The Song Fight Bulletin Board

bzl wrote:

j$ wrote:Does this mean Chicago are yacht-rock-endorsed? Can I do 'You're The Inspiration'?

I think it depends on the song, and also on the music video that they made for the song. You're the Inspiration is what I wanted to do but it's been negged (albeit indirectly).

The video thing was just my shorthand method to figure things out, since most of us weren't there to see any of it first hand. Of all the Chicago songs I looked/listened (and it was many), the only one that qualified stylistically was <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0TEa-Aa ... earch=">If you leave me now.</a>

Glenn just turned me on to this.

Stand back in awe as Hostess Mostess reveals their undying, albeit slightly embarassed, love for Juice Newton: "The Sweetest Thing (I've Ever Known)".

So glad to have an excuse to sing that out loud.

I'm thinking Todd Rundgren is fair game...? "Hello, It's Me" and "Can We Still Be Friends" could certainly use some spicing up from roymond.

Yeah, there's a difference between a "smooooooth" ballad and a ballad that's intended to be "stirring". Although some tread the line, the stirring ballads are often much too strident to qualify as "smoooooooth".

jb wrote:Yeah, there's a difference between a "smooooooth" ballad and a ballad that's intended to be "stirring". Although some tread the line, the stirring ballads are often much too strident to qualify as "smoooooooth".

Shit. I'm listening to Juice now, and I forgot how hard it rocks. It seriously rocks. Damn it. Speedboat rock, maybe. No yacht.

We may still ding in for "Summer Breeze" by Seals and Crofts, which we hate, but with a gentle and compassionate sort of hate.

Mostess wrote: We may still ding in for "Summer Breeze" by Seals and Crofts, which we hate, but with a gentle and compassionate sort of hate.

A few other potential choices that I could hear Hostess Mostess doing a great job with (pending approval from Moboid) are:

Firefall - Just Remember I Love You
Steely Dan - FM (featured in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi_pqsbBsIU">Yacht Rock episode 10</a>, "EAT!..BAT!...PRICK!" is right up there with <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnqOg6F9lak">"Your shitty music made me barf, Loggins"</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u71pjv-oaM">"Get your dick out of your heart"</a> in my favorite quotes from the skits.)
Hall and Oates - Sara Smile
Toto - I'll Be Over You
Player - Baby Come Back
Seals and Croft - Get Closer

ROCK!

Glenn Case

I've been thinking about doing Sara Smile. Perhaps now would be a good time to claim it.

Ken

moboid wrote:

Rinkydink wrote:2) If you leave me now - Chicago ....does this qualify?
3) Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty ....i'm pretty sure this qualifies

Ooh ooh! One of these! (I'm surprised no one nabbed Baker Street already...)

Put us down for Baker Street

btw isn't a yacht nazi a

GlennCase wrote:A few other potential choices that I could hear Hostess Mostess doing a great job with (pending approval from Moboid) are:

With Moboid's approval can we force Hostess Mostess to do any song we wish? That would be fun!

Also, anyone hear Jonathan Coulton's Soft Rocked By Me? which is very funny.[/url]

roymond wrote:With Moboid's approval can we force Hostess Mostess to do any song we wish? That would be fun!

Actually, go ahead. Roymond and Glenn are in charge of assigning me a Moboid-approved song. I spent about an hour working out a guitar arrangement for "Summer Breeze" that's pretty nice, but it's such an insipid song now that I get so close to it. I can't bring myself to practice it any more.

Glenn and Rachel did such a nice live rendition of our "Unless I Change My Mind", it's the least I can do.

moboid wrote:[ Of all the Chicago songs I looked/listened (and it was many), the only one that qualified stylistically was <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0TEa-Aa ... earch=">If you leave me now.</a>

I'll take it! (if it hasn't been taken already - which is doesn't seem to be in an albeit brief zip up and down this thread.) If it is claimed, no biggie.

j$

ps Your dedication to your role (watching/listening to many chicago songs in a row) is impressive.

Mostess wrote:

roymond wrote:With Moboid's approval can we force Hostess Mostess to do any song we wish? That would be fun!

Actually, go ahead. Roymond and Glenn are in charge of assigning me a Moboid-approved song.

Oh, actually, I meant songs, as in, piling them up and watching you crank out cover after cover after cover after...sort of kidding, ya know?

But wow, Summer Breeze is pretty untouchable, isn't it? Even The Residents would have difficulty.

Rinkydink wrote:btw isn't a yacht nazi a

OMGROFLOL!!!!!!
I was going to suggest that the only thing I needed now was a logo by Bortwein... which would still of course, rock, but this.... wow. One of these is becoming my avatar, stet.

I'm still going through things and have only hit about half of the episodes to catch directly referenced songs. Looking back through songs done by groups with already approved songs and some from the one-hit wonders link, I was curious about these...

- "Holdin' On To Yesterday", Ambrosia (from 1975...too early or not quite the right style?)
- "I'd Really Love To See You Tonight", England Dan & John Ford Coley (one of the songs from that one-hit wonder link)
- "A Love Song", Loggins & Messina (from 1973...it's Loggins & Messina but maybe too early of a 70's sound?)
- there was also a Pure Prairie League song on that list, but I wanted to confirm that "Amie" from 1972 is either too early or too country

I have plenty more to sort through, but I keep finding myself drawn to the songs that don't quite fit (like all the early folky/acoustic Loggins & Messina songs). At this point I would probably go with one of the above if approved. Otherwise, I am certainly open to suggestions if anyone has any ideas.

what about "afternoon delight" by the starland vocal band?

Is "Up, Up and Away" in play? Not that I'm claiming it, but I wondered.

i really want to do the theme from the love boat.

jack wrote:what about "afternoon delight" by the starland vocal band?

Fun fact that is pertinent but perhaps frightening:

If one were to stand in the doorway of my studio and peer inside, one would see twenty or thirty vinyl records leaning against the side of a small bookcase, waiting, as they have for years, to at least be considered for dubbing onto compact disc. The only album cover readable from across the room proclaims the artist in a delightfully tacky 70's font: Starland Vocal Band.

But hear me now:

That record contains an a capella cover of Paul Simon's "American Tune" that is to die for.

GlennCase wrote:

Me$$iah wrote: what about Dr Hook??

While I am not Moboid, my gut instinct tells me that Dr. Hook would absolutely depend on the material. "Cover of the Rolling Stone" isn't even close, while "Sharing the Night Together" is the epitome of Smooth.

First Mate GlennCase clearly knows his Hook, and his assessment is correct. Another great one from the Dr would be <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_1RK8_l8qE">When you're in love with a beautiful woman</a>.

i LOVE sharing the night together. it's the cheesiest piece of shit song. oh man. so good.

jb wrote:Is "Up, Up and Away" in play?

NO. And no Debbie Boon, John Denver (RIP), Carpenters (RIP), Peter Paul and Mary, or Partridge Family, either. This is Yacht ROCK. And for similar reasons, I can't accept Afternoon Delight, either. Sorry Jack. It's a bit too mellow/acoustic.

Has Muskrat Love been either denied or claimed?