If dicso with strings is your thing this is your year: Fly Robin Fly, Right Back, Car Wash, Turn the Beat Around. Lots of goodness on this list but nothing that really stands out. Voting for Mr Glen Campbell.
― that's not my post, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 06:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Tossup between Glen Campbell and Maxine Nightingale for me. People wince when I say 1975 was a great year for pop and rock music.
― Joseph McCombs, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 07:34 (fifteen years ago) link
A weaker CD again. Voted "Fly Like An Eagle" as a protest against the dominating genre.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 08:08 (fifteen years ago) link
One of the best sets of songs here, certainly the first half!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 08:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Was tempted to vote for ""Evil Woman" purely for the clavinet break, but went clap, clap, clap de clap clap clap dink.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 08:35 (fifteen years ago) link
The Rockford Files - Mike Post!!!!! Post's absolute best without question. I actually have this on my iPod.
― Pancakes Hackman, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 12:47 (fifteen years ago) link
BCR for inspiring The Ramones.
― 2for25, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 12:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Couldn't resist voting Four Seasons, but at least this thread inspired me to find this splendid live version of 'Afternoon Delight': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaHYvkjH_QY
― CharlieNo4, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 12:56 (fifteen years ago) link
"Rhinestone Cowboy" ahead of "Car Wash"
― Euler, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 16:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Four Seasons just barely over Parliament (not their best cut by any means), with Starland Vocal Band trailing a ways behind.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 16:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Rhinestone Cowboy
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 17:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Ugh. This disc seems like it would be better contemplated Platonicly, rather than listened to. I like plenty of these songs in other contexts, but seeing them all together just seems to make their lameness synergize. And man, '75 seems to kick '76's ass here.
― I eat cannibals, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 17:28 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm a sucker for saccharine AOR takes on casual sex - hence England Dan & John Ford Coley over Starland Vocal Band.
― zaxxon25, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 19:48 (fifteen years ago) link
What's with all the lame-assed TV theme filler? Jeez. (Those weren't even really all hits, were they?)
Anyway, I'll take Glen Campbell over Bay City Rollers over Ohio Players over Bellamy Brothers over Rose Royce over Silver Convention over...lots of other stuff.
Honorable Mention: Firefall, whose song I didn't even realize I liked until this year.
Still probably the worst of these compilations yet.
Worst non-TV-theme: "Mahogany." Then "Disco Duck," I guess.
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 19:56 (fifteen years ago) link
And can anyone decipher this for me?
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 19:59 (fifteen years ago) link
And oh yeah.
Song I most associate with the Bicentennial summer: "Afternoon Delight."
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 20:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Parliament by a pretty comfortable margin
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 20:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm kinda surprised Disco Duck was this early tbh (disco was already a parody of itself by '75?)
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 20:10 (fifteen years ago) link
"Disco Duck" was actually released in 1976. i remember hearing that is was suppose to be included on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack but for whatever reason didn't get put onto the album, thank god.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 31 July 2008 00:58 (fifteen years ago) link
I like plenty of these songs in other contexts, but seeing them all together just seems to make their lameness synergize.
OTFM
Maybe it's necessary to have heard some of these in daily rotation to appreciate how awful they are. Try to imagine hearing something from this CD every time you tune your radio to the one "good" station in town.
One would hope.
― Brad C., Thursday, 31 July 2008 02:04 (fifteen years ago) link
My vote: Clap Clap Clap...
-- Mark G, Wednesday, 16 July 2008
-- Mark G, Wednesday, 30 July 2008
I'm beginning to sense a pattern...
Surprised at all the Starland Vocal Band love so far, thought everybody hated 'em. I've always liked "Afternoon Delight" for its eccentricities - an unvarying A-A-A-A rhyme scheme and a weird, gauzy production not unlike a disco-era Notorious Byrd Brothers outtake.
Anyways: Parliament, Maxine Nightingale and Steve Miller are all top contenders for my vote; but I'm gonna go with "Turn The Beat Around" just because it's the only one I'd like to hear right now, that I don't currently own a copy of. (But I can remedy that.)
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 31 July 2008 03:55 (fifteen years ago) link
(Those [TV themes] weren't even really all hits, were they?)
Actually, yes. I haven't unpacked my Billboard books yet but I'll look up their chart positions if you want to know.
Surprised at all the Starland Vocal Band love so far
I have no problem with the corny horny, I just have a problem with the diction of "workin' up a appetite."
― Joseph McCombs, Thursday, 31 July 2008 04:10 (fifteen years ago) link
mark g so otm. myonga otm re: afternoon delight. makin our dreams come true > happy days. rockford files > both. voted 'car wash' for reasons listed above.
― balls, Thursday, 31 July 2008 04:18 (fifteen years ago) link
You guys have no taste and no heart!!! The only hesitation possible is between Rick Dees and Andrea True... Disco Duck, you have my vote!!!
― Snowballing, Thursday, 31 July 2008 10:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Is it the "Hey ho, let's go" bit from "Beat on the Brat"? There's definitely a Ramones song that rips it off.
― Tom D., Thursday, 31 July 2008 10:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, BCR = Bay City Rollers, duh. And the Rollers inspiring the Ramones makes perfect sense (and not necessarily just for one song, either. Kinda sad they're not getting more attention here.)
Looked up the TV themes myself; here's how high they got on the pop charts:
5. The Rockford Files - Mike Post #10 10. Happy Days - Pratt & McClain #5 11. Making Our Dreams Come True - Cyndi Grecco #25
Weird -- I doubt the latter two, especially, got much radio play. Could be wrong, though. But I'm guessing the big chart factor must've been 45 sales.
Maybe it's necessary to have heard some of these in daily rotation
I did; still love way more of them than I hate.
― xhuxk, Thursday, 31 July 2008 19:30 (fifteen years ago) link
But if you want to know How I really feel Just get the cameras rolling Get the action going Baby you know my love for you is real Take me where you want to Then my heart you'll steal
i love you so much lets make a porno, great song~!
― Bee OK, Friday, 1 August 2008 03:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Saturday, 2 August 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Sunday, 3 August 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
interesting
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 4 August 2008 00:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Weren't the Ramones, or at least Dee Dee, convinced that "Blitzkrieg Bop" was their "Saturday Night"?
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Monday, 4 August 2008 00:15 (fifteen years ago) link
No votes for Silver Convention?
― moley, Monday, 4 August 2008 01:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Why, Robin, Why?
― Joseph McCombs, Monday, 4 August 2008 04:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Not heard of it
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 4 August 2008 19:19 (fifteen years ago) link