Popdose: Adventures Through The Mines Of Mellow Gold 43 | Popdose
David
· 2 years ago
Random thoughts:
I love this song. This, Ambrosia's "You're the Biggest Part of Me" and Randy VanWarmer's "Just When I Needed You Most" are the holy trinity of Mellow Gold to me.
The bridge really is great; to me it reeks of possible Palmer influence – tell me they don't drop their Hall Oates impression to become, ever so briefly, Little River Band.
I, too, have tried to play this song live with my band, but I find I can only chain so many flange pedals together before too much interference sets in. Really, it's for the best.
Finally, this album cover has proven to be the hardest of the 8000 albums in my iTunes collection to find online. Blessed be you if you could link to a good hi-res version.
Rich
· 2 years ago
Couples Skate! This song is Couples Skate only, all singles off the floor!Dammit. Why did I have to be only 7 years old?!
MichaelWSP
· 2 years ago
Much as you would be remiss for not telling everyone how much I love this song (and I do). I would be remiss if I didn't tell everyone that every other time we sing it you change the chorus to Baby smoke crack.
Dw Dunphy
· 2 years ago
Since Eric Clapton was, at the time, also on RSO Records, I have danger money on this being a Stigwood decision rather than a well-thought-out pairing. Who the bloody hell is Player?, said Clapton.For myself, Baby Smoke Crack is fun, but funnier is, Baby got back, any kinda fool could see, I like butts, and I cannot li-ieee... DwD
Dave Lifton
· 2 years ago
No mention of the electric sitar?
Terje
· 2 years ago
here, and if you really like it you can actually buy his album for $1.78. It's not smooth jazz, and I thought the guy who tagged him sounds_like: David Hasselhoff was a bit unfair.
Bob
· 2 years ago
Spot-on, Jason. I knew it was only a matter of time until you got to this song. It's up there on the Mount Olympus of mellow.
You know how a song can take you back to a particular moment in time? I remember listening to this on the car radio while waiting to pick up my girlfriend at her summer job. Good times!
Beau
· 2 years ago
Do That To Me One More Time and Right Down the Line should be filed under instruments that belong in college music departments, not in bloody rock and roll.
cat
· 2 years ago
http://www.justpeace.net/2006/11/player-spawns-player.htmlI guess I'm must a miner for a mellow of gold, too, this column of yours is like a running description of a big chunk of my daily mental soundtrack. I know you just make fun of it cuz you it's your guilty pleasure, too. Right? Right?I friggin love this blog.
Pete
· 2 years ago
if you like Giorgio, you'll love Primo. Love the flange guitar and keys here-equally at home in both doctors offices and dark, smoke-filled cocktail lounges.
Jeff
· 2 years ago
Great song, and the main reason I bought the Billboard Top Hits of 1978 CD years back. I noticed on a later album (Spies of Life), Player had a song called Thank You For The Use Of Your Love. I think I lost half my testosterone just typing that!
How 'bout, Baby you're fat...(Nice way to drop the hint - oops! I messed up the lyrics honey, sorry!) Or, the more complimentary, PC, and urban alternative, Baby you're phat.(a.k.a. the excuse version when your wifey/gf/hubby/bf attempts to smack you over version 1. Explain it away with the ph.) Dw and Michael and J - thanks for the laughs with yours.
JT
· 2 years ago
Amusing myself, if no one else...Baby you're fat...you can blame it all-on-me...I bought Dove bars...and now you could stand to lose a few.
darrin ego
· 2 years ago
hey you forget to mention the really great say anything scene in the movie Safe Men which features this song.
Ross51
· 2 years ago
Jason, thanks for years of tears [from LMAO ]. I love the song and I love this blog. All the time and effort that you put in to this project is greatly appreciated. Say...How 'bout some Bee Gees' Mellow Gold?Ross51
Jason
· 2 years ago
What Bee Gees songs did you have in mind? We haven't covered them in Mellow Gold, but you'll find plenty of Bee Gees references in previous Chart Attacks...
Candy
· 2 years ago
I didn't know what false bravado was so I would sing all be gone goes. And I especially loved This Time I'm in it for Love. Straining to hit those highs and lows...
