Re: Captain & Tennille - Love Will Keep Us Together (1975)

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Wed Oct 05, 2022 7:27 pm

Nightjar wrote:
Nightjar wrote:
SiberianPrincess’sMidriff wrote:Expensive production.

Money well spent.

Give me one overproduced mid-'70s song with all strings on over 100 homeless shelters, 5000 incubators, etc...

"It cost us the price of a Porsche to get the high-hat sound right, but that would be a rusted heap by now, and we'll always have the fantastic high-hat sound on that second Dollar album"

by Nightjar Wed Oct 05, 2022 7:27 pm

The cover of the album features a photo of Toni Tennille and Daryl Dragon sitting with two of their bulldogs.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Oct 05, 2022 7:28 pm

Track 6 - God Only Knows.

by Nightjar Wed Oct 05, 2022 7:29 pm

Ooh...

Starting out better than the original. shifty

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Oct 05, 2022 7:29 pm

Nightjar wrote:This is a bit Eric Cartman.

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Wed Oct 05, 2022 7:29 pm

God Only Knows

I thought that was going to go into a Tom Waits song then, something of Blue Valentines possibly. But it didn't so I don't know why I said it.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Oct 05, 2022 7:30 pm

by Nightjar Wed Oct 05, 2022 7:30 pm

The genuinely quirky Brian Wilson bits are jarring compared to the rest of it.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Oct 05, 2022 7:31 pm

Which song came first? This or Don't Sleep in the Subway, Darling?

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Oct 05, 2022 7:31 pm

Track 7 - Honey Come Love Me. Kenneth

by Nightjar Wed Oct 05, 2022 7:32 pm

Nightjar wrote:The genuinely quirky Brian Wilson bits are jarring compared to the rest of it.

They obviously felt that they couldn't excise them.

But they perhaps should of had.

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Wed Oct 05, 2022 7:32 pm

I can't think of anything to say that isn't a dig at the Beach Boys.

7: Honey Come Love Me

by Nightjar Wed Oct 05, 2022 7:32 pm

A Winnie the Pooh wet dream?

by Nightjar Wed Oct 05, 2022 7:33 pm

I want to like it more.

It's tough though.

by Nightjar Wed Oct 05, 2022 7:33 pm

Shades of Burt Bacharach in this one.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Wed Oct 05, 2022 7:34 pm

Track 8 - Feel Like a Man.

by Nightjar Wed Oct 05, 2022 7:35 pm

Swanee Whistle? shifty

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Wed Oct 05, 2022 7:35 pm

8: Feel Like A Man

Bit Countiyfied.

by Nightjar Wed Oct 05, 2022 7:35 pm

Nightjar wrote:I want to like it more.

It's tough though.

So Tough, even...

Captain & Tennille - Love Will Keep Us Together (1975) - Page 4 R-1945218-1366145549-2060

by SiberianPrincess’sMidriff Wed Oct 05, 2022 7:36 pm

Very period keyboards.

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