I hear you but....Bread?
I think when discussing the genre of Rock you could cite some bands that exemplify harmony better...Crosby, Stills and Nash, for example...
Bread is music Valium....IMO....some days, we need that.
Cheers....
The author of the thread invited us to “Post up some old tunes for a Saturday night” in connection with thee hippie generation. My wife and I have recently been compiling lists of our song collections, and most of them do happen to be in the 60s and 70s with outliers in the decades before and after. Given the invitation, Iit was convenient to quickly extract a number of the nostalgic songs from the list, regardless of how popular they were for us or the readers. By their naturre of being hit songs from that era, they are nosalgic for those of us who listened to them on the radio when they were new. The list is and was never meant tto be some kind of greatest artists and hits in my opinion or someone else’s. They are just some examples of the tunes from the period that were readily at hand from our collections. It is not meant to be some kind of popularity contest at all.
As far as Bread is cooncerned, my wife and I enjor some of their songs. She likes Aubrey and so forth. I lke ELP Tarkus, and she doesn’t. I really don’t care for some of the obscure suggestions farther up the thread, but to each his own. Even some of the songs I don’t particularly like a great deal are included in my collections for their nostalgic and sentimental reasons, or for humurous reasons. Sometimes there is nothing like a smell or the sound of an old song to evoke past memories and experiences. It’s unfortunate some folks don’t seem to want to understand it.
Crosby, Stills, & Nash (Young) are in my collections, but there are so many good nostalgic songs from the period. Antoher artist I hadn’t mentioned yet is the Ozark Mountain Daredevils. I still have their vinyl albums. I also have the Nitty Gritty Dirt band Will the Circle Remain Unbroken album on vinyl setting next to ELP Works albums on vinyl. The acid rockers into Jimi Hendrix used to look down on my interest in the Moody Blues, Electric Light Orchestra, Emerson, Lake, and Palmer and Pink Floyd...the heathens.
I’ve also been anticipating someone to chime in with objections to Fleetwood Mac. Let ‘em, we say around here.