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Air Supply. But "Lost In Love" is a great record.
BTW, I agree with you, Captain, about "Kissing a Fool" and "Careless Whisper." Easily George Michael's two greatest moments, and it's unfortunate that the former wasn't a bigger hit (yeah, it still made the Top Ten, but it was the only single from Faith to miss Number One, and I very seldom hear it on the radio these days, either.)
I cannot stomach Neil Young.
Rod Stewart - good one, Harry. ....... and I was kind of a fan of "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy" during the disco era. But most of the rest of his stuff.....not for me either.
Speaking of Madonna, the CD's "Ray Of Light" (1997) & "Music" (2000) are the only CD's that I have from her!! The song "Little Star" (from "Ray Of Light") is my favorite!! Matt Clark Sanford, MI
If you like Listen Without Predjudice, you may also like Older, which has a similar feel.Agree with you, Rudy, about Listen without Prejudice. I do think "Kissing a Fool" still stands as George's best solo single, so Faith has that to its advantage, but whereas Faith can come across as a collection of singles (of varying degrees of quality; love "Kissing a Fool" and the title cut; "I Want Your ..." and "Father Figure" not so much) with some hastily-added filler, Prejudice seems like a more carefully-thought-out album. And it may be his only album where the lesser songs are actually better than the big hits; I think "Heal the Pain" and "Waiting for That Day" are my top favorites on that disc. ("Heal the Pain" isn't particularly well-known, of course, but it's actually one of his all-time catchiest pieces of songwriting. He ended up re-recording it just a few years back for a greatest-hits package as a duet with Paul McCartney, but, even being a diehard McCartney fan, I actually have to admit to liking the original better, if just 'cause it's impressive to hear George handling all those layers of vocals and harmonies himself.)
I don't mind most of Air Supply's music (though I'd have to concede that some of it, especially "The One That You Love" and "Making Love Out of Nothing at All," could get awfully bombastic and would fit in seamlessly on a Celine Dion album (shudder) ), but I'd agree that they never topped "Lost in Love." Great piece of songwriting, and definitely one of the best soft-rock singles of the early '80s. Also doesn't hurt that Graham Russell sings lead for most of it. Russell Hitchcock can really overdo it sometimes when he reaches for those higher notes.
Good topic for a thead, actually.
I really despise most of Celine Dion's music, but her first album's shockingly listenable, and I actually really enjoy "If There Was Any Other Way." But then, that song also sounds like absolutely nothing else she's done since then and sounds more a Taylor Dayne record than your standard Celine Dion fare.
I don't care for most of Madonna's stuff, either, but there's a couple singles of hers that that I quite enjoy. "Borderline" I've always really liked, but then, in many ways, it's a bit of a clone - by the same author, too, I believe - of Stephanie Mills' "Never Knew Love Like This Before." "Cherish" is a fantastic adult-contemporary single, but it's not very reminiscent of her usual material and even sticks out like a sore thumb on its parent album (Like a Prayer.) "Crazy for You" is a great record, too, but again, it's a fairly unique ballad in her catalog, and John Bettis (who co-wrote it) has gone on record as saying he initially was really skeptical that the song would work for her.
As for Madonna, different story altogether. There are quite a few listenable tracks from her catalogue which are pretty enjoyable, if one can get past her public image, that is. Obviously the earlier stuff is preferable, as you mentioned "Borderline", among a few others. But the first album that comes to my mind is TRUE BLUE from 1985. "Live To Tell", "Papa Don't Preach", "True Blue" and the fantastic "La Isla Bonita" are some of Madonna's finest, IMHO.
Many non-Madonna fans and I agree that "Crazy For You" (not sure but I think it was from the TWO OF A KIND soundtrack) was also a keeper. A couple of later tracks which were pretty good, even if they were a bit uncommon. "This Used To Be My Playground", though somber, was as good as any, while "I'll Remember" and "Beautiful Stranger" were catchy enough in their arrangements to become favorable earworms. And though I'm not into showtunes or epic endeavors much, she really stretched and showed her abilities with the EVITA album. Her cover of "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" was one of the best out there, even rivaling Karen Carpenter's version.
It's one of the more bizarre oddities of '80s pop that Sire never released "Into the Groove" as its own single. They really dropped the ball there. Go figure why they bypassed that one.
On a completely different note ... there's not a heck of a lot of rock artists from the '60s that I have trouble listening to or taking to, but - and I don't know if this is just because these guys had a full-time organist (the organ is not an instrument I've ever been fond of) - I've just always had difficulty listening to The Doors.
I liked a lot of the Starship's 80s stuff with Mickey Thomas but it hasn't dated well for me. My favorite songs of theirs tend to be non-hits, like "Awakening" and "Just the Same" from Freedom at Point Zero, and "Save Your Love" from Modern Times. Although I really like "Jane" and "Find Your Way Back," they're great '80s rock.
As for Streisand...I like her better in movies than as a singer, but I admit to having a bit of fondness for her album Guilty with Barry Gibb. That record was almost pure pop perfection from start to finish. It's one of the many albums that I liked a lot, but not enough to upgrade to CD when the LP era faded. So I've still got the LP, but haven't heard it in 25 or more years.
I forgot about Guilty. That's a good one, too. I can't remember the last time I got that album out, but every once in a rare while, I'll hear "Guilty" or "What Kind of Fool" come on the radio and I'll always stop to listen to them. I've got to say those two records still sound very good on the radio. The production on those is really excellent, too.