We were amazed by songs that apparently were too rowdy in their original form to be included and so required being remade into softer, easier to listen to tunes. Songs like "Don't Stop" by Fleetwood Mac or "Beautiful Tonight" by Eric Clapton apparently were just too hard in their original form. And if I could even name one of the hundred bad easy-listening-love-duets they played I would, but I can't.
But here is the song that gave me my biggest eye-roll of the weekend. I challenge you all, dear readers, to name a sappier song.
But here is the song that gave me my biggest eye-roll of the weekend. I challenge you all, dear readers, to name a sappier song.
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You're right--that song is in the Pantheon of Sap. I was thinking, though, of that Streisand/Diamond duet "You Don't Bring Me Flowers." Mentally, that was what I had cued up when I hit the play button for the video. In a sap-fight, mano a mano, those two songs might fight to a draw, or better, to the death so we didn't have to listen to either one of them ever again.
Actually, I think "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" would emerge, erm... victorious in that fight, if bloodied.
And call me unsentimental, but I characterize the whole ABBA catalog as sap, if not slightly danceable (in that white person kinda way) sap.
"Wonderful Tonight," right.
I have a sick fascination with Clapton and the Eagles. I claim to "Hate" them but spend way more time fixated on their albs than I spend with bands I claim to "love."
Sorry I missed you in Eugene, sir.
Ah--so right Lex. I actually like that song (and slow Clapton tunes . . . and the Eagles). Back at you on Eugene.
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