Soft Rock Radio (possibly the station at your office): S/D

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Hearing the soft rock station at work all the time forces me to listen to a lot of music that, for better or for worse, I would not otherwise.

Songs I'm surprised to find myself searching:

Phil Collins - Against All Odds, One More Night, Take Me Home
Dido - Thank You
Elton John - Goodbye Yellowbrick Road, Benny and the Jets
Carole King - It's Too Late, So Far Away
The Dawson's Creek Song
(most shockingly) - the song from Rent that goes "Five Hundred Sixty Eight Thousand Seven Hundred Ninety Two Minutes ..."

Destroy:

Donna Summer - On the Radio (Ugh!)
James Blunt - You're Beautiful, Goodbye My Lover
John Mayer - Daughters, Your Body is a Wonderland
Maroon 5 - And She Will Be Loved

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Saturday, 9 September 2006 05:17 (nineteen years ago)

Destroy: easy-listening version of "Sweet Child O' Mine" I heard in the restroom today

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 9 September 2006 05:42 (nineteen years ago)

Donna Summer - On the Radio (Ugh!)

i've got the police power to delete this thread, but i'll have to settle for issuing a STERN WARNING about nonsense like this.

― flaneurie o'connor (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 9 September 2006 05:43 (nineteen years ago)

Daughters, Your Body is a Wonderland

― flaneurie o'connor (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 9 September 2006 05:53 (nineteen years ago)

"You're Beautiful" is the worst thing to happen this decade so far

― ss sleepingbag (sleepingbag), Saturday, 9 September 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Daughters, Your Body is a Wonderland

-- flaneurie o'connor (theundergroundhom...), September 9th, 2006. (later)

I was just about to say! Please don't place these titles together like this again.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Saturday, 9 September 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

HAHAHAHA

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 11 September 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

The grammar wouldn't be correct if that were one title (should be "Daughters, Your Bodies Are Wonderlands")

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 11 September 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

Dido - Thank You

Ha! Finally another moderate defender of that song.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 11 September 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

It seems especially poignant in an office full of middle aged women somehow.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Monday, 11 September 2006 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

The soft rock station is highly favoured by a number of shuttle bus drivers on my campus. The times I liked a song enough to actually look up what it was after hearing it on the station, they turned out to be those two Carole King songs. Seriously great songs. I ended up just getting Tapestry.

I don't know if I should be embarrassed that I only really appreciated "Against All Odds" after hearing the Postal Service's version.

― Sundar (sundar), Monday, 11 September 2006 23:52 (nineteen years ago)

I really liked "Thank You" at the time but I find it kind of boring now.

― Sundar (sundar), Monday, 11 September 2006 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

Sundar, I hate to admit it, but the exact same thing happened to me with Against All Odds. And I don't even LIKE the Postal Service version all that much - it was just as though merely hearing the song out of the original context allowed me to reevaluate it.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 01:37 (nineteen years ago)

Count me on Dido's side too. Also Benny & The Jets.

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 01:51 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, I've also come to really like the Bee-Gees. Their disco stuff is WAY better than the rock stuff.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 01:54 (nineteen years ago)

I thought "Benny & the Jets" was an acknowledged classic (in ilmworld).

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 01:59 (nineteen years ago)

Any Al Stewart on that station? I was in a doctor's office several years back and there was this slowly building song with Spanish guitar, and I thought, hey I like this--then it turned out to be "On the Border," and now I like that song again.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 02:01 (nineteen years ago)

Dido - Thank You

Ha! Finally another moderate defender of that song.

It's not so bad.

(that joke took me way to long to think of)

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 02:13 (nineteen years ago)

too

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 02:13 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I was assuming anyone in his or her right mind likes "Benny and the Jets." (Same reason I didn't mention the 12 million Fleetwood Mac songs they play.) I, however, sometimes like "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues", which I'm guessing will be more controversial.

I like how the music to "So Far Away" sounds as stuck in its rut as the narrator is in hers. Every time you feel like it might break into something new, it falls back into those two chords.

xposts

― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 02:16 (nineteen years ago)

I like Carole King, but she is too depressing for me to listen to now. If anything "So Far Away" is too good, too effective.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 02:19 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't mention Maggie May because I assumed everyone likes that song.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 02:32 (nineteen years ago)

I think I'm starting to dislike it. Anyway, I'd rather never hear it again, although I don't exactly hate it.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 02:33 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, then there's the DISCO version of MacArthur Park. I don't know whether to destroy that one or search it for being so bad that it comes all the way back around to being good again.

I can almost hear the thoughts of the singer: "I'm supposed to sing these lyrics EMOTIONALLY? And now I'm supposed to sing them even more urgently while GROOVING?"

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 02:34 (nineteen years ago)

How much abuse will I encounter if I say "Holding Back The Years" by Simply Red? I had no idea who it was.

Also, "Kiss You All Over" by Exile.

― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

"On The Radio" is nice enough, but is it softrock?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

It's 525,600 minutes, btw. :)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

been working several days in an office with satellite radio. getting into the lost hits of the 40's and 50's...im astounded at just how many of these songs are about lusting after young girls. these were really on the hit parade?

best one so far ( not in the above category ) the crystals - he hit me and it felt like a kiss.

― xe non (xen), Tuesday, 12 September 2006 23:52 (nineteen years ago)

I never, ever liked the Dawson's Creek theme!!

Search:

Kokomo
Everything I Do, I Do It For You
Tiny Dancer
Fields of Gold (bonus if it's the Eva Cassidy version v. the Sting version)
At the risk of losing any ILM cred I have: I Just Called To Say I Love You...I just can't hate it

Destroy:

Summer Breeze
Hotel California
Don't Wanna Miss a Thing

― musically (musically), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 04:57 (nineteen years ago)

Ew, you like Kokomo and hate Summer Breeze?

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 05:06 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone who says they don't like Kokomo hates fun.

I liked Summer Breeze enough the first 100000000000000 times I heard it. It then has slowly tapered off since.

― musically (musically), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 05:11 (nineteen years ago)

"Oh yeah, I've also come to really like the Bee-Gees. Their disco stuff is WAY better than the rock stuff."

um, No (tho the disco stuff is cool)
http://www.beegees.dk/odessa.jpg

― timmy tannin (pompous), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 05:31 (nineteen years ago)

Good topic!

It's been a coupla years since we switched from the soft-rock station (CHFI?) to my whipping-boy station ("The JACK"), and my memory's not so great. But I recall a few things that I always liked (or even loved:

Search:
Christine Aguilera, "Beautiful"
Dan Hill, "Sometimes When We Touch" (oldie!)
The Bells, "Stay Awhile" (oldie-r!)
Celine Dion, "Fly" (Yeah, that's right. I believe Sundar has praised her in the past, as well. Sorry if I'm wrong, don't be offended, Sundar!)

Destroy: Michael Motherfucking Bolton

― Monty Von Byonga (Monty Von Byonga), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 06:46 (nineteen years ago)

the wird thing about soft music, is that every so often tehy play praise music, and sometimes i cant tell the difference b/w jesus music and fuck music

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 13 September 2006 10:19 (nineteen years ago)

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