Not Feeling Guilty Mix Vol. 2
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The first Not Feeling Guilty mix went down well, and if comments to the post, by e-mail and Facebook (click here to become my friend) are an indication, my rant against the false notion of “guilty pleasures” expressed what many felt.
So here is the second mix. I can’t see much to feel guilty about here. Anyone who might be ashamed of secretly enjoying the sounds of Boz Scaggs does not deserve to hear music. Anyone who dismisses Christopher Cross as a cheesy two-hit wonder self-evidently hates music (yes, VH-1, I mean you). Anyone who fails to funk along, even just a little bit, to the Larsen-Feiten Band, Pablo Cruise or the Climax Blues Band has no ryhthm in their soul. Not that I ought to make anyone feel guilty about not liking music.
The inclusion of Todd Rundgren might raise some eyebrows. Well, I consider his 1970 track a progenitor of the whole soft rock genre. See whether you agree or not.
Andrew Gold, by the way, is the chap who wrote the theme for The Golden Girls. Am I trying to test your resolve not to feel guilty?
1. Doobie Brothers – Listen To The Music (1972)
2. Boz Scaggs - JoJo (1980)
3. Larsen-Feiten Band - Who Will Be The Fool Tonight (1980)
4. Pablo Cruise – Watcha Gonna Do (1977)
5. Climax Blues Band – Couldn’t Get It Right (1976)
6. Atlanta Rhythm Section - So Into You (1976)
7. JD Souther - You’re Only Lonely (1979)
8. James Taylor – Your Smiling Face (1977)
9. Rickie Lee Jones – Chuck E’s In Love (1979)
10. Andrew Gold – Never Let Her Slip Away (1978)
11. Jay Ferguson – Thunder Island (1977)
12. Boston - Amanda (1986)
13. Kansas - Dust In The Wind (1977)
14. Poco - A Good Feelin’ To Know (1972)
15. King Harvest – Dancing In The Moonlight (1972)
16. Sutherlands Brothers & Quiver – Arms Of Mary (1975)
17. Albert Hammond - The Peacemaker (1973)
18. Loggins & Messina – Watching the River Run (1977)
19. Christopher Cross – All Right (1983)
20. Todd Rundgren – We Gotta Get You A Woman 1970)
21. Little River Band – The Night Owls (1981)
EDIT: I have been made aware that I included a badly ripped version of Boston’s Amanda. Below a pristine rip: download it and drop it into the Not Feeling Guilty Vol. 2 folder. My apologies (note to self: check tracks before zipping them).
Eeee! Two songs from my personal summer photohunt soundtrack made it – King Harvest’s and Jay Ferguson’s!
My heart cannot bear the thought of someone disliking those songs.
“Anyone who might be ashamed of secretly enjoying the sounds of Boz Scaggs does not deserve to hear music. ”
Damn straight! I received Silk Degrees for X-Mas and I haven’t stopped listening to it. Fantastic production, excellent musicianship and fantastic tunes. Of it’s time but marvelously so…
Uncle E
There was once a time when the radio sounded like this pretty much every day. Fabulous mix. Thanks a lot.
Oh, a very nice mix. I’m especially pleased to see Boston’s “Amanda” in there. That’s a track that gets left alone far too often. And I concur with jb: This was radio once upon a time.
Yay!
King Harvest are a totally guilt-free pleasure, I’ve never quite forgiven Toploader for desecrating ‘Dancing in the moonlight’, this original totally pwns it.
This selection – and the first one – looks like you’ve burgled my record-cabinet. :-)
R
I completely agree with you and others here, especially on Boz Scaggs. But my favorite song in this mix, hands down, is “Chuck E.’s” by Rickie Lee Jones. When that song came out, it sounded like absolutely nothing else on radio. The way she alternatively croons and slurs and baby-talks her way through the story — and just flat-out sells it — is just perfect. Great production value too — the song has aged really well.
Thanks for yet another great mix!
A short history of Dancing in the Moonlight.
http://www.dancininthemoonlight.wordpress.com
Yet again, great stuff. I don’t know if it’s on my end, but there are so terrifying digital rips in “Amanda.” Scared the shit out of me!
Shaun, I’ve uploaded a clean version Amanda, to replace the crocked one in the mix. Thanks for alerting me to it, and apologies for scaring you.
Another great mix! Radio was so much better back then. It was actually something you wanted to do versus something to fill space with as radio has become now. These mixes take me back to those fun filled days we all call our “youth”.
“I was so much younger then, I’m older than that now”
DUDE- this mix is so very close to something I would have made myself that it is SCAREY!!!
Great job!
Great mix, but wasn’t “Amanda” released in 1986 on THIRD STAGE?
Thanks, tim. You are right, it’s from Third Stage in 1986. Blame it on my poor typing skills… I’ll correct it from 1976 to 1986.
I wanted to download this again because my external hard drive died but zShare says “file not found.” Please upload again. Thank you!
Try these:
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http://depositfiles.com/en/files/x0t6qvfmd
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