong I thought the "Sound Of Your Voice" was worse. I think Max Carl was a hard pill to swallow for 38 Special fans just like Brian Howe was for Bad Company. I thought Max Carl was a great singer, but not with 38 Special. I'm not sure what was up with Donny Van Zandt during that period.
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Post by trekkielo on Dec 19, 2016 22:25:03 GMT -5
Electric Light Orchestra's entire original run from 1972-1986, then 2001 and 2015 had style departures over many musical genres!
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Post by tarobe on Jan 18, 2017 4:50:18 GMT -5
And while Neil Young's 1982 techno-pop album "Trans" didn't produce any Top 40 hits, it still stands as one of the most radical departures any artist has ever attempted. It was so radical, in fact, his record label sued him for delivering a Neil Young album that didn't sound like Neil Young. Artistic freedom? Ha! Ha! I remember that! David Geffen signed him away from Reprise. First he released Trans, an electronic album like nothing he's ever done before or since, then Everybody's Rockin', a fifties-sounding rockabilly album, and then Old Ways, a country album (not country flavored like Harvest or Comes a Time, but REALLY country, with Nashville sessionmen and guest stars like Willie Nelson). Geffen then sued him for "not making Neil Young albums."
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Post by Mike on Jan 18, 2017 5:35:40 GMT -5
38 Special and Second Chance-their highest charting song and for me their worst song and I am a huge 38 fan- this song just can' t compete with Hold On Loosely,Rockin' Into The Night and Back Where You Belong I thought the "Sound Of Your Voice" was worse. I think Max Carl was a hard pill to swallow for 38 Special fans just like Brian Howe was for Bad Company. I thought Max Carl was a great singer, but not with 38 Special. I'm not sure what was up with Donny Van Zandt during that period. Wasn't Van Zandt who was the singer we're all familiar with. That was actually Don Barnes, who left the band for 5 years following 1987's "Back to Paradise" (which fell short of the 40). If Wiki is to be believed, however, then Barnes would agree with Keith RE: "Second Chance"; when that song was in its earlier stages (it dates back to 1983), he didn't want them recording it.
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Post by Hervard on Jan 18, 2017 12:36:36 GMT -5
38 Special and Second Chance-their highest charting song and for me their worst song and I am a huge 38 fan- this song just can' t compete with Hold On Loosely,Rockin' Into The Night and Back Where You Belong When I first heard this song, I thought Sting had released a third solo album and it was the lead-off single. I was surprised to hear that it was .38 Special. I agree - they were much better with Don Barnes as the lead singer. "Second Chance" was OK, but it would have sounded better being sung by an artist who was more AC-oriented - not .38 Special.
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