Chicago: S & D

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Search: 'Chicago Transit Authority' ("Free-Form Guitar"!!!), liner notes to 'II'("We dedicate ourselves to the revolution...", the guitar player being a fantastic genius who blew his head off playing 'Deer Hunter', releasing three double albums in a row and following that with a quadruple live box, "Street Player", and an EVEN BETTER precursor to "Mr Writer" entitled, with withering sarcasm, "Critics Choice" ("What do you want?/I've given all I got and I'm trying to reach for more/Can't you see, this is me?")
Destroy: Amy Grant

― tarden, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

did chicago do "hard to say i'm sorry"? the only happy hardcore record i actually like is a version of this by dj kaos (i think) which is simultaneously hilarious and pathos-laden

― gareth, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Yes, it was Chicago and it was DJ Kaos, who renamed it "Hold Me Now" for extra happy hardcore flavour - I guess the happy hardcore massif don't rush to add 12"s with potentially miserable sounding titles like "Hard To Say I'm Sorry" to their stack of stuff to listen to. John Peel used to play it a lot about four years ago. (Have we had a Happy Hardcore C or D? Hmm. I was going to ramble on about how I'm not sure which it is, or if it's either of them, but I don't want to take over this thread.)

I can't offer any opinion on Chicago, since that's the only song of theirs I can remember. I always confuse them with Boston (similar style of music, similar naming scheme). I then confuse both of them with Foreigner, which ruins the naming system theory a bit. I guess I'm too much of an indie snob (I know I'm in the wrong place, sorry), or just too young, or something. Sorry.

― rebecca, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Their "Greatest Hits" package (one with them painting on the cover) is a classic. A lot of the early stuff during the Kath years was great; they pretty much lost it when he died. They released a tribute album focusing on his stuff a few years ago; all previously unreleased stuff, but still pretty cool. Favorite songs: "Make Me Smile," "Beginnings", "In the Country" (from II), "Mississippi Delta Blues", "Feelin' Stronger Every Day".

I have to admit a soft spot for "If You Leave Me Now", despite the weeny lyrics; beautiful music and arrangement, with the mournful French horns and stuff. Ditto "Hard Habit to Break". Yikes! :)

― Joe, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I have a very vivid fantasy of destroying Chicago--first I'd take out that Sears Tower with my atomic fire breath, then I'd squish McEntire and all his little pseudo-jazz minions with my enormous claws.

Sorry.

― adam, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

two years pass...

I need a favor -- what is the name of the Chicago song that the Beastie Boys sampled on "Mike D is in Love"? Funky guitar, this loping, single-note piano line, climbing horns? I love that song & heard it on the radio this AM, they said it was Chicago. Help me out, please. It sounds like it has to be early stuff.

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 16:07 (twenty years ago) link

One more request just in case.

― Richardstone, Wednesday, 11 February 2004 16:15 (twenty years ago) link

Don't let it end...

― Richardstone, Wednesday, 11 February 2004 16:43 (twenty years ago) link

"Hard to Say I'm Sorry" is actually kind of amazing. Is it the best thing David Foster's done?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 11 February 2004 20:56 (twenty years ago) link

four years pass...

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/06/17/chicago.album/?iref=hpmostpop

The album, "Stone of Sisyphus," takes its name from a character in Greek mythology who rolls a heavy stone up a hill only to have it roll back down -- again and again -- for eternity.

― kamerad, Wednesday, 18 June 2008 23:29 (sixteen years ago) link

two months pass...

this band is awful. watch them playing this really bad, bad song on A@E-- in particular watch their weird troll-like trombone player dancing in place.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qH7zKcHYg8

― res, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 19:10 (sixteen years ago) link

eight years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25M-5hq-APE

― velko, Sunday, 8 January 2017 07:08 (eight years ago) link

one month passes...

https://www.allaboutjazz.com/chicago-steven-wilson-remix-by-john-kelman.php

― j., Sunday, 12 February 2017 17:55 (seven years ago) link

four years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btq4MnwvQgM

early live performance. Kath was such a badass

― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Sunday, 16 January 2022 16:49 (three years ago) link

just don't expect that voice to come out of that body

― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Sunday, 16 January 2022 16:50 (three years ago) link

"The only modern bluesy guy playing close is Joe Bonamassa, getting better each album" - YouTube comment

― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 16 January 2022 18:17 (three years ago) link

Just saw that Fender Custom Shop is doing a limited edition Terry Kath replica model Strat.

― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 16 January 2022 18:34 (three years ago) link

Lmao Halfway

― they were written with a ouija board and a rhyming dictionary (Neanderthal), Sunday, 16 January 2022 18:47 (three years ago) link

one year passes...

what's the best 80s Chicago track? i'm cranking a German 12-inch of "Hard Habit To Break" and it is MASSIVE. 45 rpm. i'm keeping it. which i honestly was not expecting. so cool though!

― scott seward, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 19:50 (one year ago) link

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