Comments on: CHART ATTACK!: 1/29/77

By: CHART ATTACK!: 2/27/71 | Popdose

CHART ATTACK!: 2/27/71 | Popdose — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:30:43 +0000

[...] just like the Sylvers’ “Hot Line” from a few weeks ago, here’s another song that sounds “cute” on the surface but really has some [...]

By: GW

GW — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:30:57 +0000

Car Wash definitely a worth chart-topper, unlike its successor whose name shall not be mentioned again. Makes most other dance/funk tunes sound lame by comparison — even the ones that do not sound absolutely lame.

“Wishing On A Star,” on the flip side of Rose Rose's 1979 minor hit “Love Don't Live Here Anymore,” is one of my all-time favorite ballads. Too soulful to ever be considered mellow. Compare it to Atlantic Starr's 1987 #1 “Always” and weep. Gwen Dickey/Rose Norwalt had a voice.

By: GW

GW — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:30:57 +0000

By: GW

GW — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:30:57 +0000

By: Cross Arm Breaker

Cross Arm Breaker — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:18:22 +0000

Everytime I think of Blinded By The Light, I think of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9_3nQFNy-w

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:38:16 +0000

Ahh yes, Manfred Mann's Earth Band's “Blinded By The Light”. Did these guys have trouble enunciating or what? In addition to the oft-quoted “wrapped up like a douche” line, for years I could have sworn they were singing “… and little early birdie gave my anus curly-whirly and asked me if I needed a ride.”

By: DwDunphy

DwDunphy — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:42:16 +0000

The big question is whether the band knew they were doing this when they did it, or whether they were high off their mother-lovin' asses… I agree with Jeff and Jason though. We all love the musical dissection work!

By: DwDunphy

DwDunphy — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:39:20 +0000

Dusic sounds like something you insert into an aorta to keep it from collapsing. “Nurse, his heart rate is causing aortic failure! Shove this dusic into that blood-hose, STAT!”

Oh, and once again, Juan Valdez regrets to inform you his hard work was squandered when I spit up my coffee at: “Mom Sylver was not a member of the group, as the stress to her poor vagina rendered her unable to move.”

By: Old_Davy

Old_Davy — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 04:15:40 +0000

Wow, what a great chart. Only one real stinker in the bunch . I even kind of like Babs song a bit. It figures it was written in a fit of jealousy. No, you do NOT fuck with Barbra Streisand!!

By: Maxus

Maxus — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:19:29 +0000

My point is that Am7 acts as a dominant and tries to pull us back into E Major. It doesn't belong tonically to E, but look at it in the context of E: The C-note, not belonging in the tonality of E Major, desperately wants to resolve to B. The E wants to stay right where it is. The G and the A pull from two directions to what lies between them, namely the G# which, of course, is the 3d in E. Major conflict all around! Traditionally, we're used to this being resolved to E. But then, and we're on the same page here, the whole thing is resolved in a completely different fashion, by going straight into G Major (and then neatly back out again after a chorus in E Minor). A great piece of songwriting.