VH1's 40 Most Softsational Soft-Rock Songs

Stereogum/VH1 ^ | May 31, 2007 | staff

[dfwgator]

There was also one called Shannon about some sap’s dog, I think.

That "sap" was Brian Wilson.

[pissant]

Nice find. Yikes.

[dfwgator]

Any Chicago song Pete Cetera sang on.

[pissant]

Carl Wilson, apparently. But I was thinking it was the singer’s dog. Now why on earth would some sap write about Carl Wilson’s dog? LOL

[pissant]

Peter Cetera literally ruined the band. After Terry Kath died, he took control it seemed and they lost all semblance of talent.

[dfwgator]

How true, pretty much every song Kath sang, (and I’ll even give him a pass on “Color My World”) was excellent.

[Zack Nguyen]

LOL - I have never heard of Diary by Bread. What a random name!

[dfwgator]

Bread practically invented the “Wimp Rock” genre.

[agent_delta]

“And the singer had an irritating falsetto.”

Was there ever a non-irritating falsetto?

[pissant]

The early Cetera songs weren’t bad. They had little hint of the Muzak he would later pen. Some of the best songs were of Kath, Lamb and Cetera taking turns at the mike.

[Larry Lucido]

Actually, I’m old enough to remember when W.T.O. was the theme not only for the Lone Ranger, but also for Lark cigarettes and Jeno’s Pizza Rolls (who did a pretty good parody commercial with both a smoker and the Lone Ranger showing up to “talk about your theme song”).

[dfwgator]

Funny how Lamm practically disappeared from doing lead vocals, he sang most of their early hits.

[Larry Lucido]

You're SO vain!

[pissant]

Go here for a sample:

http://www.amazon.com/Best-Bread/dp/B00005JGA4

[dfwgator]

She has that horse mouth, but still very doable.

[pissant]

They have a couple of decent songs that rocked. Mother Freedom and Truckin.

[pissant]

LOL. Good point.

[csvset]

ABBA ! ABBA! ABBA!

[pissant]

The Lone Ranger was my hero as a tike.

[jdm]

Did someone say Gordon Lightfoot?

The best Gordon Lightfoot song no one's ever heard. Really beautiful, especially when the orchestration kicks in. One of my top five soft-rock songs of the 70s.