Welcome to another weekly edition of On That Note. A column dedicated to music and hosted alternately by myself, @cyclones500 and @CycloneRulzzz. Here's last weeks post - https://cyclonefanatic.com/forum/threads/on-that-note-supergroupthink.241984/
This week the topic title is "People's Choice - My Choice."
Basically what is meant by that is... Most acts have one or maybe two or three songs that monopolize their airplay. These tend to be their biggest hits or have become staples of the radio format you're listening to. I can find that frustrating. Often my opinion is one of their lesser known songs is actually better. Or at least I like it better.
So this week I'm asking posters to consider what lesser known songs are "better" than the more popular songs by a particular act.
This topic does not lend itself well to acts who have been popular for a long time and thus have had a large catalogue of hits that seem to get lots of airplay. In those cases it may be difficult to isolate one or two songs that get all the notice. For example, the Beatles, Rolling Stones, or even Led Zeppelin.
Following are a few of my offerings:
I'll start with the Police. Generally I hear Roxanne or Every Breath You Take more often than not. I have always preferred Message in A Bottle. A metaphor of life's loneliness and the struggle to find others to connect with - and that everyone struggles to find their place in the world. Ironically it was their first number one in the UK and is one of the songs the group is most proud of. Meanwhile, back in the States - the record peaked at number 74 here.
I think I mentioned this when someone listed The Knack as a one hit wonder. Not surprising that people think that. My Sharona was huge and is the only song I ever hear from them. But their follow-up, Good Girls Don't, while missing that intensity and drum driven drive, seems a more completely fleshed out pop song. And for the record, they had a third 'hit' - Baby Talks Dirty (#38). Good Girls Don't peaked at #11 here, but was #1 in Canada.
A little older, a little more obscure... Billy Joe Royal during his pop years in the 60's is best know for Down In the Boondocks. A song I do like. A slightly less well known hit was Cherry Hill Park. My choice that gets little airplay is I Knew You When. A bit less 'poppy'- a bit more soulful.
Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, RIP. You get Think or Respect. Or even Natural Woman, I Say a Little Prayer, or Since You've Been Gone. All great, no doubt. But the one I love most is Ain't No Way. So smooth and cool! And Cissy Houston's high-in-the-rafters background vocals give me shivers.
Similar to the Knack, the Raspberries were 70's pop standard bearers. Go All the Way gets the airtime. I prefer Let's Pretend, with a little competition from I Wanna Be With You.
This week the topic title is "People's Choice - My Choice."
Basically what is meant by that is... Most acts have one or maybe two or three songs that monopolize their airplay. These tend to be their biggest hits or have become staples of the radio format you're listening to. I can find that frustrating. Often my opinion is one of their lesser known songs is actually better. Or at least I like it better.
So this week I'm asking posters to consider what lesser known songs are "better" than the more popular songs by a particular act.
This topic does not lend itself well to acts who have been popular for a long time and thus have had a large catalogue of hits that seem to get lots of airplay. In those cases it may be difficult to isolate one or two songs that get all the notice. For example, the Beatles, Rolling Stones, or even Led Zeppelin.
Following are a few of my offerings:
I'll start with the Police. Generally I hear Roxanne or Every Breath You Take more often than not. I have always preferred Message in A Bottle. A metaphor of life's loneliness and the struggle to find others to connect with - and that everyone struggles to find their place in the world. Ironically it was their first number one in the UK and is one of the songs the group is most proud of. Meanwhile, back in the States - the record peaked at number 74 here.
I think I mentioned this when someone listed The Knack as a one hit wonder. Not surprising that people think that. My Sharona was huge and is the only song I ever hear from them. But their follow-up, Good Girls Don't, while missing that intensity and drum driven drive, seems a more completely fleshed out pop song. And for the record, they had a third 'hit' - Baby Talks Dirty (#38). Good Girls Don't peaked at #11 here, but was #1 in Canada.
A little older, a little more obscure... Billy Joe Royal during his pop years in the 60's is best know for Down In the Boondocks. A song I do like. A slightly less well known hit was Cherry Hill Park. My choice that gets little airplay is I Knew You When. A bit less 'poppy'- a bit more soulful.
Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, RIP. You get Think or Respect. Or even Natural Woman, I Say a Little Prayer, or Since You've Been Gone. All great, no doubt. But the one I love most is Ain't No Way. So smooth and cool! And Cissy Houston's high-in-the-rafters background vocals give me shivers.
Similar to the Knack, the Raspberries were 70's pop standard bearers. Go All the Way gets the airtime. I prefer Let's Pretend, with a little competition from I Wanna Be With You.
