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"Horse With No Name" is an essential part of riding your stolen bike into the Las Venturas sunrise.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Sunday, 6 February 2005 15:03 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

these guys were the first to cover "muskrat love" -- before the captain & tenille, even!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 08:57 (seventeen years ago) link

'horse with no name' is great, what r u ppl on?

whoooooops, i guess you aren't on anything but I AM.

― mattp (fauxhemian), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 09:22 (seventeen years ago) link

You hear about the new album coming out tomorrow?

The personnel involved in the recording and production of Here & Now departs sharply from previous projects and represents an effort to reconnect with fresh, young talent. The album is co-produced by James Iha (formerly of Smashing Pumpkins) and Adam Schlesinger (of Fountains Of Wayne and Ivy). Guest artists include Ryan Adams, Ben Kweller, Jim James and Patrick Hallahan of My Morning Jacket, Matthew Caws and Ira Elliot of Nada Surf, Mark Rozzo of Maplewood, and longtime collaborator and friend Stephen Bishop. Cover songs include "Indian Summer" (Morningwood), "Golden" (My Morning Jacket), and "Always Love" (Nada Surf).

They just played on Letterman tonight with Adams & Kweller.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 09:24 (seventeen years ago) link

"Horse With No Name" is great. Maybe not sophisticated, or brilliant. But definitely a great song.

― Mordechai Shinefield (Mordy), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 09:26 (seventeen years ago) link

by gum, marmot, you're right! seriously, i revived this thread simply b/c i heard (captain & tenille's) "muskrat love" playing in the local drug store and i thought that it would be amusing.

funny how the zeitgeist works sometimes, innit?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 09:53 (seventeen years ago) link

the boston globe's review of the new america cd.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 09:54 (seventeen years ago) link

"semi-hipster likes"

haha semi-burn

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 10:33 (seventeen years ago) link

funny how stuff that was strictly for squares when I was in high school is now "hip" or whatever. next up: Seals & Crofts revival.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 11:00 (seventeen years ago) link

SEMI-hip

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 11:15 (seventeen years ago) link

"work to do," the one song on the album that has a sole adam schlesinger songwriting credit, is basically a great, poppy fountains of wayne yacht-rock number. add a little bit of a head-cold to the lead vocal and i might even have believed it is in fact fountains of wayne. most everything else on the album seems kind of blah so far, but i'm inclined to give it some time.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Randy Newman was hilariously OTM but I still think "Horse" is a great little "pop confection" or whatever they call it, dopey lyrics and meagre 2-note melody included. I just like it lopes along, bass & bongos & the simplest two-chord guitar part you can imagine. Liked it as a 5-year old (with pretty good taste) and still enjoy it enough to make it Exhibit A in a truly frivolous thread I'm gonna start today (when I find the time...)

― M. Agony Von Bontee (M. Agony Von Bontee), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

fuck a horse, sister golden hair

― PappaWheelie MMCMXL (PappaWheelie 2), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

sister golden hair, yeah, cool, but what about YOU CAN DO MAGIC??

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 23:27 (seventeen years ago) link

okay, good...a few people mentioned Sister Golden Hair...because for fucks sake it's SISTER GOLDEN HAIR

― J. Grizzle (trainsmoke), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 01:37 (seventeen years ago) link

funny how stuff that was strictly for squares when I was in high school is now "hip" or whatever. next up: Seals & Crofts revival.

already sampled by Busta Rhymes. Summer Breeze is fantastic. also Soft Rock Hits of the 70s - search

― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 01:41 (seventeen years ago) link

But the lyrics- urgh. There were PLANTS AND ROCKS AND BIRDS AND ALL SORTS OF CRAZY SHIT, MANG!

No worse than almost any Barney Sumner lyric. Seals and Crofts are better than America. Summer Breeze is an awesome summer pop single. Yacht rock at its finest.

― Ice Cream Electric (Ice Cream Electric), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 03:05 (seventeen years ago) link

"sister golden hair, yeah, cool, but what about YOU CAN DO MAGIC??"

yeah, that was their big comeback hit from 1982. one member left, they had shrunken down to a duo and hadnt had a hit single in a while when they reappeared with this tune. and unlike all the other yacht-rockers who were still hanging on by then, they didnt try to update their sound with mild "80s rock" touches (linda ronstadt's "get closer" comes to mind) - this basically coulda been one of their long string of seventies hits.

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 03:47 (seventeen years ago) link

they didnt try to update their sound with mild "80s rock" touches

I dunno, seen the video lately?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 03:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Then I listened to the album.

This sentence should really never appear in a professional music review.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 03:54 (seventeen years ago) link

"they didnt try to update their sound with mild "80s rock" touches"

"I dunno, seen the video lately?"

I was talkin' about their SOUND, not their LOOK! :-)

(although to be truthful, all the two front guys did by then was cut their hair, so they didnt change much!)

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 04:34 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

Love "Sister Golden Hair" and "Ventura Highway" .. and lately I've really been enjoying "You Can Do Magic" .. and I have guilty pleasure love for a few of their sappier songs ("I Need You," "Lonely People"..)

For these few moments of brilliance, I say they're classic.

― billstevejim, Friday, 19 December 2008 04:32 (fifteen years ago) link

two years pass...

songwriter Dan Peek of America died.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5I0d29s6GCc

― I'm A Genius, Too! (Jamie_ATP), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 16:26 (twelve years ago) link

six years pass...

Is the drummer on Ventura Highway Hal Blaine or David Atwood? Amazing drum part.

― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Friday, 11 August 2017 00:26 (six years ago) link

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