Hello,
Has it ever bugged you when it seems most of the songs by pop/rock singers are love songs??? Don't get me wrong, I like a lot of them. It just seems like 50% or more of any album is a love song!![]()
It just seems like they don't put enough effort into generating something different. Look at some of the biggest singles that aren't love songs:
Bryan Adams - Summer of '69
Phil Collins - In the air tonight
Roxette - Joyride
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
There are countless more but if you look at the albums these came from the bulk are love songs. It must be a fallback position when a singer/band needs to fill a 12-15 song album.
Thoughts?????
Kevin
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Donatello - The Shredder? Michelangelo - Maybe all that hardware is for making coleslaw?
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You are right.
Just don't listen to Boys 2 Men.
Almost every song they do has the line Baby I'm sorry.
Couldn't they think of something else, and don't they ever get tired of apologizing? -
Hello,
That's what I'm talking about! I mean where's the creativity????
KevinDonatello - The Shredder? Michelangelo - Maybe all that hardware is for making coleslaw? -
Well, the idea was to sing about universal topics. Love is a universal topic, as you are either in love, was in love, going to be or wish you were in love. Of course, the other fifty percent do let the creative juices flow, but there is always the danger of a weird Al Yankovich appearing on the scene...
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Originally Posted by Tommyknocker
What's WRONG with Weird Al???
KevinDonatello - The Shredder? Michelangelo - Maybe all that hardware is for making coleslaw? -
Well, I wouldn't have anything bad to say about him if he used his own creative genius to write and sing his own music. But to leech someone's music and parody your own lyrics and then sell the product, makes him a parasite, in my opinion.
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Hello,
Weird Al a parasite???? Imitation is what PARODY is by definiton!
Besides, you never liked "Eat it" or "The Saga Begins" or even "Yoda"?????????
Making an established song your own is an art form in and of itself.
KevinDonatello - The Shredder? Michelangelo - Maybe all that hardware is for making coleslaw? -
Surely you all must realize that over the course of time every single thing has been sung about, there exists a maximum.
The reason for the "love" songs are #1 to attract the female audience, #2 everyone has "love" in common. It is common ground. That's why country music is more common to country folks. They identify with it. I have a shotgun, a rifle and a 4 wheel drive, I've had hunting dogs, I hunt, I fish, hell...if my wife left me I would identify 100% with just about every country song ever written.
Hard rock is the same way, the story is just different. Hard rock tends to talk more about the fast life style, sex, drugs and violence.
"She was a fast machine, kept her motor clean, she was the fastest damn woman I had ever seen. She had sightless eyes tellin me no lies and knockin me out with those american thighs."
~AC/DC
~You shook me all night long, Back In Black Album -
Originally Posted by northcat_8
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Originally Posted by bazooka
Yea, I don't know who the hell John Cale is either, I just did a google search -
Originally Posted by northcat_8
1) My pig died
2) My truck died
3) My boots have a hole in them
4) My Levis have a hole in them
5) The jukebox died
6) My dog died
7) My John Deere died
8 ) My guitar has a hole in it....oh wait...that
is supposed to be there.
C'mon.... -
"It's Midnight In Montana and I Can't My Dick Out of This Cow" - George Carlin
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Originally Posted by hech54
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I never cared much for love songs. I'm also an "ABC" music listener ...."anything but country"
Love songs have been around since music began. I've always liked car and driving songs better: Little Deuce Coupe, 409, Radar Love (especially nice). You can keep your "Ohhh I looooove you so much, but you don't looooove me at all, so I'm gonna die now" songs.
Give me Foot-Stompin Music by Grand Funk or Smokin' by Boston any day over Barry White or Lionel Ritchie, or any of the new love ballad pap they're selling ....with their weak vocals, mealy-mouthed apologizing and toneless, synthetic noise:P
:P
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People write love songs because girls like love songs. Guys like girls. Guys liking girls that like love songs means money for guys writing love songs for girls with guys that have money.
Or some shit like that."There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon." -- Raoul Duke -
Hello,
Sacajeweeda - boy that sure is some kind of circular logic you got going there!!
KevinDonatello - The Shredder? Michelangelo - Maybe all that hardware is for making coleslaw? -
I'm not a ballad/love song hater at all....I like them and I also like Judas Priest....just no rap please.
I like ballads because 99% of them are written in minor keys. Prime example....Lionel Ritchie's(sorry Cap) "Hello"....GREAT SONG but not necessarily for the lyrics. The minor key of that one makes it great. That and "Against All Odds" by Phil Collins....another GREAT song written in a minor key.
The ones that aren't written in a minor key are just SHIT....like most country songs....except Vince Gill....he's got some great songs....he throws some "minors" in his stuff....nice touch. -
Hello,
Hech54 - I'm not saying I don't like some love songs... It's just that there always seems to be way too many for my liking.
Though "Against all odds" is an excellent Phil Collins song.
Kevin
--saw Phil Collins in Concert this fall!!!AWESOME!
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Donatello - The Shredder? Michelangelo - Maybe all that hardware is for making coleslaw? -
Originally Posted by sacajaweeda
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piggy-backing off sacaja....girls like listening to love songs while there doing it ....guys like to do it...so we would listen to just about anything to do it ..
or maybe it just me because I can do-it with my wife for I dont know how long after giving birth
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Originally Posted by yoda313
As long as the singer has talent....I will give anything a listen. The first thing I listen for in a song from the radio is a voice(which is hard to come by these days)....my personal CD collection consists of Singers and Guitar Players....not necessarily in that order.... -
Originally Posted by yoda313
right!Big Government is Big Business.. just without a product and at twice the price... after all if the opposite of pro is con then wouldn’t the opposite of progress be congress?
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