the most country-funky '70s afternoon-rock moonlight smashes ever!
my inclination right now is still Starbuck, but I just bought a Collectables reissue CD of the King Harvest album with their hit today, for $1 at a Salvation Army in Quakertown, PA. So my opinion could change. (I already have the Starbuck album with their hit on it at home back in Queens. Will need to play them back to back someday, obviously, before I can be entirely definitive.)
― xhuxk, Saturday, 1 October 2005 20:14 (7 years ago) Permalink
(Sorry, Chuck.)
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 1 October 2005 20:17 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 1 October 2005 20:26 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 1 October 2005 20:30 (7 years ago) Permalink
Next:
"Amy" by Pure Prairie League vs. "Jackie Blue" by Ozark Mountain Daredevils!
― xhuxk, Saturday, 1 October 2005 20:37 (7 years ago) Permalink
I have no idea what genre people in the '70s would've figured the moonlight songs belonged to. "Soft rock", I guess. But probably as much Doobies-soft as Eagles-soft when you get down to it; it's not inconceivable that both hits may have been played in discos at sometime or other. The King Harvest guys look like rough and tough bikers on their CD cover, which surprised me. My daugher Cordelia, 16, who recognized "Dancing in the Moonlight" the second I put it on ("this is the song where they go 'they don't bark and they don't bite,' right?"), said she always figured the guy singing the song was black. He isn't (and neither is the Starbuck guy. If anything, Starbuck are more disco, I think.)
― xhuxk, Saturday, 1 October 2005 20:43 (7 years ago) Permalink
― baht habit, Saturday, 1 October 2005 20:48 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 1 October 2005 20:50 (7 years ago) Permalink
-- hstencil (hstenc!...), September 30th, 2005.
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― sal mineo (aarana), Saturday, 1 October 2005 21:12 (7 years ago) Permalink
― xhuxk, Saturday, 1 October 2005 22:22 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 2 October 2005 00:53 (7 years ago) Permalink
Didn't we do that one already?
― mike a, Sunday, 2 October 2005 01:43 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Jack Dee, Sunday, 2 October 2005 23:00 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Paco, Thursday, 20 October 2005 03:24 (7 years ago) Permalink
― xhuxk, Thursday, 20 October 2005 11:47 (7 years ago) Permalink
Alternatively, I propose "Jackie Blue" vs "Brother Louie" by Stories.
King Harvest and Looking Glass (of "Brandy" fame) always sound like the same band to me. Heck, it's all Moustache Rock to me.
Oh, how about "Sweet City Woman" by The Stampeders vs. "Signs" by Five Man Electrical Band...or failing that, put it up against Mungo Jerry "In The Summertime"
Both "Moonlight" songs evoke '70s cocaine-infested wife-swapping parties when I listen to 'em now - the leery vocals, the smarmy come-on lyrics.
So true, particularly as regards the Starbuck song. And sonically, that song kills me...must be something in the keyboard and xylophone parts, as noted above.
― Dell (Dell), Thursday, 20 October 2005 20:49 (7 years ago) Permalink
A country-rock band vs. a sorta glammish power-pop group - not a good match. Stick with the Pure Prarie League; "Amie" is way more compatible with "Jackie Blue."
― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Friday, 21 October 2005 00:10 (7 years ago) Permalink
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 21 October 2005 00:17 (7 years ago) Permalink
But "Jackie Blue" (which I guess was a bit of an anomaly for them?) is way more Todd Rundgren than it is country. I agree with the Good Doctor that it slays everything in this thread, although "Moonlight Feels Right" is close!
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 21 October 2005 01:35 (7 years ago) Permalink
Hot Chocolate "Brother Louie" vs Janis Ian "Society's Child"
All versions of "Brother Louie" vs All versions of "Louie Louie"
― xhuxk, Friday, 21 October 2005 12:03 (7 years ago) Permalink
Hmm. Both have the same weird lead-in on the skin color -- "she was black as the night" / "your face is clean and shining black as night" -- but I'll take Ms. Ian just for the weird baroque and Wurlitzer pieces that are jammed in.
P.S. Chuck, have you ever heard Hot Chocolate's version of "Give Peace a Chance"?
― Joe McCombs, Friday, 21 October 2005 20:33 (7 years ago) Permalink
― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 21 October 2005 20:56 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Saturday, 22 October 2005 00:17 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 22 October 2005 00:20 (7 years ago) Permalink
― jack dee, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:41 (7 years ago) Permalink
Nope!
>Chuck, did Earthquake cover "Emma"?<
Yup! (So did Sisters of Mercy, I think.)
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 16:57 (7 years ago) Permalink
(The AristoCATS. Not the documentary with Bob Saget in it.)
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 20 April 2006 18:55 (7 years ago) Permalink
moonlight feels right now one of my total fave 70's calypso synth-pop albums. its so great!
― scott seward, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 15:53 (8 months ago) Permalink
― scott seward, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 19:22 (8 months ago) Permalink
the masters. your beardodisco better be PRETTY good to match this:
― scott seward, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 01:31 (3 months ago) Permalink
your electro marimba disco better be PRETTY good to mess with this
― scott seward, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 01:35 (3 months ago) Permalink
some tastee pickin' in that first one...
― Thus Sang Freud, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 14:53 (3 months ago) Permalink