So, what have you been listening to lately?

[uwe]

I don't care what people say, I loved and love that song.

Popular in Germany, but even more popular the German Schlager-version here:

With risque lyrics about "bedding in a cornfield" and a female cyclist passing by, yet being all inquisitive. It all ends well and to the mutual consensual satisfaction of both protagonists I hasten to add in this day and age.

I still prefer the Bellamy Brothers version - and since we're at it:

That electric piano run is gorgeous schmaltz.

[uwe]

Finally, some real country:

[Ken]

Finally, some real country

Yeah, but you're sexier when you use the word 'schmaltz.'

[4stringer77]

Ya think?  Must be at least a subconscious influence.

Let Your Love Flow was written by Larry E. Williams and is about 50 years old. IIRC the Wayne Newton song is much newer. Did Wayne write that?

Wayne had co writing credits on that one and it came out in the early nineties I believe.
You know what he didn't write?

Is bowling popular in Germany?

[uwe]

It has its core audience. Like Deep Purple really.

[gearHed289]

A lovely example of yacht rock. It's like I'm 12 years old again when rock music wasn't so segregated. This could easily be followed by Bohemian Rhapsody, Silly Love Songs, and the Boys are Back in Town on AM radio.

[Dave W]

[Dave W]

RIP Lou Christie 1943-2025

[Basvarken]

[uwe]

Curmudgeonly ole Ian Anderson doesn't like the Beach Boys or Brian Wilson - nor ABBA ("because it sounds trivial"), but guests on Engelbert Humperdinck's cover of Bad Co's Feel Like Making Love, @13:55 ...

[uwe]

Prior to Grunge/Soundgarden I would have said: "Someone tune his guitar first, please!" Harmonically disjointed. Horrible. I need cleansing.

I'm sorry, it is my fault, but I could never adapt to that mindless combining of chords that concentrate on defying harmony like it's a good thing. I'm uncool that way.

[Basvarken]

Geez, I don't know what to say.
Life must be really hard, if beautiful music upsets you that much  

Maybe you just need to listen to it some more to learn to appreciate it?

[uwe]

GRUNGE is now 35 years old - I have quite a few Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden albums at home, but those (dis)harmonies, I just can't get used to them (and I have tried repeatedly). I sounds to me like chords are combined on the basis of which ones fit together worst.

Black Hole Sun is still torture for me.

I find it totally contrived in its constrained attempt to defy harmonic convention.

Noel to the rescue! 

It's not that everything in my music has to be tension-free, I don't mind an edgy chord or chord change once in a while, it can sound great:

[Highlander]

WTF...?! 
I'm so astonished that I had never knowingly heard of Steven Wilson or Porcupine Tree or his production skills, especially regarding 5.1 and ATMOS, etc...
Slowly working my way through the canon of his work and making various (sometimes expensive) purchases...
I now realise I had known of his material but never connected the dots...
Whatever...

[Dave W]