See more Must Read on Smooth. See more Latest Features. Ed Sheeran. Lionel Richie. Bryan Adams. George Michael. David Cassidy's 6 best songs ever 22 November , Updated: 22 November , In The Vinyl Dialogues Book. Photo by Mike Morsch. Musicians work primarily on Friday and Saturday nights.
It made the Young Rascals in demand as well, particularly on Friday and Saturday nights, much to the dismay of their wives and girlfriends. Written by Cavaliere and bandmate Eddie Brigati, the song reached No. It was very strange. We were engaged, but never married. I really feel like she was like the old poetic muses. They just come into your life for a reason and spark that kind of emotion and feeling that generates those types of songs.
Photo by Jack Leitmeyer. According to Cavaliere, the music business in the mid- to lates was a singles-oriented world. Radio at the time was based on the Top 40 and the challenge for bands of that era was to get enough air play to score a hit single. As was the case with many bands then, the pressure from the labels to continue to produce hit singles and albums was intense. Cavaliere and Brigati were well aware of that pressure. The other thing was, it was a challenge.
But there was also a tremendous amount of good luck, good fortune and being in the right place at the right time. Yes, you felt the pressure but you felt it from a different angle, from the people who were behind the label. Eddie Brigati said the language and lyrics of the songwriting collaboration between himself and Felix Cavaliere was upbeat and positive. And there was no rehabilitation.
Deep offers an angry, angsty look into ways that deep hurt can lead to wishes to thoughts of self-harm. Release completes the album Ten as an eleventh song. For many others, similar recovery fits today. Places in My Past continues the personal introspection into the biography of James Taylor at the tender age of Listen closely for the subtle accordion play, which is joined by piano, guitar, bass and, of course, singing.
The accompanying violin and banjo play adds a homey, afternoon journey feeling to the song Riding on a Railroad. The invitation to sing along in the spirit of the pan underpins the sensibility of this tune. Soldiers offers perhaps the shortest song to the Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon with a length less than seconds long.
The optimism that brings an end to the lyrical tale offers an uplift perhaps unexpected yet sweet nonetheless. Finding consolation and friendship in contemporary troubadours and likeminded folks that understand moods and uplift the spirit. Taylor himself said in , according to Songfacts , that the song was inspired by a picture of a tree washed down a hill in a mudslide with a random message affixed to it. I am fond of the electric guitar and congas accompanying the sound of this production.
You Can Close Your Eyes performed this song in the original construction of it as a song to Joni Mitchell , his girlfriend at the time. The song would be performed by other musicians and in duets with different performance ideas over time, yet this original version offers the consolation of a cherished memory of the song after romantic feelings of a relationship separate two brought together as one, which would later happen for Mitchell and Taylor.
Kortchmar also played congas on this track. The song tells a clear story warning of the ambitious Katherine Kelly seeking bolder crimes, putting the pair at risk of more heat than Machine Gun Kelly might be willing to reckon with.
Let Me Ride brings a mixture of electric and acoustic guitar combined with an arrangement of horns to boot. The ode to highway traveling between destinations, not unlike a free bird that travels unbound to the rigors of daily routine or feeling that can feel at times like chains that bind our souls. Highway Song brings piano, bass and drums to the foreground with a hymnal quality that aspires to the apostolic notion of fishing for men and women of faith. Like a tumbleweed , like an unchained bird unburdened, the calling rests with the journey of movement.
Lasting just seconds, the acoustic guitar with lyric overlay has James Taylor back home, missing the road, questioning how much his spirit that reveled in the being on the road really belongs tied to the place he calls home. I was eight years old in when the band Genesis , then a British band consisting of Tony Banks , Phil Collins and Mike Rutherford , released the bands twelfth studio album with the self-titled Genesis.
This album review looks into the latter vestiges of the progressive rock period of Genesis , picking up a nine-song set of songs linked, with the transformation to pop in evidence for your listening pleasure. Mama opened the album Genesis as a much more successful song in the United Kingdom than the United States , per Songfacts.
Well received in both the United States and the United Kingdom , this song gets into a refrain for failed relationships. Home by the Sea lyrically offers an odd mixture of new residents and house burglars getting confronted by ghosts that haunt a home by the sea. Second Home by the Sea revisits precisely the lyrical experience of Home by the Sea with slower pacing and instrumentation that maintains the progressive feel of the past for Genesis. The listening experience of the two brings the album oriented quality of what bands were in and before into focus that helps me appreciate the sound and musicality of what has come.
