DISQUS

Beau · 2 years ago

I think I just threw up a little. I'm on a streak of roughly five years, so I should probably avoid all Balin.

Old Davy · 2 years ago

This may be the funniest Mellow Gold post ever, and the new banner absolutely ROCKS. What, rocking is not allowed in Mellow Gold? Well, then, the new banner absolutely MELLOWS!

Richard Brandt · 2 years ago

Awesome logo, dude.

I think I just threw up a little would make a great lyric, actually. In fact, tryinserting it into this song somwhere after an Is everything okay? and seeif it fits. Hmm, new parlor game.

David · 2 years ago

"3 AM drunk dial." Brilliant.

And now, thanks to the call's opening line, I am imagining a Rundgren-Balin mash-up.

I believe that's the fifth or sixth seal.

Elaine · 2 years ago

So we're making love, and you feel the power and I feel the power
Then there's really nothing we can't do
(You know we could, you know we could)
If we wanted to baby (You know we could, you know we could)
We could exist on the stars, it'd be so easy (Oh, baby)
All we got to do is get a little faith in you.

If only you believe like I believe, baby, like I believe, we'd get by
If only you believe in miracles, so would I

Just asking. That's nearly AC/DCish in tongue-in-cheekiness, though I bet he was 100% earnest in that "getting it into you" part.

Great logo! Michael McDonald in a hardhat says it all, in every way.

Jason · 2 years ago

Oooh, good point! But to really analyze it, I'd have to listen to Marty Balin again. I'm not sure I can do it. It's just too soon.

Dw Dunphy · 2 years ago

Well, if you listen to the full version, not the radio edit, of Miracles, there's a line about goin' down. And all of this is very traumatic for me because Mom and Dad liked this tune as well as Starland Castration Band's Afternoon Delight. The images. The images. Put a cigarette out on my forehead and make me forget. And, oh yeah. The cigarette burn should also help me forget the video implication of Marty yanking L'il Marty.

Dan · 2 years ago

This is great, because maybe about 2 months ago, I decided to finally DO something about finding out WHO in hell did this horrible song that has been with me since my early childhood. Yes, way back when I had nothing but imagination, which always intertwined this song with an image of a waiter with a waistcoat approaching your table: Is everything OKAAAYYY? That actually made me kinda like it, even though at 5 I still knew enough about the absolute WUSSITUDE of this song and how this was NOT rock music.
Anyway, flash forward a few decades, when I'm DYING to know who sang it, and with the help of my master internet researcher girlfriend, I'mgoogling lyrics. Then it arrives, and the apartment is filled with the cold proclamation of BALIN!!!!! NO!!!!! I was crushed, especially when I had to explain to her that this guy was actually a FUCKING FOUNDING MEMEBER OF AIRPLANE! Now, no matter what, I can't accept this song as good (the VIDEO, well that's something else entirely.) Looking back, it makes sense, seeing as how this is the guy that brought us Miracles with the Starship (not as bad a song but equally as wussy.)
Though, as usual, thanks Jason for putting it into words. Don't leave us, ever. You know how bad drunk dialing can play out.

Jason · 2 years ago

Dan, that's absolutely brilliant.

bill cassara · 2 years ago

Thanks to Elaine, I now have the song Miracle running through my sub-conscious. I had completely forgotten that song, and now it is back. It is really hard to believe that, once upon a time, Jefferson Airplane mattered.

Pete · 2 years ago

Sadly, I'm a fan musically of both Hearts and Miracles...but at least I acknowledge their suckitude in the world of recorded music. I remember my excitement of learning that the album version of Miracles is 6 minutes long, and also my surprise of learning that it contained a reference to oral sex. Intrigued, I tracked down the long version and heard the following lyrics:

But from that very first look in your eyes
I knew you and I had but one heart
Only our bodies were apart
That was so easy, so easy
I had a taste of the real world
When I went down on you, girl.

Talk about throwing up a little in one's mouth.

I still love the track though. Jason, you should really check it out when you've recovered from this Balin overdose. And I love Jeff's new logo-it's brilliant.

Dw Dunphy · 2 years ago

Could it be that Miracles and Hearts form some sort of narrative, Miracles being the sleaziest, bar-closing come-on ever told (that worked) and Hearts being the response at the dissolution of the relationship? By the way, did Marty ever make it a trilogy with a song called Balls?

Robert · 2 years ago

Sorry to be the proofreadin' party crasher here, but do you mean 1956?

Robert · 2 years ago

I listened to Hearts yesterday and Miracles today. Did I do that because I'm a new Marty Balin fan and today's Mellow Gold post is a cosmic sign that we belong together? No, it's because I'm listening to my mom's Classic Soft Rock CDs from Time-Life! I really do like Miracles, especially when it gets all swoony. Hearts isn't as good, but I'm not deleting it off the iPod just yet. I'm gonna let it simmer for a while, along with Styx's Babe and The Best of Times.

I like that McD wears his spelunking helmet a little to the side. It makes him look street-smart.

Jason · 2 years ago

I meant 1962. Can't you just, y'know, e-mail me privately like everyone else? Damn you!

Elaine · 2 years ago

appear to be putting forth a claim on the Mellow Gold fun we've been having, but they stick to the "soft rock" moniker. So, while it's not true Mellowness ready to hit your telly, it's a great show to obtain some rockin' footage. And I mean, seriously, Michael McDonald twice.. playing piano for Kenny singing "This is It," and for a... well, it's a BIG song! One you all know and love! (I can't believe it wasn't #1.) Anyway, don't miss it. My grid says it will air exactly one more time, tomorrow at 3 eastern. Look for some chillin' Rupert Holmes, Mangione, ON-J.. the list goes on. It was great, I loved it. You will, too.

MC · 2 years ago

One of my testicles actually deflated at 2:55 of this song. I shoulda listened to the damn warning....

Richard Brandt · 2 years ago

I was suddenly reminded of an old rock magazine cover depicting a shirtless Marty Balin with the improbable headline, MARTY BALIN'S MACHISMO: I'm Too Big for Starship!

This may have been the last media discussion of Marty Balin's machismo.