pretender Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 There are a few songs that have that perfect sound to always make me smile when I hear them,No matter how I;m feeling at the time. The Cure are best known for songs of sadness and despair,but it's the occasional pop tune that Robert Smith pens that I really love.Especially this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS_ux2H473I I'm sure we all have some songs that always take us to a happy place for 3 or 4 minutes when we hear them. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pretender Posted December 28, 2014 Author Share Posted December 28, 2014 And,of course,Eric has one of those songs for me 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susie b Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Pretender, This is ALWAYS a good topic! So many "up" songs, so little time. I've posted other songs in similar topics, so I'll go further down my list. How can you NOT love the Bay City Rollers? The Bay City Rollers cover EC's Let's Pretend, produced by Jimmy Ienner. Posted this one for Wendy-Ann...2 for 1 !!! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susie b Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Couldn't resist...have to re-post these 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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susie b Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 Don't know how much airplay this got outside of college radio, but we loved it at WRVU!One of my FAVORITE songs!!!! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pretender Posted December 29, 2014 Author Share Posted December 29, 2014 Cynical Girl was my favorite song on Marshall's brilliant debut album.It did get airplay on the U of I station(WPGU). I gave up on commercial radio during the disco era.College radio is so much more adventurous(and not as repetitive)I also never got into oldies radio,as the ones.around here at least(despite the wealth of material available) still seem to play the same tracks over and over.Now I rely a lot on facebook friends from the 80s Champaign music scene(Brad Elvis among them) who post a lot of interesting music(new and old). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pretender Posted December 29, 2014 Author Share Posted December 29, 2014 Combo Audio was another Champaign band from the 80s I saw on a regular basis.This was their only chart hit(#99) and one of my favorites Bass player Angus Thomas went on to play with Miles Davis(as well as Chicago power poppers Nicholas Tremulus) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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susie b Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 Jason, Warner, Jeff & Perry pretty much created the country punk sound in Nashville, and they were a lot of fun! Jason grew up in Sheffield, Illinois, if memory serves, before attending SIU on the road to Nashville. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theresa Conner Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 Sunrise one of Eric's masterpieces 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LobsterLvr Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 pretty damn perfect (80's) pop: 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LobsterLvr Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 pretty damn perfect...90's....pop 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LobsterLvr Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 pretty damn perfect...20tens...pop 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LobsterLvr Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 pretty damn perfect...early 2000's...pop 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Ellen Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Ellen Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 This tune is almost as effervescent and rockin' as Chrissie -- Pretenders - Don't Get Me Wrong 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Lee Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 Love Phil Seymour solo , proves how great The Dwight Twilley Band was in the 70s. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
susie b Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 Here you go, Jim.....LOVE this song! Great call! This song is so nice, it got posted twice! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pretender Posted December 30, 2014 Author Share Posted December 30, 2014 There have been a lot of talented musicians in Champaign,but Jay Bennett was one of the best.I had the good fortune of seeing him many times through the years,from the earliest days of Titanic Love Affair(they used to open for the Elvis Brothers frequently),his time in Wilco,a couple times with Adam Schmitt,and once with Ed Burch.Jay's death was one of the more tragic in rock.(Jay died of an accidental overdose from a leaky pain relief patch for his degenerative hip.)He is truly missed. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pretender Posted December 30, 2014 Author Share Posted December 30, 2014 You don't see a whole lot of Jay in this(except for his guitar solo)but here is TLA's Planet Strange: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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