Illegal Alien opens the second side of the Genesis album for Genesis. With problematic yet satirical lyrics about immigration from Mexico to the United States , per Songfacts , the song itself is sufficiently playful to have not seriously impacted the reputation of the band. Taking It All Too Hard delves into relationship difficulties that recur for a couple. Both parties see the same feelings of regret, loss, and longing for companionship with the original love. The singer blames his relationship partner for feeling deeply and introspectively while neither can bring themselves to move on.
The song ends with the couple feeling the sting of a prospective breakup with neither feeling the courage to move along. Just a Job to Do gets into what feels like a hitman hired to pursue and kill another hitman. The point beyond this is that the second hitman feels nothing morally about the justice of his line of work in this particular situation.
Silver Rainbow as a metaphor in this song feels like a clear reference to a zipper on a pair of trousers. An emotionally awkward young man approaching a first physical encounter with a woman provides the guidance for what is about to come for the young man and the young lady.
The offering is to put yourself forward in the face of your pain as others, too, feel the pain and will answer your invitation affirmatively. Indeed, things are going to get better. The Joshua Tree is the fifth studio album for Irish rock band U2. The cover of The Joshua Tree album by the band U2. Where the Streets Have No Name opens the album by introducing fans what it means to the neighborhood divisions of wealth, religion, and cultural standing in Ireland that knowing the streets people live on tells you more about a person than the legitimate name of the streets.
Therefore, the song carries the political conscious that is a hallmark of the band U2. Gospel music is said to have been an inspiration for this song. With or Without You is the song of a tortured relationship. The emotion of the song feels raw. The issues very well could have been the object of real relationships. That the song lends itself both to the intensity of a personal relationship plus that of the band with its fan lets me appreciate this song all the more.
Inspired by a trip Bono took to Central America in with Amnesty International , Bullet the Blue Sky was inspired by staying with a group of guerillas in the middle of El Salvador mountains in the north of the country. Smuggling heroin into Dublin , Ireland is the subject matter, with some ruminations for how somebody gets themselves into such a place that this is their chosen path.
From left, Larry McMullen Jr. A political homily of a song, the look is speaking of the humanity that is central to the worldview of the band U2. Trip Through Your Wires sings of a relationship between a man and woman where the singer feels like the pun he plays on the notion of a trip wire works against him emotionally.
Using a bluesy harmonica and drums baseline, getting caught up in an entanglement seems inevitable. The song of a friendship prematurely lost comes alive with One Tree Hill. The friend lost is Greg Carroll , a Maori from New Zealand whose work ethic and friendship is praised by the song and the band. See our review of the Mailer book here. Also inspired by a trip Bono took to Central America in during an El Savaldor Civil War , Mothers of the Disappeared sings of the Comadres , a group of women who had lost their children, who were taken in the night by death squads of the El Salvador Civil War.
There was much sadness in this song for sure. Buckle up for the ride with a song-by-song review of the album below, with the ability to listen to each song included with the commentary.
Coming in at more than seven minutes long, the jam built around a single riff opposes big government as well as the restrictions political forces can place upon society.
A traditional blues formulation, the song sees the singer imploring the lady of his fancy to reconsider the situation with a more enlightened view of what is happening in the relationship.
The notion of public travel with baggage getting lost was a headache. John Fogerty takes writing credit for this song. The song inspires the audience to consider the joy of a girl dancing nearby. The Dr. The song preaches against the proliferation of guns in the United States , registered and otherwise, as a danger to the people there. The original Arthur Crudup version is included here. The song gets into the despair of losing ones love in what would today be termed ghosting.
John Fogerty at a table writing. The song, as indicated here , actually makes reference to the experience of concert goers at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair of Kitts book John Fogerty: An American Son , who focuses on the song depicting a weary man undertaking an uncertain journey. It was years ago yesterday that the progressive , pop and soft rock band Styx released The Grand Illusion album.
Have a listen to the eight songs that make up the album with the look that follows below. The Grand Illusion opens the album with perhaps the fullest sound right from the start of all the songs on the album, serving as a song and album introduction both at once. The song itself is a tip to the younger teenagers in the audience about what the band as singers might know a bit more than them, though deep inside the experience of all is precisely the same.
Fooling Yourself The Angry Young Man is a song about performance anxiety, touring, and the hate for it all that exists for at least one member of Styx.
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