Ross51
· 2 years ago
Well, for starters, Fanny (Be Tender With My Love), from their Main Course album, with its You know how easy it is to hurt me lyric, just seems to be begging for the 'Jason' Mellow Gold treatment. :) LOLOr, how about: Paying The Price Of Love from Size Isn't Everything, Run To Me from To Whom It May Concern, Love So Right and Love Me from Children Of The World, Too Much Heaven from their Spirits Having Flown LP? Sheesh! They've sung so many songs that qualify as both 'mellow' and 'gold', I guess, a person could pretty much just take their pick. ;)Hope you are having/had a wonderful, relaxing, fun-filled vacation!!!:) Ross51
Robert
· 2 years ago
Who the hell spells Ronn with two Ns? Bah, humbug! I do wish my first name was Ridge, however.
Five years ago I bought the "Super Hits of the '70s" CD that features "Baby Come Back," and the liner notes mentioned that many people still think this song is by HO, which surprised me, but then I listened to the song for the hundredth time and I could definitely hear the similarities. A few months later I was in a grocery store in Atlanta, and when "Baby Come Back" came on the PA (Kroger's "KRGR Radio," to be exact) I overheard a guy ten feet away ask his wife, "Is this Hall Oates?"
Great write-up, Jason, but, isn't "Homer Alone" the episode where Marge goes to Rancho Relaxo and Maggie escapes from the house in hopes of finding her, which makes Homer panic and call the Missing Baby Hotline? The episode in which Homer and Marge lose custody of the children is from the seventh season, I think. (Yes, I know -- baby come back, Robert go away.)
That video for "She's Gone" is incredible -- eyebrow-free Daryl Hall in his Ziggy Stardust-ripoff phase, nodding off during the song as if he's high on smack and not even bothering to lip-sync some of his lines, and John Oates in a sleeveless tuxedo shirt. I love how the duo seem to be on the set of a public-access talk show. The appearance of "the devil" makes you realize they're in on the joke, but I'm not sure if I laughed for the right reasons.
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I love this song. This, Ambrosia's "You're the Biggest Part of Me" and Randy VanWarmer's "Just When I Needed You Most" are the holy trinity of Mellow Gold to me.
The bridge really is great; to me it reeks of possible Palmer influence – tell me they don't drop their Hall Oates impression to become, ever so briefly, Little River Band.
I, too, have tried to play this song live with my band, but I find I can only chain so many flange pedals together before too much interference sets in. Really, it's for the best.
Finally, this album cover has proven to be the hardest of the 8000 albums in my iTunes collection to find online. Blessed be you if you could link to a good hi-res version.
You know how a song can take you back to a particular moment in time? I remember listening to this on the car radio while waiting to pick up my girlfriend at her summer job. Good times!
What Bee Gees songs did you have in mind? We haven't covered them in Mellow Gold, but you'll find plenty of Bee Gees references in previous Chart Attacks...
Five years ago I bought the "Super Hits of the '70s" CD that features "Baby Come Back," and the liner notes mentioned that many people still think this song is by HO, which surprised me, but then I listened to the song for the hundredth time and I could definitely hear the similarities. A few months later I was in a grocery store in Atlanta, and when "Baby Come Back" came on the PA (Kroger's "KRGR Radio," to be exact) I overheard a guy ten feet away ask his wife, "Is this Hall Oates?"
Great write-up, Jason, but, isn't "Homer Alone" the episode where Marge goes to Rancho Relaxo and Maggie escapes from the house in hopes of finding her, which makes Homer panic and call the Missing Baby Hotline? The episode in which Homer and Marge lose custody of the children is from the seventh season, I think. (Yes, I know -- baby come back, Robert go away.)
That video for "She's Gone" is incredible -- eyebrow-free Daryl Hall in his Ziggy Stardust-ripoff phase, nodding off during the song as if he's high on smack and not even bothering to lip-sync some of his lines, and John Oates in a sleeveless tuxedo shirt. I love how the duo seem to be on the set of a public-access talk show. The appearance of "the devil" makes you realize they're in on the joke, but I'm not sure if I laughed for the right reasons.