what dedicated listening thread should we do next

I just went through a EWF binge after reading Maurice White's book, and as much as I like them I think it would be a hard slog, because there are none of the obvious missteps or just plain crap songs that made the Eagles or Rod Stewart or Billy Joel fun to comment on. You need the good and the bad. How about Marvin Gaye post WGO, or Aretha?

Marvin Gaye post WGO

very short and nothing sucks in this run either

Yeah but some of it is pretty WTF

I think the artists I would be most interested in are probably those well known by most of y'all (Madonna, Prince) but I'm game for EWF

Marvin Gaye too definitely

Queen is a good choice imo, they have the same super popularity, huge hits mixed w/stuff that hardly anyone knows

no Leo Sayer no credibility

also ppl hate them with at least as much fury as ppl hate billy joel or the eagles xp

yup

also FYI what dedicated listening thread should we do next (the poll)

this thread should probably be locked just for convenience

Joni Mitchell

Cher

an electrical clerk of works once gleefully sung at me: "Oh what a feeling, when your rough as fuck trunking is hanging off the ceiling". Obv you had to be there.

i have to vote for getting away from the white guys for a while

^^^

but also, having happily survived the eagles and billy joel excursions, i think a big part of what made both of them work was having a moderator who was insanely committed to the idea. the moderator/subject match is crucial.

this is why i volunteered for metallica, it'd be a lot of fun for me

Any reason a few of these can't run simultaneously?

Metallica would be fun for me too since they're the biggest metal band that I've hardly listened to at all.