How good is "Takin' It To The Streets?" EVEN THE SAX SOLO COMPLETELY WORKS. Look, you absorb enough '70s pop and you realize what a massive retrospective achievement that actually is.
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Speaking of mid-Seventies pop songs with huge sax solos that we're no longer allowed to acknowledge...look I love Yes. I love Radiohead. I love male singers with comically high singing voices, which is, well, me. So of course I love this song too:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=low6Coqrw9Y …
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It genuinely offends me that this song was not only not a #1 hit, it didn't even break the top 50 when it was originally released. There is no flaw. Find the flaw. You failed before you started because there is no flaw. "Everybody's high on consolation."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Q042KlxI4 …
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"She's Gone" is a song so perfect -- lyrics, music, production, tag-team vocals -- that it shames almost all other pop chart music from the Seventies.
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Hall & Oates were one of
@Political_Beats' earliest episodes and I think@ScotBertram might have been a bit reluctant to venture them as a subject to me given my art-rock/prog-rock/postpunk leanings but hell no, H&O are undeniably great. If you think otherwise, explore further.8 replies 1 retweet 52 likesShow this thread -
Back when I was a post-college federal government drone me & the guy in the cubicle next to me once amused ourselves on lunchbreak by taking turns humming a H&O hit, and whoever failed to get one first had to buy beers later. IT TOOK AN ENTIRE HOUR.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOuhYuZLNYw …
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(I lost because because even though I knew "Sara Smile" had been a hit, I couldn't hum the damn thing, I hadn't listened to it enough.)
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We're talking about '70s pop genius so how can we not mention Steely Dan? Just like Fagen & Becker refused to ever listen to KATY LIED again b/c they hated the mix, I've never relistened to our
@Political_Beats ep on the Dan b/c my mic was malfunctioning.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImtdntJQfSs …6 replies 4 retweets 51 likesShow this thread -
If you want great horns in timeless pop songs, you're not really going to go wrong with Steely Dan. I mean, this is a song about jerking it to a porn star on one of those old-fashioned '70s reel-style pornos. Bet you probably didn't know that!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hGmqpQ_vkA …
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I have lots of <makes emphatic slicing hand gesture> *strong opinions* about Steely Dan, but while we're on the subject of songs with great horn charts then well, here it is: Steely Dan's best-ever song.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFnwczuvb74 …
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It's a great song and the horns are awesome, but I'd still rate it behind Kid Charlemagne and probably Reeling in the Years.
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