DISQUS

WHarrisBullzEye · 1 year ago

I bought the Bros album when I was first realizing how much cooler the UK charts were than the US charts, as far as what bands were scoring Top 10 placings. I figured, hey, if they're tops in Britain, they must be worth buying! Well, granted, I still love "When Will I Be Famous,' but there's not much else on there that I really remember.

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Jeff · 1 year ago

Oh, man, Bros. I remember buying the album Push on cassette when I was on a school trip to England back in '88 and listening to it over and over. I think I still have it lying around in my garage somewhere. If you could bet over the unnaturally high falsettos, there were some good songs on that one - When Will I be Famous?, Ten Out Of Ten, Love To Hate You.

Okay, now I'm really going to have to go and dig that one out of the box in the garage. Just hope it still plays!

steed · 1 year ago

I gave it a nice spin on the way home from work today - overall it's not a bad little record.

MichaelFortes · 1 year ago

Wow, that Peter Brown tune is actually pretty OK for a pop ballad... I had one of his LPs, the one with "Dance with Me." I decided to just keep the 45 because that was the only decent song on it. I think Def Jeff sampled it for "Give it Here" if I'm remembering correctly. Had no idea that Peter wrote "Material Girl." Love this feature, good stuff!

hemisphire · 1 year ago

I never knew about “Holiday Road” until I saw he was performing it on his recent tour and I went out and found a copy. Now it's one of my favorite songs by him.

Eric S. · 1 year ago

Holiday Road is really the only song that interested me in this week's post. I remember it from the movie, and I liked it well enough at the time that I bought the 45. I kind of forgot about it until buying the Vacation DVD and realizing that I'd never seen the song on CD. I was thrilled to see it was on his recently released concert CD/DVD, but he really needs a good "best of" with his solo and soundtrack work, along with some reworked Flletwood Mac

steed · 1 year ago

I think based on the small number of comments this week, that you're on to something...compared to some other weeks, this grouping of 20 or so doesn't have any song that's incredibly exciting on it's own. There's been worse, but much much better too.

JonCummings · 1 year ago

I could go on for weeks about how much I love Sam Brown's "Stop" album, which is so unbelievably wonderful that I wore through two cassettes of it in 1988-89 before finally tracking down a CD. I would say it's the best white-girl soul album since "Dusty in Memphis," and it hasn't been surpassed in the 20 years since (though Shelby Lynne has come fairly close).

The "Stop" album was huge in England, and Sam has had a few other records that didn't get released here at all. She backed up Pink Floyd on their Division Bell tour, she's written with Maria McKee (a natural fit), a cover of "Stop!" was featured in the film of Bridget Jones' Diary, and she has a track on a Jools Holland album from last year.

Other than that, I know relatively little about her--but I do know that if you ever come across a copy of "Stop!" you should buy it immediately.

steed · 1 year ago

Thanks Jon, I only own the 45 - so I'll have to track this down and see what you are raving about.

scrumble · 1 year ago

Sharon Bryant went on to reject the Jam & Lewis tracks that were given to Janet Jackson for the Control album ... sadly, tasteful cover of solo Steve Perry didn't make up for it ...

Jackson Browne would be the quintessential Rolling Stone magazine artist that the R&RHOF was built for. These were middling '80s albums, though, but there wasn't much else for an artist of his vintage to do at the time except try. Then the Daryl Hannah assault charge tarnished that, too.

Your underestimation of the week, from a critical pop history POV, is "Somebody Else's Guy" ...

Breadalbane · 1 year ago

Jackson Browne also probably got some heavy "associated with cool and/or commercially huge acts" points from the R&RHOF voters:
-He wrote a bunch of tunes for Nico's first album
-He worked with the Eagles, co-writing their first big hit, stayed associated with them throughout their career
- He championed Warren Zevon when nobody had ever heard of him, produced his first two Elektra albums, and kicked the Excitable Boy in the ass whenever he got lazy and didn't relase an album for a few years.

V.C. · 1 year ago

I think Jackson Browne got in the R&RHOF because HE WAS POPULAR. Sure, he may have only had two singles in the Top 10, but then again he wasn't really a singles artist. True Jackson Browne fans bought ALBUMS, and in the seventies and early eighties, FM stations played him religiously. He's probably still played in regular rotation on classic rock stations today. His Top 40 success was just incidental - you can't really judge him by that standard.

steed · 1 year ago

I'm listening if you care to explain the last statement - what critical part of pop history did Jocelyn Brown fill?

scrumble · 1 year ago

This would be the template for the soul dance diva that led to Whitney and Mariah. But more specifically British R&B a la Inner City and Soul II Soul. A lot of quirk packed into its four minutes uncommon for its time.

V.C. · 1 year ago

Also, the pop charts don't tell the whole story. Jocelyn may have stiffed out on the pop charts, but "Somebody Else's Guy" was a MASSIVE hit on black radio (#2 on Billboard's soul charts). One of those classic summer hits that you really couldn't get away from (if you listened to soul radio, that is).

rwcass · 1 year ago

It is a damn good song.