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Post by coldcardinal on Apr 17, 2013 21:58:26 GMT -5
I love the synth ending of "Cars" -- but I agree about "Captain of Her Heart." I always get excited when I hear it coming on, but by the end of the first chorus I'm bored.
There were many two-verse songs for which I liked the verses much more than the choruses, so they were pretty much over for me by halfway through (strangely, 1983 seemed to be the year for that):
(Keep Feeling) Fascination Mirror Man Too Shy Promises Promises Steppin' Out True
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Post by mkarns on Apr 17, 2013 22:08:13 GMT -5
I love the synth ending of "Cars" -- but I agree about "Captain of Her Heart." I always get excited when I hear it coming on, but by the end of the first chorus I'm bored. There were many two-verse songs for which I liked the verses much more than the choruses, so they were pretty much over for me by halfway through (strangely, 1983 seemed to be the year for that): (Keep Feeling) Fascination Mirror Man Too Shy Promises Promises Steppin' Out True The songs you cite each do have at least two verses and usually more choruses, so they feel complete to me. I agree the verses of "Steppin' Out"are more interesting than the chorus, which feels like an afterthought. With "True", though, my view is the opposite of yours; it starts out slow but to me seems to build and get more emotional, with stronger singing, as it goes on. (And I hate it when radio edits it; only the full five and a half minute version will do.)
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Apr 21, 2013 14:04:13 GMT -5
Layla's piano coda is one of the more beautiful pieces of music of all time!
(Also, Blood Sweat & Tears: Variations On A Theme By Eric Satie and Focus: Eurdice (Portion of the track Eruption)
As for falling apart, I always thought that Asia's Only Time Will Tell had a weird ending. Seems like its another verse and it fades out.... (We're talking album version here BTW)
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Post by bestmusicexpert on Apr 21, 2013 14:05:21 GMT -5
Randy Crawford did a nice cover of Captain Of Her Heart. Quite sublime!
Agree on True, Only the long version is acceptable to me!
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Post by wickster82 on Apr 24, 2013 12:41:35 GMT -5
Then Came You by Dionne Warwick & The Spinners.
I love this song, but it seems excessive to have the chorus repeated like 15 times at the end.
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Post by cachiva on Apr 24, 2013 22:02:20 GMT -5
I always thought that Rufus' "Once you Get Started" bolts out of the blocks like a house afire, with Chaka already in full orgasm, only to downshift repeatedly as the song progresses. By the time the get to, "Come on and move, come on and groove", it has practically stalled.
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Post by chrislc on Jun 20, 2013 18:51:00 GMT -5
I recently heard another song that begins strong but never really goes anywhere.
The intro and first 30-60 seconds sound like it will be a Pop #1 smash, but then - meh.
Young Hearts Run Free
They wrote and produced 1/2 of a great great hit single. I can easily imagine PDs and MDs listening to the first minute and saying OMG add it!
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Post by pgfromwp on Jun 20, 2013 20:24:29 GMT -5
Layla's piano coda is one of the more beautiful pieces of music of all time! Ironic how it was background music for the sequence of mob hits during "Goodfellas".
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Post by mga707 on Jun 20, 2013 22:53:51 GMT -5
I recently heard another song that begins strong but never really goes anywhere. The intro and first 30-60 seconds sound like it will be a Pop #1 smash, but then - meh. Young Hearts Run Free They wrote and produced 1/2 of a great great hit single. I can easily imagine PDs and MDs listening to the first minute and saying OMG add it! I feel exactly the same way about "Welcome To the Jungle". The intro is one of the best hard rock intros of all time, but then the song gets as boring as all get out, with Axl repetitiously screeching and caterwauling like a cat in heat...
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Post by skuncle on Jun 22, 2013 11:05:20 GMT -5
Part of the reason for The Chain sounding the way it does is because it was pieced together from several different songs. Part of the lyrics came from a very dark Stevie Nicks song, the end of the song, from the bass part to the end was part of another song, and the beginning came from yet another song.
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Post by Hervard on Jun 22, 2013 13:52:16 GMT -5
"Everlasting Love" by Carl Carlton. After the first chorus, it sounds like there's going to be a second verse, but instead, he starts singing the chorus again and keeps repeating it to the fade. There really should have been a second verse in the song.
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Post by Hervard on Jun 23, 2013 13:30:22 GMT -5
How about "Why Can't We Be Friends"? The verses are way too short - they should combine at least two or possibly more of them into one verse - that way, the song would have about the right number of verses and it wouldn't be so repetitive (since after each verse, they go right back to the chorus, where they repeat "Why Can't We Be Friends" over and over again).
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Post by dukelightning on Jul 13, 2017 9:12:37 GMT -5
I recently heard another song that begins strong but never really goes anywhere. The intro and first 30-60 seconds sound like it will be a Pop #1 smash, but then - meh. Young Hearts Run Free They wrote and produced 1/2 of a great great hit single. I can easily imagine PDs and MDs listening to the first minute and saying OMG add it! First of all, this might scare people a little but I remember this post from 4 years ago! And it looks like a few people will disagree. Besides yours truly, there are a couple people who listed it on their favorite songs from this week's shows list. Especially 80sat40fan! Btw, I am editing the Lp version into the show too.
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Post by chrislc on Jul 21, 2017 20:41:37 GMT -5
I recently heard another song that begins strong but never really goes anywhere. The intro and first 30-60 seconds sound like it will be a Pop #1 smash, but then - meh. Young Hearts Run Free They wrote and produced 1/2 of a great great hit single. I can easily imagine PDs and MDs listening to the first minute and saying OMG add it! First of all, this might scare people a little but I remember this post from 4 years ago! And it looks like a few people will disagree. Besides yours truly, there are a couple people who listed it on their favorite songs from this week's shows list. Especially 80sat40fan! Btw, I am editing the Lp version into the show too. It is a good one. I bought it. It skipped, of course, as did many of those 45s. But that was probably because of my very poor quality "sound system". It should have peaked much higher, though. I think it would have if they had better fleshed out the second half of the song. Maybe a stronger bridge or something. And, yes, people often tell me how memorable my posts are. And occasionally, it's not because they disagreed with what I said in the post.
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Post by 1finemrg on Jul 22, 2017 6:46:58 GMT -5
I'll always remember this one... Watching American Bandstand, they had their "Rate-A-Record" feature. This particular week, the featured song was Brian Hyland's follow-up to his cover of "Gypsy Woman". He chose one that was a signature hit for Jackie Wilson, co-written by Berry Gordy. I remember thinking it was pretty good, should be another big hit. So did the audience members chosen to be the raters. They were giving it in the range of 75-85 on a scale of 100. Dick Clark was in the process of posting their scores on a tote board, but then they came to about 2 minutes 10 seconds into the song. There was a change of tempo that seemed way out of sync. All the raters changed their minds and there's Dick erasing their original scores and dropping them to the 35-50 range. Produced by Del Shannon, it would be Brian's last Hot 100 single, charting 8 weeks in early 1971 peaking at #54. Lonely Teardrops - Brian Hyland
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